for standing up for the american people. frankly it is an absolute disgrace. remember the biden began as president killing jobs, the pipeline here at home while he gave putin his pipeline thousands of miles away but he promised withdrawal in afghanistan, peace and stability. so now the taliban is on the verge of taking over the country. can you name one single thing that improve the lives of everyone in america? impossible. can you name one thing joe biden has done to make our cities safer? no. to improve our schools? no. to secure our border or prevent will not protect their interest overseas question what he s done nothing. we begin in afghanistan where biden strategy is already failing. the taliban is advancing and according to several u.s. officials, the terror group could take a bull as soon as this weekend! we are also learning that the u.s. embassy in kabul reportedly telling staff to destroy sensitive material. to evacuate as soon as possible. life in the pentagon is
hungary figured out how to solve the problem in a way that we have not figured out here in the united states. how did hungary do that? how did it preserve its borders and its society? what can we learn from that? today we took a trip to find out and we will show you what we found out in just a minute. also, the woes for the country festive his creepiest governor, that would be governor andrew cuomo of new york, are compounded today, getting even more painful and yet at the same time more amusing. he s even being stabbed in the front by his allies at cnn and we ve got that tape for you. but first tonight good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. on new year s day of this year, rochelle walensky was just a college professor in massachusetts. youes would almost certainly ner heard of her. you definitely didn t vote for her at any point because she had never run for office. as of january 1st, her political power was precisely the same as yours and everyone else s in
street figures in america. his name was michael milken. he was famous for figuring out a new and ingenuous, and it turns out illegal way for wall street traders to get even more fantastically rich used something called junk bonds to stage corporate takeovers. you don t need to understand the financial intricacies of the junk bond scam to know the kind of character michael milken was. do you remember the movie wall street, michael douglas, the lead kericer in wall street, greed is good? that was based on michael milken. milken, a wharton school graduate who lives in clark gable s former home in encino, california, and is driven to work in a mercedes bends, has been praised by some as a brilliant visionary and assailed by others for triggering a massive hostile takeover that piled up corporate debt while generating huge fees for drexel s young and aggressive traders. michael milken was charged for fraud and racketeering. charged with him was his brother and a former trade
allen weisselberg has been seen dutifully going into work at trump tower. how he is balancing those job duties against huge pressure from prosecutors for evidence against trump with reports that he continues to resist cooperating. one d.a. veteran likening his approach to playing russian roulette with prison time. a serious game for a 74-year-old. the post reporting reinforces the picture from a recent new york times account about charges as near as this summer. also new the wall street journal reporting prosecutors are investigating whether trump s former bodyguard who was a trump executive received his own tax-free fringe benefits and whether that is a scandal or worse, a crime. there is plenty of bad news in all these developments for trump. but if weisselberg stands tall against the d.a., it could give donald trump the out he needs. without weisselberg s cooperation, it s unclear whether prosecutors would be able to establish any required intent on trump s part in c
come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us? i was young enough to bounce, i would go with you. the last picture show was a movie that however old i was when i saw it, i said, this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford movie? no. i think it s a peter r bogdanoh type movie. peter loved movies. but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script, i would like everything to be sharp. he said, you will never get it in color. what do i do? shoot it in black and white. the last picture show is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it s abo