the end of your show. we need to know. her name is allie, and i don't even know her last name. [laughs] what's your last name? allie, probably should not say her last name, she might not want name out there. that's probably best. dvr the show, tucker's next comment i was a member, i'm watters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪ home >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." tony fauci back in the news, one thing if you people know about him, when he says he knows medicine, he's definitely right, he's been around it for a long time, tony fauci graduated from medical school almost 60 years ago. he's 81. that means he's three years older than the average life expectancy of an american man, that means he's 16 years past the age at which the average position country retires.

at this time he's probably not buying any long-term and civil bonds. if you are his investment visor you were telling today trey. yet tony fauci is still working. in fact is on the longest serving employees in the entire federal government, almost certainly the highest paid. why is that? is tony fauci is that good. the term national treasure comes to mind. decent people understand that. drive through any neighborhood with high concentrations of college educated professionals with desperately unhappy personal lives and you will see the yard sign shines erected in his honor. thank you, dr. fauci, they read, tapped with a perky little axle mission point at the dash with a heart at the bottom, thank you for being you and you can often understand the gratitude. as the men who got us through the pandemic. as the coronavirus wafted from a chinese military biolab in wuhan and settled over the united states, tony fauci was the man americans looked to for guidance. he was are sherpa, a diminutive spirit guide.

these masks actually work, we wonder? no they don't, dr. fauci replied firmly. "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask, he told "60 minutes" in march of 2020." that turned out to be not quite accurate. in fact there was a reason to walk around in a mask but it had nothing to do with public health. the experience of being forcibly masked was so unpleasant and so humiliating, it distracted you from other questions such as where does this virus come from anyway? someone who would help fund the developed of covid with your tax dollars, fauci was strongly in favor of you being distracted so he upped it. soon he was demanding that we mask up, including outdoors and exercising, even alone in your car, and so we did. by january of 2021, even that guidance had proved to be inadequate because people were still persistently asking where the hell does this virus come from so he had to go far with it. he declared that americans must wear two masks, one on top of the other with no air holes to breathe. this he said was "common sense,"

so a lot of people did it. but he didn't rest there. by december of 2020, he had checked with science and concluded that actually one of the main risk factors for covid-19 was her family's ancient religious observances. those of the real problems. so tony fauci went on nbc news to cancel christmas. >> a warning and a plea from dr. anthony fauci. should people now cancel their travel plans for christmas? >> to the extent possible, don't travel, don't congregate together. >> tucker: that was a tough one for a lot of people, even the double masked ones. americans love christmas, they love their families, many of them still love god, but fauci had spoken, science it spoken, no more christmas, so countless americans spent christmas morning alone. but still, it wasn't enough in the end. dr. fauci looked around this country and saw people making human connections, experiencing warmth and intimacy with one another in the middle of a global pandemic. talk about reckless. so fauci stamped it out. going forward, he told us, you must never shake hands with

another human being. that is, if you don't want to die drowning in your own fluids in a covid-ward. >> would you agree that drug and alcohol use increased during his lactose? >> well, i'm not sure the lockdowns itself did it, and i'm wondering why you're asking me about lockdowns, because there were not complete lockdowns in this country. >> tucker: oh, there weren't complete lockdowns in his country, but in fact there were. most people obeyed, but not everyone buried of some people persisted in shaking hands with one another, even celebrant christmas, others wore only a single mass, and those people, we can report with mixed feelings, died. and they died alone because due to science 25 to prevent of the loved ones from seeing them, from holding their hands in their final moments on earth. but it was all necessary because it was a global pandemic. in the end you will recall that tony fauci realized as a scientist does sometimes based on research that only big pharma could save us, we couldn't do it ourselves, we were too weak and selfless, we needed pfizer.

the entire country was going to have to get the covid shot, every one of us. anyone who refused will be crushed, elk yelled at, ostracized, fired. in the affluent neighborhoods where people believe in science -- in this house they believe in science, places like bethesda, brooklyn, and aspen, the population gratefully complied but in the rest of the country there remained cells of ignorance and superstition where people resisted vaccine. strangely come at the same time, many of these primitive people also had somehow high skilled, highly essential jobs, including in health care. they were nurses, they were emts, they were airline pilots and cops and navy seals, but they were all summarily fired, their careers and lives destroyed. but it wasn't sad. it was necessary, because they were killing the rest of us. as dr. fauci told us, there were two things we needed to know about this pandemic of the unvaccinated and the covid shot that could fix it. first was that the vaccine absolutely prevents covid infection. watch. >> when people are vaccinated,

they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected. >> tucker: when people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they're not going to get infected. simple. so take the shot and you're never getting covid. don, we will get it. if the second thing that dr. fauci told us was that pfizer had made something far more impressive than your own body. pfizer was smarter than nature. natural immunity was a joke compared to the covid vaccine. >> it may be the need for yet again another boost, in this case a fourth dosed boost for a visual receiving. in any issue of vaccines actually at least with regards to sars-cov-2 can do better than nature. want to do -- i think the idea of taking masks off in my mind is really not something we should even be considering. >> it has come as we said, a pandemic and an outbreak of the unvaccinated. >> tucker: vaccines can do better than nature.

that's why this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. that was his message. it is still his message, despite the fact that yesterday -- and here's the news in the story -- dr. fauci announced that he himself has been infected with the coronavirus. that's right, dr. fauci's covid positive despite double masking outside, despite skipping christmas, despite his strict regimen of celibacy and no handshaking, despite four separate covid vaccine shots, dr. fauci got sick anyway. this seems like an important moment. what does it mean? if you live in bethesda and have a fauci sign in your yard, you know exact what it means. it means we need more vaccines. pfizer is still the answer because pfizer is always the answer. fauci delivered that message today without flinching. >> this virus is changing and we need to keep up with it. in order to do that, we got to do better with new vaccine platforms such as nano particle vaccines. we cannot proceed with that unless we get additional

funding. importantly, we need to both prevent infection and transmission. we know that we cannot do that unless we get a highly effective intranasal vaccine. >> tucker: okay, so testifying on the need for vaccines from isolation, having been infected after getting four of them. "we need to both prevent infection and transition." but wait a second, said skeptics who don't live in bethesda without your yard signs. weren't the first four vaccine shots supposed to prevent infection and transition? isn't that why you fired all those nurses and pilots and navy seals? shouldn't you acknowledge the lies you told for years and apologize to them, get them back their jobs with damages and grovel before them begging for forgiveness? before you move on to get another mandatory vaccine? and while we are at, the skeptics pointed out, can you tell us, dr. fauci, many americans have been killed or seriously injured by these first shots that you mandated. many thousands, we know that, but how many exactly?

is anyone keeping track? researchers at the cdc along with scientists at emory vanderbilt and duke recently concluded the mrna vaccine increased the rest of potentially fatal heart damaging young men, so dr. fauci, what exactly is the cost-benefit analysis here on giving that vaccine to young men? be specific. a normal bureaucrat would have weathered under questions like that but not fauci, fauci is a man of science. in fact, he is science, as you want it's going. science is fauci identical pair you'll notice you never see them together in the same room. there's a reason for that. so he didn't bend. he doubled down, pressing for the mass vaccination of all american children over 5. watch here his bravery in the face of harassment from rand paul, who is also technically a doctor, but a skeptical one and therefore antiscience. >> the government recommends everybody take a booster over age 5. are you aware of any studies that show reduction in hospitalization or death for children who take a booster?

>> right now there's not enough data that has been accumulative, senator paul, to indicate that that's the case. >> so there are no studies and americans should all know this, there are no studies on children showing a reduction in hospitalization or death when taking a booster. the only studies that were permitted, the only studies that were presented were antibody studies, so they say we give your booster, you make antibodies. now, a lot of scientists would question whether or not that's proof of efficacy of a vaccine. if i give you ten or if i give a patient ten mrna vaccines and they make protein each time or they make antibody each time, that proves we should give ten boosters, dr. fauci? >> no, i think that is so somewhat of an absurd exaggeration. >> tucker: noticed the briley facility line which are very dr. fauci doesn't actually answer the question, instead he dismisses it out of hand in a very scientific way as "absurd."

that's how a scientists talk. questions of efficacy mean nothing compared to questions about federal funding. federal funding is what matters to a scientist, in fact federal funding was the whole point of fauci's testimony today. he was there to let converse know that as a man has been vaccinated four times still got covid, he can tell you firsthand we are never going to beat covid without more vaccines. and to get that vaccine, we are going to need to send billions more tax dollars to tony fauci. there's no way around it, it's science. but still, rand paul, clearly more a witch doctor than a physician wasn't fully convinced. where's all this money going, rand paul asked? are you getting any of it? watch dr. fauci is brilliance on display as he answers the question. >> over the period of time from 2010 to 2016, 27,000 royalty payments were paid to 1800 nih employees. we know that not because you told us, but because we forced

you to tell us to the freedom of information act. over $193 million was given to these 18 employees -- 1800 employees. can you tell me that you have not received a royalty from any entity that you ever oversaw the distribution of money and research grants? >> first of all, let's talk about -- >> that's the question. that's the question. have you ever overseen -- have you ever received a royalty payment from a company that you later oversaw money going to that company? >> you know, i don't know as a fact. >> tucker: are you getting rich from his vaccines? rand paul asked, space him to supply, you know, i don't know as a fact. you know i don't know as a fact. what does that mean? honestly, we don't know what that means. no one knows what that means. it is impenetrable, it is the sound of one hand clapping. and that's why it's brilliant. in any case, we are getting new

vaccines, course we are, whether tony fauci is profiting personally from them or not, it really doesn't matter." the vaccine makers will need another dose of legal immunity in the extremely unlikely event there express mental drugs were to kill thousands more americans whose deaths are then covered up and forgotten. it's just common sense, as dr. fauci would say. another round of shots for everyone, we've got to beat this pandemic. we haven't seen balls on it yet but there's no question americans are going to be thrilled by this news when they hear it. we reached out to justin bieber than ever, but unfortunately his face is paralyzed, so he couldn't respond. we will tell you when he gets back to us. in the meantime, the author of "fauci and bargain," he joins us now. it's great to see you. you've written a very good fairly critical book about dr. fauci, fairly brazen man to get up there in isolation from covid after four covid vaccines and demand more vaccines. no average person can do that. >> well, there's a reason why the subtitle of our book is the

most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in american history. what you just laid out in that opener their commandos clips, the amount of devastation that has been felt in every school district, every church, every home, every kitchen table, every day care, every in america frankly is incalculable, and there's really a small group of individuals to blame for it, of which he is the ringleader, and now here we sit, ironically maybe serendipitously in the self-proclaimed science has been failed by the science and now dr. frankenstein always ends up hating the monster -- i'm sorry, the virus that he created, and now here it is, his vaccines have failed him but they have failed so many people, and therefore the only thing to do is to double down, and triple down or in his case, quadruple down and now demand that we give them to toddlers who are neither victims nor vectors of the virus by every data model without him

as outbreak since april and may of 2020. there's a lot of reasons for why we are continuing on these paths, tucker, at i can promise you, all of them are bad. >> tucker: it's just funny how no one ever mentions that if you ask your average person you should try this, it's not a scientific survey but it's interesting, how many people do you know personally -- personally, who died from covid, how may people do know personally who have been injured or killed by the covid vaccine. just ask the question, people who got the vaccine and got sick anyway. everybody knows the answer to those questions and this is just -- allows him to go out there and be like no vaccines. >> does it was a prepared statement, gavin newsom did this recently, everybody has done this, every celebrity has done this, i want to thank my vaccine, which failed me, because i be even sicker if i had not taken it. it's a little bit like thanking her birth control after your pregnant because i do not been taking it you would have triplets. never in human history, tucker, have we ever blamed a product's failure on the people who didn't

use it and then thanked the product after it failed us. this is cognitive dissonance, his groupthink. frankly, it is rather cultic. >> tucker: it is so crazy that it's distorting people's brains. i'm speaking for myself, i'm certainly not against vaccines, the idea of vaccines or whatever, but if something spelling right in front of me and you refuse to acknowledge it, why would ever trust you again? >> that's the key, what's the definition of vaccine? for 100 years prior to covid, the definition of vaccine was very clear. i mean, when you and i were from the same generation, which are vaccines and boosters to go to government schools when we were kids, the classic cocktails, and the implication was we wouldn't get the stuff we were getting vaccinated against. but they changed the definition last year to suit these vaccines that don't prevent transmission. and so this another orwellian example where we just change definitions, what's a woman, what's a border, what's a crime, what's a vaccine, whatever we need, whatever definition we need to change in order to get

to the power and control we want. because that's really what this is all about. it's all about power and control. if it was about science emma they be a lot more transparent, a lot more honest and a hell of a lot more humble. >> tucker: that is also true. great to see you tonight, thank you so much. >> thank you, man. >> tucker: the things that are worth worrying about are the big things. all the small things may be annoying but the big things actually matter in the thing that matters most of course his food, because you die without it. america's food supply has just taken another major hit. thousands of cattle dropped dead. what exact what happened and what affect will it have on the country? that's next. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: if your country has problems with its food supply, your country has real problems. we do, no one in the administration seems even notice because it has nothing to do with trans rights, but a lot of very strange things that happened regionally, food processing plesac caught fire, one was hit by a plane, numbers that seem unlikely in nature, now more than 10,000 cattle have died in kansas somehow. would like to know more, matt finn is on that story for us tonight. hey. >> those thousands of cattle appeared to suddenly and rather mysteriously dropped dead in kansas and now the triple digit heat is being blamed. the kansas to partner of health

says as of tuesday it knew of at least 2,000 cattle reported dead after the high heat and humidity. attempts reached 108 degrees in northwest kansas on monday and the national weather service says the sweltering heat could extend into next week. one kansas farmer, greg peterson, says the animal health index is the worst it's been in 10-20 years. peterson says southwestern kansas saw a rare heat burst that caused the temperature to spike to 100 degrees at night. that farmer explains that i'm very hot days, cattle must have those cool nights just to survive. >> they thought they were going off, the systems thought they were going to get a break, that temperature shot back to over 100 degrees. i think that's what's killed those cattle. i don't know for sure and we probably won't find out for a couple days. we go that farmer says there are theories out there like the cattle being poisoned, and he says every possibility should be investigated, but he notes a fully grown cattle is worth about $2,000 a head to farmers

so it's a major loss when thousands die. tucker. >> tucker: matt finn for us tonight, thanks so much. taking place in the wake of a massive poultry caliph that was not reported many places but was huge. there are applications to all of us so we want to talk with someone who works with cattle for living. assistant manager of winter livestock, and angus breeder, joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. first just really quick, does this explanation makes sense to you? >> tucker, yeah. this is not actually unlike blizzards or severe cold. you know, rain events that the american rancher fights every day to supply the americans with the wholesome beef supply we do. >> tucker: it's one of many events, whatever their origin, that have affected the basic components of the american food supply, commodities. i wonder what effect this will

have. >> you know, it's devastating to the region that it happens in. but in the realm of the cattle production in america, it's a small percentage. >> tucker: yes. >> you know, we processed 600,000 cattle a week to supply the world with wholesome beef, so not to belittle the fact and, you know, if it happens that your feed yard or your region, its office we devastating and heartbreaking to these people that care for the livestock every day. but it's not going to affect the immediate supply a whole lot. >> tucker: we've seen meat prices, all food prices, all commodity prices, rise dramatically recently. do you see them coming down? >> you know, probably not. we have rising production costs clear through the chain from the ranch to the processor. i don't think the price at the retail counter is probably going to come down.

the american rancher has to figure out a way to get part of that retail dollar or their inputs are going to have them succumb and be out of business. >> tucker: right. at that point, if we became totally dependent on, say, brazil for our beef, do you think the u.s. government would step in because it's avidly -- are critical national interest, with a step in and backstop the ranchers? >> you know, i would like to think so, but they've had every chance the last two decades to stop that migration. that's what my friends and people in the industry we fight for every day, to bring back the americanism in the beef chain. we like our american beef labeled separate from that south american beef that you're talking about. if we would like to get the margin back from a monopolized foreign owned packing sector that -- you know, you're talking

about 5,000, 10,000 cattle that die of heat, you're talking a range of 10-$20 million. the margin that he american rancher has lost every week on cattle processed in united states is more like $200 million. so you know, we have a lot bigger fight out there, we fought the weather for centuries, blizzards, heat, but we need to get back to taking care of the american rancher. >> tucker: chinese control of our food supply is a bigger problem than the weather i would say. >> a big concern to the consumer, tucker buried >> tucker: i couldn't agree with you more but i appreciate bringing it up. steve, thank you very much. >> you bet, thanks for having me on. >> tucker: so gas is unaffordable, you just saw its effects on the food supply, diesel is high, that's one of the reasons food is high but that administration is not worried about that because we are getting renewable energy. how's it going to work exactly? well, we are seeing a specific example of how it works and we will tell you what it is after

the break. plus, congress to fixated on january 6th, the most important thing next to ukraine. why are they doing this? we will tell you after the break. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: of the american standard of living plummets from spike in energy costs as the dream dies, the reaction of our leaders to this catastrophe has been highly revealing. a lot of them seem -- what's the word -- thrilled by the fact that americans are suffering and

they are excited, they are not bothering to hide it and they are excited because finally with no vote in congress they are going to get their green new deal, they're going to get it by default. you can -- you are going to be forced to switch with their calling renewable energy. this is the biggest possible change. out with the old united states of america, in with the new. the leaders think it's pretty exciting as well as of course highly lucrative for them and their donors. but wait a second, you may be wondering. can we trust these people to develop and build an entirely new energy grid to run western civilization? did actually know anything about energy, do they understand how our current power grid works? can they fix a go-cart? can they operate a leaf blower? to these people have any skills at all apart from running corporate hr departments and giving ted talks? those are fair questions. to answer them you might consider what is happening in europe as the neoliberals seized control of the energy grid there. "the wall street journal" piece from last fall pretty much sums it up. "energy prices in europe hit

records after wind stopped blowing." that's the headline. it turns out, that windmills need wind in order to produce electricity. on a calm day, the blades stopped turning and the lights go out. you may have already known that, but the green energy people were completely shocked to see it. it took a lot of people by surprise, said one economist quoted in the paper. if this were to happen in winter when you've got significant higher demand, that presents a real issue for systems debility. so clearly we have a significant design flaw here, but this is 2022, so it's hardly insurmountable. you can just trust the science. of the most obvious solution is to place enormous diesel-powered fans in front of the windmills. that way wind farms will never be without wind and we will never be without ellipticity. it's pretty clever. sandy cortez like that idea but joe biden is thinking better than that. he plans to issue an exec at a border commanding the wind to blow. we already know the elected officials are in charge of the weather, that's the entire premise behind the greener deal,

vote for us and we will change the weather. so why not take it one further step? americans want common sense weather control. from now on her joe biden's order, it will be windy. come on, man, bringing that press conference live when he gives it. so joe biden has said again and again that he is in favor of disarming americans. at the same moment he is very much in favor of arming ukrainians. maybe you should have given money to joe biden's son and you can keep your guns. we just announced we are sending another $1 billion in weapons to ukraine. at this is the 12th installment of military aid to ukraine. that package includes rockets and antiship weapon systems. in all, congress has authorized more than $40 billion of spending on ukraine. and that includes a lot of money to pay the salaries of bureaucrats in ukraine. it's worth noting at exactly the same moment just this past weekend, hundreds of ukrainians in kyiv were photographed having a beach day.

over in his country the border and economy are both collapsing and leaders are doing nothing about it. that's not a part to them. as mitch mcconnell said, ukraine is the most important thing in the world. ukraine and january 6th and red flag laws. why? why are those things so important but not you? chip roy is a member of congress from texas, lucan bok texas, by the way. is that true? >> yeah, i represent it, it's god's country out there, you need to come visit. >> tucker: country music fans everywhere make the pilgrimage. tell us why when the problems surround us, they are focused on ukraine in january 6th? >> there's no real excuse for it, tucker. you got the democratic party, who has basically declared war on the american people, our way of life. you just had a number of segments talking about energy policies we are now paying $5 for gas and we can't even have energy, electricity being created in texas of all places where we sit on an entire ocean

of oil because of our stupid policies and chasing unicorn energy policies where you've got windmills and solar panels on windless, cloudy days. you talked about what they're doing with respect to needles getting jammed in the arms. let's talk about the border where we had almost 3 million apprehensions, now today reports of 800,000 got away powerless over the course of the by demonstration, fentanyl pouring into our schools, our kids dying in record numbers, and what the republicans do? i mean, republicans are complicit. if they say hey, why don't we just go along with the democrats and let's do red flag laws and let's go forward and draft daughters. you can't even make the stuff up in our republican's are getting mad at me. republicans are saying how dare you question the genius of grafton daughters. you know, our 18 world women, let's send them off to war. you know what they say? we will never send women into combat who are drafted. but this is the same democrats who can't even tell you the difference between a man and a woman.

that's a republican party going along with the entire equity agenda because they don't want to actually stand up and fight for the people who send them to washington. >> tucker: the purpose of that law is to up scare the difference between men and women and pretend there are no fundamental differences when there are but when i'm in a good move and i don't want to angry, i watch the clip of mitch mcconnell with the cost of behind him, nodding and saying the most important thing in the world is ukraine. as the american economy evaporates. how could someone like that lead the republicans in the united states senate? >> this is the question the american people need to ask, right? republican's have a lot -- they have big chest right now, a lot of wind in their sails. they won in texas because texans are mad about what's happening on the southern border and they should be. but republicans are taking it for granted because they care about power. they care about committee chairman ships, they care about raising money. but you know what? they need to be caring about honoring their commitment to doing what they said they would do they are not. they do things like give a $40 million blank check to ukraine where they're trying to

say oh, we need to do that because putin is able. i know school putin is evil, why don't we demand that we open up american oil and gas? why don't we do it we need to do to stand up for america, why don't we secure the border, why don't when we don't have and why don't we not draft our 18 year old women in a fit of equity rage in order to appease leftist democrats who want to kill us? i have no idea why they would do that. we need new leadership in this town. >> tucker: i've met a lot of world leaders, i haven't met too many that weren't evil. just throwing that out there. not a defense of putin, just a fact. congressman chip roy of texas, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> god bless. >> tucker: the of administration is told for years that law enforcement is racist, but they just passed a law that's going to disproportionately be used against african americans. kind of weird. why they do that? it's got to be a reason. we will tell you after the break. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: this is a weird story. the by demonstration is constantly lecturing about how your country is terrible, it is systemically racist and law enforcement, the ones they don't control, are especially terrible because they are all, racially biased. so given that it's a little

strange demonstrations trying to make it illegal to smoke menthol >> it's and roughly 85% of black smokers smoke menthol cigarette. they're also banning flavored cigars. according to the aclu, we don't normally quote because they are a joke but they make a good point. they say this law would disproportionate impact people of color. and it's actually true this case. as how our local fox station in new york city reported on what's happening. >> the biggest seller the elmsford smoke shop he stays are the vaping products, but a close second is menthol flavored cigarettes. >> i think that's a basic human right to buy the flavor cigarette if they want. >> the owner says menthol products have always been popular. it's why she keeps them display behind the cash register next to the regular cigarettes. but soon she may not be able to sell any of those. >> tucker: so yeah, okay, smoking is bad, smoking is about number 100 on the list of bad things that people are doing right now and putting into the bodies, we are in the middle of

a drug crisis, how about banning fentanyl from china? why are you hassling tobacco? why -- what is this about and why mental? it's all very bizarre it probably really bad. retired assistant director at the atf, happy to have them join us in it. thanks so much for coming on. so what would happen -- >> think it so much for having me. >> tucker: first of all, you have any idea why are they hassling black smokers or any smokers? smokers have been already hassled i would say, why are they doing this? do you know? because this is the biggest question and most difficult thing i've ever encountered in my 30 years of law enforcement. because it grates more problems for the police on the street and for the communities and their quality of life than anything i've seen since prohibition. this is prohibition again that somebody here in the area code needs to revise their history and realize that prohibition doesn't work. >> tucker: no! and especially after 50 years of antismoking lectures, i got it, it's bad, i'm over 18, i will do it if i want.

they are just it? and of course everyone's to embarrassed to say hey, let a working that smoke a secret if he wants. but will this work in any way? how many lives do you think it will save? i'm just baffled. >> it's not going to work in any way and there's been no thought process as the fda is out on their crusade and not talking to subject matter experts in the law-enforcement community can discuss the black market. this will create crime that right now we have so many things going on in this country with increase in criminal activity. we have more violence, more weapons traffickers, we have more fentanyl and narcotics out there. and now we are going to ban cigarettes? don't we have a few more important things to worry about right now, fda? especially when there's a formula crisis. and now we are going to jump on stopping the flow of menthol cigarettes or flavored products? it insults the intelligence of the american public in my opinion. >> tucker: maybe it's just a war against happiness. no one wants to say about people smoke because it makes them

happy. you shouldn't smoke, it's bad for you, whatever. again, it's hardly the worst thing people are doing right now. maybe they just can't stand the idea that some working-class guy is enjoying himself. >> apparently, because you know, the second point is we are working so hard to work towards police perform, to get the community and the cops working together. how can you expect the police officers to serve and protect when a law like this forces them to regulate and harass? i can't imagine cops trying to go into a neighborhood and make arrests and try to make good contact with the community and the next day sweeping street corners because kids are selling menthol cigarettes out of backpacks. and then the amount of money, the tax dollars that the states are going to lose, you know, you brought it up in some of your speakers earlier in the show, the amount of money that will be lost in revenue that can go to more important things that are happening right now in the united states. again, we are paying $7 in some places for gas. we can't get food on the shelves, we've doubled --

grandmothers and grand parents are taking care of the family unit and now we are going to ban menthol cigarettes and make things more difficult? again, and insulted the american public and we need to wake up and understand that the cops are stressed at multiple levels to do their jobs and this is not just one more thing they need to put on their back. it's like rome is burning while washington fills away. >> tucker: that is exactly -- that right there is the thread that connects everything. you are exactly right. i appreciate you coming on senate come thank you. >> thank you so much for having me at have a great evening. >> tucker: thank you. air travel -- the planes don't take off any more. thanks, vexing mandates. but it could get even worse. a new prototype at this year's aircraft interiors expo in germany showcased something called double-decker seats in coach. if you're claustrophobic, you're going to want to take the bus. jimmy is the most a fox across america joins us to discuss. jimmy, would you get on a flight

with a double-decker seat? >> i mean, man, it's bad enough there's already no dignity and flying coach. now i've got to get in this human centipede contraption where some guy is in my face? i don't want to fly with somebody's body on top of me and if i did, i would just sit next to al franken. of but shame on any airline that's just trying to find another way to gouge us for more money. like as it stands, there's no dignity in flying coach. your flying assisted coach if we are being honest but they've turned commercial air travel into a thinly veiled with going to a dominatrix, they demean you with all of his boarding classes, they call you names, and by the way, after all your money is gone, you still haven't gone anywhere, tucker, because the planes don't take off. there were 800 canceled flights today across the country today. i'm at the point where i'm about to become a climate activist just so i can fly private. >> tucker: they all do fly private, that's the thing.

everyone who regulate everything in united state -- why not pass a lot and make it super simple, while serving in the united states congress or an appointed position in the executive branch, you are not allowed to fly anything but a commercial aircraft? i think it fix the problem. >> imagine that. it's like seriously shame on them, because they've taken us commercially to this place now -- it's a breaking point. the faa is reporting 1500 in-flight unruly passenger incidents this year alone. think about that. we had so many brawls on planes, brad pitt could make a spin-off called flight club for people who just fly commercial because they like getting punched in the face. but why are we in this position again and again and again? because they compromised our dignity, our quality of travel to -- we can get three more seats on the plane. really quick, one personal anecdote, i drove a taxi in new york city for a long time. we always wanted airport fairs because people were in a great mood, they tipped big, they were either on vacation or happy to be here on business trip.

nobody wanted airport fair because everybody who gets in your cabins on the verge of snapping. some guys going to stab me in the neck with a screwdriver because delta found a way to get two more seats onto the plane. but now i've got to fly in a contortionist position. it's stupid buried >> tucker: and the higher prices go that's the greater incentive for airlines to do this. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> flight club, here we go. >> tucker: we will be right back. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: before we go tonight, quick update on the legal troubles of the creepy lawyer. today he pleaded guilty in california to four counts of wire fraud related to his decision to embezzle millions of dollars from his clients. in one case, which stuck out, he robbed a client with disabilities of $4 million. he also pretty guilty to one count of obstructing the internal revenue code, his sentencing is set for december at which point he faces more than 80 years in prison. he's already serving five years in prison after being convicted of ripping off sturmer daniels and trying to extort my keep. and on top of that, he is still facing 31 other charges of bank and wire fraud, and we take pleasure in the suffering of no man. prison is never a joke, it's always a tragedy, even when it's deserved in this case comes we are not gloating but we are instead announcing conclusively that cnn was wrong and he will not be the 2024 democratic nominee for president. unless there is some kind of jailbreak. never say never but we are

getting as close to never as we can. so cnn, you blew it. we will do that, tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of mine come up and pasta, grouping. the best night with the ones you love, and now, sean hannity. >> sean: all right, thank you. we begin with a fox news alert, the dow jones industrial is officially now in negative territory compared to when joe biden took office, now closing below 30,000, the lowest closing of his presidency -- mortgage inflation, the price hikes are as bad as ever and while biden is dismissing the likelihood of a recession, the fears on wall street, they are growing louder and louder. all while consumer spending is now running out of steam, common sense americans are continuing to suffer needlessly, all because of joe biden's failing far left radical