do you think nancy and polly are charging us to hang out with the pope and walk around on the beach? they'd better not be. sophia from montana. "what is a colonizer?" apparently it's a white woman that -- watch tucker. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a quick recap on the ever-changing rules of the world. the three things any functioning country must have an ample supply our food, water, and energy. those are the fundamental necessities. not diversity, equity, and inclusion: food water in them. with a surplus, you win. if you don't, you lose.

we did not make the rules: nature did. we can choose to ignore them, but these rules will never change. thankfully for americans, he lived in a country that's remarkably abundant in all three of those things. we have more potable fresh water virtually anyone, and america has the largest recoverable oil reserves on the planet, number one in that category, which matters may be more than anything. so-called renewable energy -- solar panels, they are about to power world corrects them, somebody should because a lot is at stake. if your 9-year-old tells you "i'm like superman," you have to correct them before he jumped out of the garage. the stakes are high. it's incumbent on the rest of us to point out to people -- that they have no idea what they are talking about. we are not remotely close to a

green energy power grid or anything even approaching it. as of today, the world is powered by fossil fuels. that's where more than 80% of global energy comes from, not from windows and solar panels: oil and gas. the world's fastest growing economies, and china -- using more fossil fuel than ever. so, why is every person in charge, from people who make the advertisements at nike to the energy secretary of the president of the united states come to every channel on television we are getting the benefit of the doubt. at best, they are ignorant. they are politicians and ideologues. boys can become girls -- unfortunately for them, the principles of social justice don't apply to power grids. you can't just rename them and

get something different. you have to create better power grids. we won't be anywhere near that during the course of our lifetime. that's reality, and you can't yell loud enough to make it change. in the foreseeable future, oil and gas are essential in a nonnegotiable way. that should be great news for america. here in the united states -- we are rich because we are rich in natural resources. that's why we won the second world war, for example. when previous generations -- this is what they were talking about. it states suddenly experiencing shortages -- and that's why these prices have risen, because we don't have enough of them. how did that happen? if you care about the future of america, you need to look at that. joe biden offered his

explanation of how it happened today. >> we made incredible progress on the economy from where we were a year and a half ago. we have a long way to go because of inflation. i call it the putin the putin tax increase -- >> it is just embarrassing and at this point it is dangerous, and no one believes a word of it. we feel a moral responsibility -- months before the war in ukraine began, somehow, vladimir putin secretly seize control of gas prices in the united states. before that, the magic happened. sober people -- this analysis firm tried to do some calculations. they wanted to put rising gas prices in context, and they did math. they determined every year over year price change going back 20

years, they found this one on november 2022 november of 2021, roughly from election day to the end of joe biden's first year running the country, gas prices in the united states went up by more than 66%, the single highest year-over-year increase had to be the year that they started tracking those data. >> this happened before russia invaded ukraine. why did it happen? super simple: joe biden, on the campaign trail, told us he was like superman, then proceeded to jump off the garage. he told us he would end fossil fuel. no one followed up with what he was saying he kept going, then became president somehow, and follow through on that promise. every time the pair's client on the claiming that if i'm in the

a central crisis in china and india are using more fossil fuels land ten years ago he says anything about, maybe care about this global warming thing. on top of all of that, joe biden -- jones mortal u.s. economy, therefore devaluing the u.s. dollar, making everything including energy more expensive. that's all true. it was done to change our energy supply from what is cheap, efficient, and the source of all of our wealth, to something that biden and his donors control: the green economy. as for don't like it will make us more poor peer that was happening around the world right now. political matters -- sort of a democracy, it happened way also so fast. democrats and republicans kya -- -- no matter who they voted for, or worry about rising energy prices because it affected them every single day.

by the time vladimir putin invaded ukraine, the biden administration have found this to escape. joe biden started yelling putin did it" i cannot but it isn't so, so provably untrue. people voted for biden who wanted windmills and solar. in an election year, this is a huge problem. the administration had to do something. late march in an act of desperation, president biden did the worst thing he has done since becoming president, which is saying a lot: he started to sell off this country's, one of our most important natural resources. it is controlled by the department of energy. what biden could have done is produce more oil domestically, but that would have been also so easy and good for the united states' long-term interests. instead, he decided to do

something so crazy and dangerous, only someone who would potentially try to harm the united states would consider it. most people don't know this. here it is in case you missed it. >> president biden: >> today, i want to talk about one aspect of putin's war that has real effects on the american people: pollutants price hikes that americans are feeling prices are rising's actions. bottom line is, if we want more gas prices, we need to have more oil supply right now. i am authorizing the use of 1 million barrels per day in the next six months, and 108 millioe strategic reserve. if this is a wartime bridge to increase oil supply until production ramps up later this year. it is by far the largest --

in the national reserve in our history. >> you watch that and realize that one of the whole point of the biden presidency is embarrass us -- you can guess people who truly -- grind it in their face. can barely talk. it is hard to hear anything joe biden says. with that transcript, you will learn that what he just said is releasing 1 million barrels per day for a total of more than 180 million barrels on strategic petroleum reserves. how much is it? it's a staggering figure. let's put it in context. more than 700 million barrels pulled, but it did not calm down might have that, because congress has been selling off our strategic petroleum reserve to pay off debts.

so, by the time joe biden arrived -- 568 million barrels of oil. now, no president in american history has ordered this drawdown. this is an actual war with real american soldiers involved. the u.s. government -- 17 million barrels. the u.s. released just 20 million barrels after -- but now, we are releasing many times that figure, all to protect the democratic party from getting what it deserves in the midterm election in november. as a result, unbelievably -- affected this strategic decision. they are dropping fast. none of these things that happened -- there was no reason to tap our strategic petroleum reserves when we can produce the energy here.

joe biden -- at the same time, you have to be honest: supply and demand -- would guess that this would work in the short term? releasing all this oil should have lower gas prices until that reserve -- to put more petroleum in the market. here is the amazing thing: it has not happened. since joe biden started releasing oil from our reserve -- what has happened to gas prices? they have kept going up. in mid-june, the price of both regular unleaded and diesel hit all-time highs. how could this be? it really was a mystery. violet of the most basic rules of economics. now, due to this report in reuters, we know why. it isn't for us! it's going to india and china. according to reuters -- 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic u.s.

emergency reserve for lower domestic field prices -- works for europe and asia last month. this piece continues oil from our reserves, headed to the netherlands, a refinery in india. a third cargo -- headed to china." to china. , as gas prices set records in this country, as american citizens who were born here and vote -- so they can't afford to fill their own cars. the biden administration is selling off our emergency oil reserve to china. that is not indictable? should be impeachable, and they should impeach him for that. about the water for the great lakes? that's the equivalent of what he just did. if you are keeping track, he

does not need it. china and india have access to cheap oil. the biden administration -- a lunatic on russian oil imports. remember -- got in the shallow trypp washington. according to custom data, china spent $19 billion -- oil and gas. that is double the amount they spent -- $5 billion in russian oil, which is five times what they spent a year ago. we just made russia a ton of money. russia has raked in $13 billion in revenue compared to last year. this is how we are punishing our enemies? by selling off our own most valuable asset and watching russia and india and china get richer question on top of that cheap russian oil, they are -- this is the best crude oil that

we have. it's the easiest process. we are giving away two a government whose whole goal is to debase -- deface us on the world stage. by the way, that country, china also happens to be a long time business partner of the biden family. now, of functioning congress would investigate this immediately. now, having a phone call with some corrupt ukrainian politician, but no, they can't be bothered. "january 6th is an insurrection." sure, the white house was able to -- glass ceiling breaking publicist, yesterday. >> this reuters report -- more than 5 million barrels of oil there. exported to europe and asia last

month. some of this was headed to china. is the administration aware of those reports? paying for consumers -- headed overseas? >> i would honestly have to look into it, and see what the truth is in that statement that he just laid out and see what is happening. we just haven't seen that report. >> how can someone not dumb be that arrogant, or is there a connection? when someone asks you in a white house briefing "by the way, is the united states government selling petroleum reserve to our main enemy in the middle of a gas shortage?" you should probably have an answer, or at least be embarrassed that you don't have one. it's a simple question: why does customs data show that we are sending millions of barrels of oil to china to mark it's been

24 hours since that briefing, and we still don't have an answer. it shows that it's not a mistake, it is intentional, just looking to make it as obvious as possible over the weekend -- "my message to the company is running gas stations and setting prices -- this is a time of war and global payroll. bring down the price, reflect the cost of the product, and do it now. what is it, nationalizing the gas stations? he is attacking small businesses in the united states, running a gas station. it's not like running apple. not doing any of the things that joe biden's donors do. it's a small business. if he sells our national assets to our enemy -- so, no one with a basic understanding of economics can

fetch how upsetting this is. it's too stupid. cnn wouldn't take it. >> it's like there is a bad smell in the room. >> it's a real problem for the white house. people are feeling this pain. they say there's so many factors at play. it's not like you can just lower the price of gas. the president was talking about people who sell the gas. 145,000 gas stations are independently owned, small businesses essentially, and they have higher margins on the candy bars they sell them there -- maybe. >> exactly, and that's literally true. they make more on a snickers bar than a gallon of diesel fuel, but we might be blaming the wrong people here. she has no idea what's going on, reaching into the binder. they are not making any

decisions. people who are our former obama staffers -- running the national economic advisory board -- you can thank him. on thursday, he told us that -- when the biden administration deliberately sabotage united states by crushing our energy -- watch this. >> what do you say to the families who say "we cannot pay afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for gas?" >> what we heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. this is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm. >> we have to stand firm! the liberal world order, how is that working for you by the way? no. they don't care. they did not tell you what that china will own everything.

wait until it's comes to the great lakes. thank you so much for coming on. so, to someone who is not in the business, you were selling off an asset like this, allowing it to be sold to china. that seems criminal. >> you articulate just about better than anybody. to answer that question, we have to ask ourselves how we got here in the first place? how did we replace one bad policy with another one? how do we go from being the world energy superpower, being number one in oil and gas and coal and geothermal, second and wind and solar, to shaking the tin cup to the saudis and not even being able to track -- where these releases end up? it's quite disconcerting.

it's really important to know that the production companies were not supportive of their release. why weren't we allowed to open up what we were doing, versus shutting that off and tapping in to the tenacious credit card? it's frustrating. >> i talked to most of the people who run these gas companies. they all act like they are selling cigarettes to kids. why don't they step up in public and say "without us, this is an impoverished country, you need us to stay solvent," and make noise and fight back? >> we are trying to. the tweet the president set out saturday, we had that response. you know how it is. twitter is an exercise in futility. there are people who think they are experts in oil and gas because they retweet something a celebrity does. we avoided it, but we saw that tweet come across, and it struck

a nerve. we did our best to call b.s. on the white house. >> it's over if we get rid of fossil fuels, and that is just true. >> i appreciate you coming on tonight. >> thank you for having me on. because you know that only women get pregnant, used to be a source of pride for your species. americans -- noted one of their employees for saying it. we will talk about that in just a moment. we are going to continue tonight because it is our duty to defend our new hero, the state senator from rhode island. rats seem to be ignoring her. we will revisit that. let's hear it next. ♪ ♪ does it matter

it's dinner time with family and your heart is filled with bliss. but as you eat the roasted goose, your little sport incists. hey dad, did you know america is racist? your shocked with grief when suddenly george washington bursts through. he snatched the screen and changed the thing to an app called prageru. there's content for your child's mind to fight the leftist lies. and if you give your child a chance to watch and grow. they might burst forth like washington, a true american hero. make a tax-deductible donation at prageru.com.

♪ ♪ >> pretty recently, david matthews -- continued at usa today. never seemed particularly partisan to us. this summer, he imagines he could tweet factual information about human biology, so he did.

"people who -- are also women." they were upset, demoted him. "usa today" said there tweet -- so, matthew left "usa today," going somewhere where he's free to say what he wants. thank you for coming on. this is one of the stories that i write about a couple of times, but i kept b -- i kept thinking that you punch someone. did you do anything else? >> the only thing i did to get demoted was defense in reaction to our newspaper starting to say i don't want to be mean, i don't think they are the locust of the worlds in order, but that is

nuts. i wonder how many people in the newsroom came to your defense. >> nobody in the newsroom came to my defense. one person in the opinion section, who is more conservative than i do, and a fan of trump, liked my tweets, but that was the extent of the support from the newsroom. she has left "usa today" too. >> this seems like it is worse than craving partisanship. it's unreasonable. you can't be unreasonable. >> it is, but it is structural. what we have now is a group of young woke journalists who think that censorship and -- but now, we are now in charge of founders room. they call themselves a diversity committee, and the executives run in fear from their tantrums.

>> i'm sorry to keep harping on this, but -- we are probably around the same age. i am just shocked that nobody stood up and said "i don't agree with his politics or whatever, but facts have to be allowed." right? in the newspaper? >> that's why i said it. i fear that with our new policy, that we only said pregnant people, that fax did not matter anymore. i thought it was a grave threat to our institution. 250 daily newspapers acr the country, and we are spinning out of control. first, it was illegal immigrants or undocumented immigrants, and then it was pregnant people, not pregnant women, and where are we going next? >> i don't know, maybe girls can turn to boys and vice versa. that might be a destination we

could arrive at! i'm glad you left, i'm glad you are willing to say what happened. >> thank you. >> we told you, not to get too personal, but an epiphany we had. we saw the future of the democratic party in the form of a rhode island state senator. she uploaded this remarkable campaign video where she twerked upside down. this seems to me to be a perfect distillation of the beliefs of the democratic party. we aren't forcing us, but there has never been anything that we have seen on video that explained the democratic party more clearly than her upside down -- on the beach, so today, she defended it, and came to the same conclusion we all have: people only criticized her because they are racist.

watch. >> did i know the internet would respond this way? it's 2022 and i'm a black woman, of course deep down, not even that deep, i knew that y'all would act this way towards a black clear aniyah black, qruu r woman. -- you have to treat us better, please. >> [laughs] she went to an ivy league school for free, then serves in the state house in island. she is obviously the weakest among us, but not claiming that she is being discriminated against -- any reservations that you may have had about the video being racist, it's really at the democratic party. to prove they are not racist, that woman needs to be at least the secretary of state right

now. then, on the presidential tickets 2024. we will not accept joe biden has become so toxic that the democratic party wants him out. the democrats running the office in november don't want to talk about him -- with that campaign event. we are going to go right to the senate campaign in progress.

>> tim ryan might be the most disappointing democrat in the united states congress -- in ohio. for a little while -- ran into someone who understood the trials of the people he represents. we use to have him on the show

fairly regularly, but then he was hostile. here is one of our last conversations in january, 2018. there are a lot of sad situations in ohio right now. thousands of people have died of drug abuse, thousands were deported -- by a factor of ten you are spending your time and the symbolic power you have to honor someone who is deported rather than your constituency dying of a drug overdose? >> tucker, i've spent more time on the opiate epidemic in my career than you have -- don't criticize me -- so i'm not taking a backseat to you or anybody else. tell your president and party the bills we try to put forth, just to make sure -- >> i may agree with you on some of that. but, you have had a chance to send something symbolic, and you are. the guy is a fraud knows he's a fraud. it turns out we are not the only

people he stopped responding to. you might remember that tim ryan used to be a massive fan of joe biden. absolutely loved joe biden, campaign for him, but joe biden has turned out to be every bit as bad as he was expected to be. tim ryan saying "i don't know about this joe biden." >> do you want president joe biden to campaign for you? >> we will see, but the reality is i am the face of the campaign appeared >> will you invite president biden to campaign for you? >> we welcome everybody's support, but i will be the face of this campaign. >> really not answering if you want president biden on the campaign trail in ohio. i didn't hear an answer. >> my answer was i want to be the face of this campaign, and i don't want any distractions.

so -- not one democrat out of the entire u.s. congress who was sort of interested in these debt issues of the american middle class? it turned out not to be tim ryan. he joins us tonight. i almost feel bad for me you want to point out what a fraud your opponent is, but i can't resist. shouldn't he be required to campaign with joe biden? >> in cleveland, joe biden was here today, and -- nowhere to be found, but you are right. the guy is a fraud. sided with illegal aliens over his own citizens, who were being killed at record numbers. he sided with the biden administration killing the energy industry in ohio in the name of green energy, which of course has shifted a ton of manufacturing jobs. while he says that he cares about working say listens, he

sided with the biden administration on hundred% of the time on policies that defunded the american police department, and have made it through this ridiculous inflation we are experiencing. i'm not surprised he's not politically -- i know that -- i am surprised at the shamelessness of it all, that the guy campaign for joe biden, supported all of his policies, and is now on a tv commercial -- >> when you were a kid, there were plenty of democrats. i knew some of them in your states, particularly from his congressional district, who had american values, who represented people who made a wage for a living. there is not one job left? >> there certainly -- the democratic party used to have -- now, it has people like tim ryan, who defend abortion up to 40 weeks. it had people who rescinded the american industry, recognized that we needed our own oil and gas, and now, people like joe

tim ryan and joe biden -- i think the activists at the democratic party are so embedded in big tech that they have driven our economy off the cliff, but ohio, i don't want it to be an economy that depends on the technology industry, the financial industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. we have agriculture, we have energy. we need political leaders who support these industries. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> because the basics are all that matters, with food, water, energy, but also our people having babies, are they replacing -- but somehow, around the world, birth rates are dropping in crazy and unprecedented ways. what is going on?

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shown how for some people it's counterproductive, making it more likely to get corona. they are indefensible, criminal, but the biden administration is still using them. many americans believe -- because they will not take the covid shot. this person is being kicked out of the air force after 19 years of service. he was relying on the medical benefits that come with retirement. thank you for coming on. this is a nightmare story. i think most people are not aware that this is still happening. >> you said it's tens of thousands. it is actually hundreds of thousands from dod members today. you look at all of the branches, the air force alone is over 10,000 people. like you said -- been counting on this 20 year retirement for the past 19 years.

all because they won't grant me a religious exemption waiver, they are looking to kick me out. as of tomorrow -- they called me before the show wanting to see my separation package. after 19 years, they will throw everything away that i've worked for, but i am just one of hundreds of thousands of people being kicked out because we will not take that illegal and bring to use vaccine. >> that hurts people. excuse me -- >> no, and talking but it does not protect you from covid. if you look at their own numbers, the dod has seen three full entries in cases and deaths on a monthly basis since that mandate was enacted, so since more people got vaccinated, a greater number have died or got covid. >> i believe that's real, and meanwhile, the united states military -- it's goal is lower standards, thinking about recruiting foreign nationals. i am not making this up. >> no, it's wild. the army recently put out a

thing where they were going to recruit people without having ged's, because that's how bad it's getting, but at the last second, there was enough backlash to scrap that program. they talked about this in congress, in newspapers. they are all struggling. the air force hasn't missed this goal since 1999, and they will artie do that this year. the army was at 40% of its recruiting goal with three months left in the year. >> my theory this week -- obsessing over the little ones. destroying the u.s. military. do you not have a member of congress? hundreds of republicans are -- none have come forward to stop this? >> there definitely have been some, in that case, the podcast. he has definitely been fighting for us. but they are only a few. we need everybody. 10% of the military is looking to be canned. from china or russia, i'd be

chomping at the bit right now. they have only been granting religious waivers to members who were already separating, already out. that does no good. that's already gone. i think it's very ironic that they've given a waiver by congress, "refuses to give any of us waivers serving." >> oh, board member -- i appreciate it, i am heartbroken to hear your story, and i hope -- in the final hours -- thank you. a new study out of israel that we brought you earlier found a 20% decline in sperm count, from those who received two doses of the pfizer vaccine. meanwhile, birth rates in countries in western europe -- in 2021 have dropped significantly this year.

what is this? we should care. has written a lot about this topic, and -- the one guy we know who got back on twitter somehow. i want to ask about the birth rates, but we see these people off twitter -- you sued and you are back on, so congratulations! pretty amazing. >> well sure, i'm pleased to talk to you. you were the first person i talked to after they banned me, and now i get to talk to you on the day where they acknowledge that they should not have banned me, that my tweets did not violate their guidelines. basically, i sued them in federal court, and i got a judge who was listening to -- willing to listen to the facts of the case, heard it with an open mind, and he acknowledged that i had a case that could move forward, and that launched a settlement discussion.

i cannot talk in detail about the settlements, but -- there is something really important that i need to tell you, which is that in the next few weeks, a month or two, i'm hoping to add more information about twitter's potential for pressure that they face from the federal government last year as they were banning me and other vaccine skeptics. i hope there's more to say about that soon. >> so tell us -- this seems like a huge story. further trade declining internationally, especially in places with high vaccination rates. are they connected? >> the short answer is we don't know. i more comfortable saying that i think the rise in all -- mortality is pretty clearly connected to vaccinations, because you are seeing that in countries that did not have a lot of covid -- and if they did, the timing is very suspicious. birthrates, this is really worth watching. birthrates are down about 10%,

and the number of european countries year-over-year -- given their fertility, although it hasn't been going down -- we know that many of these country slowly over time, 10% was a huge move in one year. there is some noise in the data, and it's also possible that there are only short-term fluctuations in administration and menstrual cycles, that we know the vaccines can go, and so that it will not be a long-term effect, but what we should be looking at is is this real and what i can promise you is that they will do everything possible not to answer that question. >> that is where it matters, the things we ignore. congrats. we will talk to you soon. more straight ahead. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: nancy pelosi was so upset about the overturning of roe v. wade and putin's war of aggression in ukraine that she

fled america and ended up in a private beach in italy and we are going to go out tonight by singeing your retinas with a photograph of that event. third in line to the presidency on a private beach in italy. so get in, ladies and gentlemen. try to go to sleep tonight and get that image out of your head, if you can. see you tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. oh, jason chaffetz is in? >> jason: what are you doing? what did you get every person in the country to turn off the television? you throw that up on the screen? >> tucker: i didn't mean it appeared >> jason: i'm going to have my show before you and do that to you. see how you like that. >> totally fair. good luck tonight, jason. >> jason: appreciate it, i owe you one. welcome to the special edition of "hannity." i'm jason chaffetz