lori lightfoot running around in a kilt considered cultural appropriation? you see, when you have the biggest thing in chicago, you can dress however you want. ♪ ♪ thanks so much for watching. tucker carlson is up next. of ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president of ukraine, a zelenskyy, addressed members of congress today in a long and at times moving speech. among other things, he demanded the united states shoot down russian aircraft over his country. the white house has not yet agreed to do that, but things do seem to be moving very rapidly in that direction. not long after zelenskyy's addressed, joe biden announced

the united states will send a total of at least a billion dollars of weapons to ukraine just this week. members of congress from both parties then emerged to say they don't think that's enough. watch. >> and the lethal drones, we need more of those in country as well. people talk about a no-fly zone. they can create their own if we give them the military equipment and weapons. >> but there's a lot i think we can do to help ukraine to shoot down those russian aircraft, bring down those missiles. >> a package that includes fighter jets and air defense systems to the ukraine immediately so that we can have a ukrainian no-fly zone. >> what we need to do is make sure that ukraine has the equipment it needs in order to defend itself, particularly the skies. >> i think there is a bipartisan movement right here to provide them the migs, provide them the planes where they can create a no-fly zone. >> tucker: so things are changing very fast. for weeks leaders in washington told us that an american-backed

no-fly zone in ukraine would be unwise because it would amount to an active war against a nuclear armed russia. as you can see, those views have evolved a lot. but in fairness, congresswoman maria salazar got there first. salazar is a longtime news anchor for miami who a little over a year ago was elected to congress as a republican. she now sits on the foreign affairs committee. a week ago a reporter from the gray zone asked salazar what she thought of a no-fly zone. here's what she said. >> do you support a no-fly zone in ukraine? >> i support everything that has to do with punishing vladimir putin helping the ukrainians. >> wouldn't that mean direct conventional warfare with russia? >> i don't know what it will mean but you know, freedom is not free. >> you don't know what a no-fly zone will mean if you have to shoot down russian planes? >> of course! >> tucker: i don't know what it will mean, but you know freedom is not free. we made fun of that answer last week when we first showed you that clip, but now what we marked is the consensus in washington. we don't know what's going to

happen, we got to do it immediately. that's the argument you're hearing. at this point, no one wants to said out loud, but it is true, at this point the shooting war with russia seems inevitable. how could a war with russia not be inevitable? virtually everyone in power is for it. we remain against it, we think joining the war in eastern europe will hurt this country, though to be clear, when and if that were starts, we will be praying passionately for america's total victory. and like so many in the foreign policy established when, without this country above all and we mean it. in the meantime, while the united states is still technically at peace, we thought it would be worth asking people who are calling for work if they have considered in detail what a war would mean for this country. congress woman maria salazar was gracious enough to accept our invitation to come on the show, we are grateful she did and she joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you for inviting me. >> tucker: well yes. since you have called for war with russia, how do you think that war, once it begins, would play out.

>> i think that's a hypothetical question. i think that we should concentrate, tucker, on what zelenskyy asked congress today. >> tucker: i can't -- i am in no way trying to cut you off, but i can't let you out a lot over that. you said we should shoot down russian planes, that is of course war. center called for that -- >> i didn't say that. >> tucker: you just said that on tape with play. >> that was taken out of context because i said of course that i know what that means. that interview was not very well conducted and that's why i'm here, because i want to clarify my position. >> tucker: okay. >> my position is that we should not take no-fly zone off the table, but before that, that too, we need to do one and one is to give zelenskyy exactly what he's asking for. no troops on the ground, let's give him the migs and the f3 hundreds, what he needs to defend his own airspace, so he

will create his own no-fly zone, and that's what i think we should have done months ago. it's embarrassing that this guy, this president who is under the bullets has come to congress to beg for us to give him something we should have down a long time ago. >> tucker: let me be clear, when you say we should give presidents ones get what he's asking for, he demanded today i think that the united states enforce the no-fly zone. so you are for denying him that. >> well, but he also said and then we can give you alternatives. so since we know that that should not be taken off the table, and i repeat it, i do believe that we should go to plan a, which is to give them all the military weapons that he's asking for. >> tucker: i think a lot of people sympathize with that. let me just say i think a lot of people who saw president zelenskyy 'speech end today and seen the atrocities in ukraine feel deep sympathy for the ukrainian people and want this to end.

i'm certainly among them. but i'm wondering -- >> i'm sure you are. so i'm asking you, then what should we do? okay? what should we do then? >> tucker: always and everywhere, especially if we have the u.s. government or one of its elected representatives act on behalf of the core interest of united states government, it's really super simple. so if the united states is providing -- >> let me just tell you now that you've said that -- >> tucker: hold on. if the united states providing weapons weapons to one side in a war, how is that not participating in the war? >> listen, let me just backtrack and say that you say we are supposed to be representing the american people. i represent district number 27 where you have millions of cuban-americans, and i'm representing what we think. we know that we acquire peace through strength. look at what happened in 1960, fidel castro jfk. >> tucker: emigrant -- i'm sorry, i'm not going to take the anti-communist lecture from anybody because of course i agree with you. >> no, no -- >> tucker: i hope they are not

speaking for cuban-americans but for all americans because it's not a racial question. >> i'm representing district number 27. >> tucker: i understand, and i'm as against communism i think is anybody, but my question is if we are providing weapons to one side in a war, i think it's fair to ask, maybe the other side would say that's an act of war against us. and if that happens, then what next? and to not think about that seems negligent but since you are on the foreign affairs committee i know you have bought it through. so tell me your views and what would happen next. >> we have been providing javelins and stingers and ammunition that we're providing a lot of military armament, so what is the difference between that and the migs and the 300? the difference? you have to understand that we are, unfortunately the united states has fallen to vladimir putin's trap. he is the one dictating what we are going to do and what we are not going to do. he said we do not want -- we are imposing a no-fly zone over

ukraine, and we are abiding by it. >> tucker: so we are letting putin controller behavior. that seems like -- let me just ask you, because we believe -- we don't need to have more evidence that putin has bad intent, that he's evil. a lot of people believe he's crazy, including some informed people, including many russians, so we know he's volatile. and we know that he's ugly -- how many nuclear weapons, by the way, does russia have? do you know? >> many. >> tucker: about 6,000. that's a fair answer. >> one is enough, right? >> tucker: so are we concerned at all that he might use a nuclear weapon against the unites states? is that a concern? is that something you consider as you recommend these policies? >> of course we are very concerned when we are concerned that he may be throwing a biological weapon against the ukrainians within the next few hours because he cannot take kyiv as he thought he was going to. so of course that we are

confronting a dictator. but i think that we should be putting this into context and i think -- thank you very much for giving the opportunity. >> tucker: of course. >> if we believe in the free world that this is going to be the first of the last confrontation with a bad actor, we are in for a very big surprise. because they do not confront bad actors with strength than we are going to have china and russia and iran and venezuela and they are watching what we are doing buried >> tucker: but hold on. needless to say, i've made that argument, you know, for 30 years on television. the question is are we doing it with all available risks known to the population in whose name we are doing it? so i'm asking you, what you think the chances are, no sure you've gleaned this out as a member of the foreign affairs committee that putin uses a nuclear weapon against united states in response to this? what would you counselor the chances? >> sure that we are taking that into consideration. >> tucker: but what you think are likely -- our viewers are

unsure supporting you. i think most conservatives are on your side, but i just think they should know what the informed view of the likelihood of a retaliatory nuclear strike from vladimir putin's. what would you assess it as being? >> i repeat that's a hypothetical question. >> tucker: is hardly hypothetical. >> i believe he will not take that step if starting today the biden administration will send the message that we are in charge, that nato is ready to confront him and so are we. and that is the problem that i believe -- i'm not sure if you share my view, that you obtain peace, you obtain -- you can -- they take all the power away from putin if you show strength. >> tucker: so do you believe that -- so do you believe that's true? so president zelenskyy said yesterday that he is considering declaring that ukraine would not join nato in exchange for having

russian troops withdraw from his country. would you describe this -- this is president zelenskyy speaking. would you describe that -- >> who am i to say what's correct and what's incorrect coming from zelenskyy? >> tucker: i don't know -- okay. please don't dodge the question. would that be an answer you be satisfied with? if zelenskyy made good on what he just suggested, that we agreed to neutrality, we will will relinquish claims to crimea and the russians leave, with a p okay with you, would you consider that an honorable exit or a display of weakness? >> if zelenskyy comes to the united states congress and he says that this is the best path forward, we are no one to say something to the contrary. but i don't think is going to say that. so we are creating scenarios here that are hypothetical. >> tucker: no we are not. you may not be following this closely, but he has said that multiple times. so of course that --

>> i understand, and i have heard it, but that is up to him. >> tucker: that would spare the deaths, i know you have a concern for the civilian population of ukraine. >> of course, we all do. >> tucker: that would preserve the capital city from being destroyed, so would that be better than increasing the level of armed conflict in ukraine? which would be a better outcome? >> that's where the ukrainians -- >> tucker: what you mean? you are an american policymaker imposing your views on ukraine and i'm asking is simply -- >> i'm not imposing any views. >> tucker: of course you are, you're saying we need to send material, billions of dollars come armed the military -- and i'm not criticizing your position, i'm just asking you, has it occurred that many lives might be saved if we were to encourage a peaceful solution that's arty on the table? are you doing anything in that direction? >> if the ukrainians want to go that route, they have the right

to and we are no one to say anything about it because they are the ones dying on the streets and they are the ones under siege. >> tucker: they certainly are dying. i don't notice any member's of congress or david lane down there lives. have you suggested that? >> tucker, i think that we have talked about this point enough, i also wanted you to committee opportunity -- >> tucker: we have? [laughs] i want to ask you -- >> you said that i was in favor for open borders, and i wanted to -- i talked to your people -- >> tucker: you just called us month for the amnesty of tens of millions of people who came into this country illegally. you did, because i read the legislation today. >> no i did not. >> tucker: actually 20 minutes ago i read it. >> okay, i'm glad you did, and i will invite you to read it again, just give me 30 seconds and i promise you i will give it to you and sound bites. the dignity act, which i presented last month is an immigration reform law, probably the first one the g.o.p. has

presented in a long time. it has one of the strongest border security measures in a history of the united states congress. >> tucker: got it. but it -- >> wait a minute, wait a minute, amnesty is what we have now, tucker. amnesty is when you have more than 13 million illegals -- listen to me -- without paying for schools, for roads, or for hospitals. i am giving them dignity so they can start paying and taken -- -- >> tucker: the talking points here. >> we are not getting deep. >> tucker: people who came over our border without permission are not being -- very different standard to ukraine. i'm wondering if russians fleeing putin -- do you believe -- should be allowed to start new -- start new and better lives in ukraine? to believe in ukrainian nationalism but not american? >> i want to be rigorous.

i am talk about the people who have lived here for more than five years that have not committed a crime, that have american children, and who are contributing to our economy. i want to give them something called dignity. i'm not talk about path to citizenship, not talk but amnesty -- let me -- no i'm not. i don't want you to misrepresent what we did and we worked for one whole year so we can solve just because you don't -- wait, wait, the fact that you don't agree -- >> tucker: a very simple question, you're presenting migs -- >> the fact that you agree with me doesn't mean that you have to misrepresent what's on the bill. >> tucker: look, i think you said it yourself, for people who came here illegally, tens of millions of them, would be allowed to stay, they would not be punished, they would be rewarded. if you think that's enhancing your dignity? are not against those people, i just can't help notice the contrast between your desire to spend migs to ukraine to preserve its borders but not here. should we send the u.s. military to the mexican border since you

have admitted the tens of millions of people have come here legally, that our borders are porous, they're not defended, they are open. should we send the u.s. military to the mexican border? >> that is why i have created a whole plan so we can really seal the border, because you know what? my committee -- that i represent -- let me finish. the ones that i represent, let me finish. give me 15 seconds. >> tucker: i shall. >> i have -- thank you. i have created a series of measures so we can secure the border because we, the browns, the hispanics, the latinos in this country are not in favor of open borders. the problem is that no one asked us. we want to live in the promised land and we want to contribute because you know very well that if we deport those 11 or 13 million, we may not have food by friday. why? because the supply chain -- >> tucker: i think everyone understands this, that we have of the supply chain issues and by the way, i'm not attacking

anybody living in this country illegally or legally, i'm asking about question about borders. all of us are appalled by the violation of ukraine's borders. you don't seem as appalled by the violation of our borders by tons of millions of peoples, so let me ask you for the third time. do you support military women -- would you support the u.s. military securing the united states border tonight or on the same timetable as sending migs to ukraine? how about that? >> that's hypothetical again. >> tucker: you are a lawmaker. what do you mean, just say it! you are not for it and you are for ukraine not here. >> if you are giving me ball segment, which is great, and i thank you very much. >> tucker: i don't want to misrepresent. i'm asking -- you don't support sending the u.s. military to the border, you don't. >> i am supporting -- >> tucker: a foreign country but not our own. it's prickly. >> i am for -- all the technology we could find so we can secure the border.

all the military, veterans, the police forces that we could hire so we could secure and seal the border not only for people, but fentanyl and child sex traffickers, so as i told you, the bill is right there, it's technology, it's not so simple is to say are going to put this or that, it's a series of technicalities of technology that we need to use. >> tucker: i agree with your -- if you're securing the border, total in your side. >> but let me ask you -- >> tucker: let me just ask you a question, can you see why americans who support the ukrainians right to secure their own borders -- i certainly do, most people do, all americans do, can you see the frustration that they might feel listening to you, a lawmaker, say yeah, there's a process, when it happens in a foreign country we have to send billions of the u.s. military, your sons, but we can't kind of do that here because why? can you sort of understand the frustration little bit? >> but i have never said that i want to send troops, our boys,

to fight in ukraine because i don't think that zelenskyy is -- we are sending at the same time stingers and javelins and ammunitions we are sending a lot of things. >> tucker: why don't we protect our border with the same seriousness? but you're not. you're not treating our border crisis with any level of the same seriousness. >> you are misrepresenting -- it's not true. you are misrepresenting this bill that is probably one of the best bills that has been presented when it's talked about immigration reform law. i invite you to read it and invite me back so we can discuss it. >> tucker: all right. congresswoman, i don't agree with you, but i certainly appreciate your coming on, it's hard to get people to do that and i appreciate that you did. thanks. >> thanks, of course, invite me again so we can continue to talk about immigration, which is one of the biggest proms we have and if the g.o.p. doesn't realize it we will never win another election again. >> tucker: yet. actually, i think hispanic voters are trending republican because they are for border

security, the kind that you are not providing. >> it's not true, once again you are misrepresenting! you are misrepresenting my bill. >> tucker: read it yourself. thanks so much, good to see you. breaking news out of ukraine. in just a moment, greg palkot will go live for us from there. joe kent was watching that interview with congresswoman salazar, a former member of the army special forces, running for congress in the state of washington. we needed a reality check on all that so we are happy to be joined by him now. thanks so much for coming on. i just want to say again that we are grateful that congressman salazar was game enough to come on the show, i appreciate that very, very much but i couldn't help but notice, with respect, the difference in the urgency, and people are dying in ukraine in ways that are horrifying and i concede that, but we've had a slow-motion invasion to the tunes of tens of millions of people for like more than a decade and it's accelerating, so why does no one in washington seem to care about that? >> yeah, it's very frustrating,

tucker. we've seen this unchecked illegal immigration coming across our borders, most recent inspired by joe biden. we fed the g.o.p., when we had control of the house in the senate for the first two years of the trump administration, vote against constructing a border wall, the one i'm running against, jimmy guerrero butler, who is a republican, has voted for amnesty every time it's been on the docket but we are supposed to hit the pause button and listen to some foreign leader on the floor of our congress tell us what we need to do for him to secure his country, and i sent with eyes with his country, i really do, i think he's fighting valiantly. i think latimer put in is a horrible person but it is an extremely fair thing to act our illicit -- ask our elected officials who are asked to fund this work and some people off to die, that's what a no-fly zone is, that puts us in a war with russia in short order, sue feel so passionately, if any of these representatives feel so passionately about i would have to go and save the ukrainians and provide lethal eight and continue to push this escalation, they need to go back to their districts and tell the american people, tell their

constituents, what they are asking them to do and what the ramifications potentially could be. all we are asking is to be informed as to what our government is doing and to have a dialogue, why do foreign nations always come first, why do we secure their borders and not our own? >> tucker: that's right. for zoomable you could do both. in the right order, but wouldn't it be stunning to see kevin mccarthy stand up in some sort of emergency press conference and say you know, we've had a come of this is hurting our country, 100,000 people died of drug roadies last year dragon the mic driven by our open borders, we are not putting up with it, we sending the u.s. military. anybody serving in uniform who wants to do it can. how thrilling would that be? how hard would that be to say something like that? >> it would be amazing and they should be putting pressure on the bite administration to do that. he's the one opening the borders up, and forcing this crisis. while republicans are calling the american people's attention to this crisis and showing us that they are working to solve it is beyond me. i don't understand it but yet we

see them having massive press conferences, you know, stand by these ukrainian flags and say that they want to stand with people from another country and that's just not what they are supposed to do. we could potentially do both things at the same time. very cautious about this war escalation. i don't think we really explained to the american people what we are asking them to do, and no one is really amplifying the fact that there is a peace offer on the table but we are leaving zelenskyy on and leading them down the path to further slaughter and not encouraging them to follow this path of diplomacy. the war drums are beating very heavily, because look, it's a great distraction from a political crisis. it rallies everybody around the military-industrial complex and the media complex as well. so i think people just need to be informed as to what's going on here and what the true stakes are. >> tucker: you hate to think that's true, you hate to think that more ukrainians are going to die. unwise decisions of our leadership. joe kent, always appreciate you coming on. thank you. fox news alert for you, there is shelling underway in ukraine right now.

new reports just in on a rocket strike, the northern part of the country just west of the capital. talcott is live with us from ukraine to sort out what is happening there tonight. hey, greg. >> hi, tucker. yeah, specifically the northwestern part of the country near the border, a town hit there, more and more this western side of the country, which has been relatively quiet, is getting hit by russian forces and we believe those strikes came from belarus territory, which is also quite interesting. most of the action is over in the eastern side and particularly in the capital of kyiv. a missile strike hit just a mile and a half from the residence of president zelenskyy. take a look and listen at this. 12 story building also destroyed in that mess. day-to-day life and all the

cities get more dangerous. the northern city of carr kiev, a big trade market was by shelling. that shelling sparked a huge fire, took most of the day to put it out and once again the ukrainian military showing it can do some real damage to russian hardware. this time we see some video that seems to show three russian helicopters blown up at an airfield in the southern city, about a thousand, the number of vehicles and aircraft that have been destroyed just in three weeks. and a recap from the talks that they continue between russia and ukraine, some positive action. words like "serious" and "realistic," but we've been hearing that for a while and the carnage just gets worse and worse every day, tucker. >> tucker: greg palkot for us. thanks so much for that. coronavirus lockdowns have ended in most places, our leaders are just violating our civil liberties and unprecedented

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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert, and you saw this one coming. convicted hate crime hoax jussie smollett just sentenced to jail and now he's been released from jail or is about to be, just a few days into was 150 day sentence, but this evening an appeals court ruled that jussie smollett can go home while he works to get his conviction overturned. because he's not a trump order, he is not one of those january 6 guys rotting in solitary for more than a year, he jussie smollett, a famous actor. smollett's attorneys of the appeal process will take longer than 150 days so it's only fair to let him out as the appeal works its way through the

system, because again, he's a hillary man. they also argued smollett was in danger in the cook county jail even though he was in solitary confinement, he could have beaten himself up again. apparently those arguments took the day so jussie smollett is back home tonight. so it's been exactly two years since our political leadership imposed the first mask quarantine in the history on the population, china style lockdowns and over the course of this two years a lot of our basic civil liberties eroded completely. we barely even remember them. we used to be able to say what we wanted and congregate together and worship freely. but no, and in fact, they are eroding still further. tonight politicians are sure to have access to the capital city because they don't want to be critical criticized by protesters because protests never happened in washington, never the march on washington or anything. today a reporter from revenues tried to gain access to

washington, d.c., here's what police told him. >> 695 is closed to commercial vehicles. you're going to have to go -- it's closed off. you're going to have to go northbound on 295. >> for how long? >> my boss is eventually going to tell me to start arresting people. >> tucker: jeremy shot that, nbc news did not. it's illegal but the government is doing it anyway. naomi wolf is not surprised, she's worn for a long time this moment would come, author of the new book. people made fun of naomi wolf for sounding paranoid a few years ago. no one does that anymore. she joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. a technical question, are you allowed to shutdown washington, d.c., because you don't want to be criticized? >> i wish i was an attorney -- >> tucker: i'm deputizing you one now.

do you think that's allowed in a free country? >> i care a lot about the constitution and a carefully reread the first amendment, and it is not constitutional, congress shall make no law prohibiting freedom of assembly or the right of citizens to petition government for a redress of grievances. that said, d.c. is a weird anomaly. it's arguable the congress didn't make a law about what's happening, but i think a judge would certainly find that it's unconstitutional that people are being deprived of their rights if the, you know, cops are arresting people for assembling, and as you rightly point out, you know, we have a great history going back to the founding of our country, i mean, the boston tea party was a protest, you know, the march on washington, vietnam war marches. petition government for redress of our grievance is what we do as americans, so you're right to notice, and i wish more people

in the media and in government noticed how catastrophically yet another benchmark of losing our rights and scarily being kind of handed over to arrests like the canadian truckers, to misuse, to abuse, to restrictions, to punishment. this represents -- it's a whole new level of stripping us of our rights and freedoms as free people. >> tucker: i wonder if -- i lived in washington for 35 years and it seems like every day there was some sort of protest and sometimes you agreed and sometimes you didn't but it's not your city, it's an american city -- do people notice that this is happening do you think? >> i mean, mr. carlson, the country is divided exactly in two and a kind of love people in both worlds and the kind of left-wing blue states that are used to hang out in, where all the people i love are except for all my new friends, they

noticed, but they think it's okay because it's people like them were giving the orders, and that is chilling. i mean, history is full of people thinking that restrictive or tyrannical or abusive orders are okay if it's their own kind of people, it's people who look like them, talk like them, you know, worship like them. in the red states, where i also travel, among conservative and libertarians who are some of my new friends, people are horrified and there is a much greater recognition that our country does not mean this, it means something entirely different and they watch the burning up of the constitution bit by bit with horror. now, should everybody be aware? yes. you know, should we all be kind of out in the streets arresting people who have seized our liberties? these are unlawful acts, right? having trials, peacefully

protesting, taking our country back, yes. and i'm just going to remind every 1 of 1 more thing, which is the declaration of independence doesn't say sit around, watch television, you know, while people crush your sovereign liberty. it says it is your job as americans to rise up, you know, peacefully, ideally, against tyrants, and hopefully we are peacefully doing that. i have to really commend the truckers. they've been very disciplined and peaceful but categorically there right is to go wherever they want in the city of d.c. and not be restrained from peaceful speech. >> tucker: there were only like six liberals left, and you are one of them, so i appreciate you coming on. naomi wolf, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: we have chris cuomo news for you tonight. remember it was not that long ago that don lemon and chris cuomo were like brothers. inseparable at cnn. we brought this to you night after night, it delighted us on

many levels, truly. if you don't remember, here's one of their any, many public displays of manlove, of affection. watch. >> people have been asking me what you're going to give chris for valentine's day today? so here it is, chris. i have a card for you. if in there you go. >> it's beautiful! >> i knew you would think it's beautiful, because you are surrounded. >> you didn't want to put your face and her why? it wouldn't fit? >> that would be like me oven myself. that's what you're about. >> for the sake of valentine's day, can we stop this projection of where i am the one who is so into myself to >> tucker: i mean, it's a little weird, kind of nice actually. there's not a lot of authentic human emotion on cnn. you know, they take it out of your soul when you sign your contract so we kind of like that, that was 2019. but that's all over, and the breakup is nasty. today chris, accused former colleagues at cnn, including don lemon of smearing him.

in a court filing, his lawyers wrote this, don lemon falsely claimed that cuomo had been found to break with journalistic standards. imagine don lemon adjudicating journalistic standards. amazing terry chris, by the way, it's asking for $125 million from cnn. we want to get involved but office we where rooting for him. radio show host in d.c., one of the top-rated, we are happy to have him join us. so there is something very poignant about seeing the bodies breakup, the rat pack dissolve after all these years. what you make of it? >> well, everything about it was a lie. it's so crazy. first of all, television news and certainly the left broadly, just the transactional nature of these relationships. here's what really was going on. chris, was the only guy that had any semblance of ratings at cnn. don lemon would have him on his show for a huge portion of the show during what we would call the handoff and the reason for that was because don lemon

desperately needed ratings help so the two of them would ask like they love each other and they would do the segment together but it's interesting, the second chris cuomo is out on his tail, the first person argument to cut him off from his sevens is don lemon. saying don't pay this guy, he doesn't deserve a dime. so chris cuomo, which may be he had some affection, he's been betrayed now and so what he's done is filed this lawsuit and in it he's declared something we know to be true as well, the reports that behind the scenes, don lemon was advising jussie smollett that the police in chicago didn't believe him, he was secretly tipping off jussie smollett the information that he had, so cuomo is going hey, if i'm getting busted for journalistic ethics, what about don lemon, who pretended to be my friend and then stabbed me in the back the second i got tossed out the door. >> tucker: it's got to admit it's pretty hilarious, for mr. malaysian air must've flown into a black hole to be questioning people and their journalistic ethics. it's too great. >> it's incredible.

so these guys -- these guys are like -- what is discovered going to do once they fully have control of cnn? they claim is they want to turn it into a news network again. there is some thought that maybe we can make it a news network. not if all of your top talent has just been devastated of its credibility by the guy you just fired. they've got a lot of turnover to undertake. >> tucker: they will be going after the morning zoo lady next. it's also sad. great to see you tonight, thank you so much. >> nice to see you. >> tucker: so l.a. county residents are on the verge of recalling their district attorney because he is affirmatively for criminals. he is abetting crime. it's upside down world. and they get this man, the sorrows-backed disaster come out of office? an exclusive report is coming up on that next. ♪ ♪ 8000 jewish people are desperately trying to flee certain death from the russian army for the freedom and safety of israel.

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law and fact criminals. to sum it up in a single sentence, for the first time in 100 years, train robbery is now an academic in l.a. in the middle of the day. so it appears that finally the long-suffering citizens of the great city of los angeles had had enough. bill melugin has the story for us tonight. hey, bill. >> hey, tucker. the campaign to recall says it is well on track now to get the recall qualified on the ballot. they announced today they have already collected 125,000 petitions and have raised three and a half million dollars. this campaign started collecting signatures back in early february and they say return petitions are now increasing exponentially every single week. they say the momentum is on their side and that he is "running scared." we all remember he issued a criminal friendly directive the moment he took office. he refuses to prosecute gun or gang enhancements, doesn't believe in cash bail, the death penalty, or life without parole.

he has refused to prosecute juveniles as adults know matter how their crimes are. he recently admitted he got it wrong when he refused to prosecute 26 year old transgender child molester as an adult. that's a decision that allowed him to -- which he boasted about an custody phone call with his dad, take a listen. >> don't worry about it. it's a strike but i'm going to plead out, i'm going to plead guilty, they will stick me on probation and it's going to be dropped, it's going to be gone, i won't have to register. >> for an offender, you won't have to register? >> i won't have to do none of that. >> so what are they going to do? >> nothing. >> as for the recall, they need about 567,000 signatures by juln the ballot. the campaign says they are on track to hit it. we will see. we will send it back to you. >> tucker: bill melugin, amazing story, thank you. we decided to look a little

deeper into george gascon. one man backed by george soros really did wreck a city, the second-biggest united states. beautiful, very american city, los angeles. we are about to premiere season two of tucker carlson originals, our documentary series, and in our first episode we sent a team to l.a. on this story. what they found is really unbelievable. we will show it to you very soon. there are some political leaders in the country who still believe in the rule of law and they want to bring it back. james craig is one of them who was a long time police chief and a bunch of cities, finally in detroit. do not have riots after george floyd died. he's not running for governor of michigan. spoke to him for a brain episode of "tucker carlson today," told us about his very first time walking the foot beat as a police officer. here's part of it. ♪ ♪

>> i'd like to tell this first story. first night -- i walked a foot beat for a couple of weeks, that's what they do to the rookies, walk on the foot beat, he was 18, by that time i was 20, so i got my first opportunity to ride in the scout car, the police car, so i'm excited. so show up, and by the way, the precinct that i was assigned out of the academy was the same precinct my dad volunteered at doing civil unrest. so that was special. it was crazy. >> tucker: ten years later. >> working the same precinct. and so i walk up to the police car, meet my partner, he was probably 25 plus year veteran, white police officer, he looked at me, he said i don't want you here. he said in fact, you do one thing, sit over there, you're not going to drive the car, don't touch the radio, sit there and be black. >> tucker: don't touch the radio. >> you know every new officer

wants to drive the police car. >> tucker: i want to drive the police car. >> so called my dad the end of the shift is that i don't know if i can do this. he said oh, no, you don't have a choice. you must do this. you can be part of change and the only way you do that is stay with it. and i thought about that, i mean hard. made a good point, went back to work, things got increasingly better, but it dawned on me even as now a 20-year-old new officer in the detroit police department, i said a police officer, i can affect only so much change. maybe i work in a neighborhood and do good in a neighborhood, but the only way to affect and make wholesale change, i have to be a police chief. but my point was, instead of seeking solutions, hey, you're police officers on the ground, which we need to do, help us understand, how are you

received? it wasn't that kind of welcome. it wasn't a welcome at all. and so that really made me start to reflect even then, why am i a democrat? i mean, group conservative and i know having worked in communities throughout my now-44 years of service, here's what i knew. people who live in vulnerable communities, particularly communities of color, they like the police. they want the police. >> tucker: yeah. >> but it is shameful today that these progressives, the socialists, elective -- i want to call them servants of people, their political servants. they don't care about people in these communities. and here's the beauty of my candidacy. i get asked this question all the time as i travel michigan. chief, you know republicans don't do well in southeast michigan, particularly detroit. said that's true, i said but we

have opportunity. i served in that city as their chief for eight years. i am branded in detroit. the principles i've stood on, transparency, honesty, making decisions, keeping detroit safe. it was it easy? no. but i built a great team and we got it done. we built relationships with communities. most folks are not going to forget. there's not a day that goes by if i'm in an eatery in detroit and somebody will walk up to me and say you know i'm a democrat, but i'm voting for you. i'm voting for you because i trust you. >> tucker: james craig, former police chief of detroit, now running for governor of michigan, that interview is on fox nation. it's worth watching. jussie smollett is about to walk at a jail in a moment now unlike the january 6th defendants. what happened to equal justice?

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to unsafe conditions," as if we don't have unsafe conditions in this country. some of these are great people who help the united states. some of them aren't. it doesn't matter. they're all allowed to stay because they are not american. that's it for us tonight. don't forget a brain episode of "tucker carlson today" with chief craig we will see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and we begin with the fox news alert, we will take you life to the ground in ukraine for military activity is now ongoing at this very hour. earlier, a new barrage of indiscriminate russian bombing completely leveling a local theater in southern ukraine where hundreds of innocent civilians were sheltering in place. by the way, including many young children. in fact, as you can see there on your screen, the word children was painted on the ground in russian on either side of the theater, but russia blew it