jane from new jersey. jesse, are you okay? you look frail. i think from all those long walks home. i feel frail. i've definitely gotten in my steps this week. i'm happy that the un is no longer there. that's all for us tonight. dvr the show. "tucker" is up next. always remember, i'm watters. this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's friday, because you're probably wonder how your trillion dollar build back project is going. there's a lot of ways to measure the progress. let's start with with the most obvious poverty. poverty is rising fast in the united states. the financial markets have sunk below to where they were in the

middle of the pandemic when joe biden took office. your 401(k) is worse than it appears. whatever you think you have is devalued by deflation -- inflation. household net worth is declining faster than it has anytime in the country. americans are not only thinking about postponing their retirement, but moving to tijuana to avoid housing, dentistry and gasoline. the economy is not getting better. no informed person thinks it's getting better anytime soon. so what does joe biden, who promised to fix it, think of that? well, it will be interesting to know. unfortunately when he spoke in washington today, he didn't tell us. he said he got, as he often does, sidetracked, and went off about some relationship he had with a 12-year-old girl. watch this. >> got to say hi to me.

[laughter] >> we go back a long way. she was 12. i was 30. but anyway -- [laughter] >> tucker: it's hilarious. we go back a long way. she was 12. i was 30. anyway -- what? what is joe biden talking about? who was he talking about? what was he describing? sounds like a late-life confession. we don't know actually. the white house is not clarifying, they're just walking away slowly. "the new york times" won't get to the body of it, obviously, not just because they're democratic partisan, which they are, because like everybody else they don't take joe biden seriously whenever he talks. whatever his talents may be, shelling for credit card companies or having michael jackson level plastic surgery or showering with his daughter, he has trouble talking. he rambles, doesn't finish his thoughts, such as they are, makes bizarre claims, like the one you just hard. joe biden is not an articulate

man. it's universally acknowledged. joe biden can barely speak english. >> some people ask whether you are fit for the job and when you hear that, i wonder what you think. >> watch me. >> you know what it's like to live, not have the money to pay for it. think about it. think about what you think about. >> you're going to have -- you're going to use that as a basis to build on, because you need security, you need stability for what you have, and you're going to build up -- i mean, this is incredible. ♪ ♪ >> this is the united states of america, for god sake.

>> mr. president, how would you say your mental focus is? >> oh, it's focused. i think look, i have trouble even mentioning -- even saying to myself my own head the number of years. i no more think of myself how old i am than a fly. >> tucker: obviously joe biden is old and seen nile. he's 79. at that age, sentences like stairs, become a challenge. we're not judging. anyone past 50 can feel the loss of acuity, if you're honest. the older you get, the less sharp you become. recently we noticed something that changed our view. that something is called kamala

harris. the point is, if you're not certain how to pronounce your own first name, you're likely senile. here's the thing. kamala harris is only 57-year-olds. she's 22 years younger than joe biden, young enough to be his daughter, which is to say young enough to shower with him, and too young for most kinds of dedementia. she's probably medically in her right mind. yet, despite that fact, here's how kamala harris speaks. >> we all believe, when we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community. so what we all experienced is on an electric school bus, on an electric bus, no exhaust, no diesel smell. >> it is time for us to do what we've been doing. that time is every day.

every day it is time for us to agree. >> kamala, what do you want, what do you want? i looked back up at her and said freedom! >> you're going to literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes. >> oh, my goodness. >> with your own eyes, i'm telling you. >> ukraine is a country in europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country. russia is a powerful country. russia decided to invade a smaller country called ukraine. so basically that's wrong. >> we know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community. >> it is the perspective of a woman who grew up a black child in america, who was also a prosecutor, who also has a mother who arrived here at the age of 19 from india, who also,

you know, likes hip-hop. what do you want to know? >> tucker: we could go on, but to be clear, community bank is in the community, of course. so it turns out that if anything, if we're being honest, kamala harris is even less articulate than the m mannequin whose job she wants to take. the facts suggest it is happening, and we know this from watching john fetterman. john fetterman is only 53. that seems darn young, really just hitting your stride. and yet when john fetterman opens his mouth to reveal mossy unbrushed teeth, he makes joe biden and kamala harris looks like william f. huntley.

check this out. >> come out and step with us. we will be able to stand with you in d.c. >> send me to washington, d.c. so i can work with senator casey and i can champion the union way of life in jersey. >> what is wrong with demanding for an easy safe kind of their income, a path to a safe place for them to win? >> eliminate the filibuster. >> these things done. >> yes. send is back to new jersey. send me to d.c. for you.

>> tucker: now, that's unfair, you say, because john fetterman had a stroke this spring. that's true, by the way. not that it stopped him from running for u.s. senate from pennsylvania. we do feel sorry for him. even before his current brain damage, fetterman was like this. listening to john fetterman was like hearing a car backfire, loud and jarring noises, but you couldn't be certain what they were. was that gunfire, fireworks? you didn't know. definitely wasn't human language. at the time fetterman was many years away from qualifying for social security. you cannot blame alzheimer's. even when his words were strictly speaking intelligible, when you added them together they made no sense. in march of 2021, fetterman demanded the release of all 1200 people, all of them, held in pennsylvania for second-degree murder. watch. >> a conversation that would free close to 1200 people of a legacy that never made sense, that encompasses victims' input,

their cubbing and behavior in prison, and takes a look at the resources that are wasted on them. >> so even joe biden wouldn't say that. it's too stupid. it's hard to avoid the conclusion in the democratic party, at least at the leadership level, they're getting dumber as they get younger. you know this from looking at the party's standard future bearer. sandy cortez. she's younger than john fetterman, young enough to be his daughter. she's 32. she's grown up in a generation with instant access to everything in history. and graduated from boston university. she's had every advantage, and currently enjoys the greatest advantage of all, we thought, which is youth. so you would imagine that sandy cortez would be churchill in yoga pants, a magician with words and data, a master of

linguistics. oh, no. she's this. >> there are studies that show that women who wear makeup or regularly wear, like, a decent amount of makeup kind of show up to the office in glam also make more money. and so at that point it stops being these calculations and decisions, stop being about choice and they start being about pay tree arcky. we live in systems, largely built for the convenience of men. oftentimes we're designed with the subjugation of women and queer people in mind. >> tucker: so sandy cortez has devolved to the point where she doesn't bother to make political arguments. she whines about men as she applies eyeshadow in the ladies

room, just like they do at every restaurant in new york city on a saturday night, and expects you to support, say, banning passenger cars as a result. we make fun of joe biden all the time, but even seen nile old joe biden can muster more than that. once again, how do we explain this? in effect, democrats are devolving. our surgeon general uploaded a picture of himself enjoying an ice cream cone without any ice cream in it. really? the presidential debates will take place two years from now. we've always said obviously they're going to dump joe biden because he can't handle it. now we're beginning to think they're going to stick with joe biden, because he's clearly the smartest person in a leadership position at the democratic party. we don't know. we're not privy to the discussions, but when that candidate is chosen, and appears on stage two years from now, we know exactly the argument that

person will make. >> donald trump, the president of the united states. >> the 45th president of the america. >> that's where we're headed. if you no longer respect language, and they don't, after all you no longer use language, and they won't, and you're left with merely a primal scream. bet on it. that's coming. jason whitlock is the host of "fearless" and joins us tonight. jason, thank you very much for coming on. we've made so much fun of joe biden being out of it obviously, he very much still is, but more impressive than the people who will replace him. >> he is. and tucker, as much as i enjoyed

that monologue and understand to some degree you're being in tongue-in-cheek, just pointing out the obvious, making fun of these people, and some of it made me laugh, but this is very serious. part of it, when i was listening to you, i started about biblical scripture, started thinking about where the democrats are, and their godless policies they're beholding to. i started thinking about romans 1:22, professing themselves to be wise they became fools. that's what we're watching. we're watching a group of people that think they're the smartest people in the history of the planet. they think they don't need god. they think god's truth is irrelevant, and they're becoming fools led by fools. their minds are given to a wickedness that happens when you ignore god's logic. that's also from romans, verse

28, if you want to look it up. it's so obvious to everybody, even their peers, even their supporters. someone like a bill ma her, longtime comedian, big platform, big brand, always a leftest. we're watching him pivot in real time, to mocking his own base. every friday night on hbo. it's because that's how outlandish and insane and how corrupted their minds are and how foolish they look, that he can't resist, week after week after week making fun of these people. they think they're the smartest people on the planet. they think they're smarter than god. they think they can decide who's a man and a woman. they think they can castrate our kids. they think they can drag our kids to drag shows. they think that god doesn't matter. they're fools. we're witnessing.

you're exposing it night after night. i love you for it. >> tucker: thank you. you've been in the media all your life. you've been around people who probably don't share your political views, or may vote differently from the way you vote. you mentioned bill maher. >> i have friends of all per situations. i know now that trump has been office office for two years, and they can't answer every question what about trump, those people are speechless. they don't have anything to say other than, yeah, i know, i get it, i'm not comfortable. and they know that the things that are going on -- because i put it in their face, i send out some of your monologues. i send out tiktok videos. i send out all of this insanity,

and no one has an answer. they're much quieter now, now that they can't say, well, what about trump? you can't blame what's going on right now. it's not trump's fault. there's one group pushing us toward this insanity. there's one group allowing our borders to be unguarded and letting criminals just flood our communities and border towns. it's obvious what's going on. >> tucker: i hope the silence you describe is their consciences awakening. jason whitlock, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: so during the covid pandemic, you may remember, the government tried to shut down virtually every business in the country, except the ones that pay them big campaign donations, planned parenthood, liquor stores, amazon and google. an organization they tried to shut down was the ufc, the

fastest-growing sport in the united states. we just sat down with a man who runs the ufc, dana white, the president in las vegas. he told us why he held fights why why he kept his business going, the sport operating, despite the covid shutdown. watch. >> they never built anything. they don't -- nobody depends on them for a paycheck. but all they do is sit back and criticize. i'm going to kill people. i care more about money than i do human life. i heard it all. and "the new york times," as you can imagine, was blasting me daily. >> a long and fascinating interview with dana white. if you don't know who dana white is, certainly the most influential man in sports, and a smart man. we'll air the whole thing monday right here. also working on a documentary coming up this winter. again, it's worth watching monday 8:00 eastern.

>> tucker: so the pillow guy, mike lindell, had his phone seized at a fast-food restaurant, and of course the left loved it. they couldn't explain why. alan dershowitz is a liberal democrat, and didn't love it all. he'll join us after the break to mistaken why.

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>> tucker: in one of the most hallucinogenicly weird and scary displays of political authoritarianism we've seen recently, joe biden's fbi cornered mike lindell, the pillow guy, who advertises on our air, at a fast-food drive through recently. huh? lindell described what happens next. >> we pull through a hardees drive-thru, they take the order. we pull up. she says, pull ahead because they had to make the order. we pull ahead, and a car comes perpendicular and parks a ways in front of us. i've been around the block. i said to my buddy, i said that's either a bad guy or it's

fbi. >> tucker: then the fbi seized lindell's cellphone, which he uses to conduct business. now, amazingly, most liberals cheered this on. if you don't like mike lindell, don't buy his pillows, but they were happy that the fbi took his phone. alan dershowitz is a h a harvarw professor and joins us today. thanks for coming on. you've already taken a lot of heat from people you've known your whole life, fellow liberals, for being associated with anyone near trump, but you're doing this anyway. it's going to get you disinvited from parties. why are you doing this? >> i've always gone where the constitution points me. whoever the government opresses and violates their constitution

reports, i'll defend them. i've defended democrats and nazi, democrats like ted kennedy and president trump. i will continue do so. when it comes to the constitution, i'm not a conservative or a liberal or a democrat or republican. i'm somebody who wants to support the constitution. today my old friends on the liberal left don't want me to defend the constitution on behalf of conservatives. they have tried to cancel me. that's why i wrote my book "the price of principle," because the price has been high, not so much on me but the library. the library in massachusetts banned my books and banned me from speaking, a library. that's how far this has gone in liberal ma t martha's vineyard. >> tucker: tell us why you think what the fbi did to mike lindell is scary. >> first of all, if they had done it to a democrat, we would

have every liberal democrat, the aclu, complaining bitterly. first they tracked him down. how would they know he was going to a hardees. obviously they had to have gps or tracking mechanism. we want to know whether they had a warrant for doing that. then if they had a warrant, they stopped him, they should have just asked him for the phone, subpoena the phone. they had a subpoena at the same time, but it didn't include his phone. see, if they had a subpoena, it could have been challenged, but if you take the money then they get everything. they get lawyer client privilege material. they get first amendment protected material. they know who's working along with mike lindell. i'm representing lindell in the same way that i would represent a liberal democrat. for that i'm being highly criticized by people on the left. they say trump is different.

you can't apply the constitution to him. they said that when they detained 110,000 japanese americans. this is different. this is said during mccarthyism. this is different. they said it during the vietnam war. this is different. the precedent lies around like a loaded gun, waiting to be picked up by an autocrat, waiting to e used on you and your family. >> tucker: i really appreciate it. alan dershowitz, thank you. >> tucker: when the fake duchess from los angeles and her dead husband told oprah that the royal family is racist. huh? what are you talking about? for doing that, the media said piers morgan was racism.

when sharon osborne tried to defend him, the media accused her of racism too, that she was a bigot for asking how is piers morgan a racist, pointing out that the fake duchess is lying. in a show, she explains how she fought the urge to wag a middle finger in the fac face of her cs cohosts. watch. >> it was slaughtered that morning, and cbs denied responsibility on the news, and that's 'cause they're wankers. >> we reached out to cbs for comment on what sharon had to say, and they reiterated their statement from march, finding no evidence she had been set. >> how does this make sense? you can get ganged up on live television? when you go to defend yourself against accusations, you get fired for creating a hostile work environment.

this is the world we live in today. >> i wanted to look into the camera and say [bleep] and cbs take that. >> tucker: sharon osborne joins us tonight. sharon, thank you so much for coming on. when historians go back, do a postmortem on our society, how did everyone going crazy in a four-year period, what happened to you is one of the net you say things i've ever seen, six degrees away from separation, you spoke up for an old friend, and had to leave your job. you've thought about this a lot since. what do you make of it? >> umm, it is the world that we're living in, especially in film and tv, where people want to be overly, overly woke. so the slightest thing, it's like walking on eggshells. and there are no second chances. you could -- you know, in

today's world, you could have put something on your social media 10-12 years ago, and people will look back and they will fire you because you wrote it 10-12 years ago. you know, there's different scenarios. somebody could have been drunk with a bunch of people, you know, out of control, so you may have changed your mind by now. but no. even from years ago, people want to condemn you. >> tucker: i always wondered watching this story, i never asked you about it, but a lot of the people you worked with, who i think you got along with perfectly well, really behaved in a despicable way toward you, in a cowardly cruel way, and i wonder what was your conversation off camera with them like? did they ever apologize to you for treei treating you like tha? >> no. i had to apologize to them. i mean, i must truthful that in the first break i was saying to one of my coast hosts, talk to

me, talk to me, tell me why you're doing this, tell me where this came from, why are you doing this? she turned her back on me like this and pretended to be talking to the person in the booth and wouldn't talk to me. so i swore at her. i did do that. i swear a lot at my friends. if someone is a real friend, we worked together 11 years, traveled together, done everything together, been to my house lots of times, you know, supposed to have loved my family, too, and then she turns around and stabs me in the back. you know, i do swear a lot. and that's who i am. cbs knew that before they gave me the job. i was there nearly 11 years. so 11 years of me swearing didn't bother them off air.

>> tucker: it's one of the cruelest most awful things i've seen. it's a small thing, but it tells you a lot about the mindset. anyway, i appreciate the fact that you survived and that you're back on tv and that you joined us tonight. >> well, thank you very, very much. the thing is it's not just a small thing, because nobody will touch me now, because of what happened. so it's not a small thing, but i'm fine. i can take care of myself. >> tucker: good. >> what about the people that can't? >> tucker: well, that's right. >> that's what we've got to worry about. >> tucker: i couldn't agree with you more. >> thousands of people that lose their jobs. that's who i worry about. not me. >> tucker: yes, yes. people with no power. sharon osborne, thank you very much. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we've been tracking it, surprised by it every night,

the degree to which the left is aggressively trying to sexualize children. now the largest teachers union in the country created a website with a how to guide for children in how to engage in bizarre sex acts like muffing and bondage. really, for kids. why are adults allowed to sexualize children when the rest of us thought it was a crime? details straight ahead.

>> tucker: you thought it was just jeffrey epstein interested in kids, but turns out, he wasn't the problem, he was merely a symptom of a larger problem, the sexualization of children, an overwhelming amount, the more you look, the more you see it going on on the left right now. is anyone else noticing this? why is everything okay with it? the national education soccer is the largest teachers union in the country, the most powerful bloc of democratic fundraisers

and vote producers that exist, representing 3 million teachers. they created a website that encourages teachers to talk about sex practices with enjoy children, with minors many the website specifically shares resources that promise to, quote, empower youth and teach them about, quote, anal sex, rimming, domination, s sad doe masochism, and something called muffing, which we don't plan to describe on the show, but it's esoteric from what we can tell. we're grateful to have the man who broke the story on tonight. chris, thanks for coming on. how is this allowed? if i go to your kids, talk to them like this, i'm getting arrested, rightly so. you're not allowed to talk kids like this, sexualize children. why is the teachers union able to get away with this. >> the teachers union has created badges for public

schoolteachers with a qr code on the back that links them to the resources, including this resource on queering sex ed. the idea is that traditional sexual education is white, male, heterosexual focused, and to empower students you have to teach them about sad doe masochism. they describe putting a whole fist or whole hand into a person's vagina or bum. i agree, this is should be a crime. any adult government employee that talks about these things with kids should be immediately fired. that's not happening. this is the teachers union ideology. they're mainlining this into the k-12 system without parents' consent, without parents' knowledge, and this is the kind of resource that in many cases, including in schools in ohio,

teachers are actually wearing this resource as a damage that links directly to these materials. >> tucker: what i don't understand, i mean even people who are pretty liberal, i'll be honest, i'm one of them, but other people's personal lives, not interested in controlling someone's personal life, had this arrangement forever, keep the kids out of it. no kids. they can't consent. they're children. that's child molestation. when did this become okay? >> when you l look at the acadec queer theory, it comes from the 1980s and 1990s, and the founders of this movement specifically advocated for what they called adult/child sexual relationships. this is baked into the ideology. it's kind of snuck around the edges as people have tried to conceal it. i think that's really at the heart of this movement. they think that transgresssive sex is a tool for liberation.

sex between an adult and child, we have to call this out for what it is. we have to fight it tooth and nail. we have to make sure that it's out of our public schools 100%. >> tucker: yeah. creepy adults cannot sexualize kids. i thought everyone agreed with that. more on this next week. chris, thank you for your reporting. >> tucker: so china of course is the dominant power in the east, but china is becoming the dominant power in the western hemisphere. that happened in part because after 9/11, the policymakers, the geniuses, became obsessed with the middle east and let china dominate. the effect are coming due. they're really scary. we just did a documentary on it. it's called the "china takeover of brazil," and looks at how china took advantage of the opportunity. here's-clip. >> early this morning, forces from six caribbean democracies and the united states began

landing on the island of grenada. >> during the cold war it was the united states being a gigantic superpower hovering in the region, with the monroe doctrine, the belief that everything happened in latin america was the, quote, unquote, backdoor of the united states. for the longest time the united states occupied that role, being the single most important country by far in terms of understanding brazilian politics. after 9/11, the united states became almost singularly obsessed with the middle east. so you see this u.s. obsession with this one part of the world, essentially at the expense of the entire rest of the world. we stayed invested in the middle east while china continued to grow and grow and grow. the biden administration began talking a big game about how they recognized china as the great competitor and how they were going to do so much in order to confront china. >> china and other countries are closing in fast. >> and instead what has happened is exactly the opposite. the biden administration,

because of its obsession with ukraine, has managed to do what foreign policy experts in both parties stridently warned had to be avoided, driving china and russia together, at exactly the time that china has become the most formable power since world war ii, and now china is the most important country in terms of exerting influence within brazil. >> tucker: it may seem like an obscure story, china and brazil, but it's not obscure. it's our future. that documentary, "the china takeover brazil" is available right now on fox nation. well, so, the woke billionaire founder of patagonia just

donated to a nonprofit. nonprofits are becoming incredibly popular, don't pay taxes, and trying to hurt taxes, and trying to hurt people.ave that's straight ahead.

>> tucker: the billionaire founder of the patagonia company, which uses oil to make overpriced fleeces for rich people, and has gotten press lately for the selfless act of transferring a lot of his money to a nonprofit, which in turn plans to control the awe we use energy. this isn't about saving the planet. it's about dodging taxes. you pay. they don't. bloomberg reported his plan allows him to avoid more than $700 million in federal taxes. you'd have to pay that if he sold the company, which he was considering doing, but didn't want to pay the taxes. such a good person, he didn't want to pay the taxes. he gets to opt out of the state and gift tax. meanwhile, the nonprofit gets to use his money to make political donations. in other words, the nonprofit status is a total scam, not just

in this case, in virtually all cases. the nonprofit status helps the richest and more powerful people in the country become richer and more powerful, and in many cases poisons our society, the society that others built. warren cass is the executive director of american compass, a leader in the new conservative movement, one of the very few professional intellectuals who understands tax policy. always grateful to have him. thanks for coming on tonight. i'm failing to see -- i understand the idea between nonprofit status, but i'm not seeing the good effects really anymore at all. >> well, i think it's important to think about why we used to put this in place. the whole idea was that if instead of using your income for your own pleasure, you were giving it back to things that were important for society, taking care of people in your community, investing in local

institutions, than that was something we wanted to reward. it almost wasn't your money. so you didn't have to pay taxes on it. the problem we have today is that what you see so many people doing is using the money not for the good of the community but to advance their own personal brands in a sense. this is a perfect example of it. it's billions of dollars going to this climate crusade instead of -- i don't know -- if you really want to make a difference give the company to your workers. >> tucker: well, exactly. by the way, you don't have to take a tax deduction. why would you do that? it doesn't mean people can't be charitable, right? >> well, that's right. i think the irony in this case, you know, patagonia's owner is a proud socialist. so he's certainly in favor of the government telling everybody else to do -- what they should

do with their resources. it's just when it came to his own resource, he thought that he had better ideas. it's really quite interesting to look at his beliefs. you know, his distinctly antihuman. he said, you know, man essentially only makes things worse in the world. he said we have to treat climate change like world war iii, essentially the kind of mobilization and arationing that we had for world war ii. this is the sort of ideology he's trying to advance. because he accumulated so much money building a profitable company in patagonia, he can now take those billions of dollars and essentially infuse that way of thinking into our whole society. you know, that's -- that's -- that's not what the benefactors in the past did. they used to use their charitable money to make things better in their communities. >> tucker: right. ha aha. this is not the guy we should be giving a $700 million tax break to, i would say.

oren cass, thank you very much for explaining that. more news after the break.

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