they have been stoking conflict between those two countries for years now. of foreign policy establishment has sent hundreds of millions o dollars in weapons to one of th most volatile regions in the world hoping for some kind of explosion, now their wish seems to be coming true. that explosion looks like it's on its way and it could early and put the unite states and th center of a pair that's what he said last night, but honestly a we read those words, they seeme hard to believe were really going to fight a war over some corrupt eastern european countr that is strategically irrelevan to us? with everything else going on i our own country? no normal person would ever wan to do anything like that. how could it really happen? we're so still not sure how could happen, but nevertheless it does seem to be happening right now. the biden administration has begun evacuating american civilians from ukraine. the pentagon has announced its prepared use force and the region. of this country is no closer to it with judgment wortham we hav been in decades. we're talking about an actual war not a protected series of airstrikes against some impoverished dirt pat they're telling you is an accidental threat to the nation. they have real weapons and. so you would think right now might be the time that the rest and the united states could actually what's going on here. what are we doing in eastern europe and why are we doing it. in exchange with reporters today , joe biden next plane he wasn't going to take any questions at all for feel that someone is going to ask him about russia. >> by the way, the reason we weren't have time for questions now is these guys have got to get quickly on the plane and go out and do a major announcement in ohio and you guys will ask m all about russia. to get you guys will ask me all about russia. joe biden isn't falling for tha one again you can see why. couple of days ago he tried to talk about russia during a pres conference and he got the talking point so mangled his staff had to issue statements statements afterwards informing us that joe biden has no idea what he's talking about. his mistake was suggesting that maybe war with russia isn't inevitable. in washington you're not allowe to say that, donald trump said it repeatedly and they impeache him for a. in joe biden's case, they stepped in and told him a brand-new story. here is white house chief of staff and amateur collegium explained that actually this is what joe biden meant to say. then she listen to it. you may notice that it's the opposite of what biden actually said. >> think it's fair to say the white house is pretty aggressively walked back or clarified the president's comments about the ukraine and russia in one of the president was signaling that a minor incursion might be viewed for a different lens. whether the president meet to say that at the time or maybe h was being inarticulate, can you afford any gaffes given mistake in all of this? >> i think the president was quite clear and reiterated his point of view this morning. no doubt any move by the russia assembled military across the border to the ukraine is it invasion in will be met with a very severe economic response from the united states and our allies. to get this guy called ron gets to over rule the president of the united states on matters of foreign policy. whenever he feels like it, that's the whitley's. he's the weakest president we'v had some winter wilson has a stroke and office for the core problem is that an american elected officials no longer decide when we go to war. instead, the defense contractor make those decisions. sometimes unilaterally. here is in an hilariously inept secretary of state threatening severe action against russia. gave the book conversation toda was frank and substantive. i believe the and our allies an partners that we stand firmly with ukraine in support of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. we have been clear, if any russian military forces move across the ukraine border, that is a renewed invasion and it will be met with swift severe and united response from the united states and our partners and allies. >> 's so the president of the united states is not allowed to talk in public about russia, he admitted that he might say something that over its roar, s the same people that have lost the last five wars get to speak for him. do you feel safer? you have to wonder what voters think of this. you know what's in favor of it, defense contractors pentagon defense contractors war means massive profits by definition very just the last years, the u.s. to spend more than $2 billion on military aid to this nation called ukraine, mos people couldn't identify on a map. just the other day the ministration announced 200 million more. so the ukraine love this. this is the whole reason they once employed the unemployables unburied where might not be coming right away, ukrainians are highly distressed, they wer so distressed they said so out loud. >> this offers vladimir putin a green light to enter ukraine at his pleasure. >> so the ukrainians are complaining about american foreign policy about what the president said in a press conference. the government of sumer called ukraine is demanding that we fight the russian army on their behalf. okay, you can kind of see why they would want that. the question is where the unite states, so why are we obeying them? as well as the united states itself in the u.s. army, she joins us now to assess what racine carried think you so muc for coming on tonight. the government of the ukraine complaining. how distorted is our system tha we could be pushed into a potentially nuclear involves conflict by ukraine? >> let's look at the heart of what is motivating the decision being made by our leaders in this country and what we have less unfortunately democrats, republicans, the mainstream media, the washington elite essentially in the pockets of the military-industrial complex. rather than looking out for what's our national security, our country, they see dollar signs when they look at ukraine. they see how they can line thei pockets, how they can look tough , how they can posture themselves in a position where they personally or politically or financially benefit rather than actually thinking about what are the costs and consequences of these actions. and who pays the price, is the american people and quite frankly the people of the ukraine. >> my guess is that some of the people pushing for war don't want a real war with russia it would tank our economy in the second. my concern is there so inept that they're going to talk themselves long track record of ineptitude. >> i am definitely in concerned about that because that's very much in the direction we are headed. to her, i look back to early 2017 when then president trump said hey, it would be good if w got along with russia. the remember the reaction to that, everyone from democratic leaders, republican leaders, people and the mainstream media said absolutely no way. they're we're people warmongers like john bolton, nikki haley and mike pompeo who rejected it and went on their own agenda in were we are seeing the results of this now. we have continued to have these warmongers escalating tensions and putting us in this disastrous position today leaving us, the american people with frankly the responsibility to stand up and say we will not accept this, we will not be sheep allowing these warmongers in washington to lead us down this very very dangerous and costly path. >> tucker: i will never forget when you came out as a sitting member of congress and said maybe we shouldn't fight the russians in syria and you were denounced as russian agent and also a racist for not wanting t bomb a middle eastern country great, but you paid a real cost for that. they attacked you every day you served in congress over that. you say that is the redline for them, you can say that's where and they wont stop in their effort to destroy you. >> all of these threads we are talking about here point back t that for motivation. he doesn't lie in serving the best interest of the american people our security in our country, it comes from a very selfish place of how they can get more power and get more money and who they really work for, it's not the american people. >> it certainly not. thank you for saying that. good to see you. >> tucker: we were told there was an insurrection on january 6 , that's obviously a lie, but if anybody can shown t be interrupting that date it's mysterious man called ray epps who appears to be in his 60s he's on camera a number of time encouraging people to breach th capital. if you are trying to get to the bottom of the insurrection, you definitely want to do something about ray epps, but he's not been indicted or facing charges as far as we know. supposedly the january 6 committee spoke to him today, i wasn't public, we're not gettin the transcript of that intervie for some reason, but that announcement is pretty strange because several days ago, adam kinzer gerd told us the committee had already spoken to ray epps. he had ray epps as you and than him for his cooperation. what is going on here? clearly they were lying about ray epps, no question about tha but what exactly are they hiding . no one in the committee has expanded he was in communicatio with any u.s. government agents. why won't they just tell us that ? don't we have a right to know? he joins us tonight. joe, thank you so much for coming on. this ray epps question, we're not alleging anything other tha they are clearly lying because that's transparently obvious. why can't we get an answer to this simple question. what was his relationship with the u.s. government before january 6? why was that so hard. >> they're is clearly something they are concealing and hiding because if they their narrative was true, if ray epps was this man that adam kinzer said was trying to help out the january committee and provide more details they would've provided that transcript if they had nothing to hide, show us the transcript and show us the tape. this narrative has been used to paint half the country as terrorists and insurrectionist. was he involved in the fbi is h a confidential horse source or had anything to do with federal law enforcement, show us the documents. >> know is demanding it. what's so amazing as the januar extremist democrats are stealin the personal communications of completely innocent american citizens in then leaking their text messages to the media. republicans are doing nothing. why aren't republicans standing up and saying you need to answe this question, why aren't you answering the question? >> i would like to say a lot more action out of republicans right now because it's a republican base everyone who ha questions about the last election or it is being tainted by the as terrorists are insurrectionist so we need to see bold leadership, we want to come in ted cruz, there have been a few that have demanded answers, we need to hear this coming from the entire republican caucus. before going to try to give these powerful institutions so much power over us, we must demand that they are accountabl to us. >> liz cheney, i guess i wouldn't criticize her for thei commitment is fair to have different views, but to back in authoritarian effort like this, which is violating the human rights of american citizens lik if they can expel from the republican caucus after this,. >> they are going to continue t support us financially with our votes and our time and our talents, than they need to uphold their end of the bargain and fight for us. this as well consequences we've seen the fbi go after people they go at their the national security is being weapon iced against the american people and we need republicans to stand an the breach and defend their bas and to stand up for liberty, th things this nation was built on. >> you hate to think republican leaders are collaborating with it, but you may start to suspec that after a wow. >> fox news alert for you, unfortunately we have to tell you that to new york city polic officers have just been shot an murdered in harlem in new york. matt finn has the latest on thi horrible story. >> according to local reports the officers responding to a domestic call between a mother and her son in we're engaged by the suspect in a back room, fox news digital reporting that the suspect has died so it's unclea if he was shot by police or turned the gun on himself our press secretary for new york mayor ear received a statement in part this is a horrible tragedy, he is deeply sorry for the family and the officers who serve and protect us risk their lives every day. violence against police cannot be tolerated. this is now the third time in less than 70 to hours that nypd officers has been taught while on duty. >> that is that. >> on a bright note we become completely obsessed with npr. we started out making fun of national public radio and then we started listening to it and then we became perhaps the most committed listeners. what we found this week in our search for the truth. it's been nearly two years since the pandemic started. our students and teachers tried their best, but as a parent, i can tell you that nearly 18 months of remote learning was really hard. i'm so angry that instead of helping our kids get back in the classroom, the school board focused on renaming schools schools that weren't even open . please recall all three school board members now. for the sake of our kids, we can't wait one more day, never mind a whole year for a fresh start. ♪ >> tucker: we are sought to tell you it's been yet another tough week for national public radio. on tuesday npr reported that conservative supreme court justice was terrifying his colleagues with his crazed antiscience behavior. apparently he wasn't wearing hi little obedience mask and the highly sensitive was afraid to come to work because just issue expect from a man spleen or. it turns out the story wasn't true. sorry about that. and yet, we kept listening to npr anyway because npr about so much more than facts where they are about attitudes and style. saying things that are off the charts crazy. it is highly compelling radio. obviously we can't turn it off. we told you about anti- on anti diet dietitians and fitness experts who eat too much ice cream. we thought they couldn't get better for that. boy were we wrong. now npr has taken up the vital topic of gender identity holy, smoke straight it's a cornucopi of awesome. listen. to get women's colleges are adapting their admissions policies to reflect a shift and the way people understand gender . some people identify as transgender or non- binary. so who belongs at women's college? >> that is an incisive question they have a way of crystallizin these things. until recently the answer would've been pretty obvious people who don't like men belon at a women's college, that's more true, but it's more complicated now. his have chromosomes and female genitalia qualify you or is the real test if you wear women's clothing and if so what kind of close very these are the kind o debates consuming hollins university in the state of virginia. npr went to the scene to provid reckless moment to moment coverage of this controversy. if you're a transgender woman you can apply if you're a trans man, no, but if you transition to male after you get to hollins , you can stay. that's an important shift. for-20-19 if you you had to transfer out, finally, if you'r non- binary, hollen says no, your application will not be accepted. to be admitted, you have to quote consistently live and identify as a woman. that's messed up says the sophomore who is gender queer. >> transgender women are welcom transgender men are not very they seem to be excluded to. this, not surprisingly is a gender community quite upset. what is that? npr never asked lane that. your supposed to know the answer. that doesn't mean it's not real. the gender quilt are on the warpath over the nine non- binary controversy and they include gender sophomore willow seymour. was impaired. >> i think it's pretty offensiv to not include non- binary people. i know it historically a lot of people see it as a refuge from patriarchal structures and non- binary people deserve to be as much a part of that is anyone else. willow seymour thinks it's pretty because hollins was created to serve as a refuge from patriarchal stock structure . actually, it was supposed to be a place for the rich girls from the south to cool their heels until they got married. willow seymour doesn't know that . and in that she is the perfect npr guest as well as the perfec listener, completely ignorant, but completely self-assured. she's not the only angry community member. here is someone identified as m miller. we're asking she was once known as emily. now m miller goes by plural pronouns. their parents think of that. but fat sadly, npr didn't think to interview the parents, instead it was all about m. to keep my name is emmett miller , i use they, them pronouns. i'm a senior and i am from a millie of virginia. >> they're is kind of a wading pool area, where you kind of just dip your toes in, and see how you feel about it and then you go further. >> of course you do. that's why you are on npr . >> you may remember probably witt who was sent to prison for 14 years in yield. he's a democrat who was pretty liberal, you probably thought oh , he deserved it. he probably didn't know much about him if you don't live in the state. at the very end of the trumpet ministration the former communicate community his sentence so we thought we would sit down and talk to him. what a fascinating interesting smart guy. one thing we asked was how he got through prison. he said his prison and what he called having the lou gehrig's approach to life right listen. >> i remember hearing from somebody that you didn't have any money your family had no money when you are going away. i thought well, he can't be tha corrupt if he's out of money. can keep my wife, patty who was on your show and i want to than you for that by the way. it wasn't into it wonderful interview. i am a total sucker for loyal spouses. i thought the best of that nice was i feel bad for you, i've go to tell you i wasn't a fan of your husband. >> they're is something beautiful about the loyalty. i don't know, i love it very there's not much of it in the world, so when you see it it is great for it. >> was arrested. what they did to me they did to roger stone years later. i know, it's remarkable. it was all shock and all. the reason they. me for 14 years i never took a penny, nobody ever accuses me o that. i am still fighting back, this is much larger than just me. this is me the people. and not have our choices taken from us by these uncontrolled prosecutors who our weapon icin legal things and criminalizing legal things. to undo the will of the people, that's what happened. after i was arrested that way, like a day or two later, the vegas oddsmaker, they take odds on everything, they had a 9-1 that daddy was going to leave. and then the years went by as w were fighting through it all, and i was fighting back the bes i could. then when i had to lead, i know it was a statistical fact. they're is a better than 90 percent chance when he's facing many more years to go which was the case with me. and many she defined all the odds and she is a wonderful wife , a wonderful mother and my two daughters have gone through so much freight they just love their mother and she's a mother their best friend, their soulmate. patty by herself as an independent business owner, she provides a consulting to help companies reduce their healthcare cost for it was able to build a business to keep her in the home and pay the mortgag and the property taxes. in the true hero. >> that is very heavy. i guess that's also the upside, you get up and out unlike prett much everybody else. >> for your listeners, if anybody is interested in the insight i can share about dealing with difficult times, i is the lou gehrig approach. he knows he has a teen knows what's going to happen to his body the only thing that won't leave him as is consciousness. there he was on the fourth of july before 51,000 yankees fans and the middle of a doubleheade and he is considered he proclaims himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. that is a famous iconic moment. he talked about the love of his parents about the love of his life and how blessed he was to display with babe ruth. i do believe instead of the difficulties and the troubles and the years of affliction tha we have gone through a. i truly believe i'm extremely lucky. when at the best things in the business is getting to talk to people you've heard about in discover they're not what you thought at all. that category is totally worth watching. now if you want to watch it had to tuckercarlson.com. this just in a federal judge ha blocked the federal employee vaccine mandate thousands of americans are set for major civil rights march in washingto this weekend. we will get that preview after the break. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning - god. and freedom is essential to learning. its principles must be studied and defended. learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. >> a federal court in texas issued a nationwide vase on joe biden's unconstitutional scientifically unsupportable an frankly scary federal employee vaccine mandate. he's not allowed to require of millions of federal employees t undergo a medical procedure as condition of their employment. most americans agree. that's why finally they are pushing back. they're is a massive march this weekend on sunday in washington dc against vaccine mandates. probably a lot of acts need to people there, that's not the point. the point is they cannot force you if you let them come you're going to regret that. the group american frontline nurses. that as a group of 6,000 federa workers opposed to fax mandates. will also be there who pioneere mrna technology. thank you so much for coming on doctor. i wanted to say unabashedly, i' glad this is finally happening. why are you joining us? >> tucker, thank you so much fo the opportunity to be there. i am joining because i'm a scientist, i'm committed to this , and i'm committed to medical ethics. unfortunately, we politicize th situation and we didn't need to. we really should have been focusing on the science and now the science is making it clear. they are not effective at blocking the transmission of th virus, they don't stop you from being infected, there is no reason that the mandates should be forcing vaccination on people . i'm not against vaccination, i spent 30 years as a scientist i as a physician developing vaccines including the core technology that gave rise to these mrna vaccines. it is clear now that the scienc is settled and it no longer mak sense to force these vaccines onto people. >> i thought that we had a kind of consensus on that. i thought american physicians agreed that the compulsory medical care was unethical, it was immoral and it could never be imposed on anyone. when did we forget that? >> apparently about a year ago, i think yesterday was when we must have forgotten that, although he made statements tha he wasn't going to force vaccinations, thank you for bringing up the nuremberg trials , they are crucial, biomedical ethics matter and, this is frankly illegal and i'm so glad that the courts are making it clear. it's unfortunate that so many federal workers in so many members of our military have been forced to take this products while they are still experimental against their will. >> does it shock you that so many physicians and scientists have refused to stand up and state the obvious this is in th ethical and instead become pr agents for pfizer? >> schacht i guess, the damage to our entire medical system as well as hhs credibility is found . i think that there is going to have to be a reckoning. >> it makes me so sad, it was one of the best things we had. >> tucker, i'd like to close on something if i can just get a moment. people still look to america fo leadership, americans are good, we will get through this. people still look for their shining city on the hill, they still look forward camelot and we can become that shining city again. we can recover from this. we are a good people, and we will recover from this. >> tucker: bless you from seeing that. by the new book why is my government not telling me. out soon. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: uruguay has lessons for us when we will be explorin those next when we consider som brand-new documentary in our series tucker carlson originals. when we were in hungary we looked at what happens when the country cares enough about thei people from massive immigration and enforces the border. when they attempt to cross, the are stopped almost immediately. >> migrants have been apprehended at the border so we're going to check it out. these were the migrants snapped at the border. they say they are syrians. they are coached by the ngos trying to overthrow the hungarian government and by human smugglers. we don't know where these guys are from. to get in a matter of moments these guys we're apprehended. and then removed, the message was simple. hungary is a serious country that enforces its own laws. the fight for civilization because that's what it is it's finale of the season. out next week. to watch it go to tuckercarlson.com. we will be right back. >> it turns out tony fauci was exactly what you thought he was a complete narcissist. we will tell you in detail abou that. m&ms have become more inclusive. will snickers bars the next? non- binary chocolate. we have got the details. ♪ >> over the past year tony fauc has been clear that he is science incarnate verity criticize him, you my friend ar attacking science. >> so if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about the rate if they get up and really aim their bullets at tony fauci, people can recognize that. they're is a person there so it's easy to criticize, but the really criticizing science because i represent science. so if you are trying to get at me as a public health official or a scientist, and really attacking not only you are attacking science, i'm the bad guy to entire subsets of people because i represent something that is uncomfortable for them. it's called the truth. >> when you criticize me, it means you're against the truth, so he would say something like that except maybe as a joke. he is, it turns out it's even worse than you realize, he's truly in love with himself for take a look at this image of hi office this is found on tone. you can see he's a portrait of himself he has a bobble head an then he's got a candle because guess why wouldn't he. on the shelf he has an ornament that reads this way, tony fauci the students, researcher and healer. the guy is a nutcase. he has been onto this for a lon time, he is the author of fauci and bargain. congratulations for calling us before most people did in clear terms. would you have in your office portraits of yourself surrounding your desk in a prayer candle with maybe your image on it? who would do that? >> i planned on coming in here and plugging this in the spirit of nancy pelosi showing us her imported ice cream collection while on lock down with businesses shuttered. then i got to thinking, but let us not hear in a divisive time, let us not but let us praise him . i mean after all, it's a long day, it's a hard days night, tucker when you get up every morning knowing you've got a grueling slate of just grovelin genuflecting, agile leading media interviews over resume awaiting you in between of course trying to erase any ties between you and the one institute eco- health alliance. after going through that all th livelong day, let he who has no till in like a villain in tryin to themselves cast the first stone. don't we all do this? so and other words if you spend 14 hours a day covering for the authoritarian government of china even as you brag about yourself you are too exhausted for self reflection? >> it's just science. it's just science. the question is, and this is th deeper question, you called thi earlier, you wrote a book about it, this guy is completely unqualified to give life advice to anybody. you wouldn't let him dog sit fo you and yet he can control the entire country without an election. why do we allow that to happen? >> i think what we recognized here is we've never invested this much power into one person. for the last 23 months whether you could go to school and breathe free erica may have a business open, could go to church and worship. basic things every previous generation of this country took for granted rested in his hands and that was without a single vote cast. i hope what's happened over the last 23 months as shown people it is not going to be enough just to drain the swamp. we're going to have to have absolutely completely reinvent the relationship between the governed and the government and put the power back where it belongs and not with an endless administrative steak that is powered with edicts in is not accountable to the voters. >> and ask ourselves, why did w hand our personal economy to stalinist who thinks he's god. we should look at them like why would we do that. i think your book answers a lot of those questions. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, man. >> american lost and i come today for singer meatloaf passe away believe it or not he was 7 years old. good guy. we want to remember his career, but playing a short clip from what might be his for most famous song. ♪ singing ♪ >> tucker: there are a lot of newsmakers and topics that we don't have time to cover in any depth on this show. >> many people are upset with me, the hollywood group. >> they never care about human life. >> the most important conversations are happening in one place. >> you don't have to wait for tonight, watch tucker carlson today, exclusively on fox nation. >> subscribe now on foxnation.com. >> tucker: we don't give story tips to npr but here's a story that might want to cover. m&ms the candy company announced its redesigning its cartoon characters to be more gender inclusive. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ bet you didn't think m&ms were pushing intolerance but they were, you're seeing these changes on the screen. the green eminem is no longer wearing boots, how she's wearing sensible sneakers. according to m&m, we all win when we see more women in leading roles, leading women do not wear boots, they wear frumpy shoes, the frumpy are the better. the brown m&m has a transition from high stilettos to lower block heels, also less sexy, that's progress. they won't be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous, you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. when you are totally turned off, we've achieved equity. in a nod to the burgeoning wellness movement, the orange m&m will acknowledge and embrace his anxiety. the orange m&m does appear anxious, maybe he doesn't like all the ugly new shoes, maybe he liked the boots. may be the orange m&m is the secret sexist himself, we are going to let npr get to the bottom of that. we are out of time, so sad -- we could go on forever. in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones you love, paying attention to the things that matter. we will see you monday. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," this friday news night, we are tracking multiple developing stories, former president trump just wrapped up a lengthy meeting with senator lindsey graham, we are going to ask him about the meeting and analyze the upcoming midterm election, newt gingrich will join us as a new poll now shows republicans were at a 9-point deficit generic ballot, they now have a 13