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day on "the five." and jesse will be back tomorrow night. tucker carlson up is next! >> tucker: good evening. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. sheila jackson lee is famous in washington for being the single most obnoxious member of congress. that's a title that as you can imagine has many contenders, but sheila jackson lee stands alone. don't you know who i am? she once screamed at a flight attendant in the first-class cabinet on a continental flight. i'm congresswoman sheila jackson lee. where is my seafood meal?
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in the 1990's during a visit to nasa, sheila jackson lee demanded to see the flag astronauts had planted on mars. when gently informed no human being has been to mars because it's very far away, lee flew into a rage. she accused nasa of racism and pointed out her membership on the "science committee" in congress and so on. we can spend the entire hour on sheila jackson lee stories and it's tempting. on capital hill, she's known as "the queen" and not in a good way. but what's interesting is that nobody ever talks about the congressional district that sheila jackson lee supposedly represents. it's mostly inner city houston and it could use some help. lee's district has a poverty rate almost twice the national average, all the number markers of civilizationnal decline. high crime, bad schools, low social cohesion, drugs. now, lee has "served in congress" for nearly 30 years but it's hard to think of a single thing she has ever done to improve the lives of the
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people who elected her. she doesn't seem interested. instead, sheila jackson lee has devoted her entire political career, indeed her entire life, to a single cause, shrieking about white racism. that's what sheila jackson lee does for a living. here's a selection. >> institutional racism and systematic racism taints and spoils the way that america treats in one instance african-americans and other instances minorities. >> the bastardly impacts of white nationalism, white supremacy and outright racism. >> racism is a national security threat. >> racism say national security threat. >> racism say national security threat. >> institutional racism does exist. until we accept that, we will not finish our job. >> we will not elect a chief bigot of the united states of america. >> our system is such that it then allows americans, people, to act in instances in a racism
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manner. >> tucker: racism, you see, is a national security threat. it's a national security threat. really, sheila jackson lee? tell us how racism is a national security threat. speak slowly. we've got plenty of time. but, of course, she won't do that. she's got no argument. she's got no facts. she doesn't even have a sincere belief in what she is saying. it's absurd! and she knows it! by the way, sheila jackson lee doesn't want to protect a country she despises from national security threats. why would she want to do that? no, that's not the point. what she's doing here every day is leveling a racial attack, a blood libel against an entire group of americans while simultaneously pretending to be the victim of attacks from that same group. stop hitting me, she howls as she punches you in the face! it's such a common tactic at this point used constantly by al sharpton, by the adl, by so many others, that you may not even notice it anymore, but it's
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still disgusting. it's still immoral. it's still divisive. here is joe biden doing it. >> and finally, we're confronting the stains of what remains a deep stain on the soul of the nation, hate and white supremacy. you know, there's a tough through line of subjugation and enslaved people from our earliest days to the reigns of radicalized terror of the kkk to dr. king being assassinated and the violent, deadly insurrection on the capitol nine months ago who is about white supremacy in my opinion. >> speaking of blood libel, because that's what it is, protesting the 2020 election results is the same as slavery, as the kkk. it's the same as murdering martin luther king. it's all white supremacy, declares joe biden, without defining the term. now, you may recall when joe biden said that you probably dismissed it at the time as being ridiculous as the rantings of a senile partisan, and, of course, that's what it was, but
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you should also keep in mind that joe biden did not say that by accident. it wasn't an ad-lib, off-the-cuff, no, his staff signed off on that speech. they wrote it and read it before he read it. and they wrote it for a reason. when the president of the united states identifies a threat to this country, his many federal agencies, the biggest in the world, swing into action to neutralize that threat. that's how the system works as joe biden's staff well knows. so, in fact, when joe biden likens you to al qaeda or the klan, it's not a small thing at all. it has implications. so here is sheila jackson lee from last week in a not unrelated clip calling for the renewal of the patriot act. watch. >> if i remember after 9/11 when we all worked together to ensure the protection of the american people through the patriot act and dealing with the pfizer courts, we worked together, because truth is important. >> tucker: that's kind of
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strange, if you think about it. so why would sheila jackson lee, a self-described liberal, find herself last week praising the secret government courts that liberals once opposed passionately on the grounds that those courts could be used to destroy the constitutional rights of americans without anyone knowing about it? secret courts? liberals were against secret courts. and now the chief liberal in congress is strongly for secret courts. what's going on here? why? well, because those secret courts turn out to be a highly-effective way to silence the critics of the democratic party. so silence the so-called white supremacists joe biden is always yelling about, not all of them, by the way, are white. you don't have to be white to be a white supremacist. you just need to oppose the agenda. sheila jackson lee knows that very well. that's why shy wants to renew the patriot act indefinitely. there are enough dumb republicans she might be able to sheila jackson lee would like to
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go further than that. lee introduced a bill called the leading against white supremacy act of 2023. now, it's not an exaggeration to say this single bill would do more to criminalize speech previously constitutionally guaranteed speech than any other piece of legislation that has been proposed in the entire history of this country. that's not an overstatement at all. and to prove it, we're going to read directly from the bill. here it is, quote, a conspiracy to engage in white supremacy-inspired hate crime shall be determined to exist between two or more persons, at least one of whom published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on quote replacement theory, or hate speech that is vilnized or directed against any nonwhite person or group, end quote. no one in the -- nowhere in the legislation is the term white supremacy or white supremacist ideology ever defined. of course, it's never defined.
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it's left open. it's subjective. anything could be white supremacy. but the bill does specifically point to something called replacement theory. white supremacist ideology. if you engage in either one of them, you go to federal prison, possibly for a very long time. so all that's required under this piece of legislation, which hasn't been laughed out of congress left -- all that's required is your political opinions, "could, as determined by a reasonable person, motivate actions by a person predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy-inspired hate crime." so what would qualify as a felony under this law? well, virtually everything. but among them would be pointing out the democratic party politicians, including chuck schumer, the leading senate democrat, have longed bragged they're flooding this country with immigrants in order to change the coming tography to maintain -- demsmoggraphy to
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maintain political power themselves. they've written about it and bragged it about it on -- bragged about it on camera. according to this bill, you would be responsible for the violent acts of people you never met and go to jail for terrorism. now, what is most interesting about this bill is that it's race-specific. nothing in sheila jackson lee's legislation would apply to say black supremacy or murder sprees by people who aren't white supremacists. the massacre in waukesha, for example. that means the democratic party politicians could continue to say whatever they want with impunity. the first amendment still applies to them, but not to anyone who doesn't vote for t them. so that's the definition of tyranny. it's horrifying and a direct attack on the bill of rights, on our core freedoms guaranteed by the u.s. government for 250 years. we shouldn't be surprised by this, however, because it's consistent with what biden has promised.
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his promise since the day he got into office and the promise was race-blind justice -- which is the entire foundation of the rule of law in the west -- has been for centuries -- is done! the new model, south africa! that's the new model. south africa. a country we never talk about because no one wants to admit what's happened there over the past 29 years, but on the basis of that, biden tried to allocate farm aid on the basis of skin color. a federal judge blocked that plan but it has not stopped the democratic party because no one repudiated the idea. no one on the right has been brave enough to say, no, the federal government can never award or punish on the basis of skin color. that is immoral and it contrary to american law and because no one has said that, democrats including sheila jackson lee have decided their opponents are terrorists and they're terrorists because of their r race. and once you're a terrorist, what do we get to do to you? we get to take all of your stuff! we get to seize all your assets. it shouldn't surprise you that's
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actually unfolding in the state of california. always the leading edge of lawn nasi. watch this. >> -- lunacy. watch this. >> economists have worked alongside us in the past year to come up with potential estimates for what reparations in the form of compensation or cash payments could look like for african-americans. the $500 billion number represents the state of california's maximum culpability for racist red lining practices. that number represents the state of california's maximum liability. it's not a final recommendation coming out of the task force. final recommendations do not come out until july 1 of 2023. >> tucker: now, everything about this, of course, is bad and wrong, not just in practice but in principle, but in practice, it sets up an incentive the whole country will have to grapple with very soon. we've already been told you can change your sex and immuneerable characteristic by wishing so. men could become women. women can become men.
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why can't people change their race? that's a sincere question that's waved away as ridiculous. it's not any more ridiculous than changing your sex. in fact, it's the same. so under laws like this, there's a huge incentive to change your race because you get paid for doing that. what are we going to do about that? but what's interesting is sadly, sadly -- interesting and sadly, sadly predictable is if politicians in california and the rest of the country decide how they're going to loot the treasury in the name of racial justice, the communities they supposedly serve are falling apart in reasonable, tangible, measurable ways. people are dying. axios, for example, reports carjackings in d.c. have risen for the fifth straight year. ask anyone who lives there. ask the d.c. council candidate who was carjacked in broad daylight a year ago. >> a vehicle stolen friday may be linked to multiple crimes in northeast including the murder of 19-year-old devin brewer. there was a drive-by shooting on
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central avenue northeast. both victims survived. a look out for the same highlander went out over police radio. the plates on the car appear to match the burgundy highlander used to carjack a d.c. council candidate at gunpoint. nate fleming was at a gas station in northeast. he says when the suspect pulled a gun, he gave up the keys. then he went into the convenience store to call 911. he says one of the guys came into stop him from doing that chasing him out of the store. >> tucker: so instead of doing anything about that in d.c., the leaders are doing what sheila jackson lee does, shrieking about white racism as if that's the problem or even a recommended problem. of course, that's nothing to do with carjackings. as for actual carjackings that are killing people, making taxpayers leave d.c., terrifying everyone in the city? well, the d.c. city council has just passed a bill that will lighten the punishment for carjacking as well as other violent crimes. so here's what you have.
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at the same time that sheila jackson lee would like to make it a "hate crime" a felony for disagreeing with her, her compatriots in d.c. and across the country are making it easier for you to get killed by an actual carjacker. tyranny is the name of that system. it's spreading because no one is saying anything about it. candace owens has said something about it, always has. thank you for coming on. at the same time that they're addressing these big, theoretical macroissues and change the american justice code to be race-specific, something it's never been, they're ignoring the collapse of daily life for their constituents. you see this everywhere. what is it? >> we don't know what it is. it does seem to be a very strange collision and seeing her
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put this forth is just actually -- i'm incredulous. selfishly, i would like to see it go into place for maybe one day because it would be brilliant for black conservatives because every single democrat would fall by their sword. of course, they would be locked up federally, trust me, if this got put into place. this yields more questions for me i'm looking at this thinking what are they possibly thinking? how would this work? what about black-on-black criticism? would they lock me up for saying something like sheila jackson is fundamentally a low i.q. hateful individual in if i did say that, would i go to prison? how would this run parallel to the decriminalization efforts? they don't want any black and brown people in prison. they want them all to be on the streets but at the same time they're saying they'd lock us up. would this extend to an overseas policy? would i be locked up if he said anything bad about the late osama bin laden? this wasn't well thought through
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because it doesn't need to be. we know their every effort is aimed at censoring speech, right? the democrats know in order for them to be omnipotent, they need to be able to control words. if they could control words, they could control thoughts. ultimately what they're after is brain wash. by the way, they've been really good at brain wash, speaking of what you just spoke about. you have people that are graduating -- i just talked about this today. graduating harvard who actually believe that men could be women and women could be men. all we have to do is change our minds. they know exactly what they're doing. they know exactly what they're after and ultimately what they want is full power and control over every single person and their households. >> tucker: they'll use law enforcement to do it and the police and the fbi and the courts -- i wonder if we've laughed too much at the absurdity of all of this and not internalized how deadly serious they are about using power to crush their political opponents. >> oh, i have been laughing but at the same time pointing people to the very real truth and said what they truly want is a
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totalitarian society. they're following the playbook. everything they're after, they're attacking religion, attacking the first amendment. they continually want to remove guns from your households. what does that spell out to you? where have we seen this before? for every communist society that exists, has existed and exists today. they want to remove individual power. it's interesting to see they're breaking down people's mentality. we're becoming a fundamentally weak country. you have people that cry at the drop of a hat because they've been misgendered. they know these people can't take them on in the future. they can't stand up to government when they can't stand up to themselves, look themselves in the mirror and say actually, i can't just wake up and say i'm a man or i'm a woman. it's so macvillian. you can laugh to stay sane but recognize something very real is happening in this country and it's dangerous sinister. >> tucker: it couldn't have happened five years ago. that's exactly right.
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i couldn't agree more. candace owens, great to see you tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, here's a huge story that's getting pretty much no attention. so the f.a.a. which regulates commercial air travel has quietly begun allowing a much wider range of heart abnormalities in pilots, people flying your plane. they're allowed to be a lot sicker than they were last year. now, the f.a.a. made this change after the covid vax became mandatory. obviously, this has enormous implications for aviation safety, for the lives of americans and so some questions are in order. why is this happening is the first one? that's straight ahead.
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>> tucker: one of the reasons commercial air travel is so safe in this country is the f.a.a. has stringent guidelines for the hang of pilots, and that's, -- for the health of pilots and that's, of course, very important. you don't want your pilot dying with a planeload full of passengers. here is something pretty amazing that happened. without any explanation, publicly the f.a.a. just made a major change in the health requirements for pilots with heart damage. the f.a.a. has significantly broadened the acceptable ekg
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range for commercial pilots. steve kirsch the reported this on the substation. the change now allows people with cardiac injury to fly. the company made the change last october after the vaccines were rolled out and made mandatory. why? we reached out to the f.a.a. today for explanation. they claim they "follow standard processes based on data and science," whatever that means. teresa long is a federal army flight surgeon and joins us now to assess this. this raises red flags for people given what is at stake in commercial air travel. why do you think the f.a.a. did this? >> thank you for having me on, tucker. i just want to say up front my opinions are my own and don't reflect that of the united states army or the dod. >> tucker: yes. >> why they made the change is very obscure. extending the pr interval from
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the acceptable range of 120 to 200 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds does not improve safety. i would like to see the data and research they based that decision on in aviation, we're a data-driven institution. everything centers around risk mitigation, so making that broader actually puts the public at greater risk of a pilot having a cardiac event that didn't get caught because they've extended that range. >> tucker: so, i mean, that's inexplicable. everything the f.a.a. does, as you just said, has to be designed with one goal in mind and that's the safest possible flight. commercial, military, pilots. pilots think that way. there's no way in your opinion as a flight surgeon that this
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change, whatever its cause, could make air travel safer? >> no. and in light of the emerging and overwhelming data that's sho showing, the cardiac damage from covid and the covid vaccines on cardiac muscle, i can't imagine why they would make this move. and i think it's a question that really should be taken to dr. susan northrup. she's the senior flight surgeon for the f.a.a. ask what data they used to support this. i think it only undermines aviation safety. if you realize that in the military, pilots receive an ekg every year whereas for commercial air, they receive it at 35 and then at 40 and every year annually after age 40. so those are, you know, very --
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we hardly see them to begin with in terms of, you know, a five-year gap in there, and so -- >> tucker: right. right, so i mean -- this is baffling! i'm sorry, i think there's an audio delay but let me just say i appreciate your confirming what seems like common sense that there's no -- there's no good answer for why they're doing this, and we are going to follow up, dr. teresa long, and ask to interview the head flight surgeon of the f.a.a. because maybe we're missing something. doesn't sound like it, though. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: thank you. so you may have seen this video, an amazon delivery driver in apple valley, california, dropping off packages when he steps and falls inside aseptic tank. it happened last while. while he was stuck, the driver
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uploaded this video. >> so i was delivering to this customer's house and i just fell into a septic tank. i think it -- i don't know if they were digging it or what and i walked by it and the ground came out underneath me. i'm like six feet down. i tried using these roots around me to get out. it just pulled more dirt on top of me. i just called dispatch. hopefully they're going to get the cops or the fire department here because i definitely don't want to try to climb out on my own again because like i said, the walls are kind of caving in on me a little bit scary. >> tucker: so the fire department did come and rescue that man. and here's the thing. at a moment when people are dismissing american workers as layso or disengaged, that man took a shower and then continued his route! we were very impressed with that. in fact, we gave him the employee of the month honors and then we found him. his name is charles and he joins us tonight. charles, i -- i'm so impressed by this. thank you for joining us.
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um -- >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: you fell into this like a tiger trap without seeing it? is that correct? >> um, no, actually i did see the hole. i walked by it on my way to deliver a package and then i walked by it again on my way back to my vehicle. and the ground next to the hole is what collapsed underneath me, even though i kept a bit of a distance from the hole. i still managed to fall in because the ground collapsed underneath my feet. and also i wanted to let you know that the fire department confirmed with me that the drop wasn't six feet, it was actually 13 feet. >> tucker: that's unbelievable! um, so i'm sure you see all kinds of things to your route every day. i mean it -- famously, it's an interesting job. weird people... dogs. have you ever fallen into a deep hole before? >> this is not something i would have ever imagined happening, no, tucker. i don't think other delivery drivers would either. >> tucker: your coolness under
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pressure inspires the rest of us. also your commitment to your job. once you fall into a 13-foot septic hole, you kind of deserve the day off. people take holidays off i've never heard of before. did you consider calling it a day and having a beer? >> i did consider it. i think there was -- there was several things that caused me to decide to go ahead and finish the route, and, you know, it was probably -- i was on a good adrenaline rush. you know, my time in the marine corps, you know, as a marine, we're conditioned to always accomplish our mission. that was going in my head. another big thing is had i not completed my rotorua tempted to at least, other drivers who had already been out there and done their entire routes would get stuck having to finish my route and i just didn't think that would be fair to them either. but i did voluntarily offer to take my route so -- >> tucker: i hope you were rewarded for it. you certainly have our admiration for it. charles, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, tucker.
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>> tucker: so impressive. >> thank you, sir. thank you. >> tucker: it looks like -- there's not a ton of debate about this -- the sam bankment committed probably the largest fraud in history. he's not in jail tonight! you're still not allowed to know who bailed him out. why can't you know that? we looked into it. we'll tell what you we found straight ahead. mom! mom! every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt.
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>> tucker: looks like sam bankman-fried committed the largest financial fraud in modern history but he's not in prison. he didn't trespass in the capitol. what's interesting sur not allowed to know -- is you're not allowed to know the identify of the two people that helped to put up sam bankman-fried's bond. his lawyers even argued in court to keep the names masked to shield them from public criticism. now, the media outlets took a ton of money from sam
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bankman-fried like. [indiscernible] haven't returned the money -- that's stolen money, and they don't seem very interested in how this happened. we are interested. we just finished a documentary, in fact, called "sam bankman-fried, the story of ftx" out thursday on foxnation. here's a preview. >> one of his strategies was to clutter his sent sentences withh jargon so no one understood what he was saying. >> that position was over klattralized a year -- collateralized a year ago. there's a correlated collapse in its assets over the last month. >> i'm no crypt toll currency expert or finance expert but i don't think that you answered my question. >> i have a general rule of thumb, if you cannot explain it to a 14-year-old, that means either you don't understand it yourself or you don't understand and you're trying to confuse the audience for a reason that has
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to do with your own self-interested gain. >> mr. bankman-fried has been able to confuse interviewers by talking in circles. >> nothing that sbf said since the fraud was exposed has been coherent even into this sophisticated observer of financial markets. i think that's not just an accident. it is by design. it's another deflection tactic. >> tucker: so the man you just saw in that clip is one of the people who act as a sherpa force as we tried to understand what was happening with sam bankman-fried. he's a frequent guest of our show, executive chairman of strive asset management. he joins us in studio tonight. thank you very much for coming on. i loved your point. i think it's one of the -- it's one of the truest guides to other people's talking but tell
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me why sam bankman-fried seemed to be treated so much more gently than your average criminal defendant? >> it's because we had the entire deflection tactic set up. it wasn't just the jargon. it was the esg smoke screen. it was the good guy who was engaged in effective altruism, funding democratic candidates. he knew how to play the game to be able to create the appearance he cared about something other than profit and power when in fact he cared only about more profit and power for himself. but the thing that was most striking to me about this story, tucker, is this is not a deviant that is different from the rest of wall street operates but how familiar his story is it's the same story we saw back in 2008. i think there are a lot of similarities. it'll make a lot of people mad to hear this. there are a lot of similarities to what the esg promoting financial institutions do today. what did he do?
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he took client funds without their permission and did it. the largest institutions are using someone else's money without their permission to advance their own agendas. what i find most fascinating of this story is not this guy that is 30 years old that made a lot of money. that's an interesting detail. it's interesting for everyone to look in the mirror who? wall street and everyone else to ask themselves how dissimilar his story is to mainstream markets. >> tucker: these are people motivated by a lot of things but we have regulators that are supposed to keep that within the bounds like gary gentzler. where are they? >> they're busy focused on advancing those same agendas. right? why are they propagating esg disclosure rules when in fact they should be focused on preventing people from losing money. >> tucker: [laughter] >> you would think this is an objective. the irony is they'll use this as a catalyst so say we need to have greater purview of
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regulating cryptocurrencies when this is a managerial class that's advancing political agenda. the more you're doing that the less you're doing the job you're actually supposed to do. that's the story of the administrative state, the scc included as we know it. >> tucker: if it's true what sam bankman-fried did is not so different from what a lot of people are doing now, are you concerned about the stability of our financial system? >> so, look, i've had concerns dating back to 2008. the thing we didn't let happen in this country, tucker s when those banks actually erred back then, we should have let them fall and actually teach the system its lesson. instead, the lesson we taught is the worse you act, the more likely you are to get bailed out by the system. sbf was a young guy. that's the system he grew up. what else do you expect but a next generation of fraudsters to do the same thing a decade and a half later? >> tucker: clearly his parents encouraged this you can imagine this kid pulling the same scam at 13. oh, isn't he cute? he's so smart! ok. great to see you. thank you. thank you for your very crisp
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analysis. >> a teenage girl in california was in a ymca when a naked man entered the locker room. the ym ca didn't care. she joins us ahead. >> as i was showering, i saw a naked man in the woman's locker room. i went back into the shower and hid behind their flimsy excuse for a curtain and hid until he was gone.
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as i did so, i could only think of my five-year-old sister who i bring to this gym during the summer -- sorry -- to enjoy their water slides. this is the ymca where hundreds of children spend their summer afternoons in childcare camps. when i asked the ym ca management what their policy was regarding transgenders, they said the man i saw was allowed to shower wherever he pleased. as long as you're not a red flag on megan's law, california sex offender registry, a grown male could shower alongside a teenage girl at your ymca location here in santee. >> he should be in the sex offender registry for showering with teenage girls if you're an adult man. ymca should be ashamed of itself. of course, it's not. they put out a statement situation they're reviewing their floor plans. we wanted to speak to the young woman you saw in the video. we found her. her name is rebecca. we're grateful she joined us tonight.
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rebecca, thank you very much for coming on. you're not the only person this happened to. you're one of the only people who said anything about it. why did you decide you would take the risk of speaking up about this? >> well, i mean, when i addressed the city council, i didn't even know i was being recorded. i had no idea it was going to get this nationwide response but i just felt like it was my duty to shed light on the consequences of these policies because people need to realize that the things we were thinking could happen are now actually happening in normal everyday situations to normal people. >> tucker: well, that's exactly -- how old are you, by the way? >> i'm 17. >> tucker: it's amazing that you had the courage to do this and the ability to describe it so vividly, which you did. i'm so impressed by that. what kind of response did you get? >> thank you. yeah, well, i mean, from the media, it's largely been very positive, because people are realizing that this is happening to -- in their neighborhoods.
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this is happening in their backyards. parents and children, women are outraged by this. so largely it's been a good response and the ymca has informed me they're going to look into changing some things but they keep pointing to local policies and local laws as kind of an excuse as to why they have this transgender law. so we haven't seen any reaction to change the policy of the ymca. they just said they're looking into it but i'm excited to see what they'll do further, because something practical and something tangible does need to be done here. >> tucker: yeah, so we've been hearing that the transgender activism is empowering. did you feel empowered as a teenage girl when a naked man walked into her shower room? >> no. not at all. my safety, my privacy was threatened. i mean, i had just been in the shower, so i'm in one of the most vulnerable positions that a girl could be in. i'm getting out and i see this
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man's back side so not only do i not want to see him but i was terrified he was going to see me. i went right back into the shower and, no, absolutely not empowering whatsoever! in our efforts to cater to the rights of transgenders to express themselves, it's threatening my safety, my privacy and also the safety and privacy of all the other women and children who are frequenting that ymca. >> tucker: bless you for saying that out loud! it's shocking it requires bravery to say it but we both know that it does so thank you. rebecca, good to see you tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: of course! so the former nba player was in rome recently when he learned from the fbi he needed to come back to the u.s. immediately. he was told the turkish government had put a bounty on his head. he grew up in turkey before coming to the united states and changing his name in honor of this country. he's been critical of the turkish government.
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he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so the turkish government, you were informed by the u.s. government, has put a bounty on your head? half a million dollar bounty? what's that mean? a bounty on your head? >> so, like, first of all, thank you for having me, mr. carlson. i was in a basketball camp in the vatican actually for christians, catholic, muslim and jewish kids. i heard the news for the first time. i got in touch with the fbi immediately. they said come back to america that the moment. so i took a flight the next day and so, you know, this is the first time actually turkish government put a bounty on my head and put me on the most-wanted terrorist list because i talked about the human rights violations and the political events happening in turkey. you know, i'm not the only one. there are so many journalists, academics, celebrities and professors on that list. when i had the conversation with my friends on the ground, they said the mafia, the serial
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killers actually, professional hit men and cartel could be after my case i was and speechless. i was like this cannot be happening to an american citizen on u.s. soil! >> tucker: do you feel like the u.s. government is helping to protect you from this threat from a foreign government? >> really good question. you know, some of the members of the congress actually reacting to this news and asking biden administration to speak up and actually take some actions, you know? because i remember first time president biden, before he took to office actually, the first thing he said that the problem in middle east is. [indiscernible] and we need to do something about it. it's been almost two years and he has not done a thing yet. we have to prioritize human rights because turkey plays a very important role. because it could be the bridge of islam and west. but just because there is no freedom of speech, you know, there are so many political people and innocent people in
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the jail waiting for help. it is not possible. so i'm asking, please, biden administration, to take some solid actions and help my friends over there. help my family over there. i haven't seen them almost 10 years! >> tucker: if they're ok with chinese genocide, i doubt they'll be too upset about this. that's a guess. i could be wrong. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> tucker: we will be right back.
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>> tucker: mispronouncing kamala harris' name isn't bad, it's racist. today joe biden tried to pronounce her name. here's what happened. >> but as kamala said, we're all closely monitoring the storm, the floods, the landslides all across california. >> tucker: kamala? i thought it was kamala. we're going to carmela.
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carmela harris, ladies and gentlemen. our vice president. we'd love to see more time getting to the etimology of kamala, carmela. have the best night with the ones you love. see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome in. john kerry is traveling around the world this time at the anti-world economic forum in europe. we'll have details. by the way, after getting canned at fake news cnn, humpty dumpty is there attempting to put the pieces of his life back together again as he is at the wef hosting a wth disinformation seminar. after all, he's an expert.

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