0 isn't that enough. and health insurance, doesn't everybody want health insurance. >> feet got special coverage of the state of union tonight but tucker carlson is up next pure always remember i'm jesse watters and this is my world. >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. imagine you are joe biden and you are going to give the state stated union address because it's in the constitution it would take a lot of brass to stand up and claimed the us is better off than it was when you took over. could you do that? a little more than an hour, joe biden will do that. if only it were true. it's not true. this country is more divided, less self-confident, more confused and more sad that it has been in living memory for the first time in generations w face the actual risk of a world for. our problems are fixable but they are profound and they require the full attention of wise and serious leaders who love the country and are willin to think beyond the next election. we've got joe biden and kamala harris making the actual decisions. so if we had to guess, we would guess that biden is going to us his speech is another opportunity to brag about his victories and blame his failure on others for january 6, we don't expect a single honest word. we hope we are surprised but we don't expect that. we are as close as we can get t statistical analysis of the actual state of the union under joe biden. since his predecessor gave its final address, the cost of food staples in the united states is a pretty good measure. the price of gasoline is gone u by more than -- and consumer confidence is the mirror image and is dropped by 40%. what has risen is credit card debt. that's that seven all-time high over trillion dollars, it is estimated. homelessness as well. there are tens of thousands mor americans living on the streets than they're worth then when jo biden became president. he will ignore that fact. what can he say about it? how could he ignore it, but he will. interest rates have skyrocketed to the number of new homebuyers is the lowest at any point in modern history. american men working is now under 68%. take a look at the graph on you screen. if anything is an emergency, that is an emergency. it is being ignored. we will just import new workers and that is why the southern border of the united states is open. because it is open, millions an millions and millions of foreig nationals have streamed across into our country illegally. in many cases we know nothing about them at all and we can't even imagine how the long-term will affect our economy or restrict -- strain social services for you think healthcare is in shambles now, visit an emergency room in five years. good luck getting treatment. the real cost of country isn't social cohesion. this is just too many new people . at that's it matter whether the they are good people are bad people. they are strangers there there are too many of them. there's no chance we can assimilate all of them. at this point we have enough problems with our social fabric. here is one measure. in march of 2020, 31% of americans told gallup that they worried a great deal about race and joe biden took office it went up to nearly 50%. at its albeit ministration talk about, race. or racist not a solvable condition. it is genetic. it never changes. if you focus on it, ultimately people hate each other and that is what is happening. that might make you anxious about the future but our future is education in all of us have heard that since birth in this country. how are our schools doing under joe biden? here is one measure. the national average act score in 2022 is at its lowest level in over decades. sat scores have gone down too. 40% meet or exceed standards writing and math. in baltimore, for example, 23 schools have not a single student, not one student in the whole school proficient in math. so how is the biden and ministration responded to best, whether an alarm is going off i the education department, no. schools are just failing to measure the failure. there getting rid of standardized tests. hartford which just made them -- law students don't even need to take the lsat anymore because tests are racist. so there's a lot of expressed concern about racial justice an equity. has helped people? it has made a few rich. the ladies in "black lives matter" have a lot of houses bu how are ordinary people doing. life expectancy in the united states has continued to decline for all races, black-and-white american. it is now at its lowest level life expectancy in over 25 years . that is not just due to covid. those numbers have been declining every year. suicides are up 5% of no up up over 50% since before the pandemic and alcohol depth of more than 30%. these aren't so much medical problems as they are famously deaths of despair. what is jarring is that there does not seem to be an option. a lot of people in this country don't think they can be saved o church membership has dropped below 50% for the first time ever in this country. and military enlistments are pretty good measure about how w feel about that. the pentagon has fallen short o its enlistment targets by 25%, more than 18,000 recruits. so what is growing and thriving in this country under joe biden? dispensaries are. they are popping up everywhere and the biden ministration is encouraging that. that is the biden economy. cannabis sales have exploded in this country, gone from $12 billion to more than $30 billion a year. so we are building back that are. we are building on bead dispensaries. we can stop the analysis there but you get the point. but what does biden say about all this? what identify the problems honestly so we could solve them take responsibility for some shift and not limit on others. tell us the truth. if people are killing themselve of living on the street and credit card debt is at an all-time high, you can't tell u the state of the union is strong . if you can't tell us that, then we can't fix this. charlie hurt is the opinion editor of the washington times. great to see you. >> biden does not have a choice that he prescribes to this speech. but could you say if you were him? could you say that the state of the union is strong? >> i think he will do his best and that is exactly what we wil see tonight because this is a man who is a creature of washington and he's been here for over 50 years but it's the only job he is ever had, which is pretty remarkable saying tha he's a billionaire today based on a government salary for his entire adult life and his wife' school teacher salary. how many government workers are married to a schoolteacher and they own multiple vacation home are a million times million times over. i expect him to go full bore on claiming that the state of the union is good and you did excellent job of taking through all of those things. just two things that i put focu on what is the big picture constitutional aspect of all this. this man more than any presiden in our history has surrendered american sovereignty we no longer have a southern border. he's given it up and does not care about it. and to the point, if he doesn't even care about our sovereignty when it comes to our own airspace, he has given it all u your he doesn't care. to dissolve part of the scheme. the second thing that i would point to is his foreign policy. this is a guy who is the greatest foreign policy expert that washington has ever seen and he allowed allowed the situation where russia invaded ukraine and that tells you abou all you need to know the state of our country. >> i think that is a fair -- assessment. it is one thing to preside over a country but why humiliate the country and rub it in their faces and write on television, you are weak, you deserve no defense. that is what the administration does they shot it down over south carolina. it is almost too painful. it just happened but it's almos too painful to remember the facts that they fight in the ministration let this happen. what you think that sets about tonight? >> i don't expect him to want t talk about it and they shot it down. may be that a something that ca yield what want to avoid becaus the united states of the more powerful country. that's us going up at the chinese relationship with america. until a few years china was manufacturing the drones that they department of interior use to survey our land. there's thousands of chinese spies in our universities and none of them are being deported or investigated. there are actual chinese police stations in our cities includin manhattan that are only getting rated after journalists expose them and they are spying on us for three to talk to our relationship can be summed up, which is a weaker state that's not challenging china. that takes avis spying operations on us. >> there's been this debate for years. you have to help her or for you country four-week. that is this clear up a statement you can make, is it not? >> it is feared and all those politicians who yell the loudes about taiwan are you never want to deal with the actual problem of what china is doing in this country. >> that is an insightful point. thank you so much, chris bedford . >> so we are filling to bet tha joe biden in his state of union address in the next hour will not announce any new plan to secure the southern border, which is wide open. how wide-open is it? we have new, exclusive, and footage from our border. trace gallagher has a forest tonight. >> high-speed chases that include human smuggling in arizona, because you have interstate ten net that runs through vast stretches of open land and open road. 32-year-old timothy was driving a red gmc suv carrying for illegal migrants and the deputy tried to pull them over. instead police say that he sped away and after a 4-mile high speed pursuit, the suspect vehicle as you can see went ove into oncoming traffic before th driver lost traffic -- lost control and flipped over. two of the migrants were ejecte but survived. traffic was shutdown both directions. the suspect is facing smuggling charges and. to be impaired by drugs. the sheriff says that the cartels are not recruiting youn people in the united states to help smuggle migrants come up paying them 1-2-$3,000. migrant. a month ago a 19-year-old woman was caught smuggling a migrant and she tried to run and had he toddler and infant in the car a time. the smugglers run in tandem wer two vehicles will go down i 10 together, one carrying migrants at the other carrying drugs. local and state police tend to catch their fair share but they acknowledge that many of the suspects, as we know, get away. >> of course they do. trace gallagher, thank you so much. >> so the congress held some biden officials that help to testify and what is happening o the border and we are seeing ne records for new aliens pouring into this country. hundreds of thousands arriving every month. all smuggled by the drug cartels . republicans are trying to figur out what to do with it. they've introduced articles if of impeachment against the dhs secretary. at least 50 state of the union addresses. he's an expert on the subject. our analyst joins us to assess his speech. what do you expect the presiden to say about the border? >> i think he will try to say very little about the border. you can try to imagine what he would say. he might say that apprehensions are down a bit, which, accordin to whose numbers you use, they may or may not be. the main situation remains almost the same. people are streaming across the border and the policies have encouraged them to come in believing in effect that they will be welcome and what is to tell them otherwise. they come with almost certainly invalid claims of asylum. their claims are to be adjudicated at a later date meanwhile they are released int the interior of the country so they are all over the plays and there are hundreds of thousands of them. the numbers have gone up dramatically since this president has been an office. why is that? donald trump had cobbled together a set of policies and practices that had cut down on illegal immigrants across the border on basically his first day in office, joe biden blew i all up. >> you covered every scandal an contemporary history. this is like partisan considerations aside, this seem like an actual- >> there has been no serious efforts to remedy this situatio and one can only conclude one o two things. one is that these democrats, th present among them, of course, some of the most downtrodden people on the earth, they reall need to come to america to improve their lives, they believe. the other one as they imagine that these immigrants would com to america and over time they will become citizens and gratefully vote democratic. >> you are not allowed to say that. it's so obvious that you can't say it. i'm just going to come back and take that back. great to see you, britt hume. joe biden is going to use the state of the union to tout his many successes abroad. what are those successes look like? 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