0 are they now file, which we couldn't resist bringing to you because it was the kind of thing you could have predicted. no, he's totally normal. no, he's skydiving with a porn star and losing his way. we have a great show planned for tomorrow. the happiest night with the ones that you love. in the meantime, we have great news that sean hannity takes over now. here he is. >> sean: anyway, tucker, hope you had a great thanks giving, welcome to hannity. early voting is under way ahead of next thursday's runoff. we'll get newt gingrich's take on it. plus, stunning new scenes out of china. look at that. protesters now taking to the streets against the country's oppressive communistic dictatorship risking life and limb. some echoing patrick henry's give me liberty or give me death. joe biden, of course, missing in action, nowhere to be found, not standing up for the freedom fighters in china. the self-proclaimed defender of democracy, he can't be bothered to weigh in. now we're seeing a similar level of moral cowardice when it comes to iran. iranians have been protesting. a video for months a woman was murdered for not properly wearing her head scarf. but joe biden, great champion of women's rights, doesn't seem to care. the u.n. is speaking out against the mullahs but not joe biden. now eastern europe is supplying them with weapons and ammunition. speaking out against the anti-war movement growing inside of vladimir putin's russia. tonight we have a moment in history where the new axis of evil, china, russia, iran, are all facing serious crises from within, and biden, early silent. no tear down this wall moment from joe biden. no powerful speeches about liberty and justice abroad and freedom. not even a kind word here or there for those risking their lives in the name of liberty. why is that? for starters, joe biden wants something from each one of these tyrannical governments. that means he's weak. that means he's allowed himself and our country to be unnecessarily compromised because of his mysterious reluctance and resistance to getting our own energy here domestically. by the way, we have a trade deals when you wanted the iranian pact, why, so we can make the mullahs in iraq rich again. so perfectly normal, i guess, to wonder if bide b's family syndicate and shady international business deals are playing a role. make no mistake, when joe bide b wants something, his deeply held principles, his morals, they go right out the window. he accused -- remember, the saudi arabian crown prince of murdering a journalist and vowed to treat the kingdom like a pariah nation. but then gas prices went up. and biden travelled all the way to saudi arabia. got on his hands and knees to beg mbs to pump more oil. by the way, they said no. and even worse, biden asked the judge to grant the saudi crown prince legal immunity. not only did they deny the request to increase output, they decreased output and then they told the american people the truth. joe asked them to withhold that announcement until the midterm election. oh, that would be a quid and a pro and a quo. now he's given mbs immunity. saudi arabia is considering to increase the oil production. not a quid pro quo if you're a democrat and joe biden. not only saudi arabia. breaking this weekend, biden lifted sapgss on venezuela and granted energy giant chevron permission to restart oil production inside the murdering dictator thug meduro's socialist hell hole. whether it's opec, saudi arabia, or venezuela, joe wants deals with america's enemies, brutal dictatorships that murder opponents, shun all human rights, all decency in the civilized world. by the way, the producers of the dirtiest oil, gas, and energy on the planet. joe biden, think about this. kills the keystone xl pipeline, restricts all domestic drilling permits. blocks oil explorations on federal lands, kills the anwar deal in the name of the environment but now expanding oil production in saudi arabia, venezuela, and probably eventually iran. these are countries with dreadful environmental track records and today our very own peter doocy, he asked the question about this very issue. take a look. >> from the sngss for venezuela, why is it that president biden would rather let u.s. companies drill for oil in venezuela than here in the u.s. >> that's -- that's not an accurate take on the president's view. >> earlier this month, no more drilling. there is no more drilling. does the president think there's some benefit to the climate to drill oil in venezuela and not here? >> it has nothing to do with the benefit of the climate, peter. >> sean: tell many the difference, the impact on mother earth if you drill here or anywhere else. he's about right. it's not about the environment. joe biden doesn't really care about climate change. he's not the champion of human rights and democracy he claims to be. doesn't value high-paying blue collar american jobs. he's compromising our national security, abandoning high-paying career jobs in the energy sector. he's calling all of us to pay higher costs to fill our gas tanks. wait until you get your heating bill this winter, going to be much higher than it used to be. this is a massive cause of our record high inflation. now it all connects together. and sadly, nothing means anything to biden who really only cares about politics. and like every other slimy politician, he's just kind of lying his way around life. so, tonight, if you really are worried about the climate, you're worried about pollution. if you care about mother earth, you might want to re-examine your support for joe biden because his policies have actually increased pollution. we do it cleaner, we do it faster, we do it cheaper. for example, drilling for oil in venezuela and in the middle east is far worse for the climate than producing it here at home. transporting that oil and gas on ships and trains is worse for the environment than pumping it through the keystone xl pipeline. 900,000 barrels of canadian oil a day if we finish it. we could have finished it a year ago. signing on to that ridiculous paris climate accord, that gives china and india a free pass to pollute pretty much as much as they want. because while we're paying billions of dollars, those countries are classified as developing nations and they do absolutely nothing to improve the environment or our economy and we're bearing the brunt. we happen to be doing it cleaner than everybody. as we speak, this country is barreling toward a period of economic doom, inflation remains at a four-decade high. two-thirds of the american people are living paycheck to paycheck. interest rates continue to climb. 401(k)s are tanking. now, as we've been predicting, home values are beginning their collapse. so, are we on the verge of very deep recession with no soft landing in sight? or is something even maybe worse? i hope not. here with the latest, the host of an upcoming fox business town hall on small business survivors on these troubled economic times. charles payne is with us. i've never been able to get an answer to this question -- we have more natural gas, oil, coal, than we could use up in a couple hundred years. so, we could be energy independent. we've proven we can be energy independent. two years ago, we were energy independent. >> right. right. >> we do it cleaner, cheaper, faster. why would joe go to america's hostile regimes, enemies of this country, beg them and help to make them rich and cause us to pay more and, by the way, their methods are far less cleaner than ours. can you explain the impact on mother earth? >> well, you know, sean, i thought about that so many time. the low-hanging fruit part of the answer is the war on fossil fuels, how evil it is. we've been indotrinated in this over the last couple of decades to movies. you turn on a faucet. fire comes out instead of water. and you know how fracking became a four-letter word in this country for a long time, even though it created energy independence that you described, created an amazing number of jobs, revitalized small or rural towns seen as enemy no. 1 by folks who don't care, they fly around in private jets and live in ivory towers for real. it's all for them theoretical. it's all ideological. they'll call an uber four or five times in one evening to go to one restaurant and another one for dessert. they're in a different world. and for some reason, anyone who puts john kerry in front of an issue like this tells you what you need to see. i worry about the other part of this. the disdain for america who benefit, the people who work in that industry, the states that benefit. i hate to say it, i believe that plays a big role on why you would rather give this to a dictator. you know next month will mark the 23rd anniversary, 19 9 when venezuela voted for socialism. they say you can only vote for it once, right? it's gotten prohibitively worse. they used to produce 3 million barrels of oil a day. they're down to up 00,000. they need america to come in there, chevron to come in there. they need to come in there with their tools and expertise. it does nothing for america. to your point, this is dirty oil. one other part of your story, i don't think, is getting enough attention. this administration is not guyana, one of our key allies in the region from getting a major grant. they have 11 billion barrels of proven oil, significantly cleaner than venezuela. we won't give them the money because they won't fund fossil fuels. not even in this country, but small countries that are desperate for financial independence, we won't help them either. >> sean: let me go to why would joe biden make venezuela rich again? just for background, there are the organization of american states, 50 other countries, including the u.s., we don't even recognize meduro as the legitimate president of venezuela. i don't know why we would go into business with him. this is a guy that shuts down all opposition. he shut down 115 media outlets, 41 printout lets, 65 television outlets. this is a guy according to the oas -- the organization of american states has been killing people by the hundreds. and putting people in jail for no reason at all. this is a guy that our very own doj charged with drug trafficking. bill barr called him a narco terrorist. and the people there are starving. why would joe biden work hard to make venezuela and meduro a murdering thug dictator drug trafficker human rights abuser rich? >> it's heart breaking to think that he's picking all of that that you just described over folks in north dakota, folks in texas, folks in oklahoma. he's made a choice. that's his choice. >> well, i mean, it's -- it's not the best we can do. but if we can't get the fundamental answer to why -- how is the environment any better off when you drill in these countries that hate our guts versus producing it domestically. i'll never get a good answer out of that. charles grain, great to see -- >> dirty, heavy oil, takes forever to refine it. it's ridiculous, sean. a travesty. >> sean: wait until everyone gets their heating bill. charles paib, thanks for being with us. eight days from the all important georgia runoff, the race is neck-and-neck. a brand new ad, the walker campaign is doing something that the liberal media will never do and that is vetting rafael warnock. take a look -- >> character is what you do when nobody is watching. >> mm-hmm. and warnock thought no one was watching when his ex-wife called police to report abuse. >> he's a great actor. >> warnock thought no one was watching when he evicted poor people from their homes. >> here with reaction, fox news contributor, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. you raised a question. we talked about it twice. but i want to look at your question differently at this point. that is, you -- you feel after the midterm you have to rethink every election model you have believed in in your entire political career. and as a great historian. my question is, my only fear about georgia is not that herschel can't win, i think he can. the question is, whether republicans that have been reticent to buy into early voting and mail-in voting, are they going to continue to allow the democrats to rack up these early voting lead numbers? and mathematically, almost make it impossible for somebody to come back. if you can't change the system, don't you have to eventually buy into it and do it better than they're doing? >> i would say based on the early voting we saw on saturday, that republicans were turning out at least as much as democrats, a huge turnout state-wide in the counties that had begun voting that early. and i think for a couple of reasons. one is that you have the most powerful and most popular politician in the state, governor brian kemp, has thrown his weight into the race on behalf of herschel. and i think he's mobilizing the thousands and thousands of georgians who had voted for him and skipped the senate race. second, georgia, this saturday, will be the super bowl and will be in the sec's championship game. the last time georgia was undefeated for the entire regular season, herschel walker was playing at georgia. so, i think he has what vince dooley had which just as he passed away endorsing herschel, i think herschel has an emotional pull for a lot of georgia yap -- georgians. third, republicans are realizing being 50-50 is different than 50-49. at 50-50, you have power sharing in every single committee. at 51-49, the democrats control every single committee. this is a big race. and i think georgians are beginning to respond to the idea they don't want warnock, a hard left, big tax increase, beyond joe biden, frankly, beyond bernie, really socialist kind of guy -- they don't want warnock being the deciding vote in the u.s. senate. and i think you're going to see herschel do very well. i do think you're going to see a lot of republicans turn out before election day. >> sean: if herschel runs, tell me if you think i'm wrong, i think the odds that joe man chin switching parties is far greater than it's ever been for this reason -- when he's going against the administration, ending the administrative filibuster and going against chuck schumer, the approval rating was in the 70s. since he went along with the inflation reduction act, it's in the 30s. what's interesting, he was promised a pipeline if he would go along with schumer and biden. after he went along with that deal, they didn't give him the pipeline and they're not giving him the pipeline. and joe biden, just before november 8, made the comments about eliminating all coal-fired power plants and ending all drilling in america completely. that would destroy the economy of west virginia. if herschel won, would that give an opportunity? would it be a possibility that joe manchin said i've had it. you broke your word and promise to not only me but the people of my state? i'm out of here. >> it's clearly possible that manchin at that point can decide to switch parties and join the republicans. he -- if, in fact, warnock wins, they won't need manchin. they'll be able to govern at 50-50 with manchin voting no and kamala harris will be the tie-breaking vote. but if herschel wins, then all of a sudden, i think once again, you have enormous power in manchin. he's got to decide, does he want to go back home and run for re-election? and in which case he would be vastly better off as a republican. i doubt if he could win as a democrat in west virginia because it's so alien ated by the left wing radical anti-fossil fuels policy. of the biden administration. and the cultural wokeness which is very, very opposite of the values of the people of west virginia. >> explain to me why biden is allowing a country that we the united states don't even recognize as a duly elected president, why would he make a deal with maduro for energy when we have more than they do and we can produce it cleaner, cheaper, faster here. why would he look at another -- why would he give immunity to mbs who he called a murderer. why do we talk to the iranians we don't need their oil and gas or any. why would he make enemy countries rich when we could make america rich and also help out our allies in western europe. >> in 1984, the republican national convention, jeanne kirkpatrick gave an amazing speech in which he talked about the democrats as blame america first. went through a series of things and said in every case, we blame america first. the evolution of the democratic party towards the new -- i say two wings, "weird and insane," and that evolution has led the democrats to undermine america first. so when we have a choice in the policy that would strengthen america or undermine america, they pick undermine. so, you could pump oil, as you point out -- you can get oil and gas out of western pennsylvania, eastern ohio, west virginia, north dakota, oklahoma, texas, louisiana. all across the country. or, you could rip off the american industry, lay people off, cripple us as a country. and buy it from dictators around the world. you -- you know, the logical rational explanation is biden and the weird and insane wings of the democratic party believe that undermining america is the best thing in the human race than a weak america, a helpless america is better than the human race. and they're better prepared -- if trump was for america first, they're for america last. and you're seeing it in all of these decisions. >> sean: wait until -- everybody going to see their heat heing bills, predictions of 20% to 30% increases and shortages that may result in blackouts in new england this winter. if that happens, that would be a disaster. newt gingrich, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. when we come back, anti-covid lockdown protests are sweeping through china as president xi in trouble and the administration has a predictably weak response. we'll show you. and fauci's failures are going to come to light. we'll put it together for clay travis and dr. nicole sapphire, straight ahead.