♪ ♪ >> it's a lot of unity and community coming back together. it's outstanding to see everyone see the smiles. ♪ ♪ >> bret: all right. happy saint patrick's day. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and unafraid "jesse watters primetime" is next. i went to ireland jesse they said you have the map of ireland on your face i am part irish. happy saint patrick's day. >> jesse: i am too. my liver that's what is part irish about me. thank you, happy saint patty's day, bret. >> bret: you too. ♪ >> jesse: let's take us back to the election. trump was doing the ymca dance. biden couldn't spell ymca amy

barrett sailing through and warp speed around the corner. and remember the october surprise. the "new york post" aired hunter biden's dirtiest laundry thanks to his laptop from hell abandoned at the repair shop in delaware. if you were watching this channel, you heard a lot about it. that was news. but if you were listening to the mainstream media's russian style propaganda, courtesy of the biden campaign, you were watching the biggest disinformation campaign almost in american history. on day one, when the "new york post" broke the story, journalists around the country swooped in to debunk the laptop and all of the secrets that lurked inside. they labeled it russian disinformation. fake news. articles like this were surfacing all over. the truth behind the hunter biden's non-scandal. jen psaki was quick to pull the

trigger at the time. she said, quote: the hunter biden story is russian disinformation. they all sounded like parrots. annoying us with the same talking points. even cia officials put out a letter claiming this couldn't be true. who asked the cia anyway. anyone that reported on the laptop or its cob tents was spreading disinformation. and they were sensorred in america. not russia. think about that. they even kicked the post off twitter the country's oldest newspaper. they conspired afternoon hunter grabbed the mop with the clean up job. >> for real, i don't know. >> i really don't know is what the answer. >> you don't know yes or no if the laptop was yours. >> i have no idea. i have no idea. >> so it could have been yours. >> certainly. there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. there could be that i was

hacked. it could be that there was the -- that it was russian intelligence. >> jesse: russian disinformation campaign success. one in five would have changed their votes if they had known about the hunter laptop. if you went through all of that you would be pretty surprised today when you opened up the "new york times." and pealed it open all the way back to page 20 to see this headline, quote: hunter biden paid tax bill but broad federal investigation continues. is this the first time they have mentioned the investigation into hunter's sketchy business deal? the "times" reports that this all started off with a tax audit under the obama-biden administration. and then it soon turned criminal when his dad was running for president. so, you are telling me that the obama-biden administration started looking into biden's son's taxes and biden's son

never said anything to his dad about it like hey, dad, why is your irs auditing me? there is no way joe didn't know. and then your father is running for president and the feds open up a criminal investigation into you for money laundering and you don't pull your dad aside and say hey, pop, there is this little thing that may come up during the campaign? not a huge deal but i'm kind of under investigation? of course hunter told joe that. joe knew the whole time the laptop was real. and so did the "new york times." hidden, deep inside that article was an admission, quote: those emails were obtained by the "new york times" from a kach of piles that appears to come from a laptop abandoned by mr. biden in a delaware repair shop. the email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation. so we were right about hunter

being paid $3.5 million by a russian billionaire. so you are saying we were right about hunter being given a three carrot diamond from a chinese communist businessman? three carrots. that's a big rock. when a man gives another man a diamond, it's one of two things. an engagement or a bribe. now, hunter is into some weird stuff we will call it an indecent proposal. we were right about the $50,000 a month he was making as a gas expert working for burisma. and that hunter arranged for his dad to meet with burisma lobbyists before he fired the prosecutor. we were right about that. and if we are right about all of this, because the laptop has been proven real by the paper of record. then that must mean joe biden really is the big guy. >> and then it has 10% for the big guy held by h.

i 1,000 percent sit here and know that the big guy is referencing joe biden. it's -- that's crystal clear to me because i lived it. >> jesse: and the big guy lied when he was running for president. listen. >> totally discredited. and, by the way. >> wait he didn't get $2.5 million, joe? he got $3.5 million. >> that is not true. my son did nothing wrong in burisma. >> i think he did. >> let him answer. >> he doesn't want me to answer because he knows i have the truth. his position has been totally discredited. >> with who by the media. >> it's hard to get any word in with this clown. >> big tech lied and spread dangerous misinformation to win an election. and it gets worse, if you can believe it joe was knee deep in hunter's finances. shared bank accounts, credit cards, paying each other's bills with dirty foreign money?

the laptop and the emails confirm those accusations. he was allegedly cutting 10% here and there in exchange for secret meetings with sketchy chinese businessmen at the white house while he was vice president. he took meetings at cafe milano in washington. pretty good place with some ukrainians and russians and kazakhstany businessmen that hunter was trying to strike up deals with. >> i met with the former vice president in person multiple times and i had been meeting and talking with hunter biden and jim biden and rob walker and james gilyard. >> oh, the biden brothers, too. and joe didn't have a problem with any of this why would he? his family was getting filthy rich. remember how smart hunter biden is? >> he is a grown man. he is the smartest man i know. i mean, pure intellectual

capacity. and -- and as long as he is good, we are good. >> jesse: joe says hunter is the smartest guy he knows. the smartest guy. wow. maybe that explains afghanistan and the border and inflation and gas prices. here's what happened when jen psaki was asked about this story today. >> the "new york times" has authenticated emails that appear to have come from a laptop abandoned by hunter biden in delaware. the president previously said that the "new york post" story about this was a bunch of garbage and russian plant. does he stand by that. >> i point to the department of justice and hunter biden's preppive. he doesn't work in the government. >> jesse: hunter doesn't work in government? yes, he does. it's the family business. hunter is the family lobbyist. excuse me, hunter is also a very talented painter. and if foreign agents want to spend quart till mill to buy influence i mean a paint frghts

first family, well, the white house doesn't have a comment. if they do, it's probably just more disinformation. mollie hemingway the senior editor at "the federalist," fox news contributor and author of the book "rigged." mollie, you knew this information all along, would you say this investigation with what they did with this laptop was rigged? >> just this story alone shows how problematic the 2020 election was. nobody can doubt that this was the most important story of the 2020 election. the biden family business, which, as you went through, involved getting a lot of money and other gifts from shady foreign characters in exchange for a proximity to joe biden. there are multiple family members involved with this. we have reames of evidence about the corruption involved in this yet the media went out of their

way to suppress this story beyond a shadow of a doubt and tech companies colluded as well to do it. no question this was the single most important story of the 2020 election. they hid it from the american people and in an election that came down to 43,000 votes across three states. you know this had a huge impact. >> jesse: they did a survey, if it's just those swing states and it's between 43,000 votes and if people had known about this, biden voters would have changed their vote and that would have been enough to change the results of the election according to that survey. so, a lot of people think that alone would mean the election was rigged and you have intel, you have the democrats, you have big tech, you have the media all involved, so, putting that aside, mollie, now that the "times," the best newspaper in america they say, the most accurate, the best journalists, the most top-notch journalism, they have decided that the laptop is real so wouldn't you expect that every journalist in

the country would then just be pouring over all these materials in the laptop and chasing down all these stories? >> right. even if there were no laptop, any journalist worth their salt covering the 2020 campaign or this biden presidency should know that this is fertile ground for journalistic discovery. and, yet, you saw very few stories about it in the ramping up to the 2020 election or anything now. everything that corporate media have said about this story is a lie. whether it was about whether it was russian disinformation or not, whether it was about when the investigation even started. you know, we learned now that this investigation started during the obama years. whether joe biden was involved. we have eyewitness accounts from people who put their name behind it who say that joe biden was involved in this family business. and, yet, nobody in the media, very few people in the media have done what they should to uncover and really explain to americans what the consequences of this biden family business

are. >> jesse: mollie, let's pretend your father is the vice president and your father's irs audits you. do you think you would say hey, dad, why is your irs auditing me? don't you think hunter would have said something to his dad? >> well, particularly since there have been so many instances in hunter biden's life where he has gotten away with things that you and i would not get away with whether that's leaving a crack pipe and there being drug residue in a rental car or the situation where his gun disposed of. or where he lied on background check in order to get the gun. things that he has been able to skate by on probably because of his proximity to his father. >> jesse: it's unbelieve it or not i think people are going to be pretty angry about this. i know i am. mollie hemingway, great book. "rigid." everybody check it out. >> thanks. >> did epstein really kill himself? bill barr is here in studio

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>> russia continuing to attack ukraine today. vicious seen in chief of staff kyiv with a giant market was lit up like a bonfire. let let's go to correspondent greg palkot in lviv now, greg? >> jesse in the last couple of hours we have seen new reports of artillery clashes in the south and east in this country four weeks in and this war is not letting up. the main russian forces remain outside of the center of the capital of kyiv indesvictim mat artillery fire death and destruction everywhere. a possible is small miracle in the city of mariupol. survivors are said to have been pulled out of a theater-turned shelter for hundreds destroyed by russian strikes. children had been written in

russian outside the building to try to fend off the bombing. and yes, in kharkiv, there is a lot of destruction, 21 reported killed one of many hot spots brave job against the russian faux. the ukrainian forces have killed some 7,000 one more report from the state department they confirmed that an american citizen was also killed today in kharkiv. the horror touching everybody. back to you. >> jesse: thanks, greg. what we're about to show you looks like ukraine but it's not. this scene is just across the border from laredo, texas. cartels laying siege to trucks all along our border setting down spike strips and setting tractor trailers on fire. >> we have similar to images coming out, i don't know, kharkiv or mariupol. this is just a stone's throw from the lone star state. mexico is becoming a faldz

narcostate under joe biden. border czar kamala harris three three-point shot europe and zero trips to our southern border as meth, fentanyl and violence are unleashed on our country at rates we have never seen before. and nobody is more upset about it than our former attorney general bill barr. he is the author of a new book one damn thing after another memoirs of an attorney general a number one best seller on the "new york times." congratulations. did you just hear the conversation about the laptop from hell? >> yes, i did. >> jesse: when this was all going down in the fall, did you see what the left was doing with this disinformation campaign? did you come out and say anything about that? >> absolutely. as soon as this letter came out from the so-called intelligence specialists, the dni john ratcliffe at the time and the fbi which work for me both came out and said this was not the result of disinformation. russian disinformation.

the media ignored that completely. just kept on going with the disinformation line. >> jesse: that's pretty egregious. would you say that there was a conspiracy between big tech, former intelligence officials, the media, the democrats to, i don't know, let's just use the word "rig" an election? >> yes. that definitely made an impact on the election. criminal or not. just the facts alone were shameful and most americans would see what was going on and how repulsive it was and it would have had an effect. the issue of criminality is a different issue. we will get to that at some point. the video we just showed, carnage just a few miles from laredo, how outgunned are the mexicans? because i feel like the cartels run that country and we are about to pay an even bigger price. >> that was one of my principle

concerns when i was a.g. and it was one of president trump's principle concerns. i went down there a couple of times to see how-whether we could stiffen the spine of this president down there who believes in hugs not bullets. and they are losing -- they have lost control of the country in my opinion. the cartels have corrupt anyone they want to down there. and they have armies, literally armies that are increasingly paramilitary forces, dressed like military armored cars, when we tried arrest chapo's son, they showed up with 700 paramilitary troops with 50 caliber machine guns mounted on the back of trucks. and the army faded away. so, what i have always been worried about is that the mexican government is going to

share sovereignty with mexican cartels and we have no control over that territory. and now we have lost alcohol of the border. of -- control of the border. at least under president trump. he established control over that border. he had to fight like hell for three years to do it against every district court judge in the country that wanted to try to impede him. he finally got control of that border. >> jesse: how disgusted are you with kamala harris the border czar. >> i'm pretty disgusted with the performance of the whole administration. when she comes back from central america and says she is investigating the root causes of immigration, you know, that means they are not going to do anything. >> jesse: right. epstein, we were pretty pissed off about that situation. we followed that case very closely. a lot of girls were damaged. >> yeah. >> jesse: that was a huge priority for the country. >> and for me. >> jesse: and for you to get justice. but, he died in a prison cell

and no one believes what really happened. what really happened there? >> um, there's a principle that i have embraced and it's usually true in government which is don't ascribe malice when stupidity is a sufficient explanation. now, when i first heard all the information and all the coincidences here, i was suspicious. >> jesse: what were the coincidences? i mean, those were a lot of co-incidences. >> one of the cameras was out. he was supposed to have a cell mate. the cell mate left. they didn't replace the cell mate. and the guards who were supposed to check him every half hour didn't check. >> jesse: okay. >> and. >> jesse: you know for sure? >> the fbi investigated, the southern district of new york was all over it. it was their case. it was one of their flagship cases and one of our most important cases. i was very frustrated when i got

the news. i was very pissed off. i also sent the ig up to investigate. and i was satisfied at the end of the day that it was suicide. >> jesse: all right. you told the story here about some fight you got into. [laughter] >> jesse: you look like a fighter, when you were in college. and you is said that that was representative for how you thought trump should have handled his presidency. why don't you share that with us. >> actually, the president, after h.w. bush's funeral asked me to come by the whitehouse. he already told me wanted me as attorney general and offered me the job. but i think he was having second thoughts. during that conversation, i said you and i are going to have a problem. because i understand about fighting back. but if you hit back immediately, you are letting your enemy pick the time and place. and i told him this story about a flag football game i was playing when i was at columbia in a fraternity game and this kid, i broke up a pass and he threw sand in my eyes and it

really hurt. and, you know, everyone ran over to keep us apart i said oh, no, no. kept on playing. i said we played for two hours. finished the game. and as the fraternities walked up the hill back to campus i walked over to the guy and i decked him. [laughter] >> and the president sort of looked at me i said here's the thing, mr. president, if you had your way, you would have gone after the guy right away and the game never would have been played and you never would have gotten him. my way we finished the game and justice was done at the end. >> jesse: so pick your spot. >> pick your spot. >> jesse: all right. and you and the president are going to get back together, right? this is just a tiff? [laughter] >> jesse: the ball is in his court? [laughter] >> jesse: all right. thank you very much. attorney general bill barr the book is out now number one in the "new york times" "one damn thing after another" thanks for coming. >> in thanks, jesse. >> jesse: jussie smollett made half a scaramucci in jail and

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>> jesse: this is not a hoax. jussie smollett has officially been released from prison just six short days after his sentencing. correspondent bill melugin is live from our west coast newsroom are the latest. bill? >> that's right. convict the felon jussie smollett was in jail for only six days out of his 150 day sentence before he was just abruptly released yesterday. take a look at this video here. he walked out of the cook county jail at around 8:00 p.m. chicago time. he stayed quiet as he was surrounded by members of his defense team, his family and his supporters. his defense attorneys told the media he only drank water since he went into jail six days ago and he hadn't eaten anything since then. they also criticized the judge in the case. >> the judge spent a great deal

of time chastising, berating my client. i have never seen that and i thought it was unprofessional. that's my personal opinion. not happy with that. and people are still trying to lock black men up. i mean, it's a disgrace. should black men be walked into jail for a class 4 felony? shame on you if you think they should. >> last week smollett was sentenced to five months in jail after he was convicted of five counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police as part of his hate crime hoax. as he left court and was remand into custody he had this courtroom outburst. >> i am not suicidal. >> i am not suicidal and i am innocent. i could have said that i was guilty a long time ago. >> but yesterday, in a shocking turn of events, a 3-person appeal's court ruled that smollett can be released from jail while he appeals his conviction and he was set free on $150,000 personal recognizance bond. in the two to one decision. the appellate court judges justified the move by saying

smorlt's defense was nonviolent and his sentence likely would have finished before his appeal could officially be decided and jesse the prosecution did try to fight smollett's release saying weighs not being held in solitary confinement and aggravate adding that the jail was taking several measures to make sure his health and safety did not end up mattering though because as of now smollett is a free man at least for now. send it back to you. >> jesse: bill, do you believe he only drank water for six days? >> i have got no way of knowing after seeing that courtroom outburst i have no idea what was going on in there. >> jesse: he looked heavier six days after when he left jail. i just think he didn't have just water. i think he ate something. >> maybe some bread. >> maybe bread and bologna thank you very much, bill melugin. if you thought locking kids out of the classroom for two years was dumb. this story probably won't surprise you. in an effort to show support for

ukraine, randi weingarten and her fellow teachers posted a photo holding ukrainian flags. the only problem, all of their flags were upside down. now anybody with access to wikipedia knows ukraine's flag is supposed to symbolize the blue sky on the top, that's usually where the sky goes and beautiful golden wheat fields on the bottom. blue, yellow. that's okay. after they realized their mistake they fixed it. with photo shop. you can barely tell the photo was even edited until you zoom in and see the different shades of blue posters that they forgot to flip over. so that was a little embarrassing. but, listen, everybody deserves a third chance and the teachers union gave it another shot. this time something a little easier posting a simple #, right? can't mess that up. stand with ukraine. right? no, they misspelled ukraine.

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♪ >> jesse: ukraine has been giving putin a pretty good run for his money killing at least four top russian generals, blowing up tank convoys keeping control over cities much longer than anybody expected. how is this country able to fight back against pretty big super power? the cia has been more involved than we realize. according to a bombshell report from yahoo the cia operating a secret training camp in ukraine for the last 8 years. started after russia took over crimea and america covertly sent in cia paramilitaries to train

ukraine forces sniper techniques. how to use anti-tank missiles, how to remain undetected. however, this was a totally different landscape than the cia was comfortable working in because after more than a decade in the middle east, cia paramilitaries weren't used to an opponent like the russians with such advanced technology who could just use drones and cell towers to track and kill ukrainian soldiers from cell phone signals. they were getting trapped and blown up in trench before the cia stepped in and had to teach them how to move. that training is paying off big time today. how did the u.s. pull this off without alerting the russians and dragging us into a bigger conflict? well, they only sent in the most experienced operators. they couldn't risk one misstep from some crazy agent. the stakes were high if a cia member was killed by russians

during this top secret operation. it would blot whole mission. and force america into a big confrontation with putin. they were able to make it out without any major incidents, thank god. until last month when the threat of a russian invasion increased, joe biden pulled out the cia but-to-avoid a repeat of the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal. brian hillsburg, the former cia intelligence officer spy x.com analyst and the director of corporate security at a global biotech company. so this is a pretty brave mission that the u.s. government pulled off, was it worth it. >> hi, jesse, thanks for having me on the show. do you know what? this is something that is done normally with our liaison partners and countries that support and a lot of the training that is provided is

really some of the best training in the world. and really some of the report that we have received about what happened after 2014 about cia's paramilitary officers entering ukraine and helping them train and provide that support i any that's necessary and something that happens regularly around the world and i'm glad to hear that this report has come out and that they were doing something being pro-elmive and proactive and preventative. really at the end of the day, it's about protecting our sources, protecting our methods and a lot of training that we do do is clandestined. it's secret, and that's why we really haven't known what's going on there before the last few weeks. >> jesse: how big of a difference was the cia paramilitary training and do you think it has more to do with that training or more to do with ferocious and patriotic spirit

of the ukrainian people? >> i definitely think that the patriotism and ferocious spirit of the ukrainians that's really from what i have been able to tell first and foremost what they have to their advantage. also, having been through a lot of cia training, whether at the farm or other locations, it really is the way that they train people they want to make the training so difficult, so stressful and so strenuous that anything that you see or do or experience in the real world will hopefully be easy. now, it's a different matter, of course, in a war zone environment but i can attest after being in the agency for 13 years, nothing i really did in the real world was as difficult as what i was put through in training. that's a really good way to train people. >> jesse: how do you think i would do at the farm, ryan? >> you know what? it just depends. it's all mental. a lot of people think it's a lot of physical training and there is a little bit of that aspect.

but it really is a mental education and you never know. you have to live and work in the gray. people that have auto black and white mentality, black and white perspective of the world oftentimes struggle to get through the farm. but if you can deal with ambiguity. if you live and work in the gray in terms of your mindset and your outlook of the world. you are on the right track and you will be more successful. >> jesse: thank you so much. ryan hillsberg, we appreciate your service. >> thank you so much. >> jesse: vladimir putin's mounting losses in ukraine have him fuming and embarrassed. as the yes men and kremlin lied to him and believing fall within a week and that didn't happen. now he is not just losing battles there. he is losing the war of public opinion in russia. many of his own people are revolting against him. we have been seeing his lackeys

man handling peaceful protesters and now putin himself is starting to lash out. >> the russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from bastards and traders and simply spit them out like a fly that accidently flew into the mouth. spit them out. i'm convinced that such a natural and necessary cleansing of society will only strengthen our country. >> jesse: he is hurt. is he losing this war right now. even though it is kind of a stalemate. his economy is in free fall and a wounded animal is a dangerous animal. because it acts unpredictably. so what's next? mike rogers is a former house intelligence chairman and kirk lippold is a retired navy commander. all right, mike, is this a stalin situation where is he threatening to purge his country in order to consolidate and keep

power? >> absolutely. his language is exactly the language stalin used when he instituted the purge, remember six to eight years before stalin about did that in the late 30's he was starving the ukrainian people as all reports and commissions have found on purpose. it was a genocide to try to eliminate anyone that was opposed to the larger soviet regime and, again, you listen to his language it's very terrifying. it is exactly the language that stalin was using, the fifth column which means is he saying that there are saboteurs and international influence into russia and the only way to get at that is to have this -- his words cleansing. and that should terrify just about everybody. and just one quick note about activities training these folks and why they are so effective. imagine the best of delta force rangers, marine special forces, all of those folks came together

after full careers in a particular agency to train people in counter insurgency. we have been in a counter insurgency fight for about 20 years. imagine all that knowledge, expertise, combat experience going into the heads of these ukrainians who are really putting it to the russians now. i just thought i would make that point really important. >> jesse: god bless america. thank you so much. it is saint patrick's day. so what do new yorkers think of our big irish president joe biden? >> what the most irish thing about president joe biden. >> he is a little bit i don't know irish nose. that pale frequently skin. sleeping all the time. seems like he is drunk

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♪ ♪ >> jesse: breaking news tonight, stacey abrams has finally won an election. she officially landed the role of president of earth on "star trek." seriously.

watch. >> today, we greet the president of united earth. ♪ ♪ >> madam president. >> madam president. >> welcome. i'm so pleased that you come. we are eager to begin diplomatic discussions. >> nothing to discuss. united earth is ready right now to rejoin the federation. >> jesse: live long and prosper. finally. it's st. paddy's day, so new yorkers got together in midtown to watch the annual parade and maybe have something to drink. so we went out there to see what they think of our big irish guy, president joe biden. ♪ ♪ >> president joe biden, big irish guy, who do you want to tell our big irish president on st. patrick's day? >> i want to tell him to wake

the hell up and stop being such a [bleep]. >> come on, man, get a life. >> stop trying to embarrass the nation to get your act together. >> i'm irish too, let's get drunk! >> my mom always said if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. >> would be great if you lower some gas prices, let's go brandon. >> president biden: let's go brandon, i agree. >> what is the most irish thing about president biden? >> may be an irish knows. >> that pale, freckly skin. >> feels like he's drunk all the time. >> he sounds drunk when he gives press conferences. >> president biden: i will lead an effective strategy to mobilize. >> is the irish dog that bites people. >> his brain is like mashed potatoes so i guess that's about it. >> president biden: i may be irish but i'm not stupid. >> do you think joe biden has the luck of the irish? >> i'm hoping that he has the rush of the irish -- look of the irish, because he needs it. >> he's putting this entire

country down. >> he's got a lot of hate coming his way. >> he is lucky. >> if you think you're lucky, joe, you're lucky. >> i think so. >> if it wasn't for st. patrick, he wouldn't be president. [laughter] ♪ ♪ >> does joe biden make you drink more? >> joe biden will likely make me drink a few pints of guinness today. >> no, because it's impossible to drink more than arity do. [laughter] >> beer, beer! >> i've had two jaeger bombs this morning. >> joe biden drove me to drink, especially today. >> i drink vodka soda lime because of joe biden. >> ready to party! ♪ ♪ >> is there anything you want to tell jesse watters on st. patrick's day? >> keep them vertical, if you know what i'm saying. >> jesse, what's up, buddy!

>> this is waters world! >> i like your hair, jesse watters. >> stop arguing with her mother and listen to what she says. >> jesse: mom! >> jesse, this is my drink, and this is my world. >> jesse: happy saint patrick's to come everybody. let's do some texts. mike from ohio. would you do us all a favor and give us a hair tutorial please? we don't have enough time, i'm sorry. darren from connecticut, remember before thanksgiving how we were told this would be the most expensive thanksgiving ever? i don't remember any russian invasion back in november. guess i'm just on the stupid american. that is a good point. i do remember that. roger from maryland. it's pretty ironic, biden is providing small arms and ammunition as part of the aid package while democrats constantly try to take them away from us. you know what, if they come for your guns, just say i'm here to fight the russians. i'm sure that will work.

jesse, why are you wearing green? i am. you just can't see it. pat, bring back i'm waters and this is my world. no problem. watching a few seconds. do you think if biden gets gas prices any higher covid will also not be able to travel? cute. thomas. it was reported today hunter received a loan for a million dollars to pay taxes. now we know why there's inflation. apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. we need to know who gave hunter a million dollar loan to pay back taxes, because, i mean, what with the terms of that loan? and what bank was that? we need to know. jimmy. jesse, no offense, but you couldn't make it any military. none taken, not interested. i think i'm serving my country just fine, and some would say more effectively, from a studio

instead of a war zone. and i think everybody agrees with that. that is all for tonight. you wanted it, you're getting it. "tucker carlson tonight" is up next, and remember, i'm waters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." houston, texas, is one of the rare nice big cities left in his country. a little hot in the summer, but great people, very pretty neighborhoods and a lot going on. thanks to the energy sector, biotech and aerospace, houston has an enormous and still robust economy. it is hardly some dying milltown in the northeast or the upper midwest. your kids might want to move to houston