>> that is the tuesday of june 9th, 2020. back here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson is up next. one night good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have a very long open and spent almost half of last night's show telling you about the rise of left-wing mobs in this country, and the threat they pose to all of us. we told you that no matter what they are claiming on television or how loudly we are claiming it, their main goal is power. they will silence you, hurt you, though burn your country down, and they are doing all of that now. so the question is, how should you respond to this and the answer is with courage. here in american coming to live in a free country. you have nothing to be ashamed

of. you don't have to apologize for crimes he did not commit. you have the absolute right to say exactly what you believe is true. that is your birthright. now is the time to affirm that right out loud. if enough decent people rise from their knees and stand down the mob, the mob evaporates. these people are not warriors, they are vampires. they melt in the light. when we show them we are not afraid, they go away. that's what we told you last night. minutes after we said that, the mob came for us, irony of ironies. this been the last 24 hours trying to force this show off the air for good. they won't succeed in that, thankfully, they are not intimidated and we are grateful for that, but the whole thing didn't get us thinking that which we should be more specific about who this mob is and what they are doing. who are the people trying to take over your country, cancel your rights, eliminate our centuries long tradition of

tolerance and free expression. the truth is, we often don't know their names. mostly faceless political agitators who exist primarily online. they are trolls who thrive on cruelty and yet they have immense power over all of us. weak leaders now reflexively bow to their demands no matter what those demands are. why is that? what has changed? that's much longer conversation and we probably ought to do an entire show on that topic and if the news ever calms down long enough to think in different terms, we will do that. but for now, it's enough to say the country's defenses been badly weakened by decades of relentless propaganda all designed to make us feel we have no right to stand up for ourselves and our country. we are too sinful to resist and we deserve whatever we get. shut up and take it, america. we can spend days showing you examples of this, but here's just the very latest from cnn over the weekend.

>> bringing the sign of the protest of the center later. >> they look upset. are the protesters sad? >> they are sad and upset. and they have every right to be, elmo. people are upset because racism is a huge problem in our country. across the country, people of color, especially in the black community, are being treated unfairly because of how they look. >> tucker: a children's show. got that, bobby? america is a very bad place and it's your fault so no matter what happens, no matter what they do to you when you grow up, you have no right to complain. that's the message and it starts very young. where does it end up? we are finding out. here's where it ends up. a serbian soccer player who until the other day played professionally for the galaxy in los angeles. last week, his wife posted

criticism of the looters she was watching back minneapolis. row in serbian, which she speaks, and yet someone noticed them anyway and attacked her providing them. she deleted the post very quickly, but it was too late. we should be clear that her husband may not even have known that she wrote the post. wife is in chicago when she wrote them, but it didn't matter. protesters dutifully arrived at the stadium to call for his firing. so the management of the l.a. galaxy forced him to apologize for his wife and then to denounce her. denounce his own wife. then they made him endorse black lives matter, which he did and then fired him anyway and then they attacked him on his way out. for something he didn't even do and may not even have known about that was written in a language almost nobody in america understands. that's what happened. chris klein seemed pleased by the whole team and said "in the end, we have to look at what the clip stands for and who we are."

who we are. it's a good question, actually. who are we? at this point, we are becoming a north korea. we now believe in blood guilt, we punish people for the sins of their relatives. we don't allow individuals to have private thoughts. we heard anyone who disagrees with orthodoxy. we demand that the innocent beagle to do things we know they didn't do and then read their confessions in public and then we brag about doing all of this. obviously, something terrifying has descended on america and it's easy to stand back and see what is happening. terrible ideas suddenly have free reign. why? because no one pushes back. they are met with supine weakness. you've seen it happen 1,000 times. some professional activist said something crazy because it's what they do, defund the police. what has changed and what is branding was that no one in charge has the stones to disagree, so the rhetoric gets even crazier and more destructive. kill the police?

okay, what next? now investigating a professor for the crime of reading martin luther king this letter from birmingham jail out loud. meanwhile, also at ucla, another professor is under police protection tonight. what did gordon klein do wrong? when minority students asked to be exempted from final exams after george floyd died, he refused and said everyone of all colors has to take the exam. ucla immediately suspended him. dennis threatened to kill him. now he has police cars outside of his house. all of this is happening right now in america. the question is, is anyone defending these guys? defending the right to give exams or to read martin luther king out loud? probably not. no one is defending anyone anymore. is every man for himself. meanwhile, the worst idea, the ones i could harm all of us are growing in power. last week, the cosmetics company l'oreal announced it was hiring

a black transgender model. will sit on the newly formed diversity and inclusion advisory board. she had worked at l'oreal before if you follow fashion, you know that, but got fired for writing this specifically addressed to white people. going to quote from it. "your existence and privilege as a race is built on the death of people of color. racism isn't learned. is unconsciously passed down through privilege. once they realize it is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth, then we can talk. now, she got canned for writing that. announced that crackpot racial theories were contrary to diversity and tolerance toward all people irrespective of their race and that of course is true where it was, not true anymore.

l'oreal has apologized for ever supporting tolerance and diversity and has down rehired her. the idea that racism can be inherited and passed down is not consistent with l'oreal's black lives matter inspired hr policies. some employees there must be worried. we should all be worried. this is terrifying. we should fight against sweeping racial attacks like this with everything we have not because we are sympathetic to the specific group they are going after, but because it is wrong, always, no matter what, no matter who the target is. no child is born evil. sin cannot be inherited. that's insane. certain racial groups are not morally superior to other racial groups, and we should never condemn any ethnicity as "the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth." that is not the talk. is. today, the left has singled out one ethnic group to punish but tomorrow it will be another. bigots never stop with just one,

and it will be every bit as wrong when they do that to other people as it is wrong now because it is always wrong. we have an entire monument on the national mall in washington dedicated to the idea that in america, citizens are judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. we don't always live up to that idea, obviously, but it's got to be the ideal. we give up on that, if we stop trying to treat people equally under the law, then we're done. at that point, this country is simply a collection of angry tribes and violence is inevitable. that's where we are heading tonight have very, very high speeds. democrats are thrilled because they believe they can win the november election by inciting tribalism and maybe they can, but what then? how do you put the country back together? republicans have a moral duty to defend us from this, to stand up now, right now, when it counts for america's highest and most important ideals.

this right now is the crisis that we all sensed was coming. this is why we voted for them. when it really mattered, they promised, they would fight to keep this country from falling apart. now the crisis is here, and they are not even trying. mitch mcconnell is the most powerful republican in the congress. he runs the senate. so what did mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader do today as american society began to unravel? he did not defend the country, much less defend you, he read talking points that nancy pelosi could have written and that benefited only her. many republican senators did that today. these people are cowards, and they are liars. they pose as your protectors, they would sell you out for the price of lunch and laugh as you were hauled away. at the very least, they could point out the endless lying all around us. they were so much of it. here is one example, the mayor of atlanta just announced the

creation of what she called a recovery fund designed to help businesses destroyed in the peaceful demonstrations in atlanta. wait a second, if the demonstrations were so peaceful, why the recovery fund? you think republicans could at least point this out. it's kind of amusing if nothing else, a recovery fund for a peaceful demonstration? but no, you can't criticize keisha bottoms anymore. respect is due. and so they'll push back on the line continues relentlessly in a torrent from everyone in charge, and no one stops it. no one even acknowledges. after a while, no citizen, no one watching believes anything. the few people who remember what america used to be like start to think maybe they are going crazy, but they're not going crazy. is not you, it's them. the country really has changed and very fast. last friday, a man in alabama sent a text at several of his

employees, part owner of a restaurant in alabama called the parkside cafe. protests over the death of george floyd were apparently hurting his business and he was frustrated by that so in his text, he criticized the protesters though he also noted that george floyd "didn't deserve to die." okay. then in one of his employees promptly posted his text to social media and called him hateful and evil. immediately, his restaurant was besieged. they saw this and decided to help. omens open opened a gofundme page to help the parkside cafe, compensate for lost business prayed within hours, donors sent in more than $200,000. turns out an awful lot of americans still believe he should be allowed to express your opinions in private text messages. we used to take that for granted. but the taxpayers who run gofundme.com don't believe that and don't want you to know that others believe that. you're going to control a society, and they want to, you've got to treat every

ordinary dissident like a dangerous revolutionary and shut them down. gofundme immediately shut down candace owens' account. in a statement, go fund the accused candace owens of "inflammatory statements that spread hate, discrimination, and tolerance, and falsehoods against the black community." go fund may did not acknowledge that candace owens is herself black, but of course it wouldn't matter anyway because racism no longer has anything to do with race. it's a way to control disobedience. one of the people who changed how our professional class understands the term racism. the author of the barely literate but deeply influential book white fragility. probably hurts some sociology professor yapping on cn cnn usig that term. she announced that claiming you're not racist is no longer good enough. in fact, it is evidence you're a racist. "i would urge white people to remove the phrase i'm not racist

from their vocabularies." you got that new rule? they spring up out of nowhere like mushrooms after rain but you'd better take heed. people say they are not racist are especially racist. got that? it is the chinese finger trap of race guilt. the harder you struggle against the accusation, the less likely you are to get out of it and the more likely you are being punished for it. so stop resisting, sit back and take it. you have no choice. that's what they are telling you. and a lot of people we used to respect our falling forward, caving to it, kneeling down before it. don't be one of those people. for the sake of the country, stay strong, be brave, be kind, be compassionate, be empathetic, be loving toward your neighbor, but tell the truth. we are americans. right now, it is our duty. at the moment, a lot of our

leaders are not being brave. they are allowing the mob to run rampant. tonight, new leaked audio from chicago, exactly what was going on behind the scenes. it's remarkable and not surprising. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has it all on tape. >> this was a conference call on sunday, may 31st to talk about chicago's response to the widespread looting. on the call where mayor lori lightfoot an older woman including alderman raymond lopez, one of the mayor's harshest critics. for context, on the day of the conference call, chicago had 699 arrests, mostly looters, there were 48 shootings, 17 homicides, and alderman lopez accuse the mayor of being underprepared as the looting spread saying his ward had become a virtual war zone. listen. >> have our neighborhoods are already obliterated. it's too late. we have to come up with a better plan because my fear is once

they are done looting in writing and whatever is going to happen tonight, god help us, what happens when they start going after residents? going into the neighborhoods? once they start trying to break down peoples doors because they think they got something. we know that people are here to antagonize and insight, and you've got them all pumped tonight. today, they won't go to bed at 8:00. walking around right now just waiting to settle some scores. what are we going to do? >> tucker>> the alderman wasn't exaggerating. in an entire strip mall was burned down but when he finished speaking, mayor lightfoot refused to respond and finally she did, watch. >> if you think. >> who are you to tell me i am

full of [bleep]? >> if you think we are not ready, let the neighborhood go up, nothing intelligent that i can say to you. >> maybe you should come out and see what's going on. >> that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard. i understand you want to preen it, i understand. understand. >> you need to check your [bleep] attitude. >> the other alderman jumped in the alderman lopez on the mayor were the only ones trading profanities. another older woman was saying this is a total blank show and added that she'd never seen blank like this before it. one alderman finally spoke up saying many people in the city were listening to the call including children. dr.? >> tucker: amazing. trace gallagher, thank you so much for that. we heard there is a crisis in black communities and surely there is come up with a real crisis something the democratic party doesn't want to talk about because they cause it.

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they will denounce you, try to tell mike turn your friends against you and deny you the ability to earn a living. we have said this repeatedly because it is true, you cannot give in. even if you do with the mob tells you to do, you will not be spared. people on twitter are predators, creditors are incited by weakness, the only solution in the face of something like this is to tell the truth unapologetically. last night, we told you that the mass movement engulfing america right now run by the left isn't really about protecting black lives, certainly many sincere people participating if you think that it is about the people running it know it's not. that's 100% true. how do we know that? right now, the chief demand of the black lives matter movement is to get rid of the police, defund them or abolish them entirely. police, not criminals, they say is the biggest threat to african-americans and that is alive. is all i know matter how many

times i say it. we know that because the numbers are unambiguous. the number of unarmed african-americans shot and killed by police officers in all of 2019 was ten. the number of african-americans murdered and all other ways exceeded 7,000. so with all police vanished from america's streets, that number will almost certainly get much higher. in other words, many more african-americans die. we are not guessing about this. a princeton university paper estimated that for every ten police officers added in this country, roughly one murder is prevented and that of course makes sense. why wouldn't that be true? other crimes went out and that's not a small thing. isn't because they were more arrests. the sheer deterrence of more cops on the street kept people safer without sending more criminals to prison. so what do you think doing the opposite will achieve? i think we know, and we've learned even more about it just this week.

on may 31st in chicago, the police force was completely overwhelmed trying to handle protests, writing, and looting all over the city. in the city's most vulnerable neighborhoods, law enforcement just evaporated. a local pastor described what he saw, "i heard people saying all over, hey, there are no police anywhere. i watched in store looted for over an hour, no police came. so for the people of chicago, not the ones pretending to speak for them on social media or their hapless mayor, but the people that actually live there, the police leaving was a disaster and they were desperate for the police to return. on sunday, may 31st of this year, the city of chicago had 65,000 calls to 911. that is 50,000 more than the usual total. with police gone from chicago's poorest neighborhoods, the city had its deadliest day in at least 60 years, may be the deadliest day ever. by midnight that night, 18 people in chicago had been murdered, that is five more than

the all-time record and ate more than the total of unarmed african-americans shot dead by police last year. in one day. so this is not a defense of people who abuse their power. this show exist to hold those people to account. should police officers who break the law be arrested and punished? of course. find a person in america who disagrees with that. there aren't any. the point is, bad police, needless to say there are some, but they are not the primary problem in american cities are in the african-american community. they are a distraction from the real problems, and the real problems are the destructive effects that bad policies have had and will have on the poorest americans. at this moment, 65% of african-american children are growing up in single-parent homes, double the number from 50 years ago. you don't have to be an evangelical or any kind of moralize or to think that's a disaster because it is. lots of social science on this

and all of it shows having to go married parents in the home does more to improve a child's odds of success that any social program ever invented, that is just empirically true. almost twice as likely to finish high school, half as likely to go to prison. we know that and yet instead of encouraging healthy and intact families, they ignore the question or actively abuts the destruction of family and promotes abortion like that's an answer. in new york city right now, more african-american babies are aborted every year than born. they tell you they love black people. how about education? all of us agree that as a key to ascending. the biggest racial performance gaps are not in right wing cities in alabama, they are in our most liberal cities. in washington, d.c., the most democratic city in the nation where over 90% of voters voted for hillary clinton in the last cycle, 83% of white students are proficient in reading. but just 23% of black students are. it's a gap of 60 points.

in san francisco, the gap is 58 points. why is that okay? it's not okay. you want to protest something, you should protest that. how did we get here? it wasn't always this bad. thanks to coronavirus lockdowns, the black unemployment rate has exploded to almost 17%. is not a concern? it should be. just when people are allowed to go to work, democrats allow their neighborhoods to burn down to placate rich liberals in the suburbs to dominate twitter and "the washington post." a factory in minneapolis has already announced plans to move its 50 jobs to a different city. that is their response to the right. not empowerment, unemployment. how many other businesses will do the same? company simply won't open again? a lot. so what is the left's big idea for saving our cities and turning things around? flooding black neighborhoods with drugs, that's the answer. last year, introduced legislation to support taxpayer-funded economically disadvantaged individuals looking to sell weed in their neighborhoods.

more drug dealers. that's a winning idea. and then of course, something that no one ever talks about, which is debt. they are more than twice as likely to take out predatory payday loans. why does nobody say that? people are getting rich from that. imagine if instead of gutting their police forces, california and minnesota band predatory payday lending. a black lives would actually improve instead of being hurt and it's not just african-americans. is all poor people. talk to one about what that is like. to have your life, it is terrible. that's what's going on right now in countless cities. failing schools, drugs, debt. and that is why the mob sensors criticism. that's why they hate free spee speech. of course, they are hiding their failures. they don't want to debate because they can't win the debate. instead, what they want is for you to shut up and hand them power grid they want to shift the blame for problems they

created on to police. but these being the one urban institution that over the past 30 years is actually achieve something in the one institution the left doesn't already control. so that's the response to every failure. it's because we have too much debate and not enough power. the cochairman of project 21, author of the upcoming book, he joins us tonight. so just as someone who lives in this country and has for 50 years, i am very struck by the lack of conversation about the basic problems of the ones that every american cares about, bad schools, no jobs, too much debt, graffiti everywhere, why does no one ever try to solve those problems? >> i have said this many times and it's pretty obvious. in we need victims. there is a class of americans whose entire livelihood is based on the existence of victims. people got a good education, if people had great jobs, if people control their own lives, a whole

large number of people couldn't get that new volvo. they couldn't go off to aspen for their ski trip. there a strong sentiment among the so-called problem-solving class to keep things as they are. we have spent $22 trillion, and all we have done is enriched the problem-solving class, and we have not done the basic kinds of things that would be good for americans. black, white, or brown. >> tucker: i just wonder where the people of goodwill are. i know they are decent people. i drove down my own street in washington, d.c., last week and saw a black lives matter poster right over a range rover and i thought about knocking on the door and saying i get it, you like black lives matter, fine, but maybe we can do something to make the neighborhoods you are

concerned about better but it doesn't seem to occur to anybody, does it? >> how about tutoring? how about encouraging math? it is ironic to me that washington, d.c., with one of the poorest populations that happens to be black was leading, rushing to legalize marijuana. marijuana regardless of what you think about it isn't the answer to the problems that poor people face. why aren't we encouraging people to strive, achieve, make improvements. there was a time from the 1920s up to the 1950s where black americans were actually more literate, more likely to graduate from high school, more likely to have stable families than the population as a whole. we pretend what we see today is the way that it's always been. it's just the way that it's been

since the problem solvers have been in charge. >> tucker: this suggests a deep kind of decadence. the people who are pushing this have given up. they don't think the problem is solvable. they feel guilty about it, and so supporting black lives matter makes them feel less guilty. who can lead an effort to make actual improvements that help actual people? >> the problem actually rests on this premise, too many of us think that there is nothing that we can do, but there is something. i was three years old and my grandmother said you are ready to start reading. my parents wanted to make sure that i understood whatever happened to me was my fault. in this world, i've discovered that not every single thing that happened to me is my fault, but because my parents instilled

this idea, i accomplished so much more. we had a president, a black man, a man who came from circumstances of struggle who rose up and got to be president. he is an example of what is possible in america. and instead of telling people that, he said america? it's a place where you don't have a chance. he said you can try all you want, but is not going to work out for you. and that has taken hope away. >> tucker: that is the best summation i've heard. thank you so much for coming on tonight, great to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: here is the question tonight, and is still relevant despite everything else that's going on. does the coronavirus bred a symptomatically or does it not? a lot depends on the answer. the world health organization has had both positions, the real question is why are we listening to them in the first place?

dr. marc siegel sorts it out for us after the break.

>> tucker: self-described health experts helped spark global lockdowns which inspired the world economy and caused untold human suffering because they warned that anyone could spread the coronavirus, even people with no symptoms and then yesterday, a top world health organization official said something very different. actually, asymptomatic spread happens rarely if ever. >> we have a number of reports from countries that are doing very detailed contact tracing. following asymptomatic cases, they are not finding secondary transmission, very rare. >> tucker: that seemed pretty straight forward but lots of people were not happy to hear it because that would mean that the most economically self-destructed acts in all of human history may not have been justified.

but conveniently today, the world health organization walked back that statement and said "we really don't know how common asymptomatic spread is." so what is the truth? dr. marc siegel is the one we always ask and we are happy to do so again tonight. hey, doctor. >> two stories tonight. the first you just mentioned, world health organization and then testing. i've been very hard on the w.h.o. and have pointed out that they called it a regional conflict in january that in february, they were encouraging international travel in a time when it was spreading around the world, covid-19. and in early march, still weren't calling it a pandemic. i felt kind of bad, so last night, yesterday, when i heard their head of emerging diseases trained at the london school of tropical medicine, as a top epidemiologist and i thought i'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt. she is saying asymptomatic

spread is very rare and i thought finally, a shining star coming out of the w.h.o. i can hang my hat on. guess what? today, she walked the whole thing back there and she says i wasn't talking about presymptomatic spread, meaning people who didn't yet get sick. cdc says right before you have symptoms as one of the biggest times of spreading, and then she said and 16% of cases don't have symptoms of all and we don't know how many of them are spreading. while, walks the whole thing back i know i'm left thinking how can we possibly trust the w.h.o. at all? which leads me to my second topic tonight, testing. we don't know how many people are spreading this right before they get sick or are spreading it when they are not sick, less likely, still calling that rare, but less likely, most likely right before you get sick, then we need testing to tell us, don't we? well, the admiral of hhs at the coronavirus task force and said

to the task force today according to breitbart 70 testing centers in the united states were temporarily closed down because of the protests. so while these people were huddling together and possibly spreading covid-19, and i was saying there is no sign of a spike in the cases, guess what we weren't doing? we weren't able to test anyone in the area. so how much of a contradiction is that? we need testing, we need officials to be honest with us, we need to know the real science here. we don't need anybody jumping to false conclusions and misleading us any further about covid-19. >> tucker: that is the understatement of the week. dr. siegel, thank you for that account. a member of the british royal family he probably saw the interview, andrew said he would do everything he could to expose the crimes of jeffrey epstein but american prosecutors say that's not true at all.

will we ever know the truth about his life from a why he died, where the money came from, who was he working for? someone has just written a new book on those questions.

>> jeffrey epstein is dead. >> did he kill himself? was he killed? >> there was something happening here that was bigger than just jeffrey epstein. >> tucker: netflix has a new documentary called filthy rich about predatory billionaires jeffrey epstein, one of the most popular things on television right now but we still don't know the full extent of what he did, who knew about what he did, we don't know what he did for a living. we don't know exactly how he died. all of that is still a mystery. britain's prince andrew has tried to portray himself as fully cooperative but the u.s. attorney on the case says that's not true. the prince he says has repeatedly refused interview request from american investigators.

a journalist and author of the convenient death, the mysterious demise of jeffrey epstein and joins us tonight. they can so much for coming on. i'll just get right to it. did he kill himself? >> when i started the book, i thought that he had but the truth is has more evidence as we investigated, i worked on it with my coauthor, we talked with a lot of people in that prison, we talked with his lawyer, and we got the sense that the end it was a far more questions and there were answers. it's a very mysterious case and the revelations in the book are shocking. >> tucker: what did he do for a living? where did the money come from? >> he was a con man at his heart, conned his way into the upper echelons of media, finance, politics and the academy, and he use those connections to enrich himself. he always told people he was a money manager but in fact, he never was a money manager. he might have given some financial advice at times, but

he wasn't managing people's money. he was using that information we believe and using that information that he got by being close to all these rich and famous people and was using it to get closer and closer and eventually to end up enriching himself. >> tucker: was he working for intelligence services? >> he wanted people to believe that he was. we talked to a friend who said he often made references and there were a lot of people who believe that he had connections to intelligence services either domestic or foreign. >> tucker: there have been a number of accounts of tapes of well-known people in his home, where are those tapes? >> the feds pick them up and haven't really said information. i think the feds showed. the attorney general after his death, we all knew it was mysterious, but the attorney general said they would be an investigation. where is that investigation? where have the results of that

investigation led us? human president trump has set his own skepticism and his time the feds release the information that they have so that we can analyze it. one thing you talk about not being picked up, nobody else has been picked up, and we know they are on the record accounts of other people helping jeffrey epstein along the way that none of these people have been picked up and i think it is time that we get more answers to this deep mystery. >> tucker: no one has been punished. a former bush administration official is one of the people and a lot of other former bush administration officials helped him escape on the original charges, and no one has been punished even or denounced. all the people who help jeffrey epstein haven't been. any idea why? >> he was very close to the clintons, very close to various people in power. you've got to think that those deep connections to hide people in power have really helped him.

he had lots of secrets of these people. was in their interest to keep his story quiet. they are breathing a sigh of relief that he has died and every day as we go on pass this, i think they continue to breathe lighter and lighter knowing that hopefully the secrets won't come out. we did capture some, they were some in this book that i think readers will find interesting and compelling and i hope people pick it up. >> tucker: you started the project assuming that the official story of his suicide was true and you wound up having more questions than you thought you would. that really does say a lot. thank you for that, congrats on the book. >> thank you very much, tucker. >> tucker: the leaders of a lot of our cities are talking about reducing or eliminating their police force. why are they saying that? because they know it doesn't apply to them. we've got details and will confirm everything you've suspected after the break. itching for a treat.

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>> tucker: you were hearing a lot of the official saying we should defund the police. why are they saying that? because like most of their bad policies, it won't apply to them. here is more proof. a person who is president of the l.a. city council just introduced a motion to slash the l.a.p.d. budget by $150 million. so does martinez hate cops? no, she loves cops. and in fact, she loves them so much that from april until bitterly this week, she had a special personal police protection detail at taxpayer expense camped at her own home. she only stopped using taxpayer-funded bodyguards when a reporter noticed it and asked about it. and hats off to that los angeles reporter for doing that. you think she would go without police protection? are you crazy? defund your police, not hers. you are paying your taxes to pay for her police.

hope you feel better. that is it for us tonight. we are out of time, but the good news is that waiting to take over is that great sean hannity from new york. here he is. >> sean: i have never had a nice word said about me by anyone in the media. you're the only one. great show, thank you and welcome to hannity. tonight, we want to start -- we want one of you to ask yourselves a question. you are a local police department is dismantled and defunded, who are you going to call when someone is breaking into your house in the middle of the night? who do you call if your children's lives are at risk from an armed intruder? who do you call? defunding the police, democrats have zero answers for what's going to take its place and yet they are moving forward at lightning speed with plans to defund and dismantle local police departments. coming up tonight, lawrence jones asked new yorkers what they really think about this movement,