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to manhattan. alfred from new jersey. you know what? i don't want to characterize it. sus susanne. what is printed on your tie? my vision isn't what it used to be. so kat? monkeys that can't see. >> okay. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy wednesday. in the fall of 2021, not so long ago, america's supply chains came close to snapping. more than 100 cargo ships were floating off the coast of l.a. and long beach. the two biggest ports on the west coast. they were filled with consumer
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this is work, he said. though in fact, he had played no role whatsoever in giving birth to a child. "it may be time away from a professional role, but it's very much time on." and actually it was time on. time on television. pete buttigieg was on "the view" where he spoke about his favorite subject, himself. not the container disaster. me, me, me. meanwhile, the ships stacked up outside the ports and inflation went up. so that should conclusively have been the end of pete buttigieg's career as transportation secretary. back to mackenzie for you. whatever you think of his personal journey of self-discovery, there was an emergency in progress and buttigieg ignored it. if there's grounds for firing somebody, it's that. but the biden administration praised him for breaking a glass
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ceiling that you're supposed to be excited about. they rewarded his dereliction of duty. people do respond to incentives, pete buttigieg kept doing it. he kept proudly ignoring his job. weeks after a train derailed in east palestine ohio which created a disaster, pete buttigieg has still not visited east palestine. why? what has he been doing? as he explained last night, he's taking more personal time. >> what dow to say to the folks in ohio, east palestine that are suffering right now? >> i'll refer you to a dozen of interviews i've done today. reach out to the press office and look at the conversation. >> you don't have a message for them? >> i do and i shared it with the press many times today. >> do you mind sharing it with us? >> no, right now i'm talking
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personal time and walking down the street. >> are you going down there at all? >> yep, i am. >> when are you going? >> i'll let you know when i'm ready. can i get a photo? >> tucker: i'm taking some personal time. not just a robot. could i get a photo of you? he did. you won'ter what pete buttigieg is going to do with that photo. makes you shiver if you think about it. we'll stop. meanwhile outside his cocoon of bistros and instagram selfies, life goes on in america. not that he cares. here's the mayor of east palestine nearly two weeks after the derailment explaining that he heard anything from pete buttigieg. watch. >> i don't know. your guess is as good as mine. >> tucker: that was last week.
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he still didn't go. this week people in east palestine are coughing up blood. we know that because we talked to a couple of them last night. still, pete buttigieg has not shown up. donald trump has, by the way. he went today. he's not able to fix the problem. it's not like he's the secretary of transportation. but trump did bring pallets of bottled water and bought the entire fire department dinner at mcdonald's. whatever you think of trump, at least he cared enough to go there. that's something. in fact, it's enough to make you wonder how somebody that doesn't care at all, not even a little bit, doesn't pretend he cares wound up with one of the most important jobs in the biden cabinet. a job with actual responsibilities. how did he to that? we know what the answer is. no, pete buttigieg doesn't know anything about transportation. we would bet money he can't drive a stick shift. the other hand, pete buttigieg is gay. he plays the piano and he speaks norwegian. let's hire him.
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watch. >> there he was yesterday front and center, now third in the polls with a speech that many have said are historic. >> he's inspirational. that's something that voters want. >> he has this appeal for a lot of reasons. he's a veteran. he's openly gay. he's from indiana. >> you are concert pianist. you speak many languages including norwegian because you wanted to read a book. >> the second coming of obama. my prayers have been answered. >> young, fresh, positive and a change agent. >> this guy is chicken soup for my soul. >> tucker: so you sort of long to see pete buttigieg fired from his job. it's nothing personal. how many people hate pete buttigieg. what pete buttigieg is like or how well his norwegian is irrelevant. you long to see him fired because you want to see someone
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at some point held accountable for disasters. when the biden administration pulled out of afghanistan and armed the taliban with one of the largest militaries in the entire region, nobody was punished. the only person in the u.s. military thatter with aware of that was punished for that debacle was the guy who complained about it. that's it. no one was ever punished for covid. when it turns out the convenience didn't do anything. the lockdowns hurt more people than they helped. when fauci was caught lying about virtually everything. not one person was punished. so it would be encouraging to see someone punished for this debacle. for the 1,000 train derailments we have every year as pete buttigieg be informed us of the other day. pete buttigieg has not been fired and he likely won't be. why is that? we're thinking it's because he's
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on board with the core idea of the biden administration. that is equity. equity means we're going to make decisions based on how you look. pete buttigieg is all in on that. watch him explain that actually all lives don't matter. >> 2015, you said that all lives matter when you spoke about two police controversies happening in south bend. was that a mistake? >> what i did not understand at that time is that that phrase just early in to mid, especially 2015 was a counter slogan to black lives matter. so this statement that seems very -- something that nobody could be against actually wound up being used to devalue what the black lives matter movement was telling us. since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back, i stopped using it in that context. >> tucker: imagine apologizing for saying all lives matter.
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they don't all matter says the head of the department of transportation. you can see now that he means it. a train derails on his watch in a town full of high school educated trump voters that nobody cares about and have been left behind and they're further ignored. that's not environmental racism, no. it's equity. so clearly he knows all lives don't matter and he's being rewarted for it. victor davis hanson joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. wouldn't it be nice to see somebody pay some price for ineptitude and indifference? >> yeah, it would. he's jumped the proverbial shark. his on qualifications for the job were his identity politics credentials and the fact that he went to harvard and oxford and the media and the bicoastal elite gagaed over him.
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otherwise, he had the un-midas touch. everything he's touched, whether it was the port crowding at our major ports or the train robbing of trains going in to the ports or these four accidents where airliners crashed on the southwest implosion or the meltdown over the season with the airline or the rail cars. everything he ignores or offers platitudes. how ironic that on the eve or right in the midst of this tragedy in east palestine of this white working class tiny community with an income average of about $45,000, he was lecturing the nation that white hard hats don't look like the community that they are working in. that's not true. he's pandering and ignorant and inaccurate. here in california, most of the
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construction workers are hispanics and it's the white upper class people. that's the way america works. in lieu of doing something, he has a rhetorical or abstract victory. i think people finally just feel they're tired of it. he's afraid. he talks very bold and like he's bold and he's dynamic. he's very cowardly. he's afraid to go in and confront these people and tell them why that fema wasted two weeks before they addressed their concerns and why he hasn't been there. we know the reason. he doesn't want to sit there and talk to people when they ask him questions he can't answer. so he's sort of what this entire cabinet is. this cabinet was predicated on identity politics, first in their field, or candidates that pulled out and gave the nomination to joe biden. otherwise, none had any experience or expertise in the field that they were supposed to
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serve us, the people. >> tucker: that's right. a little funny that they've been lecturing for two years about environmental racism and there's an actual environmental disaster in the midst of the community of people that didn't vote for them and they ignore it. that does look like environmental racism to me. >> it is. the reason is that east palestine is right on the border of pennsylvania and it's in -- it's the very area that in 2008 barack obama blasted as they clinged to their religion. we know how joe biden has called trump supporters chumps and drags. we know the deplorable category of hillary clinton. so they have a long record of disparagement of the white working class. i don't know why they think they can get away with it without some kind of reaction. it is racist. if this was in malibu or if this was in martha's vineyard or even in compton or south central,
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there would be an immediate u.s. government response by this administration. >> tucker: among the rich or the fashionable poor. these people fall through the cracks. victor davis hanson, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: so as we said, the biden administration has effectively done nothing to respond to an actual environmental disaster. donald trump by contrast visited the town today. he bought a lot of mcdonald's for cleanup crews and firemen, handed out bottled water, including trump water. trump also thanked john roark of the blue line moving company for bringing water that live there. >> i want to thank those of you that helped john roark, who is fantastic blue line moving. is he here? hello, john. good job. got a lot of trucks coming up with water, right? you're a fantastic guy. >> tucker: john roark with blue line moving joins us right now.
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thanks so much for coming on. what did you see there? what was your impression of what's happening in east palestine? >> my impression, tucker -- thanks for having me on -- are the folks are more motivated than they were at this time yesterday. that is a fact. the fact that president biden has refused to come to this small town when he's supposed to be scranton joe a small town hero of the working man and he can't show his face in a town of american citizens that need his leadership, that need the government's help terribly. he proved what everybody knew in this country, that he's not the leader for this country and that donald j. trump is the leader that we know he is. he's the leader. he proved that today. that was leadership that i saw today. i saw people standing on the streets screaming for this man. chanting "usa, usa." it gives me goose bumps.
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to have president trump personally thank me, i mean, to -- almost brought me to tears. i'm just a humble guy, a working man. family man. to be able to, you know, have someone like him thank me personally was a big deal. >> tucker: so big picture for one second since you were there. 2015, trump emerges out of nowhere and becomes the nominee. the media says wait, there's a lot of forgotten people in forgotten towns, people that were born here and been completely ignored. maybe we should pay some attention to these people that were dying younger than the rest of us. i don't think that ever happened. did the people of east palestine who you spoke to feel like anyone was paying attention to them in power? >> absolutely not. these people need help. okay? we're putting illegal aliens in hotels and five star accommodations in new york city and the people of east palestine can't get a real hotel to stay
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in for a significant amount of time or real money that they can go and get their own vrbo or something like that, somewhere where they can take a month and get away from the town and get away from breathing in the nasty air and having to see hundreds of workers -- every tributary has aerators in it and spraying water in the rivers. people don't have any idea what the hell is going on right now in east palestine. they have no idea. that's because of people like pete buttigieg and joe biden. they literally have no idea what they're doing. that's why they're not there. because someone will call them out. that's what they're afraid of. >> tucker: yeah. they're lucky that rural america is peaceful and law abiding unlike the cities that wouldn't put up with this. thanks, john. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so you know what a grand jury is.
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>> tucker: whatever you think of donald trump, when he's unleashed in a crowd of peopler, he's unbelievable. if you have seen the tape in mcdonald's, treat yourself. you don't have to love trump to know that he's good at this. it's real. he feels it. that's why he's so good at it. he's a huge threat. in a normal country in democracy, you let voters decide whether to run the country again. but no, partisan prosecutors at all level, state and federal, are trying to prevent him from running for president. it's true. it's happening. fulton county, georgia, for example, prosecutors have a grand jury going and they have put a self-described witch on it. this is a grand jury investigating trump for election interference. for complaining about what was clearly an unfair election. this woman is called emily coors.
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she's the foreperson of the injury. she posts online about different spells that she can cast. cnn just interviewed her. how did it go? we'll let you assess. watch. >> it's not a short list. >> it's not a short list? >> when it comes to 75 witnesses, is it -- i assume it's not 75 people. would you characterize it as 20ish people? >> i can't say i counted. >> okay. >> more than a dozen i heard say in another interview? >> i believe so. i'd be interested to know. >> i'm sure we'll hear more from him after it all comes out. >> i will be happy as long as something happens. >> tucker: yeah, just a jury of your peers. guaranteed by the constitution. charlie joins us. i mean, i didn't know this was allowed. i didn't know the foreperson is allowed to do cnn interviews
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while the grand jury is empanelled. what is your take? >> and she was picked by the other jurors to be the foreperson. i'd hate to see the rest of the jurors, this woman is a lunatic obviously as you point out. but she's -- this is kind of what you get with america on tik tok. this is -- to her this is all a big social media thing. and the fact that she's -- not to mention they things -- grand juries are supposed to be done in secret. she's blown through that. it raises questions, gee, what else is going on in secret if this is the sort of thing that you wind up with? if nothing else, she's a poster child for why we should only allow people to have jobs and pay taxes to sit on jurors and a poster child for avoiding online dating. >> tucker: that is absolutely true. i'm not going to take the bait
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on that, charlie. big picture what's going on here, democrats are using the legal system to stop a presidential candidate for running from president. you don't have to love trump -- doesn't matter. if you believe in our system and want to continue, you should be outraged. but nobody is saying anything so far as i can tell. >> that's the serious side of this. she's ridiculous and easy to make fun of her. think if this is an actual serious case. think if you had actual serious adult prosecutors prosecuting a serious case. you're the person that was facing life in jail. you looked up in the jury box and you saw this lunatic sitting in the jury box? these people make a mockery of everything that we stand for. i'd argue more important than voting in this country is the concept of a jury of your peers.
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you can't be railroaded by a bunch of people that aren't like you, that don't come from your society. the idea that you would have a grand jury with people like this on it makes a mockery of all of that. >> tucker: that's right. that could be you. that is right. i hope people think about it. charlie hurt, thank you. >> great to see you. >> tucker: one of the scariest examples of disintegration is the collapse of safety standards in commercial aviation. that is absolutely real. we'll tell you the story after the break about equity's effect on safety and it's scary and hopefully people wake up and do something about it. we'll be right back.
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in antigua. he was the leader of the family, said his brother. we all looked up to him. he was a monday of deep religious faith. we know that because his final words in the second before his death were "lord you now have my soul." imagine saying that as your final sentence. but his death is a scandal. the reason he died is a scandal. many in the aviation industry know about it but it's never mentioned in public. we thought we would tell you because there's lessons in his death for all of us who travel commercially. in february of 2019, aska was the first officer piloting an amazon prime cargo jet for atlas air. aska assumed full control of the plane. he accidentally pressed a switch that put the plane in to
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go-around mode and that gave the plane a jolt of thrust. he panicked. instead of checking his instruments, he pushed down hard on the control yolk as hard as he could and the plane nose dived and in to the water. it killed him, his co pilot and another pilot just hitching a ride. so it's obvious from those facts alone that conrad aska, a decent man though he was should not have been in control of an airplane. his personnel records confirm that. before he started flying 767s for amazon, he was a pilot for seven different airlines. several instructors at mesa airlines reported that he was overwhelmed in the cockpit as he was on the day he died. one pilot later told the ntsb that in emergencies, aska became
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anxious and would started pushing buttons without thinking about what he was pushing just to be doing something. to be clear, for a pilot, that can be deadly and it was. atlas air said they were not aware of this when he was hired. once he arrived, he was so deficient in the simulator, they had to restart simulator training for him. all of his other classmates had gradated. in their final report, the ntsb cited as a cause systemic deficiencies in the aviation industry selection and performance measurement practices which failed to address the first officers aptitude related deficiencies and malad aadaptive stress resp. those are all things that the military and airlines screen for since aviation began.
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and aska's family knew that. they have gone on to file lawsuits for gross negligence, specifically foruts man in the cockpit despite his obvious inability to fly an airplane. so why was he flying an airplane? well, in his specific case, we don't have a definsive answer, but it seems obvious. airlines like atlas air, in fact, all the airlines are doing their best to hire and retrain pilots on the basis of irrelevant criteria like their appearance. your appearance to restate has nothing to do with your ability to fly an airplane or perform heart surgery or anything. it's immaterial. on their websites, amazon and at last air explain that diversity is paramount in everything that they do. they say we leverage diversity, equity and inclusion as a
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business strategy and driver of innovation. we're guided by dei philosophy. yes, apparently you are. look at the results. amazon, of course, says the same thing. this is not an outlier. this is not just happening at atlas air. this is happening in every major carrier in the united states. safety concerns ignored in favor of something called equity. hiring by appearance, not by ability. this is insane. in this case, it killed three people. united airlines has promised 50% of the new trainees will be women and minorities. right. not the best pilots, but people that look a certain way. as we told you, in december a united boeing 777 came within seconds of hitting the ocean. it dropped out of the sky. the pilots that apparently were not properly trained or hired for the wrong reasons were sent
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back to training. thankfully the hundreds of people survived on that plane. but this kind of thing is happening across the industry. talk to anyone that works there. talk to any working pilot right now. the airlines are in a mad scramble to meet equity targets. meaning they are pushing safety aside in favor of ideology. people will die. people have died. it's going to happen again. this should stop. well, you're hearing a lot about people that transition, but what about people that detransition? who submitted to gender transition, to sexual mutilation. take hormone distorting instruction and came back. what was the experience like? why did they do it in the first place and what did they learn? we'll talk to someone that went through it after the break.
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porn. porn gave him the idea that he might be a woman. so he consulted doctors and very quickly they put him on estrogen and that made his problems worse. brian wagner no longer believed what his doctors told him. he's back to how he was born, a man and he joins us now to explain what he went through. thanks, brian, for coming on tonight. if you could sum up -- i'm sure this is a three-hour long conversation. if you can sum up the amazing experience you had. how would you describe it? >> well, thanks for having me on, tucker. i appreciate it. like you said, when i was a young man, when i was in college, close to a decade ago, i was extremely alienated. i had a drug problem. mainly crystal meth and other party drugs. i went down a bizarre rabbit hole of online pornography. i developed a sex fetish.
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it's embarrassing to say but it's the truth. i went to see a therapist that specialized in sex issues. she told me that i was really a woman and that she and i had this same brain. and that basically all my problems in life were because i was actually a woman in a man's body, even though i had severe drug problems, had mood disorders and other issues. i looked terrible when i went to see this woman. i was underweight, i was paranoid out of my mind from using methamphetamines. none of that matters. it was all about having me go to a clinic to get prescribed estrogen. medicine to prevent my body from making testerone which i took for many years. my problems got worse. i added new problems. i feel like the therapist that i
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went to see was an activist that happened to practice therapy, too. and hear in california, there's nothing to protect people from it. now it's even more quite frankly crazy. you can just go in to one of these consent clinics and you don't need a therapist's letter anymore. it's completely patient-led. it's the only form of medicine that is patient led. so i just advocate for better safeguarding and high quality assessments. i want to help everyone. when you're de-trans or transgender. i want everybody to be protected. as it is now, detransitioning, i feel like i'm a collateral damage for a movement that i'm not part of. they completely ignore me and they don't want to hear these stories. my story is real, my pain is real. yeah, it's a real thing. i thank god every day of my life that i never had any plastic
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surgery. i took hormones and it messed me up. i had my facial hair removed. i think i'll bounce back. i feel like once i got sober, i started to have actual gender dysphoria when people treated me like a woman when i didn't before. so yeah, i mean, it was like leaving the twilight zone. some of the better episodes of the twilight zone is what the protagonist leaves the twilight zone but everybody else is still in it. yeah, i just -- i feel like i've been harmed by this and i wish that -- i don't want anyone else to experience what i experienced. so i'm out of the twilight zone and, you know, i'm a very happy and successful man. you know, i hope that my experience helps somebody. >> tucker: that's one of the saddest stories i've heard in a long time. i don't have anything to add but i hope you tell your story far
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and wide and i'm grateful that you're willing to tell us i don't remember story. brian, thank you. >> thank you, tucker. i appreciate it. >> tucker: i do. so joe biden, who even if you like him, is not a genius. wound up with an institute, an academic institute at the university of delaware. turns out that institute operated a lot like joe biden's fake think tank, the university of pennsylvania. both of them attracted suspiciously large amount of foreign money from foreign governments. china, saudi arabia, turkey. donated millions to the university of delaware after the biden institute opened. we have details on this thanks to the washington freebie con. thanks so much. you may have answered the question, what is the bide institute? what have you learned? >> i think the biggest concern on this story is the millions of dollars that have been pouring in in foreign money to penn, to
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university of delaware and whether that has any connection to the biden think tanks that are on these campuses. you know, we looked apartment the department of education records. we found that the university of delaware took in $6.5 million from china, they took in $23 million from saudi arabia. penn took in over $100 million if foreign donations including $60 million from china. this was just after like in the years since these think tanks had been founded. so the question is, you know, is there any connection there? did any of this foreign money go to these think tanks? did any fishes that work at these think tanks meet with foreign donors at all? we know that foreign governments use donations to universities in order to buy influence. when you have a think tank tied to the president's name and i -- and could be a recipe for
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disaster when you have opaque funding situations. >> tucker: i'm no education. i went to trinity. i'm not beating up on the university of delaware. but is the university of delaware famous in turkey, china, saudi arabia? why would they be giving money to the university of delaware? >> it's an interesting question. a lot of these universities take in money. this is a large amount, particularly penn. somebody that covered the clinton foundation, this is -- this situation, the setup that biden has is kind of like a sketchier version of the clinton foundation if that's possible. you know, at least the clinton foundation disclosed a list of donors. at least the clinton foundation had to put together some financial disclosure records because they're required to. there's no similar requirements for the setup that biden has with these think tanks at the
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universities and they're not voluntarily disclosing this information either so it's definitely an issue, especially when you have these think tanks that had employed senior administration officials, senior members of his cabinet and currently his sister as well at the university of delaware. >> tucker: nothing more corrupt than this. thanks, alana. >> thank you. >> tucker: there's been a huge increase in sudden and unexplained deaths. so big that mortuaries and insurance companies are not quite sure what to do about it. most people don't know what's happening. we have details after the break.
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years. why is this happen something ed dowd noticed this and wanted to get to the bottom of it so he called insurance companies and mortuaries and then wrote a book about it called "cases unknown." when people die, it matters. we talked to him for an hour on a new episode of "tucker carlson today." here's part of it. >> i would say the only thing that changed using common sense and deductive reasoning is a mass vaccination campaign and mandates. that's where i would start to explain that it's been detrimental to your health to be i'm employed in 2021 and 22. clearly the numbers showed excess deaths have been higher for the employed and disabilities are higher for the employed. so if it's not the vaccines, what is it? at the very least it's a national secured issue. when covid happened, there were a lot of beneficiaries from it.
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central banks got off the hook from what i saw as a global slow down. they printed unprecedented amounts of money to cover up what we're going to have eventually is a global debt default. they got off the hook. you have the tech companies excited licking their chops with a new surveillance economy. they knew that was coming. so they entered to partnership with the government to censor any dissent. they were going to be excited about it. the pharma companies that were going to make money off of what they saw were unlimited vaccine quarterly injections. that was the plan at the time. quarterly boosters under the color of law. and then you had the media companies that are getting cash flows from pharmaceutical companies and also the government, we found out the government paid media companies
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to promote the vaccine. so i don't view it as a bunch of people smoking cigars laughing. i think it as momentum built and there was a conspiracy of interests. >> tucker: everyone knows this is happening. who is paying attention? a lot of speculation about it and some:it is out there. ed dowd is a numbers guy. it's an amazing conversation. if you're interested, you should watch it. it's on fox nation right now. the state of california has proclaimed that everything is racist. that's why they're handing out checks. when we say that, we mean police dogs. jason rantz covers the western united states. he joins us tonight. hi, jason. >> democrats are coming for police k-9s across california after corey jackson introduced a bill to ban their use in arrests and crowd control under this claim that they trigger black
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people and are used as vehicles of terror and racial bias. calling them a violent remnant of america's racist past. jackson announced this bill alongside the naacp and the aclu. >> it was first used by slave catchers. police k-9s are a violent remnant of america's past that is often forgotten but understand that it's still within the lifetime of many americans today. >> they're implying that these k-9s are targeting black and latinos for injury while being more gentle on white suspects. check this out. >> we're already giving out life sentences before someone is even proven guilty in the first place. >> they don't seem to understand how police k-9s work in the context of this bill. they're almost always deployed because there's too great a risk to the human officer.
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now, sometimes they give their lives so a human can live. the irony in this, tucker, the police defunders wanted more nonlethal tools. k-9s are one of them. >> tucker: so police dogs are killing people, not gang members. jason rantz. thanks for joining us. see you tomorrow. [applause] >> sean: all right. welcome to "hannity." we have a live studio audience. trump on the ground in east palestine. something that biden or mayor pete didn't have the time to do. and joe biden is falling up the
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