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gump. >> my momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. you never know what you're gonna get. >> jesse: once upon a time hollywood had real favorites, too. so one night out of the year. they would load up on the glitz and the glamour and hit the red carpet to celebrate film with the mother of all award shows. the oscars. but in the last decade. we started tuning the show out. as the oscars just became so political, every movie needs to be more woke than the next. it can't just be about the film #oscar so white trend every time a caucasian person is nominated for admission. and nobody has ever heard of the films that are nominated anymore. so the viewer just isn't invested. but last night they gave us a reason to watch for the first time in years with a twist

nobody saw coming. the telecast went from an awards show to jerry springner just a matter of seconds. cameras were live when will smith leapt from his seat, stormed the stable and told chris rock what the five thingers said to the face. >> jada, i love you, g.i. jane 2 can't wait to see it all right? [laughter] >> that was a nice -- okay. i'm out here. uh-oh. [laughter] oh, wow. wow. will smith just smacked the [bleep] out of me. >> my wife's name out your [bleep] mouth. >> that was the greatest night in the history of television. okay.

[laughter] okay. so we are here to give a documentary out, to give an oscar out for best documentary. >> jesse: will was laughing at first and looked and saw his wife not laughing and rushed the stage. i guess will smith was character. but that performance was better than anything they were honoring last night. now, this is hollywood after all. so, we have to ask, was it staged? was it a publicity stunt? well, if so, bravo. the acting was phenomenal and i am all in. an actor slaps a comic and america forgets about the war in ukraine. it would make sense if this was phony, hollywood is full of phonies but this looks real to me. whichs it pretty messed up. the back story is this will smith slapped a comedian who made a joke about his wife's hair. i'm not defending the joke. jada has a medical condition and

lost her hair. it doesn't seem that chris knew that. he said he didn't. so the joke was border line. but it was still a joke. told by the funniest comedians in america at the academy awards. where for the last 80 years or so the host roasts the celebrates, they play along, collect their award and ride home to their castle. it's like going into the library and being shocked to see books. of course there is going to be jokes at the oscars. that's the point. can't hollywood take a joke? ricky gervais has to be wondering how he didn't end up with a black eye when he hosted the golden globes. that was brutal did. this seem like will smith had been boiling for a while. what was it about this particular joke final straw. his personal life has been in the tabloids for years. he and jada are reportedly in an open marriage and they have been

very vocal about it we broadcasted on her youtube channel. he talks about it in magazines. someone sleeping with my wife would probably make me more mad than making a crack about her hair. but, their marriage is none of my business so what they do behind closed doors is fine. but there is something deeper going on here. and for the crowd that insists the oscars are so white, what would have happened if anybody but will smith went up there and slapped chris rock live on tv? could you imagine if it were mel gibson? the lapd would have had the zip line down from the rafters and probably arrest him. he would be the first guy in l.a. county not to get bail. but smith got off scot-free. heck, he didn't even get a slap on the wrist. instead he won an oscar and was given the mic. listen. n. this business you got to have people disrespecting you. and you have got to smile and

pretend like that's okay. i want to apologize to the academy. i want to apology devise to all my fellow nominees. crazy father just like they said about richard williams. but, love will make you do crazy things. >> jesse: notice how he apologized to everybody and anybody except for the guy he hit in front of millions? and when a man slaps another man, that's worse than getting punched. it's humiliating. but smith looks like he is going to skate. just blame love and you are good to go. don't try that at home, america, you will not get the will smith treatment. smith might have let the waterworks flow when he was giving his speech but he didn't really seem to care at the after party. look at him. he was rubbing elbows dancing the night away, not a care in the world. i mean, this wasn't a street fight. a man was assaulted while doing his job. rock isn't pressing charges. which is proper since that would look soft.

i might do it but that's me. this is california no one ever gets in trouble for committing a crime. only a matter of time until the left decided somehow trump was to blame for it. >> where is security? this is a live television event. not one person came out because he is will smith. this is how trump gets away with [bleep]. will smith and trump are the same guy. he decided he is going to take matters into his own hands. >> jesse: i love howard but i have a bone to pick. trump would not have done that trump would have waited until it was the right time and would have gotten revenge. now, everybody is allowed to be a drama queen. but a man has to be in control of his emotions. or else he isn't a man. dave portnoy is the founder of barstool sports. everybody go download the

barstool sports book app. and he will talk to dave about what that is in a minute. let's start with the oscars. before we begin, is that real or staged, dave? >> the background, i wish it was real. what are you talking about. >> the black ground behind me. you meant the slap. i thought you meant the water. >> jesse: we can't let anybody know where you are you know, because you are a v.i.p. they will come for you. >> i have gone 99% real. i have watched the slap. maybe a thousand times like the zap berger film i will say this when i first watched it i watched it live. i had to think it was staged and if you watch it in slow motion. chris rock does move his head before he is hit like i'm asking for other slap to i can judge it. that seemed surprising to me. the reaction to all the fallout greatest actor of all time and ultimately what do they have to gain by faking it. i haven't figured that out yet. i think it's real.

>> jesse: what would chris rock have to duane by being in on this. he was emasculated and now it's, you know, everybody is talking about how he got bitch-slapped on live television. would have you tried to kept yourself in check? a lot of people think he was defending his woman. >> yeah, i mean, that's crazy. you can't go up in that situation like you can just go punch slap anybody. first of all, i'm a smaller guy. i have heard people say there is no chance is he going up to the rock, for example, if the rock makes that joke. he went up to somebody smaller. i'm more like if i'm chris rock what do i do? he handled himself gracefully. i would like to think i would have the whit and whereabout to go after his marriage. that's what i would do if you slap me i'm going to make fun of the open marriage and slept with your son-in-law's friend and all that jazz that would have been my mo if i was chris. >> jesse: look like he had that

tip of his tongue if you watch the tape back he was ready with something but he decided not to drop it on him which was smart at the time because you could have just had a huge brawl. how do you think chris rock recovers from this? he has to be a little -- i don't know. nervous going back on stage? i mean, after something like this to kind of have to rock your world. >> yeah. and in a weird way, i don't think you think much of it. it's such an isolated incident with a crazy person. clearly will smith has lost his marbles. it's not like a random person in a show. if that's a random person in the show security is there. the security sees will smith get up they think nothing is going to happen. my guess is rock personal material. favorite comedian of all time. i cannot wait to see his next set. tickets went from like 100 bucks to $400 at his next-that is wilbur in boston. >> jesse: buying tickets for sure after that. that's going to be great material. how would you characterize the

security situation? because, i agree, you think he is going up there. you think it's going to be something funny. it's not but then they let him stay. they let him stay. don't you think security maybe should have escorted him out of the building after he slapped the host? >> yeah. it's one of those situations in hindsight, yes. it's so stunning. again. i was watching it live. i didn't even go on twitter because i just assumed it was a set-up. i went on twitter 10 minutes later because let me just make sure. and then they had the australian feed had the words. i don't know, just sitting there it's will smith. i think everyone is just stunned like what is going on? people are clapping after he gave that speech talking about peace and love. meanwhile he just slapped the crap out of somebody. i think everybody is just stunned and it was a very -- i love it it's entertainment. i'm glad it happened. everybody is like whoa, actors in the crowd. they take themselves so

seriously and they are just crazy people. >> jesse: they are crazy. that's for sure. before we go, lots going on with the final 4. we have got the four team set. you have barstool sports book. what should we look for there? well, you got the biggest game in the hills industry of the final four basically coming out northcarolina against. i hate coach k. i think is he frawvmentd i'm hoping north carolina beats them and sends them packing and that would be the end of coach k to lose twice to north carolina. that would be the perfect ending for me for his career. go tar hills. >> jesse: thanks, dave, appreciate it. >> yeah. >> jesse: the white house has a new strategy, let biden be biden. wait until you see this.

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>> jesse: there are certain things joe biden must have to be president. he must have ice cream. he must have banisters and he must, must have a teleprompter. without these things, joe biden is unable to perform his presidential duties. over the weekends, joe biden went off teleprompter again. and led everybody to believe he was calling for regime change in russia. the white house had to immediately walk this back but today the press asked him himself was he walking it back and he said this. >> i'm not walking anything back. the fact of the matter is i was expressing the moral outrage i felt toward the way putin is

dealing and the actions of this man just, just brutality. >> jesse: this can coming after the white house spent the whole last week just walking back two other off the cuff comments from the commander-in-chief. biden said we would have american boots on the ground in ukraine and the u.s. could maybe use a chemical weapon on russia. but if you ask biden, none of that ever happened. >> are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to think that america is back if some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back? >> what's getting walked back. >> made it sound like just in the last couple days sounded like you told u.s. troops they were going to ukraine. it sounded like it's possible the u.s. could use a chemical weapon and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in russia. and we know. >> none of the three occurred.

>> pete: none of the three occurred? >> none of the three. >> jesse: actually, all three occurred. and this is what he said. >> if chemical weapons were used in ukraine, would that trigger a military response from nato? >> it would -- it would trigger a response in kind. >> look stepping up. look how they are stepping up and you are going to see when you are there and some of you have been there. >> we will have a different future, a brighter fighter rooted in democracy and principle, hope and light decency and dignity. freedom and possibilities. for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> jesse: this can't keep happening. biden's mouth is becoming a threat to national security. he has to stay on script. and he doesn't even remember what he is talking about half the time. and when he tries to clean up his own comments he is starting to sound a little bit like kamala harris. listen. >> does it complicate the diplomacy of this moment? >> no, i don't think it does.

you know, the -- a, the fact is that we're in a situation where a, um, it complicates the situation of the moment is the expectory of efforts of putin to engage in carnage the kind of behavior that makes the whole world say my god, what is this man doing? that's what complicates things in great deal and -- but i don't think it complicates it at all. >> jesse: kamala harris sounds sharper than joe biden now. how is it that kamala had a better trip to europe than joe? he is even dividing our nato allies, the french especially. and you know joe has become kind of a problem when even the french are pissed. it is no shock that the american public has no competence in his ability. he has become a walking liability. even chuck todd is starting to realize it.

boy a 78 to 21 margin americans do not have a lot of confidence to president biden's ability to respond to war. 71% i say we are already at war with russia or will be in a year. >> we have pessimistic view. >> jesse: worst of all biden is giving putin victory. paint the u.s. as aggressors, that keeps the war going. we're empowering putin every time we let joe go off script. whatever happened to the adults being back in the room? senator rand paul of kentucky who sits on the foreign relations committee joins me now. are you surprised by these comments? , senator? >> well, you know, a lot of times when you are around somebody who is in cognitive decline, you find yourself trying to help them with a sentence, trying to help them complete and say oh no, that's not what you really mean. let me help you complete the sentence. we shouldn't have to do that for the commander-in-chief.

it is actually a national security risk. because he is sending signals that no one in the right mind would want to send to russia at this point. we are aren't trying to replace putin in russia. we aren't regime change. we are not going to respond in kind with chemical weapons. none of those things are true but, you know, he lives in an alternate universe where he says they are not true and he didn't say them. you are supposed to look away. even the left wing media is noticing these gaffes. i do think that it is a real problem. and there is a humorous angle to this it's not funny. we are worrying about what he is saying precipitating or escalating the conflict ukraine into a world war. that's very serious. >> jesse: you are right. it's not like when joe mixes up his sister with his wife. those are funny divafs and we laugh oh, uncle joe. this is serious. the stakes are high. do you think we are reaching a point where people in the white house might have to stage an

intervention? it's intemperate speech. we have had it in the senate. we have had senators say we should assassinate putin. by saying that it makes peace or resolution of the conflict more difficult. if you say someone is going to be assassinated or taken to the hague or strung up from the nearest tree it makes it much harder for person to decide this war didn't go so well maybe i'm going to go back to russia. if there is going to be a fight to the bitter end and it requires unconditional surrender, most war doesn't end that way. i think we should all be careful. not only should president biden be careful. members of the senate and those of us on television be careful about saying things. because everybody's to be over the top to say more and more and more. as we say more it actually can be a deterrent. that language can ultimately be a deterrent. i think the ukrainians have fought this to a stand still. i think ukrainians have a chance to push him out. we don't want to indicate that there is no possible chance that

putin can leave ukraine without being, you know, utterly forced to surrender. >> jesse: i think you are talking about senator lindsey graham your colleague. how would you have handled this ukraine situation differently if you were a commander-in-chief? what would have you said differently? and how would you have done things differently? >> i think you have to be very, very careful with your words. so zelenskyy is a hero because he is under attack and he could and should say everything to get the world to come to his back. but the people saying things oh like we should have a no-fly zone should think before they speak because that means really we would be in direct conflict and our planes would be shot down not only by their plane but by their surface to air missile as well. i think the main thing for all of this is being a little bit more thoughtful before we speak and maybe not always saying everything that comes to your mind. there is something in foreign policy that cause strategic ambiguity. one of the reasons you guys ask all the questions and our temptation is to unleash and give all the answers. but maybe sometimes in foreign

policy we should be a little bit more restrained in what we say. other than that, i think actually we have done a pretty good job overall. i mean, people want to criticize the biden administration, i got lots of complaints. but, between president trump's administration and this. there have been a lot of anti-tank missiles. there have been a lot of stinger missiles. and really the army of ukraine has gone on for years and really when you see the resisting. it's due to their courage but also to a lot of our weaponry that's already there. i don't want to bad mouth our country and say oh, we are doing terrible and send in troops. i think that's the wrong message. i think the great message is that putin has miscalculated. he has come to a stand still. the ukrainian resistance is more than anybody had ever predicted. the europeans, including the germans are acting in a much stiffer and much more cohesive fashion to oppose this. so there's not a lot going on for putin. i tell people that even should he take the capital, even should he take the major cities, as long as he occupies ukraine. the ukrainians are going to be picking off one russian soldier

in time even if it's 10 years from now he so bombed his civil i can't be centers and bombed civilians that the anger is there. it's not going to dissipate. he thought this was going to be crimea. but, in the end this is, i think the ukrainians are there for the long haul. >> jesse: it will be like swallowing a poor could you pine as they say. senator rand paul thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> jesse: sources are telling "primetime" there is a plan underway at the justice department to keep hunter biden out of jail. we will tell you what that plan is next. ♪

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publishing a new article today titled prosecutors advance tax probe of hunter biden. it claims that the hunter biden probe is gaining steam. when it comes to his taxes. quote: prosecutors have asked questions about several companies associated with hunter biden and are examining whether he moved funds in a way to object secure his tax liability. we have got new details regarding quick backs hunter allegedly received like the time a company led by a kazakhstany banker remember kazakhstan wired 142-grand it hunter's it was later used to buy hunter a sports car a pritzker. hunter later traded for for a silver porch. no one in the biden family drives electric. of course, that's just for you to do. sounds sketchy to me. something feels weird about this whole probe, right? you guys get the feeling that this whole tax investigation is just a red herring or a

diversification diversion away. implicate other members of the family like the big guy. jim trusty a former doj prosecutor and he joins us tonight. jim, what gives you the impression that there is a little bit of a clean-up job going on at biden's department of justice? >> well, you know, the starting point is that it was the defense attorneys for hunter several months ago that leaked out this notion that he had some tax issues that he had 20 clean up. i thought even at the time that sounds like a good defense attorney euphemism for much bigger problem. he has a little tax issue don't worry about the valentine's day massacre. i think from the get-go all the public reporting we have seen about the laptop about wire transfers from russian oligarchs, kazakhstan, everywhere else, sounds like a much bigger case than tax evasion. it smells like possibly foreign

agent registration act, foreign corrupt practices act, money laundering, i mean big, weighty federal charges that are really indicative of a play for pay kind of scheme. maybe the evidence isn't there. but if the evidence is there, and you have these trial balloons about tax cases coming out, smells like something going to be a little bit of doj conclusion to come to a very soft ending in this case. >> jesse: would hunter have to go to prison for a tax thief. >> not necessarily. there is room for prosecutors to be a little creative. it's harder when you are a federal prosecutor than a state prosecutor, believe it or not, because of things like mandatory sentences and sentencing guidelines that are driven by loss amount. in other words, all those dollars stack up to higher exposure for him. there are ways to do it. that's what i'm a little nervous about. again, i don't have proof of this at all. but the way it's been dragging on and way it's been very quiet and the way the trial balloon came out. i could see a quiet friday afternoon announcement that hunter has a misdemeanor plea

that he has got to enter or a deferred prosecution agreement. there are ways to either cap it or elim nativity the ability of any judge to put prison on the table. >> jesse: hunter, after all of this could end up with no jail time. do you think that federal prosecutors -- i know this is coming out of delaware, are getting pressure from main justice? >> yeah. no way to know. i guess the way i would phrase it, jesse. there may not be pressure i'm not in love with how the fbi has conducted itself under chris wray. i don't see a big difference between the politicization they had with comey and take into account doing federal search warrants for diaries. that's unheard of. i'm a little nervous that the investigating agency here has a little political edge to it when it comes to the leadership. the u.s. attorney has kept their position because of this investigation, which is actually not unheard of. that's typical when there is a potential conflict of interest. i think it's a real integrity

test for the attorney general. that's the guy that's going to have to sign off on anything. whether it's a very strong indictment, a non-prosecution agreement, a deferred prosecution agreement. a soft plea giving him, you know, basically no jail. any of those things are going to make their way up to the attorney general and boy, it's a huge integrity test unlike anything we have seen in presidential history. >> jesse: well, we have had a guest on last week who told us they thought that hunter was going to go to prison for a while unless his dad pardoned him and now you are saying that he might get away scot-free and i don't know what to think. i'm just wondering where that diamond is that that chinese tycoon gave him. we will have to keep following where the leads take us. thank you very much. trusty. >> all right. see you, jess. >> jesse: they say money doesn't grow on trees. but in new york city the homeless do. i have a grants moving into the trees, building tree houses and also attacking reporters. >> why are you through here?

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>> jesse: over the weekend new york city mayor eric adams became the first liberal mayor to say this: i think we could have a homeless problem on our hand. obviously. even people that try to help the homeless end up getting beat up and robbed. over the weekend mayor adams to his credit announced a plan to address a problem like this he is going to evict all the homeless people who won't go into a shelter. all the people living or sleeping on the streets you got to go. usually it twhrks way. send in the cops and sanitation workers. wake up everybody. and then they chase them out. and then they back up the garbage trucks. beep beep and throw all of their stuff in the trash. that process started over the weekend. the homeless man that new yorkers call squirrel man. now, squirrel man is smart. and he saw this whole thing coming. and he moved up into a tree a couple months back.

build a tree house. a little extra protection. maybe a little bit of the better view. of course, this is still new york so the rent on the tree house was like $1,800 a month. and today he saw a group of reporters outside his tree, his home, excuse me and he fought back. >> why >> joining me now curtis, former new york city mayoral candidate and guardian angels founder. so, going to the trees, curtis. why not? right? you got a little place to yourself. no react. right? nice breeze, maybe a nice view, you know, central park south. >> jesse, the ingenuity of the

squirrel man to work his way up into a tree. and i know the reporter kevin, intrepid, fearless always there where no other reporters will go. isn't there the fourth amendment to the constitution part of the bill of rights that you cannot be subject to illegal search and seizure because a man's home is his castle? have you forgotten that, jesse? >> jesse: isn't that our castle that's our tree central park. >> obviously. he is parts of an enormous number of people who live outdoors. most of whom i know over the years and mentally disturbed. eric adams drops the gauntlet. that's out. we are taking all your stuff. do you think all these people are suddenly going to disappear? they are suddenly going to resettle somewhere else. the shelters would be a good place to go if it wasn't jack

knuckleson one flew over the cuckoo nest. >> jesse: i thought we had about a billion dollars to spend on shelters. they should have running water and buffets. >> abominable. in fact, if there are problems indoors it's darwin'n. younger homeless men take advantage of the older young e. homeless men. occurs with women too. i would say to eric adams i lost to him fair and square. put me in charge of the homeless shelter. i have been to each and every one of them. i know the knew ofances of how to correct the problem and then we can get all of these men and women, these lost souls into a place where we can actually care. >> jesse: you told me in the commercial break you would have taken an ax and cut down the tree. you said that. >> oh, no, no. >> jesse: i do want to know what you think of the will smith slap. >> come on they are actors. >> you think it's staged.

>> do you know how many times i was hit. jaw broken four different times. black lives matter and antifa 2020. i know what a real. >> jesse: i thought chris had a chin. i could be wrong you may be right. >> do you think he was getting fight scenes never been able to complete that movie. >> jesse: curtis swi la. >> i'm there with the people. >> jesse: turns out we don't need cows anymore. the dreamers like bill gates have a plan. right back. ♪ ♪

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>> jesse: fox news alert. moments ago will smith issued an apology to chris rock for last night at the oscars. the actor took to instagram saying this: violence in all of

its forms is poisonous and destructive. my behavior at last night's academy awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about jada's medical condition was too much for me to bear and i reacted emotionally. i would like to publicly apologize to chris. i was out of line and i was wrong. i am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man i want to be. there is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness. so do you want to work at ikea? no, you say? , well, let me sweeten the deal. what if they throw in a couple of meatballs? >> we want to improve everything in our homes. making it possible to live a stainable life with a small price tag. to do that, we are looking for people with imagination.

are you one of them? >> jesse: lab grown cattle stem meatballs, delicious. just like momma used to make. of not just furniture stores pushing fake meat. everybody's favorite billionaire bill gates has been pushing this for a while now. he wants america to make the switch to synthetic beef. according to bill gaetz. it's much healthier than real meat and better for the environment it has nothing to do with his massive investments in artificial meat companies. of course not. it's really about you. bill gates wants what's best for you. listen to him talk about this synthetic stuff, does this make your mouth water? >> this company needs refined is

using fun guy and they turn them into sausage and yogurt. pretty amazing. when you say fun guy do you mean like mushroom or microbe. >> this microbe, this is yogurt. >> wow. >> the owner of slap fish. anderson cooper, that is one good actor. what did you think? did you buy oh, that is good, chef? >> oh my gosh, no, absolutely not. i'm still laughing about his voice there. it's fun guy, i gun gai. why are we taking jeff bezos has guns bill gates created the first set of salami nipples. i pulled together synthetic burger for you. do you want to eat this?

right? or do you want to eat this guy right here? this is the real stuff. >> jesse: that is the good stuff. chef, is there anything to what these guys like gates say about how this fake beef is good for the environment and it's actually healthier for you? because i haven't heard that? >> no. so it's not healthy for you, number one. it is an alternative in some cases that perhaps could lower certain cholesterol if you are moving meat entirely. high in sodium and lead to inflammation. what happens here is you get this abundance of omega 6 fatty acids not great for diet. omega 6, omega 3 balance that you need. talk about the environmental piece of this. notion called regenerative agriculture and actually it's where cows openly graze and eat grass and it enriches the topsoil and this is really good for the environment because it leads to more carbon sequestering and that's what we are talking about here is getting less carbon out into the environment.

so, you can do this the right way without having to fire millions of beef producers still allowing people to eat real food. this processed stuff is what is going to kill us. this is all about power and control. you said the money is one part of it. but he who controls the food controls the people. that's what this comes down to. >> jesse: it's not just gates. there is a few other big, big powerful guys that are on top of the food chain. and i don't mean that as a joke but they do really control all of the food production in the entire world. is it all just about making synthetic beef and making profits from that? >> well, they want to make everything synthetic. if you notice actually a lot of the pharmaceutical companies who are the ones who fund a ton of these new and progressive food systems that they are proposing right now. it's incredibly simple that's what this comes down to. we're overintellectualizing it get back to real food. simple good food. stick to the outside of the grossry store. all that processed stuff in the middle. yeah, you can have that from time to time. if we are talking about jamming

fake meat into our faces day in and day out. you don't even want to know what the basic profile of the average american is going to start to look like. talking about descendents of java the hut, jeez. >> jesse: i have to ask you because you know about everything. what did you make of the apology that will smith just issued to chris rock? are you buying that? >> i mean, he was forced into doing that at the same rate, the guy obviously has certain, you know, emotional struggles that he needs to deal with. but he did say that violence is toxic. and nothing is more toxic than not just violence but synthetic sandwiches? >> jesse: all right. chef. thanks for coming on. we always love it when you join us on "primetime." >> thanks for having me. >> jesse: let's do some tests. we have dana from burlington, iowa. what would happen if you punched gutfeld on "the five" after he made a joke? will smith should be in jail but it's okay for liberals to act this way and get away with it? if i hit greg, he would be down for the count.

eric from florida: i heard jussie smollett is claiming will smith hit him, too. tom, lakeville, minnesota. will smith slaps like a -- well, never mind, i'm not a biologist. howard. oklahoma, jesse, i'm not interested in who slapped who at the awards show. but i'm very interested in what is going on with hunter biden's laptop. hopefully we gave you some answers to both of those questions tonight. here is audrey: thank you for telling us that the bidens have no electric cars. i think that is a great point for americans who do not have $60,000. nancy: i think mayor adams is in over his head. i think curtis sliwa would be a huge help to him. well the voters decided and we got adam. david from new jersey, at least squirrel man doesn't have to go crazy looking for nuts. everybody in new york city is nuts.

and you are looking at one of them right here. thank you, guys, for watching. big annoyancement tomorrow on "the five jesse jr. took his first step before he turned 1. >> we have proud. show that video tomorrow. check out tucker and always remember. i'm waters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," in april of 2019. it was before the third or fourth attempt at the office, at that moment most americans thought they knew who jodey arrington jodeyjoe biden was. they weren't familiar with his new face. two years later, they appeared in miami for the first