stefan from virginia, who came up with your famous tag line you exit the show with? i came up with it. i'm waters, and this is -- i came up -- you think i stole my tag line? i'm not minnie. tucker is next. remember, i'm waters. this is my tag line. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight". time for a confession off the bat. there were times back in the dark ages of cable news when we would milk a single news event for weeks. in some cases and we're talking to you, o.j. simpson for months and months. there wasn't that much going on. you couldn't afford to waste a good story. that's not the problem we have these days. the problem is there's too much going on and some of it is

terrifying. in just the last week, china signed a $50 billion trade deal with saudi arabia. our old ally. signalling an end to america's longest petro empire. that's not a small thing. vladimir putin meanwhile that runs russia threatened to launch a nuclear war on the west. wall street began laying off large numbers of people. that's not something that you can ignore in a business that it is to predict the future of the economy. the wealth of the average household dropped to the lowest levels ever recorded. the cdc tries to resurrect face masks that will help. sam bankman-fried got arrested. the mexican drug cartels which run the largest human trafficking operations since the trans atlantic trade ended now officially have control of the southern border. it's been a busy week. more happened in this week than happened in two full terms under bill clinton. it's a lot.

if you're running our country, you'd stay up every night figuring out how to respond. that's not what the biden administration is doing. this afternoon as the old global order collapses to be replaced by god knows what, the biden people decided to hold a drag event at the white house just in case you're wondering if those comparisons were overstated. they're not. the occasion for this celebration was the official signing of the respect for marriage act. which the white house tells us will codify gay marriage in to law. wait a moment, you wonder. wasn't gay marriage legalized by the supreme court way back under barack obama? well, yeah. but they have legalized it again. it's double legal. you know what that means. it's time to hear from lady gaga. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: dance party at the white house! hooray. what's been legal for years is still legal. break out the white claw. cindi lauper was there to celebrate. she's 70 years old this spring. she's lived in this country a long time. until today, until this afternoon at the white house under the gays of joe biden the great, cindi lauper informed us that americans were not allowed to love each other. until today, love was banned. joe biden changed that. now we're free to love. watch this and see if you don't choke up just a little. >> our families are validated. because we're allowed to love who we love, which sounds odd to say, but americans can now love who we love. bless joe biden and all the people that worked on this for

allowing people not to worry and their children not to worry about their future. >> tucker: wait. didn't that happen ten years ago? that tape is from today. the party was the white house today. that means that somewhere our nuclear disposal friends, same brinton is sitting apile of stolen clothes cursing the fact that airport security cameras are in the baggage claim. if he wasn't caught, this could have been christmas for him. he could have tried to get a new halter top in cindi lauper's dress room. marty cummingss that a long history of unfeltered social media posts. f the police, cummings tweeted in 2020. yes, we want to defund the police and abolish ice. we won't settle for anything less and fight for this to

happen. that sounds like antifa. well, yeah. and to prove it this year, cummings promoted a-cab coffee using the slogan of antifa. so here you have an antifa friendly drag queen dressing up as a woman and promoting violence. a perfect white house guest. and cummings is interests in children the wrong way. kids are out to sink and suck to perform felacio. anybody that doesn't think drag is for children is wrong. cummings posted this picture with a child saying he wants to perform with us next year. so if you think it's unfair to accuse people of being creepy with kids, it's not that unfair, actually. kind of fair. here's cummings at a ted talk in 2019. >> i learned how the power of a 20-second video can change your life. how a 20-second clip can change your entire world view.

take a look. ♪ >> that's me and 2-year-old brody at my drag brunch in new jersey. so a lot of times families come to the brunch because they're not able to go to a regular drag show at night. that's a time when kids can experience drag. because of baby shark, i came to the bill grim house and do a series of kid shows. i would ask the kids during these shows, i would say what do you want to be when you grow up? and to my surprise a lot of these kids said they wanted to be a drag queen. >> tucker: yeah, a lot of kids want to be a drag queen. that's the guy at the white house today. not really an anomaly. a months against, they identify dylan mulvaney. he met the president. so what's going on here?

multiple things, this is an effort to degrade the country, to make it into a joke. these are people striding through the hallways that once were the work area of i don't know abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt and f.d.r. these are serious men that stayed up late every night thinking about how to make the country better. and now there's that guide and a lot of people like that and cindi lauper celebrating gay marriage which has been legal since the obama administration. what is going on here? again, it's an effort to degrade the country, but as a political matter, it's a distraction. offend you so much or mesmerize you so completely that you forget that there's multiple world historic crises unfolding at the same time, some of which the biden administration caused. none of which it can solve. that's the point. they have no idea what to do about the collapse of the post war order, which is on display or the continuing slow motion

collapse of the american economy, which you feel. because your poorer than you were last year and they don't have anything to say to you. even if they cared, they don't have an answer. here's a drag show. welcome to vymar. what happens next? the point is, you lose any perspective about anything else real that is happening. this is a tactic. it's not a new tactic, actually. joe biden wants recognized this tactic because he knows politics. here's biden in 2006 in a clip we were grateful to get recognizing that complaining about gay marriage is a pretty handy way for politicians to distract. here's joe biden. >> the world is going to haitis in a hand basket. we're concerned about the circumstance relating to avian flu. we don't have enough vaccines, we don't have enough police officers. we're going to debate the next

three weeks i'm told gay marriage, a flag amendment and god only knows what else. i can't believe the american people can't see through this. we already have a law, the defensive marriage act. we all voted. marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. nobody has violated that law. there's been no challenge to that law. we do we need a constitutional amendment? marriage is between a man and a woman. >> tucker: so he gets a pass because that was predementia. he has no memory of it. that was an interesting insight. people talk about stuff like this, particularly when it's not speaking relevant because they don't want to talk about other things. it makes it more interesting that joe biden's handlers 16 years later are telling him to talk about gay marriage and drag shows. it's in his bill signing to

completely pull your attention away from everything else going on, he came out in favor of gay marriage and it's been legal for ten years and in favor of the general mutilation of children. here he is. >> we need to challenge the hundreds of callous and cynical laws introduced in the state targeting transgender children, terrifying families and criminalizing doctors that give children the care that they need. we have to protect these children so they know they're loved and we will stand up for them and say they can speak for themselves. >> tucker: it's interesting when you think about it. this is a bill signing affirming the legality, legalizing once again gay marriage, which most people support in this country. should people get married if they love each other? that's fine. it's not that controversial a point at this stage. here's joe biden using that opportunity to promote gender affirming care for kids.

that means the sexual mightlation of children. cutting the breasts off of 15-year-olds and sterilizing children with chemicals. puberty blockers. have fun with osteoporosis when you're 30. why wouldn't joe biden be promoting that? this was supposed to be about gay marriage. but here you have joe biden president of the united states purportedly pushing child sexual mutilation. then you have -- this is weirder -- kamala harris up there talking about contraception. really? watch. >> for millions of lgbtqi + americans and interracial couples, this is a victory and it is part of a larger fight. the dobbs decision reminds us that fundamental rights are

interconnected including right to marry who you love, the right to access contraception and the right to make decisions about your own body. >> now we're just confused. the right to bye contraception now. nobody on this show is a legal scholar. but griswold versus connecticut came down in 1967, which affirmed from the high court the right of americans to buy contraception. that was 56 years ago. interracial marriage? that's been legal for our lifetimes. no one is trying to make it illegal. not one person is pushing to make that illegal. not one. so here you have joe biden and kamala harris affirming your right to buy the pill and marry someone of a different race even though neither right is under attack by anyone. why are they doing this? well, it's a piece of their

agenda. this is the same party that pushed through an anti lynching bill this year. linching. are there lynchings going on? was it already illegal? no. we just banned it for the first time. watch. >> the senate succeeded in taking long overdue action bypassing the emmitt till anti-lynching act. hallelujah. congress has finally declared lynching a federal crime. >> the people of our nation deserve the protection of a federal anti-lynching law. lynching is not a relic of the past. racial acts of terror still occur in our nation. >> hate will not prevail in america. white supremists will not have the last word. we cannot remain silence. silence is complicity. finally after all of these

years, finally made lynching a federal crime. >> tucker: after all of these years. a lot of people were for lynching, but we held off the pro lynching lobby and we got this through the congress. we've improved your life. where are all of these lynchs, the racial acts of terror committed by white supremacists? search the internet for them. hard to find a lot committed by white supremacists. any maybe. what are the numbers on that? how many racial attacks by white supremacists have there been in the last couple years? there's been a lot. we're not familiar with that. we're not aware. i'm pretty sure it didn't happen. we know that nooses have appeared in various places. there was one at the construction site of barack obama's new presidential library. maybe that's what they're august thing about. offered a six figure award to

find a person that tied rope in a forbidden shape. and then the news in the nascar garage. and the noose around jesse smollett's neck. is that the one they're ban something you know that is not real. most people know it's not real. why are they continuing to say this? well, because as actual problems, real problems mount and they have no answer and no solution and they're trying to dodge culpability, they have to double down on fake props. we're banning lynching. bill melugin and his team just shot this new video of massive crowds of foreign nationals invading our country. it's true. most of them are not from mexico. they're very far away across the oceans and now in a mexican border town across from brownsville, texas. they're waiting for title 42 to end in eight days. when that happens, when the

biden administration drops that last piece of legal defense against invasion, it's going to be an overwhelming wave, of course. maybe that's why they're bringing drag stars and cindi lauper to the white house. they don't want to talk about the threat of nuclear war from vladimir putin? >> president vladimir putin appearing to dash hopes of a diplomatic solution warns the war will be long and that the risk of a nuclear conflict is on the rise. he quickly dialled back his language insisting russia would only use a nuclear weapon for self-defense, never first. it was more of a reminder that an over threat. the risk is increasing he said adding that we haven't gone mad. we understand what nuclear weapons are. we're not going to wave it like a razor blade around the world. but of course, we must proceed from the fact that we have it. >> tucker: so we're now at war a

hot war, with russia. american military personnel, lots of u.s. government employees are in ukraine fighting the war with weapons that you paid for and the guy we're at war with threatened to use nuclear weapons against us. that is not a story? that's not bigger than banning lynching or legalizing gay marriage again when it was already legal? we're legalizing contraception that has been available since 1967 or interracial marriage? what? who is falling for this? oh, everyone. chris bedford joins us tonight. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: maybe this is a human thing when serious thing start to happen and you decide to rearrange the books in your bookshelf or something. i have never seen more frivolous coverage of anything in my life than what we're watching now. >> it's looking more and more like late stages of pagan rome where no one seems to have the answers. the republican party doesn't seem to have the answers that

globalization has hallowed out the american economy. the wokesters have taken over hollywood, sports. the democrats are like nero's court. it's a grotesque theater. what gay couples are dressed up as a man dressed up like a woman and prancing back and forth? what about for marriage is persecution christians and people that don't go along with this bill. their idea on stops a lot of people from tackling what's going on at the border. they're so committed to the ukraine that they can't see nuclear war in their face. they handed over control to this pageant try and the woke children. >> tucker: i would have respect -- i do have respect for people that disagree with me but trying hard to arrive at the

right answer. i think that's worth respecting. effort is worth respecting. they're not even trying. >> no, they're pushing their own theater here. like you said, who is this lynching act defending? what is this protecting? it's not a base card as much as it is a distraction. and it's something that joe biden has done for years. he said against mitt romney, that the republicans will put you back in chains. at the same time, nobody in washington is tackling what's going on, whether it's air shoring, the threat of china or the fact that our border has collapsed. the republicans say we're going to put the wall back in place and read the constitution on the house floor. how does it solve this rot that we have here in this country? people can tell, there's a lot of good beating heart in the heartland of america. good people ready to work on this. but in our capitol cities and washington d.c., there's a lot of ugliness. >> tucker: that's true. everything you said is true.

there's great people, the best people and a lot of smart dedicated brave people. you hope one rises to the top. thanks, chris. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so mike tyson has been one of the world's most famous men for more than 35 years. but what is he really like? he's not at all what you might imagine he's like. really smart and inciteful and he's led and unusually amazing interesting life. very long conversation with him next.

>> tucker: mike tyson is not the sort of person that we generally interview. he's not a political figure. he's not still boxing. why do we talk to him? because mike tyson has spent almost 40 years at the pinnacle of american society. and at the bottom. he's seen everything. he's when to prison. people that lead lives like that are destroyed by them. they become numb and incensable. a rare few become wise and fascinating. and able to communicate. tyson is in that category.

we sat down with tyson and we began by asking him what was it like growing up? here's part of that. >> i'm proud of my childhood. >> tucker: but no advantages? >> yeah, my disadvantage was my advantage. >> tucker: what do you mean? >> my adversity. inspired me to be more than what i was. >> tucker: i believe that. so you are inspired by ali. you go to a different reform school. they have a former fighter there that trains you is. that the point that you realize you're going to do this for a living? >> yeah, i came there. i was on another campus. i don't believe i stabbed somebody. i had an altercation. i had handcuffs and arrested. i was a mess. so when the guys are talking to

me because they said you're not a bad guy because you did that. he said we have ex-fighter. you need to meet him. he will get you in shape. i said i seen mohammed ali once. he said i heard you want to talk. what do you want? i want to be a fighter. everybody wants to see a fighter. i went from being a nasty guy to becoming an a student. he started training me. >> tucker: was it the discipline that he imposed? >> yes. i wanted to be a fighter so bad. >> tucker: if you hadn't been a professional boxer, what would you have become? >> there's no doubt. >> tucker: at what age? >> 13. 14. >> tucker: and four years later you were. >> seven years later. >> tucker: seven years later. so when did you must custamado? >> when i was 12. i was at the facility.

the guy drove me to meet him. i was a trustee now. i was a good kid. i could go to -- get off campus and go visit them. >> tucker: what was he like? >> total disciplinarian. take no [bleep]. that's what i need. >> tucker: not a weak man. >> no signs of weakness. no signs of weakness. if you didn't conduct the way he did, you're not italian. he's going to tell you what italian is. if he thought like -- one of those guys -- what was the pauly name? the jersey shore guys. they're not italian. he would say something like that. if you don't know -- italians conduct themselves like this. he's not italian. he was that kind of guy. >> tucker: amazing. >> nothing playful.

nothing playful about him. >> tucker: and you liked that. >> i loved him. someone cared about me. if anybody said something to me, i'd punch them in the face, attack them. >> tucker: so interesting. most people -- >> he ain't saying nothing about me. he would attack you physically. >> tucker: were you ever afraid? >> always afraid of him. i'm afraid of him now. take that. he made sure you're afraid of him. >> tucker: and you liked that. >> listen, we were on the third floor. we're talking crap? yeah, talking about girls. he come upstairs. everybody stops talking. he said hey, i heard everybody laughing. i want to know what was funny. i want to laugh, too. nothing. we were just talking. he was always on our back. if we told him we're talking about girls, you have to get girls off of your mind. how can you be champion thinking about girls? we never told him.

we were up here talking. i want to know. you guys were laughing. i want to know. how come you stopped laughing? why? you're scared to death to so i anything. >> tucker: but you were like twice as big as him. >> that don't mean nothing. he had the system of intimidation down like a science. >> tucker: really? >> down to a science. >> tucker: what were his methods? >> not talking. guard language is language without making sounds. you understand when he's mad or not. >> tucker: look at that. >> i'm a little boy. so happy to be with this guys. look how big i am at 14. >> tucker: you were 14 there? >> yeah. look how big i am. >> tucker: you were enormous. >> baby huey. >> tucker: pardon my bad memory. did he live to see you become -- >> no. he died a year before.

less than a year. >> tucker: really? >> eight, nine months. something like that. >> tucker: he was your guardian? >> yeah. my mother signed me over to him before she died. >> tucker: how old were you when she died? >> 16. >> tucker: 16. he wasn't just your coach. he was your mentor -- >> yeah, if i didn't make it in fighting, i still had to be there. >> tucker: did you live with him? >> yeah, 13. >> tucker: you lived house? >> yeah. >> tucker: that's so different. >> listen, any time i saw a white guy with a judge, a cop, he was a victim. i come this guy's house and this guy showed me love. love is powerful. >> tucker: one of the reasons i wanted to interview you is because you're the author of one of my favorite quotes in english. everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face. >> 100%, especially now, nobody

fights. they talk. they get on youtube and start talking. some people are not made for handling criticism. they just not made for it. some people go off the deep end when you criticize them. they can't handle it. some of the most powerful people in the world can't handle it. they're not mature enough to handle criticism. >> tucker: have you gotten better handling criticism as you've gotten older? >> yes. but mostly -- yeah. still -- it can get even better. sometimes i get in my head and i think i'm somebody. that i'm easily offended. when i knew i'm nobody, i could never be offended. >> tucker: is that a deep insight. sometimes i get in my head that i'm somebody and easily offended and i remind myself that i'm nobody and i'm not offended. >> exactly. >> tucker: if you're that

well-known, people are sucking up to you, taking pictures of you. how do you remind yourself that actually i'm nobody? >> well, i don't know. god did this. i asked for this and this is what he gave me. it's not like somebody gave me something i didn't acquire. i wanted this life. i prayed for this life and i received it. >> tucker: when i think i'm somebody, i'm offended. when i remember i'm nobody, i'm not. there's a lot more in that vein. tomorrow tyson talk about his faith and love of animals. one of the most remarkable conversations we've ever had. then he describes how he felt about the men he fought in the ring over the years. we'll give you a preview. i wanted to kill them. but you knew that. stay tuned for that. absolutely worth watching. so like a pot, we thought that twitter was a social media sight. why were these intel agents working for twitter? a lot of them. could it be that twitter was a

propaganda tool and intelligence gathering operation for different governments? really possible. more on that next.

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>> tucker: let's say you're trying to staff a social media site. so it's a tech business, make tech people. software engineers. hire administrative staff. lawyers, caterer, flak or two. maybe an interior decorator. how many spies would you hire? probably none. spies have nothing to do with the mission of a social media company. they wouldn't be needed and you wouldn't hire any opera singers either. yet for some reason, twitter

needed a lot of spies. the upper ranks of twitter we now know were absolutely loaded with people that once did intel work for government agencies, at least 15 of these people and possibly many more. most of them were hired in the wake of donald trump's election. what were these people doing all day? what was supposedly a social media company? that's the question, isn't it? we know james baker came from the fbi. he's been accused of censoring and incriminating files before elon musk could release them to the public. he was fired for that. but how about charles smith of twitter's trust and safety department? he joined twitter after working at u.s. cyber command. how about a director of naval counter intelligence? what was he doing or doug hunt or douglas turner, karen walsh, vincent lucera.

all of these people work for the fbi as well and so on. it wasn't just american intel officers that found a home at twitter. the head of security lost his job because he complained about the level of control that foreign intelligence agencies had over twitter's operation. there were operatives on twitter's payroll from other governments including china and india and had access to private user data. those are the details that we know about. elon musk was asked how many former fbi agents are employed by twitter? he wouldn't say. it's all weird. could it be that while the rest of us imagined that twitter was a social media site, a place to vent about politics and sports and the kardshians, could it be that twitter was primarily a propaganda tool and intelligence gathering apparatus for a variety of intel agencies?

yes, that's possible. you can see why various governments would want access to the information that twitter had. keep in mind that twitter's direct message to dm feature, a function as a private texas app for the world's most prominent people. if you wanted to know who high government officials really thought or what well-informed sources were telling reporters off the report, you'd want to see those messages. did twitter executives share those private messages with anyone outside the company w wut -- without a warrant? we suspect they did. think about it. if twitter has been functioning as the arm of government intel agencies and it has been, its internal documents will contain information about all kinds of things. not just about the silencing of donald trump. not just about tony fauci's lies about the covid shot. no, information about big history shaping events.

the sabotage of nord stream two. the poison gas attacks in syria. the imprisonment of julian assange. the theft of incriminating e-mails behind the dnc and much, much more. in other words, elon musk now has control of the most significant trove of secret information ever to reside in private hands. so far we have not seen much of it and you have to wonder why we haven't. let's hope that we do. so brazil held its general election in october. there were a lot of concerns about whether the election was on the level. were all the votes counted? was it fair? the top courts banned any discussion of the topic. not surprisingly, brazil is descending into chaos. police are shooting at people.

[screaming]. >> tucker: we have an investigative journalist who covers brazil. matt, thanks for being here. what is happening in brazil and why? >> we're the day 44 of con continuing protests with millions taking to the street to protect their god-given right that is enshrined in brazilian's order and progress, the rule after lay. at the same time, the supreme court yesterday certified the election akin to our january 6, where we certified the presidential election. upon certification with the protests continuing, the supreme court justice, the head of the supreme court and the subsidiary court, issued an arrest warrant for one of the protest leaders that is from the amazon, a

tribe. upon his arrest, protested continued and then it erupted into violence. in 44 days, there's been no violence, no arson, no vandalism. you know how you know? you would have been reading about it in the mainstream press. it's been peaceful and prayerful. the people just want to be heard. they want to see a military audit done and the supreme court has blocked that. they continue to protest. >> tucker: the parallels are amazing. so by the way, is the information controlled by the social media. thanks, matt. as if american didn't have enough drug problems, there's a new drug being sold parentsly at gas stations in your neighborhood that is serious and can have deadly consequences. we'll tell you what it is next.

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biggest financial fraud in history. trace gallagher as always has the detail for us. hi, trace. >> hi, tucker. weeks against sam bankman-fried was a billionaire. now he says he's down to $ $100,000. a judge in the bahamas said he was a flight risk. the judge wants them to remain in the bahamas until february 8. bankman's lawyers says they will fight extradition. meantime, the charges after handing out tens of millions of dollars in illegal donations exclusively almost to democrats. he spent $39 million in the recent mid-term elections second only to george soros. in 2020, spf was one of president biden's biggest donors. the white house won't say if biden will return the campaign contributions. white house press secretary

karine jean-pierre gave one of her standard answers. watch. >> so look, i'm covered here by the hatch act. limited on what i can say and anything that is connected to political contributions from here, i would have to refer you to the dnc. >> as many point out, the president's opinion does not fall under the hatch act. k.j.p. has used it to remain silent on many issues. we were supposed to hear from sbf today testifying before congress. he was arrested at the 11th hour. the arrest does not make any sense because normally prosecutors want suspects to talk bus they tend to indict themselves. clearly somebody in a position of power did not want to hear what sbf had to say. tucker? >> tucker: so he was arrested right before the testimony. amazing. trace gallagher. you can see every night midnight at "fox news at night." you should.

so america has a drug problem. no one in power wants to talk about it. the opioid epidemic has killed hundreds and thousands of americans, a new drug is available at gas stations awed over the country. it's called gas station heroin. what is it and why is it legal? dr. marc siegel is here with more. >> there's a $46 million pill popping epidemic going on. this stuff is over the counter. one of them is called tianeptine. it's in a bodega or gas station. it's supposed to be an anti depressant but worked as an opioid like heroin. six states have banned this

stuff. people get addicted in the other states and rush to these states for rehab where other dietary supplements are available. where is the fda? the fda has been saber rattling on this and putting up announcements but they're not banning it. people are overdoses. plenty of calls to poison centers. doctors can do nothing about it. >> tucker: that's the least they can do. thanks, dr. marc siegel. more news ahead. is an award winning actor who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers foundation. i was able to spend some time with cole and his family to reflect on those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedom.

i know how much you care about america and our veterans and all the things. but you have such a platform now. yeah. and to share that with us that we need to get the word out that we have to take care of these great heroes and their families. you know, as i started to be more and more successful, i was like, how can i help? but when i heard of the tunnel of the towers, and i met brandon in idaho and his family, i was like, wow. there's actually a charity where we know where the money's. going to go. we have 95.1% of every dollar goes to our programs. and i think brandon's a great spokesman for t2t and and his wife, shannon, has two daughters. i mean, oh, my god. they're just special families. so pretty much, if you put your life on the line, if something goes bad, they're there. that's awesome. yeah. they're incredible people, man. you saw all the stuff we put in these homes, right? i was i was blown away. and they deserve it. they earned it. this is not of course, we give them a mortgage free home, but look what they gave up. they gave up their bodies so, cole, why should americans

give donate help? tunnel to towers foundation. i mean, is there any better organization to help the people that has fought for this country and the freedoms that we have? it's that simple. it is that let's take care of each other. and you're going to join us on that mission. thank you. hey, i'm cole hauser. i want you to join me in supporting our nation's heroes and their families. it's only $11 a month. go to t2t dot org.

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how is our economy doing? people are stealing hamburgers? we'll let you decide. have the best night despite everything going on in the world. still a great country and the people around you are the best people most likely. the great sean hannity awaits in an indisclosed location to take over. >> sean: i don't know where i am. i don't know. good to see you, tucker. great advice. have a good night with the ones you love. can't go wrong. welcome to "hannity." tonight, democrats are spiking the football because inflation is down a whopping 7.1%. congratulations, joey. inflation is now down from a 42-year high to only a 40-year high. great job. now, of course biden wasn't really focused on the economy today. he had more important things to do like a big celebration featuring the president's -- i never thought i'd record