ambidextrous? ambidextrous. i can go both ways. that's all for tonight. dvr the show and get your brackets in -- get your picks in, all right? tucker carlson is next. i'm watters and this is my world. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. happy monday. the dominant rumor on the internet over the weekend is donald trump will soon be indicted, possibly even handcuffed on camera. is that true? we can't say. we do know that trump is the subject of a grand jury investigation in manhattan. that's the city that voted against donald trump by almost 80% in the last presidential election. we also know that the grand jury

was impaneled by soros-funded d.a. called brandon hagg that looks and acts like an al sharpton. we would assume on the basis of that evidence it's pretty likely trump does get charged with something at some point but charged with what? that's the question that should matter. in a free country, laws are universal. laws apply to all citizens equally, precisely because all citizens are considered equal. for generations, this was very obvious to american liberals. in fact, it was the basis of their world view. that was back when liberals opposed just a minute crow and weren't trying to reinstate it as something called equity. we're not liberals but we retain the traditional american view which is that laws must be applied equally or else they're not laws at all. justice must be blind or else it's tyranny we spent the day with the help of a lawyer on our staff to likely assess the charges against donald trump. here's what we found. eight years ago when running for president, trump paid a porn actress called stormy daniels

$130,000. daniels alleged that she an and trump had one time had sex. he denied it. in exchange for not repeating that claim in public, trump sent stormy daniels a check. was that legal? well, we can answer that question. because there was a campaign in progress at the time, officials at the federal election commission later examined the transaction between trump and stormy daniels. federal investigators concluded that nothing criminal had taken place and, in fact, settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common both among famous people, celebrities and in corporate america. the result is usually called nda, nondisclosure agreement. paying people to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern america. according to the ftc, there was no need for donald trump to report his payments to stormy daniels nor was the money he sent her through his attorney subject to campaign finance

limitations. the fec determined the entire thing was a personal expenditure. it clearly was, so what is the crime here? well, the media don't seem very interested in finding out. this is donald trump. he's a criminal. everything he does is a crime. watch. >> if you are for example sinking a prosecution -- seeking a prosecution for murder, if the guy gets caught drunk driving in another context before that, you don't just let him go because you have bigger fish to fry. >> nobody is above the law including donald trump. it doesn't matter that this is kind of a minor crime compared to some of the other alleg allegations. >> a crime is a crime is a crime is a crime. that's what anybody prosecuting or a judge would say. >> a crime is a crime is a crime as miikka said. an indictment is an indictment is an indictment. >> when i hear people saying this is much ado about nothing, i think of the members of congress i served with and understanding every single one

of them would have been charged and sent to jail had they done this. >> i was reading the bible which said that that a man sows he all should weep. >> joe scarborough telling us what a crime is a crime with a woman. there's sharpton lecturing us about the bible. it's hilarious. oh, the hip crock crass it didn't answer the question. why are we handcuffing donald trump. liberals don't care at all as long as it happens, as long as trump gets handcuffed but in fact, there's plenty of evidence that trump commit nod crime in sending money stormy daniels. we don't have to guess. consider the case of former north carolina senator john edwards. edwards was often described's fiery liberal but in fact, i was populist. he ran for president twice and in the process infuriated the leaders of the democratic party by talking way too much about income inequality. they really hated him for that. long after edwards left office, barack obama's d.o.j. charged

him with federal finance violations so the premise of the case against john edwards is he had received $1 million in gifts and that he spent that money in hush money payments to his mistress with whom he later had a child. obama's d.o.j. argued the machinery he sent to his girlfriend amounted to campaign contributions. edwards never reported that money. obama's d.o.j. tried to send him to prison. in the end, the case fell apart under the weight of its own incoherence. any payment that could help a political candidate politically is by definition a campaign expenditure. there's no law that says that, by the way. they just made it up. if you think about it for a second, it doesn't make sense. if that were true, flip it around. it would mean candidates could use donor money and taxpayer money in the form of federal matching found pay for any personal expense as long as that expense could conceivably benefit them politically so candidates could take federal

matching funds, tax dollars to buy ferraris as long as they argued those ferraris would appear in campaign ads, etc., etc. it's nonsensical. not surprisingly, john edwards was acquitted in that case. it was a humiliating defeat for the obama administration but also sent a clear message and sent a precedent which alvin bragg is apparently ignoring. we don't know what the federal indictment says. if trump is indicted for sending money to stormy daniels, well, you'll be watching the abuse of law enforcement power. oh, but you can't complain about it, because as congresswoman maxine waters has explained, political protests staged on behalf of donald trump aren't constitutionally protected. they're domestic terrorism. >> this is donald trump sending messages out to domestic terrorists that he's worked with and he helped to organize for the invasion of the capitol on january 5th, he's sending out a message to them to get

ready to protest any arrests, indictments, etc. that he may have. so he's basically talking to the proud boys, to qanon and kkk. >> tucker: oh, january 6th. the only real organized group on january 6th was the fbi, of course. consider the side and where it's coming from. this is maxine waters, the lady that cheered on the l.a. race riots three decades ago. this is the very same person that just a few years ago said -- and we're quoting -- if you see anyone from the trump candidate in a restaurant, department store or gasoline stations -- she's very old -- get out create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere. basically necklace them. ok, macscene waters, but she's a democrat so this is just a civil rights exercise. she's protected from domestic terrorism charges. alvin bragg is, too. he's a democrat. you should know -- we don't want to impugn his character or anything and suggest there's a

connection between politics and the indictment of donald trump, but alvin bragg did run for office promising as a campaign promise to indict donald trump. we're not guessing. he gave televised interviews about it. watch. >> all right, so newspaper reports today say we could expect to see an indictment being handed down against donald trump soon. any thoughts on how you would handle such a high-profile case. >> certainly throughout my career, i've gone where the facts have taken me and the types of allegations that's been reported publicly, valuation of assets, perhaps the use of shell companies, tax fraud, i did -- i've done all of these sort of cases. i've tried a mortgage fraud case. i've tried one of the most significant money laundering cases in the new york region, so of all of the candidates i sort of stand at the ready with all of the tools in the tool kit. >> tucker: yeah. we're going to go after trump and by the way, he listed some real crimes there and they have spent years trying to pin those crimes on trump. they even got his tax returns

illegally. and they found none of them. none on offense of trump. just true. we wind up with this which is pitling. bragg has been single mindedly focused -- bragg, graduate of harvard college -- on donald trump and his crimes sending money a porn star, he's been not only ignoring real crimes but downgrading felonies to misdemeanors and letting actual violent criminals out of jail as quickly as possible. on his first day in office -- first day! bragg, consistent with the ideas of the man who paid for his campaign, george soros, issued a memo explaining his office will "not seek a sentence except in cases involving homicides, economic crimes and a small number of felonies." that was great news for people who commit violent felonies including rapists like justin washington. washington struck a deal with bragg that allowed him to serve just 30 days in jail under the theory his rape was really just second degree coercion.

so he got out quickly and when he did, police say this same man sexually attacked five other people in the bronx. he even tried to rape a homeless woman at 10:00 in the morning. ok. so in another case, a career criminal who was arrested three times in four months for serious crimes including assault and aggravated harassment, skipped court & and when police finally found him and hauled him to court, bragg's office let him go in january of last year. guess what he did when he got out? he murdered a woman. >> a growing makeshift memorial in front of a new york city apartment building honoring christina una lee after police say a man followed her home and attacked her, stabbing her to death. this security video obtained by nbc news appears to show lee being followed by the suspect when they arrived, the door was barricaded. when cops went into the apartment, investigators say they found the body of a 35-year-old woman later identified as lee in her bathroom and the suspect covered in blood.

police say nash was arrested and charged with lee's murder. this was his eighth arrest since may of 2021. >> tucker: what's interesting is that no one cares. where's joe scarborough in that? is he upset about it? is his wife upset? power to women! right. all the arch feminists who should be out there defending women, they don't care at all so here you have a d.a. who treats violent felonies like they're misdemeanors, even when it gets people killed who is unleashing criminals in the population but spending all of his time trying to destroy his political opponents, in this case, elevating a misdemeanor charge to a felony for the purpose of taking down trump. here's what we think if there is an indictment will form the core of the charge. bragg seems to be alleging that trump violated new york's business record act by falsely reporting the pay out to stormy daniels as "legal fees."

if this were true t -- it would constitute a misdemeanor. the statute of limitations ran out for the booking error assuming it already happened. bragg is thinking of charging trump under a felony version of the public records law. one that punishes businesses as falsifying records as a way to commit another separate crime. that would be the campaign finance violation which as we mentioned was not a campaign finance violation and we know that from the fec which polices campaign -- polices campaign finance violations. by the way, if it were, that would be a federal crime, not something that alvin bragg, the manhattan d.a., would be prosecuting. the whole thing doesn't make any sense at all on a legal level on a political level t does because trump is running for president. so what is behind this? is he acting alone? we may soon find out. congressman jim jordon of ohio sits on the house judiciary committee is calling on bragg to testify before the congress. he wants to hear bragg explain

whether or not he's had any contact with the white house or the biden d.o.j. and if he has, maybe that will explain these charges. he also wants to know whether this prosecution will use any federal funds. let's hope alvin bragg who is committed to the rule of law complies or is forced to comply very soon. but no matter what happens, if this indictment arrives, no matter who you voted for or plan on voting for, make no mistake, this is a turning point for the country. now, the headline here is not that they're being unfair to donald trump again -- though, of course, they are -- or even that trump is the former president of the united states. who cares? i mean, though as long as we're indicting retired presidents, where are the charges for george w. bush for invading a rock under circumstances and giving permanent trade relations china that completely wrecked our economy. where are those charges? couldn'ter don't hole your breath. wrecking the country isn't a crime.

george w. bush knows that as well. criticizing the ruling class. that's what they title you for. either way, donald trump's former job as president of the united states is not the problem here. of course you can indict former presidents they've done something wrong. that's not what this is about. the headline here is that there's a presidential race in progress right now. if you check the polls, you'll find that trump is leading the republican field. that's the unprecedented thing. taking out your opponent using the justice system. if the democratic party is allowed to do this, allowed to crush the presidential front-runner, the main threat to their power with a bogus criminal case, where does that leave us? we're done, because that precedent will live forever and voters will never again determine the outcome of a presidential election. it's remarkable when you think about it. so after all the yelling from permanent washington about january 6th and how it was a threat to our democratic norms and the peaceful transfer of

power, they've decided to completely short circuit our democratic norms, not to mention the peaceful transfer of power, using the courts and prose prosecutors. what happens if they get away with this? no one seems to be thinking this through. everyone is all spun up but what happens if they get away with this? if they use the justice department in full view of everyone to settle a political score and to keep the white house. just to take a guy out of the race who seems to be doing fairly well. it'll destroy the justice system. that's not a small thing. a functioning justice system has kept this country peaceful for hundreds of years. the purpose of a justice system is to administer justice so that citizens don't have to do it themselves. you outsource that duty to the government. but what happens when you take that away? when there is no justice system? what happens when the department of justice decides that his goal is not justice but protecting the ruling class at all costs?

think about that. people are still going to demand justice. the desire for justice is an inherent human desire. we are born with it, but if there's no neutral place to do it, some people will decide they're going to have to do it themselves. whoa. now we don't know exactly what that's going to look like but we can say for certain it's going to be really ugly. so they hate donald trump. fine. but they don't get to destroy america's justice system because they do. we would never recover from t that. robert costello was legal adviser to michael kohn who made the payment to stormy daniels and he joins us tonight. mr. costello, thank you so much for coming on. >> you're welcome. >> tucker: we can't know whether there'll be an indictment or what's in it but from the leaks that you have and say the "new york times," how do you assess this case? >> weak to say the least. i just spent two hours or so testifying before the grand jury in downtown manhattan and i got

my point across, although it was clear to me that the manhattan d.a.'s office did not want to get to the truth. i need to explain that a little bit. i called them up after i saw michael kohn-cohen on tv stating things he said he was going to tell the grand jury and had told the grand jury that were contrary to what he told us when we first represented him in april of 2018. so i'm sitting at home watching these lies and i said i've got do something about it. i don't represent donald trump, but i do stand for justice and i think i have a legal obligation to inform both sides, so that's what i did. i had a ton of documents that i had prepared back in 2019 for the department of justice. the u.s. attorney's office called me up and said, "mr. costello, we would like to talk to you about your representation of michael cohen." i laughed and said, can i presume you have a waiver of the

attorney/client privilege?" "you presume correctly." "send it over, i'll be happy to talk to you." that waiver is very clear. once we had that, i prepared 330 e-mails, a bunch of text messages, i prepared a contemporaneous report of our first meeting with michael cohen in the regency hotel in manhattan as well as a contemporaneous notes of the interview i had with two hours with the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york as well as contemporaneous notes of an interview by the house committee on intelligence who sent three investigators to my office, one of whom is now dan goldman, a congressman here in new york. so i had all of this material ready. i sent it to donald trump's lawyer and i sent it to the manhattan d.a.'s office. and i contacted the manhattan d.a.'s office and i asked can we meet with alvin bragg, because i wanted to present this to alvin bragg as i had presented it to the southern district. i wanted to assess my

credibility. did i have more credibility than michael cohen? because michael cohen in my opinion was lying about just about everything. i specifically told them there were two main points that i wanted to make clear, that cohen had told us that when we first met him that he was suicidal. why is that important? because when you're suicidal thinking that that's the only way out of your legal mess and you're presented with the following options that you can cooperate against donald trump and provide information that would get you a get out of jail free card and you respond to us, "i do not have any information on donald trump." and he said it many times throughout the two-hour meeting. "i swear to god, bob. i don't have anything on donald trump. i had my law partner who knew trump for two years in columbia prep school in manhattan because trcohen was on the board."

i didn't know whether he was a drama queen or telling the truth. i looked at my partner. he shook his head and nodded "i think he's telling the truth" and later on we got that corroborated by the reverend jerry falwell and his wife that had din we're michael comen and told him the same thing. why's that important? when you're willing to give you up your life in order to avoid the legal troubles when they're insurmountable to you and you're offered a way out, "all you have to do is to cooperate on donald trump. do you have anything on donald trump" and he says "no" repeatedly. "i swear to god, bob, i don't have anything" then you know you have a guy that doesn't have anything. it's certainly easier to give up information on donald trump than it is to kill yourself. on top of that, while he's making speeches during the two-hour period, he's marching up and down on the other side of the conference table like a tiger in a zoo. back-and-forth. back-and-forth.

he looked like he hadn't slept in five days. he looked like someone who was suicidal. every once in a while, he would stop and point at us. when i say "once in a while" he did this at least 20 times and he said, "guys, i will let you know i will do whatever the f i have to do. i will never spend one day in jail." what he's saying is i'll lie, cheat, steal, shoot somebody but i will not spend a day in jail. do you think a guy whose mentality is that is going to not admit he has information on donald trump? but having said that, the d.a.'s office didn't ask me questions to bring that up. and i brought it up any way. i didn't -- i ignored their questions and simply gave them the information. i'm hearing rap in my ear left and right. i'll continue if you want -- >> tucker: let me ask you one final question, if it's ok, mr. costello. >> sure. >> tucker: if you're the d.a., the prosecutor and you're trying to be fair and honest and serve the law rather than a political

agenda, you would want to know that, wouldn't you? >> absolutely and i told them and i told the grand jury today i was deputy chief of the criminal division of the u.s. attorneys for the southern district. i said i wouldn't touch a witness like michael cohen for any amount. money. you simply cannot rely upon this guy. and tonight, he was on another station denying he waved the attorney/client privilege. here it is in writing and that's his signature on the second p page. so -- >> tucker: that's unbelievable. >> i guess he didn't know that and the district attorney didn't know that, and i told them "michael cohen's been in your office 20 times and twice in the grand jury and he forgot to tell you he waved the attorney/client privilege 22 times?" i mean really! is this the kind of witness you want to ride to the finish line? not in my book. >> tucker: i think all they care about is the finish line. i sure appreciate the information that you brought us tonight. >> you're quite welcome. >> tucker: thank you. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> tucker: harmid dillon is

the founding partner -- harmed dillon is the founding partner of the law group is joining us now. iis there any indication there's coordination with the biden white house or d.o.j. in this? >> well, look, tucker, thanks for having me. two of my partners are involved in this case on president trump's side and have been meeting with the prosecutors here, so most of what we've been able to divine about this case has been about reading the end trails, the "new york times," which is the favorite source to leak to of new york law enforcement, and so we don't know exactly what they're aiming for but as we can see from robert costello's statements just now, it appears to be divorced from what the acts are and more about -- the facts are and more about what the agenda is this prosecution if it comes through is absolutely baseless and ludicrous. it's been rejected not only by

the fec as you mentioned but also by federal prosecutors and also by prior prosecutors of new york state, so this is really well passed its sell by date. it doesn't fly by court. it's frivolous. you're looking at the mother of all election interference here like you said in your lead in to this segment and so what i can also say is prosecutors are meant to do not just what they can get away with in court but they're meant to do justice and is this justice? there are apparently at least 10 prosecutors sitting in the room yesterday or last week, rather, when this presentation was made so that's the amount of man power they're putting to hear from lawyers, hear from witnesses. at the same time in new york when the real status is absolutely falling apart there, so i hope for the sake of this country and for the sake of the citizens and voters' confidence in our legal system that this

doesn't come to pass because it will absolutely be catastrophic for public and was for the rule of law in this country. >> tucker: i think that's the point right there. it all falls apart when you use your justice system to prosecute political grudges. thank you so much for that. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: so the white house briefing room is filled with toadies whose whole job is to bolster whatever lie the biden administration spoon feeds them. there is at least one man there, though, the best reporter in africa who asks real questions, simon atiba. today, simon atiba was the center of the most chaotic moment in the recent history of the white house press briefings and he joins us after the break to tell us what happened.

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>> tucker: if you want to know what a complete sham, what a fraudulent grotesque perversion of reality the white house briefings have come. the low iq white house press security brought a bunch of tv actors to stand there so she can promote a tv show or anything. she was promoting a tv show and

the white house press secretary refused to take questions from actual reporters. first on that list would be our friend simon atiba of "today news africa." he got frustrated and called out the white house press secretary for ignoring his actual questions for months. watch what happens next. >> what you're doing is making -- >> decorum, please. decorum. >> it's been seven months, you've not called on me. madam secretary, i'm not that is not right. >> welcome, guys. welcome. welcome to the press briefing room. >> that's not right. this is not china. this is not russia. this is the united states. this is the white house! [everyone speaking at once] >> you have grievances, bring them to her later. >> the press corps is tired of dealing with this. >> you get questions all the time. you don't answer them.

you sit here for eight months. i'm in the front row. there are people who don't get any questions. >> don't make assumptions on what the rest of us do. mind your manners if you're in here. if you have a problem, bring it up afterwards. >> what's just occurred the last 10 or 15 minutes is unacceptable. it's -- it is unacceptable. >> you've been -- >> so we're going to -- so we're either going to continue the briefing or we can just end the briefing right here. >> tucker: outrageous doesn't even describe what we just played for you! so here you have the white house press secretary whose job it is to answer questions from journalists on behalf of the entire american population hijacking the event to promote a tv show and then screaming at a guy who wants his questions answered and then the other shills in the room don't take the side of their fellow journalist but take the side of the lady at the front to whom they were actually beholden and try to shut down simon atiba!

who did that! the partial list includes jeff mason of reuters who should be ashamed. brian of cnn. associated press cooperate zeke miller. even apologized to the press secretary later in the press conference. they, again, should be ashamed of themselves. in previous generations of reporters would have turned on them. really, you're taking her side? she's a liar? jury job is not to suck up to power! it's to serve your viewers and readers by getting to the truth! but instead they piled on simon atiba. really the most revealing moment maybe ever in the white house press room. we're honored now to be joined by simon atiba himself. simon, thank you so much for coming on. we're really glad to have you. what prompted -- you seem very frustrated there. what prompted your exchange with the press secretary? >> yes. thank you, tucker. thank you for having me on your show. i'm grateful. you know the first amendment protects the freedom of speech, the press and assembly and the right to petition your

government to seek address. the first amendment says i have the right to ask questions to do my job and the press secretary doesn't need to like me, date me, marry me, have two black children with me. she doesn't need to do all of that. she doesn't even need to like my accent, doesn't even need to like what i look like, come from. they look down on me. they don't respect the first amendment. what's been happening at the white house is in the past seven months, i've done all of the right things. i've not been called on. i've gone to her office to seek a meeting. she said she would meet with me next year. i've sent questions about the nigerian election, about, you know, the problems, challenges in africa. and they've not called on me. even as the vice president is going to africa, even as the first lady, jill biden, went to africa. even when they receive 50 african leaders for the u.s. african summit in washington

d.c., the guy who covers the white house, the african guy who covered the white house is looked down upon in the greatest country in the world, in the most advanced country where freedom of speech is protected! it's a shame what happened today! one of the guys that you showed there, he was kicked out of the wsc because he became violent in the rose garden. it's a disgrace. it's very violent. he attacks many people. it's a shame what happened to me today. it's a total disgrace. it's happening in the biden white house. and -- and -- and -- you know, when it happens to jim acosta of cnn, because they respect him. he's white. he works for cnn. i'm black. i'm african. i don't have money. they look down on me i don't have the opportunities that they have and -- and -- and they don't treat me the same way -- i need to do my job! the freedom of speech and the

press in the u.s. allows me to do my job and that's the only thing i'm trying to do and they stonewalling me, trying to help carrin john pierre and it's a shame! >> the fact jeff mason and the rest -- who should be ashamed of themselves! -- took the white house side against you is really one of the most awful things i've ever seen. i was shocked by this as cynical as i am and i appreciate you coming on tonight. you seem unbowed. senator atiba, we're rooting for you. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: so they'll lecture you endlessly on tv, all the smart people. we really care about ukraine. you really care about ukraine, right? over 100,000 dead in ukraine and for the second time, the white house has stopped, shut down an attempted cease-fire! they want this war to continue! we'll get you the details straight ahead.

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>> tucker: as predicted, biden administration's reckless

interference in the war in ukraine has pushed china together with russia thereby ending for all-time american global dominance. as if to run it in our faces, the president of china met with vladimir putin in moscow today. he went there to broker a cease-fire in the conflict. if you care about ukraine, you probably want this war to end but this administration wants to keep it going. here is spokesflak explaining. >> if you call for a cease-fire, you believe ukraine would and should reject that? >> we would reject that as well. that's an unacceptable outcome right now. obviously, we want the fighting to stop. we want the war to be over. it could end today if mr. putin would do the right thing to call for a cease-fire right now ratifies what they've been able to grab inside ukraine and gives them time and space to prepare for future operations and that's just not going to be acceptable. >> tucker: right.

this is the second time the biden administration has stopped any attempt to end the war. negotiated end, not immediate frozen in place but try to end it. it's the second time. trump has taken a lot of flack recently. on foreign policy, he's a lot clearer thinking than joe biden or his little spokesperson you just saw. here is trump's assessment on what is going on in ukraine. we're quoting. >> reporter: greatest threat to western civilization today is not russia. it's ourselves and some of the horrible u.s. hating people that represent us." glenn is here to help us assess this. thank you for coming on. for the second time we know of, the biden administration has shut down any attempt to reach a brokered cease-fire. why do you think that is? >> from the very beginning, it's been clear the u.s. wants this war to continue and wants it to go on for as long as possible because they have no interest in protecting ukraine. they, instead, want to sacrifice ukraine, have ukraine destroyed

in order to advance what they think is the united states political interests, geo political interests of weakening russia. the way to do that is use ukraine as a pawn, kill as many ukrainians as possible, destroy their whole country if they have to in order to prolong the war as long as possible and the response of the u.s. government and its defenders has been we don't have any position about when the war ends. that's completely up to the ukrainians when they want to end the war, they can end the war. if they don't, we'll support them. the lie just got revealed. if you listen to what john kirby said, they asked him, are the ukrainians willing to have a cease-fire. he said, not only won't they, we won't allow it either essentially admitting finally what's long been obvious of the country funding the war, providing the arms for the war which the united states determines if and when the war ends and we obviously don't want that war to end. >> tucker: how are people who are pushing for the sacrifice of more ukrainian and russian children, for whatever it's worth, how do they seize the

moral high ground in this? they're monster. are they allowed to lecture the rest of us about human rights? >> there's a propaganda-steered narrative from the united states that the ukrainians are feisty, courageous and fighting for their own country and we ought to stand by their side. the reality is the complete opposite, the ukrainians don't want this war to continue. zelenskyy is not using a voluntary army. he's using a conscript army and drafting these people who are unwilling to fight and has repeatedly in the last four months three occasions increased the punishments for desertion or for people who are otherwise rebelling against this war because the ukrainians know they're being used as cannon fodder for the interest of other people around the world so it's a conscript army and they're forcing the ukrainians to go and die in huge numbers for things that are not in their interests. what's in their interests is to negotiate with the russians over an agreement that will allow ukrainian -- ukraine to keep the parts of their country that want to be ruled by kiev and it's the united states and great britain

that are blocking it purely for our own interests. >> tucker: yeah and then they're lecturing you! glenn, thank you. i appreciate it. thank you so much for that analysis. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so you tune into hockey games to watch people play hockey but on saturday night in an nhl team out of nowhere started pushing transactivism on twitter. makes you wonder what is going on in the national hockey league. we have details after the break.

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>> we've developed a medical system based on historical phenomena, you have a headache, you go to the head doctor. have a stomach ache, go to the stomach doctor. seems logical except biology isn't organized that way. rather than treat each individual part and each individual system we treat the root causes. functional medical is the science of create health as opposed to treating the disease. we have our whole concept of disease wrong, it's an entity or thing we catch like a cold or covid. >> tucker: some day you just get it. >> i got heart disease, diabetes, cancer, dementia or whatever. auto immune disease. no. there are really clear causes for these problems that are rooted in things we now know we haven't translated into medical practice. for every 10% of your calories is ultra processed food, your risk of death goes up by 14% and our diet is 60% ultra processed food and kids, it's 67%.

it's a national emergency honestly. there's 6 million people that die from covid globally but 11 million people die every year from bad food. >> tucker: that's an amazing conversation even if you love pizza and yoros as some of us -- oreos as some of us do. dr. mark hyman. stream it. on saturday, san jose sharks owned by plattner hosted a trans appreciation night. players were told to wear jerseys signifying they don't believe in biological reality. one of them does, the goalie, and he refused on religious grounds. apparently in response to that the san jose sharks' official twitter account began posting true lunacy about gender, and we're not making this up. you should look it up. for example, worldwide gender diversity is seen far differently than that in the western world. the mukse gender a respected

third endner oaxaca mexico that's existed for centuries. thank you national hockey league team. greg price of the state freedom caucus network decided to google it. they found out that those that lived in central mexico were known for a lot more than three genders. human sacrifice was in the very center of their world. they put children to death as offerings to their gods. as price put it, "the san jose sharks want us to take cultural advice from an ancient mexican civilization that participated in child sacrifice." what the hell is going on in the nhl? why are owners doing this? how long will fans stick with it? they just want to watch hockey! scary! we'll be right back.

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