>> martha: that is "the story" up this tuesday may 26, 2020. as always, say 25 continues and we will be right back here tomorrow night at seven. tucker carlson is up next, we will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have stunning new dude details for you on that horrifying nursing moment attack in detroit that we showed you on friday night. the story is even worse than realized. it turns out an executive order from governor gretchen whitmore may have played a role in what you saw. first of all, happy memorial day weekend. it's possible you may have spent months trapped indoors per government orders.

it's essential that all of it is needed and that nature's medicine. happy balanced people understand that intuitively. it's too late for a lot of people at cnn. they haven't even been trapped inside for months. for reasons that no one has ever really explained, cable news the operators have been classified as essential workers from the very first day. they didn't lose their jobs, and if anything they are thriving in the midst of this disaster. they feel more essential than they ever have and were suffering has been the best thing to that has happened to them since impeachment. when they got to spend a full month pretending to know where ukraine was. so the fact that you disobeyed them drive them insane. here's cnn.

>> these are not the images that health officials were hoping to see this memorial day, day, partygoers ignoring social distancing rules and packed this pool in missouri over the weekend. >> beaches, boardwalks and pools packed with many people are not wearing masks and not socially distancing. even health experts warned that if they don't social distance there will be a spike in coronavirus cases within the next two weeks. but the question about masks, take a look. there isn't a single person on this beach wearing one. >> crowded vacationers on the boardwalk in ocean city, maryland, and at myrtle beach, south carolina. >> even as states start to reopen, i don't even like the term reopening because it symbolizes the floodgates being opened. >> this being cnn, a lot of people don't actually hear any of that.

and that's where the network tracks the bulk of his audience. producers thought of that though, they made sure to reinforce their message with graphics on the screen. crowds across the u.s. ignored guidelines, spearing fears have spread it. memorial day crowds sparked the fear of new outbreaks. the death toll nears 100,000. you should be terrified so no explanation was necessary. over on msnbc, the usual retired collection of cia analyst was terrified. they fear that somewhere out there in america there might still be people who believe in more than shopping in vacations. horrifying. it's possible they fetter that people like this, dangerous

religious extremists might somehow find each other and come together and pray. but play to something called god and that cannot be allowed. >> of the virus is not religious, it won't respond to prayer i'm afraid. he loves congregations. >> aggressive defiance in some instances, and they have similarly hatched their fortune to science and data. >> regardless of how that plays out to church and state, and that's what public health experts continue to advise that this is not a time to become complacent. >> tucker: there you have it, jeb bush's dimwitted spokeswoman

is now rebranded as an eminent epidemiologist, and that puts those lockdown orders in place based on "science and data. okay, we will take the challenge. what science and data are you talking about exactly. we will wait as we rifle through your papers and abstracts, which could take a while because in fact there is still no science or data at all, after two months of those lockdown's. sorry, but states that lockdown early and aggressively are no better off today on average. there is science and data that going outside is vital to your health and has been for 100 years.

this makes you healthier and less vulnerable to coronavirus. the virus also spreads far less easy easily outdoors than a dozen doors. in fact it's the largest study of the subject ever done, took a look at 318 coronavirus. they found that 317 out of 318 clusters and 99.7%, the infection spread indoors. not outdoors, indoors. and indoors is where science and data in dr. msnbc remarked on my consists you must remain. so, they are peddling panic and reckless moral judgment and it's having an awful effect on the country.

and here, one woman attacks other customers were not wearing a mask. >> get out! >> [bleep] >> get out. >> tucker: you hate to see americans treating each other like that. but multiply what you just saw by another country you get a sense of what a relentless flow of lives. it's a new survey by the census bureau that found that more than one-third of all americans now show signs of anxiety, depression or both. you would think the most fearful people would be the ones most at risk and that's people over 80. but just the opposite turned out to be true. younger people are more miserable. the younger, the more miserable. the most miserable group of all our americans under 30 and that group if you look at science and data face virtually no risk of

dying from the virus. none. the people on television have lied to them and it's working their lives. meanwhile the people on television themselves are just fine, they don't seem afraid. andrew cuomo's brother worked at cnn and he had the virus a while back. didn't bother to quarantine when he had it. he drove to his second home and wandered around with no mask on. in michigan over the past weekend, governor gretchen whitmer's husband decided to violate his own wife's orders by traveling across the state to use his bo boat. hey, it's memorial day. when the marina told him they could not put boat in the water, he let them know that his wife was governor. he got caught of course. and when confronted at first, governor whitmer tried to claim it never would have been. she dismissed the whole thing as an internet hoax. now she saying it was all some

kind of joke. if they think up their own prescriptions for you, and you want to know what all the huffing and puffing and moralizing and judging you israel, watch this clip. it's from msnbc. >> are the people they are just not worried about it? are they not worried about their own personal safety? >> nobody is wearing them, including the government. >> striking images. >> tucker: busted. busted. turns around to hassle some guy in a packard jersey. look at that guy, he's not wearing a mask. the guy in the packers jersey calls him out and says that that guy isn't wearing a mask, demo. the next time they tell you you

are immoral, laura logan hosts laura logan. you've been on television and a very long time and so you know this. but if you say something on tv and people take it seriously and is amplified by the medium itself, you have to work to be responsible and fact-based in the claims that you make, don't you think? >> i do think so. i start with something much more basic even than that which is how about just doing your job as a journalist. so one of the things we have to do is look at the whole context of something. if you selectively take one piece of the story, and you only focus on that, what else are you leaving out? some of the things that you mention, there's much more as well. no one is talking anymore, preventing one cobit death does not mean that you are not

causing a whole lot of other covid-19 death. doctors who specialize and cancel cancer are talking about all the patients who are not being diagnosed, not getting surgery and not getting treatment. i spoke to a cardiologist today and all of them said if patients are dying at home were too afraid to come to the hospital. that's a direct consequence. that's when you are isolated at home, people believe they will die if they go to the hospital. if you are looking at mood elevating jobs, and everyone is talking about the fact that suicide rates are up. but you don't see as many headlines about that as you do on television. and one of the most significant things that so many doctors and nurses and health care professionals have said to me, we are not talking about the devastation that the lockdowns

are doing to the health care system itself. i find it extraordinary that people are talking about a second wave and the danger of what happens in the fall but yet no one is talking about the fact that you are decimating the health care system. hospitals are laying off nurses, laying off doctors and not contributing to 401(k)s. at the same time you have all of these illnesses that people have which are not being treated which are just backing up. so there is a fallacy here that seems to define the press coverage which is, if you don't prevent every single covid death somehow you are a mass murderer and an irresponsible human being and that's just not true. or that you don't care about your personal safety. we know longer talk about herd immunity, we talk about it every day, that is viruses replicate they weaken. as we head into the fall and the summer where virus is as you point out, they don't survive as

long in the sunshine. every virus is like that and doctors talk about it constant constantly. when i -- the disease that killed almost 100% didn't last very long in the sun. that's a full context. >> tucker: that such a smart point and they are cherry cherry picking facts in order to forward an agenda. laura logan, thank you so much. i appreciate it. for years now if you watched, you know this. the primary agenda has not been reporting the news, that's obvious. it's dividing america, finding new and inventive ways to split the population into tiny little categories by skin color, nationality, sacks, political party. coronavirus has given new

opportunities to do this. not just cnn but all the media outlets that function. coronavirus is significantly more deadly for men than it is for women and that is science. maybe it shouldn't be a surpri surprise. a lot of them are likely to kill them. the fact of it wouldn't do because it didn't divide people. this is a verbatim quote. the novel coronavirus seems to be more deadly for men. in many other ways, women are bearing the brunt of this pandemic. the majority of health workers are women.

probably your sexism. that's not reporting. that's an effort to divide the population to keep you afraid and bewildered so they can do what they will, just so you know. democrats are using this crisis to try to impose something called mail in voting, ballot harvesting nationwide. the claimant safe because voter fraud doesn't happen. you've heard trusted newsmen make that claim. that's a lie. plus, we will talk to the owner of a new martial arts academy any more york who plans to defy the governor by starting classes tomorrow. that's just ahead.

>> tucker: a lot of people in this country have been suffering through this pandemic but many of our most ambitious politicians have treated the disaster as a massive opportunity. that's massive censorship. they claim to do that by enacting nationwide mail-in voting. earlier today the president tweeted this about universal mail-in voting. "there is no way that mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. boxes will be robbed, and illegally printed out and signed. the governor is sending them out to millions of people and anyone living in the state will come like will get one. how and for whom to vote.

this will be a rigged election. now for the first time ever, twitter.com the company responded directly to one of the president's tweets. inserted a link below this one to declare authoritatively that the tweet was false. "get the facts about mail-in ballots. the user has taken to a twitter news page that mail-in voting will lead to voter fraud. that's the official story. voter fraud never happens no matter what and it definitely won't happen with mail-in voting. you are hearing trusted news anchors tell you that, a lot. and they say it like they know it. anyone who disagrees is a conspiracy about flat earth or is a freak. probably doesn't vaccinate his kid. that's a lie and we know it's alive because of fraud at mail-in voting already happens.

not speculating. do you have google? look it up. ballot harvesting is the problem. that's when the third-party collects and turns in ballots on behalf of another person. it's only possible with mail-in ballots. laws around ballot harvesting vary from state to state. it's currently legal, and, i wonder why. ballast about harvesters are paid on the number of ballots they collect, but of course if you could easily pay that than a campaign could pay a canvasser for their time. in the distance a travel could be perfectly legal.

with unlimited ballot harvesting there is no superstition, will limit on the amount of ballots a single person can collect. about harvesters can go to people's homes. they pressure them to vote or vote the right way, or they help a person read through a ballot while nudging them on who to vote for. they could pay a person to sign or turn over a blank ballot. or simply throw away ballots that don't vote the right way. we are not saying that all of these methods of frauds are equally likely, probably could prevent some of them with safeguards but the point is this. universal mail-in voting with ballot harvesting massively extensive potential for voter fraud. i don't care what twitter tells you, that's true.

it's obvious. and by the way, it's been documented. by the way most battles over voter fraud have centered around whether to require an i.d. to vote like most of the countries do. that's not the real issue. that's the tool of choice for those that want to steal an election. it's not a theoretical risk. actual voter fraud has happened despite what they tell you all over the country. in north carolina by the way it was republicans did a republican victory and a congressional race after it was overturned and, we are filling them in. not in 1813, 2013, city councilman was caught paying operatives, telling people who to vote for and offering them 50

bucks. why don't they mention that on television? and 2016, guadalupe bay rivera won a local election by 16 votes. later rivera was convicted of illegally assisting people. according to the county clerk, ballot harvesting fraud involves political operatives who target and exploit the vulnerable and often that means homebound individuals were too confused to realize that both are being stolen. you don't think this happens? oh, yes, it does. it happens. in california, ballot harvesting is already almost totally unrestricted. the midcycle, seven republican

candidates were leading on election night only to lose weeks later thanks to harvested ballots that were tallied days or even weeks later. and of course, this reveals what the real agenda behind universal mail-in voting is. we've had that in place for 240 years. it's about power, it's always about power. as with illegal immigration and the relentless efforts to soak race hatred, which we see every day, democrats have calculated that hurting america will make it easier for them to keep power and get power permanently. as we speak nancy pelosi is over on msnbc pushing for additional mail-in voting and we are flanking that right now, someone in our control room is watching. and of course the former attorney general, the state of nevada, and he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. you've seen some of this first hand, tell us how we should feel

about mail-in ballots and post will harvesting. >> while you are absolutely right, this is the game. it's about winning elections and gaining power and hearing my swing state, you are seeing videos of thousands of ballots that are piled up in apartments and trash cans and hallways and this is all because we are doing our first mail-in ballot election in the city of our state all under the cloak of the pandemic of course. the democrats sued a democrat county, clark county which is greater las vegas in order to get all of these extra things that they want to make sure that they can get their wish list. what do you think turned out on this thing? lo and behold, they agreed to all of these conditions in return for the democrats to get out of the way and let this preliminary election go down. what did they get?

they got inactive voters, 200,000 of them were mailed ballots all across a greater las vegas area. and we have no way to know if these are going to lead to massive voter fraud and they continue to sue to get rid of signature verifications and to enact the california style ballot harvesting right here in nevada. >> i'm wondering if there's any way to stop it and you are right, you would have been ignored.

they are trying to get on twitter and facebook and, it all these ballots to my house. the interesting thing about this is the democrat registrar and client clark county said i don't want a mailing to inactive voters. this county commission, almost all democrats are us saying you will mail an active voter. somewhat egg on their face of this registrar was right. there is a postal work as a worker in that saying, i'm seeing ballots in las vegas and what's happening with all these

ballots we need to keep our eye on that. >> sold this will divide the country and i hope it doesn't happen. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> america as america's graduating seniors including one in this house are reportedly entering the worst job market probably in our lifetime. coming up at simple suggestion for them to help navigate that, and one of the students who wrote that letter joins us next. also, join us tonight and the tragic abuse case caught on camera at a michigan nursing home. developments are just coming in.

>> tucker: at the coronavirus pandemic has wanted this country badly but has not extinguished our spirit stopped progress. elon musk's space spacex will attempt the first unmanned flight. >> at the mission is called demo to come first time in history that an aerospace company has endeavored to carry humans into space. the spacecraft is built to carry seven astronauts this time around.

liftoff is at 4:30 three eastern time tomorrow afternoon from historic launch pad 39 letter, that's a very same starting point for numerous shuttle missions in the first moon landing back in 1969. but because the falcon nine rocket which will carry crude dragon is 230 feet tall, launch pad 39a had to be retrofitted a little bit. after lift off when the booster rocket separates instead of falling into the ocean it will reenter the atmosphere and attempt to land on the spacex drone nasa says it will take crude dragon 9 minutes to reach orbit and 19 hours to dock at the international space station where astronauts van ken and hurley will join the iss team for between 30 and 119 days, at which point the astronauts will reboard crude dragon, pointed back toward earth and splashed down in atlanta the old-fashioned way. the hope is to use crude dragon two or at least three times.

right now the weather at kennedy space center is pretty much 50/50. if it doesn't fly tomorrow, the next window is saturday afternoon at 3:22 p.m. and sunday at 3:00. they believe this is the first epic getting back to the moon hopefully by 2024 and then come on to mars. tucker? >> tucker: pretty amazing. trace gallagher, thanks for th that. america's newly graduated seniors are in trouble. they have an average debt load of at least $30,000 and they will be competing in the job market they are about to enter with 40 million americans who just lost their jobs. so the situation for young americans is dire, it may be the most dire in our lifetimes. that's why 30 u.s. college organization sent a letter to the presence of the united states with simple suggestions on how to help them. put a pause on companies that are importing foreign workers to take jobs that they might have. the letter proposes canceling

hundreds of thousands of h1b and opp b says, those of the beast is allowing foreign workers to take jobs that could be given to new american college graduates. a simple idea. all of her crave arik is the president of the san diego state college republicans in his group signed the letter. thanks so much for coming on. let me say how sorry i am for you and people in your class entering into a job market like this. it's really tough. so explain what you think this letter will achieve and how you think it will help you. >> this letter is coming at a very strategic time in the administration. just about a month ago i think to the day the president announced an executive order essentially banning immigration across the board. but then the very next day, i and many other graduates were dismayed to see that some of the most egregious foreign worker visas were excluded from this

immigration ban. so essentially it's just giving a signal to the administration and letting them know that there's an appetite, especially among young likely voters to take care of the egregious h1b and opt abuse that's displacing american graduates and professionals across the board. >> tucker: and that's exactly right. we should be clear, these are not strawberry picking jobs. these are not farm jobs, a lot of these are white-collar jobs and you can imagine who in the administration was giving these visas in place and who took the call from tim cook over at apple to keep them in place. do you think you can make the difference by appealing directly to the president? >> i think that given the nature of the time. this is coming in at the president is expected to announce new measures on the immigration ban, i think in the coming week even. hopefully the timing of this is not lost on the imminent administration, the very strategic timing that's letter is coming in. >> tucker: so you are in this

position, you are a college student and will be entering at some point the job market, say a prayer. how do you feel personally about the fact that the u.s. government is allowing white-collar jobs that you could take to begin your life to go to foreign nationals? >> personally i find it unconscionable especially since it was an essential foreign policy or rather domestic policy prescription from the president, even during his time as a candidate. so american patriots going back to the 1990s even further on have repeatedly sounded the alarm on the guest worker abuse that is displacing american workers. it's puzzling to see almost four years into an administration that this is sort of an area where action has not been taken decisively. >> tucker: and because a president who i think was in favor of stopping these visas was talked out of it again, you can imagine. let me ask you, do you feel like you're been duped a little bit?

you go to college, you assume all this debt, and you get out and you are finding that you are giving away jobs to other countries? >> especially given the gross tuition paid by international students, there is absolutely a conflict of interest when it comes to american university is selling out their own graduates. and this is really just an issue across the board for american politics. what's best for the market and what's best for the gdp is not necessarily always what's best for the american worker or the american college graduate. it seems like there is an incredible lack of incision on this issue. >> tucker: i think you are exactly right and the higher education lobby is a driving force behind this atrocity and they should be called out. oliver, thanks for coming out tonight. >> thank you so much tucker. it's an honor. >> tucker: we have new details of a horrifying video of it

beating, abating took place in a nursing home. a 20-year-old man punched a 75-year-old veteran in the face repeatedly. we will tell you the backdrop behind that video, after the break. u musica♪ long days in the plant, or late nights stocking shelves doing all we can to get you the milk you need. we hope it makes your breakfast a little brighter. your snacks more nutritious. and reminds you when it comes to caring, there is no expiration date. milk. love what's real.

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>> tucker: this pandemic didn't cause the appalling state of so many nursing homes in this country, it simply exposed a tragedy that has been ignored for far too long. just minutes ago, new developments out of michigan and the horrifying video we showed you friday from the westwood nursing center in detroit, that's a place where a 20-year-old called jade and hayden beat a 75-year-old man repeatedly in the face. just minutes ago we pressed authorities and asked him

whether westwood nursing center was capable of isolating coronavirus cases and we were told, this is a quote, "this is an investigation and we can't comment. it turns out one of gretchen whitmer's executive orders required a long-term facility and according to jaden hayden's father the young man was in a facility specifically because he had tested positive for coronavirus. so how did a 20-year-old, clearly a volatile, unbalanced 20-year-old with the virus wind up in a nursing home in gretchen whitmer state. well, a michigan health official tells us that westwood was not on the list of the states hubs so if that's true, how did jaden hayden get there? we are trying to figure it out because it's worth knowing. in the meantime we welcome john james who is a republican candidate for senate in michigan and he joins us tonight. mr. james, thanks so much for coming on. so i can't imagine how a clearly

unbalanced 20-year-old who tested positive for the coronavirus wound up in a nursing home, how do you think that happened? is appalling. it's appalling. and that's what happens when you've never had that folks who had the experience with lives in their hands. that's why i believe having somebody like me in representing michigan, who is dedicated to protecting the vulnerable and i can't imagine protecting anyone more vulnerable than seniors. the fact that it was a 20-year-old in the nursing facility is unconscionable. >> especially since the governor laid out, including buying carpet and, contemplating with their loved ones going to church. you can basically buy lotto tickets and liquor and get an abortion and that was it. how did she miss this? >> i have no idea.

apparently it's doing the investigation. and even when you look at places like new york, new jersey and california, these are areas that have seen the error of their ways and are protecting our seniors. we had tcf, the -- we have alternate facilities to take care of people who are hurting but we actually must take care of our seniors and leaving them vulnerable like this is the wrong way to go about it. >> tucker: especially our captive elderly who can't leave and can't be visited by their loved ones. you never hear politicians talk about it and they clearly don't care, it's upsetting. ask for joining us tonight.

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♪ >> tucker: for more than two months americans by and large said that they with businesses, they stayed inside, canceled

their religious services and they didn't visit their parents and grandparents in nursing homes. in other words they put their trust in their leaders. the leaders claim the lockdowns based on science and data said msnbc and mandatory because they save lives. but now it becomes clearer every day that that trust that we had in our leaders was misplaced. in exchange americans lost their rights and still being denied their rights for no defensible reason whatsoever whatsoever. and now they are reclaiming those rights. a jiu-jitsu academy and new york about three hours north of the city, he says he's resuming classes tomorrow no matter what governor andrew cuomo says. he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on tonight. so you are following in a succession of people around the country to divide governors and then significantly punished for it. are you ready to be punished for doing it?

>> you know, really what i'm doing and no, way, shape or form am i trying to entice the government. two months ago they ordered a lockdown and i've done everything in my power to maintain virtual classes and we've done absolutely everything we can as have been the owners around the entire country with martial arts academy's. but with that said, i think it is time especially in my little community where the curves beyond, it is time that we should be able to reopen with proper safety precautions. >> tucker: i think you are pretty far up in the state, schenectady which is always but what is the toll of the virus where you live in your town? >> it really hasn't hit hard. we did a good job of containing it and everything i'm doing right now, i didn't come up with this on my own. if worked with medical professionals to come up with reopening strategy and plan and they agree with me so with the past couple of weeks we have worked diligently to come up with this idea and plan. they have worked hard on this, contained it and have done a

great job but right now there's not much to say for this pier there is a couple of people in the hospital for sure in our specific area. it is time to reopen. b wil >> tucker: how is your business doing in months of lockdown? you know, that is the hard part. i've done this two-thirds of my life. i didn't get into this become a billionaire but i did it because i love it. every jiu-jitsu academy around the country is doing the same thing. every single day i turn on my facebook feed and i see another gym owner, jet soup, boxing, judo, whatever it may be closing their doors permanently and it would be arrogant to think that's not me and one month from now. it hit hard. i couldn't imagine two months ago being at this point now. it is absolutely unbelievable. and you know, we have reached a point where it is time to start making things happen. >> tucker: so this is a virus that hits people who are immunosuppressed or unhealthy,

especially it can kill him. do you strike it as strange as the authorities and politicians making it harder for people to exercise and get in better shape? >> you know my do find that strange. without a doubt, what we do it's one of the greatest things you can do for in terms of exercise and fitness and in terms of self reflect. it is shocking to me. i can understand. in the beginning i have no knowledge what this was or what it was going to be so in the beginning, i could understand. okay, let's operate, reduce contact and i had no prediction of the future. but at this point come at this point, you know, people need to get back to their lives and resumed some sense of normalcy. i have 9-year-old kid suffering from depression and my kids class. i have military vets that have ptsd that used jiu-jitsu to overcome ptsd. and we need it. we need it. i'm willing to do whatever it takes to allow these people to

come back to my gym, whether that means no contact. we have a plan set in place for maximum safety, super strict precautions. it is a specialized service but that's the other thing too. it's not like walmart where i am shoulder to shoulder with people with no restrictions. i'm letting one person take their temperatures and filling out questionnaires, taking the most contact martial arts jiu-jitsu and so for me not to be able to open another martial arts academy's to be closing permanently breaks my heart, blows my mind. >> tucker: man, you are so much more thoughtful than the politicians wrecking your life. there are a lot of smart business owners is what i've learned in the past months. good luck tomorrow. >> thank you, tucker come appreciate it. >> tucker: man, that is the kind of man governors have been coming down on really, really hard and following what happens

in his life going forward. we are out of time tonight. wish we weren't, but we are. that means though it's almost 9:00 p.m. eastern and is time for the great sean hannity out of new york. >> hannity: by the way, i was very interested in that segment. i liked what he said about martial arts instructor. as you know i've been training for seven years. now, i have not stop my training, but there is no contact like usual. none of this, in other words, but a lot more core distance, no grappling obviously, and it's worked out great. doing it outside were doing it on cement instead of a gmp. it's working. >> tucker: you have to be outside, thank you, sean. >> hannity: welcome to "hannity," buckle up we are tracking big stores across the country. we will have an update on the woman who had what is a bizarre confrontation with a man in central park and update about her job status and we will also show you how in the right mob in staten island grocery store

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