0 better for the oh two of us. >> make it part of your diet. >> jimmy, thank you so much. >> thanks for watching -- that's the camera right there. you think i'd know after 59 minutes. thanks for watching fox news primetime. we will see you again right here tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. coming up next, you know him, you love him, tucker carlson, don't go anywhere. >> tucker carlson: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. people 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. 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. 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 answer. right now, we don't know why there's a travel ban mozambique. assuming it's because it's from africa and that's where this happened a few days ago when the head of the sub africa association said she had seen patients of the new variant with corona virus. within hours, politicians in the united states and many other countries began planning elaborate and highly punitive new measures against their own population. from her office in pretoria, she watched all of this happen with her jaw open. she was horrified. quote, i have been stunned with the response, coetze wrote in the daily mail, no one has been hospitalized with the omicron variant nor has anyone been believed to fall seriously ill with it. omicron is far less dangerous than anything else that's going on in south africa at the moment. but it didn't matter. by this point, the biden administration had stopped listening to dr. angelique coetze. they got what they needed from her and they moved on. this is tony fauci announcing that the scourge of omicron reached our shores. >> the recent case of covid-19 among an individual in california was caused by the omicron variant. the individual was fully vaccinated. and experienced mild symptoms, which are improving at this point. >> tucker carlson: so, let's parse this for a moment. a fully vaccinated person in california has omicron and is doing fine. what can we prove rationally. the most stringent measures are not stopping the spread, masking, social distancing, anxiety, talking about covid from dawn to dusk. none of it worked. and the vaccines didn't work either. the patient in california had two injections and still got omicron. so maybe the lesson here is viruses are hard to stop, sometimes they're virtually impossible to stop because they spread with remarkable efficiency. in the case of coronaviruses, they live in animals, so they're never going away, ever, no matter what -- they don't tell you that, but it's true. so, given all of those facts, it's possible weed be better off working on medicines to keep those viruses from killing vulnerable people. that seems like a rational approach to the problem. and yet it's the one thing the biden administration is completely uninterested in doing, no interest whatsoever in doing that. instead, biden announced today that the lessons he's drawing from the harmless infection of the fully vaccinated person in the state of california is that this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated. they're the ones to blame for it. not the chinese government, which likely created this virus and has definitely profited from it immensely. no, no. omicron and covid more broadly, said the president, are the direct responsibility of the 20% of the adult american population, many of whom have national immunity, who resisted submitting to his injection and there must be costs for that. now; at this point, it's hardly worth explaining how far from legitimate science this is. it's nonsense, it's demented. but more than that, it's dangerous. on the basis of no demonstrated threat to public health whatsoever, the biden administration is once again locking down the country and persecuting the perceived political opponents otherwise known as the unvaccinated. so you have to ask yourself, when will this end? viruses mutate constantly, that's their nature. will every new omicron variant mean massive new and unconstitutional powers for our political class? that's what it's meant so far. this is a cycle. if not a cycle that any democracy can survive. you think somebody might point this out. what are the limits here? no. they're making certain you're as terrified as joe biden wants you to be. >> the new covid-19 variant is causing global alarm as some countries scramble to enact fresh travel restrictions in an attempt to contain the latest coronavirus threat. >> the new omicron covid vafrnt could be in the united states but many americans may not be ready to hear it. the reaction to the latest threat. >> the new threat of the omicron variant. >> the economic threat -- >> the potential threat of omicron. >> the emerging threat of omicron. >> it poses a new threat to potential threats posed by this new omicron variant. >> what americans need to know about the evolving threat. >> tucker carlson: it's a threat, they repeat, over and over, like it's a script they're reading. the biden administration said it may force everyone entering the country, even american citizens, even people who are vaccinated, to enter some kind of mandatory quarantine when they get here, in their own country, quarantine. that's, of course, assuming they arrive legally. biden voters who sneak through over the mexican border is always -- no vaccinations, no quarantine, just endless benefits and broad smiles. leanna wynn, the former planned parenthood guru that you see on cnn talking about health, said there should be mandatory quarantine and postarrival testing for all international travelers as well as additional impetus for a vaccination and boosters. huh, quarantine, mandatory quarantine for american citizens in their own country, additional impetus for more vaccine. what does that mean, exactly? we're not sure, we can guess. we do know among other things, it means a lot more spying on you. watch the cdc director explain, the cdc is now kind of an intelligence agency, watch. >> currently, cdc is expanding the surveillance program with express check to jfk, san francisco, up in ark, and atlanta airport, four of the busiest international airports in the country. this program allows for increased covid testing for specific international arrivals, increasing our capacity to identify those with covid-19 on arrival to the united states, and enhancing our surveillance for the omicron variant. thanks to our updated travel policies earlier this month, we are also actively working with the airlines to collect passenger information that can be used by the cdc and local public health jurisdictions to enhance contact tracing on post arrival follow-up should a case be identified in the traveller. >> tucker carlson: hmm, keep in mind, the person you heard speaking has no demonstrated record of success in anything. this is a former college professor who since taking over the cdc has seen more americans die of covid than died under the last cdc director. that looks like failure. but in washington, it's rewarded. because success and failure are not actually the measurements that matter in washington. political loyalty is. and michelle wolensky is a loyal democrat. she is rewarded with the uh powers of an intelligence agency. theus collecting passenger information as part of a surveillance operation at major airports. there was never a vote on this. no one asked you if you were for it. this is, again, the cdc director nationalized america's rental properties. she's going to be spying on you. the question really is how much longer will this country continue to tolerate this. you've got to wonder. and what happens if we keep toll rating it? we don't need to wonder about that, because we've got australia as an example. consider this new video at an australian newscast this morning. watch as the anchor announces the breaking news of the day, which is the escape of three inmates, australian citizens, from a covid concentration camp. >> we start with break withing news in darwin where three people have escaped from the howard springs covid quarantine facility. talia is there for us, good morning, there's a search under way right now? >> yes, that's right. good morning to you. police receiving reports around 4:40 a.m. major police check points have been set up around howard spring for the last several hours. you can see there's pictures they've been conducting and car boots checking vehicle registrations, cars, and buses alike. >> tucker carlson: so, that's not a third world country. that's australia. which, until 20 minutes ago, seemed very much like america, maybe slightly more exotic and charming, but not so different, really, same culture, language, same basic legal system. in case you're wondering, doesn't seem like any of these escapees have covid. they're not infecting anybody. doesn't matter. they were supposed to be behind bars, now they're not. police bruth p brought in check points, brought in the dogs. democracy? it's not healthy. in austria, people are stopping people on the street demanding to see their covid papers. in canada, unvaccinated citizens are banned from planes or trains in their own country, not because they tested positive for covid or are infecting people, simply because they haven't taken the injection that the prime minister demands they take. whether or not they have natural immunity, that's irrelevant, it's about obedience. that's canada. this is where we're heading and we're heading there very, very fast. the democratic party comes closer to certain defeat a year from now in the midterms, all of this will intensify. that's the whole point of it. it's how they won last time and so they're doing it again. omicron. no it a single person is in the hospital in south africa because of omicron. and, yet, that's the pretext upon which the cdc has assumed surveillance powers. you don't need to be a genius to connect the dots here. but there are not a ton of geniuses running the republican party, apparently. they don't understand what's happening. listen and they talk about it -- this is about a virus. but somebody needs to push back. maybe it will take a new party, the civil rights party to stop our decent towards actual tyranny. make no mistake, unless someone stops it very soon, it is coming. eric schmitt is one of the few that is taking active steps to stop it. he's the attorney general of the state of missouri. missouri is leading a coalition of states that just obtained an injunction against joe biden's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. thank you for coming on. i appreciate this since you're one of so few office holders who are standing up for the citizens of this country. tell us where we are tonight with your effort to stop these mandates. >> well, look, in your monologue, you hit the nail on the head here. this has never been about facts or science or data. it's about aggregating power and control. and they want to exercise it. if the left had it their way, you'd have fauci in his black turtle neck in his tweed jacket dictating how we live our lives. this is still america. we have to push back. i don't know about you, tucker, i don't know about this, but i don't want to live in a futuristic distopian biomedical security state. america is the freest country in the world because we believe in individual rights. we believe if you diffuse power it allows people to pursue their dreams. so this week, we led a ten-state coalition that won against joe biden, against his federal vaccine mandate against healthcare workers. there's no statutory or constitutional authority for any of this stuff. they're making it up so we're going to court and winning. because, in my view, the future of this country is at stake. who we are, who we've been, what kind of country we're going to be. and we have to fight back on every front, every single day. >> so, are you -- since you are an attorney, you're the attorney general of a major american state. i mean, how did rochelle wolensky who's been a demonstrable failure -- more people died under her than the last cdc director, so you failed, which is kind of beyond debate. how did she wind up with intel agency level surveillance powers over american citizens? i'm completely confused by this. >> yeah, i mean, look, i think what we have to understand is that the left is hell bent on authoritarian-like power. >> tucker carlson: yeah. >> and the good news here is our founders, like they were great students of human nature. they have had seen, you know, how tiernts and dictators and the authoritarian regimes throughout history aggregated powers. so their system was separation of power, checks and balances, federalism. you diffuse this power so individuals can have rights, pursue dreams and happiness. that's not the left's vision of america right now. they believe in command and control. so we're not having debates about, you know, what's the tax rate? or these kind of traditional political debates. we're having a big debate here, tucker, about who we are, what this country is going to look like, a generation from now. and right now, because you played the clip from australia, look, people are being arrested in parts of the world right now for not wearing masks in a park. this is crazy. and that's the vision of america for the left. so, we have to fight back. and we have to be as republicans, as conservatives, we have to fight back against this stuff and reclaim -- i mean, americans want america back. they want to get back to living their lives. and they can do it. but we've got to put a stop to this hypocrisy that's happening and the elites ruling from on high trying to dictate whether we can go to work that day, if we can go outside of our house, what you have to put on your face. that's not what america is about. these legal battles are so important. >> that's right, michelle wolensky has no right to spy on you as an american citizen and we should do what we can to resist this. thank you, attorney general of missouri. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: we haven't brought you up to date in a while on what's happening with the january 6 xhipgs. -- commission. the most recent trump aide they have threatened with prison is roger stone. you remember roger stone. he's the one they tried to put in prison before. roger stone joins us in a moment with new information about what happened the first time the department of justice showed up at his house with the help of cnn. an amazing story. we'll be right back.