class, i recommend you reevaluate rules of the air. i noticed i said that and i sound boujee, and i apologize. i've flown coach and sat next to the bathroom, don't go there with me. tucker is up next, iwatters and this is my world. >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," looks like don lemons long television career is over, mr. lemon been sentenced to a term in the hr, to undergo sensitivity training, the first step to be disappeared or doing late night

infomercials. his colleagues are adamant they don't want him back on moral ground. i feel sad think at this news, cable without don lemon is not what we imagined. everything becomes the apple store, there was certain joy in watching his unpredictable low iq zaniness. let's see conventional news anchor working for a conventional station. i would think hijacking or mechanical failure, not don lemon, only he had the child-like creativity to imagine the train had been swallowed by a black hole, in case you forgot that legendary moment. >> mechanical failure, but what if it was something we don't understand. people have been asking about black holes and on and on and referencing the twilight zone,

which has a similar plot. i know it is preposterous, but is it? >> is it preposterous, mock that clip, there was demented genius on display there and we appreciated it. now it is over. the story of don lemon is more than one man's dead career, it is in fact fascinating career that illustrates growing darkness of american liberalism that affectses all of us. don lemon was noi ideologue. he had instructions from bosses who received their instruction from the democratic party. in that way, don lemon is perfect measure of how the nation is changing and where it is going. during the obama years, we were told the country might move past racial history, don lemon attempted an authentic conversation about race, we're being encouraged to have.

here it is. >> black people, if you really want to fix the problem, here is just five things that you should think about doing. number five, pull up your pants. some people, a lot black, gave me flack for saying that on the wendy williams show. suggesting black people stop using the n word and entertainers stop diluting yourself that you are taking the word back. now number three. respect where you live. start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. number two, finish school. break the cycle of poverty, stop telling kids they are acting white because they go to school or speak proper english. number one, probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. >> so stop littering, show respect, go to school, because the rules apply to everybody, no

matter what they look like. it is impossible to imagine that don lemon of today or anyone of today speaking like that because times have changed. arrival of donald trump upended the rules, don lemon's bosses wanted him to attack middle class white americans as the problem, that was donald trump's electoral base, the point of that. don lemon dutifully did. >> you are letting him off easy, i don't think they think joe biden would be worse, i think they like it, like the racism and misogyny. if they didn't, they wouldn't support him. if you are on that side, think about the side you are on, i am never on the side of the klan, principle people, conservative or liberal, never on the nazi side, what does it say about you

that no matter what, no matter what, you continue to make excuses for this man, for his vile behavior, this vile behavior. doesn't that make you just as bad, if not worse than him? >> we used to call middle-class americans and now we call them the clan, because politics, don lemon understood what everyone now understands, there is nothing you can't say about middle-class white americans or core of the republican party. no slander is too extreme, no limits to how much you can hate him. go crazy. joe biden just accused middle-class america for wanting to kill black people. they are murderers described the president of the united states. >> undermine hard fought civil rights, innocent men, women and children hung by noose, lynched for simply being black, nothing more.

white crowds, white families, gathered to celebrate the spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing them as postcards, hard to believe, that was done and some people still want to do that. >> so don lemon saw all this and much more like it and thought he understood the new rules, white republicans are bad, attack them relentlessly. mr. lemon missed one distinction, white middle-class are bad, but white elites are good, they are nancy pelosi, on our side and upper income college educated white women are best of all since they are the democratic base. see how that works? both groups are white, one is evil and one is holy. in political terms that distinction makes sense, it was too subtle for don lemon, over

his head. final fateful day of his television career last week when he dared to criticize nikki haley, watch. >> wrong road to go down, she says politicians are not in their prime, nikki haley is not in her prime, sorry. a woman is in her primes in her twenties, 30s and 40s. >> wait, prime for what? >> prime, look it up, if you google when is a woman in her prime, it will say twenties, 30s and 40s. >> ooh, he stepped into it. to be fair, nikki haley is fair game, republican presidential candidate, savage her all you want. no, in fact, in all ways that matter, nikki haley is member of most protected class of all, upper income white ladies with fashionable political views. she may be running to be the republican nominee, she is indistinguishable from the donor base of the democratic party and

believes in racial guilt and thinks ukraine borders are more important than our owns. vote for me, because i'm a woman, that's her pitch. don lemon should have caught this, he missed it, he didn't get it and stepped in the final bear trap. don lemon may be black, that doesn't mean he can criticize nikki haley. choice between black man and liberal white lady, drop the black guy every single time. who makes bigger proportion of electorate? don lemons or nikki haleys? not a call. shut up black guy, how dare you pretend biology is real, you are fired. that is what happened to don lemon, the faithful ate one of their own, this is unsentimental math of identity politics. know your place and violate the

rules and you die. nikki haley understands that and don lemons doesn't and now he's heading to do infomercials, where does this leave the rest of us? dead end. ultimate cul-de-sac, inversion of the american idea out of many one that becomes out of one many. racial strife, hatred, division and craziness. in the end, rawanda, no country can survive identity politics, we know that. how do we stop it? maybe by remembering our nation is about something bigger and by restating clearly and out loud principles to bind us to one another. what do we have in common? that is a real question. in fact, a question we can't avoid if we want to continue.

two books and his latest venture he will tell us about, vic, thank you. seems like don lemon is a cable host, perfect illustration of identity politics wind up when you stray from universal principles that bind us under the same rules. >> exactly. we are in the middle of a national identity crisis, tucker, celebrated differences so long, we forgot the ways we are the same as americans bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago. i'm proud to say i'm running for united states president to revive those ideas in this country, those basic rules of the road, meritocracy, you get ahead in this country, not on color of your skin, but content of your character. you can speak freely, yes, to be wrong sometimes, as long as your neighbor gets the same in

return. people we elect toun are the government are people whoun are the government. basic rules bind us together. we have different shades of melon, so what, that is not beautiful and strength, diversity is meaningless if nothing greater binds us together. the reason i'm running for president to revive those ideals, i believe they still exist, most believe in them, we need to rediscover that and start talking openly again. >> i'm not going to ask political questions, given my call in the midterm, i don't understand politics, other people can do that. give us bullet points of what you will tell audiences? >> put merit back into america, every sphere of our lives, who gets into this country? let's start with that. more people like my inner pas can be a good thing for this country, but people who first

act entering this country is law breaking, say no to that. not just who gets in, but who gets ahead. end affirmative action in every sphere of american life, not just meritock ratty. >> our whole government is based on that idea. >> this would be easy thing for president to do, lyndon johnson requires anyone who does business with the u.s. government, to adopt race-based quota system. any u.s. president could have taken a pen and crossed that out, that is the courage we need to muster. go after cacred cows, affirmative action instead of shackeling american economy and culture. take sacred cows of secular religion to the slaughter house, that is what it will take for this national revival, we stop

apologizing for what itten moos to be american. put america first, we have to first rediscover what america is and to me those basic rules of the road set this nation to free speech, self-governance, people who we elect, let them run the government other than federal bureaucracy, that is the heart of my message. we don't have an option anymore, threats are rise of china, our top foreign policy threat we have to respond to, not pointless wars somewhere else. it requires sacrifice and decoupling, it will require buying cheap stuff for that many years, that will require sacrifice. i think we can make sacrifices if we know what we are sacrificing for and that is what

i want to see the gop do, answer the question what it means to be an american today. we dilute secular agenda, yes, i've been complaining about them, there is a role for identifying the problem. to deliver a solution, we need to rediscover that national identity we share and if we do that, i still think, deep in my bones, our best days, not some cheesy politician kind of way, truly our best days can be ahead of us, it will take that revival to make it happen. >> i hope you will come back often, you are one of the great talkers we've ever had. you identify china as primary concern of american foreign policy, you don't think the war in eastern europe. >> absolutely correct. foreign policy is about prioritization, wake up to the fact china is violating our sovereignty. if that was russia spy balloon, the answer is simple, we depend

on them for modern way of life, this economic co-dependant relationship has to end. if you use military for something, decimate cartels in a failed narco state that is killing people on american soil with fentanyl, that is good use of military, protecting american soil and interests not pointless war somewhere else. the heart of this goes to reviving national identity. what does it mean to be american? you know what you need to defend and this vision is linked and tied to our foreign policy vision and that is why i'm running for president, that needs to be top of the gop agenda, top of this country agenda and i'm running to make it happen. >> fascinating to see you weigh into this, thank you for announcing here. >> thank you. joe biden continued to advocate for the third world war today,

he was in poland, administration is threatening china to not get involved, but to no effect. american power evaporates as we watch. more on that next.

>> tucker: the biden administration through recklessness has united china and russia into an alliance against the united states, an alliance that is more powerful than the united states, true lunacy. biden is considering more sanctions on russia because that worked well, counter productive policy that has achieved nothing. today in poland biden made it clear he is not interested in ending the war. >> president biden: president putin crave for lust for land will fail. dictator wanting to rebuild an empire will never ease people's love of liberty, brutality will never grind down the will of the

free and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. >> tucker: stupid and dishonest and you feel sorry for people around the world who are so limited in the news they consume that they would believe anything joe biden just said. in russia, it is clear the goal of the biden administration is not to get russia out of ukraine, it is to overthrow the government of russia, it is existential for them. watch. >> what is important is that our relations have degraded, the responsibility for that is fully on the united states. they can't be silly people, they want to deliver strategic defeat while crawling into nuclear objective. regarding this, i have to say russia suspends their participation in the new start

treaty. >> tucker: this is happening in slow motion, but quickly, could affect your family. chris miller former secretary of defense, joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. forging an alliance between russia and china seems like the end of american power in a lot of the world in a massive new threat that dwarfs anything putin has done in ukraine, why are they allowing this to happen? >> tucker, i have to go there, and just announced he is going to run for president, did i hear that? >> he is. >> that is amazing, i'm literally second fiddle. he gave great foreign policy lay down for where we should be going forward on this. your question, i got to tell you, the president, i give him props, his speech writers gave a pretty good speech and i look forward to him coming to the

united states and going to east palestine, ohio or going to the border and saying that same thing. that is irony, i'm generation x and i'm a letterman guy. my points, we spent trillion a year on national defense and my point from my book is holy cow, we have to look at this differently and bring that money home and spend on things here in america to make america stronger. your point about china and russia is so valid. i'll be a little bit counter factual, i think chairman xi and chinese communist party are laughing all the way to the bank as they play us again. >> tucker: of course they are, well, sure, military and economic alliances affect our economy. china primary goal is to make money, right? it is a business/government.

if china is russia are alike, russia providing the raw materials, this just makes the chinese trade block stronger and us much weaker, does it not? >> yeah, 2500 border between china and russia and russia focused on ukraine to the west right now, i got to think the chinese communist party is licking their lips going, we couldn't ask for better, they have serious limitations and all lies to the north. it is a little bit of off the wall answer, but i think the chinese are playing the long game. we, as you highlight so much on your show, we have this short view and need frankly the vex said the same thing, we have to look long-term and i think the chinese are playing us both pretty well. >> tucker: of course they are and we are letting them. chris miller, thank you. >> thanks for having me, thanks

are if the journalism you are doing. >> tucker: thank you. joe biden and washington focused on ukraine, their petree dish, we are going to create utopia, meanwhile, our country, sadness breaking out all over as east palestine, ohio, where health of people living there appears to be getting worse, despite there is no poison in east palestine. some say they are coughing up blood, we'll talk to them after the break.

>> tucker: joe biden is in poland doing his semiliteral winston churchill immitation, his own country does not seem to be improving. citizens of east palestine are worried about their health and finances. fox just spoke to one of them. >> half a mile down the tracks from where a train derailed,

chris says like a lot of people in this unto, he's stuck. >> you need siding and new roof, my future is uncertain as far as business in this town. >> chris is not convinced the air in his home is safe. his family's health issues have not gone away and yesterday he says his fiance found a sheen on top of the water in their humid fire. >> this tells me it is obviously still there. >> tucker: this is going on, the transportation secretary is supposed to be preventing train derailments hasn't bothered to visit east palestine, two weeks after derailment, two weeks after authorities lit toxic chemicals on fire. he doesn't have time. he does have time to do morning shows, he just did. >> when are you going to east

palestine? >> i am planning to go, when i go, the focus will be on action. i was mayor of my hometown for eight years, we dealt with disasters, natural and human. there are two kinds of people who show up when you have that disaster experience, people there because they have a specific job to do and are there to get something done and people who are there to look good to have picture taken. when i go it will be about action on rail safety. >> tucker: any member of the biden administration deserve to lose their job, it is that guy. we talked to people who are telling us they are coughing up blood, we want an update from them. nathan, coughing up blood? >> yes, tucker. it was days after the incident, that was sunday, i woke up in a

horrific coughing spell like bronchitis, i don't know if from coughing fits, but blood appeared and we evacuated and it went away. that was a side effect. >> tucker: how old are you? >> i am 30 now. just turned 30 february 16th. >> tucker: i'm no doctor, you should not be coughing up blood, we'll speak to a doctor in a minute. that is not a good sign. kelly, how are you feeling? >> the headaches are horrible. they pretty much, when i'm three to four miles outside of town, they start and as long as i'm within a few miles of the crash site, i've got headaches, really bad headaches, migraines. >> tucker: has anyone tried to explain to you why you might be

having these symptoms? >> well, if we're talking the ohio dr. fauci, they try to point it to covid symptoms, we know that is not the case. >> tucker: that is not the case, coughing up blood is not a symptom at this point. how does it smell? the nose knows, there is truth in that. how does your town smell? >> i mean, it's still blatant. even your cameraman, i asked him, do you smell? he said, yeah, it is sweet odor, it smells terrible, more in the evening it is more prominent. >> tucker: i hate to ask about money, what about homeowners in east palestine, you have to think home values are bottoming out.

>> nobody is ever going to purchase a home that has east palestine in the address, i mean, this is definitely made our value plummet. >> tucker: are you homeowners? >> yes, we are homeowners here, sir. the future isn't bright. [coughing] >> in may -- >> tucker: oh, i'm sorry, i'm really sorry. we appreciate the update tonight, nathan and kelly izotic, thanks. >> tucker: those seem like real symptoms and ominous ones, we are not doctoring, but ddr. marc siegel is. >> a lot of people in the area have had irritation to their eyes, skin rashes.

symptoms that leap out is coughing of blood. we've been talking vinyl chloride, they describe their water having blue sheen, that is probably vinyl chloride. no one has been talking about vinyl chloride can break down to ph osph ine and a medical newspaper asked the epa today have you checked for the gas, no response. aulsz dioxine can cause behavior problems and breast cancer risk. you burn vinyl chloride, it gets in soil and stays for years, they have to see pulmonologist.

the vinyl chloride in the air goes away in a day or two, we are finding chemicalsa far away as west virginia. governor dewine, when you say you are drinking the water, i don't think that is reassuring anybody. you have to say, this is bad, people don't feel good, people are in terrible shape. to white wash it and drink the water is a political move, not a medical move. same with the epa. this has been swept under the rug. the president is in poland issue the president should be there, pete buttigieg should be there. as soon as this black plume cloud occurred, now it is in the soil and water and people are sick, tucker. >> tucker: not to be too direct, mike dewines an elderly man, we should care what 30 year olds

who own homes and have decades ahead of them, how are they doing? >> i'm worried about their lung and long-term cancer risk and endocrine disruptors are terrible, fertility. >> tucker: appreciate it. thanks so much. one thing you don't want in a democracy is the u.s. military participating in american politics domestically, but increasingly under left they want to control institutions with guns and now they do. u.s. military caught electioning personnel records of sitting republican lawmakers. details next.

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thought let's sit down and we're glad we did, here is part of it. >> comedy was about in the beginning, really just can you kill, can you go out and be as funny as possible by any means necessary, really no rules, just be funny. if you were not funny, that is what happened, you would bomb. i said a joke and it offended people, maybe they complained to the club. the idea of cancel didn't exist. nobody had cell phones at clubs back in the day. they had nokia, they were not taking videos. you take chances. people take chances in life before cell phones, you had an honest perspective from people more. people posing for social media,

pretending to be something they are not and in comedy it was who could be as funny as possible. there was cultural shift when everything got dicey with comedians because now everybody overthinks everything they are going to do. everyone is afraid of losing whatever opportunity, not even opportunity they have, forget being cancelled. people won't take chances, they are afraid of losing future opportunities. i don't want to say something on camera that will haunt me in the future. >> tucker: thinking patterson. >> i don't think they care, people that have real problems don't give a [bleep] about no, no words. i grew up with a pimp father that was stabbed to death. no words will get me going, get a life, you don't have real

problems. such a sign of privilege for people to be offended by jokes. there is nothing funny about the hero story. i can tell you i murdered, they took me off stage. there is nothing funny or interesting about that. what is funny about the guy that gets the winning touchdown? nothing. i didn't watch the super bowl, i'm not a sports guy, the eagles story is funny, walking dejected to the locker room, a couple cried, that is hilarious, there are no funny stories for kansas city, holding their trophies and winnings. your girlfriend cheats on you, hilarious. you fall down and embarrass yourself in front of the whole school, that is funny. you kick somebody's ass in a fight, what is funny about that? you're the cool guy --

>> you get your ass kicked in a fight, that is hilarious. >> tucker: never heard anybody describe it that way, that is truest thing. comedy is inherently dark. >> without a doubt, there is nothing funny about being the good guy, come in and help people, do that, that is not for comedy. >> tucker: that is ngo, for the un. >> charity, help people, people should be helped, we all agree, but there is nothing funny about it. >> tucker: lewis jay gomez, on fox nation right now. joe biden department of justice running down christians, people who dare to pray at abortion clinics, they are refusing to comment on the following story. during the last campaign air force released service records to a research firm linked to the

democratic party. the air force did that. the research from lied, employment background check on members of congress. the two members affected by this breach, z zach nunn and congressman bacon. thank you for coming on. if the united states military participateses in politics, that seems like -- well, a crime, what kind of clarity are you getting from the pentagon on this story? >> i talked to the secretary of the air force and he said it was done by accident, they were deceived, this company acted like they were doing this on our behalf. had our social security number and other information, they thought they were doing this on my behalf and total of 11 air force folks in congress or

candidates this happened to. we were assured by secretary of the air force they figured out what happened and put fixes in place. the culprit on democratic campaign arm, campaign committee who paid $105,000 to a democratic firm to get opposition research and where they used our information illegally and i think this is dirty politics, for sure, could be, i think very likely illegal and all this data and evidence given now to the attorney general. >> tucker: are you allowed to steal people's social security numbers? that sounds like a nigerian phone scam. where would they get your social security number? >> i do not know and we are going to find out. we're doing hearings with the oversight committee. i want the attorney general and department of justice to take the information and i hope they

prosecute the individuals involved. i believe it is illegal, we'll let the attorney general look at it. we have civil recourse, too, to hold this organization responsible. it started at the top with the campaign committee, the dccc. >> tucker: you mean the attorney general of the united states merrick garland, do you have any hope at all republican members of congress, he is the most partisan dishonest attorney general in american history, do you think he will do anything about this? >> he better, because i think the evidence is pretty clear our records were obtained illegally, using our social security information, pretending to be us. we'll put a spotlight on how they handle this and have other recourse for holding people accountable, too, through civil court. some people were very much hurt

by this, there were 11. ruth jennifer green was a victim of this and the democrats released history of hers in the military, where she was assaulted and she wanted that kept privately. she felt assaulted twice when this happened and i think it hurt her going down the stretch, going into november, she lost a very close race. >> tucker: people don't get better until they are punished for what they have done wrong, true of children and dogs and also true of attorneys general. i hope you hold these people accountable. thank you. we will have great news right after the break, we'll be back.

we have great news tonight. great people, both. they just

welcomed their second child, colin timothy born this morning at 1:16 a.m. eight pounds and eight ounces. better people could not have children than those two. got blessed. the president is out there trying to sell world war iii but unfortunately, he forgot how to talk. watch. >> the question we faces were simple as they were profound. would we respond? would we look the other way? would we be our allies or united? >> the guy should not have nuclear weapon, why is no one saying that? that's not allowed. that's like giving a toddler a handgun. bad idea. are there no adults in washington can see this or say something about it? oh, we hope somebody does. in

the meantime, we hope you have a great night with the ones you love, retrieving from the cares of the world in to your cave in a good way. we'll see you tomorrow night. god bless, have a great night. ♪ welcome to "hannity," a lot of breaking news this monday night. former vice president mike pence will join us right here for an exclusive interview. is he planning to run for the white house? we'll ask him, that's coming straight ahead. joe biden and kamala harris preoccupied in europe celebrating an endless war and who's running the show here back at home? it is not