we hope that the core few holds and that people in tonight and brian reporting and that's the story of monday, june 1st, 2020. we'll see you back here tomorrow night, stay safe, good night. ♪ >> tucker: when the mobs came, they abandon us. if welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," the nation went up in flames this weekend. i went in charge stood up to save america. they did third and they cowered and they openly sided with the destroyers and many cases they exited them on. later, they deny doing any of this and they're denying it now. you know the truth because you saw it happen and this is when nations classed when nobody end authority keeps order. american citizens are forced to defend themselves and they have no choice. no one will defend them they know that now. it's possible that more people will be hurt in the coming days

and that'll be a tragedy. if an environment like this, more violence can lead to a cascade of new tragedies. something far bigger and more destructive than anything we've seen so far. this isn't over and it might simply be up at the beginning it isn't. it's hard to think clearly about anything that's going on, the chaos, the destruction, and it's all too much. if americans are bill weld billable dirty and afraid but most of our they are filled with rage. angrier than they have ever been in the worst people in our society have taken control. they did nothing to build the country and now they are tearing it down. they're rushing us towards mass suicide. how do we respond? we must protect ourselves and our families and once again we have no choice but to do that. but we cannot allow ourselves to become like they are. you're not animals, we are americans. in the face of such indecency, we must resolve to be decent. we believe this country has a future we intend our children to

live and thrive here. if that is what we are defending. all our leaders do is set us against each other. they stayed in and you back never ending fight for their profit and amusement. we will not play along and we love our neighbors relentlessly not because they look like us or share a view's but we love them because they're human beings and americans. those are the bonds that tie us together and the bonds the leaders seek to destroy and we can't let them. we should start by being on sparingly honest about what's happening right now and the truth is in a country's last hope, we plan to use tonight so it created the record of this moment right now. showing you what's really going on in your country and feel an obligation to do that before the facts are spun into propaganda by the liars, the images pulled off the internet inevitably as they will be. we begin that were my family has lived for 35 years in the northwest quadrant of

washington, d.c. this is market on the boulevard which is named after general macarthur in the neighborhood store. walking distance for my house and people me there every morning for coffee. kids come after school for candy. it's as close to a community gathering spot as we have. the markets run by the kim family, the kim's are immigrants from korea and they are revered and our neighborhood for the decency in the hardware. they lost their son several years ago and the neighbors grieved for them. the kim's are not political and they never hurt anyone. they only make things better. but last night, the mob came for their story. at 1:00 a.m. this morning, mr. kim was kneeling alone on the sidewalk trying to salvage what he spent his life building. it seems like this played out in hundreds of neighborhoods across this country, may be yours. here are a few. north carolina, ma'am called the police when things began to fall apart and writers saw him call and they surrounded the man and they beat him. onlookers laughed as he was pummeled.

>> he's about to get on his belief [bleep]. oh, no! oh, no! [bleep]! >> tucker: rochester, new york, eight men smashed the windows of a jewelry store and a couple emerge to confront them. if both of them were viciously beaten with a ladder in a two by four. >> [bleep] [bleep]. >> get away from my wife! >> tucker: in dallas, a man armed with what appeared to be a sort did his best to defend the business from looters. the mob bashed him in the head with a rock and a skateboard.

>> what are you doing? [bleep], [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep[bleep], [bleep]! >> tucker: it's hard to watch. in san jose, rioters stormed the highway and attacked vehicles trying to pull drivers from their cars. >> [bleep], get the [bleep] out the, get [bleep] out. you're about [bleep] [indistinct] >> tucker: in birmingham, alabama, a local reporter named stephen quinn was beaten and

robbed on live television as he tried to cover the news. >> that is a horrible -- seen that you see right there. we want to make sure that stephen is all right. >> tucker: portland, oregon, a man was beaten apparently for daring to carry an american flag in public. he never released the flag, by the way. >> it's people like you -- [indistinct] >> no, no, no! >> stop it! >> tucker: how many of these people died? how many were murdered by the rioters, and that the least some are likely disabled for life. there would beaten that badly and mass dealing seems to be everywhere. an upscale part of atlanta, rioters stole a tesla from a

dealership and drove it through a indoor mall and underscoring undehow will completely it was t of control. apple, chase bank, louis vuitton, and setting fires as they left. >> oh, [bleep]! >> tucker: and chicago, protesters fought systemic racism by running to a nike store stealing shoes. >> go, go, go, go! >> tucker: and in washington, d.c., a federal city

surrounded by military bases and protect at all times by the single highest concentration of law enforcement in the world, criminals operated with impaired impunity in the streets and they looted georgetown last night. at least match the windows in the federal building and they desecrated virtually every war memorial in the city a week after memorial day. as you likely know, last night they set fire to st. john's episcopal church up with a 200-year-old building that welcomed every american president from james madison and right across the street from the white house. three people stuck inside, anywhere during this insanity, sick, the elderly, the powerless, the experience was terrifying. listen to this woman from minneapolis. >> how was last night? >> scary. they went straight to officemax, the dollar store, and every story over here that i go to. i had nowhere to go now. i have no way to get anything.

>> tucker: that's what's happening in america right now. we didn't play all the tape we have, there's a lot of it. some of the tape is too shocking and honestly it's too incendiary and you understand television is emotional medium and we do not want to make things worse. but he at the point in the point is this is a national emergency and it's a profound national emergency. but you would never know that from listening to the elected leaders in almost all of them pretend this is not really happening and if it is have a day, it's part of the american's long tradition of vigorous political discourse. politicians on both sides tell us this is all about the death of a man in police custody last week. people turning our country are protesters and they're engaged in a legitimate protest. okay, what exactly are the protesters demands? what are they asking for was mag if congress agreed tonight to enact the program, what with the program be? not a single person answer because there's on the answer.

no one bothered to poll the guys beating up old ladies on the street where it looting the churches but you have to how many of them have even heard of george floyd. if they have heard of them, what difference would it make? violence and looting are not forms of political expression. if you're killed tomorrow, how many buildings would you want burned to the ground in your memory? how many old women smashed in the face on the street in your name? none, we help, because you're not a vicious cycle path like the people you just watched. in fact what were watching is not a political protest it's the opposite of the political protest and if the attack on the idea of politics and the writers you see are trying to topple the political system and that's how we resolve our differences without using violence but the people want a new system, one governed by force. do what we say or we will hurt you. you know this and you can see it for yourself on television and you have, but our leaders continue to lie and they tell us it's not true and this isn't

happening. it's just a protest. some democrats openly embraced what's happening and they don't have much of a choice. these are the voters cleaning out the rolex door and ther bigt joe biden rally ever. if a dozen staffers donated money to the rioters. no democrat can comments on something. they released the following statement on twitter and we're quoting "rioters are an integral part of the cities march towards progress. "progress. burning buildings, teargas, dead bodies, the screaming injury to, criminal anarchy. democratic party of fairfax that's called progress. celebrity after celebrity has weighed in to agree on social media. from his compound to come out

lebron james used his account to encourage more writing and bernie sanders has done the same and so has black lives matter leader has. they will land on death years he says approvingly. imagine shouting fire in a crowded theater, a theater with 325 million people in our country. that's what they've been doing and have been doing for days. when the violence began come up will be needed more than anything was clarity in the middle of this. it's hard to see when the tear gas starts. there someone in america needed to tell the truth to the count country. instead, almost all of our conservative leaders joined the lengths discourse as if on cue. on friday come american cities were being destroyed by mobs and the vice president of the united states refused to say anything specific on the rights we were watching on television and instead mike pence scolded

america for his racism. once a leading republic presidential candidate tweeted "it's white america that we must see the truth speak the truth and act on the truth. "meanwhile, the president of the heritage foundation with the largest conservative think tank in the country, he may have sent them money and hopefully for the last time, james had a long screen denouncing america is a irredeemably racist nation. "how many times will protest have to occur? "have to occur, like the rest oy our sinfulness. the messages on the right and from the left leaders, don't blame you deserve what's happening to you. no one jumped and more forcefully or seemed angry at an america than former south carolina governor and "tonight i turned on the news and i'm heartbroken. it's important to understand that the death of george floyd's personal and painful for me.

in order to heal, he needs to be personal and painful for everyone." but, wait a second you may be wondering, how my "to personally responsible was quoted for the behavior of a minneapolis police officer, i've never been to minneapolis may think and why is some politician telling me i'm required to be upset about this? those are good questions and it's not her strong suit over choir thinking and what she does best is moral blackmail. during the 2016 campaign she compared donald trump to the racist mass murder dylan rupe. how is donald trump similar to a serial killer? she never explained that and she's not trying to educate anyone, and their only goal was political advantage and nikki haley is exceptionally good and getting what she wants and she's happy to denounce you as a racist in order to get it. she just did. in this case, nikki haley's wish came true and the rioters were personal and people for everyone. the pain kept increasing and two

days after she wrote that dozen of american cities have been thoroughly trashed and some destroyed. if a country already on the brink of recession faced economic collapse and the already fierce full populations and the locked on for months had been thoroughly and completely terrorized. mission accomplished, let's hope nikki haley is pleased we have a tome to be to house the trump administration responding to the horrors going around us? well, the national security advisor robert o'brien did a live interview and here's how it began. >> first thing i'm to say, on behalf of the president, our hearts and prayers are going out and we mourn with them and we agree with them and it's horrific and i don't know what the poor families going through as the video is played over and over again and that the tragic thing and the president said that from the study. we are with the family and is the president side, where with peaceful protesters. >> tucker: we are with the peaceful protesters, and can you

be more specific about that? who are you talking about? is a people spitting foam as they scream f the police and is at the one sitting next to the arsonist doing nothing is a set fire to the building and the kids laughing as they filmed the looting and the beatings on their iphones? may be famous people in l.a. who are raising money online to support the riots. they're all just peaceful protesters, young, we support that that's who we are. what about the president and where is he during all this? friday night after the show, the camera men headed to lafayette square and what she did the cover what's happening outside the white house. here's what happened next. >> you don't know what it's like to be a black man! >> fox news reporters getting chased out by the george floyd protesters here at the park and this one is being thrown in the reporters. they threw the mic at the

reporter here and as you see, the protest. >> tucker: that's at lafayette square in the center of the capital city. a the tape raised a troubling question and if you can't keep a fox news correspond it from getting attacked directly across the street from your house how can you protect my family? how do you protect the country? how are you trying? twitter the next morning the president reassured america that he and his family were just fine. federally funded by the guards have kept them safe. if he did not mention protecting the rest of the nation much of which has been on fire and he seemed aware of only of himself. for people who would like donald trump and voted for donald trump and support his policies, who've defended him for years and years against the most absurd kinds of slander, this was a distressing moment. the first requirement of leadership is that you watch over the people in your care. that's what soldiers want from their officers, it's what families need from their fathe fathers. it's what voters demand from

their president. people will put up with almost anything if you do that, you can regularly say things on television and higher omarosa to work at the white house and that will be forgiven if you protect your people. but if you do not protect them or worse than that, like you can't be bothered to protect them, then you are done. it's over. people will not forgive weakness, that's the one thing and by the way that's not a partisan point, it's human nature. nero is the only roman empire whose name most people still remember. why? because he abandon his nation and years of crisis and 2,000 years later we don't forgive h him. donald trump's response to the riots which is ongoing is the singular test of his presidency. in an hour ago he announced he was going to marshal all available forces military and civilian to stop the riots. >> if the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and

property of their residence, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. >> tucker: good for him. after that address, the president walked over to st. john's which as we told you was burning fewer than 24 hours ago and that provided a powerful symbolic ester and a declaration that this country, our national symbol and her oldest institutions will not be desecrated and defeated by nihilistic destruction. we fervently hope this all works. what americans want most right now is the end to this chaos and they want their cities to be safe and they want us to stop immediately. if the commander-in-chief can't stop us, he will lose in november and the left will blame him for the atrocities they encouraged and voters will agree. if donald trump is the preside president, president save countries and that's their job and that's why we hire them. it's that simple.

some kia advisors around the president don't seem to understand the gravity of the moment in the matter what happens they'll tell you, operators aren't going anywhere in the trailer parks are rock-solid. what choice do they have? they have to vote for us. if jared kushner on one hand made the point out loud. if no one has more contempt for donald trump's voters than jared kushner and no one accesses it more frequently. his views remain fundamentally unchanged today. but the president aimlessly a sharp instinct and the one that won is the presidency almost for years ago have been since separated at every level by jared kushner and the strength immigration, foreign policy, and especially on law enforcement. crime in this country continues to rise, jared kushner led a highly aggressive effort to let more criminals out of prison and back onto the street. this is reckless. at this moment in time, it's insane if it continues to happ

happen. the president seems to sense that and at times, he seems aware that he's being led in the wrong direction and often derives kushner as a liberal and that's correct he is, but he convinced the president that throwing up the prisons is the key to winning african-american votes in the fall and that those votes are essential to his reelection. several times over the last few days, the president signaled he was very much liking to crackdown on rioters and that's the instinct. if you watch it you believe it, but every time he's been talked out of it by jared kushner and aid that he is hired and controlled. the assumption is that african-americans like looting and that's wrong. normal americans of all colors hate looting. obviously, why wouldn't they hate looting? they are decent people. so what are the lessons of all that we've seen and we've seen so much over the past five days. if america will change because of this and uncertain and what can we learn from? what should we demand going forward?

the first thing to know is that we can no longer accept race baiting from our leaders. never. that has become so common now that we barely notice it but it's dividing and destroying the country and we should make them stop. yesterday for example, they are of seattle tweeted this and i'm quoting "i want to acknowledge that most much of the violence and destruction here in seattle and across the country has been instigated and perpetrated by white men." is that factually true? who knows. who cares? the skin color of criminals is totally irrelevant to how we prosecute them for the crimes they commit. if it must be irrelevant, otherwise we are committing the bigotry that we claim to abhor. yet everywhere on television and social media prominent people are talking exactly like this. not just a few crackpots, thousands of people, well-known people. they are amplifying race hatred at exactly the moments that we need it least and at the moment

when it's the most dangerous. he was the police chief of houston and the fourth biggest city of the country, and to his job, his sworn duty is to enforce the law fairly and evenly regardless of the ethnicity of the suspect. watch this and tell us if you think he's capable of doing that. is he even interested? here he is over the weekend. >> my people, as an immigrant, you know what? we built this country! we ain't going nowhere! going nowhere! so you got hate in your heart for people of color, get over it! because the city is a minority majority city! >> tucker: my people. if a police chief of any color,

any color said that, we would attack him instantly and we would mean it. it is wrong. when you wrong a law enforcement agency you can't consider a book what to my people" and claimant your people deserve some kind of special consideration because they built the country. no, your obligations not to consider your people but all people and consider them equal equally. he is not even trying to do th that. imagine being arrested by this creep, think you get a fair shake? there's nothing that hurts america more than that and if you're worried about the rise of extremism here, and honestly you should be worried, this kind of insanity is absolutely certain to cause this. let's be clear, when we say extremism were not talking about unconventional views that get you bounced off twitter or scolded by the corporate hr department. if we mean actual extremism, where people espouse violence against other people where large groups come to believe they arey

is the most important thing about them. now, at this moment, no matter what they're telling you and claiming for political advantage, there's not a huge amount of that in this country, thank god. most people still think of themselves as americans and they want to. but if the left keeps talking like this? they are definitely will be and very soon. iyou don't want to live here whn that happens and we should demand they stop immediately. if enforcing the law is not white supremacy and insisting that everyone in the country follows the same rules is not racism. and fact, it's the answer to racism. it is a quality, equality under the law and it's the one thing that we must defend and if we don't, things fall apart. if weakness invites aggression and that's true in nature and human society. our leaders are weak, predators know it. that's why this is happening. if you let people spray paint obscenities on city hall, pretty

soon there over toning cop cars and if you put up with that they will come right to the front door of the police precinct and bring it down. next thing you know out there beating people to death and shopping mounds. then what? what happens when the next time the mob doesn't like something and what will the mob demand next? let's hope we never find out because we are close. ♪ this is a fox news alert, the rioting and looting has spread to every inch of this country and taking you to several cities with the rest of the hour and looking now live in washington, d.c. first, we're heading out west where the situation in los angeles appears to be getting particularly bad in that city in the suburbs are being convulsed by the worst looting and anarchy since the rodney king riots 28 years ago. fox los angeles has been in the thick of a ten every evening now, what are you seeing? >> tucker, the past few nights we had a lot of flashbacks here

in l.a. of 1992 with the rodney king beating and with the race riots and it's been anarchy and it's been absolutely chaos. thankfully where i'm at right now, that's not the case. as we go into the sunset, this is outside the federal building by westwood and west l.a. you can see hundreds of protesters gathered here right now and some businesses boarded up just in case because they've seen what's happening to other parts of town in recent nights and if we can see in the left ear, the l.a. county sheriff's department and their posted up outside the federal building here to make sure they set up a perimeter and make sure they guard it so we can't be tagged or vandalized. just like what we saw an santa marta because last night and pull up the video and i was out there covering this i live in santa monica and or another worst things i've ever seen. total chaos, leaders had free reign essentially for an hour or two and police were just completely outmanned and they could not be everywhere at once. third street and the extremely wealthy area part of town extremely popular with tourists, that's where everyone shops and

a lot of brand-name storage there and hundreds of looters to attend the free there and they ransacked a bunch of the stories there in the set a couple stores on fire. i walk there this morning it was an absolute disaster zone and it looked like another country and it was extremely disappointing that the santa monica police chief is taking a lot of heat because of it now and the recall out there for her. back out here live in l.a., we head into the sunset, this is all the protests that we had for the most part, will be seen happen once the sun starts to go down, they quickly become violet and agitated and the looting begins. we hope it doesn't happen here but 20 minutes north of where i'm starting right now, the looting has already started. >> tucker: bill, thank you so much for that. well, as we told you, the president spoke live from the rose garden an hour ago and deploying federal forces to and writing that's destroying cities across the country. if one of the cities is the city

in which the president spoke in washington, d.c., and just outside the white house, getting ready for what could be another night of destruction. fox news kevin corke is there and he joins us now, hey, kevin. >> evening, tucker, a very different scene that we saw last night and we here at the intersection and if you know the city it's just a block away from lafayette park. while it seems things are very calm here and were surrounded by law enforcement all over and in fact there are several bands here to collect those who are out after curfew so that i can certainly be happening here in the next few moments and we seen a couple people here arrested. compare that to what we saw earlier today here in lafayette park and it was really quite the scene. we saw a huge rush of people coming at us and of course were set up just outside of st. john's church just because it wants to get all the pictures to see how the park might be different than last night. i mean last night was very quite something and we saw that all the numbers of fires including the one in the basement of the

parish office over at st. john's. of today, a very different scene for a while and use of the wild movement of the crowded. if they actually ushered in the direction by the law enforcement and then cordoned off eventually right here on 16th. again, very different from last night and hopeful that things remain calm. if i were to compare and say there's no comparison. right now it's a very different scene in washington. it tucker. of >> tucker: kevin corke, thank you so much, and amazing reporting last couple days i appreciate it. >> thank you, my friend. >> tucker: as we set a minute ago, when you want more than anything is clarity. it's hard to know what it means when it's happening and before you and the first person we try to is the senior feller at the hoover institution and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on and what you make of this. >> i think were waiting for one great person to stepped forward and say no more and i've seen a lot more rights and demonstrations and looting in my

lifetime and they been more deadly but i've never seen anywhere the authorities themselves tried to contextualize the violence and apologize and even approve it. this country was united in their anguish and anger about police meant, and there is a liberal mayor and a liberal governor and liberal police chief and so there was no reason for the protests to get out of hand. they did, and partly it was because they could because the demonstrators very quickly saw that people would apologize or appease them and they took advantage of it. people who were pour and stealing nike shoes and louis vuitton to steal $5,000 bags. people really, really revolutionary revolutionary antifa don't worry about an indictment on the criminal profile and that's what were dealing with. why did this happen? you can make the argument that may be the media where the

flames are in the background while the demonstrations were a peaceful or they had to sidestep looters as they assured us that nobody was breaking the law. that might be the reason and it's a 2020 election year and i think robert mueller impeachment, covid, the lockdown fail and it's a disaster succeeding in getting rid of donald trump. joe biden was married in racial politics before this happened ai think he thought he couldn't leverage and the left could and the african-american vote in certain ways they found useful. if for whatever was, tucker, it's deleterious and what are we left with? were left with the idea of chaos hurting the president and the independence we voters have, looking for is somebody to stop it and if that's donald trump, i may not like his tweets but he's the only thing between me and santa monica. i don't think the left gets that. i think this whole urban paradigm there were going to cram a bunch of people and colorants of the case dated and

globalized, coastal and the elites. we found out it's not a good paradigm during the covid crisis and the lockdown and now we know the blue state mirrors either can't or won't keep you either healthy and they can't keep you safe. the idea that if they're going to beg for more money when this is over, the rest of america is going to say good job, here's more food is absently crazy. finally, tucker, there's china. where an existential war china in the change their tune and it's maybe we were wrong and what the hell are they going too about it. so what? were moving on hong kong and fighting with india and move on taiwan and what are you doing? you're identifying by your tribal affinities and so really in america it's got one choice and you either say i am a human identify as american and my superficial appearance is my primary loyalty. people have to choose what kind

of country were what kind of country they won't have. >> tucker: i think we should demand that people and check to tribalism know where it leads. it's totally unacceptable and we should call it out wherever we see it and not play along. they corporations about it, and the rest of us should say no. you're not going to divide us it's not a cockfight in this country. professor, think it's so much. as we've been reported, almost every major american city has seen some kind of violence over the past few days and leaders in place of fargo, north dakota, salt lake city, and more of the same and we find out very soon. we are praying that we won. going down to philadelphia enjoyed by fox news chris o'connell they are, chris. >> hey, tucker, another night of chaos and confusion in philadelphia and right now,

demonstrations continue citywide. one demonstration in particular started around 3:00 this afternoon at the philadelphia police headquarters. that's where we are now when you see the contingent of philadelphia police officers and they are scattered throughout the city. this city is basically shot down, tucker, 6:00 curfew, they made everyone -- they told everyone to go home including a group of protesters that went face-to-face with police officers for quite some time. they brought in the peacekeeping vehicles, the tactical gear, and once they were brought in as well as pennsylvania national guard, that demonstration quickly dissipated at some point today, one of the major interstates through philadelphia, the expressway was shut down because of demonstrators. that's when they brought in the tear gas once again the demonstrators eventually dispersed. but right now, and another part

of the city about a half a mile from here, another protest sit in and arrests are being made because right now there's a 6:00 p.m. curfew and their taking people on the streets and some of them for curfew. one thing, tucker, i want to get this message out. i've been covering the chaos in the looting here in philadelphia for the last couple days. it's very disheartening, but one sign of hope that i did see a couple hours ago is when about a couple hundred demonstrators were outside the philadelphia police department line for line with the philadelphia police demonstrators of baking philadelphia police officers to take a knee. they were chanting "take a knee, take a knee." finally, many of those and if not all of those police officers in unison with dinner demonstrators took a knee as well as some pennsylvania national guard members. 600 of them who are activated to keep the peace here in philadelphia. i've been here for three days, tucker, i can tell you it's a

little bit calmer today and they demonstrations have mostly been peaceful and for the city, this area that i grew up in and spent 50 years here, i'm very happy to say that it's getting a little better tonight. >> tucker: we know who's in charge, anyway, interesting. chris, thank you so much. going to atlanta, that's the city where cnn headquarters was overwhelmed just a few days ago and joined there by fox news brian of fox news atlanta and looks like you're in the middle of it a few minutes ago and what happened exactly? >> yeah, i have to say that this has been a peaceful protest throughout the day. but just a few minutes ago there's people who are not here earlier that started throwing water bottles, lighting off fireworks and throwing rocks at police and they released teargas and everyone scattering out. most of the people have left in front of and there you can see police are moving forward. we are here at the park right by

cnn and you can see police are moving forward to. they were standing still and calm and patient for the majority of the afternoon and we were here since 3:00 and we've been here since 3:00 and it wasn't until now that they started to get chaotic. the time is 8:38 and the curfew goes into a few minutes and it looks like people are getting ready to leave but then there are some cars and people who came up and they started again throwing water bottles and throwing rocks and there you could see that, but somebody just threw a bottle at the police. again, just like yesterday, it started off pretty calm and pretty peaceful. then, as the night went on, things kind of took a turn for the worse. last night, police here and olanta told us that 64 people were arrested and less then both saturday and friday night but still a large amount of people who ended up getting arrested here in the city. they are going into the street right now as you can see and

police are as well and some national guardsmen who are standing on the side close to where cnn is trying to take cover there. make sure things did not get as chaotic as they have been for some of the other nights. i have to say, initially, it was a peaceful night in one of the things the protesters wanted while they were out here, they were asking police to take a knee and they'd been asking that since about 3:00 and then maybe 8:00 tonight, they finally got them to do that and they were cheering and happy. of course, there's moments where people were yelling at the police but they were just talking to them and having a conversation. i think now things are kind of starting to turn a little bit differently. a lot of the protesters that we talked with who've been out here earlier in the afternoon said that, you know, this is supposed to be a peaceful event and they're not out here to cause a riot or a scene. but you know, we see it all of the country and sending it back to you, tucker. >> tucker: brian, thank you so much. if you heard it, another city

police taking orders and obeying from the so-called protesters. no wonder they are looting the shopping malls because that's what happens when you take orders. where monitoring the life pictures throughout the hour and americans richest safe at home are cheering on the destruction of america's city. but people heard by the riots, think of what's going on and will expire the question after the break. ♪ you doing okay?

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>> tucker: if you listen only to the reaction of celebrities and politicians in cnn acres to the destruction and looting and killing, you would think that americans overwhelmingly favor writing and they love writing but do they actually love writing? most people of all backgrounds and income levels, they love rioting and be independent journalist coming on and it's a very simple question. it's rioting, and the kinds of things we've been watching all week and is not very popular with poor people? >> all the historical that we have sense know in the late 60s we had very violent riots and on the national poll, they found that 4% of african-americans they thought the riots improve the condition of the city and there's been other polls in

one over history of very small majority think that riots and a small majority take part. atlanta is a city of 600,000 people and the few hundred people rioting or looting do not represent atlanta and not representing any racial group or social class. i think the mayor in atlanta is when the best leaders in america because she said very clearly that anyone who riots is not honoring george floyd it's out there dishonoring george floyd. they're not acting in the principles of the civil rights created in atlanta and not only that, she also quickly fired two police officers who abused protesters and using excessive force. if she sang to both sides and rioters and if you abuse your power you have to have the responsibility and in time you have power you have to have responsibility. she punished both sides and unfortunately, i think celebrities they don't view minorities withhold humanity and i hate it when the far right

demonize minorities and were all criminals are savages. but the far left at say we're all victims and we can't control ourselves and it's the two sides of the same coin on both sides they're basically saying that we don't have agency. the real social and political actors are white guys and the lessons that they are against white supremacy they should not be practicing it. >> tucker: there's a kind of decadence to the analysis of this we use a princeton professors and cnn anchors and people saying this is all kind of understandable and you know as you listen, they don't face any of this in their own lines and it just got out of hand like they are secondary to the ideological imperatives. >> there's two things, and won it, again, every single place where it's happening it's only a small minority of people in the vast majority of people are peacefully protesting. there is a poll that showed that that a majority of police

officers, 96%, and remarkable unity on that point. but very few people support wanton violence and i think it's a lot of common criminals or ideological extremists taking advantage of the chaos and those people aren't speaking for the majority of people not even close. >> tucker: our leaders seem to think they are and you can't say anything about it because -- >> part of it is that a lot of people are doing it for themselves and they feel good and they're living vicariously through other people's pain. if they should go down to west baltimore after the rioting there and crime rates doubled in the area. opioids, overdoses, and pharmacies were looted and so many people suffered in so many people died. hundreds of people died. look, last year, nine unarmed officers were killed by the police and its status and its tragic. but hundreds of thousands of people died from a virus and ten thousands more people that you can't social distance in a riot. it doesn't bring this people back to life and it doesn't

further low life and we judge action by their consequences. i want to empower the poor people of america and i want people to have power budget you have to have responsibility and we have the two things, and if you're analyzing people they have no control of their actions you're treating them like dumb animals. you're not helping them effectively with a more peaceful way and john young, andrew you young, promoting and olanta andy it's been there but it's been a lot less in other cities becausy believe in the civil rights tradition. >> tucker: i think your point of it. for joining us. appreciate it. well, widespread looting caused millions of damage across the country and devastating the lives of countless business owners. one city that's been hit not as hard it is detroit and part of the reason is that the police there are taking a very tough stand against rioting from day one and the reason is because james craig as the police chief of detroit and were happy to have them on today. chief, thank you for coming on.

>> glad to be here, tucker, and some good reports tonight. you know, i saw the images of philadelphia and people not being critical of the cds. i remember years ago when i was a l.a. cop and the riots, and the apartment just disappeared from florence normative. the mob took over. it's hard being in it a l.a.p.d. officer at the time and that heltrue to me for so many years. we support peaceful protesting. it's one thing to get overwhelmed, but we are going to support the protesters who are peaceful. but i got to tell you, i'm excited about the successes we have had. i know were not out of the wind yet. certainly more out there and

certainly i can't credit the detroit police department, just the speed of the execution is just amazing. >> tucker: it may i ask you a question, chief? you took a pretty tough position on disorder, disorder, lawlessness day one. did you get any glow back from politicians there? >> i didn't get any blowback and probably because detroit has a history of violence. the good news about detroit today, and the people who live in detroit, let's face it, tucker, like all the cities, there's a lot of outsiders coming in and creating havoc. detroiters are different and we do minutes, they're not going to come to the city and carried out. were not going to tolerate it. so we support the chief, and we have relationships with them and if you go against him, you're going against us and we have that kind of mantra.

i'm not saying that's the only thing, but the other thing is they're not credit to cover our police stations and trust me, there is things the first and second night they clearly could have gone bad very quickly. i've been watching what's going on over in l.a., certainly philadelphia, chicago, and we didn't want that. the first night, we had new police cars damaged, but no looting. detroiters have kind of policed the agitators, that's what they are. provocateurs. so, i'm confident we will be able to get through this but we are not there yet. >> tucker: it well, seems like you're doing the right thing. it chief, thank you for coming on tonight and i appreciate it. it could to seo. thank you. good talking again, tucker, tucker. >> tucker: life cover to heading to minneapolis and st. paul area.

currently the situation there and will bring you the very latest. ♪

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. we are heading to the twin cities. on the left, you see minneapolis. fox's mike tobin is in st. paul. he joins us now. >> what we are seeing here in st. paul would really fit the definition of peaceful protest. about 600 people marched around the sphere of st. paul today. they are chanting. they gather here on the capitol grounds. the boys have a very relaxed posture. the other day we were here and there were rows and rows of guardsmen with arms at the ready, keeping anyone from getting to the capitol building. you have now is some fencing. they are chanting, mentioning the name of george floyd. other than that, we see not only are the police in a very relaxed

posture. we have seen a lot of them pull away. >> tucker: mike tobin, thanks so much. fox news will be covering everything that's happening across america, as long as it continues. that's it for us tonight. have a great night. sean hannity is next. he is right now. >> sean: thank you. our hearts are all troubled. welcome to "hannity." we begin with a fox news alert. curfews now are in effect as of this minute and multiple cities across america. the national guard has been deployed in several states. diluting, fires, the violence that we've all watched and witnessed in shock for days is now coming to an end according to the president tonight. we will get to that. order for the sake of the law-abiding citizens, businesspeople, and communities must be restored. no if's, no answer, no bots. you have a media mob, democrats, celebrities.