us in nashville for the all-american new year's in nashville from the wild horse saloon. have a great night, everybody. >> john: good evening. welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." i'm sean duffy in for tucker. the department of transportation let by mayor pete buttigieg announced two big initiatives. part of the plan was to diversify the aviation work force based on skin color and gender. in other words, equity. major pete's second declaration is existing airline pilots had

to retire by the age of 65. not 67 as some lawmakers were proposing. mayor pete said you can still be president of the united states, but you're definitely not allowed to fly planes. he never explained how that would improve the reliability of travel ahead of the holiday rush but insisted it would help. six months later, this is the state of air travel in the united states. >> in chicago, and around the country, mountains of luggage with no travelers to claim them. >> i'm going to cry. i'm tired. >> frustrated, tired. pissed off. >> this woman and her mom and grandmother spent this little one's first christmas stuck in the dallas airport. >> it was hard. it was hard seeing the families with other newborns around children sleeping on the floor. >> the family from new mexico says southwest rebooked and

cancelled their flights five times. >> kimberly day is pregnant and travelling with two children. they've been trying to get from phoenix to new york to visit a sick relative. tuesday southwest told them it cannot rebook their flight until saturday. >> kaylynn's flight was cancelled monday. the earliest flight was thursday southwest offered her. >> when you try to rebook on the southwest app, nothing is available until january 1 and they expect you to pay the difference in fare. >> john: it's a nightmare. there's one person happy about this? that's sam britton. the truth is, everything about this crisis was foreseeable. in august, 38 state attorneys general wrote to congress to report that pete buttigieg was ignoring consumer complaints in the airline industry. unfortunately the agency has thus far failed to respond the attorney general's wrote.

they were so outraged that they called on congress to strip the department of transportation to oversee the complaints about the airlines and awarded it to the states themselves. it's not hard to see why the attorneys general were so furious. without reliable air travel, the economy collapses. mayor pete was ignoring the problem. he was able to do that because despite his fixation on climate change, buttigieg flies everywhere on private jet. what is striking is how often this happens. there's a crisis and mayor pete goes on vacation. he was on vacation in portugal in rail workers were on strike. mayor pete hasn't mentioned this horrifying story of a woman freezing to death in her car just before christmas while driving home from work. buttigieg loves to talk about racist roads but he hasn't mentioned this tragedy at all. here's an nbc report.

>> people walking the streets, sidewalks submerged days after the deadliest storm in the city's history. more than 30 dead in western new york. among them, andelle taylor. >> she was one of the best sisters, daughters, friends, aunts. >> taylor's sister said she pulled over on her way home from work with the storm coming down. she called 911 for help that department make it in time. a resident finding her dead the day before christmas. as she was sitting in her car for hours, she texted with family members about the long wait for help. taylor's sister couldn't believe new york officials were so caught off guard by the blizzard. she texted "i'm surprised in a state known for it or unprepared in a state known for it." more than 30 people died in the buffalo blizzard. many were stranded. this is a massive failure of

state and federal leadership. instead of acknowledging that, pete buttigieg is ignoring it. for her part, new york's gorka think hochul is blaming -- you guessed it, climate change. she said it's making the weather far more dangerous. the truth is that the number of people dieing from natural disasters, particularly storms and extreme temperatures, is plummeted in the last century. that's because competent leadership responds to these disasters and minimizes the loss of life and human suffering. incompetent leaders like joe biden vacation in the virgin islands and ignore disasters. that's why the texas border looks like this. today fox cameras capturing hundreds of migrants in four separate groups crossing in to the u.s. at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. hundreds of miles to the northwest in el paso a wire fence rapidly erected and hundreds of military personnel are in place to prepare for a

potentially explosive surge of migrants. also in el paso, this massive tent, larger than a football field set up but the u.s. customs and border protection will act as a processing center if there's a surge. with freezing temperatures, shelter there's are full. migrants have been sleeping on the streets with donated blankets. >> a couple weeks ago, joe biden was asked why doesn't he visit the southern border? there's more important things going on, biden said. as expected, hundreds of thousands of illegals are flooding the border into a country that is already becoming more third world-like every day. people are freezing in their cars. air travel is not even close to reliable. you have to ask, if this administration wanted to overwhelm and sabotage what is left of the country's infrastructure, what exactly would they do differently? ned ryan is a ceo of american majority. good to see you, ned. >> thanks, sean. >> serious question, what would

you do differently if you weren't trying to destroy american infrastructure? >> you wouldn't do anything differently. if you hated america, clearly is demonstrated in their day-to-day actions how much they loathe and despise the american people, all of the things that made us a great nation. it's startling, sean, to see it on display. it does -- it's not that much of a mystery when you think about it. biden and buttigieg are not there for competence. they're clearly incompetent. they're there to give us an illusion of normalcy to let the true governors of this country, the managerial class do the business. they're there to fill a position, don't rock the boat, be a figure head but not govern and come up with solutions, which fits biden just fine. i don't think he knows he's in the white house half the time and mayor pete can slip out and nobody knows he's gone. people ask why aren't they fixing the crises?

because they don't care. why would they care about the buffalo disaster? it doesn't affect the managerial class or the elites. why would they care about the commercial airline crisis? mayor pete flies private all the time. why should they be bothered? for immigration, why should they be concerned about immigration? they want to import more voters to continue their hold on power. we have to -- we see these things happening. this is truly a vile governance that is taking place right now. the american people, the middle class, are held in deep contempt. we have to come to the conclusion that we're not living in a constitution republic. once we come to that acknowledgement, i think the next question we have to ask ourselves, do we have the political courage for the struggle to try to restore the republic. it won't be an easy one. >> john: so do you think the american people have the heart

to say listen, we have to get back to what we used to have, whether it was 20, 40, 60 years ago? the administrative state has taken over. pete buttigieg sits as the secretary of transportation. he couldn't fill the potholes in south bend, indiana but now he's elevated to investigate southwest? >> he checks a box. we know why pete is there. he checks a box. he's not there for his competence. he's not really running transportation. the unelected bureaucrats are. the real question for the american people -- it's dawning on them, sean, as this country starts to fracture and fall apart, something is very wrong. i don't think that they have had the clear revelation yet of what is taking place in the administrative state and the elites don't care for them, view them as their atms and that's about it. when it dawns on enough of the american people that this is taking place, they will rise up and say we're going to affect political change.

the political power to be in that position to break apart the administrative state and drawn the swamp and restore the public. but you won't have it until enough of the american people wake up. >> john: when i served in politics, i was in congress nine years, you can lead, you can fix the problems that you were elected to fix. here you have this group of people to your point, they don't care. they're servicing the elite class, the donor class. the average american, people stuck in airports because they can't get home for christmas or people stuck in cars in buffalo, even moms that can't get milk. they don't care. quick response. >> the desire to fix the problems has to start with caring. they don't care. they don't care. they're not going to fix it because they don't want to. >> a good point. thanks ned.

>> john: what we've none all along, that lockdowns never worked and a huge chunk of the world is about to get infected. what does that mean for the united states? chip roy is one of the few congressman neither party has taken a chance to look at the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. chip roy straight ahead.

>> john: china's covid zero policy was praised by several public health experts in the united states but it's been a disaster. now the policy is making people be exposed to covid all at once for the first time. here's greg palkot. >> covid is ripping through china three years after it first emerged there. fever clinics set up to handle the overflow from the hospitals. vaccines inefficient. bodies brought to morgues. the new wave of china covid could affect the world including the u.s. mutant strains from a mass infection creating international health risks. >> john: what implications does this is for the united states? milan reports that 50% of

passengers on flights from china have covid. the response is requiring negative covid tests to the united states. all of this is clear evidence that covid zero lockdown policies are a complete failure. dr. jay is a professor from stanford. he's one of the leading critics of universal lockdowns. dr. jay, good to see you. what's going on in china with the reversal on the complete lockdowns and now this spread of covid? >> well, the chinese follow what they call a zero covid policy. when there was a small number of cases, they would take draconian measures. they would look down buildings. a fire happened and people died inside trying to get out. they would the routine testing, enormous quarantine facilities. all of this effort to disrupt chinese society, violating civil

rights on a mass scale. they had a drone floating around saying to people, control your soul's desire for freedom. none of that worked. the shocking thing is that they kept at it for so long -- a lot of public health authorities wanted something like that here in the united states. you know, not -- with a smiley face, i guess. it was inevitable that this virus was going to infect basically everybody. it's a respiratory disease. our efforts to try the control the spread of it, we don't have a technology that does that. chinese authorities capitulated. they didn't pro tech the elderly population. they're at high risk. there's a lot of people that have never been infected before that are really at high risk. their healthcare system is much more easily overwhelmed than ours is. that's what we're seeing now. it's tragic. at this point, i -- there's not much i can do other than to pray for the people of china.

it's a disaster what they've had to go through from their move to zero covid to letting it rip. >> john: doctor, we had the lockdowns here in the states. we shut down the schools. our economy was decimated. you think the u.s. has learned something from what we did and did wrong and now what china has realized that to your point, you can't stop the spread. you can't lock people down and think it's not going to spread. if another pandemic comes we can change course? >> that's something that i'm worried about. the world health organization has put containment at the center of its approach to future pandemics. the biden administration has basically, i think, rubber stamped the same kind of containment idea when there's another pandemic. unless there's a concerted effort by political leaders to examine the failure of our covid policies and put in place plans

so that we don't lock down again, i'm afraid it will come back. >> john: doctor, before i let you go, this is spreading throughout china. almost 250 million people have been infected the last 20 days. a massive outbreak. is there a risk that there's a new variant that we haven't seen yet and start in china and come to the u.s. and affect more americans? >> so there's from what i understand, four major omicron variants floating around different than the ones in the u.s. they're omicron variants. i'm not worried too much about that. as long as people in the u.s., vaccination on a large scale, most of the population have been infected and recovered, we have a lot of protection against the omicron. i'm not so worried about that. >> john: thanks for being a clear voice. everybody was trying to shut you down and you were still speaking. america is grateful for that. thanks. chip roy is one of the only

lawmakers in congress that read the 4,000 page, 1.7 trillion spending bill that just passed. here's his assessment of the bill. >> we have 18 republicans join with senate democrats and we're sitting here trying to do the work of the people. not spend money we don't have. not drive up more inflation. not have 7500 ear marks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country. what you see here on the floor of the house of representatives should make everybody ashamed. >> chip roy represents texas. he joins us to tell us more. great to see you, chip. some people don't recognize the power of the floor. great passion, great speech. tell me the biggest concern you have about this 1.7 trillion monstrosity. >> good evening, sean. merry christmas. where to begin in terms of our concerns about this bill. $1.7 trillion. 4,100 pages dropped on it, a day

to look at it. my staff went through it notably. there's language in the bill that prohibits the use of the funding for the border patrol, for the homeland security, to be used by border patrol to security the border. yet you have 18 republican senators that go ahead and say yeah, i'm going to side with democrats and vote for this lousy bill that will hamstring our ability to use the power of the purse to demand that biden secure the border and teal with that crisis and ignore the fact that they're hamstringing them further. it goes beyond that it's not just the 75 ear marks, the $670 million in ear marks for richard shelby as he's walking it the door, the senior senate republican appropriator. the fact that you're giving more money to the tyrants at the fbi. they get a new headquarters. $400 million. more money to the nih that jay just told you is absolutely foolish. he was actually put on a black list by big tech and we're going to give more money to the fbi

targeting big tech and going after and censoring people like dr. jay. why would we do that? the most important question, why would 18 republican senators do that and stick it to the house republican majority after the american people gave us the majority. >> john: that's a good question. 18 republican senators that voted for the bill, they could have don't a continuing resolution. continue spending for a month or six weeks until you guys took over control of the house and you could have had your own republican bill. they chose not to do that. have you asked any republican senator why they did this to republicans that are about to take over control of the u.s. house? doesn't make any sense. >> i've asked a number of them. the answers are pathetic, to be honest with you. >> john: what did they say? >> they tell you, this is the best we were going to get, chip. it's not our debate about the speaker's race. what they mean is you guys would have fought us over the spending levels on the military spending

and on ukraine. this was all about ukraine money and defense spending. which by the way, i'm sure you'll agreei'm all for getting the proper resources to the defense and men and women in uniform and having guns and training to kill people and blow things up. what i'm not for is a social engineering experiment wrapped in a uniform. what i'm not for is a blank check to ukraine. what i'm not for is using that as an excuse to pile on more debt and not do the hard work of forcing a conversation about what we're spending. those senators are hiding behind national defense to spend money we don't have, weaken our border and undermining republican majority that wants to do it the right way. there's no excuse for it. zero. i'll debate any one of them anywhere they want to do it. >> john: chip, here's the problem. the republicans go to their constituents and people that give them money and say we're going to lower the dealt and do all of these things for free enterprise and then they vote on packages like this. i don't know how any republican can go to any donor and say i'm going to fight for you when they

vote for this garbage. i think they lost all credibility. >> i agree with you, sir. now we're dealing with this crisis getting worse at the border. again, those 18 republican senators took away our leverage to use the power of the purse to force change and now they're making it worse by giving more money to process more people. you're seeing what is happening. all of this title 42 stuff is a shiny object that republicans are hiding behind. you can take away the title 42 issue and you still have a massive crisis. 230,000 people in november, 60,000 or so were turned away under title 42. that still leaves 160,000 people. it's extraordinary what is happening. republicans are playing along with it. we need to use every tool in the house, the debt ceiling, anything we kept next september 30th, the power of the purse. >> john: and you don't get to use the republican majority until september 30th when the new budget will be done and new spending bills will be voted on.

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>> john: shoplifting is up in 2022. but businesses are now fighting back. jason joins us with a few examples. what do you got? >> 2022 was defined by a culture of lawlessness thanks to democrat soft on crime policies and police defunding. just the last week, we've been seeing more and more folks renewing to follow the law. but also pushing back in buffalo, new york as we inch closer to 40 deaths from the store. people were looting local businesses.

one man shamed his neighbors to returning items that they stole from a family dollar store. >> put the [bleep] back. did you buy it? >> no, i didn't buy it. >> put it back. everybody have to let go. come on. >> that's crazy. >> put it back. >> i'm putting everything back. >> put it back where it's supposed to be. >> meanwhile in new york city, someone that looks to be the owner of a clothing shop had enough with one person that held the door shut until she paid. >> go pay. i'll let you go. >> i'll pay. >> go pay. >> please, i will >> >> how much? >> go. >> shop lifting is so bad that a manhattan walgreen's resorted to locking upits drum sticks and ice cream with locks. complaints are up roughly 18,000. that same store was forced to put its coffee beans and creamer

behind anti-theft locks. finally a video from last year went viral this week when it was posted. we've been seeing these videos too often. a massive brawl broke out in a waffle house in austin, texas. check out this employee that decided to stand up for herself after a woman jumped over the counter. >> oh, [bleep]. oh! oh! [bleep]. [bleep]. oh. [bleep]! >> wow. so maybe this all foreshadows good news on the horizon. 2023 could see a theme of people pushing back. >> you don't have prosecutors prosecutoring defendants and criminals. are they giving people that push

back? >> i seem to reason in new york a bodega owner getting in trouble for defending themselves. so in some cases the answer is no. >> thanks, jason. >> thanks. >> a few days before christmas, in torrence, california, robbers tried to pull off a smash and grab. a marine and applicant and several bystanders heard the commotion and the group of good samaritans detained the perpetrators. >> hey, homey. get them. get them, homey. get them [bleep]. let's go. semper fi. that's my homey. put it down for the america. >> john: almost all to jewelry has been recovered. one of the people that helped detain the robbers was marine staff sergeant jose fragoso. good to see you. fantastic video. you and one of the applicants to

the marines stepped in to gear. tell us what happened. >> yes, sir. good evening. so what initially happened is that i heard a bunch of glass breaking. when i did, first response was to go check out the jewelry store. i know they were two doors down. i had to make sure everything was all right. as i approached the jewelry store, i saw four individuals that were robbing the store. they had a sledge hammer there. once they were coming out, i was able to apprehend one of the suspects. we got another one. between a couple of us and the bystanders, we detained two of the four for the police to take them away. >> sandra: >> jose, i imagine that the criminals here didn't intend to meet marines. did they seem surprised that you were stopping them? >> yeah, absolutely.

i don't think they expected to have individuals in uniform stop them that weren't police officers. >> yeah, no doubt. good for you guys. you had an applicant in your office that was applying to join the marines. has he been admitted? what is his status? >> he's still in the process, sir. he's enlisting right now. we're waiting on a couple of different things to continue his process. he will be enlisting. >> john: in regard to the jewelry store, all the jewelry got back. two of the criminals were apprehended by you guys. did two get away and later apprehended? how did that work? >> yes, sir, two got away. i'm not really sure about the background of it. i know we were able to detain two. i'm not sure if the police got the other two. >> do your superiors support you from springing into action? i'm not sure where the military goes with this. you're an american and a good

sama samaritan. you is a this happen. were you commended for your action? >> yes. they thanked me. they said it's the marine thing to do, to uphold our own values. >> john: it's always great to have marines around. i love in the video, they were yelling semper fi to you. i have some family and supporters around. i'm stepping in and protecting this business. staff sergeant jose fragoso. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> john: next, is there more to the human story on earth than contemporary scholars recognize? tucker is back after the break with a mind-binding conversation. stick with us.

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tumble. the sexualization of children is continuing anyway though nobody wants the garbage. bennetton just posted ed photos kids in underway. what's going on here? they were sexualizing children for the sale of adult clothing? what do you make of this? >> it's absolutely outrageous, sean. let me say, it's easy to reflexsively jump to attacking the left for this. this comes from their woke ideology. the truth is, it's time for the rest of america to look in the mirror. silent majorities kill nations. the silent majority we have here in america is dangerous. because silent majorities allow very crazy extreme minorities to

then go rule with very loud voices. when they do that, this is the outcome. you allow these loud voices to rule over everyone. worse yet, the media, entertainment came together to manage that silence. not only that, they somehow convinced us that being a silent majority was a good thing. that has to change in order for us to fix this culture. people need to speak up, frankly. they have to be loud and proud with their values and with rejecting values like this and saying we're not going to allow the sexualization of kids in america, period. are there's no discussion. we're not going to the table and say let's me gauchate. there's no negotiation here. until we step unand said that and have these uncomfortable conversations, we'll see more of this. with my career directing oscar winning actors, the biggest music stars, none of this is a mistake. the idea that this is one or two

bad people, that's not how it works. the number of people that have to sign off on ad campaigns like this is immense. they know what they're doing. the trust is they don't care. they don't care about the safety of kids or sexualization of kids. they care about manufacturing kids that turn into adults that are a part of their woke agenda. they know if they groom them now, it's more likely they'll be with them later. that's why we need to stand up. >> john: a moment ago, we had the video from bennetton. these are 9-year-old girls with blurred out most of it. they're in sexual poses in underwear. if you see this full screen, it's outrageous. i can't help but thing that not only are we sexualizing kids but normalizing pedophilia. adults should be attracted to young children, which by the way, robby, this makes children the target of people that want to do bad things against these children, sexual acts to these children as opposed to a culture

that says we're made to protect children, putting the pedophiles behind bars. we put them in jail. we don't encourage pedophiles with ads like this. >> when has a nation existed that was permissive of this? accept pedophilia? nations don't last when you do this. it's being backed up by academia. governments across the globe, the u.n., they're all a part of this idea that there should be a child rights agenda where kids should have the right to sexualization or have sex changes or have sex with adults. the truth is, there's no sex with adults. it's rape. they're doing it in third world countries. they want to bring it here and we have to reject it. if we don't, we're in big trouble. if people want to help it, you can go to help organizations

that are fighting this on the ground every day. >> john: robby, those people that want to make that transition, they're sick themselves or they never had a nine year, 10, 14-year-old girl to think that they should be sexualized. one good thing, moms are pushing back to protect their little girls. thank god for that. thanks, robby. thanks for joining me. >> thank you so much. >> john: here's a question. how are the pyramids built? randall carlson no, relation to tucker is a master builder with a fascination with ancient geometry. he's also a philosophy. he sat down with tucker with a mind-blowing conversation about the oldest structures on the planet and how they're still standing today. it's part of "tucker carlson today." here it is. >> the whole question i'm trying to raise, is it possible that there's more to the human story

on earth than conventional scholarship at this point has recognized. >> we didn't know dinosaurs existed not that long ago. that's like a fairly new discovery. of course there's a lot we don't know, right? >> yeah. >> what are the markers as someone that is interested in anthropology and archaeology would you say for human civilization that predates the recorded history that we have that are like kind of -- doesn't make sense? like the pyramids are clearly one. are there others? what is that? >> here's the problem. what has not been recognized until now is the magnitude of some of the changes that have unfolded on this planet of ours in the time that we humans have been here. >> you mean physical changes? >> yes. catastrophic changes. things that could have easily

erased whatever was already there. whatever was -- changes let me put it to you this way, changes on a scale that if they were to happen today, an archaeologist ten years from now would find very little trace of us having been here. i mean, changes that are on that scale. >> the glacial period? the ice ages? >> since the time that modern humans -- we don't know how far back they go. i used to say 150,000 years. there was were new discoveries suggesting 200,000. i don't know what the limit will be. like graham hancock says, things get older and older. 1 that time, there's been a succession of glacial, interglacial oscillations. those shifts are quite dramatic. >> john: you can stream tucker's full conversation with randall carlson on fox nation. looks like a fascinating

conversation. a single mom was out of work and homeless when she got pregnant. she went to an abortion clinic. something made her change her mind. she will tell us why she decided to keep her child and what her life is like next. i can't believe it. here we are at the let us do good village. first community like this in america.

a hundred families together that lost their loved ones. the kids that lost their mom or dad protecting us. and today is the day that we're going to deliver the first beautiful home to the thornton family. some wonderful people donated. a bunch of land in land o' lakes. to let us do good village. having stood here on this same property with a shovel and now seeing a home where a family is going to move in. built all of our roads, all of our infrastructure is here. we've got several homes are under construction. and this is absolutely amazing to me. it's going to have a pool gym, rec center, beautiful facility, a movie theater where the folks, again, can live and heal and grow together. to see it completely done, to see it fully furnished, it's a blessing to be able to get a home like this. my children struggle a lot, but i feel like this community will bring a closeness with other children that are struggling

with the same thing that they are. this is going to be my home. if you look around, can you just imagine the families like minded folks? that's going to be here. here at the let us do good village, we can bring all those folks together. this is something that america is missing. people seeing these things happen inspire others to do good. we need to take care of our gold star families. tunnel to towers does that. this is a foundation that you should be a part of because not just helping me, but there's so many people like me that need help. this time next year, we hope to have another dozen houses done with another dozen families in. it's a way to say thank you to the americans that paid and made the ultimate sacrifice. every inch of this community has meaning.

she had confirmed the appointment in advance. a staffer could tell mallory she didn't want to go through the abortion. she was asked. she was at a center that helped save the life of mallory's child. now she has five girls between the ages of 5 and 12. and now she joins us. great to see you. i love this story. i'm a pro lifer myself. tell us what happened? >> so i got pregnant with my child. her father and my mom decided it was best for me to have an abortion after losing my job and my vehicle and facing eviction. at the time, i department know what i was going to do. so she -- my mom called ahead of time, scheduled an appoint mind.

they said we could come. we get there. they're like we don't have your name on here. the lady that was there, she's like well, you know, i have a room that i can speak you in. she pulls me asaid. she said you don't really want this, do you? i said no, i don't know the choices have. she told me that i could go look at different options. it was not a shelter that i went to. it was a home that was beautiful. my kids had fun. i had any child. it was a beautiful experience just having that hope and to have that chance to really bring my child into the world and to have the opportunity and to not give up and feel like there's no chance. >> shawnte, it was like god had a hand in this. what do you think. >> yeah, god is amazing.

changed my life. i know he's there every step of the way. my children are the reason why i'm still here, because of god. >> john: i love that. >> he's amazing. i witch everybody has an opportunity to have a real relationship with god and to know that no matter what we go through, he's there. no matter what things looks like. sometimes things can get dark and scary and sometimes we don't see a way out. there's a way out. god is our way. we have to learn how to humble ourselves and how to call out to god and see what he does for us. >> john: you know, shawnte, a lot of women come to scary circumstances. probably not as yours. you were jobless, homeless, you had two other kids. and you were able to navigate this. if there's other women out there watching this show, what lessons could you give them? what inspiration can you give fighting through this, making the right choice of having a baby and what it means for you. >> i would say don't give up.

you have to fight for what you want. life is not easy at all. there's going to come time when there's trials and tribulations. we have to hold on. i remember being in the home and just cleaning up after my kids and i was on the floor. they were asleep. i remember just praying over my kids. i'm just talking to god, lord, i need you to step in my life and take over. i don't know from here what up is. i need you to do something in my life. letting god be in control, it's not easy to trust them. it's worth it. i the tell you that god has turned my life around. now i'm a peer specialist. i help other people dealing with mental health, depression, everyday things. so just hang on. i'm trying to tell you, if there's a brighter said to every day. >> that's a beautiful story. rely on god. he has your back. thanks for sharing your story in this christmas season. >> thank you. >> john: that's about it for us

tonight. you can watch tucker's interview with randall carlson on fox news. tune in each night at 8:00. our friends, the fabulous, the honorable jason chaffetz is filling in for hannity tonight. jason, how are you doing? >> thanks. i love that interview with shawnte. ordinary people doing extraordinary things. great show, sean. happy holidays and happy new year. i appreciate it. welcome to this special edition of "hannity." i'm jason chaffetz filling in for sean. picture this tonight. president joe biden be basking in the warm caribbean air, listening to the sound of waves crashing on the shore from a luxury villa in the virgin islands. complements of a wealthy donor. at the same time, a winter nightmare is unfolding in buffalo, new york afte