>> that is the story of monday, june 8th, 2020. as always, the story continues. i will see you here back tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker was up next. ♪ >> tucker: america went insane over the weekend and it's barely an overstatement. people in their 80s who have lived in the u.s. all their lives said they've never seen anything like it. this was without precedent in the modern era. a small group of highly aggressive emotionally charged activists took over our culture forcing the entire country to obey their will. all happened so fast and with such ferocity that no one resisted it. people seem bewildered, even stunned by what was happening. statements of fact and opinion that were within the bounds of reasonable conversation suddenly

a week later were enough to get you fired from your job and a number of people were fired. an awful lot happen this weekend. for the next hour, we want to assess the aftermath of it all to suggest what it may mean and where this country is likely to go from here, but first, we want to give you a sense of what happened. we are going to begin tonight in minneapolis where the black lives matter riots first began almost two weeks ago. is the violence there raged, some democratic leaders came to a conclusion that didn't on the surface make intuitive sense. what their city really needs, they decided, is less law enforcement. in fact, no law enforcement, so they began to demand that minneapolis defund the police. the first thing you notice about this ideas how unpopular unpopular with the public it is. almost nobody in the country supports it. but the activists undeterred kept pushing the idea and within days pressure mounts on the mayor of minneapolis jacob frey to get rid of his city's police department. this was a problem.

he has greater political aspirations and this would be the last conversation you wanted to have. so he did his best to change the subject with a mix of manic enthusiasm and feigned empathy. well practiced in those areas. here he is a couple of years ago with his preferred brand of community outreach. ♪ didn't work. then or now. activists who wanted actual answers, so he tried step two in the process, groveling. >> i've been coming to grips with my own brokenness in that situation, my own failure, my own shortcomings. >> tucker: again, good try.

again, no dice. black lives matter to their credit wanted a real answer to their question. it was then that jacob frey made a fatal mistake. he put himself in a position where he could be asked that question directly. here's what happened next. >> yes or no, will you commit to defunding minneapolis police department? we don't want no more police. statement i do not support the full abolition. >> you're wasting our time. >> go home, jacob, go home. go home, jacob, go home. >> tucker: what a remarkable

piece of tape that is. as a big city mayor in this country ever been more thoroughly humiliated? the correct answer to that needless to say is up yours, lady. i'm not going anywhere, i run the city. you doubt the entire crowd would've cheered jacob frey if he'd said that? people always admire resolve even when they disagree with the point of view, but that's not what jacob frey did. he slunk away like a child caught doing something filthy. the most telling moment came just before that when the woman and sunglasses threatened to defeat the mayor in the next election. what does that tell you? it tells you that black lives matter is in fact a political party. maybe the strongest political party of the united states as of tonight. its members believe they can reshape this country and so far, they are proving to be right. he could always tell which political movements are headed up by how straightforward their members and sympathizers are about what they believe.

strong people say what they think out loud. they are not embarrassed of their beliefs. they think they are winning. with that in mind, watch this clip this morning. this is the president of the minneapolis city council lisa bender. she exclaims that the desire for safety, the desire not to have your home and is aided by violent criminals is in fact a sign of racism. >> do you understand that the word dismantle for police free also make some people nervous for instance, what if in the middle of the night, my home is broken into, who would buy call? >> i hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and i know it comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, i think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality we are calling the police may mean more harm is done.

>> tucker: hello, police, armed men are breaking into my home, help. to shut up, racist, click. that's the world lisa bender is calling for. how many people agree with lisa bender? that sounds reasonable, calling the police definitely qualifies as racism. it's hard to believe even among cnn's audience that very many people thought that when it is so obviously nuts for it on the other hand, it doesn't really matter at this point what the public thinks about anything. in the case of this idea, many democratic leaders are already sold on it. he was former congressman keith ellison over the weekend. keep in mind as you watch him speak that he is now the chief law enforcement officer in minnesota. he's the attorney general. saying it's wrong for police to bring guns to domestic violence calls, seriously. >> we send out people with guns and they are to use deadly force no matter what the problem may be.

the problem is sexual assault, we bring somebody with a gun. the problem is somebody in them mental health crisis, we send somebody with a gun. >> tucker: we know what you are thinking, that is keith ellison, kind of an unfair example, he has long been a crazy person who was once attached to the nation of islam and back then called himself keith hakim. more recently, he endorsed antifa and that is all true but unlike other race baiting extremist, he may have a promising political feature, very interesting to imagine it. he could be the attorney general of the united states. at the very least, he would be first in line to become the u.s. attorney for the state of minnesota, the top federal prosecutor there. what would happen then? we may live to find out. all of this probably strikes you as violet died craziness, eliminate the police, really? but things change fact. look at how quickly they changed just over the weekend.

the skilled trends bottom if there ever was one is already acting as if to defund the police, a proposal that no sane person even mentioned in public just last month is now the defining civil rights issue of our time. you would have to be a bigoted dinosaur, a bad person to oppose it. >> this is one of those moments. this right now is one of those moments. you are an elected official or any reason on this call. i am acting you to ask yourself what are you willing to sacrifice to make sure that overfunded police department's are defunded. >> tucker: so think about what you just saw. alexandria ocasio-cortez isn't just a member of congress. she's maybe the most famous member of congress and is also a surrogate for joe biden so a lot is on the line here. she didn't say that accidentally, she had a reason for saying it. why did she say that? what is going on here? as usual, the truth bears no resemblance whatsoever to what

they are telling you. think about it, democratic politicians controlled the police departments in virtually every big city in this country. now they are telling you they want to get rid of those police departments. they did, that would mean less power for themselves so right away, you know there's lying going on. democrats do not relinquish power voluntarily. democrats never do, select the first thing to know, something obviously is going on here beneath the surface. this has to be an attempt to increase the power of the democratic party because every policy they push is. always. and in fact, that's exactly what's happening. you will hear them admit that. instead, they want to replace the police. in take the people who currently have badges, many of whom voted for donald trump and swap them out for new people, people who hate donald trump and hate the people who voted for

donald trump. that's what is actually happening, and it makes sense good law enforcement is one of the very few institutions remaining in this country that the left does not yet controlled. democrats hate the police because they don't control the police. very simple. remember 35 years ago when democrats were constantly attacking the u.s. military? you don't hear that anymore. why is that? it's very simple. the left took over the pentagon. no reason to attack people you control, which they do. and they plan to do the same thing to your local police department. what democrats are proposing isn't some form of radical libertarianism, no. is the opposite of that. what they are proposing is a power grab. defunding the police as a move toward authoritarian social control cloaked in the language of identity politics. already in the middle of a total breakdown of law and order as we watch our cities burn, you are seeing new moves to prevent you from defending yourself and your

family in the middle of it. just last tuesday, was running for congress in georgia posted this ad on facebook and within two days, facebook pulled it down. >> i have a message for antifa terrorists, stay out of northwest georgia. you weren't burn our churches, loot our businesses, or destroy our homes. >> tucker: so facebook has a policy against violence, not the violence and engulfing our cities, but the violence of you defending your family. they create the chaos, you are not allowed to defend yourself. you are in other words wholly dependent upon them. in the future, the only people who will have guns are people on their team, and that's exactly what do you fund the police really means. means a woke militia policing our cities and enforcing the democratic party orthodox. imagine if the diversity and inclusion department have the power to arrest you.

imagine if the black lives matter rioters had weapons and immunity from prosecution. that's what they are talking about. partisan law enforcement. it's hardly without precedent. in fact, it's a rule. this is an attempt to bring it here. what is again a striking is how few american voters support this, very few. pulling from just a week ago showed that only 16% of americans favored cutting funding for police departments. there was almost no party divide on that question surprisingly. the numbers were virtually the same for republicans and democrats. the divide was economic. you make a more than $100,000 a year, you are more than twice as likely to think cutting the police was a good idea, and there's no mystery there, of course, they can afford their own security. jeff bezos doesn't need the police, he's got his own. unfortunately for the rest of us, and it is unfortunate, jeff bezos and people like him

are the only ones allowed to talk right now. it's hard to overstate how vicious the crackdown on free speech and free thought has been in the last few years. here's the new rule, you are not allowed to question black lives matter in any way. false. that rule has been in force without mercy everywhere and not just in this country. in vancouver, a men's basketball coach was fired for liking a tweet that question black lives matter. meanwhile, a play on the l.a. galaxy was fired because his wife said something critical online. not him but he didn't do it. his wife. doesn't matter. they can to the player anyway. imagine being a high school student right now. high school students who refuse to show affirmative support on their instagram accounts were shunned by their friends. journalists who asked too many questions were fired or silenced. again, not an exaggeration. you think people in media would

resent this, presumably some do, but almost everybody stayed quiet about it. some applaud it. "the new york times" ran an op-ed demanding that people disown their own families if their families failed to support black lives matter enthusiastically enough. tell your relatives, tell your friends that "you will not be visiting or answering phone calls until they take significant action and supporting black lives through protest or financial contributions. got that? sorry i'm a mom. i know you are old and alone and miss your grandchildren, but we are shunning you until you send more money to black lives matt matter. in an environment like this, we've never lived in an environment like this, but you can imagine. most people get the message very fast. and the weak ones are quick to join and just like the good little red guards they've always been underneath it all. here is mitt romney. >> violence and brutality and make sure the people understand

that black lives matter. >> tucker: he just wants to make sure that americans understand that black lives matter. as if americans didn't know th that. but accusing your entire country of racism turns out to be a pretty small price for someone like mitt romney. what he is really worried about, what all the finance moguls finding this movement are worried about is that someone somewhere will ask the obvious questions. how much have you made, how rich have you become by sending jobs overseas, by charging obscene interest rates and by otherwise harming the poor and black communities economically? all the basic crimes are economic. mitt romney doesn't want to talk about that at all, so he marches. and black lives matter couldn't be happier about it. the complicity of people like mitt romney gives groups like black lives matter strengths. a black lives matter is becoming more powerful by the hour and they know it.

watch this interview from saturday in which a black lives matter activist cheerfully admits he may soon incinerate people with gasoline. >> it means a lot of things. could mean for the people and it could also mean fire into property. we are hoping they come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction but if they don't, then gasoline is awfully cheap. >> tucker: the amazing thing is not just that he said that, though that's shocking enough. the amazing thing is that he set it on television lives. he wasn't worried about being arrested. in you were still not allowed to attend church services or go to big weddings. too bad you are not friends with muriel bowser. he could do anything. he has renamed a park black lives matter plaza and no one criticized her for it. practically sent her flowers. >> having a mural of black lives matter in huge black letters across three blocks leading up

to the white house, as i said do you want to sunday, bad move that you made. >> it is a representation of an expression of our saying you know, but also identifying and claiming a part of our city that had been taken over by federal forces. >> tucker: was bleeding gratified by the support she received, so she also had black lives patrick wow matter painted on an enormous yellow letters. a kind of a bold move if you think about it, making a street partisan. imagine a big city mayor naming a major thoroughfare nra avenue or planned parenthood boulevard. it's impressive in a way, but black lives matter wasn't satisfied by it, not even close. the d.c. chapter released a statement attacking mayor bowser

for not giving complete control of the city's police department. "this is to appease white liberals while ignoring our demands. black lives matter means defund the police. got that? black lives matter means defund the police. so that's what black lives matter means. no one really explains that. now we know with intel and pepsi and amazon are supporting when they send money. defunding the police. suddenly it feels like all the adults have gone to saint barth's and turned off their cell phones. who was running this country? who's in charge? anyone? yet amazingly, some republicans in washington seem giddy as they watch the country go insane. democrats have gone too far this time, they will tell you. we are guaranteed to win in november. probably gotten text to of that affect recently from friends. sounds good, but they are wrong. they are totally and completely wrong on many levels. but one thing if you care about a country, you've got to try.

you have an obligation to try your very best to protect and defend it no matter who is helped in november. that's what patriotism is. not about you, it's about america. even as a matter of peer politics, this is a mindless analysis, a stupid calculation. bad ideas are like cancer. when you ignore them and pretend they are not there, they spread. most people as we noted currently opposed defunding the police. that is where the polls stand right now. but will they feel that way in three months? how about in three weeks? in an environment like this, you don't know. this move fast. commissioner once opposed mocking americans like annealing to attack the country is racist, now has announced he is with black lives matter. >> we admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier. and encourage all to speak out

will be protest. we at the national football league believe black lives matter. i have personally protest with you. >> tucker: of this is so good for republicans, explain this. why does the latest round indicates that joe biden's lead in this race is growing? and that's not a small thing if you plan to live here. you don't want to live under attorney general keith ellison, so why is it happening? maybe it's because republicans in washington have decided to sit this crisis out. they haven't bothered to explain what's wrong. they haven't bothered to tell us anything about what might be flawed about black lives matter, and they don't plan to. they are too cynical, too fearful. they are going to pen like it's not happening, repeat platitudes, read bumper stickers on the air, nod solemnly, and do nothing to protect the country. why would voters reward that?

democrats by contrast who are completely wrong and are leading us down a path that won't end well aren't shamed in the slightest of what they believe. they brag about it just like they kneeled in submission. >> we are here to honor george floyd. for those who wished, we will now kneel for a moment of silence. >> tucker: nancy pelosi doing something crazy again. keep in mind, it wasn't just nancy pelosi, not by a long shot. members of the national guard

kneeled too. so did a group of fbi agents, so did the prime minister of canada donna justin trudeau who other day was wearing black face. the police chief of webster massachusetts went even further than that. he laid on the ground and complete submission. and then things began to spin completely out of control not just in this country, but throughout the west as the crowd swelled and the demand for total ideological conformity grew louder, this latest cultural revolution became a parody of itself as they always do. in london, protesters vandalized the statue of abraham lincoln because what it abraham lincoln ever do for black people? a mob defaced a monument to the first all-black volunteer regimen in the civil war because black people dying to end slavery sounds like white supremacy to us. around the same time, a law professor from the university of chicago called for an armed coup to overthrow the president of the united states, but that

didn't felt get a lot of press because it didn't seem particularly newsworthy under the circumstance. was that kind of weekend. what is going on? what is this about? even the outlines are blurry at this point, but we know this, no matter what they tell you, it has very little to do with black lives, if only it did. democratic leaders cared about saving the lives of black people, and they should, they wouldn't ignore the murder of thousands of young black men in their cities every year. they wouldn't put abortion clinics in black neighborhoods. they would instead do their very best to improve the public schools and to encourage intact families which we know beyond a shadow of a doubt is central to the life prospects of children. they tried to make black neighborhoods as safe as their own neighborhoods. they close the payday lenders that add so much misery to people of all colors. but they don't even consider doing any of this, they don't even try. instead, the encourage theft and mayhem as if that will help. will not help.

this may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you and at this rate, they will. anyone who has ever been subjected to than bob knows the feeling. it's like being a swarmed by hornets. and the temptation is to panic. have to keep your head and tell the truth. you show weakness of any kind, they will crush you. ask your breeze. by some accounts, boardroom breezes on his fourth apology for the crime of defending the american flag. he decided to apologize and now they are using him as a propaganda working hostage tape after hostage tape. at a moment like this, there is no advantage in cowardice, in being met romney. you think you're saving yourself but you're just empowering the worst people my people who hate you. before you know it, confessing to crimes you didn't commit. in tell the truth, and the truth is this is a good country, been

better than any other. we have nothing to be ashamed of. immigrants know that best of all. that's why they come here. a million new americans every year. they are not coming because america is a racist country. they are coming because it's not. that is all true. and they were clear moments we know it's true, even the people claiming it's not. truth is a defense no matter what they are doing at this moment. this moment will pass, remember that. when it does, we will look back at what we just saw in horror and disbelief, but if you are honest now, you'll keep your dignity and ultimately, you will be very glad about that. life is not worth living without it. you doing okay?

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>> i said our collective, our collective burden here in the society is that we let black men and women die. i find it myself. we collectively have a choice about whether we will continue being the killers. >> tucker: the killers. what happening? how did we get to a place in the history of our country where our leaders talk like this? it seems like 20 minutes ago, they were quoting the founding documents. all of us are made by god and

therefore we are all equal on the deepest level. equal before god, equal before the law. you don't point to ethnic groups and say you were innocent and you are guilty because of your skin color. what kind of grotesque parody of america is this? it doesn't matter what the colors are. it's the fact they are saying it at all that is completely wrong. we use to recognize that and we know longer do. how did we get here? on the u.s. civil rights commission and frequent guest of the show and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. you look at some of the stuff and you think did we wake up one morning and we are not even in the country that we thought we were in? >> we are in an inflection point in a dangerous one. i don't think many of us contemplated that we may use america, that it might be teetering on the brink here but i think as you said in your intro, this isn't really a time for cowardice or for ignorance and unfortunately many of our leaders are displaying both.

throughout history, we see that there are very fast movements that take the population unawares. the cultural revolution for example in all of the struggle sessions seem to be parroting right now, but this was an extraordinary time and we have leaders that are displaying so much cowardice and ignorance and ignorance comes in this fashion. i've been living in the same inner-city black neighborhood for nearly 40 years now. and during that period of time, almost throughout, the crime rate has been dropping slowly, but steadily throughout that entire period. then we had the michael brown incident in ferguson, we had consent decrees issued all over the place, you had the ferguson effect and police withdrawing from active policing because of the fear of being attacked such as darren wilson being accused of all manner of nefarious things and consent decrees also bound their hands also. so for that 35 year period, you

have a decline in crime and all neighborhoods. in that one year after ferguson and i wasn't a 5% spike, not a 10% spike from another 20%spiken homicide rates and in those cities, all had double digit increases in homicides and other crimes after decline. so if you talk about even marginally giving consideration to defunding even slightly the police, if black lives truly matter, fund the police. reforms of policemen who were bad and there are bad apples everywhere. you hear, a few they are, of course that will happen in a nation of 330 million. all of what we are witnessing right now is based on a false narrative that everyone has known for a long time. not everyone, some in positions of power or political expediency

has been expanding on a false narrative that blacks are being disproportionately targeted by cops and also as we saw in that video of ahmaud arbery, racist whites are hunting down blacks. the data has been a clear for long time. the longest-serving member of the civil rights commission. i've been marinating in a state of for a long time. you say some of these things, you can lose your job. you can be ostracized. this is not a time and here are some of the steps. as opposed to what is now a given maybe the folks at the nfl is him of the big corporations and people think that cops are slaughtering black people disproportionately, the studies that have come out come of the most recent one i think by the national academy of sciences, all these folks are not to say really that bastions of right-wing extremism found that

white perpetrators are slightly more likely to be shot by cops than blacks, also another study that shows that unarmed whites are twice as likely to be shot by cops as blacks, and the narrative shows that because of black overrepresentation in violent crime, they are actually underrepresented in police shootings is a function of the type of encounters that one would have with cops. >> tucker: if the average person said that out loud, they would be fired. you're a great man. great to see you, thank you. >> tucker: are so-called health experts were completely wrong about the death rate from the coronavirus, they were wrong about how easily it is spread, and now they are admitting they were wrong in a profound way about who could and who could not spread it. dr. marc siegel joins us with an amazing development in this story.

>> if you're trying to contain spread, it's the asymptomatic people that are your real thre threat. i am asymptomatic, i go to a big venue, i distribute the virus to other people. >> tucker: that was the political activist zeke emanuel posing as he so often does on television as a health expert just two months ago. coronavirus they told us was so deadly because anyone could spread it even if they had no symptoms at all and that's why we needed to have for years nationwide lockdowns which destroyed our economy and drove people to suicide. but now, three months after, we learn from the world health organization that in fact, asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is so rare it verges on the nonexistent. so if that's true, we don't know, but if it is, what can we tell sick people to stay home then go back to life as normal?

of fox medical contributor and one who answers those questions for us. what do you make of this? >> this comes from the head of emerging diseases of the world health organization, and the point she's making is not that there isn't asymptomatic people, but that they are much less likely to spread it than those who are coughing and sneezing and sick. i will tell you why that's really important here. is obvious that social distancing, and i'm a big believer in that, as necessary to keep people from coughing on you, but the whole idea about lockdowns, everybody sheltering in place, came from the idea of asymptomatic carriers. they are out there, they will spread it to you. so what the world health organization has done as they have found by tracing people who had it that it wasn't the asymptomatic people that are most likely spread it, it is the

coffers and sneezers. we also have evidence of it here now in the united states. i will give you evidence i talked about last week. we had these protests for a week now, and most times, covid-19 spreads within the first week. let me tell you, we still have a curve here. on june 6, 23,000 cases. on june 7th, yesterday, we had 18,500 cases. we are not seeing the spike that could have occurred when the lockdowns were violated by people protesting. that's good news because the lockdowns have had tremendous cost, as you said, not just economic cost, but mental and physical cost. not getting cancer screenings, not going to the emergency room, not getting elective surgeries, all of this the result of these lockdowns. we will see a lot of depression and suicide as a result. here is why it's not working. lockdowns work best when there isn't a lot of virus in the community. let's look at australia.

australia close their borders for six months, nobody in a nobody out. they had a small amount of virus. compared to our 2 million cases here in the united states and probably a lot more than that that hasn't been diagnosed, australia has had 7,000 cases in over the past 24 hours five cases. that follows what we knew from 1918 spanish flu were st. louis lockdowns in advance of the spanish flu coming from boston. australia learned that lesson and we didn't. time we learned another lesson and start to let up on the lockdowns while keeping the social distancing in place as best we can. i think our protests have taught us that. still too soon to be sure, but i believe that the world health organization is probably right. there's a lot of a systematic cases out there, but it's those that are sick, those that are coughing and sneezing that are spreading at the most. >> tucker: i saw governor gretchen whitmer who has tortured michigan for months

not social distancing. great to see you, thank you. >> the mask isn't enough. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: they are such liars. and who knows that well your max bench is three months as the acting director of national intelligence but in that span, he did more than anyone in memory to bring to light from a to bring to the public which owns those documents the truth about what actually happened while we weren't watching. ric grenell joins us for his first interview since leaving public service after the break.

>> tucker: and his most recent job overseeing american intelligence, ric grenell declassified documents we should have seen much earlier including some that showed the fbi entrapped michael flynn and did it for political reasons. was a remarkable thing to learn. a trump administration official actually working on behalf of the administration's interest in the public's interest as well jim mattis publicly denounce the administration he once worked

for and in response to his statement, tweeted this. one of the biggest opponents of bringing u.s. troops home, by committing to this policy. i would he take the job and then undermine the policy? it's what d.c. types do. we are happy to have him join us for his first interview tonight. expand on that tweet for a second if you will. that's what d.c. types do. what did you mean by that? >> the fact of the matter is we have a real problem in washington, d.c., because it's a system that it no longer is pushing against each other to create a good policy, it is no longer a fight between republicans and democrats it it's a fight between washington and the rest of america and let me expand on that. what we have a system in washington and you know this, where people get jobs your way up and it's like musical chairs

from one agency to another. there is no outside thought, no outside perspective when someone like donald trump comes in saying why are we doing it this way. they attack him because breaking the system, doesn't play by their rules. i saw that by entering intelligence world, and senators from the democratic party saying you have no experience, why shouldn't you -- why should you be there and trying to leave this office of director of national intelligence, and the fact of the matter is, nobody said that my first intelligence briefing was in 2001 the form senator mark warner got his intelligence briefing. the same guy who said that i wasn't qualified. i actually am a receiver of intelligence, and expert on the consumer part of the intelligence and how to utilize it, but that perspective has

never brought to washington. you've got to grow up, you've got to be the deputy assistant secretary and then you get something else and before you know it, you are indoctrinated. >> tucker: that is not democracy, that is subversion of democracy, but let me ask you a very blunt question on how honest you can be. a lot of us who grew up here reflexively respecting our intelligence agencies defending us are awakening to the fact that there's a lot of sinister behavior that we know nothing about. what was your assessment? what was your assessment, should we be worried about what they are doing? >> first of all, let's always remember that intelligence is an estimate. sometimes we get it right and sometimes we get it wrong. is utilized by policymakers to say here is the current information of what we know and here is a current information that we don't know, use it to make good policies and instead,

what we had as policymakers that manipulated. i had intelligence officers who didn't want to brief the hill any longer because their words would be manipulated. >> that is less surprising. who did more to bring to light the public information we should've heard a long time ago, thank you for what you did. great to see you. we will be right back.

>> just want to reiterate something we talked about at the beginning of the show, and it's this. when people try to force you to say things you know are not true, it's a power play. making you submit makes them feel powerful, and it's very hard to resist. the consequences can be profound. do it anyway. tell the truth no matter what. for the sake of your dignity,

for the sake of the country, for the sake of your children and grandchildren. when all this is over, and it will be overcome if you have told the truth, you will be proud and if you haven't, you won't be. that's it for us tonight. have a great evening. sean hannity from new york. >> sean: i think it's the number one best-selling book of all time, the truth shall set you free. tonight, we begin with what i believe can be an extraordinarily dangerous movement that could create real serious danger. life-threatening danger to many americans, and that is this new defund the police movement and sadly, it is picking up a lot of steam. we are now seeing it in some areas around the country watching a lot of cities tonight. will show them to you including minneapolis. local politicians are trying to dismantle entire police departments altogethe