>> martha: that is "the story" of tuesday, june 16th 2020. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. tucker carlson is up next. have a good night, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last night, we did something we don't do very often. we spent the entire first block of the show on the same topic. we told you about black lives matter, told you while black lives matter believes. we told you what the group plans to do with our country when they amassed unprecedented amounts of power. the segment went on for 20 minutes. but in the end a lot of people saw it. the show turned out to be the most-watchtower of prime time television in the country yesterday come out rated everything else, but we never talk about ratings and we're definitely not telling you this to brag about it, is already

more than enough bragging and television, that's for sure. in any case, nothing in television lasts forever. next week we will probably get beaten by a 3:00 a.m. re-air of "gilligan's island." the point of telling you this is to remind you that you are not alone. you may feel like you are. suddenly, your opinions qualify as crimes. dare to say what you think at work and you will be fired in the middle of a recession. write what you think online and you will be silenced by the big tech companies so you keep your views to yourself. you have no choice. a lot of americans are doing that right now, they are staying quiet and course that is the point of censorship, to keep people isolated and alone, to prevent a consensus that challenges those in charge. if you're forced to shut up they can do what they want to you and your country, that's why they do appear last night show adjusted they have not yet succeeded, though they are trying. millions and millions of americans agree with you.

you are not crazy. your views are not evil. what is happening to this country right now is completely and totally wrong and that will be obvious to everyone some day when our revolution has ended. for now, most are too afraid to say that. one of the reasons we get to say that and often do is that fox news is an independent company, we are not dependent on the progressive tech monopoly google to make a living here, thank heaven. most media companies are dependent on google, google control 70% of all online advertising. so if you're in the news business, you will obey google pay when google tells unities in the coming you do it, you have no choice. they can bankrupt you in a minute and they will. in all of human history, no single entity has ever had more control over information than google does right now. so if you are worried about the concentration of power in the hands of a few unaccountable actors and you very much should be, nobody has more unchecked

power than google does. this afternoon, nbc news decided to use some of google's power to shut down a couple of its competitors. power is useful for that. in nbc employee, a screen from a left-wing activist group in england announcing two sites as "racist." google immediately took the bait, of course, the company threatened to ban both organizations from google's ad platform, in other words, cut off their revenue. she nearly fired off a victory tweet boasting about the censorship she had inspired. she called the two sites far-wright, a term that has no meaning but does suggest some kind of immoral behavior. at the end of her tweet she thanked the activist who helped her to a silenced competing views. "for their hard work."

adele seemed to make very satisfied with herself, she'd done her part for the revolution today. so what did zero hedge end of the federalist to do to deserve this? to be demonetized? we asked google and they told us that the sites maintain "unmoderated comment sections," in other words, readers get to say what they want. google finds this intolerable. faced with destruction, the federalist had no choice to submit to google, deleted their comment section entirely. zero hedge it does still have comments so it has been demonetized trade we will see if they can continue operating made all this raises an interesting question. google says it now holds conservative web sites responsible for the comments of their readers. and yet, irony of ironies, thanks to a special carve out google has received from the united states congress, something they call section 2:30

of the communications decency act, google itself is not responsible for content on its platform because of congress as it doesn't have to be. so if you are slandered by someone, for example, and that slander passes through google servers, you cannot sue google over it. google is immune from the consequences, immunity is a nice thing to have if you are big company, fox news doesn't have it. but again, thanks to congress google does have immunity and that's one of the main reasons that google's founders are some of the most rich and powerful people in the world, because congress allows them to be. senator josh ali pointed this out today. let's hope he and his colleagues act soon to revoke this privilege. if google will not extend those protections to others, google should not enjoy those protections itself, obviously. google should have faced these consequent is a long time ago, congress should have done this years ago. it's been clear for a very long time that the big tech monopolies have now surpassed the federal government as the chief threat to our liberty.

>> google is the most powerful company in the history of the world, the portal through which the bulk of our information flows. that means that if google isn't on the level, neither is our understanding of the world. to an unprecedented extent, google controls reality. google has already shown a disturbing willingness to distort reality for ideological ends. >> tucker: and now it is happening, google is acting directly to say what people can say and what they are allowed to speak, a direct effort to stifle free speech made all of that is even truer today. so why hasn't congress done anything about this? we'd love to ask senator mike lee of utah, we invited him on the show tonight. he would not come. we've invited him before, he would not come then. why do we ask him? he chairs the senate's antitrust subcommittee, he's the man who could do something to protect you from google but he has not bothered to do that.

instead, he's repeatedly taken the side of the big tech companies over your constitutional right. the constitutional right mike lee is sworn to uphold and protect but refuses to. why is mike lee still sitting in the united states senate? he should not be in the senate, that is for sure. we hope mike lee is soundly defeated in his primary by someone who cares about the constitution and about protecting americans from the actual threats they face. we will celebrate it when it happens, we trust it well. so how about house republicans? this spring, doug collins, the ranking member of the house judiciary committee and the ranking member of the antitrust subcommittee released a letter defending google and the other tech monopolies from scrutiny. they attack any investigation of the tech companies that might have "preconceived conclusions that large tech companies are inherently bad or must be broken up." they actually wrote that. who is paying these guys?

and more to the point, whose side are they on? again, let us hope for a vigorous primary challenge to these and any who share this view. year in and year out, we vote for these people in the fervent hope they will stand up for us when it matters. now it matters. and now, like every time before, they sell us out. time is out. seriously, it is too much. the stakes are too high, we need better leadership, we need someone to protect us and nobody has. shawn davis knows that too well, he cofounded "the federalist." tell us the obvious thing, did you know this was coming? >> no, we didn't and it's actually really interesting how this came about, we never got any formal notice from google, we never got any notice from their ad team. we learned about this from nbc news, from the reporter who emailed general info account at a book with a federalist, she

didn't email me or my partners on my founders, saying hey, we heard that google d monetize you, what you think about that? and at that point we started reaching out to connections we have at google and found out that it turns out yeah, something was going on there but it wasn't what nbc had said, it looks like nbc, the network that coddled harvey weinstein and matt lauer, had partnered with a foreign left-wing group in europe to go after us and use google to go after us and as of now since we have temporarily removed our comments section, i can assure you they will be back, we are back in google's good graces but this is a pretty terrifying example of the power that you have between the unholy union of corrupt media and monopolistic tech oligarchy. >> tucker: that's it right there. i think all of us have gotten over our shock of watching

so-called journalists promote censorship. but you've got to kind of wonder, our laws being broken here? we have an election looming on the horizon, news companies trying to put their competitors out of business with the help of the monopoly that only exists because it has a special carve out from the united states congress. where is the congress, where is the justice department, why isn't anyone stepping in to stop this? >> that's a great question and we wondered the same thing, we were subjected to all these demands in 2016 and after to get rid of foreign interference in our elections and now we have a foreign unit at nbc, the orwellian name, the nbc news verification unit. seeking with another left-wing foreign group to deplatform in american media organization that's supposed to be defended under the first amendment by

going to their left-wing friends at google so i think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered especially by those involved at cnn who put forward a completely false and maliciously so article attacking us and slamming us and defaming us with things that had no basis in reality whatsoever. and if this were a just world there would be accountable accountability for fake journalists who go around trying to destroy their competition for the crime of criticizing them. >> tucker: especially siding with the most powerful company on earth. google has a monopoly on search, the justice department is looking into that, let's hope they break up google but in the meantime, i really good point, this is intentional interference in a presidential election, no? what else could it be? that's what it is. >> that is absolutely what it is and it's being done by people who claim to be journalists, who claim to believe in free speech

and freedom of expression and it's not just that somebody came after us and try to deplatform us, the whiny cry bullies of the left to do this all the time to their enemies. about to see this come from actual journalists who claim to believe in the first amendment was remarkable. and the other thing is, we are a pretty big organization, we are influential, we have a big audience and a lot of influence, we were able to stop this. most people, 99.99% of people who get canceled or deplatform to, they don't have any recourse and it's what's happening to them that is the real crime, not what's happening to us. >> tucker: and all these people you vote for in the hope that when it comes down to it will protect you, all of them are awol, it's really revealing, i would say. shawn davis, great to see you tonight. thank you. it's not just publications being targeted, its individuals as

well. a photo emerged of oklahoma state football coach mike don gundy wearing a shirt m a media outlet on a fishing trip. people can watch whatever they want on television and wear whatever shirt they want. you thought that was your right as an american but in this revolution, his short selection was an ideological crime. current and former players denounced him, the school's president denounced him and he issued an apology, nobody stood up to defend him. brit hume, fox senior political analyst joins us, i'm wondering, always a question i asked you having watch the parade come through washington all these years, have you ever seen anything like this, a moment like this? >> i've never seen anything like this at all, the thought crime that coach gundy stands accused of is watching and wearing a t-shirt belonging to a news

outlet that has been critical of black lives matter. which tells you once again the power that black lives matter is now exercising over vast swabs of our public dialogue. it is disturbing and unlike anything i've ever seen and you look across the spectrum at "the new york times" which committed i think an egregious act of cowardice when there was a newsroom uprising about an editorial which we've discussed on this program, expressed a view about the use of military force to put down these uprising held by 58% of the american public according to polling and was deemed unsuitable by "the new york times" which at first defended the publication of that op-ed and a few days later the publisher who defended it backed off, said it was unworthy of their standards and the editorial page editor got

released, remarkable. >> tucker: and amazing, i thought, and shocking peacemaking the rounds right now in which he points out a bunch of examples of news organizations that caved to pressure and hurt people. our news organizations is supposed to be brave, is that the whole point? we are going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not and we are team and they are the opposite. >> absolutely and the old standard was pretty simple and i lived under it for many years as did u, neutrality and news coverage on the news pages and robust debate reflecting many points of view on the editorial page. i didn't mean the editors had to agree with the viewpoints expressed on their pages, often they did not. but they would publish those views. here was clearly mainstream view just like there was by many in

the newsroom and it resulted in a near-mutiny in which the times buckled. the same thing happened in philadelphia over a headline in which the writer had said, writing about various monuments and so forth in the city of philadelphia that were being defaced and he said, a headline on an article about that set "buildings matter, too." you can't say that because it sounded like you were disparaging black lives matter which clearly was not the case but nonetheless, the guy lost his job. this is really quite remarkable, tucker. >> tucker: nothings causes more humor to make human suffering and cowardice. the world's other 195 nations are fascinated by the newest addition to our road, chaz. we have exclusive new footage

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known about chop. as the nation peaceful or is it dangerous? is a prosperous or impoverished? is it friendly or hostile? look on north korea on puget sound, we can only guess. we have one touch for a tonight, our own kyle rothenberg ventured into the nation formally known as downtown seattle. here's what he found. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: so there it is, documentary evidence of life inside b19. going about their business, we should warn you, though, what you just saw is just a snapshot, the nation of chop is dynamic, changing even as we watch. for one thing, it's getting smaller. today chop was partitioned by the city of seattle, seated several blocks back to its former overlords. in return, the country's makeshift barriers are being replaced with solid concrete

blocks because nothing says country more quickly than a border. our man on the ground outside the nation of chop, joins us tonight. i see they've beefed up their border security. >> they have all of the city has decided to beef up the border security, not necessarily those living in chop. the mayor of seattle made the announcement that essentially they came to some kind of compromise, a typical neo-ronald reagan situation, emergency vehicles and people who actually live and drive there can actually get through because remember, chop happens to be in a space where a lot of people live and a lot of people work. however, since we are dealing with an organization that isn't really an organization, there is not really one leader so the compromise towards the last hour or so that started to break up a

little bit, some folks are angry that they'd given up a little bit too much, we are hearing rumors that there's going to be another march towards west's precincts, about a ten minute walk from where they currently are, another police station that presumably they'd like to either take over or at least used to get their activism out there so consider this manifest destiny of some kind, they will be on the move and maybe get us some more land. >> tucker: if only margaret mead were here. i want to ask you an open-ended question, your best estimate, one percentagwhat percentage ary given time? >> i don't even know how to begin? we are not just talking about alcohol, correct? you know, there is definitely a population -- not everybody there is going to be high or drunk at the same time, i will be fair to them but there is

definitely a high percentage of folks who are having a good time and actually, that's where some of the anger has come from, some of the activists who are there because they are trying to change policy so they got a lot of people essentially just showing up for a party, treating this as a tourist destination, hanging out and eating sandwiches and granola and having a good old time on other people are saying, hey -- primarily white people are doing this, could you maybe get back to the whole activism thing were here for? there is some inner struggle. >> tucker: it's always rippling beneath the surface in paradise. one thing every chopistani has in common, no job. good to see you tonight, thank you. an entire nation unemployed. remarkable. the woke title wave that wants to defund your police department, destroy your family, abolish your history and abolish thabolish -- it's not coming frm

nowhere. it's being bankrolled by this nation's most powerful corporations. we will tell you who next.

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>> tucker: just to be clear about something, the moment we are living there right now is not a revolution of the powerless against the powerful. if it were that, you could consider supporting it. it's the opposite of that, the people in charge clamping down on those below them and crushing them. it's an offensive by the professional class against our history, our culture, and our institutions. it's offensive and being bankrolled by corporate america which tells you everything. corporate america is either sympathetic or too frightened to resist and invite as well play along. the result, millions and millions of dollars have gone to a groups like black lives matter but far more will be going to them or other groups or brand-new groups that will dole out to favored groups are connected activists, this will change the way the country works.

here is a partial list of what happened so far. nike committed $40 million to support the black community, they don't say what that means. the company also set the tone for other companies. they don't care about human rights abuses in china or other dictatorships, they benefit from those. nike released a very somber at attacking this country. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: nike is not making ads like that celebrating the life and destroyed culture of, say, just america.

nike's arrival pledge $20 million less. from now on, 30% of new hires will be black or hispanic, the company said. walmart has pledged a staggering $100 million for an entire center for racial equity. will they do anything about the countless communities they've destroyed? with her ugly box stores filled with cheap plastic garbage from china? procter & gamble pledged $5 million to a new "take on race" fund that will support new and existing organizations in north america. video game ea pledged a million dollars to groups fighting for racial justice pain we should just pause here and say none of this sounds objectionable, no one is for racism. no one is for it. but every one of these dollars

will go to a group with a political agenda and trust us, that agenda opposes you and your family and the people you vote for and is devoted to changing this country in ways that are not good for you at all and it has nothing to do with racism or fighting racism, it's purely a cover. anastacia beverly hills, a cosmetics company gave $100,000 apiece to five groups including black lives matter. twitter ceo jack dorsey took a moment from censoring other people's political beliefs to give $3 million to colin kaepernick's group. colin kaepernick, you remember, defended violent riots recently. that's cool. tictiktok, here, where it's rar. overall, more than $230 million have been pledged and more will be forthcoming by these

companies goodwill. nike's $40 million pledge was met with sneers from many who criticize the company companies executive board for not being diverse enough so all that money winds up being spent on, we don't know and almost nobody is asking that question. though maybe they should. black lives matter activists jon king, you remember recently threatened to lynch the man charged in the death of ahmaud arbery repeatedly raised money for different groups with no explanation for what he did with the money paid his own associates call him a fraud, yet he continues to reflect donations. pretty good gig if you can get it. the minnesota freedom fund, which exists to supply free cash bail to people charged with crimes, received $300 million people donated to spring minneapolis rioters from jail as weakly as possible. the minnesota freedom fund says -- which says it

discriminates based on skin color and who receives bail money. that's not legal, but it's happening because no one's pushing back. here's the real headline. so far, of all the money they received, $30 million, only $200,000 has been spent on bail. that leaves at least $29.8 million left over. where is that money? we don't know. imagine if that money went instead to local businesses in minneapolis that were destroyed by rioters. local government officials in that city estimate the riots caused at least $55 million in damage, just one quarter of the donations we listed above could fix that and they wouldn't be racist and that they wouldn't be discriminate based on skin color but no one is giving to that fund. instead, companies are powe empowering extremists who created this damage in the first place. writing is rewarding. a near journalist, we are always happy to have them on this program, you look at this and

what's your conclusion? >> well, i don't think there's a blanket answer to basically every corporation in this country bowing to the left as they constantly have been in the age of outrage. i think it's telling that you touched on, you know, if china is on the side of black lives matter, that should tell you something. these corporations are banking on the globalist economy in china, the next global leader, they have abandoned america, a band into that is made them and given them the talent and resources in order for them to, they are and they have chosen the side of china, they want the global economy, they don't want the nationalist america-first economy, they don't care about the american people anymore. >> tucker: how stupid do you feel? you've spent your whole life working in jobs and people go out and burn down wendy's and nike writes them a check.

shouldn't you have been writing all these years? >> if that's all it took was just a riot, i mean come on my word. is it good for business? look at these people -- on its face of court team of course it's not, these corporations were virtue signaling constantly realize they must be alienating at least half of their potential customers. what exactly is going on here? is in a shakedown to the left if we give this to you and virtue to you when you leave us alone and not come for us? we all know that never works because as soon as you bend the knee to the mob, they only want more blood. the far left mob who sort of is the face of this, they don't shop at walmart, number one. they don't eat at wendy's, by and large, they're not giving them more customers or money so what's really behind all this? it's either something deeply political or it's just the fact that these companies live in, like most of the country, live

in constant fear of the very tiny, vocal violence, anti-civil rights minority in this group, led by groups like antifa, blm, who exist only to shut down discussion and take away first amendment rights of their political enemies using bullying, intimidation, harassment, and that goes with our corporations can too. they're not going to give these corporations anymore business, they're not going to buy more nike because of this because it's not about that, it's about keeping every institution in our society underneath their thumb and that is what appears to be going on. >> tucker: that's exactly right. but we should not reward violence and we are. we should reward people who try hard and do the right thing but we are not. >> we went from an era of the 60s, a civil rights era and now we are in the air of the anti-civil rights era and these groups are being rewarded for. >> tucker: that's exactly right. they are calling for segregation, literally. >> they are calling from

segregation, take away your right to speak, your right to assemble, all your first amendment rights and yeah. >> tucker: it would be nice if someone protected us from this. great to see you, thank you. we told you last night about how the city of fort worth and their police department responded to writing in the city. that city's police department accused us of inaccurate reporting but it was not inaccurate, there was a violent riot in fort worth. police officers were hurt, the city made dozens of arrests but dropped all charges specifically for rioting against them. the chief of police made that announcement personally, then released a statement implying that police were sinful and pledged reforms. all of that is true, we have the statement and it was all confirmed by local news reports. headlines like this "fort worth police chief drops charges against rioters." but he's mad that we pointed that out in public and embarrassed him. tough, you deserve it.

shameful. just a month ago, coronavirus lockdowns were critical and first responders were described as heroes. now the lockdowns are totally irrelevant if you want to protest something that might help, i don't know, joe biden get elected. and police are villains who should be destroyed. adam kroll is here to explain. ♪ - i'm jeff anderson.

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♪ >> tucker: governor andrew cuomo of new york is threatening once again to shut down his state. the pretext, coronavirus. the reality is an attempt to humiliate the people and show them who's in charge. too many bars and restaurants aren't following social distancing rules, too many people are assembling in small groups as if that's their constitutional right. too bad, nobody is listening anymore and they shouldn't listen, they got the message when cuomo and virtually other lackey in the press or the democratic party endorsed black lives matter protests and said they were exempt from coronavirus restrictions.

>> you're looking at los angeles' hollywood boulevard, take a look at how many just to see her out in full force fighting against injustices. >> take a look at this rally, a black trans lives matter rally in brooklyn, look at that crowd, it's pretty extraordinary. when you see this is a large, diverse crowd as we understand it from all the people there about luke at the resounding support. >> tucker: they are so excited. so the law does not apply to the joe biden's voters, it only applies to you. are you okay with that? have you noticed that? "the new york post" noticed, soda podcast host adam carolla. we are always happy to have a mom, great to see you tonight. have you noticed, there are certain laws that only apply to

you, are you okay with that? >> well, i am as long as i'm under the thumb of our mayor and governor here in california. i got lectured 10 minutes ago by msnbc and cnn for a walking the beach, if someone spreads out towel out on the beach, remember that? i heard us derricks on this network saying, what if people r a mask and they put a towel down on the beach? a towel down on the beach, is there any site at all that says the corona team coronavirus is spread outdoors on the beach and when is the last time some strange couple laid down closer than 6 feet to you and your wife's towel? if they did they were swingers and it was game on. >> tucker: which is a whole separate conversation. but if lying on the beach is dangerous, if there is an important medical distinction between wet and dry sand,

wouldn't these rallies, riots, even looting walmart present public health risks, wouldn't it? >> everything is political expediency and of course they think the people rioting and marching are on their side and the people who want to go down and have a cocktail or go to a church or go to a beach, that's on trump's side so they are going to support one side which makes them hypocrites but by the way, good news, we don't have to listen to a thing they ever say again. we don't have to listen to it, a thing cnn says are msnbc says because evidently they all have an agenda, they used to hide their agenda, now it's transparent, they just lifted their skirt and showed us all of their agenda. >> tucker: i know i'm going to get audited for this but it's a sincere question, you don't call the police, they don't come, your neighborhood is filthy, why are you paying your taxes, for real?

>> i don't know, i do say that all the time especially in l.a., l.a. is just filled with potholes and a holes and homeless people and barbed wire around the freeway signs, it's turned into a health scape out here and you shouldn't -- you know, i have a business and if my business gets tagged by gang bangers, i get a summons from the city commanding i clean it off in two weeks or i'm going to get fined. meanwhile there's piles of garbage, homeless people, and fecal matter everywhere and they are not obligated to do their job at all. >> tucker: disgusting. we put a picture on your new book on the stream, when is that coming out? >> it is out as we speak and it got to tell you i tried to get this through the usual establishment people and none of the mainstream press and publishers will touch it. we did it anyway and we can stick a finger in the eye of these elites if we go out and

put this book on "the new york times" best seller list. >> tucker: i'm ordering it on the phone and the commercial break. adam carolla, great to see you tonight. thank you for that. there could be a big breakthrough tonight and treatment for the coronavirus and once again it might come from a drug that already exists. dr. marc siegel explains that next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: there could be a new medical breakthrough tonight on the question of fighting coronavirus, a question that's been around for 1957. we turn to dr. marc siegel. hey, doctor. >> hi, tucker. the drug has been around since 1957 as you said, i've used it my entire career. it decreases inflammation and only costs $1 uphill per day. incredibly cheap. it decreases inflammation and

what i've told you previously is covid-19 is characterized by its inflammation, it inflames your logs, inflames your blood vessel, inflames your heart. this is wedding causing death to the circulatory system and lungs of most most patients, a large study out of oxford university in england which looked at over 4,000 patients receiving the steroid, decreased inflammation and over 2,000 who didn't receive it found out that if you're on a ventilator that you have about 30% less chance of dying, 33% less chance of dying if you're taking this drug and if you are just on oxygen you are one fifth less likely to die. tucker, when people go into the hospital with covid-19, they already have more than 20% chance of dying and if they're on a ventilator more than 50% so here we finally look like we have something to offer them. very excited about this, because

of what we've talked about previously here, i want to wait until it's peer-reviewed and published, this is clearly a tool in my tool shed, something can use against covid-19 along with the antiviral drug we talked about previously, a sign of hope, for people like it really ill, people that have underlying conditions, people that are elderly, people in nursing homes that we talked about, our hearts go out. we know of something to offer them. there is more hope if you get really sick them before, tucker. >> tucker: hope is the one thing in short supply right now so we really appreciate that update. thank you and your wisdom on the subject, good to see you. that's it for us tonight. we are completely out of time, having used up an entire one of your hours.

who knows ho how many we have so grateful you spent it with us. in the meantime, we introduce you to the great sean hannity, standing by new york to take it away. >> sean: i thought you were talking about somebody else, tucker. thank you for that warm introduction. great show as always. welcome to "hannity." a lot of ground to cover. more lawlessness shockingly in seattle but we do a video that will shock you from a gruesome assault in new york city and much more tonight. we begin with some good news, my heart not as troubled. how do you like that? good news, we need good news. it looks like tonight we can say that a robust, v-shaped economic recovery might come out looking good, be underway. brand-new numbers, look at this, retail sales in the month of may broke all expectations rising by nearly 18% and that's double the most recent forecast and it is