the expert on ukraine. why did biden dispatch kamala?" you are right. he knows everything about energy, national security in that neck of the woods. finally, francis, sounds like you better get that looked at. i should. i should. tucker is up next. see you next week. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you wonder if looking backward many years from right now, historians will notice the remarkable points in timing. have you noticed? here it is. at exactly the moment when the emergency powers they awarded to themselves to fight covid started to wane, our leaders began pushing for conflict with russia. and then on the basis of that

conflict, they assumed historic war powers. without even pausing, the biden administration declared total economic war on a sovereign country. no america had been killed. they had not been invaded or attacked. and yet with no meaningful public debate or congressional authorization, the biden administration destroyed the country's currency and have removed it from the international banking system and impoverished its civilians. without a trial or due process of any kind, without even bothering to explain exactly what crime they had committed. no american government had ever done anything like that before. if there was one thing the u.s. government long stood for it was the rule of law. the integrity of the system was always the most important thing. but not anymore. that turned out to be an era, and that era is gone. because the target is russia, very few americans have noticed any of this. they support it. virtually no one has paused to ask him or herself where this might be going for it how long

until leaders do something similar to their domestic enemies here in the united states? how long before they accuse you of collusion or disloyalty declaring you an enemy of the state and confiscate your bank account? something very much like that happened in canada. we don't imagine it could happen here. mostly we just don't think about it. what we think about is ukraine. and that is the other thing that has changed. the tech monopolies now exert a level of control over american public opinion that has no precedent in all of history. eliminated in section 2:30 or whatever pedaling reform congress was talking about. it all seems like a joke. it is too late. the medieval church has less command over our society's emotions within facebook and google, and twitter now do. for the past two years, you've watched his company is above all define who he was an american must hate. depending on their directive of the day, our citizens dutifully change their avatars from blm signs to mask up slogans to now ukrainian flags.

each is a crisis and each newcrisis is managed in silicon valley. how does the human brain compete with us? it doesn't. clarity and perspective become impossible. in the hysteria, even the recent past just evaporates. the morning that russia invaded ukraine, you may have been talking about a lot of different things. covid, crime, southern border. not anymore. much to the relief of the white house, all of those topics have been forgotten, may be forever. no population has ever been more skillfully manipulated than our population is being manipulated right now. but even with the tech monopolies on the case full-time, there are limits. some topics cannot be hidden. inflation is one of them. google can delete all the search results it wants, but you still know what hamburger and gasoline cost, because you go to the store. you know exactly how bad inflation is. and it is bad. inflect, it's so high right now that even affluent people are

worried about it. people who make 250 grand a year are worried they will not be able to continue living as they do now. you may or may not feel sorry for them. but let's put it into perspective. imagine if you made 50 grand a year or 30 grand a year, as many americans do. he would be terrified in the face of this inflation and maybe you are. what is causing it? what is the root of the inflation? if you want to know the answer to that question -- check what politicians are denying. whatever they claim is not the cause of inflation is most certainly the cause of inflation. here is jill biden telling you the government spending has nothing to do with it. >> we are on track right now, on track to be the first president in history to lower the deaths of over $1 trillion in one year. i'm sick of this stuff. we have to talk about it.

because the american people think inflation is coming from spending more money. simply not true. >> tucker: joe biden has never had a real job, even before he became senile. don't kid yourself. in the clip you just saw, joe biden knows perfectly well he is lying. it is simply not true, he squeaks. really, joe biden, how is it simply not true? he doesn't tell you, because in fact it is emphatically unequivocally true. inflation is a function of money supply. the more money you have in circulation, the less that money's worth. even joe biden understands that. the month after he became president, supply of u.s. dollars in circulation increased more than it ever had before. that it kept going higher. month, after month, after month. after the administration and congress kept the money taps on. that is why we have a stroke inflation now. it is not complicated, but it is not the whole story. i did not start with joe biden, to be fair.

after the months of the 2008 financial crisis, they assumed emergency powers to respond to the collapse paid if you are noticing a theme, people in charge giving themselves emergency powers in the face of the crisis they created, you may be onto something. after 2008, they dropped interest rates and then began printing money pair this with us as well as to economy. it could have, if we would've ended at some point. but it did not. it went on to present day. nearly 14 years. in the process what was designed to save our economy destroyed our economy. several times over the years, wiser heads talked about dropping the emergency measures and reintroducing reality into the american economy. reintroducing market forces. but each time they contemplated this, wall street revolted in a very public way. wage growth in the productive economy have stalled, but the market for private jets was booming. so asset inflation became the basis of wealth for many people at the top.

buy things, sell them for more, make nothing. no society can continue like that for very long because it's not inherently productive. but ours did. for more than 14 years. and in the process, this country became more lopsided economically than it ever has been. few people owning more than everything. they knew they were causing these trends and most of these trends were dangerous and bad for america, but the truth is, nobody could stop it. they understood markets would tank if they tried to pull back. so it was really a classic ponzi. it was criminal mismanagement of our economy but nobody could stop doing it from fear that the whole thing would collapse. and now we are at the end of the stage. it is out of tricks. the problem with inflation is some economists want inflation at certain periods, but the problem with inflation levels like this as there is no simple way to pull them back. the fed cannot massage its way

out of a seven a dollar a gallon gas price. so you only have two options. you can pretend it's not happening or you can blame someone else for it. the white house is trying to. here is treasury secretary during the first. >> we really protected most americans from severe financial crises, consequences over the pandemic so that they are by and large in good financial shape, poised to spend enough to continue propelling solid growth in the u.s. economy. and we are seeing that in the market. >> tucker: you wander, as you stare into the camera and say something like that, if you imagine, if you could convince yourself, things are great. you should be grateful for our wise stewardship of your economy. keep in mind, the woman you just heard was the chair of the

federal reserve for four years. so not to be technical about it, but you know she's lying. she's not even line effectively. once again, americans understand the state of the economy because they live within it. so if you are going to lie about its calls, you're going to do better than just pretending that's not going on. you're going have to blame somebody else. the white house and listed joe biden's publicist to make a video about vladimir putin. watch this. >> jesse: maeve notice this week that your gas prices have gone up. i want to talk to you little bit about why. a lot of it has to do with vladimir putin, and those opportunities to produce more from here. part of this is on the oil company. right now there are 9,000 approved unused permits that oil and gas companies could tap into now to ramp up production. that is why the president has been so focused on investing in clean energy technology so that we can rely on that and not president putin to set the price

of gas. >> tucker: i want to talk about -- what do you work at npr now? you don't know anything. you are a publicist. please. stay in your lane. but she's telling us that actually, oil companies, which we assume were very greedy and that was the problem with them, and fact don't want to make money. that is the real secret. that is why they are not drilling for oil anymore. they just don't want the oil, because they are oil companies or something. most of my met in gender studies class. but really, jen psaki said it is about vladimir putin. it is vladimir putin's fault you are paying more for gas bear the truth is vladimir putin did invade your crane, that true. that is bad. but that is not why you can't afford to fill your tank. it was the white house, and we should say the congresses reaction, to the invasion that is ruining our economy. that is true.

among many other things, they just banned russian oil imports. for example, oil prices immediately rose. americans immediately suffer. we were told many people told us that it is worth it because this is a moral victory against pruden. and some people took solace in the spirit how exactly is this a moral victory against putin? think about it for a minute. russia is a major oil producer. she said that in her video a moment ago. that would mean that higher oil prices is going to help putin. they make them much, much richer. why? because russia can still sell its oil in global markets. because the world has not joined our boycott. what is this tell you? it tells you that the loser in this policy is not vladimir putin. he is the winner. it is the united states. and it is not just oil. thanks to the biden

administration's mismanagement, commodities across the board are up dramatically. weeds, huge. nichol went up 250% in two days. who is going to pay for all of this? you are. this is the biggest tax increase of your life. and by the way, it could very easily get worse. why? because oil is traded in u.s. dollars. ever hear the term, petrodollars? why would the rest of the world continue to trade oil and u.s. dollars, a fact that greatly benefits us when there is uncertainty by political forces. i would be a huge incentive to trade oil in another currency. maybe the chinese currency. may be crypto. who knows. but there will be new and competing markets in which oil is traded in something other than u.s. dollars. that is a massive loss for us. here is the bigger truth. our global financial systems benefit us. that might not be fair, but it's true. it is the basis of our wealth. if you destroyed them in an

effort to get putin, who are you really destroying? you are destroying the united states. that is exactly what they have done. when you attack and destabilize the global financial systems, you are attacking and destabilizing the united states, not prudent. you cannot see this right now, because there's so much hysteria, particularly on social media, but when that hysteria lifts, when the cloud finally evaporates, it will be obvious at the biden administration's response to the invasion of ukraine is the single most damaging thing any american president has ever done to this country and to the world. not to speak to him, but to us. and a lot of countries that didn't deserve it. it is hard to see that now. but someday we will assess this moment with clear heads and when we do, we will be horrified. in the meantime, we were happy to talk to the chief economist at the u.n. pacific capital. he joins with his reaction to inflation. you wait to feel vindicated over something as horrible as

inflation which is one of the worst things i can have to a country, but you have been warning of this for a -- i mean, the years we've been talking to you. >> sure, tucker. it did just happen overnight. inflation has been a problem for a while. we just didn't care about it when it made stocks go up or real estate go up. but now that it is making food prices go up, energy prices go up come around to go up, it is a bigger problem. inflation is not created by covid. it is not created by prudent. it is not created by greedy corporations gouging their customers. there is one source of inflation. the actual definition of inflation is an expansion of the money supply. and it is the federal reserve that has been expanding money supply, they've called it quantitative easing, but it is the u.s. government that spends those dollars in the circulation and as it does the outcome of the value of each dollar goes down. so the price of everything that

you buy with dollars goes up. >> you grew up in this country, you grew up in what was a middle-class country. and it hasn't been for quite some time and it's becoming completely lopsided. that is a recipe for volatility, okay? that seems like one of the main effects of this policy. >> the middle class is going to feel the inflation tax the hardest spirit their wages are not going to go up nearly as much as the cost of living. there are other people who are retired who are on fixed incomes and those incomes aren't going to go up at all, but the cost of living is. we got these inflation numbers yesterday and they are saying 7.9%, which is the worst inflation since 1982. what they don't tell you is that we had a different cpi in 1982 and if we use the same cpi today that we use then, we would be over 15% inflation, which means 2021 or 2022 right now -- this

is the worst inflation in our lifetime. we are experiencing higher inflation now than anything during the 1970s. this decade is just getting started. inflation has only one way to go and that is up. >> look at the price of assets from real estate, minerals -- i mean, it affects the falling value of the dollar. we appreciate youoming on. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: inflation is making everything you buy more expensive. obviously manufacturers don't want you to know that because why would they? so they make many products smaller. to see you pay the same or more, but you get less in return. this phenomenon is called shrink inflation. a lot of customers missed this at the grocery store, so here's some examples. the amount of cheerios in a family size box from general mills has just dropped by more than an ounce. they are also not getting as many towels in a big pack of

bounty triples, specifically 18 fewer sheets and a pack. a bag of doritos just got smaller, which may be good or bad news depending on your diet status, but you are looking at five fewer chips and every single bag. the government is supposed to track inflation as part of that -- but it has not been doing it consistently. that is kind of weird but i wonder why? maybe so you won't know the scale of what is happening. we thought we would tell you. >> tucker: fox news alert, new reports in the last few minutes that shelling in the capital city of ukraine is very loud, may be the loudest in recent days. russian forces are said to be 1. we have a correspondent on the ground there tonight. hey, trey, what do you see? >> tucker, that evening. this is the heaviest shelling meat heard from downtown kiev before the war started. it is consistent and quite loud.

taking place here around the capital from the north and from the east. remember that convoy nearly 40 miles long was just northwest of the city. new satellite images show us that this convoy actually disbursed and then redeployed to some of the neighboring towns just outside of kyiv. we were in one of those towns earlier today. we heard that shelling even closer then and there were russian forces in the town while we were actually inside the city limits. still the same time civilians are trying to get out of the way, not just around the capital, but across the country. you can see in this video coming up here, a massive russian air strike taking place in the town. that is southeast of where we are at right now. take a look. >> [speaking non-english language] >> we've heard air raid side and don't like sirens across the capital tonight and this is

significant. it is morning civilians they need to get underground. there could be a most don't like russian strike or a missile coming in. they have hit cities across this country, but officials here do believe in the coming days the attacks toward kyiv will get heavier and heavier and it's part of the reason the city is bracing it. we were in the streets today and we saw nearly every blog has a checkpoint with soldiers. they are preparing for the russian advancement for the city, but that artillery in the distance tonight indicating the russians are not just hitting the city from the northwest, but also from the north and from the east. tucker. >> tucker: thank you so much for that. you've often heard people say in washington, many republicans by the way, that joe biden is weak on putin, or of course -- that's total propaganda designed to push the administration towards war. joe biden is stupid on putin. he is weak on everything else. and that is the real problem.

putin is not the only threatening figure one in the country in this world right now. so as kamala harris bumbles around eastern europe making things worse, actual dictators all over the world seem more emboldened. kim jong un is preparing a missile system and firing -- she's also not taking calls from the biden administration along with the saudis, with a report from abc. >> disturbing development up to north korea, senior u.s. official says that the country has been developing a new missile technology. it's already test launched at least twice this year. that is u.s. official deciding to remain anonymous calling to a "serious escalation by the hermit nation going on to say the united states strongly condemns and even suggesting that the u.s. will not sit idly by." >> senior director at the center for the national interest in one of the most grounded and wise

voices in american foreign policy. we are happy to have him join us there they give so much for coming on. people who urge wise, responses to complicate at situations -- you are hardly in a isolationist. tell us how we should feel about what's happening north korea and why is it happening? >> tucker, look, we should be concerned, but not terrified but are the north koreans have been marching towards the capability to at the united states with nuclear weapons for probably about 20-25 years. this is not new. to be honest, we need to think about nuclear weapons in the long run. nuclear weapons were first developed in the 1940s. intercontinental ballistic missiles are 1950s technology. so we should not be shocked that even impoverished north korea has these types of weapons, but we need to ask ourselves, why do they want these weapons question mike it's simple. they look at u.s. history and

they understand that the united states does not attack and try to regime change countries that have nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction. it kind of make sense why he is starving their own people to get their weapons. >> tucker: it's possible once again our policies are counterproductive to the interest of the country. let me ask you, the world does feel more chaotic and it seems like it is breaking into various blocks that are new and are not good news for the united states. is that your sense? >> you are absolutely right. in fact, my mentor, rest his soul, actually had a very authoritative study and what he declared was that russia, china, and north korea, venezuela, even cue ball what eventually formed an authoritarian access. in other words, hope bloc of countries that had very different interests than the united states would band together to help each other.

at first loosely, but more and more in concrete ways. if you look at russia's war and ukraine, russia and i was going to essentially be the new north korea for china peer china is going to have to prop them up. they're going after prop of north korea. russia and china are probably going to collaborate when it comes to weapons technology. in fact, one of the great dangers of this war between russia and ukraine is at the chinese will be able to go into russia and file of that advanced hypersonic technology and aircraft carrier technology and submarine technology because the russians are going to have any other technology. when you talk about global chaos, look at this authoritarian access. this is actually the scariest part when we look at global affairs right now. >> i wish there was a single person the u.s. government who is the gate about america's interest. i think they would sound much more like you than they do now. hairy, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: continuing to follow the situation in the

capital city of ukraine. russian forces right outside the city. it's not just inflation numbers that are up from last year, apprehensions on the southern border of people coming in illegally have gone up to historic levels. we've gotten a report in on that. plus, cocaine laced with fentanyl bradley fentanyl is coming from china being processed in mexico and coming over our open borders. it is not a small story considering money college kids are heading down to there for spring break right now. and some of them are dying. we will tell you about it, next. ♪ ♪

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fiscal year 2021 set the all-time record at our southern border with 1.7 million encounters with illegal immigrants, but so far this year, fiscal year 2022, it's already blowing was the last year numbers completely out of the water. take a look this video given to me by the source and a euro valley, illegal invaders in michigan texas. what you're going to see is a photo compilation of different incidents on different border patrol sectors all over our southern border. different parts, del rio sector, big bend sector, apprehended by border control. single adults, families, and runners in camouflage try to get away. we talk about the criminal elements, take a look this mug shot. del rio sector reporting yesterday that they arrested this convicted murderer from el salvador. his victim was an 8-month-old baby. he was arrested near brockville texas. circling back to the huge numbers i want to talk about, dhs source telling that since

october 1st, just in the real ground sector alone, border control has artie encountered more than 212,000 illegal immigrants for that is a 92% increase over the same time last year. they've encountered almost 31,000 unaccompanied minors, that is up 185% and they've encountered almost 67,000 family units. instead of a 206% increase. again, we're only talking but one of the nine border patrol sectors at our southern border. let's take a look at the bigger picture nationwide. this year, as i mentioned, crushing last year's numbers. in fiscal year 2021 between october and january, they were just under 297,000 illegal immigrants encountered at our southern border. this fiscal year between october and january, there have artie been nearly 673,000 encounters of the illegal immigrants per that is more than double last year at the same time. it is a 126% increase and we've not only got into the busy spring time months yet. perhaps most concerning about

all of this, a very high level dhs source tells me that just since october 1st, there've artie been more than 220,000 known got a ways that are across our border. people that border patrol see on cameras, sensors, but don't have the manpower to get to. we are talking nearly a quarter million people who have snuck past her border in just over four months. sending it back to you. >> tucker: 14 billion at the ukraine border, nothing to scare ours. we appreciate you coming on, they could bear the problem with open borders as you don't know who's coming in. some are just looking for a better life, to work hard, et cetera. a lot of them, even if they are decent, being moved into our country by drug cartels. there's a drug war, did you know that? so along with people, drugs come in and vast quantities into the united states, particularly fenton all.

fentanyl. 2 milligrams of fentanyl can kill you. one of the worst stories we've seen in a long time is the fact that drug dealers are now mixing fentanyl into cocaine. without letting anybody know pit of course, because the trade is illegal. now cocaine may be bad, but it is commonly used by young people. that is just true. so people using cocaine think they are using -- people who are not drug addicts or fenton all fentanyl lined up dying. >> paramedics and police racing to a home where they say at least six men overdosed. one in such bad shape he is currently in nicu. fort lauderdale fire rescue telling us this all went down thursday at a rental property in northwest 29th court and ninth avenue in wilton manors. as seen here, listed as an

airbnb. investigators say the home was full of people who were here on spring break when at some point, they began doing drugs and they owe deed. >> we are being told that four of those individuals had taken a substance that was believed to be cocaine laced with fentanyl. when they went down into cardiac arrest -- >> that is when first responders say to friends began doing cpr, which expose them to the dangerous drug as well. >> tucker: so scary. the reports that the menu just saw in the report are cadets at west point prayer this is happening to a lot of people and many of them are dying. maybe you know some. former head of special operations division, he joins us tonight beer thank you so much for coming on. this seems like -- she was with these drug stories and it's hard to know whether they are real. this does seem real. is it? >> tucker, absolutely. this is nothing new paid last

november we had six kids dead in -- cocaine with front now. just look this week we had two kids dead in portland, high school teenagers, the community is in disarray. like in colorado last week, you had three dead in a hotel room. you had five dead three weeks ago and an apartment in colorado. in the nation's capital by washington nationals park, you would ten drop, two or three died, san francisco -- we could go on all night. remember, this is a big thing. this is 1 gram of sweet and low, five and a grams, if that was fentanyl -- i'm sorry, 1 gram of this sweet low could kill 500 people if it was fentanyl. it doesn't take a lot to kill. unfortunately the mexican cartels are working with the chinese transnational criminals bringing in mass amounts of fentanyl, making fake bills. the administrator reported in december that there was enough

fentanyl seized by the dea alone to kill everyone in america. so the pills are ramping in the cities all throughout america. the cartels are making billions. the border is wide open and then the president said that the job crisis is an unusual and extraordinary threat to american national security, but the vice president, the president, they are not even talking about it. no public service announcements, no education to the kids, the parents i work with throughout america -- they are devastated. they didn't even know what fentanyl was. so thank you, tucker, for carrying about these kids in these families and talking about it on prime-time tv. >> tucker: i think most americans know someone has died from this. all deaths are tragic, but kids were not drug addicts -- it's just college kids doing some and stupid and they died. china is causing the deaths of 400,000 americans a year. why is nobody saying anything about this? >> 285 a day are dying.

nobody saying anything about it because it is politicized. this is not a red or blue issue, it is a red, white, and blue issue. all americans come all families, all races, all economic backgrounds are impacted. unfortunately the white house has their old antiquated talking points on the old opioid crisis when the big pharma corporate cartels were bombing the country with 100 billion opioids and eight, nine year period. no one was really talking about it back then, but now our whole population is addictive. here's the scary part, tucker. the young kids, as young as 12, 13 years old, going on social media, bind the fake bills, and the parents are finding them dead. this has never happened in the history of the country. this isn't the same old drug crisis. these are fentanyl murders. and the cartels are building up capabilities. one example, back in october, they seized a lab in mexico. the ap reported the lab was

producing 70 million blue fake pills. >> tucker: without the united states, mexico has no economy, so we probably have some leverage to stop this, maybe we should. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: wars bring more powers, of course, that is what people are for them. the war in ukraine is being used as big tech as a way to crackdown on russian disinformation. it's anyone who holds the wrong opinion is censored. we have examples straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so ukraine is in the news, in fact it is the sum total of the news. and most americans correctly feel very badly for ukraine. good for them for fighting back. the same on russia for invading them. but there is a larger story here that we also should be allowed to talk about, and that is our current governments relationship with ukraine. it is ukraine really a sovereign country? it's not an attack on ukraine, it's an attack on the

democratic party. or it is a corrupt client state of the ruling class here. that is a totally fair question. but you are not allowed to bring it up. and if you want evidence, here's a clip from cnn on wednesday. watch what happens when professor club gregory simmons explains that back in 2016, joe biden had the top ukraine prosecutor fired because he dared to investigate a company that was sending his son, hunter, $1 million a year. none of this is secret. he bragged about it in public at the time is of joe biden should have the right to fire a prosecutor in ukraine, that tells you right there we are not dealing with a sovereign country. but on cnn, you are not allowed to talk about any of this. watch. >> if we go a little bit later of course, then we can look at the role of joe biden who sought to withhold aid to ukraine and ask for the ukrainian prosecutor

general to be fired because he was starting to investigate his son, hunter biden. >> i don't know if that is anything to do with exactly what we are talking about -- the connecting pulley and funded from ukraine being connected to hunter biden, did not know that that was direction we were going to go in. >> tucker: i'm going to have to enter up to you, irrelevant. that man was not interrupted because he was saying's mineral event, he was interrupted because it was very relevant. the very center of the story. he became hysterical when he pointed out verifies that. keep asking questions. it is your right as an american. so we have seen, repeatedly,

crises used to crackdown on civil liberties in this country. maybe that's the whole point. crackdown on our freedoms here. cracking down on russian disinformation has been used by all kinds of people, particularly big tech to center speech. even the search engine -- promise enough to track your searches online, has joined the herd. the ceo was promising that the search engine will down rank sites that are "associated with russian disinformation." okay. in other words, saying things the biden administration doesn't like. youtube has removed a weapon so of the full sent podcast featuring donald trump that got 5 million views in 24 hours, but they couldn't handle it. blake masters is the ceo of capital, he's running for senate and the state of arizona, we are happy to have him join us now. thank you so much for coming on. in the name of protecting freedom, we seem to be

eliminating it here. have you noticed this? >> i've noticed, tucker. a lot of people here in arizona have noticed. it is so absurd. it is supposed to be at the free-speech search engine. that's the entire point. but now they've decided to censor whatever they say is disinformation. sorry, that makes them no better than google. just another ideological tech company that wants to censor and manipulate. what a joke. >> it's especially distressing because a lot of them use it, because it's -- google has a great product, that is why it's so big bear they misuse that power for evil. is there an option? you are a tech guy, is there some search engine you can go to that doesn't have his finger secretly on the facts? >> we are running out of options. i do recommend the brave browser and the brief search engine now, but here's the thing. we can acknowledge that

propaganda exist come allies exist, and those are bad. the vast majority of democrats in this country believe that russians hacked voting machines in 2016 to elect to trump you that is just delusional, but that is the biggest russian disinformation story of our time. here's the thing, you don't fight that by becoming more like russia. you don't stop that by having sensors tell us what we are allowed to think. >> of course. i haven't seen any russian disinformation or russian news source or anything from russia or its agents in this country in a very long time. all of this misinformation -- it comes from the white house but have you noticed? >> there's an awful lot coming from the white house. it is hard to know where the white house stops and where big tech starts. that is why we can't trust big tech to police itself free to can't rely on big tech to check big tech. can't just say, build your own alternative, right? these companies, when they get big and successful, they also

come to the same pressures. you mentioned just yesterday, they ripped off his interview with the nelson boy's beard what is that? this is a highly successful interview with the former president of the united states. and they just decided to censor it. google, tucker, is the worst offender. google has the power to swing a presidential election. and for all we know, that's exactly what they did in 2020. >> tucker: and to topple governments around the world. like masters from arizona. i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: obviously since there's a war in ukraine, we need to control cryptocurrency in this country and get rid of cash. of course. that is clearly the plan. joe biden decided an executive order to study the impact of cryptocurrency on financial stability. creating a new digital currency. to be clear, once they control the money, they control you

completely. you have no freedom whatsoever if they can take your money away. nick carter is the cofounder of coin metric, a blockchain aggregator. he joins us to assess. i don't want to be paranoid, but the u.s. government has no right to take away my cash. and if they want to, that maybe i should be worried about that. does that seem fair? >> yes, certainly for the digitization of cash is something we should absolutely be concerned about. the politicization of finance and financial rails is well underway in this country, tucker. the enthusiasm at the executive is something we should be deeply worried about. >> tucker: the bottom line for us, i know they would very much like to regulate cryptocurrency control to make certain that you can't make any transaction outside of their control. are they capable of that? can they do it? >> it really depends, honestly.

we've seen some troubling legislative developments in the last year that have been aimed at making it more challenging and effectively just legally harassing cryptocurrency users. they are tightening the noose to a certain extent. and how could the u.s. ban direct ownership of cryptocurrencies? that would be an extremely significant move. i don't know if that would really work in a country with property rights like ours. that would be something a kitten to ban and the private ownership of gold. honestly, that did happen historically in the u.s. but i think this is significant enough crypto user base in this country without being very difficult for the government to push through. >> tucker: there was a significant base of people who used cold when they banned it. i'm certainly rooting for the crypto people. thank you so much. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: the backdrop of all of this is the schools. if you want to fix the country

and make it better and stronger, you obviously have to spend a lot of time thinking about how to raise up children and you do that through schools. schools get more money from tuition and tax dollars than ever. and yet, literacy rates are dropping. why's that? luke rosie ack is one of the few reporters in america who is looked into that question. it's fascinating. we talked for a brand-new episode of "tucker carlson today." here is part of it. ♪ ♪ >> what we are seen with coronavirus, transgender stuff, crt -- it is just a symptom of what they've been doing for decades. they lie about student achievement. that is the main thing. one of the most striking things i saw was this chart that juxtaposes grades and test scores. there is no correlation. grades are a fraud paired the teachers have been making up the whole time. so that parents think their kids are learning when they are not. and when they want you to believe welcome a standardized test -- we've got to get rid of

them because it's high-stakes testing and it's making kids -- they lie about everything except standardized tests. that is the only thing they can't control. they have been lying to parents in a variety of ways for to decades. crt is really just the latest one, because it says oh, there's no such thing as objectivity. showing up on time or having the right answer, that is a function of white culture. that is good for you did it when you are trying to explain how you got $17,000 per year per student you've got a 36% literacy rate. the teachers have been feeling to educate kids in these core subjects. >> tucker: of the rest of us are mesmerized by national and international news, a lot of the most important things going on are happening at the local level. he's one of the only persons covering that. new reports coming in from ukraine tonight, the situation

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artillery from the north and east as far into the night. we've heard the explosion in the distance, often times it is consistent and not letting up. more information about what is being hit tonight, but again,

this is significant as analysts that are looking at the situation to believe russia intends to at least partially surrounds this capital city start to hit from the ground and the air, trying to move their forces in. tucker? >> tucker: it seems like it's intensifying. i'm trying to assess the bigger picture here. is that your impression? >> absolutely peered over the last 48 hours we've heard a lot more activity in the capital of kiev. yesterday we saw a number of air defense batteries active here, the ukrainians trying to shoot down russian fighter jets that were over the city. they have fired missiles hitting apartment buildings. civilians being killed inside the city limits. but this intensity and the amount of shelling we've heard tonight is different from the rest of the war. there are concerns by officials, including the president in the capital of kiev, that the capital could see a lot of the destruction that we've seen in other cities like mariupol.

>> tucker: what a tragedy that would be. we appreciate it. it is friday, we will be back monday. in the meantime we hope you have the best weekend with the ones you love. see you soon. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: we start the fox news alert, welcome to "hannity." tonight we are at the better end of what was a another horrific terrible week for the biden administration, but it is friday come as you know what that means? joe biden is now kicking back for another restful weekend of ice cream away from the white house. meanwhile our country is falling apart, treasury secretary now predicting uncomfortably high inflation for at least another year. what wonderful news. >> i think there's a lot of uncertainty that is related to