led by tucker carlson. so what does it tell us about the state of the right wing media and what does it mean for biden's white house. let's bring in s.e. cupp and eric wemple and april ryan from the agreo and the one and only david zurawik, the media critic for the baltimore sun. s.e., am i right or wrong, that tucker is the new donald trump in. >> yeah, i see what you're saying. i can't decide if he's the rich man's trump or the poor man's trump. in some ways he's smarter than trump. >> i think so. >> which is disappointing to people like me who know him. because he could be making very good substantive arguments about conservative and politics that would be more policy-based. i think in some ways the murdock are relieved that the gop no longer wants to tackle substance and policy and wants to live in the culture wars. they make for much better television which is why you're seeing fox become the tucker channel, the 24-hour tucker channel and tucker is leaning into that kind of coverage and instead of doin

>> tucker carlson. >> i'm pretty sure tucker carlson spent the last 12 hours foaming at the mouth. >>nder a long material contract but has not stopped the tucker 2024 chatter. in this straw poll of party loyalists, he had fans. >> gov christie in second place, mike pompeo, tucker carlson. >> leaving many critics feeling like they have to take on his owed jdious odious arguments. oliver concluded with in. >> what he says in addition to utterly terrible pillows is very seductive. the idea that this country is fundamentally color blind. that anyone who mentions race is trying to start trouble. that historic oppression is no longer relevant and you his viewers the ones currently being oppressed. >> cnn new york. >> thank you so much. team biden crisscrossing the country selling the relief package. republicans are focused on something else entirely. voter suppression. till you find the perfect slice... even if everyone asks you... another burger truck? don't listen to them! that means cooking day and night until you get... [ ding ] you got paid! that means adding people to the payroll. hi

>> tucker carlson. >> i'm pretty sure tucker carlson has spent the last 12 hours foaming at the mouth of this may benefit carlson. he's under a long-term contract, but that has not stopped the tucker 2024 chatter. >> and here are the results. >> reporter: in this unscientific cpac straw poll of party loyalists, carlson had fans. >> governor kristi noem in second place followed by don junior, mike pompeo, ted cruz, tucker carlson. >> reporter: leaving many critics feeling like they have to tak

bree carlson was a force of nature. enthusiastic, spirited, beautiful. behind the radiant glow, she hid a darkness. for awhile marie drifted. then a pastor and his wife welcomed her into their lives. it was a spiritual awakening, which made marie's sudden disappearance all the more mysterious. it would take a detective with a special bond and some divine intervention to find out what happened to marie. here's keith morrison with "secrets on the emerald coast." >> reporter: how do you catch a dancing sprite? do you put her in a bottle? can you package the joy she brings? can you keep it when she goes? >> she was like a gravitational pull. >> reporter: her name was marie. marie carlson. >> she was magnetic. >> reporter: when she was happy she could make the whole world sing. >> live life to the fullest, is what marie would tell me. you know, you might not have tomorrow. >> reporter: and so she offered herself, her goodness. gave her vulnerable heart, and stored her secrets. until, well, what happened. but she was always that way, was marie. from the time o

highest rated show is carlson's. he is fox.doch said out loud his network the loyal opposition to the biden administration. cool top-rated host acting like this to the rank and file of the u.s. military the network says it's champions. what say you, fox? you come to the aid of convicted war criminals but denigrate honorable female service members? tried to find out more about this contradiction from fox. they've had more than 24 hours to respond to our questions and they have not. tucker carlson's comments stand out because of the two women who just became four-star generals. you don't get four-star female generals unless you can keep women in the military. and you can't do that in big enough numbers unless you make it positive possible for them to have a family. and the things that come along with having kids. like child care, and uniforms and body armor that fits. >>> next we have breaking news. new york governor andrew cuomo responded to growing calls for him to resign, which include him blaming cancel culture, and president

tucker carlson is next.nks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." here's an amazing story.ni yesterday the pentagon special operations command made an announcement from its official twitter account.ad special operations command is a very significant thing in the u.s. military and in our country it.. oversees delta force the seal teams and most of our most celebrated best trained lethal war fighter the treat richard torres estrada is now the chief of diversity and inclusion of america's special forces and they included his picture with the announcement. then, at the very top of its website the special operations command included a link to its extensive quite long new diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of t standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn't find that on the website.e. i

host tucker carlson come under fire over comments about u.s. army efforts to accommodate servicewoman the fox news on his plans to create maternity flight suits carlson suggested such initiatives weaken the military. pregnant women are going to fight our wars it's a mockery of the u.s. military while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy our military needs to become as joe biden says more feminine whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist he's parked a lot in there from trance phobia to weave li extolling the masculinity of china's navy to his completely misplaced outrage at joe biden over those flight suits maybe he doesn't realize his comments are weakening the military after all he wouldn't know a deployment from a trip to nantucket or a rocket launcher from all across dick but that's what he is doing maligning pregnant service members tucker carlson is the new donald trump tucker has taken trump's place as a right wing leader as an outrage generator as a fire starter som

tucker carlson is now. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a horrible story from the state

carlson myself. it's not really my style. but why not?n't really put my finger on why i resisted until now. donald trump's election in 2016 burned a lot of bridges within families and workplaces and faith communities and circles of friends, maybe yours, too. it still breaks my heart that so many people have skipped the holidays for years over political differences. maybe you can relate. tucker carlson is just the latest whipping boy for people who hate his kind of rhetoric. his work is lucrative for fox news because he's chosen an easy path. endless outrage. at a certain point, though, that outrage gets outlandish. >> stop using the phrase plain vanilla vanilla. you don't hear the mainstream media using the term plain chocolate. but plain vanilla, that's not okay. i'm tucker carlson, good night. >> this is fair game for callinging out, especially when it seems like nothing is safe from the culture war, not even ice cream. it's the kind of television that millions of americans watch five nights a week. and to his critics, that is the most

space command calling carlson's show drama on t.v. i remind everyone that his opinion which he has a right too. is based off of actually 0 days served in the armed forces pentagon spokesperson john kirby said the department of defense would not be taking advice from a talk show host or the chinese military kirby adding the military is better and more effective when representing all americans but senator ted cruz of texas says he's deeply troubled by the military for igniting political attacks to intimidate those who criticize their policy under the biden administration in a letter to u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin cruz points out military officials have launched attacks on carlson including through official d.o.d. platforms and accounts while in uniform crews asked for an in person meeting to discuss the matter but carlson isn't the only one being confronted by those in military uniforms former presented to michael f.q. said nicholas escorted members of the one national guard to congresswoman majority were briefed on just afte

she tweeted, "f" tucker carlson.s two-step, america's female warriors were hunting down al qaeda and proving the strength of america's women. happy belated international women's day to everyone but tucker, who even i can dance better than. bloop. and the pentagon quite literally smited him for dissing diversity in the ranks. pentagon press secretary john kirby said the defense department won't be taking advice from a talk show host. well, that one really messed with his soul like ether, if he has a soul, because last night he went on his little show and whined about how he, tucker, is the victim. >> if the pentagon can show that pregnant pilots are the best, we will be the first to demand an entire air force of pregnant pilots. since when does the pentagon declare war on a domestic news operation? can't remember that ever happening. >> he should probably put the bow tie on. he'd look smarter and sound smarter. i'm now joined by pennsylvania congresswoman and retired air force captain, chrissy houlahan. i have no real

here is their official statemen on our segment, and a now familiar move, tucker carlson open to showast night by attacking the journalist. oh, a journalist, the one protected group left in america. journalist make their living trying to destroy their life, but if you say a single word about it, you're a criminal, a moral monster and must be stopped. this statement goes on, as we read this, we're not making thi up, criticizing taylor was a calculated and cruel tactic which carlson usually deploys t have vitriol and target. it's all pretty amusing when yo think about it. reading a tweet on television, that's fine when it was written by say donald trump, it's calle reporting, but when that tweet was written by a new york times reporter, reading it out loud i a calculated and cruel tactic. calculated to do what exactly? presumably calculated to get most people to disagree with taylor which they've already established is harassment. it's a pretty good little skim. they get to hurt you at will, but you're not allowed to notice . notice what they're doing, and your calculated and cruel. we

carlson myself. it's not really my style. why not? my finger on why i resisted until now. donald trump's election in 2016 burned a lot of bridges within families and work places and faith communities, and circles of friends. maybe yours, too. it still breaks my heart that so many people have skimmed the holidays for years over political differences. maybe you can relate. tucker carlson is just the latest whipping boy for people who hate his kind of rhetoric. his work is lucrative for fox news because he's chosen an easy path. endless outrage. at a certain point though, that outrage gets outlandish. >> new rule, stop using the term plain virginia nil. a it is a flavor like any other. it comes from the vanilla bean. do you know another flavor that comes from a bean? chocolate. you don't their major stream media using the term plain chocolate. plain vanilla? that's okay? it isn't okay. i'm tucker carlson, good night. >> this divisiveness and xenophobia is fair game for calling out. especially when it seems like nothing is safe from the c

>> tucker carlson. >> i'm pretty sure tucker carlson has spent the last 12 hours foaming at the mouth. >> reporter: and all of this may benefit carlson. he's under a long-term contract, but that has not stopped the tucker 2024 chatter. >> and here are the results. >> reporter: in this unscientific cpac straw poll of party loyalists, carlson had fans. >> governor kristi noem in second place followed by don junior, mike pompeo, ted cruz, tucker carlson. >> reporter: leaving many critics feeling like they have to take on carlson's odious arguments even while getting him more attention. oliver concluded with this. >> tucker carlson shows sells in addition to utterly terrible pillows is very sed uktive. it's the idea this country is fundamentally color blind, that anyone who mentions race is trying to start trouble, that historic oppression is no longer relevant and that in fact you, his viewers, are the ones currently being oppressed. >> reporter: brian stelter, cnn, new york. >>> team biden crisscrossing the country to sell the president's covid relief package, but republicans are focusi

space command calling carlson's show drama. i remind everyone that his opinion which he has a right to is based off of actually 0 days of service in the armed forces pentagon spokesperson john kirby said the department of defense would not be taking advice from a talk show host or the chinese military kirby adding the military is better and more effective when representing all americans but senator ted cruz of texas says he is deeply troubled by the military for igniting political attacks to intimidate those who criticize their policy under the biden administration in a letter to u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin cruz points out military officials have launched attacks on carlson including through official d.o.d. platforms and accounts while in uniform crews asked for an in person meeting to discuss the matter but carlson isn't the own.

in fact, he brought up to tucker carlson that he was out to dinner with tucker carlson a couple of yearst. >> actually, you and i went to dinner. about two years ago your wife was there, and i brought a friend of mine, you'll remember her, and she was actually threatened by the fbi, told if she wouldn't cop to the fact that i was somehow involved in a pay for play scheme that she could face trouble. >> and there's going to be some trouble corroborating that because tucker carlson then said he had no memory of that dinner or meeting that person. but the tale just gets wider and wider as matt gaetz talks about it. >> basically what matt gaetz just did is he made tucker carlson a witness to the investigation now. >> yes, he did. >> i also note that matt gaetz has, in the past, spun wild tales about a variety of different subjects, so it's not surprising that he would spin this wild tale. but, again, the fact that someone, even if it's true, in march tried to extort him or his family to allegedly make this case go away, doesn't change the fact that there is a case. there is a very serious fe

he's making it out like it's just the pentagon that attacked carlson. right, because in the military they realize that women serve and they should serve. what do you think about this side that he has chosen in this debate? >> yeah, well, by all appearances it looks like ted cruz is trying to drag president joe biden into a -- essentially into a tucker carlson created culture war, right? he's not actually trying to have a debate about women in the military or anything like that. and sure, you can have questions about the unprecedented response at the military had to tucker carlson's comments because it was unusual for them to speeng out like that. but if you read the letter ted cruz issued it's almost as if he's trying to create this new deep state conspiracy and it's really unsettling because he keeps using the words that the military under biden is launching a political attack, a political attack on poor tucker carlson. i mean, really as you pointed out they're just defending women in their work force which we need to keep the country safe, which appar

ducker carlson's words are divisive and don't reflect our values. some jaunts kirby, quote, the defense secretary certainly shares the revulsion of many others to what tucker carlson set. we won't take personnel advice from a talk shot host or the china ears military. amy mcgrath, the first woman to fly a combat mission for the marine corps. ben rhodes is here, former deputy national security adviser for president obama. they were moves that originated in the pentagon, no? >>> well, we already look i've had three kids while on active duty. those who have served, actively serving right now, we are not a mockery. we have served we sacrifice so that tucker karl could spout off these falsehoods. when a network allows this, it den grates. and i think fox news should apologize. >> i'm trying to figure out what he's up to. the new leadership has pledged to deal with -- there is a lot of fox viewing all across this country. >> what do you make of a cable news host turning the fighting forces into a cultural battleground? you. >> i think this is what they do

the dod even issued a news release attacking us. >> reporter: on his show this week, carlson ridiculed president biden for saying the military is making better efforts to accommodate women in uniform including new flight suits for pregnant military members. >> so we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits, pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy, our military needs to become as joe biden says more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore. >> reporter: the backlash from military officials was immediate. >> what we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host. >> reporter: sergeant major of the army michael grinston tweeting, quote, women lead our most lethal units with character. tey will dominate any future battlefield we're called to fight on and senator tammy duckworth, a war veteran, tweeted, quote, expletive, tucker carlson. while he was practicing his two-step, america's female warriors were hunting down al qaeda. >> sinc

it did clarify one thing and matt gaetz is determined to put tucker carlson at a table with whoever ittment is potentially investigating him over is tucker carlson potentially going to pop up on a witness list for this investigation? >> you know, hard to say that certainly seemed like it was what matt gaetz was trying to do in that really strange interview. the one thing that's clear, the only certain takeaway i have from this is that the congressman needs a lawyer and he needs to give someone legal advice and he's perilously close to conceding himself and just running his mouth in a way that no one who is the subject of a federal investigation should be doing. >> and he might want to do better than his favorite president in terms of his choice of lawyers michael, where is this going because the big question, i think, that seems obvious is there an individual young woman in question, you know, an underaged person in question that journalists like yourself are aware of is that a thing that you can report on or that you think will be revealed imminently in this very strange case? >> i th

tucker carlson is up ♪ >>tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. lot of things going on in the world right now, but we thought this was significant barrier to jury selection has just begun i the mentor trial of he is one o the officers who has been accused of murdering george floyd in minneapolis last memorial day. on one level this trial is a local crime story come up one o many unfolding right now but of course it's also an calculi mor than that, the death of george floyd change the united states profoundly and forever. george floyd we were told wasn' an individual, he was every african-american in the country he wasn't just a cop, he was th physical embodiment of america' institutions. when he murdered george floyd h was doing to one man what our country has done to all african-americans. many people told us this including joe biden. >> i just want to say a few words about the horrific killin of george floyd in minnesota, but it sends a clear message to the black community, black live that are under threat every single day. >> they speak to a na

the pentagon condemns fox news host tucker carlson for his comments about women serving in the u.s. military. >> what we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host >> tucker carlson doubling down overnight. >>> all that, plus, jaw dropping the piece of digital art that just sold for a record $69 million. >> i'm going to disney world >> just ahead, the artist behind that collage that's turning th art world on its ear. >>> and lending a hand al heads to texas to shine a light on people still in need one month after those historic winter storms. >> the process is taking so much longer than we expected. >> he gets a little help from matthew mcconaughey. >> i have purpose. if something like this happens, purpose comes in with a capital "p." >> mcconaughey and roker, a duo that's al-right, al-right, al-rightal-light today, friday, march 12th, 2021. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hi, everybody. good morning welcome to "today. friday morning, glad to have you with us. hoda is

i had viewers email me and say, it seems like she's using carlson's defense.'s viewers have been told not to trust the news, to only trust the commentary shows. so now this big lie, which takes a lot of people to promote, including powell and others, now powell and trump and the rest have to hope that the rest of the country doesn't hear about this ridiculous legal defense. they have to hope people don't hear about it because again, 24 hours ago, trump was on right-wing tv still claiming he won. it's still going on, brianna, every day. >> yeah. so, lot of -- it's a lot of money that she's being sued for, and that's -- might have something to do with it. >> the ultimate consequence. >> exactly. bryan stelter, thank you so much. >> thanks. >>> top of the hour, i am brianna keilar and the country must decide yet again whether it's acceptable for people to be shot dead with a semiautomatic weapon just because they went grocery shopping. it's a country that's already decided it's acceptable enough for movie goers, concert goers, food festival goers, club goers, wal

it's tucker carlson.hing you need to know about the fox news playbook right now. >> look, we know there is a shrinking and small group of straight news journalists at fox, but it is a small section of what is at fox. they're in the reporter ranks, they're not the ones in general hosting shows. and increasingly, fox is moving into what the prime time has made them -- you know, has made them into. murdoch admitted that the fox audience, brian, is disappointed in the election results. how much does that factor into this strategy moving forward and the fox lineup? >> that is the big story. that is the major factor. the fox audience does not want to hear bad news about republicans, does not want to hear good news about democrats. so it is all a ratings ploy. and it is very clear from the programming and the sources inside fox who are speaking out about it. it is notable that lockland was speaking to investors saying, hey, the ratings are going to come back, the viewers are coming home. to some extent, that's s

carlson's sentiment not shared by so many men and women in uniform.troversy. >> no retreat and no apology. >> the department of defense has never been more aggressively or openly political. >> fox news host tucker carlson overnight doubling down on his monologue, insulting pregnant women who serve in the military. >> new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. pregnant women will fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. >> carlson, terminating his tirade with an anti-trans dig. >> while china's military becomes more masculine, our military needs to become more feminine, whatever feminine means since men and women no longer exist. >> the moment met with outrage across the military. >> drama tv. >> including from the pentagon spokesperson john kirby. >> what we won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the chinese military. >> military women tweeting photos of themselves pregnant and in uniform. sammy duckworth praising america's female wore jurors. >> we served. we sacrificed. we bled. we have died for this country, for the

carlson is up next. most? ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."py monday. i hope you spent a restful weekend with the ones you love away from the insanity and if you did you were reminded this is still the very best country in the world for the simple reason it has the best people, happiest people. most people are happy. there is a lot of drama going on though, of course, as if we needed more. the george floyd trial has finally started in minneapolis the other trials channels are covering like a championship game. which makes sense if you your job is to hate each other and divide the country and that's how they see their job the opportunity to talk about george floyd all day is like your super bowl. so this morning cnn spent hours airing footage of prosecutors questioning one of the emergency dispatchers who happened to be on duty the day that george floyd died. it wasn't very interesting. it had no inherent news value is that your voice on the 911 recording the prosecutor asked at one point? yes, the dispatcher replied and so it went indeterminab

here's exactly what tucker carlson said. >> so we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. while china's military becomes more masculine as it's assembled the world's largest navy, our military needs to become, as joe biden, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist. the bottom line is it's out of control, and the pentagon's going along with this. again, this is a mockery of the u.s. military and its core mission, which is winning wars. >> i wonder if he just does that for attention. but a mockery? he's never served in the mill. he's insulting women who do serve in the military. joining me now, one of the incredible women who put her life at risk to protect this country, and that is major mj hegar. i really appreciate you joining us and thank you for your service. so you're a woman and a veteran. what was going through your mind when you heard those comments? >> yeah, it's difficult. a couple things went through my mind. one, clearly he's never served. y

reiner, i saw you calling out tucker carlson the other day on your twitter feed saying you might know the motive for why there are vaccine doubts spread on the channels like fox. what do you think the motive is? >> good morning, brian. it is hard to escape the notion that some of the conservative media outlets in particular tucker carlson is -- are and is purposely instilling doubt to achieve a political agenda. there is no serious doubt that this -- that these vaccines work. the data from multiple clinical trials is robust both in terms of efficacy and safety. so why would tucker carlson, who two months ago desperately wanted the former president to get the credit he deserves for helping to facilitate these vaccines, why now is he casting doubt on the american public to be vaccinated and an inescapable answer and conclusion is that he's trying to hamper what has become a spectacularly successful vaccine rollout by the current administration. now right now are vaccinating about 2.5 million people a day and we'll get to 3 million people a day. there will be an enormous success. so i th

now some lawyers call this the tucker carlson defense. carlson is a fox news house sued by former play mate karen mcdougal for slander. fox news lawyers said don't believe everything that carlson said and the judge actually agreed. msnbc's lawyers made a similar claim after rachel maddow said the conservative network oann was literally funded by the kremlin. there's no evidence that that's the case. oann sued and that was thrown out because the judge said maddow continued to exaggerated. >> reports of a woman with a gun at the have therance home of california this morning around 8:30. so far no word of any shots or anyone being hurt. of course we'll continue to monitor this after the break. >>> coming up at 11:00, followed by "access daily" and then "days of our lives" at 1:00. this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines and more. put off chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm to help keep our state golden. ♪ ♪ this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. proof that i can fight psoriatic arthrit

carlson. i think my comments stand on themselves.atement about my service members and teammates in the united states armed forces. i don't believe in censorship. i think we have the right to say whatever we want. and you get to decide whether you want to listen or not. we value women, we value families, and we value teammates and one another. so that's why i had to say what i had to say. i will continue to say that. i continue to believe that. those of you who have served, god bless you. and semper fi. >> always faithful. that's what service is, and we know who the real patriots are. know who the real patriots are. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ when it comes to your financial health, just a few small steps can make a real difference. ♪ ♪ ♪ learn, save and spend with guidance from chase. confidence feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. first up is this exquisite bowl of french onion dip. i'm going to start the bidding at $5. thank you, sir. looking for $6. $6 over there! do i hear 7? $7 in the front! $7 going once. going twice. s

peter carlson and i asked if his young company which has yet to produce anything is on track to meet the big automakers demands i think we are you know we are we're building in an industrial station where we can die leant across the system outside bester also that's where we deliver the 1st so-called a and b. samples to the big auto companies this process we will scale up in left here by the end of this year and then continue over the next coming years in order to fill this very expensive noting demand now volkswagen has says that it wants 40 gigawatt hours annually of production by 2023 tesla currently aiming for $39.00 gigawatts an hour by 2022 it seems like things are moving so fast it how difficult is it to keep up with the expansion in this technology. i mean it's it is very challenging 8 you require he'd requires financing it requires equipment and not the case that requires a step up in in staffing and we have now reached over 1300 employees here and we intend to double that over that next year but it is a race and starting production at this case is not the see it's going to

and tucker carlson knows this. obviously tucker knows there are obviously easily accessible answers to these questions about the vaccines. he's not stupid. he just thinks his audience is, so he feeds into their fears by lying these shadowy people are out there. they're just questions, can't people ask questions? and this by the way is the most cowardly way to do this. i say this as someone with a platform myself. to hide behind a podium of contraryism because he can't say it outright, the vaccine will kill you unless he wants to find himself gone in the way of lou daubs. here is the data we have. let's look at what is happening in long-term care facility across the country. this is the actual data. this is what's happening in the u.s. once people started getting vaccinated in long-term care facilities, cases and deaths started to fall precipitously. look what is happening in israel where a cdc study found mass vaccinations led to drop in severe covid cases. johnson & johnson hopkins medicine, a really helpful page

carlson. i think my comments stand on themselves.nd teammates in the united states armed forces. i don't believe in censorship. i think we have the right to say whatever we want. and you get to decide whether you want to listen or not. we value women, we value families, and we value teammates and one another. so that's why i had to say what i had to say. i will continue to say that. i continue to believe that. those of wyou who have served, god bless you. and semper fi. >> always faithful. that's what service is, and we know who the real patriots are. we'll be right back. implacable place. it is not. it can be bright. quiet. and safe. it's a change that will be felt from this street. to this street. to no street. and everywhere in between. all it takes is the slightest push in just the right place and that will be the tipping point that changes everything. ♪ ♪ tonight i'll be eating a calzone from doughballs in aurora. (doorbell) rock on. tonight i'll be eating lobster thermidor au gratin. really? sh-yeah, and monkeys might fly out o

>> but tucker carlson makthinks mockery of the u.s. military. for joining us today. i'm kate bolduan. john king picks up our coverage right now. >>> hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very important day with us. tonight president biden delivers a prime time pandemic address. the speech marks one sad anniversary, a year of shock and sorrow. the president will pay tribute to the lives lost and to families scarred both by personal loss and economic pain. but he will also promise a new chapter is at hand and help us along the way. tomorrow the president signs a

>> first of all, can you just clarify for me, did tucker carlson, does he know anything about serving the country? has he ever put on the uniform? has he ever risked his life to america? the answer is no to all three. he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. it's offensive not just to women in the military but to men in the military too. it's offensive to leaders in the military. it's offensive to everyone who's willing to put on a uniform to defend our basic values. and by the way, it's also offensive to women in the workplace all over america. these views would be extreme for the 1950s and that seems to be more of an appropriate place for tucker carlson to have his talk show. but i think given the audience that he commands, it was appropriate for the pentagon to respond. when i served in iraq on my third and fourth tours, i served with one of the best marines i have ever met in my life, one of the toughest combat leaders that i know, someone who was able to work more closely with the iraqi military and iraqi police than anyone else i had experience with, and she was a woman

we we play the tucker carlson thing. watch this. >> you ever notice how the scary internet conspiracy theorists,

i watched that tucker carlson interview last night. did he say the investigation started under bill barr and donald trump. that would ruin the narrative because one thing matt gaetz is good at is political theater. the secure room where depositions were taken during the first impeachment investigation, he stormed it and they occupied it, had pizza there. this is political theater. going to blame it on a political witch hunt. he made the allegation he was promised a pardon from biden if he played ball. that's crazy. i can assure you, wolf, if biden ever issues pardons in four years, i would assume matt gaetz and allegations or conviction if that ever happens of child sex trafficking is probably not high on the president's list. >> thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, wolf. >> we'll have you back soon. >>> coming up, pfizer says its covid vaccine is 100% effective in young teenagers. will adolescents be able to get the shot before they return to school in the fall? stay with us. thinking. it didn't get us to the moon. it doesn

if tucker carlson had so much -- for the chinese navy, his journalism style suits that better. he should pack up. >> you have men and women who support you as well. he offered no apology tonight and said he's accusing the pentagon of a p.r. offensive against him when the reality is he was called out for his sexist remarks by soldiers in top brass. now he is playing the victim. >> yeah, it's funny, right? the cancel culture is always bad until they do it to us, right? the hypocrisy is pretty blatant, i think. something that's extraordinary to me and is actually really inspiring to me is it's pretty rare for top brass to make their opinions vocal. a lot of tyimes in the military we're raised to believe, you don't have opinions, or you keep them to yourself, i'm very hardened. i don't think this was spontaneous support from senior leaders. i think it was an organized -- people got to okay to have their voices heard, and that says something to me about the future of our military, the direction we're going, the fact that we're taking things serious. we have a serious culture problem

she tweeted "f" tucker carlson.s practicing his two-step, america's female warriors were hunting down al qaeda and proving the strength of america's women. happy belated international women's day to everyone but tucker who even i can dance better than. she's wheelchair bound. did you consider going that far? >> well, it's great to hear that from a midwesterner. here in new jersey, we're no stranger to some salty language, so to hear it from a midwesterner, i think, shows just how offended we women military veterans are. i think all military veterans, as you see the support for our women in service from really everyone, men and women alike. >> you make such a great point. that is our standard new jersey greeting. such a great point. as a jersey girl myself. okay, so let's talk about, on a serious note, what's happening with the investigation into the insurrection at the capitol. veterans are disproportionately represented among the 300 people facing charges in connection there. at least 29 current and former service

carlson to it.would respond saying this is one of the weirdest interviews he's ever done in his long media career we're joined by a civil rights attorney and also a white house reporter for "the daily beast." walk us through why matt gaetz is talking about so many other things without responding to how he figures into the doj sexual trafficking investigation. >> well, something that broke earlier today makes the story even weirder we had found out that matt gaetz was in possession of text messages or documentation that show what he characterized as this massive extortion scheme. it has to do with getting $25 million to try to get an american with the last name of levinson out of an iranian prison this is morphed into one of the weirder trumpier interpretations of the iran contra scandal i have ever heard of in my time on this planet. back to what you mentioned earlier about mcgee. when he reached out to him yesterday, he did tell us in a brief interview that this is categorically false and whatever

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ave seen just an hour or two ago that the "new york times" essentially accused congressman matt gaetz of sex trafficking. we don't have any background on this story. gates says it's a smear and a shakedown and he joins us on this show in just a minute with his side of this story. but first tonight, remarkable twist in a tragedy still ongoing whose effects have transformed this country forever. just days before authorities reported the first cases of the coronavirus in wuhan, a top inspector at the world health organization sat for an interview that was broadcast on youtube. that inspector was a man called peter diaz zac and he spoke with his research at the wuhan institute of virology which had been going on for more than 15 years. in that interview he also discussed his nonprofit organization which had received millions from the u.s. government i channeled substantial percentage of the money to the lab in wuhan which he described as, quote, a world class lab of the highest standard. s

tucker carlson should have a disclaimer on his show. the entertainer known as tucker carlson.sman. he is planting seeds of misinformation in a matter of time when we are in a life and death scenario. and this is promoting the i iidea, well, let me stand back and wait a while. it is promoting vaccine hesitantly that this covid task force is fearful of. dr. fauci, on the covid task force calls said he was hopeful for adult herd immunity by late summer, early fall. but when you have people planting seeds of doubt and offering misinformation it does not support a secure thought that i will take the vaccine. and not only is it an issue of misinformation going out for republicans. there is an issue of vaccine hesitancy in the black community because of misinformation as well. there was a recent call from cornell bell tram from brilliant corners that found that vaccine hesitancy in the black community is because of a lack of information, because of a lack of misinformation. for tucker carlson and all of those over at fox, state one media, who want to -- used to be state one media, bu

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." lot of things going on in the world right now. we thought this was significant. jury selection has just begun and the murder trial of derek chauvin. derek chauvin is one of the officers accused of murdering george floyd in minneapolis last memorial day. now on one level, this is a local crime story, one of many unfolding right now. but of course, it's also more than that. the death of george floyd change the united states profoundly and forever. george floyd, we were told to come i wasn't simply an individual. he was every african-american in the country. derek chauvin was a just a cop, he was the physical embodiment of america's institution. when chauvin murdered george floyd, he was doing to one man what our country has done to all african-americans. many people told us this including joe biden. >> i just want to say a few words about the horrific killing of george floyd in minnesota. it sends a message that black lives are under threat every single day. >> they speak to a nation wh