very upsetting to me -- >> who is running these -- >> jesse: stage managers, as well, she would never forgive me. but my timing is impeccable. that's all for us tonight. tucker carlson is up next, and always remember, i'm watters -- [laughs] and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." believe it or not, in 1980, which wasn't that long ago, venezuela was the richest country in latin america, it had the highest wages, the best health care and education. it also had by the standards of the region anyway famously stable democracy. then came an energy crisis and venezuela wound up with inflation. at times it reached 100% a year. inflation makes people poorer,

so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled. by 1995, 66% of all venezuelans were impoverished. getting poorer tends to make motors radical so inevitably venezuela got radical politics. you know what happened next, venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced to eating zoo animals. there was no food, for that matter there was no electricity. seven just half a lifetime, an advanced society had returned to the stone age. united states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week but we are moving closer to it. inflation is a big part of the reason. of all the economic crises a country can face, inflation is the most dangerous. inflation doesn't just make people poorer, it totally destroys their confidence in their leaders, the authorities who issue the now worthless currency they are using for toilet paper. inflation is not an act of god like a drug or hurricane, it is an active guy wouldn't like drunk driving.

it is proof the people in charge are reckless and stupid. that is why inflation tends to topple governments. once you get inflation there is no pretending you have done a good job, you have not done a good job and everybody knows it. so you can see why the biden administration is very worried about this. joe biden has historically low approval ratings. it voters that inflation is their top concern. the historical facts are directly related. biden's most pressing task righg americans that he understands they are suffering under inflation and under a rapidly worsening economy and that he has a plan to fix it. if he can't convince americans of that it may be a long time before we have another democratic president. thankfully, joe biden has a plan or at least a new publicist, the silver tongued wordsmith/policy guru called karine jean-pierre. it is karine jean-pierre's job to take this message of economic hope to the american people and save the biden administration. she started monday. here were her first words from the podium.

>> i am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. i am a black gay immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position. >> tucker: so, that was a little confusing, it was not about america, it was about her, but still we learned that karine jean-pierre is a black lesbian, the first ever in history she reminded us to hold this particular job, listen carefully. that shattering you hear in the background, it is 1,000 glass ceilings cracking simultaneously into millions of tiny pieces and then being swept with the custodians of tomorrow into the trash bin of bigotry and hate. soon they will be trucked to a landfill and buried. it is a new day, america. how do you feel? you still can't afford to have your refrigerator fixed or go to the dentist. on the other hand, karine jean-pierre has good news for you about herself. karine jean-pierre has just reached a highly significant personal goal, and

understandably, she is brimming with self-esteem. congratulations, karine jean-pierre. your promotion is america's promotion. hope it feels good. you are going to want to hold onto that sensation, the one you are not experiencing, and treasure it in the days ahead like a hand warmer. as america becomes poorer than you ever imagined possible, and it is. as of tonight, parents across the country can't find baby formula. oh, no big deal. well it is actually a big deal because as a result of that, several children have just been hospitalized in the state of tennessee. fertilizer prices meanwhile have hit record highs. that will mean food shortages around the world. famine in some places, starvation. it will mean shortages here. food inflation, bloomberg reports will "leave no household unscathed." and then gas prices also just hit an all-time high. they are not going down. mike jennings, ceo at a major refiner, says gas prices will stay high for the foreseeable future. "i don't see any signs of it ending soon or well." and that is true of inflation

across every major sector of this economy. axios reporting tonight that "inflation is pushing prices higher and higher and some of those costs may never come back down to the levels americans were accustomed to before the pandemic." more than half the ceos in this country publicly predict that recession is imminent. that is what they're saying in public, imagine what they are saying in private. morgan stanley says there is a 27% chance we get a recession in the next 12 months. that is up from 5% just a few months ago. so that is scary, but the scariest fact of all, we appear to be running out of energy. congress never passed the green new deal but we somehow got it anyway. and here are the results. according to "the wall street journal," "from california to texas to indiana, electric grid operators are warning that power generating capacity is struggling to keep up with demand. that gap could lead to rolling blackouts during heat waves or other peak periods as soon as this year." in other words, turn on your air-conditioning in august and it will not work and neither will your lights.

the midcontinent independent system operator which oversees the energy grid in the midwest says it is preparing to "take emergency measures in advance of capacity issues this summer." in other words, no more electricity. the north american electric reliability corporation which oversees energy output in the country released an assessment this year saying the entire western u.s. is "at risk of energy emergencies due to the limited supply of electricity available for transfer." so this has never happened. it is happening now. why? why is this happening? according to "the wall street journal," "the challenge is that wind and solar farms which are among the cheapest forms of power generation don't produce electricity at all times and need large batteries to store the output for later use the sport. now, that's not only a big problem, it turns out to be an insurmountable problem. given that nearly half of new electricity generation capacity in the u.s. last year, 42%, was from land-based wind farms.

put a lot of eggs in the wind basket, some states like california have pledged to use 100% "renewable energy by 2045." so maybe we will have scientific innovation by 2045 to make that possible, if we don't, california will have less power than it does now. you didn't think growing up in this country there would come a time when they couldn't keep the lights on now that time is here. it is shocking. but if you are upset about it, we would like you to pause and return your attention to the fact, and we are going to say this slowly so it can sink in, our new white house press secretary is a black lesbian. ha, hooray! the press corps was duly impressed. but our peter doocy did have one question. what is the biden administration doing about our collapsing economy and how exactly is the plan to increase taxes on american citizens going to help them pay for things? here is how karine jean-pierre

responded. >> how does raising taxes on corporations reduce inflation? >> so, are you talking about a specific tweet? >> tweeted, you want to bring down inflation, let's make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. >> look, you know, we have talked about -- we have talked about this this past year, about making sure that the wealthiest among us are paying their fair share. >> but how does raising taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost of food for everyday americans? >> so, look, i think we encourage those who have done very well, right, especially those who care about climate change to support a fair tax code that doesn't change -- that does not charge manufacturers, workers, cops, builders, a higher percentage of their earnings, that the most fortunate people in our nation, and not let that stand in the way of reducing energy costs and fighting this existential

problem, if you think about that as an example. >> tucker: now, you wouldn't have thought it was possible to take talking points that stupid, that barely literate, that childish, and make them even dumber. and yet that is exactly what she did. are you still not convinced that joe biden knows how to handle inflation? did that rattle your confidence, rather than bolster it? that honestly there is nothing we can do for you at this point. you are beyond reach. in fact, you know what you are and you may have seen this coming, you are a racist. that is what we call people who continue to ask complicated long questions about joe biden's economic programs. they are racists, and getting rid of them is america's greatest problem. here is msnbc to remind you. >> mitch o'connell will not come close to wiping away the legacy of white supremacy today because what, because they make up part of the republican coalition, what is the explanation for why not?

>> this is always what the right dose to appease the white supremacist movement, free speech. >> extremism and white nationalism, the rhetoric and tamer version, is now pretty mainstream in the republican party. >> tucker: [laughs] did you hear that? from macomb overnight? free speech is white supremacy. it is white supremacy, free speech, talking out of turn, reading your own script rather than the one that chuck todd provides you is white supremacy. that means if you are upset about food shortages or blackouts, you are a racist. racist, racist, racist. there you are complaining again about the precipitous decline in your standard of living. that is always the first sign of a racist. oh, you don't like crime come you don't like inflation, you are against public urination in

new york city, you know what you are, you are a bigot, pal, stop complaining, you and your free speech. of cbs, a journalist, talented and highly awarded broadcaster, she knows exactly how racist you are. you are so racist that gayle king's family members won't even go outside anymore. watch this. >> i am so afraid, i have a nephew who lives in the midwest, 20 something black man who walks his dog and said i was never afraid to walk my dog, now i am in the midwest just walking around, minding my own business, thinking this could happen at any time. >> tucker: yeah, it white supremacist will just come out and kill him with the first amendment. that is what happens when you walk your dog in this country, that is how bad it is. racism against gayle king's family may be the single biggest problem america faces right now. in fact, it is. the problem is definitely not that we are running out of energy to power civilization, that is not a big deal at all and that is why you probably did not read about the fact that the interior department just announced it is closing millions of acres to domestic energy production. sorry, gone, can't have the

energy, there it exists, but you can't have it. you know we can do, though? by from venezuela. yes we can give a 20 minutes ago they told you venezuela was a regime -- venezuela can supply, we can't, it is immoral because climate change, existential, but venezuela can. and the united states biden administration is doing everything it can to allow the united states to buy venezuelan oil directly. what does that add up to? don't think about that. racist. it is like the first amendment, white the, and if you don't believe it, karine jean-pierre is here to remind you. >> donald trump is running a racist campaign. the grand wizard of the birther movement -- which birth orism is inherently racist. >> the racist and bigot, which we already knew. speak with it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, acts like a racist, it is a rac. >> we saw these awful voter suppression laws, which is

really racism across the country. >> we have a racist president in the white house who really pushes his racism like a peacock, because i will say this, we knew donald trump was a racist. i wanted to ask you, just change the topic for a quick second about donald trump's racist tweets. >> systemic racism and how that has affected our country. >> donald trump is the most outwardly racist president that we have seen in generations. >> this country needs to start talking about uprooting institutional racism. >> fox news was racist before coronavirus. they are racist during the coronavirus. fox news will be racist after the coronavirus beard >> tucker: [laughs] you know we need to talk about, karine jean-pierre? we need to have a conversation about -- and by conversation we mean you shut up, i talked, we need to have a conversation about how racist you are, which is very racist. so if you can't keep the lights on or go to the dentist or if you are one of the very few people, maybe three in the country, who has noticed honey

prices have doubled since december, why is that happening? shut up, racist. a contributing editor at the national review online and were delighted to have you join us tonight. my favorite part was when karine jean-pierre -- i don't know if i am pronouncing her name quickly, i don't want to be racist -- said if i can change the subject for a minute, then called someone else racist, that seems like the only subject, really. >> think of racism and having here tonight. when you have nothing else to talk about, you don't have any answers or actual solutions that might work, you scream racism. another thing that screaming racism does come it is a very polite or may be more polite way of saying shut the hell up. they don't want the conversation, they do not want the tough questions or anything else in terms of constructive criticism so you scream racism designed not to advance the conversation but to shut it down, enter go back to what you were saying in your excellent monologue earlier about venezuela, i haven't to visit venezuela in the late '90s and

early '00s. it was a prosperous place. in order to prevent us from turning into that country with the empty store shelves and climbing prices, baby formula shortage, babies in the hospital because of this formula shortage, unbelievable. joe biden could fix a lot of problems, inflation, his political woes which are terrible, the political standing of the democratic party, by saying i made a big mistake by shutting down the keystone pipeline, decreased domestic oil production, start bringing energy prices down, energy prices start to come down, the rest of the price will come down, inflation would ease to a degree in people at least auto inflation going down, confidence would improve, optimism would increase, things feel better. every time i turn on the tv, gas prices going up and up, every day a record high price for gas and diesel. talk about diesel shortages coming. less than a year and a half, 15, 16 months, looking a lot more -- it's beginning to look a lot more like venezuela than anything you and i or anybody could have imagined. >> tucker: the concern is not

just poverty but radicalism. no one is getting more moderate, so refusing to address people's legitimate concerns, calling them racist if they ask honest questions, all of that makes people more radical over time. are you worried that the country could, you know, you can kind of feel it moving underneath our feet here. >> that is why i think a lot of people on the far, far left want to. one of the greatest political slogans was that of vladimir lenin before the russian revolution, it was very simple, for words, the worse, the better, the worse, the better. but the worse the conditions were, more people would be radicalized and say we had -- maybe we should bring lenin in and turn things around. people want total, utter chaos in society and a piece of the american spectator about the democratic party and nothing but terrible ideas come awful solutions. some of the people in the far left democratic party today want that exact kind of chaos and revolution type situation. >> tucker: the worse, the better. boy, that is chilling. deroy murdock, thank you so much. >> tucker, great to see you. >> tucker: you too. primary elections have concluded in a couple states across the

country. a key senate race in, however, remains undecided tonight. what does that mean exactly? what is it going? dana perino, a very reasonable, nice person, joins us very soon to explain what that means and what is going to happen. plus, the biden administration just made a major announcement with the future of the newly created disinformation board, the ministry of information! shut up, racist! [laughs] that's next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: elon musk seems to have put his purchase of twitter on hold. what exactly is going on here? trace gallagher is on that story for us. hey, trace. >> hey, tucker. talk about a change of heart, the richest man in the world says he does not think he has ever voted for a republican but if the democratic party goes farther left elon musk has indicated he is moving right, and today tweeted, quoting here, "in the past i voted democrat because they were mostly the kindest party, but they have become the party of division and hate, so i can no longer support them and will vote republican." now watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold." not a total shock here because earlier this week on the all in podcast, musk began dropping hints like this. watch. >> this administration doesn't

seem to get a lot done. life, and, you know, whatever -- like, the trump administration, leaving trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done. >> and remember this all comes as the deal to buy twitters is at a standstill after the tesla founder pressed them to show proof that no more than 5% of its 300 million users are bots or fakes, saying the deal wouldn't move forward until he does. musk thinks the number of twitter spam accounts or bots could be at 20%, and while some believe musk is only angling for a better price, there is now an eye-opening audit by the software company spark tauro that shows who all those phony readers might be or who they might follow, turns out after analyzing location issues, default profile images, and new users, spark tauro says almost 50% of president biden's 22 million followers are bots. fakes.

spam accounts. something tells me a musk tweet is about to be composed. tucker? >> tucker: amazing. what a story, trace gallagher, thank you so much for that. >> you bet. >> tucker: so we told you about the biden administration's ministry of truth, the disinformation bureau. "the washington post" reported today with deep sadness that it is being shut down, effectively. the post was very upset by this, and in a piece by taylor lorenz, who may be the second-most ludicrous person in america, sh. the most ludicrous person in america, nina jankowicz, the truth czar, and she was a recent shutdown. nina jankowicz was so embarrassing that even the biden administration, which has an almost infinite capacity for embarrassment, or really no shame whatsoever, you see the latest press secretary? even they couldn't put up with her. now, nina jankowicz has an obvious response to this. you think she is absurd, you are

a sexist. watch. >> women should not be involved in government. they cannot be trusted. >> the real reason she is angry is because no child would hit it and stick with it those are just two of the thousands of abusive tweets i received over the past couple months. unfortunately for women in politics, academia, journalism come any time we express an opinion while female, that is not the exception, it is the norm. >> tucker: [laughs] oh, i am sassy and strong. people criticize me, i have to put on costumes. [laughs] and i cry because i am so strong and sassy. we could play her greatest hits for hours. she is an expert on disinformation. if we had to pick our favorite performance by nina jankowicz, all of which are about nina jankowicz because the well of narcissism is endless, it would have to be this one. >> information really quite --

♪ ♪ >> tucker: if that is not your ringtone by the end of tonight's show, you have no sense of humor! so today, peter doocy asked the white house, how could they possibly shut this down? i mean it is just so great. they blamed mischaracterization from outside forces. watch. >> so it is pausing because you think the board was mischaracterized, then the disinformation board is being shut down because of disinformation, is that what is happening here? >> look, i mean, the board was put forward for a purpose,

right, to make sure we really did -- really did address what was happening across the country when it came to disinformation. >> telling me now 75 days -- >> it is going to pause. there has been a mischaracterization from outside -- outside forces. >> tucker: you know she is only three days into the job and we are already notice a tick in our friend karine jean-pierre. so she punctuates the cliches and the completely meaningless chunks of language that's built forth from her mouth with the word "right," right? right? right? that is academic tick, msnbc thing, something. the bottom line is according to the white house publicist, disinformation thanked the disinformation czar, so great. only matt walsh could fully appreciate this, he is the author and producer of the documentary "what is a woman" and joins us tonight. matt walsh, just savor this commander to let you go. >> yes, well, i think it is great news for us, really great news or cnn because something

finally died faster than cnn plus. they can take some solace in that, i suppose. i'm glad we got that clip because it there is this fundamental absurdity that you do have to really savor, which is that they claim it is supposed to disinformation about the disinformation board that shut it down, which is like -- it is like if there is a new fire department that was set up in your town and then you had a fire at your house and you call the fire department and they said well, screw that, we are closing, we can't come help you. that is the whole reason you are here, is for this, the disinformation board is supposed to be there to shut on disinformation. the first phase of this information you should be able to shut down and exposes the disinformation about the board itself but of course we know that when they say disinformation, they mean not disinformation but information that is inconvenient to them. every time the left talks about misinformation or disinformation, they mean disinformation or rather information that we don't like, and that is the advantage of being a relativist, by the way, if you don't like a certain

truth, then that means it is no longer true because you don't like it, which is exactly why these people cannot be in charge of deciding what is true or not, because they are relativists when it comes down to it. >> tucker: i've got to say, i think that sounds sexist. what you are really saying is women should not be allowed on the internet? >> yeah, i mean, what it comes down to come of course, that is exactly what i am saying. >> tucker: [laughs] >> by the way, also note how all we had to do with the disinformation board is just point to it and say look at this thing that they are doing, and the whole thing collapsed. just like that. all we had to do -- democracy dies in darkness, right, all we had to do is pointed out and say look at this thing they are doing and that was the end of the disinformation board. >> tucker: that is such a smart and reassuring -- thank you for saying that, i had not thought of that but you are absolutely right. matt walsh, great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so for eight years we watched bill de blasio wander stoned through

new york city. now he is gone and you thought you would never see them again but he is back doing the only thing he is qualified to do, which is politics. we will tell you what he is doing next. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: so you have seen this before, you are going to see it again all across the country, legislation pending in state house in delaware would allow children to get abortions or changes without notifying their parent, so the parents insurance would pay for this with the parents don't have a right to know. democrats back there's a bill, of course, and say flat out abortion and gender transition related services are covered. so your kids can have abortions and sex changes and democratic politicians in delaware and many other states don't want you to know about it. so, if there was ever an effort to destroy the nuclear family this obvious, we are not aware of what it might be. terry schilling is the president

of the american principles project and joins us tonight to assess. terry, thank you so much for coming on. you know, the parents relationship with his or her children is sacrosanct. politicians aren't allowed to get in the middle of that, you would think. and yet, democrats in delaware and many other states are trying to destroy that relationship. who is fighting back against this? >> well, there are parents primarily that are fighting back against this, tucker, and they are being organized primarily at the local level. there are efforts of the national level. my organization, american principles product know my project is building what we call the nra for families but ultimately this is going to be about parents taking control of their kids education directly. we have to make these people pay a political price when they hurt our families. tucker, you said it best, this is really about abolishing the family. the progressives would say they are liberating children from the parental constraints and the

parental oppression and the patriarchy. really, they are destroying them. their goal is to liberate these children to achieve full equity and full equality and they will achieve that. we will just all be equally miserable and terrible and sad. it will destroy the country, destroy the economy come and destroy us as individuals if we allow these states to do this, and it is important, tucker, to pay attention to delaware. they are on the cutting-edge, they were the first state in the nation to codify roe. they were the first state in the nation to redefine parenthood, well before game marriage passed. what happens in delaware ends up spreading to other states. >> tucker: yeah, i mean, they hate their fathers, that is the basis of their politics, i get it, but that does not give them a right to mess with our kids. they always want to mess with your kids. why -- you know, why not pick on adults? why do they have to take your children, brainwash them, cancel your family ties to your own

kids, your parental authority, why can't we just draw a line at our children, i wonder? >> well, because children are very vulnerable to ideas, right? if you look at the ecosystem progressives have created, it is a full-fledged ecosystem, and it is not -- the story is much bigger than just what the legislation will do to insurance companies and the explanation of benefits. what no one is talking about is these schools in delaware all have school-based health clinics, and when parents sign -- you know they sign the permission slips of the beginning of the year, signing away a bunch of consent forms, they sign a consent form that allows the school-based health clinics to treat their children, and they give away their rights to stop them, and i think most parents think it is going to be ibuprofen or anything like that, but it is much worse. but kids are susceptible to these ideas. especially these little kids with the sex ed classes and gender identity classes. they still believe in santa claus, right? >> tucker: it is -- more than a million americans have pulled their kids out of public schools

in the last year. there is going to be a collapse of school, people running away from the stuff, it is too scary and frightening. i appreciate the work you are doing in this. terry, thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so bill de blasio has been out of the front page for about five months, no longer the mayor of new york, he has nothing to do, smoke a little weed, watch a little netflix, he is bored, so he is going to run for office again. he is going to run for congress from new york. what is that going to look like? to mark the occasion we want to run through some of his biggest moments as the mayor of the city of new york, back ir favorite, he celebrated groundhog day by killing the groundhog. >> this footage from groundhog day 2014 shows freshly inaugurated mayor bill de blasio appearing to drop staten island chuck. it week after the de blasio fumble, they did a few more events before being found in a zoo space deceased on february 9th. >> tucker: should have known he was going to do to midtown

what he did to the groundhog, which he did, by 2019, he becamy demented and started talking like a chipmunk. remember this? >> telling us, done along time ago, passing legislation this year to guarantee working people like every other industrialized country in the world, guarantee working people by law two weeks paid vacation every year. >> tucker: he was scraping the bond resin out of that, start taking hits off a helium balloon. of one of the weirdest moments of all came last may when he announced shaikh shed would give free food to people who got the covid shot because i would either the pandemic. >> free fries when you get vaccinated. i got vaccinated. you are saying i could get this, these delicious fries, just think of this when you think of vaccination. mm! vaccination.

>> tucker: he is so high. i mean, it is just unbelievable. the host of fox across america,s tonight. jimmy, are you excited for the return of this man? >> listen, i can't blame him for trying again. it is hard to get a gig when the only thing been endorsed for on linkedin is killing groundhogs and trashing cities, does not look the best. i have to correct you -- i hate to be a fact-checker, but he did not kill the groundhog. what happened, after being seen with him publicly, the groundhog died of embarrassment. you took a look at the poll numbers when de blasio ran for president, and the campaign died quicker than a carnival goldfish because of what he has done to the city and i want to start there, okay? new york city and the idea he had the nerve to ask for anyone's vote after what he did to new york. new york city right now, tucker, looks like gotham before batman comes except batman is not coming because he is not vaccinated. he ain't showing up. you've got to go back to wayne

manor, i'm sorry, 6 feet of space, we will fight the crime virtually. and that is the issue. my family was going to come to new york city this weekend but they decided to go someplace safer like beirut because the idiots who ran the city into the ground was always going for the performative stupidity, creating the appearance that he cared and he was doing something. a good example of that was that vaccine video where he is stuffing his face with french fries. hey, tucker, what is the leading killer from covid? obesity. so we are combating vaccine hesitancy by encouraging fried food consumption? this is like combating arson by giving away book of matches, man. the one thing i would say to that as may be the upside to the biden presidency is arson is down because no one can burn down your house at $5.15 a gallon, they have to really love you to do it. as far as de blasio goes, hilarious, he implement a vaccine mandate in times square on new year's eve, man, on new year's eve. tucker come if you are partying

in times square on new year's eve, covid is not a top ten germ you are weird about catching. you are actually relieved when -- okay? that is new york in a nutshell. for the midwest, new york and most blue cities are run by stupid people who think they are smarter than you, which is why right now with our subway in the condition it is in, tucker, we just opened up a $30 million staircase on the new york city subway, and i know a lot of people watching are like, wow, jimmy, tucker, $30 million is a lot for a staircase, but i should remind you it also doubles as a restroom and a place to shoot heroin, so you are getting like a three format one deal here, and that is why it is so disgusting. the city's gross, okay, and if you really cared about it, you do not build a stairway into the subway, you actually clean up the subway, tucker, have you ever ridden the one train and not seen someone fondling themselves? every time i swipe my card i feel like i'm entering the zoom with jeffrey toobin, come on, man. >> tucker: i can add to that. jimmy, great to see you.

>> good to see you, buddy. >> tucker: a lot of primaries last night, north carolina, one of them not yet resolved, pennsylvania. what does it mean? is there a theme, a lesson we can take from the results? dana perino joins us next. ♪ ♪

the choice for attorney general is clear. democrat rob bonta has a passion for justice and standing up for our rights. bonta is laser focused on protecting the right to vote and defending obamacare. but what's republican eric early's passion? early wants to bring trump-style investigations on election fraud to california, and early says he'll end obamacare and guard against the growing socialist communist threat.

eric early. too extreme, too conservative for california.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: so, three candidates in yesterday's primary for the republican senate nomination in the state of pennsylvania, two of men tonight are deadlocked, separated by it looks like a little over a thousand votes, vote counting continues. dave mccormick is one, dr. oz is the other come again in a dead heat. what does this mean, what is going to happen? dana perino is the person we go to for answers to these questions. coanchor of "america's newsroom" and a host of "the five." hey, dana. >> hi from how are you? >> tucker: i'm great. this was so bitter i personally did not understand -- there was a lot going on, i did not get a lot of it, but where are we now? what did we learn yesterday, what did we think is going to happen? >> i think one thing we learned not just -- states we have seen

have primaries, republican enthusiasm is sky high. turnout is breaking records, and a state like pennsylvania, which has i think 550,000 more registered democrats than republicans, republicans absolutely crush the democrats yesterday in turn out to vote. republicans have turned out on side. when it comes to this race in pennsylvania right now, i think it could be a while before we find out because of this race stays as close as it is, depending on the mail-in ballots and any of the other little things that come in, if it is under .5 percentage points they have to go to a recount, that has to be done by may 26, so i wouldn't stay up late tonight to get results, i think those are going to come later. kathy barnette surged late but was a distant third in this race, and i think one of the things that happened is she did not get a lot of scrutiny into the last several days and one of the people that criticized her -- and sort of a gentle way, for him, was donald trump, and i

think that fell away for her at the end. >> tucker: interesting. who do you think -- who do you think she took from? which of these candidates, oz or mccormick? >> well come i think it is pretty interesting that with the coveted endorsement of president trump, dr. oz is locked in this battle with david mccormick vehicle all three candidates wanted the endorsement, they were asking for it, and trump has a very good track record so far in his endorsements, and as a g.o.p. candidate, you would much rather have his endorsement than not, certainly helped him in ohio. it definitely helped him in north carolina. his endorsed candidate there trounced the competition. in this race in pennsylvania, i think mehmet oz and david mccormick spent millions of dollars attacking each other and you will see what happens next week. in georgia there is a primary on tuesday, and the president has endorsed david perdue, the former senator in that gubernatorial race, but he is i think 28 points behind the

current governor, brian kemp, so the president -- former presidents endorsement is a great thing to have come a net loss for a candidate, but not necessarily approve. >> tucker: interesting. dana perino, i appreciate your analysis tonight. >> thank you. good to see you. >> tucker: great to see you. so, "the washington post," not the quickest newspaper in america, has finally figured out ron desantis might run for president so you know what that means, you've got to destroy everyone around ron desantis right away, and they have enlisted their single creepiest reporter, boy, that is saying a lot, to investigate her sex life. we've got the text message that proves it. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: "the washington post" claims to be a newspaper but in fact it ceased being a news organization quite some time ago and has not transitioned, that is the word come into the enforcement arm of the permanent democratic regime in washington. challenge power and they will hurt you. the poor woman who runs the @libsoftiktok tiktok account. twitter account. the post thanks ron desantis might run for president and i want to get a head start destroying everyone around ron desantis. to do that they have assigned their single creepiest reporter, a guy called paul pharr he, who for some reason sounds like he is making an obscene phone call every time he talks. this show has obtained text

messages, did not seem interested in the professional life and wanted to know who she had slept with, quote, can you tell me anything about christina's life away from work? what did she enjoy doing? did she have any friends and family in georgia, have a spouse or significant other? the phrase is significant other quotation marks around it for special emphasis, you can imagine paul farhi breathing heavily as he typed it. at some point you think people are going to get sick, very sick of vicious partisan bullying posed as news coverage and they are going to fight back against this kind of filth and when they do, they might start to ask questions like what sort of sex life does paul farhi have come exactly? paul farhi will whine and complain and call it unfair, but that is why nobody is going to care, because by paul farhi standards, it is an entirely fair question. isn't it? that is about it for us tonight. a public school district in philadelphia encourages teachers

to attend a conference on kink, something called bdsm and trans sex, journalist chris rufo shares his investigation tomorrow. that is it for us tonight. take heart. the people around you the ones that matter, have the best night with the ones you love. we will see you then. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: and welcome to "hannity" and we start with this fox news alert, the all-important republican senate primary race in pennsylvania still too close to call. you can see 97% of the vote in as it stands, dr. oz is about a 1500 vote lead over dave mccormick. now keep in mind that the commonwealth of pennsylvania come any race decided by 0.5% or less automatically triggers a recount. by the way, history of pennsylvania, no recount has ever turned around to the results of the earlier election. we are well within that margin, th