my friend tucker carlson is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in january of 2000, bill clinton gave his final state of the union address to congress. clinton used that speech to push for dropping trade barriers against the government of china. here is the argument he made. allowing china into the world trade organization, clinton promised america, would "open china's markets to the united states" and "plainly advance the cause of peace in asia and the cause of change in china." in his last year in office, clinton made expanding the chinese economy one of his most important priorities. to do that he appointed a lobbyist called steve machete and put him in charge of the project. fast forward to today, china has been a member of the world trade organization for 20 years. steve has written an even higher in democratic politics and is a top white house aide to joe biden. as for china, it has changed as bill clinton promised it would. china is now the richest country in the world, police state is far more efficient authoritarian even then it was und

tucker carlson this next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." general colin powell died this morning at the age of 84. what a life it was. in his later years, he became a part of partisan politics. in younger people may remember him for that. for most of his life, he was much bigger than the politics. if you're old enough to recall the first gulf war you know that colin powell was the last public official that most americans believed in. his life and story seem to confirm everything that was good about the country. he grew up in the south bronx, son of immigrants from jamaica, 1958 and received his commission in the u.s. army. much of the time country was living under the laws. he served two tours in vietnam and went on to advise presidents. t in the end he made it all the way to the top of the u.s. military. after he retired he became secretary of state.be for the end of his life, powell sometimes said that his remarkable career was proof that affirmative action works. it always seemed like a half-hearted talking point. anybody who knew powell

tucker carlson is up next. his >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." remember when political debates were the highlight of the political year? like boxing matches, everyone would watch them. that doesn't happen anymore. the ratings for the last presidential debates were terrible. and there's a reason for that, they are boring. everything is scripted, you know what they are going to say before they say it. but if you keep watching the lower tier, the debates lower on the fight card, sometimes you see something interesting. it happens invariably by accident, but it reveals a lot about the country and the people trying to lead it. that just happened last month in virginia during a governors debate. terry mcauliffe, the governor of virginia, gravely damaged the state. he is a clear clinton operative, you may remember during his many brushes with the parent indictment. "the washington post" was always telling you he's about to get indicted, he never was. instead, he ran virginia into the ground, and he wants to hurt it even more and be reelected. as of last

until then, the lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday. life is amazing, is it not? if you'd asked anthony fauci 60 years ago when he was a student at holy cross in massachusetts whether he would grow up to single handily control how christians celebrate their most beloved holiday, isis-k can probably have assumed you were high, smoking that tea with the beatniks in greenwich village, reefer madness. he would have been confused buried at the time, he was starting to become a doctor, not the pope, and there was a difference then. little could he have known back in 1958 that public health would become america's raining religion, and he it's high priest. but life is like that. you never know where you're going to end up. fast-forward to the beginning of last december. anthony fauci was 79 years old. his 80th birthday, it turns out, was christmas eve and fauci was determined to celebrate it with an exhibition of authority-flexing that had no precedent in the entire history of

visit tdameritrade.com/learn ♪ 7:00, tucker carlson is up ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," we are glad you are here, we had a diplomatic incident last month that a lot of americans didn't even know what happened. the government of france, something they haven't done it hundreds of years, they were called their ambassador to the united states. they also accuse the united states of behaving in a manner which is unacceptable between allies and partners. it wasn't a cheese embargo that made the french mad, they were angry that biden administration agreed to provide nuclear powered submarines to australia. france wanted to sell its own submarines in the biden administration effectively killed that deal. it hurt france and they were mad about it. we haven't had a problem with france this profound since, to be specific, 1798. john adams was president of dan and the interesting thing is he had no idea we had a problem with france, it took months for word to reach him in washington that american and frenchsi diplomats were fighting with one another. by the

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy tuesday. we are going to take you back about a year and a few months today the day america changed. this really was the pivot point. it was the height of the year at blm riots early last summer and rioters in minneapolis had just torched a bunch of different buildings and standing in front of them was an msnbc reporter who was broadcasting live from the scene. the mob began by torching small businesses throughout the city, including a liquor store they looted first, naturally. than is the rioting accelerated, they walked down street, burned on the minneapolis police station. as you saw that happen you realize this was a little different from anything we have seen before. we have seen riots before in 1992, the rodney king verdict, rioters in los angeles torched a lot of the middle of that city, but they did not burn any police stations because you cannot burn a police station because there are police there and they are armed and they represent the law, they enforce the law, so yo

time for tucker. i was thinking of doing small talk. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to >> shannon: . one thing about americans, they. love australia. most americans have never been there and it's an awfully longma away but thinking of australians come a freer, tougher version of themselves. steve irwin, crocodile dundee, that kind of thing so a huge reserve of affection in the united states for australia's culture and its people. it is also possible moston americans have not updated assumptions about australia in a while and a little different from what we imagined, case in point. two years ago june 2,019th the federal police in sydney raided the offices of the australian broadcasting corporation, state broadcaster ebc. you weren't at all and clear about why they were waiting in the offices. this edited out loud days before the raid come abc broadcast from a whistle-blower that embarrassed the government of australia. the whistle-blower said australia's military leader killed civilians in

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we are going to do a little something different for the next hour. we are going to try to explain what this country is fighting with itself about. one of the lines that divide us? it's pretty obviously not the old partisan divide the rest of us grew up with. republican versus democrat. we have figured that out now. on the democratic side you see her she had to lead pretty certain she is not on your side, obviously, but then the question is, is mitch mcconnell on your site? an answer as you well know is no, not really. what is the dividing line? it is pretty simple. the people in charge are intent on replacing our free democratic system with an authoritarian system where they don't convince you of anything, they simply make you do things and benefit from that. there are people in this country who are opposed to that. they are antiauthoritarian, and if you look at who we book on this show that may explain why. a lot of former lefties. glenn greenwald is the most obvious and many others.

tucker carlson's next. shannon bream at midnight. >> i'll see you then. >> brian: bye. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's a bewildering experience working in cable news right now. fun, but pretty unbelievable. just about every morning as we are putting the show together some story from the biden white house crosses our screens and we think to ourselves "come on, there is absolutely no way that can be real, it is just too crazy." and, of course, pretty much every morning what we had assumed was a joke turns out to be entirely real.re it is actually happening. the biden administration really is that crazy. they really are firing thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, firing thousands of cops in the middle of a crime wave. no, they are not kidding, even in the slightest when they tell you that is a genuine female four-star admiral standing right there. joe biden isn't giggling. he tells you it is a victory for women everywhere, and he means it when he says i

tucker, it was murder. >> tucker: and no one in the u.s. media, essentially, have said a word about it. it says if you vote for the wrong person, it's okay to be shot to death for that. >>be it's amazing, too, these investigations, took place january 6th, the department of justice already had -- released their press release stated that they would not be seeking any criminal charges, and that is april 14th. that is a very quick investigation. a as a matter of fact, there is information out there that says by february already, they chose not to pursue any charges against lieutenant byrd, but i t will guarantee you, if that shooting would have taken place last summer in one of our large cities across the country, during these riots, there would have been an indictment very quickly. >> tucker: instantly. you are not allowed to kill americans because you do not like their political views. congressman, i appreciate your bravery. thank you. >> thank you, god bless. >> tucker: we have a couple great documentaries coming up on this exact topic. we w

. >> tucker is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday. it is almost impossible to overstate and we have tried just how profoundly this country is changing right now because of joe biden joe biden's lunatic immigration policy. biden has opened america's borders to the world, promised unlimited global benefits including free health care to anyone who shows up there regardless of immigration status of the world's poorest people have showed up. over the past year, more than 1.7 million foreign nationals from 160 different countries from around the world have shown up at our borders, virtually all of them have been let in, almost none of them were ever leave how big the group is this, it is more than twice the entire population of denver or of boston or seattle or detroit or nashville or las vegas, it is more than three times the entire city of atlanta coming in a single year. so america will never be the same after this and that's the whole point of the exercise for the biden administration is subverting democracy, diluting the

. >> tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight. one thing about americans, they love australia. most americans have never been there. it's a long way away. but when americans think of australians, they imagine a freer, tougher version of themselves. steve erwin, crocodile dundee, that kind of thing. so a huge reserve of affection in the united states for australia, it's culture, and it's people. it's also possible that most americans have not updated our assumptions about australia in a while and the reality is a little different than what we imagined. case in point, two years ago, june, 2019, the federal police in sydney raided the offices of the australian broadcasting corporation, the australian broadcaster, abc. they were not unclear at all about why they raided. they said it out loud. days before the raid, abc broadcast allegations of a whistleblower that embarrassed the government of australia. the military leaders had killed civilians in afghanistan including children and had lied about it. the abc broadcast, that story, it

tucker is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy tuesday. there is probably no institution in american life that has more effect on how you live but that we talk about less than the federal reserve. people don't care to talk about the federal reserve because it seems very complex and a lot of what it does is in fact complex unless you have a grounding in monetary policy, it is hard to know exactly what is going on. but the basics are not that complicated, actually come in here are a few. the federal reserve was created way back in 1913 by an act of congress and had two main. maximize employment and keep prices stable, keep inflation under control. those are virtuous goals. but it may be a measure of the way bureaucracies work that over time, the federal reserve has actively undermined both of those objectives. it is the classic story of the firemen turned arsonist or for that matter, the covid czar who helped create covid, irony of ironies, seems like we have a lot of those, lately. in the case of federal reserve, quantitative

>> thanks, tucker. i think the key point here is although these gentlemen have been telling their stories for a while, now they are doing it inn a fashion where they can finally be taken seriously by more people, and unfortunately, there were not that many journalists there today but i think the keyo point is people with some of the highest security clearances at the height of the cold war in the u.s. air force, multiple different individuals and multiple different sites across a period of decades, say ufos interacted with nuclear weapons platforms and either rendered them inoperable or took them off line. so something was done by a technological force, as these officers would suggest, that cannot be explained, and that in and of itself, surely, should be big news, worthy of serious further investigation. >> tucker: by definition, any force that can take america's nuclear weapons off-line is something you need to worry about. presumably the pentagon has been looking at those. have they given any indicat

. ♪♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight it's friday and we hope to do a lighter show but we're not in charge of the news, biden. for nine months they have gone from crisis to crisis to crisis most of their own making. since january there has hardly been a single day when america could fall to sleep feeling like their country was calm, safe, and good hands. tonight we find ourselves unfortunately on the greatest crisis yet. a total breakdown in the most basic functions in our society. in any society. fire and police protection. hospitals. the military. schools, long term care facilities for the elderly and disabled. road maintenance, replying transportation, food and freight delivery. air travel. all of these services, which are the hallmarks of a civilization, are rapidly degrading and soon, thanks to the biden white house, they may be completely paralyzed. millions of americans have been told to submit to joe biden's lunatic vaccine mandate or be summarily fired. for many the deadline tonight, midnight. these are n

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you lived in this country 15 years ago and you've got a good memory you may remember the creation of something called the national security division at the department of justice. giv it was created back in 2005 when they re-upped the patriot act. now the point of the national security division, we were told at that time, was to conduct "counterterrorism and counter espionage operations against foreign adversaries." this was the big stuff. mostly it was islamic terror, which was the primary threat of that time, but these were also the people in charge of busting chinese spies who were trying to steal our nuclear secrets, stopping suicide bombers and hijackers.le not small stuff, crimes that threatened the nation beer that was then. then joe biden became president in january, and the entire mission of the united states government changed and turned inward against you. a few days ago the department of justice under the radical attorney general merrick garland announced that the nation

evening, tucker. when in doubt, try the race card, at least that is what critics argue is really in play in virginia. a desperate attempt by democrats alto impugn by association the g.o.p. gubernatorial candidate glenn youngkin because their man terry mcauliffe is trailing in the polls with time running out. the liberal activist group the lincoln project is claiming responsibility for that demonstration outside his campaign bus that recalled the 2017 charlottesville attack, dressing up as unite the right attendees. however, the team is saying this was not us or anyone affiliated with our campaign. however, several members of their staff promoted the posts for hours online before deleting their posts. just a couple i can share with you, this is disgusting and disqualifying. another campaign spokesperson said they unite the right rally was one of the darkest days in the commonwealth's history. this is who glenn youngkin supporters are. obviously we know these were not glenn youngkin supporters, these we

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy wednesday. we want to take you back a couple of februaries a go, not too long ago but a different time. february 2019, an american c17 cargo jet takes off from air force base florida bound for south america. the media are covering this and it is a big story. inside the plane, pallets of wheelchairs and crutches -- these are gifts the people of the united states to the long oppressed population of venezuela. venezuela's socialist economy famously had collapsed utterly by that point. there was no toilet paper in caracas. people were eating zoo animals to stay alive. the average venezuelan had lost over 10 pounds from starvation. so the point of sending humanitarian aid to venezuela was to show the world that americans are decent, but more than that, that the american system works. this country is so rich that we can afford to send crutches and wheelchairs to our enemies. again, that was 2019. it was not the berlin airlift, it was the other day. but a lot has changed. we are not shipping any more c

. ♪♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight it's friday and we hope to do a lighter show but we're not in charge of the news, biden. for nine months they have gone from since january, they have hardly been a single day where americans confident in their country is calm, save, in good hands. tonight unfortunately we find ourselves on the brink of the gravest crisis yet. fire and police protection, hospital, the military, schools the long term care facilities, road maintenance, transportation, food and freight delivery, air travel. all of these services are hallmarks of civilization are rapidly degrading and thanks to the biden white house, completely paralyzed. millions of americanss have been told to submit to joe biden's lunatic and vaccine mandates or be summarily fired. the deadline for many is tonight at midnight. these are not lawyers, activists, cable news anchors. these are nurses and cops and navy seals and pilots and air traffic controllers. these are the people you cannot run a country without. but soon you ma

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in case you're still not convinced, in case you need it yet more evidence that joe biden is not really running the country, there is this. it turns out that biden only occasionally shows up for work. according to a new analysis by his friends at the cable news network, joe biden has spent 107 of his first 275 days away from the white house. mostly one of his vacation homes. a perspective that is far more time than donald trump, barack obama or george w. bush allowed themselves by this point in office. joe biden is not in washington very much and you've got to ask yourself, why is that? before you reach the obvious conclusion, he prefers the pudding at camp david, they have tapioca there, consider another explanation. it's possible there is a legitimate public health justification for keeping joe biden away from major american population centers. it's possible joe biden's aides understand that biden is too dangerous to be in washington. he could infect millions. consider the tape we pl

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." about 20 minutes into the 2016 presidential campaign it was pretty clear the american media were horribly addicted to donald trump. they hated trap, obviously but they also needed him in order to live and that is the face of addiction. if you've ever seen a person who grimaced while gulping warm vodka before breakfast with shaky hands you know what it looks like. there was never any question about what was going to happen for sure when news organizations were finally cut off from their vital daily supply of donald trump. they were going to collapse in a pile analytics exactly what they have done, they have collapsed. on tuesday, not a single show on cnn, once most important cable news channel in the world -- this is cnn. not a single show on the whole d 800,000 viewers. that is really low. chris, would be better off doing free concerts in the park which in fact he may be doing. with a trumpet gone, the old formula no longer works. that is easy to understand. what is more confusing, ha

♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you've been paying attention for the past few years, and if you're watching this show, we hope you are, there has likely been a moment when you realized that reality is not quite what you thought it was. a lot of the things you assumed were true in fact are not true. they are instead a mirage. they are a web of purpose-built myths designed to deceive rather than inform you. you can't really trust your senses anymore. your eyes will lie to you. that's an unnerving thought. especially when you realize that ultimately vladimir putin is behind it all. russian disinformation is everywhere in this country. it's lurking even within our own minds. it's worse than even adam schiff thtold us it was. last week, thousands of southwest airlines flights failed to leave the ground. it seemed obvious that the mass cancellations were a direct reaction to joe biden's vaccine mandates.e they were announced days before. then actual southwest pilots appeared to confirm it. but no, that's just with the

tucker, who is next. thank you guys. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a columbus day oftion "tucker carlson tonight." yes, it is still columbus day on the show and we are still alive. we are employed and happy enough to show up for work. speaking of work, joe biden showed up at a construction site in illinois to explain what a terrific job he's been doing. biden's poll numbers, you may have noticed, have declined recently not just by a little but by such a dramatic margin that some prominent democrats are openly worried about it. the midterms are in a year. so the point of last week's appearance outset chicago was to remind all of us in the country that our perceptions of biden's performance are silly and baseless. actually joe biden is a great president. he's totally aware of what's happening. he's completely on top of things. he knows exactly what he's doing, and he'ss got your well-being at heart. not the narrow economic interests of some soulless multinational corporation

hear the kettle home and tucker carlson will say something interesting. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. happy friday. we get all of our history from wikipedia. it's convenient, but it so politicized and dishonest that on a lot of topics, certainly anything related to partisan politics, it's not even worth reading anymore. on the other hand, a lot of stuff, a huge sites and there are some gems remaining on wikipedia. if you have a minute this weekend, look at the entry of mass hysteria through the ages before the authorities inevitably delete it right as you read thein entry, ask yoursf if any of this sounds familiar to you. thoughts of witch trials of course, many of them, many many many of them over many centuries were placed with spontaneous dancing.th fits of laughing and babbling entire towns at once for no apparent reason. that's all there.re and then there are more esoteric outbreaks of mass hysteria. they're is a medieval french nun who accordinge to the entry inexplicably began to meow like a cat leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. this did no

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >>tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. it's directly across from the hot california. it's not that far from the states and that's a bad thing because mexico and the pain now be the single largest producer and distributor of the syntheti opioid fit in all. cartels are making it in mass quantities. they're not making it for domestic consumption within mexico. they're mixing making it to export here. you can cyp right in the capita 11 pounds of sentinel sells for around $15,000 for it in the united states that same amount sells for more than $100,000. you can see the incentive. how much sentinel is that? just 2 milligrams of the drug can be lethal to a human being, that means 11 pounds can nearly to and a half million fatal doses of sentinel. again, there is a major financial incentives for drug cartels which run huge parts of mexico to produce this drug and ship it north. if kinked cooking was the drug of the 1980s we are living in the new era and the numbers sho it. they seized as to pounds of it total at our southern borde

let's go, tucker. wait, that sounds catchy. let's go, tucker. release the records. but of course, he's not trying to get to the bottom of anything. tucker is just getting a pass to fringe elements of the far right, which is insane considering all of the extreme rhetoric we've heard just in the past week. there's this recent disturbing exchange a man had with charlie kirk. t a founder of turning point usa. >> this is tyranny. when do we get to use the guns? no, and i'm not, that's not a joke. i'm not saying it like that. i mean, literally, where's the line? how many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people? >> no, i -- hold on. stop. hold on. now i'm going to denounce that and tell you why. because you're playing into all their plans and they're trying to make you do this. >> then there's republican congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene, who appeared to justify what happened on january 6th. >> january 6th was just a riot at the capitol. if you think about what our declaration of independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants. >> we even had a u.

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. it turns out that biden only occasionally shows up for work. according to a new analysis by his friends, he has spent 107 o his first 275 days away from th white house. for perspective, that is four more times that other president presidents allowed themselves. so joe biden much an event ask yourself why is that. before you reach the obvious conclusion, consider another explanation. it is possible there is a legitimate biden away from major american population centers. it's possible his eighth understand that these two dangerous to be in washington. consider the tape we played a few days. therero he was on film, his gap mark spewing hot corona breath panting like an obscene phone call or. they were trapped in his path. he had no choice but to you in clouds that his personal errors ole miss, would you like some saliva with your entrÉe tonight. you're getting a heaping gallop anyway. watch if you gear this video. or shut yesterday in the event in newho jersey. did you see what just hap

tucker: that's right. she is the living embodiment of what biden is which is a middle finger to the idea of democracy. she got elected to the senate in a state that doesn't have a functioning democracy. kamala harris was deeply unpopular among democrats in california. but they are reflexive voters so she got elected. she is still the most fully conscious person in the u.s. government. is that democracy? it's kind of real, it's not totally responsive to the public, but basically the public gets to choose its own leaders. the last five years has proved that's not true. if you elect somebody they don't like, they destroy him. judge jeanine: mike flynn is the guy obama hated and it continued even during the trump administration with a judge on the bench saying i'm going to throw my robe off and get down as a prosecutor and prosecute him for treason. he wasn't charged with treason. can the american people have confidence in this man. tucker: i flatter myself, i think i'm sophisticated. it took me years to figur

. >> tucker: yes, it's important. alex, thank youuc very much. a new episode of tucker carlson originals tomorrow. we will be back. the sworn enemy of of lying pomposity, smugness and group think. now the great sean hannity takes over. >> sean: i will take one of those wind mills. no thanks. welcome to "hannity." a breaking report on the manhunt for brian laundrie. remains were found in a remote var in florida and his backpack and notebook. is he alive tonight? first we turn once again to what is the horrific and preventible disaster in afghanistan. >> behind enemy lines. day 67.

of course tucker charleston is doing this false flag operation. there is a reason david duke literally, literally praises tucker-clansmen. fox news is the enemy of our democracy to make a profit. this is horrible. this is going to the core of who we are as a people and defending by joy, in june tucker was talking about the fbi being involved in the attack. he's celebrated the actual terrorist attack our capitol saying they are being persecuted. it's because he's defending white nationalists and white supremacy. that's his brand and the attackers are his people. >> dana, paul ryan who is supposedly a norm core republican is on the board of fox news. he in theory would know better. i know that all he ever really cared about was getting maximum tax cuts for the super rich. i get it. that's all he cares about. i wonder at some point does there have to be some accountability for the fact that fox news is as dean said, i watched that little trailer that tucker put together and i said it yesterday. i used to watch for my job, those isis little mini films

i wonder -- tucker carlson doesn't russia is have a platform. he is the most watched host. and he is the most anti-semitic, the most pro-white extremism, the most sort of permission structure building for kyle rittenhouse, for all the sort of white violence to go so far as to call these false flag operations. and i wonder what it says to you that that's the most popular show on the network. >> it's deeply disturbing that the network chooses to validate his views with this primetime platform. i mean, keep in mind, again, this propaganda film that he is going to be pushing next week. they are choosing, knowingly, to schedule this. i mean, it's a shocking dereliction of duty. it's the kind of malfeasance you would not expect from a national news network. and, again, nicole, it is deeply dangerous. we have seen propaganda and hate speech has real-world consequences. adl is the oldest anti-hate organization in the united states. we have seen again and again how anti-semitic rhetoric leads to real-world violence. and to think that the murdochs somehow believe that this is okay, t

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >>tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. it's directly across from the hot california. it's not that far from the states and that's a bad thing because mexico and the pain now be the single largest producer and distributor of the syntheti opioid fit in all. cartels are making it in mass quantities. they're not making it for domestic consumption within mexico

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" i'm jesse watters and for tucker carlson. the ratings were absolutely terrible which isn't surprising at all. joe biden's not capable of thinking clearly and most americans recognize that. they watch football and fox news instead. that raises an interesting question, which until recently nobody has asked. given the obvious deterioration of joe biden's mind, he now struggles to form coherent sentences, why have the town hall at all? why not call it at 10:00 a.m. and sent joe biden off to the farm in delaware? one of the few people who tuned in last night a novelist named walter kerr and offered a possible explanation. "i've never seen anything like this. at some level and has to be intentional. no one was clamoring for a town hall. brain deterioration is being thrust in our face. cooper is racing through his question as though to keep from laughing. it feels like the enemy of propaganda." we promised that we have not edited this clip in any way. >> in terms of inflation you had told us of the town hall in july that it was nea