use his pocket knife, free the kid from his seat belt, credits his quick response to instincts. logan simmons, you are our midnight hero. most rods, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."we we are live from south korea. just behind us is the dmz. the demilitarized zone. that's the barrier that separates this country, south korea, from the dictatorship from north korea run by kim jong-un. we interviewed the president ahead of the g20 summit, without that was the end we will have an interview in a of the time for us. few moments. the president invited us to come with him here to the most heavily defended border and we excepted of course, and we were privileged of course, to be a witness to history.

the president turned out to be what was a momentous meeting with kim jong un. the first american president to set foot in north korea. he walked with kim alone across the border between the two countries, we stood a few feet away, then walked back and held a press conference standing in the middle-of-the-road. weere there. it has implications much more broad, though, then the pictures i came back. a few months ago, the president had a so much with kim in hanois efforts to denuclearize the north korean peninsula looked dead. in just a moment, those hopes may have been revived. in any case, it was a remarkable scene, and we have pictures that we took there. here they are. >> tucker: we are in one of the strangest places in the world. behind me are two countries that could not be more different. here's the contrast.

on the left is south korea. you can see the flag flying white on the flight ball. to the right, less than half a mile, north korea. you can see it there. the red and blue flag of the dprk. that village right behind my right shoulder is fake. there are no inhabitants there, there is no floor in any of the buildings. it is purely a propaganda village designed to show the rest of the world that a standard of living in north korea is very high. no one is fooled by it. but you really are, right here, looking at the greatest divide on planet earth. on the left, one of the which is countries in the world, on the right, the single poorest. amazing. >> we are taping this live on tv. is that okay? >> tucker: standing on the north korean border, the

president, the south korean president, president moon, about to meet with the north korean leader. >> everyone needs to back up. >> tucker: north korean security behind me. most fearsome people i think i've ever seen. >> wait until they move. >> mr. president, how do you feel? >> i feel great. it's a great honor to be here. >> this is an expression of his willingness. >> thank you, everybody. >> tucker: that is unbelievable. before getting manhandled back there. sorry, got to watch this. >> is a great day for the world and it's an honor for me to be here. >> tucker: that was mind-blowing. [laughs] so the president walks across with kim jong un, stood right ih the middle of the street.

almost no one around, as you can see, the famous blue houses. kim was visibly winded from the probably 20-yard walk. looked bewildered, he a lot of cameras here going off in his face, probably 4 feet away from him. he seemed out of his element. you really felt like something amazing just happened. something just happened with north korean security. there are a lot of them. they appear to be military leaders, party leaders, and a lot of heavy body guards and some them really aggressive. a couple of them went after, we think, american journalists, got physical with them. our secret service responded dramatically and there wasdr a scuffle in very tight corridors on the way in, the conversation

between trump andnd kim. so kim just walked back into his country. these are the north korean security guards. they don't like being filmed. also traveling with kim was a pretty large contingent of photographers and cameramen. they set up ladders as kim came out and stood right in front of the american cameramen. our secret service tried to push them back and this man right here, it got intense. he doesn't want to be filmed. >> tucker: the most sinister group i've ever seen, ever. the bible tells us that blessed are the peacemakers but thats. rule holds no weight in the democratic party apparently. the many candidates running to replace the president in 2020 were not impressed with trump's

appearance at the dmz. like the rest of washington, they could talk tough knowing that their lives want to create any risk in any war that they started. they complained that protecting the world from nuclear devastation isn't worth shaking hands with a very bad man. >> despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this president, this country is no safer when it comes to north korea. >> i'm not quite sure why this president is so bent on elevating the profile of a dictator like kim jong un. >> we've seen a history here, especially in this case, where donald trump announces the summits and nothing really comes out of it. it's not as easy as just coming and bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door. >> i have no idea why he's shaking hands with a dictator. if you don't reward that kind of behavior with a visit to your country from the president of the united states. >> tucker: no w.a.r.? we don't getes to have a war?

the neocons went completely bonkers. over at msnbc, watch one of their analysts tell you that it's just immoral not to have a war. watch. >> it makes me want to puke. my visceral reaction, as an american who cares about human rights, the fact that donald trump is going out of his way to kiss up to this monster. >> tucker: you just heard from lawyers, journalists, and whatever category beta or workers in these days. what does someone who is commanded troops think of the presidents meeting? colonel douglas mcgregor is the author of the fantastic book "marching to victory," and he joins us tonight. colonel, thanks for coming on. so washington is not impressed by this preacher the rest of us be impressed? >> absolutely pray this to great courage on the part of the president but he knew in order to restart the process of denuclearization and

normalization, frankly, with north korea, that he had to make a grand gesture. so he did the thing that everyone least expected. he took the extra step. m he went forward to mr. kim. he knows that north korea is in ruins. north korea really is finished. it lags behind sub-saharan africa. north korea desperately needs help. things will fall apart over there in ways that we would rather not see. i'm sure that the president discussed this with president xi and president xi supported him. we do not want a war on the peninsula. under any circumstances. no one in northeast asia does. so president trump has the courage to step forward anddo me it clear that we will contribute to a peaceful outcome on the peninsula. >> tucker: so what will be the motive behind the statement you just saw? virtually everyone in washington was united ins saying it's immoral for the president to shake hands, to make physical contact with someone as evil as

kim jong un. that is in fact worse than the prospect of nuclear war. where does that attitude come from? >> clearly if you want to promote human rights, if you want to improve the position of the korean nation, remember we have 49 million koreans in south korea, 25 million in north korea. president moon really speaks for the majority of the korean nation. he wants the people in north korea to enjoy a better standard of living and a better life. he knows that once these two are in contact with each other that this regime as we've seen it over the last 30, 40, 50 years, simply want survive. i think washington takes the view that any change that disrupts the money flow, that changes the larger national security construct, that is the stationing of forces anywhere, anything that threatens that status quo is bad. president trump from the very beginning has been the greatest rupture.

fortunately for the american people, he is disruptive. he's going to produce peace in northeast asia, whether they neocons like it or not. >> tucker: you would really have to be stupid to want to preserve the status quo on the print korean peninsula, that is insane. what is the next step toward a permanent peace, toward reunification? >>o there's a couple of things that the president will want to do. the first of those is make an end of or declaration. remember the korean war has never ended. we have effectively a status quo which does not admit to peace. we take the position that the war is unending. so that has to stop. president xi wants an end to it. so does moon. so does mr. kim. when you do that, you take off the table, once and for all, the use of force, to change the status quo on the peninsula. that is very important to everyone. we don't want to do thato d. certainly mr. kim does not want to see his country liquidated.

not through military force. the second thing is, and i think president trump needs to turn the operational control of all the forces in south korea over to president moon and his generals. that is something that is long overdue. we should not be commandingg all of those forces. when that happens, that is a very powerful signal because it says that south korea is sovereign.ec the decisions will be made by the koreans, not ours. it is, after all, their country. it's not ours. >> tucker: that seems like something the president would be open to. if you are one of the very few people in washington who would say that, which is why we so enjoyed having you want. colonel, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: we noticed at the dmz meeting, because it was impossible not to notice, that kim jong un was breathing heavily and sweating after walking just a few yards across into south korea with the president. he's obviously overweight.

what does it suggest serious health concerns that will affecs international diplomacy? it's worth thinking about. dr. marc siegel is a fox to go contributor, we are happy to ouve them on tonight. doctor, it was clear, not sure if it came through in the pictures, a couple of feet away, right there from kim jong un, he was winded. he was breathing through a strw almost after walking probably 2. why? >> tucker, you describe that very accurately, for a nonphysician. i know you were 3 feet away from him, and the first thing i think of is something called obesity hyperventilate syndrome. someone who is obese and can't get enough air into their lungs and has a thick neck, with the fat in the neck suppresses breathing. in order to breathe, you breathe very rapidly, and you take shallow breaths, and you may have sleep apnea at night as well, which is another health condition. on top of that, we know he is a heavy smoker.

we know that as a heavy smoker, that can interfere with lungs. i don't know if he was audibly wheezing, because you said wheezing a few times but a wheezing sound like a whistle. so if he's audibly wheezing, that implies either asthma or emphysema. again, i don't know any of this for sure. even in his 30s, if you strain smoking asin long as he appareny has, he could have early emphysema, and on top of the obd be wheezing. interestingly enough, he travels with a portable toilet, right? that may be so foreign governments are not able to analyze what he's taking. is he on medication for his breathing problems? could he be on steroids, inhalers? all of which could impact how long he could stay in power and how long he stays healthy. if he is healthy. >> tucker: interesting. we should say that there is so much we don't know about kim jong un. we don't know his age, for example. he's either 35, wehe think, or , say the south koreans.

this is really a man, we don't know the name of his wife actually. could be a pseudonym. a lot of this is speculative. quickly, doctor, looking at him, would you be concerned if you were his physician? >> absolutely, tucker. he's deconditioned. the conditions i talk about all lead to fatigue and problems with sleeping and need for special machinery and sleeping. the smoking on top of the obesity and a thick neck all thy time will lead to major health issues. so if he keeps chain-smoking, he's going to have a big problem. i definitely would be concerned about his health based on what i have seen and what you have describedas over there as my assistant. >> tucker: i am hardly a physician but it was very, very, very noticeable. great to see you tonight. we are live from the dmz and south korea. remember, no matter how bad your day has been, you probably had more fun then one of kim jong un's bodyguards. they are a dour bunch to put it

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>> ♪ >> tucker: welcome back. just a few feet from the dmz, the demilitarized zone, right behind us, north korea. as the g20 summit in osaka, japan, showed, the korean peninsula is far from the only concern that the american t

president has about the rest of the world. china's rise, of course, is always first on that list. chief rival, the united states globally. the u.s. came within minutes of starting a war with iran two weeks ago. then in afghanistan, american troops are still dying 18 years after the fall of the taliban. we asked the president about all those things, in part one of our interview with him. here itta is. >> tucker: mr. president, thanks for this. >> president trump: thank you >> president trump: thank you. >> tucker: you just met with the chinese president, xi jingping. >> president trump: i did. pray >> tucker: you closer to a trade deal? >> president trump: we had a very good meeting. he wants to make a deal, i want to make a deal, the largest deal we've ever made, not only trade. we got along very well, we understand each other. he's going to start buying a lot of farm products, which is great for our farmers. it's why we negotiate. i'm going to not increase tariffs, which i could do, a lot we could do, we are going to put our teams together and continue a great negotiation. can do something that will be historic.

but we'll see.we we are going to see. i am in no rush. we have a situation that works very well for us and i'm sure he's happy. what we are going to do, theyy are going to buy a lot of farm product, they are not going to increase tariffs at this moment, and we'll see what happens with a negotiation. we had a very good meeting. >> tucker: do you think your political opponents of the u.s. are on your side in this negotiation? >> president trump: i think they are. i think they like the fact that i charged tariffs. look, china has been beating us badly for many years. president obama did nothing, or biden. i don't think i even have to say that anymore. they did nothing. neither did, and all fairness to president obama, nobody dead. it was crazy. we had a deficit last year of $506 billion -- billion with a b. you mean 500 million? no, $506 billion. this has been going on for years and years. we rebel china, we give them a

lot of credit. i don't does credit them for what happened. iha discredit our people that should have been doing what i'm doing right now. it is not pleasant. our farmers have been incredible. great patriots.in it's going to pay off big for our farmers. >> tucker: you can very close to sending the u.s. military to strike around. you pulled back at the lastng moment. you were criticized byar neocons in washington for doing that. they wanted you to strike iran. why do you think -- >> president trump: i was given a lot of credit by most people prayed >> tucker: republicans were on your side. >> president trump: a lot of people so that was a great presidential moment, which was rather shocking to hear. so we shut down down and unmand drone. they claim it was over their territory, which it wasn't, but they would say that braid on top of it, they all unmanned end over their territory, and we go in. before we sent them out, they had to give me everything i needed to know by 7:00 by they walked in, gave me anything, but they did not tell me how many

people died. i know a lot of iranians from new york city, they are great people. all great people. we are all great, right? iranian are not. how many people are going to die? they said, i believe it's 150. i said, they shot down and unmanned -- not a brand-new, exactly, thing either, the drone. they shot it down and we are going to now kill 150 or many more people, you never know once you start doing what we do, what they. do, and nobody does it better than us. b you you are not harm the peoplee going to die. i said, i don't like it, and -- we did not send it out. there was incorrect reporting. it was like we sent it out but we didn't. i made the final decision not to do it. i built up a lot of great capital and if something should happen, we are in a position to do far worse by not doing it. hopefully we don't have to do anything. iran now, since we terminated the horrible deal -- you and i aren't so different in terms of

fighting, we want to have peace, we want to build our roads and our schools and build other things we want to build -- but we can't let iran have a nuclear weapon. you may even agree on that because i know where you stand. the show was great. i watch it a lot. but you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon. you can't let a search in other countries weapons. too devastating. they are having a lot of difficulty in their country heright now. hopefully at some point they'll come back and say, we got to make a deal. see what happens. >> tucker: two american servicemen killed in afghanistan this week. how much longer do you think our troops will stay? >> president trump: i will tell you. i wanted to pull them out -- yoe know i have pulled a lot out. we were at 16,000, down to about 9,000. a lot of people don't know that. in syria, as you know, i fold most of them out. we defeated the caliphate. when you say caliphate and defeat, the caliphate is a land, an area, we've taken back 100%. but these people, isis, they are

stone cold crazy. so that does not mean somebody'% going to walk into a store and follow up a store, which theysn do. i never say defeated them but they were decimated. this went on for a long time. other people did not do what i did. we did it very effectively. our military -- in a military like our military in the world. i don't want to have to use itk very often but we took back the caliphate. with afghanistan, it's 19 years. we should not have been there 19 years, and if we were, it would be nice to fight to win. 19 years, they are building hotels -- we are. we had a holiday in that cost numbers that would be ten times what it should have cost. they built a gas station, pretty famous deal, it cost $80 million to build a gast station. >> tucker: that's a lot for a gas station. >> president trump: may be more.re if they were port 80, means mor. we had the greatest five years in the world but when you are 19

years, you're becoming a police force. so we have pulled her back. we are actually negotiating with various people. but we want to get out, we want to get out of a lot of areas that we should not be there. we should not be there. we are the policemen for the whole world. if you look at russia, russia does not police the world, they police russia. you look at china, they don't police -- they don't have troopo everywhere. what they have is they have people taking minerals out of the ground. they don't have troops. we have a case in afghanistan where we have troops on -- a very mountainous country, rough country, beautiful country in a lot of ways -- we have troops, and other other mounted ridge, china is there with fake excavating equipment taking out minerals. it's pretty dangerous for them because their people tend to be shot as they are operating the machines. not exactly the safest place. we reduce the force very substantially in afghanistan, which i don't talk about very much and that's okay. >> tucker: could you see

getting out entirely? >> president trump: the problem -- i would like to just get out. the problem is, it just seems to be a lab for terrorists. i call at the harvard of terrorists. when you look at the world trade center, they were trained. they didn't, by the way, they attacked the wrong country. they did not come from a rack, they came from various other countries.co but they all formed in afghanistan. it's probably because it's atro the base of so many countries. but they all formed, and it's rough, mountains, get a lot of good hiding places. i would leave very strong intelligence there. you have to watch. because they do, you know, okay, i'll give you a tough one. if you were in my position, and a great looking central casting, great general, central casting general walks up to your office and i say, we are getting out. yes, sir, yes, sir. i said, what you think about

that? sir, i'd rather attack them over there than attack them in our land. in other words, them coming. i said, it's a very tough decision, what happened with the world trade center, et cetera, et cetera.e when they say that, you know, no matter how you feel -- and you and i feel pretty much very similar -- but when you are standing there, you have someen really talented military people saying i would rather attack them over there, then have them hit us over here and fight them on our land, it is something you always have to think about. now i would leave -- we will be leaving very strong intelligence, far more than you would normally think, which is very important. we can do it that way, too. but we have reduced the forces very substantially in afghanistan. >> tucker: just hours after f our interview with the president of thehe pentagon announced that yet another american soldier has died in afghanistan. his name is green beret medical sergeant robbins. we don't have more details.

we do know he is the 11th american soldier to die in afghanistan just this year. we talked to the president about a lot more than foreign policy. when we come back, we'll ask the president about the homelessness epidemic in united states, contrasting that with asia, which does not have the problem. the threat that big tech poses to your basic freedoms as americans.. that is next. we are live from paju, south korea. we want to show you a picture. this is one of kim jong un's bodyguards. i took pictures of a bunch of them with my iphone. their phases are fascinating. they did not like being photographed. i thought it was worth preserving. we'll be right back. ♪ petsmart's celebrating the fourth, with great deals like...

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reelection campaign. the slogan "keep america great." great or not, america has quite a few problems. homelessness is a huge one, the opioid academic, and big tech come of this regulation of our basic freedoms. the president will have to address those problems if he wants to win reelection. we ask them about all of them in part to grow of our watch this. >> tucker: google, by some measures, some of the most powerful corporations in the world. they are against you. they don't want to be elected. can you get reelected if google is against you? >> president trump: i've beenga hearing that about google and facebook and twitter. i won.ac they were totally against me. i won. hillary clinton -- >> tucker: they didn't think you are going to win. >> president trump: theyn? fought me very hard. they are fighting hard right now. it's incredible because i think the democrats want to shut them up and frankly, so do a lot of the republicans want to shut them up. if you look at twitter, i have millions and millions of people on twitter, and it's a very good

arm for me, great social media. what they don't treat me right. i know for a fact, a lot lot of people try and follow me and it's very hard. i have some new people coming up to me, saying, sir, they make it hard to follow. what they are doing is wrong and possibly illegal. a lot of things are being looked at right now. if you are right, google is very powerful. but i won. april mike just came out today, 54 or 55, and they do say you can add 10 to whatever poll you have. i never get good press. i used to get the best price in the world, if you remember the old days, i used to get great press. because of what i stand for, represent, and nobody's ever had -- i think 93%, 93% -- i'm talking about series that should be good or make them bad or should be great and they make them neutral. and yet i won. i will win again. when they say it is the most powerful, it may be but they were against me, facebook was

against me. they were all against me. twitter was against me. twitter -- i did very good for thtwitter. i don't think twitter would be the same with without what i do on twitter. they just have this crazy disposition, they have this philosophy, and yet the democrats are very much opposed to them in so many ways. it sort of an amazing thing. >> tucker: you just said that with t the tech companies areh doing may be illegal. is there a role for the justice department and finding it out? >> president trump: there could be. i don't want to say whether. or not they are doing something. i will tell you, there are a lot of people that want us to part all you have to do is pick up the newspaper and read it or n e it or watch fox or some other network. there are a lot of people who want us to take action against facebook and twitter and frankly against amazon. amazon also. he a lot of people wanted to take action. >> tucker: are you going to? >> president trump: i can't say. >> tucker: you come to where we are now, osaka, tokyo, the cities are clean, there's no

graffiti, no one going to the bathroom on the street, you don't see -- >> president trump: very nice. >> tucker: very different from our cities. >> president trump: some of our cities. >> tucker: new york city, san francisco, los angeles, a major problem -- >> president trump: very sad, very sad. >> tucker: why is that? >> president trump: is a phenomena that started two years noago. it's just graceful. i am going to maybe -- i'm looking at a very seriously, doing some other i things, somef the very important things we're doing now -- but we are looking at a very seriously because you can't do that. youd. c can't have where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat. they are getting very sick. people are getting sick. the people living there are living in hell, too. although some of them have mental problems where they don't even know they are living that way. in fact perhaps they like living that way.th they can't do that. you cannot ruin our cities. youu have people that work in te

cities, they work and office buildings committed to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that no one really would've thought possible three years ago.is this is the liberal establishment. thist. is what i am fighting. i don't know if they are afraid of boats, i don't know if theyd really believe that they should be taking place. but as a terrible thing that is taking place. we may be -- you know, i had a situation when i first became president, we had certain areas of washington, d.c., where that was starting to happen. i ended very quickly. i said, you can't do that. when you have leaders of the world coming in to see the president of united states, riding down thent highway, they can't be looking at that. i really believe that it hurts our country. they can't be looking at scenes like easy in los angeles and san francisco. san francisco, i own property in san francisco so i don't care, except it was a beautiful, areas that are used to think as beingy special, you take a look at what is going on in san francisco, it's terrible. we are looking at a very

seriously. we may intercede. we may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. it's inappropriate.ri now, we have to take the people and do something. we have to do something. we are really not very equipped as a a government to be doing tt kind of work. that is not the kind of work that the government probably should be doing. have we ever had this in our lives before in our country? not only those cities, it's a couple of other cities. at the same time, most of our s cities are doing great. but if you look at some of these -- usually sanctuary cities run by very liberal people, and the states are run by very liberal people -- for the thing that nobody can figure out is, do these governors or mayors, do they really think this is a positive? do they really think it's okay? it's not.ei it's destroying their city. it's destroying a whole way of life. it's not our country. it's not what our country is all about. >> tucker: we have still more

of that interview with the president. we ask him later in that hour about ufos. we'll tell you what he said friday during a special edition of the show. but there's more going on inal e news. here in asia. beto o'rourke has also been outside of united states looking to drum up support for his campaign.am in mexico, amazingly. as we go to break, another still photograph taken on an iphone, one of kim jong un's bodyguards. quite a group. their faces tell you a lot. we'll be right back. ♪ so how was work?

sam: it was thirteen hundred hours. my math class, room 302, was in the trenches. davy roth had it the worst. fractions were coming at him left and right. he just didn't get the damn things. two days ago, i tried to teach him what 1/4 of 1/2 was using different sizes of blocks. yesterday, i tried again by dividing up pizza. both missions failed. rachel: oh no. sam: but today...i was ready. sam: i created a combat math game where the only way to beat the enemy is to out-fraction them. davy conquered every last denominator. my game was so successful, the principal is deploying it to math squadrons all over the school. rachel: wow! sam: anyhoo, how was your day?

rachel: oh, uhh... today my boss treated the office to salad wraps. sam: mmm, salad wraps. rachel: i know. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome back to "tucker carlson tonight." we are broadcasting live from the border between north and south korea on the dmz. the president met yesterday with the dictator of north korea. he became the first american president to n set foot on the soil of the dprk. but the president isn't the only american traveling abroad this summer, though. yesterday while the president was in korea, his would be replacement, beto o'rourke of texas, was campaigning for votes in mexico.ue true. he went to warez where he met migrants and said that, of course, america is to blame for all their problems. watch. >> we know that people are

losing their lives. they are no longer able to cross at points of entry, trying to cross in between points of entry. we have decided that that is what they are going to do come up with in precarious positions, we've caused this suffering. we also have the opportunity to make this better and make this right. >> tucker: so it's america's fault that you are breaking our laws. had moments you think, is beto o'rourke real or is this some kd of sophisticated parity? is he actually a right-winger doing a borat-style propaganda video, designed to undermine the left? that has to be the case. watch this. he went on to say that america must expect all migrants from everywhere in the world because we are responsible for global warming, all of it. watch this. >> we've got to remember that they are fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet today, compounded by

droughts that were caused, not by god, not by mother nature, but by us. man-made climate change, our emissions, our inactions in the face of the facts and assigns.g when it is that deadly and you are unable to grow your own food to feed yourself, you have no choice but to come here. >> tucker: is beto o'rourke for real? that is a question some people are asking! ethan bierman hosts left coast news. he joins us now! as a beto would say. great to see it. pretty close to that saying that there is no scientific evidence that report anything that is morert moron just said. is it legitimate for a presidential candidate to campaign for votes in a foreign country? >> he's not campaigning for votes in mexico. what he is doing is listening and learning, and attribute we should be celebrating to understand what is happening from the people who are actually coming here. he was right that these are the deadliest countries in the world we are talking d about.rl essentially failed governments

in el salvador, honduras, nicaragua, that need help, and mad made client climate changes contributed to the food insecurity that is happening. two-thirds of people are suffering from food insecurity in those countries which also causes people -- >> tucker: since we are getting todee root causes, it ws spain, colonial spain that sailed over to latin america, enslaved to the native population, and started a form of government have a culture that has been corrupt for 500 years now. why is that the fault of the united states? why does pain never get any of the well deserved credit for wrecking the entire region? that is my first question. youck know what the answer might be? >> i think it is interesting. some people to talk about spain. i would talk about the monroe doctrine is when the united states decided to get heavily involved in latin america. ever since then, it is our sphere of influence, close to our home, we have a responsibility to make sure for

our own national security, to help those countries out, our failed drug war have only contributed to these problems. there are issues and beto is right. >> tucker: is there anybody inam america -- we act like, it is so easy to fix guatemala. the guatemalans have been working on it for hundreds of years and have failed. who in america has the secret recipe, the formula come over fixing guatemala and honduras? who would that be? don't know that there is one individual. i guarantee if we got the right people together, actually -- >> tucker: what you are really saying -- >> combination of economic issues, combination of government functioning issues. i think with president trump, his example is meeting with kim jong un in the dmz, could bi an examp w c intervene in places that are in our own backyard and contributing to issues that we are so worried about, which as human beings fleeing violence

and food security for its me when intervening those in most countries it is what caused their problems. you are saying we need to interview more? i'm completely confused. you are saying in our intervention that it was not mismanagement locally, it wasn't spain, it was us, we need to battle more but you are not sure that is going to fix it. that seems to be the argument. >> let's look at things like economico incentives, look at things like ecotourism, let's help them rebuild their own economy, and put incentives inen place to ensure good government, governance, along with our reformation of the failed drugf war, to defund the cartel. economic sanctions -- we could use the banking sector like we are doing with iran of north korea against the cartels. we are not doing that now, tucker. we sure could. >> tucker: ear thing bierman, great to see you tonight. >> thanks. ♪

>> tucker: there are a growing number of studies that show pretty conclusively that n social media are making americans lives much worse. facebook and other tech companies are getting richer for med. they seize her personal information and spy on you. in return, your savior product that makes you lonely and less happy. suicide raking as an assault. most americans don't quit using social media because they are addicted. they are addicted because they are designed to be addictive, just like cigarettes.d is there a way out? larry singer thought a lot aboui this. he thought up wikipedia, the cofounder of wikipedia. he's chief information officer at everpedia. he's calling on americans to go on strike against social media this week. tell us what you are proposing. >> i'm proposing a global, nonideological strike that could

end up being the biggest strike in history in objection to our treatment at the hands of the social media giants. so i think this is -- >> tucker: amen. >> a horrible problem. basically the root problem that i see is that they have collected all of our data in silos that they control. so facebook has a silo, twitter has a silo, instagram, and so forth. they can't talk with each other, right? and they act like the data that they hold onto it as there is. that is the root problem. that generates a whole bunch of other problems. for example, as you said, they psell our data to the highest bidder. what makes that possible is that the data is not encrypted.

they don't wanted to be encrypted because then it would actually be able to -- they would not be able to use it. so -- >> tucker: i want to get to the action part. we don't have a ton of time. i want our viewers to understand how they could -- a lot of people are very frustrated with the powerlessness they feel in the face of these massive teche. companies. if you are watching this show right now, what can you do to express your displeasure? >> okay, get ready. july 4th and july 5th, what i want you to do is to not participate in any of the big socialized social media companies, almost to share your displeasure, to say that you are on strike to encourage your friends to do the same, and also signed the declaration of digital independence. it is something that i have

written that explains the problems and lays out a solution according to which we own our own data and we contribute to a common pool. it tears down the silos and makes it possible for different apps to talk to each other. >> tucker: disempower some of the worst people in america. thank you for this. i really hope this makes a difference. >> thank you. are you going to strike? >> tucker: of course. i'm already on strike. [laughs] i don't use social media. [laughs] good to see you, larry prayed for years, antifa has literally rioted in the streets and her people. the left ignores them are cheers them on, literally, on cnn, they cheer them on. now they nearly murdered aey journalist of the weekend. a that journalist has just gotten out of thehe hospital and joinss next. you suspect ntp would be less

brave if instead of attacking arm journalist they took down members of kim jong un's security detail. they were all armed. we are alive tonight from the north korean border. we'll be back. ♪ petsmart's celebrating the fourth, with great deals like...

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♪ >> tucker: andy ngo pacific journalist from the northwest, covering antifa quite a bit.o he was at an antifa rally over

the weekend minding his own business covering the news. n he is a journalist. when he was beaten almost to death by antifa. wound up in the hospital. he just got out and joins us on the program. andy, i am glad that you are capable of doing the interview. tell us what happened. >> on saturday, i was at a protest organized by antifa allies, we were a stone's throw away from portland's most important institutions of the rule of law, the court houses, the sheriff's office, thetu central police precinct while hearing people chant "no hate, no fear." i am suddenly bashed on the back of my head from behind. and from there, i am a very passive person, i have never been in a fight, it took me a few seconds to realize that ii was actually even hit in my head when i realized what was happening, it was too late.

the mob of people all dressed iw black and wearing masks started beating me with their fists. and some of them used objects to hit me. i don't know how many people were involved. it seemed like 5, 10, 15, or 20. it could've been that many. they beat me so much that i lost control of my gopro camera that it was holding which was then stolen from me, and when i thought it was over, i was wrong, i put my arms up to try to shield my face as well as to signal to them that i was surrendering, and that i was not there to fight, but it really signaled to them to be more aggressive, so than they started dumping what i believe were milk shakes, and eggs, throwing it at my face. which blinded me so that i could not see. and i was kicked some more, punched some more.

and all this time i kept thinking, where are the police? i could still see the county justice center in front of me, but no police ever arrived. i eventually stumbled away, bleeding. across the park, and i lost my balance, so i sat down on the ground in front of the courthouse and from there, a medic s.w.a.t. team informed me that in order to get in anhe ambulance to be taken to a hospital, i would have to walk to the police precinct, in other words, walk back in the direction of the demonstrators who just attacked me. later that night after arriving in the emergency room, i had a ct scan that confirmed that i was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage.t >> tucker: from which you are suffering neurological damage.

to remind our viewers. this is a group that cnn's prime time anchors have defended and promoted. i saw that andrew yang, who is running for president as a democrat, attacked antifa forer their spirit. have you received any support from any other democratic officeholders in portland or nationally? o >> not that i know of. >> tucker: not that i know of. what? that tells you everything. and we are happy that you are at least capable of joining us tonight. it is a shocking story. an enraging story. we wish you the best on your recovery and we hope you will come back. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: shocking. we bid you farewell tonight from the north korean border with one more look at those north korean bodyguards. they really were remarkable. they tell you everything. that man, in particular, he was not a fan. [laughs] that is it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow night

8:00 p.m., the show that it is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. good night from korea, sean hannity is next. jason chaffetz is in for sean tonight. why from new york city. hey, jason. >> jason: hey, tucker, thank you for the report. welcome to "hannity," i am jason chaffetz in tonight for sean, and inspector general michael horwitz is nearing the end of his investigation into fisa abuse. in just a few short weeks, the truth will be revealed in deep state corruption will beor exposed. congressman john ratcliffe was recently briefed by horowitz on the investigation and coming up, the congressman will be here to give us a preview on the upcoming events. keep in mind, there are multiple ongoing probes into rampant corruption, misconduct, leaking, political bias, all while james comey was heading up the fbi. yet in a recent cnn town hall,