on monday on "special report." we will be coming to you from new york. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight and all this week. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and still unafraid. we have got a busy week next week of news. "jesse watters primetime" is next. starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jesse: "primetime" has been watching the democrats pretty closely this year. everybody from hillary to gavin newsom is looking to knock joe off the throne but, what about the republicans? who is going to be the republican nominee for president? well, it looks like it's going to be a crowded field. a lot of people are sniffing around, some you know, some you don't. and some you don't want to know. "primetime" is going to be kicking the tires on all the candidates. we will have a couple of republicans on next week to see what they are all about. now, out of everybody who has announced, trump is in the lead and we will show you the polling in a second.

we are now seeing another guy from florida make moves. ron desantis is reportedly telling people in his circle he is set on running. sources tell "the washington post" he is going to declare in may or june. desantis has 70 mill in the back left over from run for governor. and desantis super pacs are coming alive. i don't know how it could be more obvious but ron desantis is in iowa today. >> if you talk to floridians, there's no drama in our administration. there's no palace intrigue. they basically just sit back and say okay, what's the governor going to do next and we roll out and we execute and we do things and we get things done. and, in the process, we beat the left day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. [applause] >> jesse: no drama ron. that's a clear shot at the former president. no drama and execute. we're going to see those themes repeated from the desantis camp. desantis winning the iowa caucus would be very big. trump didn't win iowa in 2016,

so the door is open. and polls there have trump and desantis neck and neck. 80% of republicans say they like trump. 75% say they like desantis. in florida, desantis beats trump in the republican primary 52 to 27. this is according to a university of north florida poll. i don't know. but, when you zoom out nationwide, trump is beating desantis 43, 28, a solid margin. an emerson poll says trump beats biden but biden beats desantis. but all these polls are way too early. both of these guys can beat biden. another clue desantis is running, he put a book out and he is on a huge book tour. it's the move to visit all the primary states without having to officially announce. obama did it, hillary did it, trump did it, desantis is doing it right now. and desantis has sold more books his first week than any of them. the book's good. i'm reading it. a lot of it is focused on his pandemic policies, antilockdown, anti-mandate.

and his ferocious attacks on woke ideology. that's a big part of his image. >> we are also leading on insuring that our school system is focusing on educating our kids, not indoctrinating our kids. [applause] it is wrong to tell a second grader they were born in the wrong body. it is wrong to have gender ideology imposed in our schools. and in florida we don't let it happen. we have fought the fight and we are going to do more. [applause] >> jesse: desantis needs to promote economic message. message on wages because the economy is always the top issue and trump's a businessman who had a great economy until covid. so he needs to contrast his economic policies with trump's. desantis has never been in the private sector, so you know trump is going to hit him on that. the former president made his case at cpac last week. >> i will save your economy. i will save your retirement

accounts. and i will save your jobs. we have the greatest job history of any president ever. i will create a true national trade policy like the kind that made america the world's economic power house. and i will stop joe biden's demolition of our economy with his crushing inflation and mass layoffs. we will take care of inflation very, very quickly. >> jesse: we saw trump at cpac. desantis didn't go. we also saw trump in east palestine which made a big impression on a lot of people. and the former president is also going to be in iowa. he is going to be there on monday talking about education, which is kind of desantis' wheelhouse, interesting. there is also already been buzz about do donald's vp short list. all women, kari lake, she is a big personality who has already told desantis wait your turn, ron. and nikki haley, another option, she is running for president and is also in iowa today. kristi noem also on the list. the governor of south dakota an

a attractive candidate. sarah huckabee sanders a good friend of the show who is now governor of arkansas. and trump is already would workshopping nicknames for desantis none of them have stuck yet. ron desanctimonious. ron dishonest. ron establishment tiny d and meatball ron. just a rumor. trump says he is not considering meatball ron. desantis is doing something that nobody has ever been able to do before though. is he staying disciplined and not taking trump's bait. >> he used to say how great of a governor i was. and then i win a big victory and all of the sudden he had different opinions. so you can take that for what it's worth. you know, at the end of the day, one of the reasons i have been successful as governor is i don't really pay attention to a lot of the bang ground noise. i mean, you know, is he only a big fish. but i get attacked all the time from every different angle and you either put points on the board or you don't. so i just focus on delivering the wins and i think we have done a pretty good job of following through on our

promises. >> jesse: you can't ignore trump forever. eventually desantis have to go face-to-face on the debate stage with him. that's the moment that's going to define desantis. the first 30 minutes of the debate will tell us if desantis has a shot. if the florida governor can land a big shot early in that debate, it's game on. not enough for him to sit there and weather the blows. he needs to come out big and draw blood. show that he has got what it takes. it's got to be real, too. it can't be prepackaged. and, as usual, investigations are still swirling around the former president. he has got an election interference case in georgia but the forewoman is a giggly wicken so that's discredited. also have a special counsel investigation over the classified documents that's entirely political. biden has a special counsel investigation, too. so that can cancel out. and then you have the stormy daniels case in new york. the d.e.a. here, alvin bragg, is going to go after trump on a misdemeanor business accounting charge. and then trying to tie it to a

federal beef for campaign finance since he paid off stormy before an election like he wouldn't have paid her off anyway. so, even if he gets a federal conviction, it's still not mandatory prison time and even the "new york times" said this is an exotic and untested legal prosecution strategy. never even been tried before. here is trump on that case. >> radical left democrats, the fake news media, and the department of injustice. [laughter] to bring charges against me now ancient affair story stormy horse face daniels no traction. >> jesse: it is on. and "primetime" is going to cover it honestly. turn it over to martha mccallum, she is the anchor and executive editor of the story. how big of a threat is desantis to donald trump at this stage? >> well, that what makes this so fascinating, right?

i love that kari lake said you know it's not his turn, right? i always think that politicians have to have a very strong instinct for when their moment is. i think ron desantis has that instinct about this moment. anybody who questions that and whenever people start telling tg you know wait your turn and sit back i think the trump folks have indicated that to the antioxidant team time and time again that they would love it if he would wait a little bit longer. y. >> jesse: doesn't look like he is waiting. >> i think about chris christie who missed his moment. he could have run against obama that second term and romney ended up getting that nomination and losing. he was sort of getting the kind of energy and attention in some ways that ron desantis gets now. a tough governor, someone who is willing to take on the teachers unions in that case and desantis' case it's disney, it's wokeism. it's all of that. i did -- bret and i did a debate with desantis, you know, when he was running adam putnam the florida agriculture. >> ainsley: how was he on that debate? >> he surprised everyone.

the thinking going into it that putnam was the stronger candidate at that point. you remember he won that governor's race by a very slim margin. he did very well that night. i think he knew what the stakes were that evening. he had a less impressive debate against charlie crist in the last governor's round. >> he may have been resting on his laurels a little bit. >> jesse: do you agree with my assessment that he needs to come out strong in the first 30 and land serious blows. >> i thought it was very interesting discussion that you had with him. i think that's probably the strongest i have seen him come out against trump in those statements. there's no doubt that he knows and he watched what happened in 2015 when trump systematically pushed every single one of those contenders off the stage. >> jesse: what is the strategy on a debate stage with donald trump? he says no drama, i execute. but there has got to be something more in terms of the personal man-on-man deal. >> well, you know what? i think he can play up the fact that he is a new generation. >> jesse: call him old guy. call him old? >> martha: can you do that very skillfully the way that ronald

reagan handled it in some ways. we will so see if the former president does that this is such an unusual situation. i don't think this is discussed enough. you know, since grover cleveland you haven't had a former president who took a semester off so to speak. sort of a once removed president. what does that do to the four years that happened in between to how people feel about you as a former president? we know his numbers are very solid people strong supporters of his. i think that's an opening, too. there is a wedge there. there is a pause and pretty big moment in between. i think he can leverage his age. leverage the florida numbers in the governor's race and the fact that he is ahead of trump in florida in his own home state. >> jesse: he is getting a lot of attention and he has got the book out but trump is still the big dog. >> martha: absolutely. >> jesse: if you want to be the king you have got to beat the king. >> martha: 100 percent. going to be fascinating. >> jesse: "primetime" got the cartels to apologize now the mexican president is talking smack. ♪

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>> jesse: yesterday the gulf cartel apologize dollars for kidnapping and killing the tummy tuck tourists. didn't september will polling saying you can't accept the apology we are retracting it because mexican president says it's not mexico's problem the u.s. has a bunch of drug addicts. >> we don't produce fentanyl here. and we don't have consumption of fentanyl we regret very much what is happening to the united states. why don't they attend to the problem. why don't they combat the distribution of fentanyl in the united states. the cartels in the united states

that are in charge of distributing fentanyl and even deeper, why don't they attend to their young people? why don't they attend to their grave problem of social decay. >> jesse: i think i might like trudeau than the mexican president. by the way the cartels of the united states these are cartels el chapo wasn't from iowa. it would be a lot easier to stop the traffickers if we close the border. i agree we have a drug problem and a biden problem. neither of them will be able to solve any time soon. why don't you, mexico mexico help a brother out because you do produce fentanyl there china ships you the synthetics, you grab them cook them up and move them north. this isn't my first day. now, i get it. it doesn't help when we have mayors like eric adams enticing every illegal latin to come to new york for free college. that's right. eric adams says the taxpayers have not gone enough. $500 a night hotel rooms, culturally appropriate food and

cribbage not enough. send jose and marie to college for free in new york. but when we go to mexico we get shot. when they come to america they get the freshman 15 that's why republicans want to put the military option on the table. not nuking cancun. just designate the cartel terrorist organization so a targeted strike is in the conversation. now the mexican president is feeling the heat and he is lashing out. >> one of the coordinators of the republican party yesterday raised the issue of initiative for the armed forces of the united states to intervene in mexico to combat drug trafficking, especially to prevent, according to him, fentanyl from mexico getting into the united states. once and for all, we will not per mitt the intervention of any foreign government and, much less, allow the armed forces of the foreign government in our territory. >> jesse: so if i had drug

cartels overrunning my country i would say hey, uncle sam i think i just saw a chinese balloon flying over a drug lab. here are the coordinates send mya side winder. is it me or the mexican president sending safe haven to the drug cartels. i'm a peaceful man and mexico is a top trading partner. we all want what is good for business. i'm getting a little tired of the mental can government's attitude here. i'm getting tired of american bodies piling up. so something has to give. i already heard from a neighbor this morning that the family's canceling trip to mexico and flying to hawaii instead. the "primetime" travel advisory still stands. we don't want our sec schools going down mexico and getting kidnapped. that's a lot of talent to put at risk. and one of the guys obrador is calling out is congressman dan crenshaw who joins us now. what is your posture towards mexico? >> well, look, i'm from the mexican people. i'm for the american people. i'm against the cartels. i would think that the president

of mexico amlo would also be against the cartels gave a great intro jesse. he is clearly not against the cartels. he is clearly defending the cartels at the detriment of his own people. cartels have killed a lot of americans whether through lacing drugs with fentanyl or just murdering when they go down to g.e.d. get a medical appointment. they have killed a lot more mexicans, tens of thousands of mexicans have been disappeared by the cartels, politicians are either killed or bought off and mexican people are sick of it. this guy threatened recently to come campaign against republicans who support helping the mexican people. >> jesse: please, come campaign against republicans. >> i'm super worried about it. jesse, i'm really worried. i think it's going to be a real problem in my district. i have actually been hearing from both mexican nationals and immigrants in our country thank you. thank you. this has been a problem for 20 years. they have been terrorizing the mexican people. so what's my stance towards mexico. if i could choose one country outside the u.s. and make it 10

times better it would be mexico. it's one of our most important trading partners. and most important ally. it's right here in our hemisphere we need mexico to be successful. i care deeply about the mexican people. i spent five, six years living in latin america. this is not a foreign place to me. i speak spanish. this -- it is really, really important to me that the mexican people are safe and prosperous because that's better for the united states. >> jesse: can you guarantee the safety of some of the college students? you have a lot of beautiful colleges down there going on spring break do you think they are safe. >> they haven't been safe for a long time. it's not just these unfortunate killings that just happened. when he says there's no fentanyl dealing in mexico. that's a flat out lie. there has recently been reports that normal pharmaceuticals bought from pharmacies in mexico are laced with fentanyl. it's everywhere. and, yes, they take it.

yes, they are a consumer, too. yes, they are producing it. we all know this you know. this i don't have to convince you of it. is he an outright liar. not just him, his foreign minister wrote a letter against me personally too. their senate majority leader. i have, i guess, rent free living space in their heads right now. >> jesse: nothing would help the republican party more if mexican president and foreign minister would come campaign against you guys in the united states. well, listen, we just want to show these guys, our neighbor some tough love because we have had enough. dan crenshaw, have a great weekend. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: "primetime" and aoc don't agree on anything. number one, i don't want to tax the rich this any more than we are taxing them. you don't become rich by taxing the rich. also, we don't agree on sunscreen. >> five things. one, double cleanse in the evening. two, if you are my age retinal in the evening. three vitamin c in the morning. four, moisturizer, five, sunscreen. sunscreen. >> jesse: we also don't agree on crime. >> if we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the

number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them. >> jesse: now, aoc shocked me when she came around finally on east palestine. >> this committee needs to hold a hearing on what is on the derailment in east palestine. this is not just a disaster site it is a potential crime scene. >> jesse: we only thought aoc cared about toxic masculinity after a month aoc finally came around to the toxic train wreck. we are taking credit for it obviously she must have been watching. tiny correction, we do let people return to the scene of the crime. the fbi let biden spend the weekend at his house before they raided it for classified documents. coming up, find out what's going through cops' minds when they do something like this. [put the gun down. put the gun down. [gunshots]

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not clear if he will sign it or not. i'm jonathan hunt, now back to "jesse watters primetime." ♪ ♪ [gunfire] >> get down, get down. >> drop it, drop it. drop the gun. [shouting] drop the gun. [gunfire] >> jesse: that was new body cam footage out of las vegas showing the battle our officers face on the streets every day. las vegas officers were pursuing a female suspect after she robbed the store and drove off in a stolen vehicle. when they tried to apprehend her, she pointed her gun right at them. a lot of times our police go into situations knowing they may not even make it back home to their families like in phoenix, arizona, when police confronted an alleged u-haul thief he pointed his gun right at the cops, forcing them to fatally shoot him. watch. >> put the [bleep] gun down. drop the [bleep] gun. drop it!

drop it! you got. [gunshots] >> jesse: law enforcement officials are always having to make split second decisions to protect the innocent. other in california, after a criminal assaulted his girlfriend, he took their 5-year-old son hostage. they then set fire to his apartments while holding a massive kitchen knife in an attempt to kill his son and himself. an officers tried to negotiate with him in the end had to take him down to save the kid, watch? >> [siren] >> you don't want to see this. >> no, i do. >> [inaudible] >> what are you going to do then. >> i'm going to kill me and my kid. >> don't do that. >> [inaudible] >> i don't want to do that, man. >> i want you to do that, bro. >> i don't want, man. >> i don't want to go to prison. i have had it. i'm not going to go to prison. is that what you want? >> nobody wants. [gunshot]

in fire alarm] >> shouting] >> society is always focusing on victims and if it's not the victims they are focusing on the assailants what often goes missing is this what are the officers feeling? how are they processing these interactions? how do they approach the job? how much stress do they take home with them and what motivates them? there is a new book out that answers these questions? "walk the blue line" a collection of real life stories told by law enforcement professionals in their own words. warrant officers, swat team members, homicide detectives recounting some of the most political moments of their careers in gripping detail and the emotions that come with it. this is a peek inside the hearts and minds of american police. james patterson is the author of "walk the blue line." james, what had you learned that you hadn't known before after writing this book? did. >> you know, so much. i have been writing about the

law enforcement for 30 years. i thought i knew a lot. i didn't know anything. we had 7,000 pages of interviews. turned it into this 260, 70 pages, whatever. and readers. i wish everybody in congress could read this because you learn so much. you understand something you thought you understood it but you didn't. >> jesse: it's the humanity. >> how dangerous it is. >> jesse: humanity, the danger, the risk, goes into every interaction that these guys face and the calculations that they're making in real time and, also, the things they are learning from the people that they are protecting. >> you mentioned humanity i have been criticized for humanizing the police. >> jesse: really? >> how crazy is that? i think all of these situations if you think about memphis or louisville, there is two sides to these things and yes, sometimes there is a tragedy. i did a ride along and the police chief, in that county they had 1 million calls for

help that year. this was last year. >> jesse: wow. >> and the volume is just unbelievable. every time you go into somebody's door you stop a car, you don't know what's going to happen. you could get shot at. it's such a difficult job. and this is another thing, we have gotten with soldier where we are going, thank you for your service. we have to do the same thing with the police. thank you for your service. >> and they say that's one of the only things that really, really makes them feel great. when you go up to an officer and you say "thank you." that connection and just that comment really hits home for them. one of the things i also took away from this and this is a great page turner and i recommend everybody read it, especially congress if they read anything, that we don't need robots wearing the badge. we need human beings. >> right. yeah. and we just need to balance the picture. we need to balance it. there are problems with the police sometimes. and there are problems

neighborhoods. people need to talk to each other. they need to understand. and that's what the book does, hopefully. >> jesse: reason james wrote this book so he never gets another speeding ticket. we are on to you, james. >> that could work. i don't know. we'll see. i keep it in my car. if it's under 10 miles per hour under the speed limit i have a chance or over the speed limit. >> jesse: license and registration oh, it's under this book. what do you know? all right, james patterson "walk the blue line." everybody read. this. >> jesse: leading public life can be hearted. not everybody can take up painting like george bush. sometimes you just need a little escape to clear your head. >> you may have heard that things didn't exactly go the way i planned. [laughter] but, you know what? i'm doing okay. [applause] >> i have gotten to spend time with my family, especially my amazing grandchildren. long walks in the woods. [applause]

[laughter] organizing my closets, right? i won't lie. chardonnay helped a little, too. >> jesse: but long walks and chardonnay aren't for everybody. some people have a tough time slipping back into everyday life. somebody like james comey, the former fbi director has been out of the spotlight for a while. "primetime" wanted to check in on him to see how old jimmy was doing. after looking at his social media, we will be honest, sensing some weirdness here. jim stopped taking carol of himself. he is acting like your depressed uncle during the pandemic, remember? he grew out the beard, leaning real hard into the grizzly adams look? classic retirement move. he is also thinking of getting into a new line of work starting a comey family bakery. he can't stop raving about patrice's homemade scones. and there is comey's quest to become an instagram influencer. his page is littered with pages rocking rainbow flag shirts and

showing support for the lgbtq plus community with some colorful socks. and he wouldn't be an influencer unless he was trying to tell you how to vote. don't worry, jimmy might be hanging in there getting into the right head space by getting into his yoga nomi n yog nomast. a liberal city has a new idea to fight crime. pay gang bangers to bang less. ♪ oh! it's daylight saving time. what's the big deal? gasp! what's the big deal? what's the big deal? what's the big deal? what's the big deal? ♪marching band music♪ ♪marching band music♪ i'll get a cart.

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>> jesse: fang violence a problem in cities across the country. question is how do you stop it? how about more policing, more patrols in bad neighborhoods. tougher sentences. city leaders in syracuse, new york we have a better idea. why don't we pay criminals not to commit crimes. that should do the trick, right? we will give gang bangers cash and tell them to quit banging. now, i don't know but, but i'm a

little skeptical, how would this even work? well, the city wants to choose 50 people between the ages of 18 and 24 who they think are high risk in a gang or hang out with trouble makers and enroll these guys in a program where they are supposed to learn how to properly function in society. a program. if they take part in the program, cha ching, $100 goes right into their pocket every week. but shoot somebody, and you are out of the program. if you get caught. so, my guess is that most of these gang bangers will attend the class to cash in their 100 and be back on out on the streets business as usu. kids staying in class don't get this trouble they don't get free cash. maybe it's just me i don't know if this seems right. well, clifford ryan is the founder of ogs against violence and supports the program being proposed and art gam boa is a former gang banger and is against it.

so, clifford, convince me that i'm wrong be here. >> first, let's address the term that you are using gang banger. we, in the community take offense to that. >> jesse: the gang bangers are offended? >> well, yes, sir. they are high risk individuals. >> jesse: oh, i don't want to offend the gang bangers, okay. >> yes. let's address them as they are. which is high risk individuals. >> jesse: i don't know they were that sensitive but i will call them high risk individuals. >> yes, yes. so the program has been put together by the mayor who appointed a special individual who is from the community, a credible messenger to head the program. he brung the organizations that are in the community fighting

against gun violence. myself included to form a coalition to, you know, reach out to these individuals and, also, continue the work that we are doing within the community. i think the program is a good program. you know, me being one of the individuals in the city as an advocate, i personally stopped 44 shootings, 300 stabbings and 1,000 fights in the community myself. >> jesse: oh you have documented all those things. that's incredible that you were able to do that. >> yes, yes. >> jesse: just explain to me, why should we pay people not to shoot people? >> you have to understand it's not about the incentive to pay someone. it's about taking the initiative to reach out to that individual person, to try to reach them and to get them to turn their lives

around. that's what the program is all about. >> jesse: okay. >> it's not about just paying somebody to stop shooting someone. it's about putting together a formidable program to help reach these individuals to help them to turn their lives around. >> jesse: i hear you buy a payment is a part of the program. >> yes, a payment is a part of the program. but it's not the only incentive. there is training involved. there's a lot of things, mental health. >> jesse: i'm okay with all of that. the payment san issue here. >> there is a lot of things involved that will, you know, help these individuals if they embrace the efforts made by the community. >> jesse: thank you very much. clifford. i have to get art in here. your response? >> i think payment would have to be an option. just invest that money in all those programs that they are really help them out like mental health and all that all it's going to do is fuel crime, i think, because, you know, they

will get the $100 probably go out and buy drugs with it. >> that's an ununfair assessment for you to say something like that is very disrespectful. okay. and you can't. >> me as a former gang member, i mean, i. >> jesse: let him talk. >> former members should know that's disrespectful. >> jesse: clifford, let him talk. >> go ahead. >> i believe investing the money in the programs would be -- that would be a good option, but as far as payment to not commit crime like they are just going to run with the money, i think. >> all right. well, we heard from both of you guys. thank you very much. we have a little bit of a disagreement. and tell all those high risk individuals that i said hello. thank you, guys. up next. >> you are welcome. >> jesse: sink or swim with kennedy and johnny joey jones and also, why is our guy holding a machete? ♪ ♪ i can't tell you who to sock

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pythons are taking over florida. they have no natural predators. they're eating everything in their path. how to you get rid of an apex predator. posse up and start killing them. phil is in the everglades with the machete. >> burmese pythons, well camouflaged, hard to spot. they can get to 20 feet. when they get to adult size, there's no predators here, unless you're a human with a machete or a gun. hundreds from around the country fly in to catch, kill, and collect prize money. it's really only barely making a dent in florida's python problem. 231 were captured last year out of an estimated 100 to 300,000

living in florida. >> this is a 14-footer that was 105 pounds. she was a monster. >> amy is a python hunt ress. at a all the way north up to ft. myers, west palm beach, and lake okeechobee. >> we have to do something. we can't just let the pythons win. maybe 20 years from now, maybe we will have made a difference. >> despite the seemingly unstoppable invasion that's devastated the mammal population by 90%. florida fish and wild life does not believe it's a lost cause. >> no, i don't think so.

it's important that we continue to address pythons in florida. they are an extremely detrimental invasive species. that's true. but we truly believe that every python removed from the landscape is a win for native wild life. >> the animals being decimated by the python include deer, raccoon, rabbits, and alligators. another big part of the problem is that the pregnant females lay 70 eggs perhach, a lot of snakes out to the sawgrass. now the pythons are being spotted in suburban neighborhoods from coast-to-coast. jesse? >> time for friendly competition in a game we call sink or swim first. kill me, hornacek, and fellas perfect storms. too bad, jer ral doe. first question, does joe biden

know something we don't. even though jill says he's running for re-election, joe is referring to this person as the maybe future -- is it kamala harris or donald trump? both going with the former, donald trump. is that right? >> i had a big fight with the former and maybe future. >> oh. was that a slip of the tongue? or does he know something we don't. >> he's trying to do the scare tactic. if you don't vote for me, he'll be. but he didn't have it to get it out. >> he didn't sell it. >> the climate change warrior was spotted running down the runway in fashion week. greta thunberg or bill nye the science guy.

>> don't paddle peak. >> we don't allow peeking at paddles. oh, that's not greta thunberg. >> bill nye. >> that's the bow ty. >> he was my upstairs neighbor for several years. i heard some things. >> what did you hear? >> never trust a man in a bow tie. >> tucker used to wear bow ties. >> he's grown. >> he's a grown man now. tripping ain't easy, the question. both controversial black sheep of prominent families but which one used ha luis any generals to ease his mind. is it -- >> if you're suffering from a huge amount of lost grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine. >> a biden never admitted to anything. so the answer was in the

question. >> you've never taken any, have you? >> i'm way too sense ty to take anything like that. it's not per me. >> i can go on a spirit walk. >> prince harry -- can i say wanker? >> you can say that. >> wonder woman, this week's mayor pete gushed over one prominent woman in the democratic party calling her, a trailblazer who put all of the cracks in the glass ceiling. is he referring to kamala or crooked? both going with crooked. all right, is it crooked? >> being the first often requires knocking down some barriers. >> yeah, i mean, again, i'm humbled to have a word like trailblazer when i sit next to you and knowing all of the cracks you put in the glass ceiling. >> lot of cracks. nothing you could do. you've lost to kennedy. >> that's okay. i lose every time i do that. >> another sink or swim hat.

and johnny for the day. >> and we had to end that because of you. see you. >> you don't have to share everything with everybody. sometimes people tell things, benter to sit back and listen. you can agree or disagree. sometimes it's better just to not. the less you say sometimes, the better. think about that. two text messages now. dwayne, new jersey. the best way to escape is not to go to mexico. go somewhere else. go to florida. zoe from foley, alabama, jesse, you get more done in your one-hour show than biden has in his entire term. we never called the lid. kw. jesse, my daughter loves you. and this is my world signoff, give grace a tv bump for me.

boom. it would make her day. we love maine. that's all for tonight. dvr the show. tucker is up next. always remember, i'm waters, and this is my world. >> tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight. we're getting a better, more precise sense of what it means when joe biden brags about the most economical recovery in history. it could be time to buy gold and stock pile food. there's a deal on russian steel case. i think i'll pick up a pallet. just kidding, sort of.