0 usfl five to live from small screen to the ukraine to be elected president thrust onto the world stage ready to fight for the lives of his citizens and this sunday at 10:00 pm eastern on fox news channel. we >>lc good evening and welcome te tucker carlson . certainly happy fridayr son . y. in retrospect, joe biden's first term policy agenda seems very optimistic, almosty comically optimistic. shortly i before a his inauguration, biden announced something he called the build h back better agenda. ofof course we mocked it at the time, but looking back , it was in some ways a hopeful document. a very must have been rich country back then and by back then we mean last yeare there weren't a lotwe of essentials in biden's agenda. the first a three things that ay normal nation needs and thinks are food,ssively water and energy. that's the standard in china, for example, every government policy, foreign and domestic is designed above all to secure adequate reserves of food, oo water and energy. and that makes sense. >> build back better agenda was the opposite of that . it did not suggest any concern at all about whether americans might have enough too eat or o could afford enough heating fuel to keep from freezing to death over the winteree, biden'u agenda was focused on the kind of added extras you a get when s you fixed everything elsell and then still have trillions left over build back better promised us something called environmental equity. something called "environmental whatever that is. it demanded amnesty for millions of illegal aliens at the time the american economy seemed robust enough to share with the entire world universal health care for honduras. biden called for free solard panels for everybodyolar and taxpayer funded pre-k for all american parents and so a on and on . build back better was the neo liberal version of flying cars was a dreamy christmas list of v luxuries that for a momenter t in time seemed almost within reach. a lot hasim changed. nobody's talking about flying cars anymore. here's joe biden from yesterday with regard to food shortages. we w did so talk about food shortages and is going to be real. the price of these sanctions iss noted just imposed upon russia. it's imposed upon an awful lotof of countries as well, c includig european countries and our as well. and because both russia and ukraine have been the breadbasket of europe in terms of wheaten tf, for exa, this give one example foodre shortages, biden g said quote they're going to be real once again in case you missed to repeat food shortages not in sudan, in cincinnati and reno, in spokane and norfolk and of course in our big cities too. we're not a single person who was born here has any idea what a food shortage is. probl our problem has always been having too muchem food. now we won't have enough.h. we know that because the united states just tolden us that i on camera. so what iss t this going tohi m? how to food shortages affect a country? well, if you're just to go online and read aboutut all of recorded history, we'll answer your question. a food shortage isns not like deciding to skip dessert. it's not a diet. it'st, not voluntary. a food shortage is different. it's scary. foodod shortages topplets governments. they turn moderates and revolutionaries. a food shortagetes is a big dew you w don't want one . but now we're getting one just a little over a year into joe biden's presidency. think forwardsi if the traditional calendar holds, we've got one thousand w thirty two days left of the joe biden administration and i wonder what things will look like by then already speeding toward dystopia, not the whiteca house seems aware of it or to care in any way. here's treasury secretary janet yellen from this morning, for example, letting you know it's time to stop whining about gas prices because actually they're up. ow >> how high do you think oil o prices canil get ? listen, there's a lot of uncertainty about that . they're not as high in real terms as they were earlier earlier in this century and you know, it's conceivable that they could move higher. yeah, it's not a big deal settled down and there's a reason for it. as joe biden explained, you're paying more for gas because we s have slapped sanctionsan on russia and sanctioning russia is the right thing to do. so shut up and feel virtuous as you slowly go broke. now for some people, particularly those who don't drive cars, this might seem likesht an adequate answer. but others in good faith maysk ask, okay, i'm not against s sanctions in theory, but since they're clearly not hurting putin and they clearly arere now hurting my family, what isle the point of sanctions? is there any point lett meake w make you feel better and the answer is yes, a america. there's a point to sanctions. sanctions are t designed to prevent russia from invading ukraine. we know that because not so long ago tony blinken, , told petary of state cnn that quote, the purpose of the sanctions in the first instanceir is to try to deter russia from going to war . and then jen psaki, ac the president's publicist, backed him up quote our intention is to have a deterrent effect with sanctions. kamala harris agreed the difference sheti said the deterrent effect of these sanctions is still a meaningfula one . so p sanctions work except they didn't actually work. putin invaded ukraine anyway. the sanctions failed. so what's the response? and if they fail, try something new . no, joe biden is pretending that the administration never claimed sanctions would deter u russia from invading ukraine. here's the new linekrs . >> let's get something straight. you remember if you covered me from the very beginning, i did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter him. sanctions never deter you. keep talking about that . sanctions never deter the main use of sanctions. the maintenance off sanctions increasing the pain and the demonstration. why i asked for this nato meeting today is to be sureer a that after a month we will sustain what we're doing not just next month, the following month, but for the remainder ofh this entire year. that'sis what will stop him. >> what does that even mean? sanctions neverne deter. why dou you keep saying that ? he said? well, because tha you kept sayig your white house press secretary, your vice president or secretary of s state all saia that verbatimll. t but they're not acknowledging that , hoping that our memories have been so damageded by the iphone will be as forgetful as joe biden himself. nowors they want us to believe that sanctioning russia can force putin into withdrawing from ukraine. is that true? can putin be sanctioned intota retreat? well, we certainly hopein it's i true sincerely, but there's no evidence that it is true . it's not even really anll expectation that it's true . t evenru joe biden didn't claim that was going to happen. so what is the point? t we're not sure that's a topic for another show. e know but in the meantime, this country we know this for sure is being badly hurt by those sanctions as reuters recently reported, quote., western sanctions on russia, a major exporter of potash, ammonia, urea soil nutrients have disrupted shipments of those key inputs around the globe. il fertilizer isiz key to keeping corn, soy rice and wheat yields high. growers are scrambling to adjust you following this . those ingredients are necessary to put food on your table any price you can afford. if you don't have thosent ingredients, what do you get ? food shortages which are a direct result of policy from the white house, a policy whose intended effect is still not. clear. what is the point of this ? if there's a good point people will put up with it. don't you tell us whatin that point is? fertilizer bills are expected to jump aroundd are 15% just this year and they could go higher. some farmers say they are already seeing fertilizer prices go much higher than what my gunderson's family has been farming wheat, soybeans and corn on this land since the 1950s. he expects the weather to throw him a curveball in farming but not all war , all the stuff in ukraine. there's so much volatility in the market. the u.s. imports ten point three billion dollars worth of fertilizer10.3 for crops. one point three billion ofof that comes from russia, which is now off the market. the minnesota association of wheat growers says farmersay lay down fertilizer at least twice a year. there's a lot of fertilizers that are fortified. it's more expensive than a year ago. fertilizer has drasticallyly outpaced the rate of inflation. >> russia's ban on fertilizer is scheduled to last until the end of the year. and while supply is already tight this year, it's the future many are worried about. so sanctions have thrown american agriculture into profound turmoil and will cause again, as the president has told us out loud, food shortages which are maybe the most destabilizing trend you could ever have in a countrynd yn not just to the politics but to the social fabric. it's scary, but it'ss not just sanctions. there are a lot of reasons. it's not just the war in ukraine. nse to in response to energy and food shortages, the bush administration a is shutting don domestic oil and gas production that makes food more expensive. it makesry everything else more expensive. on americanrmssure farmers rises and as food becomes scarcer and more expensive in this country,t that same administration is allowing the government of china sallo to buy up this couns farmland. according to politico and this was two years ago chinese investors own nearly 200000 acres of us ag land valued at at least two's billion. w nowth they're doing this in the hope of subsidies paid for by us taxpayers and chinese investors are continuing to buy more every single year. again, food, water, energy. that's what you need for a country. the chinese understanddun, as congressman dan newhouse put it quote the current trend in the united stateses is leadig us toward the creation of a chinese owned agricultural land monopoly in our country.. the most productive farmland in the world now owned by what we used to call our main global rival. and i think we can now sayes realignment and progress is ours main global enemy owned by a country that seeks to displacee us and punish us . it'san insane with the chinese t government permit american investors to buy its country's farmland or water resources. that's not even a real n question, of course, that no sane country would do that and no foreign entity should be b allowed to control america's critical natural resources t. sosw how long till the chinese start scooping up the great lakes, which are our largest reservoirs of fresh water, food, water, energy? don't laugh. that's where we're headed.em and it could happen much sooner than anyone seems tos realize. fishing companies are paying such high costs they're running out of businesses are fox multimedia report watch.>> >> gas prices are jacking up the cost of boat rentals and charters, leaving captains likeke me when you can always cancel charters that are not profitable or increase ticket prices, the increases are not a just hitting the tourismhi industry from our boats that go out fishing to our trucks that deliver the product. everything that we use to run our business we see at least a thirty five percent increase. nello catharina runs galveston shrimp company. he said passing those prices onto the consumer is not a reliable option for the consumer. at some point we'll stop buying it. it turns into a ripple effect where the plans to lay off t employees of, you know, truck stop moving and all part of our% food supply now imperileded through a remarkable combination of negligenceay and terrible decision making not just by this administration, by previousonsub administrations, but brought to the point of crisisip by joe bidenpl. and by the way, it's not just a question of what it costs to fuel the commercial fishing fleet. the oceans themselves are t beig depleted of fish entire species by the chinese government. you by in hear a lot about the environment and saving the planet by which they meanpln don't drive an suv but the actual planet its actual resources, its oceans, the most ta important resource the planet hasntourc not about climate. it's what the oceans and increasingly they're polluted and bereft of fish and china's doing that . not even saying a word about it. so instead of addressing any ofs these problems, our leaders responding in the one wayth they have they're throwing more money at the problem and in the process devaluing the u.s. dollar that we're going to desperately need to stay solvent. california governor gavin newsom, for example, just announced he's about to give his residents another free creditit card. >> so today we're announcing a nine billion dollar tax refund to tens of millions of californians for hundredor e dollars for each registered vehicle that an individual owns up to two vehicles. that direct relief will address the issue that we all are struggling to address and that's the issue of gas prices. so if the hands and the hair and the teeth distracted youan and you didn't actually hear anything that governor newsom said, what he's saying is taxal prices are really high. we're going to give you a tax, refund whether or not you pay taxes. it's welfareit and that's going to solve the problem.is what he doesn't say is that california has the highest gas prices in america because the highest gas taxes in america at seven bucks a gallon in los angeles, seven bucks. >> he did that .ax butes instead of fixing it,el he's making it more dependentesm and this is a trend for the second time in two years, politiciansic are sending out welfare checks to compensate for economic crises that they caused. so if you wanted to increase inflation, if you wanted too m make the population weak and dependent upon you, this is what you'd probably dopr free bread next . andrew grool is one of gavin newsom constituents of the state of california. he has seen all of thesen problems right up in front of his face. he's a restaurant in the city of los angeles. we're happy to have him join us tonight. thanks so much for coming on . so the president announces food shortages. what's yours as a restaurant ownerrs? what's your response to that ? i've been talking about this now forbo years, actually . let's zoom out a little bit so we can look at it right now specific to the crisis in ukraine. but we've got to we've got to get out before that because here's the situation. it we'vere's had the supply chap crisis. we've seenn empty shelves. then we have the issues within the labor pool. we saw empty shelves in every single time we posted those photos, we were told not now you're just kind of cherryy picking photos to show now the president has added credibility to this and said, yes, we're going to face a food shortage. but r what's the real problem here? and it isn't specific to h this administration. this has been going on fores decades. we've completely outsourced all of our food production and we've left ourselves vulnerable to situations just like this . the economicand theory of comparative advantage and how yeah, when we buy the food from overseas, but that assumes that everybody is kind of kumbayah with each othertdy w and that's not the situation right now. you know, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and obviously now food, all of those thingssl we relyhing i'm so glad you brou up the ocean piece of this because one of the largest trade deficits behind oil in automobiles is seafood. we import all off our seafood from overseas and yet we import it from countries that are completely unsustainable, their practices even though here in america we actually have one of the most sustainableos fisheries management policies by virtue of the magnis and stephensen act. buttun are buying farmed seafood treated with chemicals from china from indonesia, from allth these countries. and the same thing happens with labor when it comes to food t. why are we importing all of our food when we're importing it? because we're buying it from countriesm d that don't follow the paradigm, the framework for our good labor practices and frankly we could even be paying our workers more . so we buy it from countries where they actually have slave labor and then it puts it on our plate cheaper and we're supporting those horrible practices instead of just looking at the united states and as an opportunity to domesticate our own supply-chain. soso smart. i mean for so long a lot ofe people dismissed what you just said is like a hippie concern and i think it's really clear now it's a national cleis securr concern. so i'm son. thankful you articulated as clearly as you did, chef group of los angeles, we appreciate. >> so there is now an american imposed media blackout in poland. that country shares a border with ukraine. journalists are not allowed tosk ask what exactly is going. thousands of u.s. troops have just been deployed to poland now officially the administration said that us troops have no plans to enter ukraine butns today joe biden found himself in poland and as the cameras rolled i, he told u.s. troops that they can expect to be inside ukrainen borders soon. it's not clear if this was a sneak peek at future policy, if it was senility. you know, we don't knowe this guy's the united states. all we can tell youou is this is what he said. >> the average citizen looking on stepping up, grandmother going toup and you're see when you're there, you've been there. you're going to see you're going to see women young people stand on stem from them. tank just said i'm not leavingol . i'm holding my ground. so you're going to see when the ukrainians fighting the russians when you're there, presumably fighting us the russians, you're going to see when you're there. it didn't seemm d like a gaffe. of course we hope it's not true . a war with russia is a very big thing to embark upon. most americans support ukraine.a most americans do not support a hot war with russia, with american troops putting their lives on the line. but because the bush administration is blocking media coverage in poland, well actually don't know what that wasy and we probably should find out. so one of the most effective ways to change the way the people in charge behave is by making fun of them, particularly if you do it skillfully. alex steint is a comedianed in texas. he's figured out how to do this so he started showing up at city council meetings and doing things like this . watch you join ukraine's foreign legion. >> we're going to train you. youre don't even need any training. we're going to teach you as a if you didn't d, have training because you know somebody that's all messed up. and so alstyne, the man in that video joins us next. why are so many people turning to superbikes bristol? 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