doing a fantastic job." i will stay who i am and that is my resolution for 2,023: never change, keep doing what i'm doing. if it's not broken don't fix it. tucker is up next. i am the ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we are going to have updates for you in a moment on the new fbi censorship scandal, the cia's scandal in the kennedy assassination 59 years ago which is now confirmed, it's all real. because it's friday we're in a sentimental mood we would like to take a moment to say goodbye to one of our all-time favorite members of congress,

mr. adam kinzinger of illinois. he was first elected to the house 12 years ago and for the bulk of his time in office he served without distinction in virtual anonymity. a few of his constituents had heard of him but none expressed interest in learning more. then in 2018 came the transformation, that was the year he turned 40 and things began to change inside of him. the first signs were subtle but unmistakable, choking up but a car insurance commercial opening up an instagram commercial and think pictures of himself wearing spandex bike shorts to starbucks without shame and sometimes with the fanny pack. by 2021 he had a full-blown case of male menopause with all the familiar symptoms. mood swings, hot flashes, cravings, uncontrollable weeping. a lesser man would have retreated from public life, chosen new pronouns in transition a a in private.

he wanted other middle-aged men to know there is life after a hormonal imbalance. he came out of the closet as a weepy man, we remember the moment. >> i never expected the date to be quite as emotional for me as it has been. you guys held. democracies are not defined by our bad days. >> tucker: imagine the courage that took. yes, i am emotionally incontinent. yes, i am utterly irrational. no i will not be silent. in washington it was considered deeply inspirational, here is a man who has no control of himself at all so we better put him in charge of important things. he quickly became regarded as an essential voice on foreign policy. when the world hangs in the balance you want a guy who cries a lot. he demonstrated a remarkable ability to make any situation on

the planet no matter how complex or weighty all about him, diplomacy by narcissism. him here he was yesterday on the house floor in his final emotion laden address. >> history has proven american isolation from the world affairs is dangerous. over the years i have been privileged to lead the effort on supporting american leadership in a world drowning in faux strongmen, advocating for the rights of syrian men, women, and children to live without bashar al-assad's death squads should be political, it's simply the right thing to do. advocating for a stronger american assistance in ukraine to counter vladimir putin's illegal invasion should be political, it's the right thing to do. >> tucker: it's the right thing to do, the world actually isn't complicated to. infect the world is simple, it's like an original made-for-tv movie on lifetime where you blew through two bags of skinny pop trying to keep your tears and

check. if he's doing something in a foreign country with guns by definition it's "just the right thing to do." in syria, his often expressed concern for their men, women, and children is what matters and because that matter so much he has pushed hard to continue the neocon proxy war. result? syria now has no economy left and there's a massive cholera outbreak in progress, men, women, children are dying in huge numbers because it's the right thing to do. same in ukraine, he made that clear the other day when he responded personally to a twitter account called cat turd. the other day they posted a meme that seems to mock the colors of the ukrainian flag, colors that are sacred to adam kinzinger and every other apathetic soccer mom in the mid-40s, you can imagine how offensive that was it was like telling an off-color joke about meghan markle -- it

could not stand. alone and battling debilitating hot flashes in his kitchen fighting the urge to open another bag of chips ahoy!, he fought back -- literal evil he wrote in a late-night response to cat turd. if i met you in person it would not end well for you. hear that, cap turd? it will not end well for you. that's not a pillow fight he's talking about, that's a full on slap fight with hair pulling. this is real. you better apologize. our heart goes out to cat turd tonight, he's probably cowering in a litter box waiting for adam kinzinger to show up with sharpened nails -- mock the ukrainian flag and get scratched. it's a tough town. speaking of how it will all end, how is it going to end for adam kinzinger? we suspect it will end like it began. in weeks he will be another cnn contributor and no one will ever see him again.

we will never forget him. adam kinzinger will live together in our hearts as an example of when a man can be when he stops trying to be a man and unleashes the emotionally fragile divorced single mom within. have another glass of chardonnay enlisted to me cry -- here it is, one last time. >> i never expected today to be quite as emotional for me as it has been. but you guys won. you guys held. democracies are not defined by our bad days. >> tucker: see you at soulcycle. had to do that. the journalist matt taibbi has published a new set of twitter files, his assessment of internal documents from twitter

that have come to the surface under elon musk. the fbi had directed twitter to censor accounts that were clearly posting satire. no matter what they were posting it is illegal for the fbi to directing censorship, flat out a violation of our law but they did it anyway. one senior fbi agent in san francisco who has his pronouns listed on the website of course even sent a list of satire accounts so they would be banned. you might recall the doj is prosecuting a man called douglas mackey for the crime of posting memes that offended hillary clinton. for doing that he faces up to ten years in prison, virtually no one has covered that story but it's real. these new twitter files show the fbi was deeply involved in what was happening on twitter and going after people for making fun of democrats. charlie hurt is with

"the washington times" he joins us to assess but we just learned about this. on one level it's ridiculous that her biggest law enforcement agency is trying to force people to tops telling jokes but on the other hand this is a crime of some missing something. >> absolutely no doubt about it. it's a clear violation of the first amendment to. i think this latest dump reveals -- literally there were so many interactions between the fbi and other branches of the federal government and twitter where they got together to collude on what was allowed to be shared in the platform and what was not allowed, they were actually opening up new back channels on platforms that i had never heard of before. many viewers have never heard of before in order for them to keep in constant touch with one another. the thing to remember is if this were happening during the

pentagon papers and we were realizing this degree of collusion between the fbi, cia, the federal government, and "the new york times" or if we woke up today and if there was this level of collusion between fox news and the federal government in the middle of an election to determine what we would or would not report, there would rightfully be an outcry like we've never seen before. yet it happens here, an alarming number of the mainstream media are like whatever. >> tucker: they are sock puppets for headquarters, working on behalf of the state against the population of the country. the fbi was working for the political party, how is this different from what the secret police doing authoritarian countries? >> absolutely not different at all. what is amusing here is as soon

as elon musk starts kicking journalists off of twitter for doxxing him, they start squealing like a stuck pigs. of course these same people never said a word, not a peep out of them when the government in collusion with twitter began silencing doctors and scientists at the height of the pandemic. not a word from these people. the idea -- we are in a business where we are supposed to be the protectors of the first amendment? you're on your own, these people are not protecting the first amendment for anyone but themselves and for the most powerful government on the planet. >> tucker: they are literally fbi informants posing as journalists. charlie hurt, great to see you. we have really tried to ignore the prince harry and meghan markle saga they have a netflix show that apparently has failed but we had a chance to

speak with meghan markle's sister who has seen the show and says it's filled with lies and she would know, we are going to talk to her next. an update on that canadian teacher wearing the enormous prostatic dress and calling all the kids in his class into his weird fetish life, we'll tell you what's happening there next.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: prince harry and his wife meghan markle are subject of a new netflix show, it turns out a lot of people aren't watching it it's got terrible reviews. most people don't want to spend hours looking at two the most privileged people in the world pretended to be victims and there's a lot of that in the show. here is prince harry, a man without a job demanded an apology from his family. >> everything that is happened to us was always going to happen to us because if you speak truth to power that's how they respond. i've had to make peace with the fact that i'm probably never going to get genuine accountability or a genuine apology. my wife and i, we are moving on. we are focused on what's coming next. >> tucker: you may be thinking wait a second, there are a lot of people in the west including in great britain may be especially who are getting a lot

poorer right now, some people are going to freeze to death this winter because fuel prices are high. if these are people who are members of the royal family complaining about their lives? it's nauseating, no? no because they are really good people and they prove it in the netflix show. at one point meghan markle says she was close to her grandmother, she took care of her grandmother until she died. that's why she's a good person. >> because i was so, so close with my grandmother and i took care of her in my fi to her finl years. >> sheet supplied a picture of herself comforting her grandmother to netflix, how does the average person know if that's true or not? you would not know unless you are related to meghan markle, samantha is, that is her sister. in the netflix show meghan markle lashes out at her sister too. >> my half sister who i hadn't seen for over a decade and that was only for a day and a half suddenly it felt like she was

everywhere. i don't know your name i don't know your birthday you're telling these people that you raised me? i don't remember seeing her when i was a kid, and my dad's house if it when they would come around and the last time i saw her that i remember, i was in my early 20s. i hadn't had a fall out with her, we didn't have the closest not be able to have that and i wanted a sister. >> tucker: i don't even know this person who claims to be my sister! who to believe? we thought it would be interesting to speak to meghan markle's sister samantha markel. thank you so much for coming on tonight. what do you make of her claim that she has no idea who you a are? >> thanks for having me. wow. it's been a series of lies and i can't believe we were essentially looking at a

$100 million fake news p.r. machine. its projection at its finest and it's almost comical. so not true and the whole grandmother thing, that just did it for us. i think my grandmother would be rolling over in her grave if she saw that and she didn't take care of her. she visited her, she never made apple butter with her, my grandmother was making apple butter in the 1970s before meghan was born. it's a tragicomedy sadly for our family and for the royals. and here we are. >> tucker: she doesn't seem to have left quite a trail of destruction in her wake but she also has as you pointed out in your first sentence $8,100,000,000 p.r. machine on her side to telling her story in soft focus. what's it like to be up against

that? >> that's been on continuum, i found out from london there was an entrenched media agenda against me back in 2018. there has been a series of fake news stories and i couldn't fight it, let's face it. companies that are power houses are really powerful and so is the printed word. we didn't know how we were going to deal with it until they say water seeks its own level. eventually the truth comes out and when it does and the dust settles i thought truth has to stand for something, truth wins. here we are. >> tucker: i think it does. she has been able to keep the truth at bay -- this is my read -- by accusing anyone who has questions and criticizes her of racism, has she called you a racist yet, your sister? >> no, there were some weird

p.r. stories in the beginning that alluded to that but is not realistic. we were on interracial family. if we look back on when they were jet-setting, looking back at that cultural wedding and prince charles had paid for and chosen the choir and the bishop i heard. there wasn't any racism there until a point at which they began being criticized for making hollywood deals while they were working royals. work at mcdonald's, anywhere you work, there is prohibited conduct, there are rules, there are boundaries. it seems to me they got into their position, they had a lot of fun, they love the accolades and the perks but when it came time to being accountable and responsible and following rules, that seems to be when everything fell apart. that's life.

i don't see the racism, racism, somebody call the wambulance. >> tucker: i'm stealing that. you have any advice, what would you counsel them? >> i think apathy in a situation like this when you are dealing with someone who appears to lack empathy, remorse, or shame, empathy can be a dangerous thing and so can apathy, you need to lay down the boundaries because they seem to not like boundaries and i think it sets a dangerous precedent to let this go on.

>> tucker: i think t that is wise advice. appreciate you coming on, thank you so much. that's friday, we are updating stories we brought you over the past several months. you are member the canadian shop teacher who decided to pull his entire classroom, he showed up wearing grotesquely oversize prostatic in class. the local school board in ontario is defending the teacher -- of course they go they are attacking the kids, banning the students from taking pictures of him. one of the few journalists who is covering this and has from the beginning as a man called - she dropped off a petition to the school board dressed in the same fetish gear as the teacher. speak of the saying goes if you can't beat them, join them, let's do the linda carter thing and see if --

[laughter] >> i would like to present a petition called protect the students, we have had over 60,000 signatures. curtis ennis should be fired for allowing a female identifying shop teacher to wear a enormous fake that are barely contained by see-through blouses while teaching. >> tucker: a guy with a gun shows up because he's saying things they don't like. it has become a police state in canada. thanks so much for coming on, it didn't seem like they got the joke when they sent the cop over to youth, they didn't think it was funny? >> indeed and a pleasure to be with you, thank you so much for having me. this is the thing about the woke district school board, they are all down with radical transgender -ism including a

teacher dressed up as a grotesque caricature of a woman, not when it comes to their school board meeting. when i came there what happened after that as we received a letter and for asking insensitive questions, i am banned for life at the holton district school board head office, all of its properties and schools. i will be immediately arrested with trespassing -- you are absolutely right. canada is evolving into a police state with every passing week. >> tucker: it's okay to wag the prostatic in the face of children but not at a school board meeting, that they explained why? >> they don't communicate, they know better. as i said from day one, there are three theories as to what is going on with this teacher, we

call him busty lemieux -- sounds like a vaudeville reporter from way back when. this is a genuine transition. i put that right in the paper shredder right away because if you are a member of the trans community, if you are a man going female or a female going male, you want to blend in with the other sex come you don't want to stand out. you don't want to look like a drag queen performer, a grotesque caricature of a woman, that leaves us with two theories. one, the slot of social media chatter about this, he's basically taking the piss out of the school board, he is plunking them, you are so down with woke -- how is this for you in which case he might be a hero. the other theory and this is the one i'm leaning to more and more as i get more and more evidence

is that this is someone who suffers from a condition called aauto -- this is when men are transitioning to women, not all of them but some of them they have this condition where they where the apparel of women when they put on the props of women like fake breast's, they actually get aroused. i'm leaning more to that because a woman who would not come on camera but more important she had photographic evidence, lemieux showed up at two ago at a theater in burlington it was a dance recital with little girls 8 to 12. it was a private event and what happened is he snuck in and in his drag queen regalia at the intermission, sat right in the first row and i was told that it looked like this individual was getting aroused watching these girls dance. all the mothers as you can imagine are saying who is this

person? who's child belongs to that person? after the number they went down there, they said do you have a child here because it's a private event, he said no, they said you had to leave and he left. what a mature mail without a child performing would dress up in that outlandish costume and sit there in the front row looking at these little girls dance. here is the rub. for the holton district school board to even do their due diligence and investigate, to ask questions, is this a guy planking us or is this a guy suffering from some kind of perversion, that would seem to be at least for there being an active transfer will be at. not even ask questions. they will not investigate, they are accepting it on face value and meanwhile they had a committee investigate can we

have a dress code for faculty. one exists for students and if a girl dressed like that, she is expelled. the findings were this: we can't implement a dress code for the faculty because that opens us up to liability. does that make sense? why can you have a dress code for kids but you can't for the adults? >> tucker: because they don't care about kids as you have conclusively shown. appreciate it. >> christmas. >> tucker: and the controversy over with the u.s. government is doing him a thousand documents about the assassination of jfk. we spoke to someone who has direct acknowledgment of those documents and it turns out the cia was involved in the murder of the president of the united states. thousands of those documents remain under seal tonight and law professor at nyu is suing to force them to be released to the

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>> tucker: democrats lost control of the house of representatives last month, but somehow they managed to pass a spending bill before republicans take control next month and if that happens it will ensure the southern border can't be closed, the invasion will continue, here is the amazing thing -- some republicans in the senate are working with democrats to get this bill passed before christmas. they don't have to do that they can fund the government through january and pass a new one when republicans are seated to. it seems a good rate of the trail. larry kudlow was the former director of the national economic council and is the host of kudlow on fox business, why

would mitch mcconnell go along with something like this? >> your point is right because mcconnell is going along with the scum of the senate leadership is going along with democrats, it is a betrayal of the house, the new house, the republican house -- kevin mccarthy's leadership presumably and if this bill is passed in the senate it will probably pass the house with democratic votes. what it means is it won't give mccarthy and company a chance to rewrite the budget, to have different priorities, to cut spending where it's necessary, to refund areas like the border for example which needs additional funds for various things. to cut taxes, to open up the spigots for oil and gas, it shuts all that off for almost a

year and why mcconnell is part of this betrayal i will never know. it is a terrible idea. it's bad economics because it's more spending and it's really bad politics because it will damage the republican party. >> tucker: it also seems like a defense against democracy, i thought the party that won the election gets to make the decisions but this would set in stone democratic priorities even though democrats lost the house, that doesn't seem to make any sense. >> it's like four or five people in a room, nice smoke-filled dark room of making decisions for 350 million americans. by the way it takes away the results of the recent election which gave the republicans the house for the first time in several years and it maintains the status quo. by the way, overall will spend 150 or 200 billion on top of all

the other spending which threatens the inflation story which in turn means the federal reserve might be even tougher and will wind up with a very bad recession. this is so undemocratic it's beyond belief. rand paul was on my show a couple nights ago, he said the g.o.p. senators have completely given up the power of the purse and they have emasculated the republican party in the process and it won't even give the house a chance, give them a shot! why is mcconnell not willing to give mccarthy and the new house g.o.p. a shot at making all these changes in policies and the budgets and so forth. it is beyond belief to me. like i said, it's bad politics, it's also bad economics. republicans were running as the party that would cut spending and reduce inflation. this kind of stuff with earmarks

everywhere, tons of earmarks by senators who are retiring. it undermines, undercuts all the g.o.p. promises. >> tucker: that is for sure, thank you so much for coming on i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: for 59 years the u.s. government has held in secret a trove of documents that might explain what exactly happened on november 22nd 1963, the cia has pushed to keep those files secret, they are still secret even as of yesterday, thousands of them remain in government custody -- we can't know -- why is that? is there a benign explanation for it? of course there isn't, we spoke to someone who went access to those documents who said they show the cia was directly involved in the murder of an american president.

if that's not true, someone should correct us but no one has we heard from the intel community today and what we heard was whoever told you that broke the law by telling him that. but no one denied it was true. he's one of the reasons we salt we have seen so far he's been pushing hard for more documents he's an adjunct professor for law at nyu and he assessed the documents we did get yesterday. thanks a lot for coming on did you learn anything new as you assess what they released yesterday? >> i want to set the record straight that i'm adjunct professor at new york law school, not nyu, i don't want anyone to think i'm accused of being at the wrong law school. yesterday was very disappointing, frustrating, and infuriating, because essentially what we got yesterday was old wine packaged in new bottles. the 13,000 records that were released yesterday were basically records that had already been released and there may be some less redaction's. the spin that the cia is doing

and unfortunately "the new york times" and "washington post" have took it hook, line, and sinker, this is a big nothing burger yesterday. this is particularly frustrating to my group because we spent the last year pressing president biden to do the right thing and a stop at this obstruction that has been going on for 59 years when congress passed the jfk records act in 1992 they said enough time had passed, that all records should have a presumption of disclosure and that records should be done expeditiously, a review board was established, this meant four years scouring the federal government for files, they put them in a collection in the national archives, while they were time-limited in 1998, the work remains. nothing has been done since 1998. we also this year tried to get carolyn maloney the chair of the

oversight committee to hold a hearing on why the executive branch is not complying with the records act and i got to tell you, the reason i came on tonight, one of the reasons is because you and your viewers are in a unique position now that the house is going to be taken over by congress, james comer is going to be in charge of the oversight committee and i think we have to put pressure on him to hold an oversight hearing where he will call in for public testimony the cia, the fbi, the rfk family trust that is holding records back and nbc who has assassination records they refused to release to the review board. >> tucker: quickly, why would nbc sitting on documents they refused to release? >> the judge who was the chair of the review board told a story

last week that the review board contacted walter sheridan who was the right-hand man for robert kennedy and they wanted his records. him he worked with bobby kennedy when he was with the department of justice, he did some secret investigation after the assassination. his records were up at the jfk library as soon as he was asked for these records he went up to the jfk library and grabbed them, delivered them to nbc in new york. he had been hired by nbc in the late 60s to monitor the gym garrison trial which was the impetus for the jfk movie and nbc took possession of those records and refused to give them. to show you the level of destruction in our government, the review board prepared a subpoena to serve on nbc and they refused, the department of justice refused to serve it.

>> tucker: it's beyond belief and the more details you learn the more shocking it is i appreciate your work on this, thank you for coming on. one really fast and effective way to answer these questions would be to speak to someone who ran the cia -- as it happens we know someone who ran the cia, is nine name is mike pompeo, we like them and respect him, he's very smart. we asked him two days in a row please come on this show and answer a very simple question, was the cia involved in the murder of a u.s. president? we have spoken with someone fairly definitively who said yes the cia was involved. mike pompeo for the second day in a row if you succumb on this show, we think that's odd and we hope you will reconsider. next up, a toddler was swallowed whole by a hippo but there's a happy ending the cobbler survived amazingly, details straight ahead.

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from drowning, he repents and the will regurgitates him, he survives. that's obviously a myth, right? something like that may have happened in real life, a 2-year-old toddler in uganda was swallowed whole by a hippo. than a good samaritan showed up and threw stones at the hippo and it vomited the cobbler back up -- is this a myth, is it real? forrest galanti has been attacked by hippos many times, he is our hippo expert and he joins us to assess. thank you so much for coming on, i don't know a lot of people who are familiar with the dietary habits of hippos, you are, does this sound real this story? >> it's a fascinating story and i think that gives it credibility is the fact that contrary to your fantasia and your cartoons, hippos are incredibly aggressive, defensive animals. what you are seeing in this frame right now is hippos in a

defensive posture. these animals have 1800 psi bite force, if they wanted to squash that child they would have. what's more likely is this is a one in a million the hippo was showing some aggression, territorial display, the kid ended up in its mouth from a hippo panicked probably just as much as a child did and spit out in coincidence with the rock throwing him is not that this hippo wanted to kill the child otherwise he absolutely would have. >> tucker: i think because they are fat we assume they are nice but hippos are nasty animals, correct? >> they are the deadliest land mammal and africa. they kill around 500 people per year and the reason being, they're actually not as aggressive as you might think, they are very nervous quivery skittish animals. if they can't sink down in the water where they feel completely safe, they are very nervy and a skittish.

if you startle want to go straight into fight or flight mode and most the time that's flight mode. there are many bush guides in africa that will tell you they are their nemesis because they are very aggressive, very scary animals. >> tucker: you won't want to be killed by a hippo but it's kind of a cool way to go. you have been attacked by a hippo, what was that like? >> i grew up in zimbabwe in southern africa and my family ran safari businesses. i was on the zambezi river which has a lot of hippos and i had a canoe flipped over, i have been charged by a hippo and of all of the wildlife encounters i have ever had that doing all of the various projects that i've done, hippos always seem like the riskiest animal to be around -- look at them, they look adorable. you look at that shot on screen it's like it's cuddly i want to feed it to watermelon but the truth is unless they are hand raised like this one here, they are absolutely terrifying, they are big, they can run 20 miles an hour, they have these massive

teeth, they have this incredible bite force and they have no problem taking on any animal or human beings stand in their way. >> tucker: people to hand raise them? >> not only do some people hand raise them, pablo escobar the famous drug dealer imported some into columbia and if you want to talk about hippos and you want to talk about real hippo problems, the biggest hippo problem in the world are the hippos breeding like crazy in the rio magdalena and columbia central america, these are african animals, they shouldn't be there. you want to hear a crazy story look into that because they are unbelievable what's going on and that is a status symbol or it was for pablo, they collect these animals and keep these animals as a status symbol because of their giant stature. even those hand raised ones are causing some problems in colombia. >> tucker: what a misleading animal, i want think they were breeding like rabbits but apparently they are -- amazing,

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>> tucker: that's it for us tonight, that means the evening and the week are both over but the beginning of the weekend and we hope you spend yours with the ones that you love and you are recharged and refreshed for monday when we see you, have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of sp "hannity," i'm tammy bruce in person on tonight, the christmas season is in full swing let's begin with the gift that keeps on giving come of the twitter files. hours ago in all seriousness a new batch was published by journalist matt taibbi. irrefutable proof that your government was directing twitter to censor americans. according to