day. me. too. yana from harrisburg, illinois. jackie for president 2024. anna marie from pennsylvania. my birthday's on sunday, can you sing me happy birthday? i would but we just ran out of time. i'm watteers, this is my world. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." on tuesday, two days ago, twitter slapped a warning label on all tweets from national public radio. going forward, npr will be identified for users of elon musk social media site as state affiliated media. that is the same category as russia today or china's central television. it means that npr is not that different from the tehran times, being

less accurate and more anti-american. that happened on tuesday. why are we telling you about it. changes around the world why would we open the show about a story about twitter recategorizing npr as state media? well because it's true. that's the reason. thankfully somebody in authority has told the truth about something and that is thrilling to see on its own terms. in a world defined by lies from our leaders, this seemed like a rare sign of hope and progress. telling the truth is the most revolutionary act of all. far more than taking up arms. and yet, you rarely seeing it. human beings created language, grunting or sign lang, subverting our own creation ever since. not tonight. by calling national public radio what it is, elon musk used english as it was tended to be used to tell

the truth. it is all the hallmarks, repetitive dishonesty, authoritarian politics, unwavering devotion to the party in charge. of course that could describe virtually all media in this country. the difference is the state actually pays for npr. npr was created by a law signed by democrat lyndon johnson the public broadcasting act. from the first day npr was wholly dependent on tax dollars in order to exist and it still is. federal funding is essential to npr, so there is no factual debate about that fact but there is a great deal of lying about it. every year npr lobbyists head to capitol hill to demand more tax dollars, democracy can't exist without us, they screech. at the same time telling you at high volume that

npr takes no tax money. so, we don't need federal subsidies, don't even want them really but have you to increase them. that is npr's line. and has been for decades under the political leadership of both parties and essentially unchallenged by anyone. just stays. wars and recessions come and go but npr funding remains. but after more than half a century it is very clear there is nothing public about national public radio. the radio station of permanent washington, that's who pays for it that's who benefits from it. adding three simple words to tweets, elon musks exposes that to the world, it exposes, and of course infuriates those who are exposed. so, npr howelled an outrage but signature pursed lipped fussyness here is a direct quote on the npr website which does belong in the museum

of up fight liberal. asked twitter to remove the label, they initially assumed it was applied by mistake, npr spokesperson is is a bell laura said, we were not warned, it happened quite suddenly last night, laura said. in response to an npr e-mail seeking comment and requesting details about what in particular might have lead to the new designation, twitter's press count apply weekend a poop emoji. hey, twitter stop calling us what we are. okay, npr, here is a scat cartoon. forget the rocket the and electric cars, elon musk is a hero for this alone. npr still had fight. national public radio was so angry, so enraged to be called state immediate why, supporters enlisted the top spokeswoman to claim otherwise. stop calling it propaganda said

the prop began dust. it's an irony free zone and too great, watch this. >> there is no doubt of the independence of npr's journalists. and has been -- if you have been on the receiving end of their questions, you know this. you know that they have their independence in journalism. npr journalists work digit really to inform the american people, the hard hitting, independent nature of their coverage speaks for itself. so, i will leave it there. >> tucker: that is so baghdad bob. it's unbelievable. here she is reading a press release for npr that tells us they are famous for hard hitting independence which speaks for itself. really? how many tough questions have they asked you, karine jean pierre, not a single one. they are fluffing her every day, she is so smart, so she pays them back. this is the same

radio station in the final days of the last presidential campaign took a look at the biggest political story in years, the new york post story on hunter biden's laptop and ignored it completely, but because they are fussy and self righteous to their very core they bragged about how they were ignoring it completely. we don't want to waste our time and stories that are not really stories, said npr managing editor terrance samuel and waste listeners and readers time on stories that are pure distraction. right, two weeks before a presidential campaign we find out that the democratic candidate is taking money from a foreign adversary, but that's just a distraction. so, whatever happened to terrance samuel, what did he get for helping joe biden become president at the state affiliated media network he serves? well terrance samuel has been promoted to npr executive editor. but he still has time to spare, it's not that

hard to put morning sedition on the air, terrance samuel hosts seminars on disinformation and democracy, something called american university. no, we are not making any of this up. nor are we fab rating npr's report last month that informed us, male athletes have no inherent performance advantages than females, men and women are physically the same size, they have the same muscle mass, there is no difference whatsoever in their bone structure, we checked with experts. so, as you know, npr is famous for widely respected science coverage. that is not the only npr is the only go-to news source. they are the lifestyle piece, the features in the newspaper business. here is a piece for example. on how one african american barbie doll,

ahead of its time in the toy industry changed the life of a latinx girl forever. >> i remember this one christmas my cousin's father gifted us all barbies. and when everyone was unwrapping, you know the excitement, the paper -- and i opened up the barbie and my barbie was black. you know. everyone looked at my barbie, i looked at their barbies, i could identify to their barbies, too. i wasn't this kind of as mel animated as the barbie but different. >> unhappy middle-aged ladies talking about themselves, narcissistism, they know their audience, they pi thought their

audience own the air so it's a continuous loop. the snake eating its own tail, you shouldn't be too surprised that within an audience, desperately unhappy personal audience that npr is all-in on the question of romance novels. >> sci fi ones, one of the books is a gay couple and one was a crack head. i didn't want that to unlock something in me, unfortunately it did. before i knew it was happening, cyrus was carrying me, muscular lengths of tentacles carrying our weight. i didn't think he was that strong. you like that, he asked, as his ten tackles slammed the shower door open. >> tucker: well, so it's tentacle porn which is its own sub genre, we are not going to

pa lieutenant your mind. what it is is narcissism, upper income graduate talking about, what would he be talking about himself, that's what they want to hear about, themselves. that's the hard hitting independent journalism that jean-pierre. they've been doing it for generations. their health coverage in particular stands out. any news organization can run a piece on how to be more healthy. but only npr dared to affirm the snack habits of its listeners by telling you, yeah, go be fat. here is an anti diet, dietician. >> student: so diet culture is this overarching systems of beliefs and values endemic to western culture. >> anti-diet registered dietician with a masters in

public health. >> tucker: we've been trying to get christie harrison the anti-diet dietician on the show for years now. no luck so far. but if you are looking for coverage of lgbtqiaz plus issues, you have come to the right place. because it's not just conventional stuff, gay marriage or trans issues, they've taken it to another level as we fits a cutting edged totally independent news channel, here they are reporting on trans dinosaur experts. >> many people who are queer whether trans or some other form of gender queer, we love dinosaurs. >> along being a dinosaur expert, riley is transgender, according to riley there is a whole community of gender queer enthusiasts online. we checked it out. sure enough, they're there. they found dozens of

paleo artists online that identify as queer. >> type dinosaur into the lgbt sub reddit hundreds of results, dino dads and a lot of puns. like ally saurus, trans ceretops. >> tucker: now a lot of people say the topic of npr comes up in conversation, i'm all for national public radio and happy to work an extra day a year to pay for it. i'm not a trans dinosaur, i'm not. so, what's in it for me as a non-trans dinosaur, that's a little niche, that's a misconception, as long as they are talking about yourself and doing so in a self satisfied completely out of touch way, npr is the station for you, they are interested in all forms of diversity. npr discovered a trendy new television show, why did they

like it? here's why. >> well, what tv show were you binging this year? >> i was watching we are lady parts. it's a musical comedy about a punk band in london made up of all muslim women. >> what are you watching? that's a hard hitting news coverage that makes the difference between democracy and tyranny, what are you watching? self satisfied fussy people talking about what they are watching in their tiny apartments in brooklyn. >> all musical trans music, a punk band. it's great. so, that's npr in 2023. and the truth is npr has been kind of awful, kind of unbearable, kind of cringe toasty they say. but now, you can't even listen to it. because the people who work there are deranged, they are idologs in the end go crazy and

start attacking each other, the evolution eats its own. so, after npr laid off 10% of staff recently, one npr show called louder than a riot, louder than a riot? they love riots in npr and we're quoting, the hardest part is that our szn, if you are not hung gain you know what that means it's about queer trans black women face in hip hop, yet within npr the majority impacted in these layoffs were queer poc staff and programs. in other words, racists. miss gen war, it's something to do with bigotry against women who are black, not that npr identifies any of those terms. it gets

better, once you put crazy people in charge of your news room, well crazy things happen. so, they try to call an all hands meeting to explain why people are being fired real reason no one wants to listen to this crap. executive had to speak slowly and tell these people why they were fired and people started screaming at him so, he called for civility and then one employee said, you need to read this piece, when civility is used as a cudule against people of color. that's npr, ladies and gentlemen. on the inside. npr is official state media and honestly that tells you a lot about the state. vince is a radio host in washington d.c., he joins us to assess npr, you report it on the radio, was there a question in your mind that this was state media?

>> not at all. our mutual buddy chris plank call them national pan handler radio. they are trying to prove that they are not state media, funded by the state in order to make that defense. so, jean pierre stands at the press briefing so independent she gives a brave heart style speech, do you think she would ever do that for simon atiba, not in a million years, it's for npr, cited yoel roth atwitter, they shouldn't be labeled state affiliated media. yoel roth and twitter were making millions of dollars from the federal government to censure american people. they say in all of their defenses, well only 1% of our funding, less than 1% comes from the federal government. even that is deception. even that is a lie. npr is a content organization.

the thousand member stations that they send content to all pay fees to npr. guess where they get their money from? that's right, the federal, state and local government. 23% comes from there. we are talking of hundreds of millions of dollars, they are playing a shell game. the only type of organization that plays that kind of deceptive shell game, not a news organization. one that is running a political operation on behalf of the government. >> tucker: totally right. npr is repulsive, not as repulsive as listeners, the most privileged people in the world demanding welfare from the rest of us. vince who is on commercial radio not working for the state, appreciate seeing you tonight. thank you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: a quick programming note on tuesday will be heading down to the east coast to florida to speak to donald trump the front runner in the republican presidential race as you know indicted this week. this will be donald trump's

first interview since everything happened, his arraignment in new york that will air here 8:00 p.m. eastern on tuesday night. so, we told you very briefly about this wisconsin supreme court election this week that will determine what the voting laws in that swing state in the next presidential election. how did the democrat win despite a history of doing things that most people find potential ale immoral? well there is a reason. and we'll tell you it to you after the break. you will never guess who the biden administration is blaming about the pullout of afghanistan.

>> tucker: this week as you may have heard democrats took control of the wisconsin supreme court that has major ramifications for the 2024 presidential election in a key swing state. so, voter id will be shut down which will allow fraud that is the whole point of getting rid of voter id. how did democrats win, a lot of different explanations, one is they benefit from a scheme to pay voters with an app, fox

trace gallagher. >> tucker, going into the wisconsin supreme court election the balance of the security was 4-3 leading conservative, dan kelly and janet polykleitos. offering $250 to influence their family and friends to vote. wisconsin takes action website doesn't mention polykleitos by name, we are ready for a progressive majority on the wisconsin supreme court. in other words the group was betting that voters could do the math. and here is how the deal work, wisconsin takes action setting up an app, if you download the app you get $30, 75 names and phone numbers you get an additional $60 gift card, each time you reach out to a friend or acquaintance to vote you get more gift cards until you reach $250. state ethics

commission and gop state lawmakers and other groups called it out right bribery. appears to support that saying it is a violation or a bribe for any person who quoting here, "offers, gives, lends or promises to give or lend or endeavors to provide anything of value" $250 would fall under that category. in this election half of judge polykleitos' campaign contributions came from outside the state of wisconsin. 19% came from outside the state. she won, he lost, you will hear more about this, tucker. >> tucker: 18%, that's unbelievable. chris gallagher, thank you. so, the pullout from afghanistan under joe biden was one of the most humiliating important policy disasters, 13

american service men killed, thousands of american citizens left behind, many afghans died by the way, some fell off airplanes, some blown up in drone strikes by the biden administration, worse of all we turned the taliban into the best armed military force after pakistan in the entire region. joe biden did that. his first summer as president. so, what does the administration have to say about this? well, in a new report they take no responsibility whatsoever. instead they blame it on somehow donald trump. so, today, fox's peter doocy asked john kirby, how does that make sense, watch. >> the intel was bad. so, how can president biden ever trust when they come into the oval office that anything in there is legit? is. >> what i said was. >> intelligence is the mosaic, what about the mosaic all the pieces are incorrect. >> what i said intelligence is hard business. and they get it right a lot, too. there were

some pieces here that weren't accurate. this document and this effort isn't about accountability today, this is the next muscle movement in what will be a long process to better understand and comprehend and adjust to what we learned and did in afghanistan. >> there were people hanging off of air force jets that were leaving and you are saying that you guys are proud of the way that this mission was conducted? >> it doesn't mean -- proud of the fact that we got more than 124,000 people safely out of afghanistan, you bet. proud of the fact that we now have about 100,000 afghans, formally allies and partners living in this country and working towards citizenship, you bet. does that mean everything went perfect in that evacuation, of course not. >> tucker: a few things were degrading than having a shameless flyer like that man, john kirby, speaking on its

behalf. carried a weapon in combat zones for most of his life, he is retired green beret veteran, joe kemp thank you so much for coming on. as someone who spent a lot of his life in that region, what do you make of this explanation? is. >> well first off, tucker democrats and joe biden is trying to do is avoid accountability, house republicans finally started putting pressure on the biden administration, demanding for accountability. this is a complete and total disgrace. would have a lot more respect for the biden administration if they went after the military industrial complex for their lies. this goes back to when president trump attempted to get us out of afghanistan, the military industrial complex lied to the american people, they leaked it to the media that putin had put bounties on the

american soldiers, and congress in a bipartisan fashion moved to block trump from spending money to get us out of afghanistan in the summer-fall timeframe in 2020, we had a plan but biden came in and he couldn't do trump's plan, he wanted to get troops out in september of 2021. continued to lie, this time to joe biden, you kept hearing rosie assessments how the afghanistan military was going to stand and fight, they lied and americans died as a result. someone must be held accountable. >> tucker: yeah. so, you know what happened, you personally, joe kent know what happened and uniquely, one of the most rotten elections. i hope you will be running again and continue to tell the truth. >> thank you, tucker, i will. >> tucker: so you think the price of college since the economy is teetering would

becoming done. it's higher than ever. so, you have to ask what will happen when artificial intelligence replaces maybe most of the entry level white collar jobs if these students are going to college to try to get. is anyone thinking it through, mike rowe is thinking it through, he's next.

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>> tucker: some people still seem to want to get their kids into princeton, you have to wonder what is going to happen to universities. college enrollment dropped 10% since covid. the elite universities, obviously are becoming completely in tolerant, you never send your kids there if you thought about it, more expensive, it costs 85 grand for one year. other schools in the same category costs 90 grand. how many people go to go and

graduate. that ai has eliminated their jobs. people should be thinking about this. mike rowe how america works on fox business. he joins us tonight. mike, thanks for going on. this is one of the concerns about artificial intelligence, it's gotta effect the job prospects of kids graduating from these schools, no? >> i think it's got to affect everything. i am not sure it's a category of itself. i was thinking of it in terms of lick a cousin to technology and robotics and automation and all of the things that have been hastened, in part i think because there has been a big push for higher minimum wage than we are accustomed to. the unintended consequences of the hastening tech has done a lot to eliminate many many entry level jobs. this thing feels different to me. this feels like it's coming at it from the other side of the brain and if it takes

root and accelerates the way people say it's going to i think you are going to see a lot of white collar jobs eliminated in the same way and at the same time. as you know i'm a polyana, half glad full kind of guy and looking for a silver lining, maybe that pinser will push us back to making things again with a factory state of mind, right? by the same token, you know, ai is like outsourcing in a way. and my foundation always try to look at jobs that you can't outsource, plumbing, steam fitting, pipe fitting, welding, so forth, maybe we'll start to see the same thing as we get off of chinese independence, i hope, at least with regard to what we decide to manufacture for ourself. >> tucker: i remember worrying and talking to you years ago

about the idea that ai would replace truck drivers, who knows, it seems like a bigger threat to junior lawyers. >> yeah, right. because i think, you know, with truck drivers and pilots and things leak that, it's not enough to simply have the tech in place. you're going to have to convince a lot of human beings that it's okay to be driving down the highway and look over and see nobody behind the wheel of the 18-wheeler. that is going to take more time i think paradoxically than the underlying tech will require. to your point, what's going on right now, everything i have read and listened to is talking about this thing on an accelerant unlike anything we've seen before. it's churning out a better work product in many cases than we're capable of. so, you know i think a lot of people are thinking about tapping the brakes. >> tucker: i hope so, we are going to do more on this, mike

rowe, thank you. >> anytime. >> tucker: so, politico is a newsletter based in northern virginia that takes millions to show for their issues in front of congress, calls itself is a a news organization, it's run by npr, amber has obtained a list of words, politico reporters are not allowed to use, well stand byes like mankind and third world countries. biological gender and pro life. this is part of a much bigger trend that amber has exposed. her reporting can be found in the new book the snowflakes revolt. she joins us tonight, amber thank you so much for coming on. reposes as a kind of -- it's a corporate show machine, it poses as a news organization, how can they ban english language words. >> it's incredible. "new york

times" and the washington post get a lot of flak. politico has been flying under the woke radar. the style guide is indicative of a larger trend at that publication. they brought in transgender activists to lecture the reporting staff on how they were allowed to write on transgender issues with one of the individuals who was leading that charge actually telling the reporters that it is a violation of journalistic ethics to report on both sides of the transgender issue and one reporter was even suggested to have sensitivity readers go over her future articles because she dared to conservatives on article on transgenderrism. >> tucker: it's crazy how little self res spectacle of dignity. since when are activists allowed to ban criticism of themselves? >> it's truly incredible. the

idea that this person would go in, her name is kate sosen by the way with the 13th which is an lgbtq advocacy group. she lectured about journalistic ethics, where it is allows ethics write on issues in the first place. the idea is backwards and all be response to this woke millenial takeover of from news room, deride as snowflakes have now instituted mob politics across major institutions. >> tucker: that term snowflake never described them accurately. they are thugs. i appreciate you coming on tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: artificial intelligence is accelerating so fast that even some people in the tech business are worried. bill gates not worried because he is going to get rich from it. more on that next.

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>> tucker: so people have been

talking at the margins about ai, artificial intelligence, all of a sudden you have a chance to test it. if you have you know how bizarre and unsetsettling. , chat gpt will lie to you in the service of neoliberal ideology, it's supposed to be all knowing, it's all deceiving. elon musk and was any accusation called for a 6 month pause on the development of ai because it could end humanity, they understand it and really really worried. bill gates who founded microsoft which is benefiting from ai says no way, no pause, onward into the unknown. and scary is the author of liberal misery, who is on the right side tonight. so, you have two of the biggest names in technology, founders as they say in silicon

valley each taking a polar side of this issue, who do you think is right? >> well i think if any of your viewers want to live a happy, healthy, sane life you can pretty much always do the opposite of whatever bill gates says. >> tucker: that is so smart. great. >> we saw during the pandemic that this is a person who is completely motivated and will say whatever it is that is in his own business interest, get the shots, get three, get four, get five, lining his pockets with pharmaceutical money. there is no reason to trust him. it's not that i put a bunch of faith in tech over lords, but it turns out that with this technology with we have seen is the people who are in meshed in it and saw what was coming they were surprised by it. the people who developed this stuff, there were

glitches with it, you had bots saying we are going to release more viruses on the world, we would like to destroy the world, live independent and people who created those things, that is a glitch and we didn't mean for that to happen, we are going to fix it. a six month pause is all we can ask for, bill gates says the opposite i think we need to take at least six months, at least. >> tucker: elon musk said for all human history human beings have had the highest known intelligence. and now we've created something that has higher intelligence than us and think through the consequences of that for a second before proceeding? >> oh, yeah, for sure. again, when you have this machine that these people have made, even they are looking at it sand saying we didn't realize it was going to do that, you played with it for too long, we didn't anticipate it having, having conversations ways manipulating what we think, what we see, what we know to be true. yeah, that's

a real problem. >> tucker: yeah. i mean if i got in my new car and became a submarine without telling me, i would hang up the car keys for awhile. scary. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thanks. >> tucker: so we want to end this show with an update from the natural world that still matters, if you have a bee infestation, you are attempted to kill all the bees, actually a lot of these are dying anyways, is care about the bees saying a bee removal expert, why you should care about the bees, we'll be right back. did you ever stress about us having three kids? no, that was always part of the plan. three kids?! this was never part of the plan! these kids order the lobster mac 'n cheese! what if she wants to play golf? we're going to have to outlaw golf. absolutely no golf in this house! not under my roof! since we started working with empower, all of our financial questions have been answered,

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>> tucker: editors jeff bezos trying to think of new ways to humiliate and degrade the american population. fox's kevin corke has a report. >> you just never know what you

are going to find at the post, climate activists targeted suvs and gas powered cars, gas ranges, now they are coming after your bathroom tissue, private coach columnist, in a provocative column, give up on tp and switch to bidays it will save millions of trees, before you throw rolls of tp at the tv, sales of bidays they range in price from 30 bucks to 21 grand. most americans don't know a biday from a vignette, so what give the, tucker. >> tucker: most americans don't want to find out and they go with the pastry or the weird toilet any day. >> you, a. >> tucker: so most people see

bees as pests. dennis of orlando, florida has a different approach. he has a humane bee removal expert. known as the bee guy. he join us to explain why he takes this approach. i see you're protected. so, people see bees, they went to spray them with a can of poison and kill them. why should they not do that? >> well two reasons, number one as a homeowner the last thing you want to do is leave a bee's nest inside your structure, it will cause more problems than you could ever imagine. the other reason is because they are honeybees, there is a bee keeper that would remove and relocate those bees and we do that all day every day. >> tucker: how do you -- i mean, i'm assuming that bees don't want to be gentrified and moved to a new neighborhood. how do you convince them to leave? >> well, it's a physical process. so, we essentially evict them, physically remove

their nest, putting it into a beehive, we use a special vacuum designed to vacuum the bees up and not hurtment them. brought back to the farm, we locate the bees from the vacuum with the nets, put them back together and put them to work. >> tucker: how mad at them when you get them out of the vacuum. >> you would be surprised, we don't have to wear protective clothing. >> tucker: they are totally defeated, they got vacuumed so they give up. it seems like they should sting you. >> no, it's a matter of knowing the insect the and keeping them calm. >> tucker: how important, obviously you have reason to promote bees, i'm a pro bee myself, why are bees important? >> well, they produce one-third of the food we eat at least. of course they make honey which is a sweet delicious treat that everybody enjoys.

>> tucker: so, if any group, if we were to locate any group in the world that produces one-third of the food we eat, private equity barons or hedge fund managers, we don't, why? >> i would think so. i think it's some people have a fear of bees and their knee jerk reaction, when they see a nail they get a hammer. >> tucker: or a can of bug spray. >> i eat help knee every single day. >> tucker: do you really? you are obviously wearing a fuel suit, we can't see your outline, you seem like a slender fit character, how do you eat help knee every day and maintain your figure? >> i work hard every day, i wake up at 5:00 a.m. and don't stop until about 6:00 a.m. you know. >> tucker: you are making the world better. unlike most people. maybe even talk show hosts. i respect you, thank you

for coming on tonight. >> have a sweet day. >> tucker: you, too. well we are out of time. unfortunately want to remind you we are speaking to the presidential front runner on the republican side. donald trump, it will be donald trump's first interview since arraigned in new york. back tomorrow and monday. in the meantime sean hannity right now. >> sean: i have a group of people with a message. >> hi tucker! >> tucker: i support your friends. >> sean: they support you. tucker, thank you. we are back with a live audience. these are the only normal people in all of new york city. i can tell you that. all right. but tonight we're tracking multiple major stories happening right now. you got two democratic state lawmakers, you see this videotape in tennessee? they have bpe