i'm ashley strohmier, back to you, for "tucker carlson tonight"'s tonight's special. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tuckernight," jamie vance grew up in a very rough place, a rough town in the rust belt of ohio, he is running for the u.s. senate. but he has been to a great extent defined by his childhood in a good way. in our conversation he told us what it was like to leave a small town to make a better life for himself. here is -- here it is. ♪ ♪ your perception was that you were middle-class, conventional american family, but by the time you were in high school you had slipped backward. without getting too intrusive, how? how does that happen? >> i think drugs was the biggest driver for a family. and this is like really complicated, but my mom struggled with heroin addiction that started to happen around the time when i was ten or 11. my grandfather who was sort of the patriarch of the family kept everything together, he died at the age of 67. which at the time i thought was really old. and i was like i can't believe that my grandfather died at 67 years old. >> tucker: how did he die? >> just died of a

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday.planning to be in washington, d.c., tomorrow, your nation's capital, be careful. turns out a group of political extremists plans to shut the sunday down. unlike us guessing, because they're not very subtle about what they intend to do. they literally call their group "shut down d.c." you can go to their website. they described the violence they plan to commit tomorrow in washington. they are planning "disruptive direct action to end business as usual and dismantle this country's core systems of government." in case there's any remaining doubts about their vote, they are calling it "december 7th, shut down the capital." as in the united states capital. so what would you call an event like this? there's really no other word for it, it is an insurrection. it is a planned uprising against our elected government. in fact, it is an attack on democracy itself. the most organized attack since the civil war and 9/11. if you've been paying attention for the past year, the last 11 months to the d

we will keep you updated on that, tucker. >> tucker: thank you very much.nd because we hate to forget things and history matters. when this fake hate crime first happened. joe biden was running for the presidency tweeted this: what happened to jussie smollett must never be tolerated in this country. we are with you. is the president of the united states still with jussie smollett? for a recap on what we just saw will cain from fox and friends on the weekend and a lawyer. what have we learned? >> i don't think you called me in for great legal analysis. of the commerce clause or how it is for federal power you called me in to analyze "my cousin vinny." it's not "to kill a mockingbird." this is a comedy. this is a comedy. it is less about the law and more about narcissism. jussieil smollett took the stand which is shocking but he's been performing his way through life. he sat down with robin robertson and put on an amazing performance and tried to put that on with the jury. but they are more intelligent. we have seen that is jussie smollett and kyle rittenhous

i'll see you next time. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." here's something that we need to internal idea. just because something is far-fetched or crazy or seems totally destructive to core american interests doesn't mean the u.s. government won't do it. that's the main lesson right now. do not discount no matter how far-fetched it it would seem is a hot water with russia. yes, this is a lunatic idea. nothing that we could gain from a military confrontation with vladimir putin and very much we could lose include many thousands of american lives. that doesn't mean joe biden won't do it. biden is unpopular, he's uncompetent and desperate. more than anything joe biden is weak. he's a pawn of his staff in the hard-idealogs that surround him. many of biden's aides are pushing the united states to get involved militarily. many ironies here is the ukraine crisis was created by joe biden's own aides and many people like them throughout all levels of the u.s. government. so here's the russian position. for russia, the core question is nato. nato is t

. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy christmas week. it's coming. have not noticed because people diverting your attention are working over time. joe biden's political support is in the process of collapsing completely. a new poll shows only 29% of independents support joe biden. that's a very bad number. donald trump took 41% of independent voters and lost in the last election. if you are a political consultant, a poll that shows 29% independent support send you to the liquor cabinet for more vodka. it means your candidate will lose along with anybody connected to your candidate. a tsunami forming on the horizon. it's terrifying.mi for joe biden that's just the beginning of the bad news. biden had 33% among hispanicbe voters. in other words, 67% of thece latino community does not support joe biden. it's hard to process a number like that. it's too far from the conventional view of american politics. is there a single political analyst who would predict that even last week? no. the one thing we have known about latino voters they are democrats becau

♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."k, my hood, my city is a nonprofit organization in chicago. it's designed to teach kids how to become responsible citizens. we can't tell you if the program actually works but we do know they seem to be aiming in the rightsen direction. last saturday afternoon four members of this group went to chicago's to hang christmas lights. pretty nice thing to do. once the center of chicago's black owned business district at point another dangerous neighborhood in a decaying city. how dangerous is it? well, if the kids hung their christmas lights four thugs got out of an suv and robbed them. then a few hours later, someone set fire to a christmas degree they had set up in a nearby park. h who sets fire to christmas trees? well, suddenly a lot of do. last december, the same group of volunteers in chicagoe had another one of their christmas trees burned to the ground. the year before that, someone ran over the christmas tree in chicago's washington park with a car. to there seems to be quite a bit

tucker up next. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: breaking news out of chicago.esolution to the jussie smollett case, the attacker was convicted on 5 out of 6 count. who is the attacker? him. a lawyer will tell us what the verdict means. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last christmas eve after 1 in the afternoon a woman katie lawson tried to pull her car out of the mall in boston. a woman in a chevy tahoe was yelling. the woman rolled down her window to scream at lawson. i will write you a ticket. today is not the day to try me. the woman turned on the emergency police strobe lights on her suv. lawson was rattled. clearly this was a mentally ill police officer. lawson asked a friend in the passenger seat to take a photo of the license plate and called the police to let them know they had an unbalanced officer. the woman was not a police officer. she was just impersonating a police officer. no power to arrest lawson or write her a ticket who had not broken any law. the woman should not have had cop lights on her car. it turns out she was rachel rollins who wa

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker carlson: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ple living in the nation of mozambique along the southern coast of africa woke up to surprising news this week. not a ton has been happening in mozambique in recent years but this really rattled them a little bit.y the biden administration the people mozambique by a presidential proclamation that they're not allowed in the united states, it's nothing personal, it's omicron, the variant used to justify lockdowns around the world. the problem and the confusion came from the fact that there is no omicron in mozambique, not a single case of it in the country. possibly one of the equity hires in the white house confused mozambique with botswana where the other day two people might have died of omicron.iq they don't share a border so people were highly confused and probably a little hurt. today, tny fauci asked to sign off on the travel ban was asked about this by an african reporter. you know, fauci replied, that's a good question, an important question. then he didn't even hint at an answe

tucker carlson is next. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."obvious observation. it feels like this country is losing control of inflation and it's getting worse. in dallas over the weekend a bottle of water is going for $8 which used to be free from the sky. now 8 bucks and people are paying it. if you are thirsty in dallas on saturday morning you didn't have a choice. inflation will make this country poor faster than anything else well. if you think covid or climate change or police brutality or iran is a bigger threat to the united states than the devaluation of the u.s. dollar you should not be making meaningful decisions. you are a moron. let's check in with our friends at cnn to see what they are covering on the other news channel. planning a palace coup at the white house. another day in washington. cnn's researchers discovered joe biden is elderly and not that popular. not the best vehicle for the party going forward. obviously he won't serve 2 terms. so cnn has a list of people to replace joe biden. it's amusing. somebody in cnn's math

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: merry christmas.come to a special christmas eve edition of "tucker carlson tonight," which we have thought through a little bit. we are not going to bring you the usual depressing slog for the underbelly of american politics. we do a lot of that.or that's the nature of news and the nature of cable news. d but for tonight, christmas eve, we will do something a little different trade will focus on stories of struggle and hardship, that's where meaning comes from. but stories that gave rise to hope in the end. and there are a lot of them. and we are grateful for every one of them that we do. recently for example we spoke to archbishop charles who grew up surrounded by death. we asked him about that, and he said that it made him grateful for the things he has. watch. ♪ ♪♪ >> so you have seen a lot of death in your life, of course. >> i grew up seeing death. >> tucker: you're the son of a mortician? >> yes, i lived in a funeral home, and my friends were afraid to visit me when i was a kid because they had

tucker. >> tucker: unbelievable.gher, thanks so much. >> tucker: they always target the weakest. however you feel about the corona vaccine imagine kids given your child drugs by immunized teachers. glenn beck joins us on this story. glenn, thanks so much for coming on. you're a parent. how would you respond to something like this? >> i would file a lawsuit with the teacher's union myself. i can't believe what's going on, tucker. it is completely out of control. you have to ask yourself why. why are they pushing this like this? what do they have to gain? it's not our health. i really don't believe that. >> tucker: certainly not in the case of children where there is actual risk not to every child. >> we have little risk from coronavirus. so this is like crazy. so you have done some reporting on this on some of the incentives we may not be aware of behind these drugs. >> yeah. >> tucker: tell us what you found. this is a two-hour chalkboard that is condensed into about four minutes. so if you want to see the whole thin

we will keep you updated, tucker. >> tucker: amazing. courtroom today, or obviously we would have a lot of amazing footage for you. but we do have some idea of what jussie smollett was saying, because he hasn't really changed what he's been saying for the last three years. back in 2019, he argued that only a racist wouldn't take his story at face value. >> if i had said it was a muslim or a mexican, or someone block, i feel like the doubters would've supported me a lot much more. a lot more. and that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now. the fact that we have these fearmongers, these people that are trying to separate us. it's just not okay. >> tucker: fear mongrels. [laughter] they were a problem then and they are a problem now. candace owens, she joins us with her reaction, candace, great to see you. what do you make of that? >> oh,o wow. honestly, i make that his defense should've actually said pled and said at the end i awould've bought it. you really follow every element of this.ai jussie smollett is not a

tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," big changes in the tiny hothouse in the tiniest cable news this evening. cnn's top rated anchor chris cuomo has been pulled off the air likely for good. you'll probably never see him on camera again. for us here at fox, and feels like the end of something weird like most americans, we never actually watched the chris palmer show assuming that's was its name. we saw clips and it transfixed us. how we wondered how a man who could barely speak english wind up with a paying job on television? some kind of weird affirmative action program for the illiterate? we never figured it out. it was remarkable to see it. sentence after badly mangled sentence, he couldn't understand any of it. it was a kind of performance art, communicator wholly unable to communicate, then there was the weight lifting, something wrong with lifting weights or keeping in shape obviously but there was always something very wrong with the videos that chris cuomo had shot of himself and then put on the internet. imagine wanting othe

clinton always denied any wrongdoing. >> tucker: just like his tucker. company. trace. >> you better come appreciate it. >> tucker: joe biden's approval numbers are low and getting lower. one poll has him at 38% this morning. has joe biden gets less popular, he becomes more determined to punish the country that is rejecting him. that's why he announced new measures to crack down on americans because of the omicron variant. that's next. victor davis hanson will join us to respond. ♪ ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. our friend sold their policy to help pay their medical bills, and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we learned we

until then, tucker carlson's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight's a lot about modern economic theory that is important, but difficult to understand. not many people formulating these views don't really understand them. that is why they could never explain anything, clearly. but there is one core economic fact that everybody, even those of us with poor math skills, grasp instantly peer that is when we are getting poorer. how do you know you are getting poorer? when you don't have enough money to do the things that you wanted to do. you are moving backwards. it is a very backwards feeling. short of armed robbery, nothing makes americans poorer than inflation. finance mobile -- it is a good thing for them. everyone else hates it. new inflation numbers are out. according to consumer price index, inflation is up almost 7% over the past 12 months. that is very high. the problem is the reality is much worse than that. and that is because the consumer index is useless as a guide to life in america. it doesn't actually measure the cost of living. in that w

tucker? >> tucker carlson: trace gallagher, the best. great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker carlson: you may not have noticed. he pulled the top-rated anchor chris cuomo off of the air for helping his brother. if you don't know ahead of time, you're going to have people tuning in saying, wait, where's the steroid guy. so with the news that chris cuomo was being pulled off indefinitely suspended. what's so interesting, it tells you very much about cnn that he would himself would like to have his job. oh, the betrayal. so interesting. so, the question, what kind of person is cnn's media critic? we come across audio that answers a question. so here -- we're going to use his name for the first time, brian stelter, explaining to a group of people that he has fired his name, he remains nameless because she refused to get the injection. listen to this. >> me and my wife work full time, we are out during the day in new york and our nanny refused to get vaccinated. we're parting ways with her. it was very, very sad. that we thought after six

tucker is next. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a ton going on.could not resist noting that jussie smollett went on trial for faking a hate crime ax tack. -- attack. he could spend time in prin. his lawyers say he is the real victim but no sober person on the planet believes that. jussie smollett faked a hate crime. how did anyone anywhere ever fall for this story even for a moment? looking back, particularly it was the most obvious hoax ever perpetrated. in case you forgot the details, here's what smollett claimed. he left his apartment in chicago at 2 a.m. to pick up a subway sandwich. he walked down the street and 2 white men screamed in his face for being black and gay. you are not allowed to be either one of those things in chicago. they called him the "n" word and punched him in the face and poured a chemical on his body and wrapped a noose around his neck because it's chicago. they didn't bother to rob him. their motive was political. this is maga country if a city that voted 80% for hillary clinton. that's the story jussie smollett told th

here's tucker. >> tucker carlson: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. happy christmas week. has there been a news environment like this one? every day feels like some weird psy-op from the government. masks will keep you safe, ukraine is essential to our national security, rachel levine is an admiral, he's a genius. it's enough to make you go crazy. am i the only one to know this is all bs. to clear the palate and restore sanity, we're going to return to what we know and stay to the facts. here is the most important fact in american politics right now. the democratic party just hit a brick wall. democrats cannot continue to run the united states of america. why? here's why? a new poll we told you last night showed you 23% of latino voters like joe biden. can a democrat be elected president with 33% of the hispanic vote? for that matter, 43%? for that matter, 53%? no, is the answer. no chance. it's impossible. that's the headline. this is a huge change from what most people thought just three days ago. certainly what democrats thought. they sincerely believed they were the pa

good to see you, doctor. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: here's a piece of advice.find yourself living in a place where people are still talking about covid nonstop two years and, it's time to move. not just because your neighbors have been brainwashed off easily they have been but because your neighbors are boring. at this point it's simply not an interesting topic for your private life. yes, covid has killed a lot of people. so has prostate cancer. imagine telling people about your prostate everyday for the next two years. people would know you were a narcissist. no one would sit next to you at dinner. you would be boorish. that's exactly what covid talk sounds to the well-adjusted among us. when we talk about covid incessantly, we miss everything else -- the real point. this is a big and complicated and completely fascinating world. babies are born. the elderly die. in between all kinds of things happen. we succeed, fail, skin, aspire, fall in love, great things, we have deep and valuable insights into life itself. human beings do a remarkable variety of legitima

tucker carlson is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."py friday. jupiter is a little town east coast florida, not a huge place. as safe and orderly place. a ton of nice people live there. not all of them is rich which is unusual for a coastal town. it's a country you remember. you wouldn't mind living there, sure. over the weekend, jupiter, florida, look less like the america of 1980 and more like the america that joe biden is busy creating right now which is to say chaotic, crazy, out-of-control. families sitting on the beach on jupiter this on their watch slack-jawed as a boat carrying thousands of unemployed immigrant haitian suddenly pulled up on the shore. people inside the boat hopped up, ran for the waves, and scattered. not what you expect on a sunday on the beach but not everybody in jupiter was surprised to see this happen. another boat full of haitians landed there this summer. it's becoming a regular occurrence in jupiter, florida. in the end, federal authorities caught a number of the migrants according to customs and border

>> sure, tucker.y of these contractors that are facilitating by biden's legal policies, bringing people into florida oftentimes flying it at 2:00 in the morning with no notice to the state, anyone who's doing that forfeits the ability to have contracts with state and local government in the state of florida, and they are responsible for restitution for the state of florida for every single person that they bring. when they dump somebody, a lot of costs end up being borne by the state in the future where the education health care, the criminal justice system. unfortunately we had somebody brought from the biden that murdered somebody in jacksonville just a few weeks ago. and so we are very concerned about doing that. we want to say this is not the right decision to be making to be facilitating which is basically in the legal human smuggling operation. we are also saying to some of the institutions in florida, like nonprofits, we aren't going to be giving licenses to folks who are actively helping biden

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."live in manchester, new hampshire, congratulations it is a really nice place, but second, we thought we would give an explanation for what you may have just seen. so if you live there and you sell liz cheney wandering around downtown manchester, no, you are not hallucinating. liz cheney was there. and that is pretty weird if you think about it. not a lot of people go to manchester, new hampshire, in november. so it probably wasn't a family acation. it waser unlikely that liz cheny wound up there by accident. manchester is an eight hour drive from her home in d.c. suburbs. and more to the point, it's also eight hours from the cnn studios in downtown washington that she inhabits more often than most of us go to church and much more reverently. manchester is also not going to matter to her more than 2,000 miles from wyoming, that's the state she supposedly represents in the u.s. congress. so the question is what was liz cheney doing in manchester, new hampshire, appear there is only one a

tucker? >> tucker: oh too late. see you tonight, thank you. >> you, too. >> tucker: inga roddermacker was on the show general hospital, it's one of the longest shows in television. he has been fired because he will not comply with disney's mandatory injection policy. he is suing the company. he is an actor and a very smart guy who thought this through to a deep level. he's a man of principle, interesting person and really good person, actually and we had a long conversation with him for tucker carlson today. here is part of it. >> i am still blown away i am sitting here having this conversation. i never thought i would do this and i never thought i would number a lawsuit, a situation -- i would ever be in a lawsuit, a situation like that. i'm not that kind of person. but i can't turn a blind eye when i see people being bullied and coerced. this fight chose me. even though i am the one bringing this lawsuit to abc and disney, this is much bigger than me. this is about basic human rights and the medical freedom to cho

. ♪♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday.gine this happened to you, you're sitting on an airplane, faxiing down a runway on a trip out of the country. all of a sudden the plane tops and is surrounded by military police, armed men storm the aircraft and drag a man from his seat, so, of course, you assume at first terrorism has just been averted. the passenger must have been trying to blow up the plane with a shoe bomb or something. but, no, that's not what this is. the man isn't a carrying. -- terrorist, he's worse than that. he violated covid restrictions. as covid criminal. a man with covid shouldn't object a commercial aircraft spreading the virus to everyone else. of course, that's fair, but here's the thing, this man doesn't have covid. he was tested right before he got on the airplane and no trace of the virus was found. so why in the world is he being hauled off the flight by armed men? here's why, the government determined based on his travel history -- which they have had tracking, he might some day get covid, therefo

thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: dr. one of the most knowledgeable, most experience and wisest public health experts in this country, and actual public health expert. today, he told congress the truth about the science behind covid booster shots. he joins a straight ahead. plus, a new documentary out thursday. it is called trial of kyla rittenhouse. access to that in all of our documentaries at tuckercarlson.com. ♪ ♪ [upbeat acoustic music throughout] [upbeat acoustic music throughout] >> tucker: they told you the vaccine works perfectly and will solve all your problems. now they are telling you -- that actually need a lot more injections. i was always the plan they just didn't mention it. now the biden white houses pushing covid booster shots, more injections for milling americans, including young people who have already had covid. so maybe this is a great idea, but we should definitely pause and ask real questions. no one is doing that except doctor. and today he testified before congress that this is pretty irresponsi

here's tucker. ♪ >> tucker carlson: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. happy christmas week.as there been a news environment like this one? every day feels like some weird psy-op from the government. masks will keep you safe ukraine is essential to our national security,ou rachel leve is an admiral, he's a genius. it's enough to make you go crazy. am i the only one to know you start to ask yourself that. to clear the mental restore sanity, we are going to return to what we actually know which is to say to the facts here is the most important fact and american politics. democrats cannot continue to ru the united states of america. they ask him at democrats get elected president with 33 percent of the hispanic vote. or with the matter with 43 percent or with that 53 percent. oil as the answer, no chance. it's impossible. this is a huge change for what most people thought. certainly with democrats thoughts thought. they sincerely believe they wer the party of repressed racial minorities. that was the whole point of thae party, and weirdly, republican leaders seem to accept it as

tucker. ♪♪ >> tucker: tucker carlson tonight -- i'm jesse waters in for tucker. david was a 30-year-old student studying for a ph.d. in computer science at columbia university in new york. last night just before midnight gary was walking through morning side park just next to the columbus campus. someone knife him in the stomach and he collapsed and died a short time later. a 27-year-old italian tourist arrived just days earlier. according to the witness the tourist yelled why. why. help me? the witness said the suspect was ecstatic and howling with glee as he repeatedly plunged the knife into his unsuspecting victim. a few minutes later, the killer threatened another man with a knife before cops finally arrested him. authorities identified the killer as vincent pinkney, a member of the gang everybody killers. he was out on parole at the time of the stabbing spree. he has 11 arrests, dating back nearly a decade. in 2015, picky was convicted of gang assault for repeatedly slashing a man in the

. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: joseph mcbride has been on this since the beginning good he's one of the rare competent attorneys representing in the january 6 instruction pair those at least for agent proctor tour is in contact with the justice department on january 6th. these people have never been charged. you've seen some of these videos. people encouraging the crowd to break the law and those people have never been charged. extreme police brutality -- the doj has kept those under seal. mcbride wants them. so much going on tonight, joseph mcbride joins us now. they do so much for coming on. first, we will break this down for the first part of the story is the people who were on tape encouraging a legality which is itself a crime who have not been charged. what is the status on that tonight? >> tucker: after months of investigation, these people still have not been charged. we have multiple people on the ground, more in particular that we have identified. let me call one of these people out. somebody who was tagged on the internet by capital hunters as red-faced 45. this is a p

♪ ♪ speak a good, welcome to tucker carlson tonight. i'm jesse watters and for tucker.t night just before midnight, walking through morningside park. right next to columbia's campus. that is when out of nowhere, a man knifed him in the stomach. gary collapsed and died a short time later. then garry's killer knifed at 27-year-old italian tourist who'd arrived in new york days earlier. according to reports, the witness asked, why, help me put the witness said the suspect was howling with glee as he repeatedly plunged the knife in his unsuspecting victim. a few minutes later, the kill or threaten another man with a knife before cops finally arrested him. authorities identified the he was out on parole at the time of last night stabbing spree. he has 11 arrests dating back nearly a decade. in 2015, convicted of gang assault repeatedly slashing a man in the face. none of it was enough behind bars. last night he headed to morningside park, the same park where exactly almost two years ago, three threads ambushed and murdered a first-year barnard college student as she was look

cue the snare drums, tucker time. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jesse: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonightm jesse watters in for tucker. joe biden just raised the possibility of not running for reelection.ghat it was a truly bizarre answer. more on that in a moment. but first, it didn't take long for democrats across the country to join the crusade against unvaccinated americans. just days after the white house told unvaccinated americans they were facing a winter of "severe illness and death," democratic mayors across the country took steps to ban them from society. in washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser just announced a citywide vaccine mandate for indoor spaces. muriel bowser didn't explain how getting a vaccine would make d.c. resident saver or prevent them from getting covid, because muriel bowser like her fellow democrats, doesn't have to explain. they still think it is march 2020. they still think the vaccines prevent transmission. and they can believe those things because they make the rules, you obey them. it also doesn't matter that washington, d.c., is a city that is nearly 70%

" i'm sean duffy in for tucker.rd to believe in less than 12 months joe biden's popularity has absolutely crumbled. most of the self-proclaimed experts on cable news probably expecting the exact opposite from your president with control of both chambers of congress. but that's precisely what happened to be have gotten tired of joe biden. it's not a gaffe or speculation, according to almost every poll from gallup to reuters and everything in between, approval for joe biden has dropped significantly in the last year. just today, rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll showed 58% of americans disapprove of joe biden's performance as president. according to our recent pbs poll, a meager 29% of independents approve of joe biden. you'd be hard-pressed to find a majority of any demographic group that thinks joe biden is doing a good job. even cnn recently conceded that biden's low poll numbers are not an exception for biden at this point but rather the rule. it's hard to say on any given day of joe biden is aware of his

brian: long-awaited and tucker joins us now with more on the interview. tucker, good to see you.g on these features and spend the time with him? >> i mean, the whole story was so shocking first of all, it was a tragedy. people died, so that really kind of stopped us in our tracks. any time an american dies you feel sad about it the matter who the person is, but we had the tape within hours that showed this guy was being pursued by three people, all convicted felons who are trying to kill him. it was a scene that was filled with people with guns running around. here was a kid who was trying to help his own community. he defends himself and he is charged with murder, so from day one it was really clear that this had a deep implication for the rest of us with the media line about what happened and so for more than a year we followed this and i just wanted to sit down with this kid and actually i was totally surprised and impressed by him. clearer thinking, more sincere, ingenuous that i had imagined. this kid who did not expect to be at the center of this story rose to it and explai

i'm sure tucker does as well. we all do.hat you are engulfed in, when an after launch -- avalanche of lies supported by billions of dollars underneath the media industrial complex, not to mention the power of the government, that is what a prosecutor's office is, it is the power of the government, all descending down on one 17-year-old, right? so all of the lies that could possibly muster through money and power, descend down on one 17-year-old, you know what wins? what provides hope? the truth broke through. justice based upon the truth broke through. that is incredibly hopeful to me. obviously, rachel, kyle rittenhouse is not the lone situation where a a avalanche of lies should be something breaking through, the truth. rachel: we saw that in the covington case, where that young man as we know now has been able to extract money from of those people who tried to tell lies about him. curious, pete, in particular, he is speaking tomorrow at turning point usa. you're in phoenix, arizona. kyle rittenhouse wants to go to arizona

will cain filling in for tucker. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ain in for tucker. we have breaking news tonight. a verdict has been reached inne the trial of ghislaine maxwell. maxwell was found guilty on 5 count for her role in the sex trafficking minors for her lover jeffrey epstein. she faces a maximum of 65 years in prison. jonathan turley joins us immediately. was justice served? >> it was. i think the jury got this right. from the out set the defense was rather implausible. it was a woman arranging the transport of underage girls to epstein's house and flights to his island. it's hard to imagine anything was involved other than sex trafficking or the abuse of these girls. there was no explanation offered by the defense as to why she was harvesting girls from playground and other locations. i think they got it right. the fact is she did not take the stand. i don't think she had anything to say when confronted with these facts. looking at a maximum of 65 years. probably more towards the middle in terms of the guidelines. m if you do a quick ca

and look, tucker is going to do what tucker is going to do because his advertisers and sponsors continuence continues to tune in. but the reality of it is both of these topics point out how dangerous these narratives are. and america, it's not going to get any better. you know it, ari, we're going into next year and it's just going to be some hot pickles, baby. >> well, what's a pickle if not just an old cucumber. that's not a saying yet but might become one. >> i'm really concerned about the feminization of cucumbers and pickles. >> michael, good to see you, sir. >> all right, bro, take care. >> absolutely. >>> so why does tucker carlson get to be on tv? because of rupert murdoch who backs this stuff to the end. we have a special guest on that and the backlash, next. hat and the backlash, xtne as a dj, w all about customization. that's why i love liberty mutual. they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ bye mom. my helpers abound, i'll ne

>> see every show. >> we're fans of yours, as you know. >> yeah. >> you will have to excuse tucker.gets giddy in the presence of his heroes. we're big fans of you, as you know. think about that sentence. what does that mean? there's literally nothing to be a fan of. kyle rittenhouse is a child who shot and killed two people and wounded a third. that's his body of work. that's it. you're a fan of that. it is not just fox news. i want to show you what that looked like at the right-wing america fest 2021 taking place over the past four days in phoenix, arizona. kyle rittenhouse received the rock star treatment there, complete with pyrotechnics and a theme song. >> ladies and gentlemen, please let's get loud for kyle rittenhouse. ♪♪ >> this event, hosted by the conservative group turning point usa, is the kind of place woo are seeing a certain grim aspect of right-wing politics getting increasingly more pronounced. it is a sort of celebration and modelling of fundamentally abberent behavior like being a jerk. that's the donald trump, maga, what turned marjorie taylor greene and lauren b

the whole show is done. >> let's seasoned it over to tucker. ♪♪ >> tucker: tucker carlson tonight -- studying for a ph.d. in computer science at columbia university in new york. last night just before midnight gary was walking through morning side park just next to the columbus campus. someone knife him in the stomach and he collapsed and died a

>> tucker: after months of investigation, these people still have not been charged. we have multiple people on the ground, more in particular that we have identified. let me call one of these people out. somebody who was tagged on the internet by capital hunters as red-faced 45. this is a person who is dressed in trumpet gear and maggot gear. he is face painted -- his face is painted maga red. he has a trump hat on. yet he is clearly a law enforcement officer. he interacts in uniform personnel, he interacts with agents in the crowd, he passes out weapons, sledgehammers, polls, mace, some of those things come into contact with protesters who have subsequently been charged with possessing dangerous weapons at the capital. that is clearly entrapment. that is the government creating

. >> tucker, they ask for having me. it's my pleasure. what a scary time in which we find ourselves.. >> it's absolutely horrifying. there was a news blackout on it, and shame on the people who are not covering one of the most amazing developments in my lifetime, which is the total instruction of ouret civil liberties. to be totally clear, are you charged with or even accused of a crime? >> now, and is apsley no evidence that i had any connection or communications with anybody who is charged with the crime. this is -- we've got a fourth amendment for one very clear reason for the english used to issue what is called "general warrants." that would offer authorized british officers to go wherever they wanted to.

tucker carlson is next.>>> good tucker carlson. happy friday. jupiter is a pretty little town in the east coast of florida, 90 miles north of miami. it's a safe and orderly place. a ton of nice people. not all by the way are rich which is unusual for a coastal town. it's a normal place in other words. it's the country you remember. you woulden mind living there for sure. but over the weekend jupiter florida looked less like the america of 1980 and more like the america that joe biden is creating right now which is to say chaotic, crazy, out of control. families sitting on the beach in jupiter this sunday watched as a boat carrying dozens of unemployed illegal immigrants pulled up on shore. people ran through the waves and scattered. not what you would expect on a sunday on the beach but not everybody was surprised to see this happen. another boat handed there just in the summer. it's becoming a regular occurrence in jupiter, florida. in the end federal authorities caught a number of migrants according to customs and border protection. haitians w

and tucker carlson, i think exemplifies it. he is, it really is unfortunate, i think just as a matter of public policy. ronald reagan, who was a real man, with someone who had sensible views on gun control. he was opposed to the open carry law in california for example. he did not want, there is a law passed by the state legislature which she signed which made it illegal to open carry in the state of california. and he came out for other sensible laws. the nra itself used to be all about gun safety, not anymore. >> i should, no i think reagan signed that after the black panther started opening carrying on the capitol steps. which i think points to the subtext of all of this. you hear it all the time. when do we get to use the guns? it's like the narrative here, it's moved from, we like these, this is our way of life, hunting fishing, i learned to my dad. that stuff is still there. to explicitly, no, we have these, to turn against their fellow citizens when the time comes. and that is, that is increasingly explicit, not just imp

please show us tucker carlson, the host says.she explained. but it's his defense of russia's threat against ukraine, the kremlin back channel, putin wants to highlight. >> he does not want belgium but his western border secure. that's why he does not want ukraine to join nato and that makes sense. imagine how we would feel if mexico and canada became satellites of chiang. >> and that's incidentally what the kremlin said and to no surprise, the studio guests agree. >> translator: excellent performance, claims this editor of a russian newspaper. we could only have solidarity of this view. u.s. officials say nato poses no threat and this russian military buildup is unjustified. >> wouldn't it be great if we got along with russia now? >> reporter: for years russia honed in on controversial praise from the u.s., including from the former president himself, and often used it to justify its stance at home. like former president trump taking the side of putin over u.s. intelligence agencies ob russia meddling in the u.s. election. russia