How are you doing, will . Super bowl weekend. Will right here. Good morning to you both. Thats right. Im live here in tampa. Super bowl lv. I know you are very excited about that jedediah. We will get your picks later. We know you will change the chiefs or the punxsutawney. For now a hometown battle in tampa. Hometown bucs look to be pretty popular, pete. Pete whats the feel . You are there on the ground. Its a little bit different everything is a little bit different whats the vibe in tampa . Will its excited because there is a Hometown Team for the first time Playing In Home Stadium for the super bowl. Its tampered by the bittersweet relation what would it be like if it were a normal year. Street packed and cash registers ringing they recognize its a little down from expectations. Pete absolutely. Jedediah i know you are waiting for my pick. Im waiting for yours, will cain. I had a conversation about it yesterday. You know what . Im going to wait and hold my pick and see who will pic
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This is a rush transcript from Tucker Carlson Tonight, February 18, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
MARK STEYN, GUEST HOST: Good evening and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT. I m Mark Steyn, in for Tucker.
Throughout the Western world this past year, governments of all kinds bungled the Chinese coronavirus. They did what no society has tried to do before: quarantine and lockdown millions upon millions of perfectly healthy people, destroying their livelihoods, and at least for the third of the population suffering from clinical depression, destroying their mental health into the bargain.
that happened in the aftermath. i think if 4500 pets had died in texas or in florida it would have been a nationtragedy. here, 4500 human beings, american citizens died. not only was it not reported, it was just not accurately dealt with. it was too slow and too little. in florida where i live, and in texas where they had hurricane harvey. listen, we are a day away from the start of hurricane season, we already had a first devastating storm, alberto. and puerto rico, some of them still don t have electricity. sure. but, wouldn t you agree that in texas and florida, the infrastructure for a first responder to come and help people is already more significantly apparent than they sent a comfort ship down to puerto rico and it couldn t get it into the dock.
how things were handled in florida where i live and in texas where they had hurricane harvey and, listen, we are a day away from the start of hurricane season. we already had a first devastating storm, alberto. and puerto rico ana, can i ask something real quick? sure. but wouldn t you agree that in texas and florida, the infrastructure for a first responder to come and help people is already more significantly apparent than they sent the comfort ship down to puerto rico and couldn t even get into the dock. they couldn t bring it onshore or even get they couldn t find the hospitals because the roads and infrastructure in puerto rico, which is a shame in its own quickly, guys, i m running out of time. that s one of the reasons. we need to say that. but, listen, no exactly, mike. exactly. you can t compare texas and florida. precisely because we all knew that the infrastructure in
there was shelters there had already been identified. the local governments knew how to handle hurricanes. they lived taking people from katrina previously. so they already had experience. puerto rico is an island. they sent the comfort ship down there. so it s not like the government said don t bother. they sent the comfort. now what they hadn t thought, how do we identify the right people this the hospital, get the communications lines out and get them out to the ship? it s a much more complex problem to help people on an island nation, especially one with a government that is really not up to par for this sort of thing compared to places like houston. mike, are we going to blame puerto rico? turn into it a political football i think is doing a disservice to the good people that are trying to help. should they get more help? absolutely. until they re fixed, it s a bottom line business. they re fixed, there is going to be a political price. but to turn it into the president doesn