biden diet. doing less with less. i like that. stephanie, tampa, quires your hair so messy tonight? very tom cruise. don't offend my hair. remember the biden people just put out a bill about that. he can't discriminated against. check out "tucker," he's up next. ♪ ♪ >> ltuckerl0 : good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we keep detailed daily count and recheck this morning and believe it or not this week is the anniversary of the coronavirus. the first mast quarantine and american history. if you look back, you will be struck how much has changed since lockdowns began. think back to the america you grew up in. there are things you knew about it, it was a free country,

middle-class country defined by small business and it was a constitutional country. the politicians were limited by the guard rails and founding documents. it was a happy place. unfortunately, none of those three things is still true about the united states and lockdowns are not entirely to blame for that no single cause is. there is no question the coronavirus with a transformation of the united states. just think of masts. so we knew early on paper masts were not going to stop the spread of covid. a couple of studies, a big study from vietnam showed pretty clearly they were not effective. then we watched the public officials. it turns out they didn't like masts anymore than anyone else liked masts, despite they ordered you to wear masks. when no one was watching, they went barefaced. you so that and you had to wonder if they were so life-saving, why aren't they wearing them? we made that point and many points like it dozens of times on the show we used to say it

had no effect at all. mask mandate state in some places. and as this unfolded, we started to realize that masks, in fact a lot of this was not about scientist or public health. so what was it about? well more recently we learned the answer because we watched it. masts were a training exercise, mandatory masking was a shock collar designed to teach americans unquestioning obedience and it worked, shock collars do work. in a single day we watched an entire professional class due to the twitter avatars to "mask up" to mandatory ukrainian flag. there is no debate about doing this and it was not even a real conversation, they did it. millions of people assumed her pet flexibly, partisan position and they highly complicated foreign crisis, the next crisis and in lockstep guided to the social media companies who

themselves taking directions from the white house. the whole thing was like watching synchronized swimming it was an amazing performance but most amazing of all public leaders joining the effort appeared after two years of covid training, they couldn't help themselves. the result was the largest political flash mob in american history. republicans, democrats, business and the media all on one side. so, of course from a distance of any kind was banned. and if you persist to ask questions about all of this found themselves censored up your those who persisted in asking questions if they were lucky to wear a protective platform found themselves threatened with something worse. maybe an indictment, may be. here is former hunter mccaskill threatened on the show last night. >> tucker carlson and others are really close to treason in terms of what they are saying and what

is putin's dream. >> ltuckerl0 : oh, so depending our country from your recklessness and unwise decision-making is treason to declare your royalty to ukraine, you committed a crime, right. whatever you think of her, she was not talking like that two years ago. no one in public was talking that way two years ago before covid appeared in a free country, you are allowed to say what you think is true. you can defend your country if you want, even if politicians disagree with you. that was the whole point of living in the united states. but not anymore. if enough powerful people, senators, "new york times" columnist, intel chief working as contributors of msnbc, if enough people call you to be indicted you will be indicted if not for the core crime but another crime. they will find something peer that is how the justice system works. this is a big change over what we have before for about 250 years. so how do we get this new

system? symbol, we eliminated the guardrails pure to be got rid of the leader's power your the principles with personal autonomy and the sanctity of decisions and surrender both of those during covid appeared once filled out political leaders to force americans to take drugs they didn't want, the old arrangement where the citizen had as much or more power as the leaders was over. our politicians now have effectively limitless power and they know -- that's why they did it and if they don't know it, watch the way they communicate with the american population. they are giving propaganda, which has always changes the propaganda is no longer sophisticated or super persuasive because it doesn't have to be so it is blunt and vulgar. they summoned tiktok performance to the white house who an 18-year-old who doesn't have a job can tell you inflation and high gas prices are actually vladimir putin's fault. they just did that, in fact,

here is the result. >> i had the opportunity to ask the white house guesses down the street $7 and this they said, rushes the top three producers of oil and actually number one. but with putin starting this fight with russia nobody wants to work with him and national trade. so limited resources, prices are bound to go up. >> tucker: okay, so nothing against the teenage energy expert in what you just saw, but that is not the way to communicate with the population in democracy. it is not the way to talk to free people. that is the way you command your service. you would assume they are stupid and serve them up stupid propaganda. you patronize them. like you are speaking to a housekeeper at a hotel in kabul. we call this oil. it cost very much now. vladimir putin, very bad man. that is what they are saying. and they are saying it for a reason because you no longer

respect your citizens, you cannot complete sentences. you have tiktok influencers the rest of your lives there it all around them this is happening. a former news channel, this is what they are doing. that is their power. that is not their main power. the main power they deploy most often is the power to change the subject, to force you to ignore what matters to you and your family and your country and focus on instead what matters to you. they call that democracy appeared totally absorbed in the question how to how do we get them. now, that's not an issue that directly or indirectly related to the many, many growing pressing problems that united states is facing domestically but even on its own terms and even when you think that is the most important thing to be talking about, they were not really talking about it in any complete sense. if you ask yourself how you would handle it, you are moved by the suffering in ukraine. every american has appeared they

want to help. and they are being crushed by putin, that is true. how can we help? why don't we send more weapons in the middle of a word. doesn't sound like a bad idea. if you make that decision, you feel some obligation instead of the ramifications, like what effect this will actually happen. is it possible that doing this is well intentioned as it is, and it is, is it possible doing this would be counterproductive and hurt the people i'm hoping to help or prolong the fighting in ukraine at the expense of a vulnerable civilian population in ukraine? if i did this, could i inadvertently be doing to ukraine what the west inadvertently did to let say iraq, syria, libya and afghanistan? you wouldn't want that. you would hate to do something like that again because that would be cruel. you would want to make sure you were not doing that. but not a single person in washington, at least in public appears to be asking that question. no one is allowed to ask that

question. what are you a putin defender? as well you get the sense the core figures and foreign policy establishment don't really care. in fact, never have cared by the effects of their policy. here is one. former secretary of state natalie albright back in 1986 shrugging off the documented deaths have half a million iraqi children, not a small number half a million because imposing sanctions on saddam hussein was worth it. >> we have heard that half a million children have died. i mean, that is more children than died in hiroshima. you know, is the price worth it? i think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. it is a moral question, but the moral question is what we owe to the american people and to the american military and to the other countries in the region

that this man may not be a threat to. >> tucker: keep in mind that conversation was about sanctions, which certainly will hurt the dog saddam hussein. and none of those detentions work to achieve desired outcome but let us know when you find out. in the meantime a half million children died, but it was worth it because why? well in retrospect, sadly, it is hard to see why it was worth it. but what you should know, these are exactly the same people who are giving you more lectures right now, in fact, this very moment on every other channel on television 24 hours a day about how we have a moral obligation to wage war blindly against a country that attacked us and if you don't do that, you are a trader. what is going on here? high levels of aggression, that is for sure. but deflection too. the leaders are a master of deflection. they yell so you won't notice what else is happening.

what else is happening? one of the biggest stories of the decade is dropping. you may not be aware of it. the walls greet journal said they are accepting chinese currency rather than u.s. dollars for oil sales to china. why is that a big deal? that sounds like a financial story. well it would spell the end of the petrodollar. the petrodollar is one of the keys to the united states wealth. saudi arabia has treated oil exclusively with u.s. dollars for nearly half a century. that is one of the key reasons the united states has the highest living standard of any country in the world, despite the fact that manufacturing sector long ago collapsed. we wondered how that works. why are we still so rich question like this has happened. petrodollars allow the government and short to spend money we don't have. that money pays for an awful lot of what we have, health care, retirement, military, we could go on from everything essentially. but "the wall street journal"

today, "the oil market and the entire global commodities market is the insurance policy of the status of the dollar reserve currency. if that block is taken out of the wall, the wall will begin to collapse. not a small story. maybe even a bigger story than the invasion of ukraine. we are not talking about it. meanwhile, the exact same moment that happened, there is this. the chinese government has decided to woo the economy once again by using the pretext of covid appearance of the chinese have ordered lockdowns in factory towns, towns that make volkswagens, circuit boards, air conditioning units, batteries, and yes iphones. why are they doing this? you are supposed to know that it's all about the coronavirus, which is mysteriously researched in china in the middle of a work with china inciting a country we are against, russia. can that really be true? hard to believe. is it really just a virus that is causing this behavior?

yes, said the propaganda in "the washington post." it definitely is. it is definitely not a trade war brought on by the biden administration's incompetent national affairs. we are not suffering from the fact they don't know what they are doing. no, it is just a virus. told with a straight face, daily covid cases in china have reached numbers not publicly reported since 2020 thanks partly to low vaccination rates from the elderly in china, plus relatively ineffectiveness of the coronavirus vaccines. the chinese responded with an iron fist. they should have gone with pfizer like we did. now my none of that explains why cases are higher in china than the beginning of the pandemic. but "the washington post" doesn't want you to think about that. they want you to think about vaccines. it is all about vaccines. it turns out the chinese with the pandemic of the impact sedated too. don't they deserve it? news that you may not be hearing

about, a hot war from texas and the united states and no one is concerned about that either. you see the aftermath of a cartel firefight the border town on the border of mexico, right across the border, right there. according to one port commits a car until engaged in a shoot out for more than three hours. burning trucks, that is a war. the u.s. consulate with u.s. americans to avoid the area or seek shelter. that is a southern border over which 2 million people flowed with no roosting don't like restraints whatsoever. meanwhile, in our country, a convoy of american citizens they are peacefully protest their own government with the constitution to guarantee them the right to do. and yet, they have been plucked unconstitutionally from entering their own capital city, washington, d.c. such a pain from entering washington, d.c., everyone. d.c. police somehow allowed to block off many exits yesterday two drivers from more than two

hours. the same awarded black lives matter protesters. so maybe you are for that and maybe you are not but in normal times that would be a big story because our constitutional rights are wrapped up and we should be debating what those rights are. how much power the politicians have and how much power we want them to have but it is not because ukraine. you changed your twitter name to ukrainian flag. it is the new crisis. you are not supposed to pay attention to any other crisis, particularly at home. chris bedford is paying attention and thought a lot about how covid has affected our responses. and the anniversary of connell law. thank you so much chris bedford for coming on. >> thank you for having us. >> tucker: i don't want to start off depressing but the answer is for people to know what is going on and exert as they are allowed to as americans their constitutional rights. how is those rights of road or do you think over the past few

years. >> they have been massively eroded and absconded to be a virus. i first really got a good eye on this in just a few months, maybe a month and a half and the lockdown i flew to washington, d.c., which was locked down to california. which i stopped in philadelphia, chicago at the airport and the bars were open but the city was locked down. and then i drove across country talking to businesses. i sold different states, towns living in their own reality. people didn't realize 100 miles from them people were free. and as focuses businesses businesses are being destroyed and that shirt shattered, their lives run, children separated from them and dying parents, babies having and a maternity ward and they were blaming this virus but in the reality it was all a reaction from the beginning. it is tempting to think that paid now that masks are coming off hawaii, d.c. or the last places in the unit that forced messed mandates on children will all go away. but it wasn't a virus, which is not going to go away. it is the human action, the

things we surrendered. throughout the entire world my relationship with their teachers, politicians, with our media, with their police, children, parents have been fundamentally altered and largely chosen what the police have forced upon us in a hypocritical fashion like you pointed out. we can't walk away and say this chapter is over. it plays over and over again if you were talking about the calls to investigate or imprison you. where did those come from? we got so casually used to people being investigated for covid disinformation that it was for the good of us all but now just practically mundane. that is a massive shift in the western world and a beginning of a new era. >> tucker: i think it is and you think things are so screwed up they cannot get better. i think the majority no matter who they vote for beliefs in the constitution and of course autonomy and civil rights. so maybe if the majority peacefully and calmly more reasonably exert their constitutional rights, things will get better a lot faster.

because there is certainly an opportunity for that, but a strength that parents are not used to to be allowed in children's school and not having control over what the children are taught to pure good news about covid in some aspect, we have politicized people. i was talking to someone who said no one in dallas named the county judges and politicians, local folks, city council until the last two years. now they are involved in the elections. people were not paying attention in washington, d.c., loudoun county school board's but now they are. this is going to be brought to the local level because any public suite but as you showed with ukraine stuff, republicans and d.c. will not save you. our focus on national politics as we move to local and that is where this is going. >> tucker: that is totally right. good people are the majority of the country, they really are. thank you for saying that. chris bedford, great to see you, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: we have very sad

news to report tonight. two colleagues at fox news appeared to have been killed in ukraine. alexandra asked sasha chris genova died outside of kyiv when struck by her. 55 years old and socialist 24. fox news tweeted a photograph of himself with the two of them and sasha was killed alongside him, talent and she liked photography, and sasha served as consultant and help fox news navigate the country. and this covered war zones all over the world, half afghanistan back in 2004 and republican congo with steve harrigan. speak with a peacekeeping mission got off to a rough start. the commander of french forces struck a journalist. >> we didn't know what to expect and we were going into a

province with pretty big massacres there. >> cameraman pierre zakrzewski shared many experiences. >> the gunmen are coming closer, here, let's go, grab sticks. >> tucker: such dangerous stuff and we are grateful for people, benjamin hall also injured in ukraine and we are praying for him and will bring updates. there is heavy shelling tonight in the capital city of ukraine and capital officials imposing a 35 hour curfew and will live report from the scene next. ♪ ♪

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the city. dozens of civilians killed but the main forces outside of the center of the city appear that shelling has become more systematic. now around the clock curfew and there is mayhem all the time. the building, but meanwhile down south a little bit of a relief for the people of the city of mariupol, 20,000 people fled with cars on a humanitarian route yesterday and today. but some 400,000 remained there and there was barely any vital services. 2300 dead. talks between ukrainian officials and russian officials described as difficult. and the russians must feel that ukraine is stealing the p.r. and claiming to show military vehicles being blown up. in the face of anti-tech and other defensive weapons is nothing short of remarkable. tucker, we spoke with the mayor of lviv, he said give us more weapons and they could even

defeat the russians. that is a tall order. i want to thank you, all's well so look for that contribute to our lost colleagues. pierre and i worked together for 20 years. he will be missed. back to you. >> tucker: it is unbelievable. greg palkot, thank you so much. this whole thing, the pictures are awful and the facts that two fox news were killed. and soldiers, some have been killed and that is sad too. it is understandable the west is outraged by what the russians have done and that led by the united states, they have imposed sanctions on the russian population. these are without precedent, you should know. rush is about to default on its debt. the value of russia's currency plummeted dramatically. the question is, could there be long-term consequences for the united states from doing this? no one in washington seems to be thinking of that at all.

today joe biden's publicist celebrated the economic collapse of russia. a watch. speak with the president has rallied the global community to put in place a greater set of financial sanctions package that has ever been down for any economy in the world. it would not have happened without his actions. i just outlined for you at the top which i think is important to know the crippling impact this has had on the economy. >> tucker: okay, the crippling impact it has had on the economy, sure. will it dislodge putin from power or force the russians to withdraw from ukraine? that would be a victory. i don't know. did it force saddam hussein or fidel castro out of power or sanctions? it just hurt the population. but the question for the american is will the sanctions, will ever effort to destroy the russian economy hurt this country in the long and short term? joining us an investment advisor and cofounder, thank you so much

for coming on. so i think, you know washington is having a moral debate is what russia did. it is beyond debate at this point but the question is what is the effect the united states and of destroying the russian economy? what is the effect, do you think? >> i think the effect is we are running a real risk of creating basically a new soviet union through sanctions in my opinion are targeted more to the people of russia and that ordinary citizens. no one seems to care about the russian people at this point. i understand the senate, these horrible images but we need these people to not put them in darkness and remove all commerce with these people because what putin did. more importantly, i don't think it will work because it ignores how the economics of russia and how finances, whenever putin has

been aggressive doing his spearheading influence during high periods of energy crisis. that goes from 2008 with georgia, high energy prices, 2014 annexation from crime air and it goes back to soviet invasion '79 in afghanistan and ended in '89 when the prices came back down. and that is playing to the u.k. and come it is not from the oligarchs. it has come from energy and commodity business. when the prices are high, they have money to afford these kind of military adventures. if the west was serious, they would attack that area and sanctioned that area and drive prices down and cause a recession here appear that is what is called to fight suppose that the next hitler. not just to punish citizens where you can't transfer a few hundred dollars to family and friends in russia. and even though they have been in there since the soviet union, i think that was very sad for everybody. our western influence, we saw a movie come out disney, that

bring down the soviet union by showing the success and all of the capital society. to remove all of that and live in a dark bubble again is, if anything, what putin somewhat wants. he wanted less influence both with the media to grow in power. and doesn't -- now he's getting what he wants basically. he can also buy back stakes in companies with low prices because we don't want to own them anymore. we don't want to do business and cut them off. it is nice to have this economic clout and power but these western countries wouldn't do this if it happened in china. they could do it if russian economy because not a big deal for them. but it's a little bit -- again, it is good to take economic action but we have a target where the money is going and no. >> tucker: our policy seemed to have driven up oil prices globally which makes bh richer. i'm a little confused, but i appreciate your clarity on it because we should care what the consequences are.

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>> tucker: so it wasn't that long ago when a physician called anthony fauci who was once a public figure in this country told us if everyone got vaccinated against covid, we wouldn't have to deal with a virus again. but then he changed his views. first he told you that you would need a booster. if you didn't get the booster, the vaccine would not work. it turns out two shots plus a booster still isn't enough. we know that from pfizer who informed us you will need a booster shot every single year. in other words, you will need to

keep buying his product from now until forever. sorry. >> you think we will every fall have to prepare ourselves for a booster shot like we get a flu shot? >> i think so. it doesn't last very long. so what we are trying to do, right now it is to make and protect against all variance. and protect for a year. it is necessarily a false booster. >> tucker: i have another companies tried this? the ceo of mcdonald's go on "face the nation" and you have to eat more big macs, sorry. the doctors require it but you can't sue, unfortunately but you must eat more big macs. so you have to get your fourth booster right away and whatever you do, do not ask questions has broke until mike barack obama said that the vaccines are

effective "i tested positive for covid" obama wrote. it is a mind or gnomic reminder to get vaccinated if you haven't already even as the cases go down. [laughter] i've been vaccinated that you need to get vaccinated again and again and again in perpetuity. shut up. and do it. amazing. "usa today" come america's newspaper announced women of the year. according to the newspaper, that award is a "recognition of women across the country who have made a significant impact. okay, but here is the irony in this "women of the year" competition we saw a major win for the patriarchy of a biochip gnomic biological man the top of the list. the health official in the state of pennsylvania who forced nursing homes to take covid positive patience even as levine snuck levine's mother into a private facility. now the fake admiral and we are told a woman.

candace owens is a woman so we thought she is the host of "candace," candace owens, rachel living, do you feel honored to have this sisterhood or do you have other feelings? >> what is a woman, tucker? i'm confused. i don't know what a woman is anymore. it is funny and pointedly ridiculous. it gets back to what i always say, always so progressive that they actually just regressive, right? we turn gnomic we saw a country aspiring towards not being able to judge each other by the color of the skin. no, no, we only have to look at each other exclusively by the color of skin. same with feminism carly feminism a space for women separate for nana. we wanted women sports and to compete differently. we have women train all the way up through college to try to -- compete against other women. you can throw on a wake and say

i am a woman also was my crush their records because it is so progressive it is actually regressive. we are erasing women appear and sadly, it was a feminist that got behind this early on and i had no courage to say no, actually that is a man we are looking at and femina should be fighting this tooth and nail. where is hillary clinton? i don't want perspective on russia and ukraine but i want a perspective on this category. the person who ran on oh, my gosh, women are so oppressed and vote for me because i am a woman. she seems quiet on this topic and doesn't want to touch this topic about men taking the spot of women. something actually representing existential crisis for the young women who i said earlier are competing in the categories. it is ridiculous. bigger question, tucker why are they doing this? it is always something that gets back over and over again. it is always about disrupting the family unit. the people are confused. if a woman or a man, you will

not have a functional family unit. instead dysfunctional people tend to rely upon the government. that is what is happening right now and that is what you are seeing the push for. >> tucker: i mean, i passed so many times but i don't know the answer, if rachel can declare i'm a woman, why can't i declare i'm samoan and you have to respect me. is it because i don't have the human rights campaign backing me up? let's be honest. why can't i do whatever i want to do? >> i think you need to turn around and rachel, an apology. who cares if she was born white or her skin color? she felt on the inside she was a black woman. i feel that is absolutely ridiculous to say a woman can be a man, a woman can be a man. why aren't you black and white on thai white? why don't we pick our races as well. that is a question that we need to answer. can you pick your race? of course, you can pick your race and of course you can't pick your race or gender. you are born the way you are. of course, reality and that does

not work in reality. >> tucker: of course. by the way, racism much shallower category then gender. six lack if you can change -- if it is too crazy and thank you for not playing along. i appreciate it. so in a story that is not -- saudi arabia may begin to sell oil to china using chinese currency instead of the u.s. dollar. in the petrodollar. you should at least know it's coming. and we will tell you straight ahead.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: if you have went home recently, the gas prices are at the highest level in history. so americans not surprisingly are getting desperate. why wouldn't they be, fox news vilma lucian is explaining what that means, hey, bill. >> some americans decided that if you is too expensive to purchase so they are stealing it instead. surveillance video and a gas station shows thieves pulling up in a green van and evidently had

some sort of a trapdoor at the bottom of the vehicle waiting for that video to load in a moment. what they did has broke a lock and shove a hole in the gas tank and siphoning all the fuel out. the owner of the gas station said it happened several days in a row and the thieves stole the hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel each and every time. surveillance video shows the owner of the gas station actually running out and trying to chase the thieves down. once he realized what was happening. he said that the thieves got away with over 1,000 gallons of fuel in total and cost his family about $5,000. in l.a. county, long beach, thieves using a truck disguised as a construction vehicle stole thousands of gallons of fuel using the large tanks you see in the back of the truck. the thieves had access to tanks with a master key and at least one person was arrested. >> do you have everything? >> this so video shows the gas

station, the truck disguised as a construction truck but a close look inside shows a huge tank used to steal thousands of gallons of fuel. >> they are stealing 2,000 gallons and that's $10,000. >> thieves are targeting diesel fuel rather than regular gasoline. the reason they do that is diesel fuel is less flammable, lot easier to transport, and also worth a lot more on the black market. we will send it back to you. >> tucker: unbelievable. bill melugin thank you so much. literally stealing gas in the united states of america. how thoroughly has the biden administration mismanaged american leadership around the world? here is one very significant one, saudi arabia reportedly accepting chinese currency instead of u.s. dollars for its

oil sales to china. they should be a huge change for almost 50 years. saudi arabia has not traded oil in u.s. dollars. that has massive boom to the united states. according to "the wall street journal" who wrote the story, they are offering everything imaginable to the saudis. what would this mean for the united states? a former pentagon official and also principal at the marathon initiative. we are happy to have you join us. thank you for coming on. we didn't want to let the story pass your to think it is ignored by a lot of people. it seems like a major story to us, is it? >> yeah, i think so, tucker. you are right to point to the dollar and a central well-being at a practical level. and i think we are seeing early indications of movement towards probably two blocks. one led by us and one led by china. that is going to have massive implications, especially for poorly organized.

the point you're making, tucker, we need to be jealously and carefully thinking about this kind of "crown jewel" of the rule of the dollar. just being careful how we use it. the saudis are a great example of poor foresight and strategic planning. the administration was tough on the saudis and the murder of -- was an abomination but on the other hand, if you ask for help may be you should think about how you approach them in the first place. this is not the only example where we need to take a strategic account of the consequences are not solely focus on sort of moral posturing, if you will. that is a classic example. because, you know otherwise we will not think long-term interest of the american people. >> tucker: it feels like college sophomore and all they are capable is a moral lecture. i'm not against moralizing, we do it all the time and there are moral questions to solve. if you are leaping a country, shouldn't you put interest at the top of the concerns? they don't seem to be.

>> absolutely come i think you do. you take proper account of the ways in which you pursue high-minded goals. you stick to them. if you make a huge moral issue and back off a bit when you need it, that will result the saudis and they will not return your phone call. that is not serving a moral interest and it's not serving america's interest. we went that is exactly right. we are a force in the world because we are rich and can afford to be. but they are not rich if we are. so if we'd chip jeopardize affluence, we jeopardize to make the world better obviously. i wish you were running a state department, thank you. rico thanks, tucker. >> tucker: nancy pelosi has been in congress since the beginning of time. what we didn't know his and her free time, she is a strategic war strategist and not making battle plans in ukraine. you have to pay if you want to get popcorn. we will show you after the

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>> tucker: every decent america is horrified with atrocities going on in ukraine, the course. but the question, to keep in mind, thousands of nuclear weapons and get the united states and you wouldn't want those to go off and kill everyone here, of course. you need steady wise leaders to make sure that doesn't happen. but instead we have nancy pelosi. have you seen nancy pelosi speak recently? you probably haven't. here she has. >> myself when i see those tanks, i would like to take out those tanks. i think them having more planes might be useful. but i'm not a military strategist. we hope that we will be able to get to a place, i hope, i hope we can get to a place where the b21 the kind of planes can go to

ukraine, the f-16s especially b. >> tucker: she would like to take out some tanks. less than confident people. that is it for us. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and we began with fox news alert, hell on earth the country of ukraine and what is now being called a war of annihilation. vladimir putin attempting to burn everything to the ground. he is clearing going sportster, we have schools, churches, hospitals and apartment buildings and entire neighborhoods and towns being leveled by russian bombs. as they get closer to the capital kyiv. under the rubble the lifeless bodies have been a sent men, women and children.