>> martha: that is "the story" of june 17, 2020. have a good night, everybody, stay safe and stay well. tucker carlson is coming up next, i will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." just a few hours ago the fulton county district attorney paul howard jr. charge former atlanta police officer garrett roth with murder in addition to ten other criminal charges. if convicted, rolfe faces possible execution. he is this aspect of the shooting of rayshard brooks. last friday, friday, rayshard brooks passed out drunk in the drive-through lane of a wendy's in atlanta. his car was blocking traffic to restaurant employees called police. they arrived, woke brooks and asked him if he had been

drinking. brooks admitted that he had been. officers then move forward with the textbook dui arrest. nothing unusual. but then when they tried to take him into custody had started swinging. he snatched a taser from one of them and tried to use it from officer rolfe's. when he raised the taser to fire, rolf shot and killed him. here are of the video. >> hey sir, are you all right? >> i've had some drinks today. it may be one and a half. i told her baby, let's go. because i'm hungry. >> what kind of drinks did you have? >> i'm not sure, something she ordered. >> so you've had one and a half drinks? >> well, i think you've had too

much to drink to be driving. put your hands behind your back for me. put your hands badger back. >> stop fighting. stop fighting. you're going to get tased. you're going to get tased. >> take off the taser. take off the taser. >> stop fighting. >> 63. >> after the shooting, officer rolfe tried to keep rayshard brooks alive, he tried to perform cpr on the man he just shot.

>> keep breathing. mr. brooks, keep breathing for me. >> tucker: no matter how much you look at these videos or how closely it's a tragedy of every time. the question is, was it murder? if you snatched a copse taser and tried to shoot them with it, most likely you would be dead. no one would march in your memory and no one would burn a building in her name. no one will consider your death controversial much less a racial act. but in this case things are very different. officer rolfe is facing the death penalty. the mob wants vengeance now and they've expressed that by burning the wendy's where ahmaud arbery died to the ground. they committed violence. will they commit more if he's not charged? that has to be weighing on paul

howard. and not just that, paul howard is fighting for his job. he's facing a runoff election soon. paul howard has every reason to change the subject and is to bow immediately for the mob's demands which is what he was doing. during his press conference today, a man who went berserk on police officers and locked into the ground as "jovial." watch howard statement hearing compared to the video we just showed you. >> mr. brooks on the night of the incident was calm, he was cordial, and really displayed at a cooperative nature. secondly, even though mr. brooks was slightly impaired, his demeanor during this incident was almost jovial.

>> jovial. you just watch the tape. calm and cooperative are probably the first words that came to mind. just two weeks ago, the very same prosecutor, the one you just saw, paul howard, noted at a press conference a recording that a taser is considered a deadly weapon under georgia law. whatever, that was law. if it was a taser it could have very easily have been officer rolfe's gun. had that been the case, officer rolfe would be dead right now and you would have never heard the story because no one in the media would have dared tell you. still the prosecutor's prosecutor would like you to know that mr. brooks was cordial and no threat at all. >> mr. brooks never presented himself as a threat. at the very beginning he was peacefully sleeping in his car. >> just a guy peacefully sleeping in his car and now he's dead.

so why were the cops hassling a man who was just peacefully sleeping? the prosecutor suggested why. take a guess? >> officer rolfe actually kicked mr. brooks laid on the ground, while he was there fighting for his life. officer breslin actually stood on mr. brooks' shoulder while he was struggling for his life. the meat demeanor of the officers immediately after the shooting did not reflect any fear or danger of mr. brooks but their actions really reflected other kinds of emotions. >> tucker: oh, it reflected other kinds of emotions. got that? we know what's coming next, guaranteed. they are going to tell tell us this is a racially motivated killing. and maybe they could prove it. but there is zero evidence of

that so far. in the absence of evidence paul howard should not say things like this at press conferences. it makes people hate each other and here is a country apart which is the last thing we need right now. atlanta's police department's 58% black, that's a higher percentage of black people than the city of atlanta itself. so explain how systemic racism is responsible for the shooting. and speak slowly. cops in atlanta know exactly what was going on. there are reports tonight that any of them have walked off the job at the beginning of their shift. no doubt many of them will retire from the forest and leave. who would enforce the law, you make less than a plumber, everyone hates you and you could easily get killed. no way. no normal person would want that job. so who's going to take the job? going forward we are going to

get a lot of people which is one of the ironies. pressure from the not mob will not stop police brutality and that is the worst kind of people that become police. for now though attacks on law enforcement believe that many of them have no police protection at all. recently the black lives matter riots came to charleston, south carolina. what happened next? this hasn't been widely reported but with that we would share with you. the a transcript of a 911 call and this is a quote. it's a macintosh restaurant, i called earlier but it's gotten worse. the riots broke into the restaurant and they are stealing all the money come all the alcohol. they are tearing up the seats. and there are still no cops and 30 people in danger. no evidence that the cops ever came.

ken snyder owns a wine bar, and he said, it's too late, my place is destroyed. schneider laid then later said he was come in completely in disbelief that no one came. people are losing more than just their businesses in this environment. a new york city mergers are up 25% just this year and that's despite the lockdowns. in just the past month the number of murders recorded in the city has literally doubled compared to a year ago. when he politicized law enforcement, innocent people inevitably died. that is not a partisan point. the expectation that the police will come and protect you is not ideological. ask any liberal who's ever called the police in crisis and had them not show up.

it's terrifying no matter who you vote for. protecting the public from criminals is not some feature of government we hope for, it's why we have government and the whole point of government. there is no reason to have government otherwise. and probably wouldn't pay the bill. and taxation without protection is just that. and they distract you and to confuse you for slogans or rioting. that's much larger, and they treat all american citizens equally regardless of what the

mob demands. we should stop paying for it. mr. colson, thanks so much for coming on. you've been in law enforcement all your life and have talked to people that are still in it. why would anyone enforce the law right now? >> the officers are walking off the job. lady justice is supposed to have a blindfold on, and in this case lady justice is looking into the eyes of a corrupt politician and answering to the mob. and a travesty. i think it's important case he here, and this prosecutor and

charges, where is the rule of law? we don't have it now. i'm in contact with police officers every day of our life and all of them are looking to leave or get out of the business because frankly these are some of our best trained and most loyal and courageous people we have in our society. >> tucker: i keep thinking when i watch these videos and i work in a business that's on video, i note the video can distort the truth. here's my question to you. as someone who has been around at all your life. does prosecutor have more evidence that this was more than just a murderer, or there is evidence that there was some bias behind the shooting? he doesn't have it. >> he doesn't have it. every policeman in the country

is trained that if you are proposing an individual with a trainer it's like that individual having a firearm. that's the law in the state of georgia. so he's not doing the right thing here and he doesn't want the facts. and he should be removed. he should be disbarred and removed. i think we are going to find that those lives and officers were in peril by the actions of this individual. >> tucker: i keep hearing from people i know in atlanta that the prosecutor likely felt he had no choice. if he didn't charge this police officer with murder, the city would burn. what kind of society do we live in, we follow the demands of people who set building on fire. >> that goes back to the sales

of justice, lady justice. without any evidence, to answer the call for the mob, they are all acquitted. policing in baltimore is at an end and they just let it go. they are not going to go in there and risked their lives and their careers and prosecution because of some prosecutors that answer to the mob, that's not what we are all about. >> tucker: we saw this ironically in the south 70 years ago but, we are applauding and now for some reason. >> thank you, it's always a pleasure. >> tucker: heather mcdonald has spent years studying this subject. thanks so much, and that's a

good way to get the equal justice. and it's an absolutely terrifying moment. whether it's a political class media have embraced up patently false narrative about systemic police spies. at that narrative is easily just provable by looking at the most basic facts about policing and crime. they are undercutting the legitimacy of law enforcement of a criminal justice system, and in so doing they are putting thousands more lives at risk. they are putting black lives at risk who are being checked with criminal behavior, with officers back off of proactive policing and we saw this in 2015 and

2016. 2,000 blacks were murdered thanks to cops backing off from what i call the ferguson effect. but we are also putting officers lives at risk because by so undermining the legitimacy of law enforcement you are going to increase the type of resistance to arrest so that we just saw in atlanta because people hate the cops even more. that is going to result in officers themselves escalating their use of force, possibly the lethal levels and enter a vicious cycle. they will be sending an unequivocal message, don't resist arrest. follow and officers commands, and you take it up after the fact. now the violence that we have seen in the last couple of weeks thanks to another failure of our elites to enforce law and order

during the wholesale wanton brutal and sadistic destruction of property and livelihood is going to repeat itself because there has been absolutely no deterrent message sent. >> tucker: i heard any officials elected say today, just walk home. he passed out drunk in a dry ceiling at wendy's, but just walk home. so we are not penalizing drunk driving anymore? does madd know this? when did this change? >> and what if he had walked home and got hit by a car? then the officers would have also been accused of murder and indifference to black life. the fact of the matter is fought cops across the country condemned unequivocally the george floyd arrest. this is a different case entirely, and there's no resemblance. somebody grabs and officers equipment, fights him and uses it against him is put him on notice that he's going to try to kill that cop.

>> tucker: that's exactly right. heather mcdonald, thank you for that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: demonizing law enforcement has consequences and as always the consequences fall most heavily on the places where people are poor. new york, a shocking video shows an elderly woman shop to the ground by a man who it turns out has been arrested 103 times. and he got out every time. we got details ahead. i got an oriole here.

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>> tucker: last fall we welcomed new york mayor bill de blasio onto the show and he insisted that new york city was better than it's ever been. maybe new york was that holding steady because de blasio was busy with his doomed presidential run it wasn't there to destroy it, but expect them. coronavirus and the government have combined to unleash of crime wave in the city. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has an update with the condition of new york tonight. >> tucker, back in march when andrew cuomo issued a statewide order demanding jails and prisons released inmates to abide by covid-19 social distancing guidelines, the nypd said it did not object to releasing ordered dependents and

those with underlying conditions. it did object to the widescale release and now we know why. of those released from rikers island, 250 of them have real funded and those 250 have been arrested 450 times. like 27-year-old jonathan martin as he was convicted in 2014 at strangling his girlfriend. since his release a few months ago from rikers island he's been arrested for six new crimes including forcible touching, rubbing a makeup store and robbing a person at knife point. after each new arrest he was given a court date and released. speaking of repeat offenders, 31-year-old rashida rivage was walking in manhattan when a 92 year old woman walks past him. he pops her in the face and hits her head on a fire hydrant. he kept walking but was later arrested for the 104th time including sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, which was supposed to disqualify him for early release and yet, here he

is. the woman was recovering physically but mentally she says she will never walk alone in manhattan there's 38 murders which is twice as many as the last time period. overall, mergers and 2020 of 25% over the last year. one nypd official substitute trend is the worst in seven years. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. you can't protect old ladies as they walk alone, you are feeling. carol, thanks so much for coming on. there's so much lying, give us if you would an accurate snapshot of crime in new york right now. >> it's been coming for a while. in december i rode how the quality of life crimes in new york were going unpunished and how that was obviously going to spiral into a bigger situation.

and the crime spike is really not a surprise for anyone that's been following it. in december when i rode that article about the quality of life crimes i was told, it's not murder. so what's the big deal? the big deal is now here. i think we've let the leftist activists and politicians divide us into the camps of either, you are pro-police or he believed black lives matter. if you are pro-police, it's because you believe black lives matter. the activists have pushed the defund the police idea. if it was they would want triple the police on their streets. steve linick anyone pushing back? >> you know, i'm seeing somewhat on social media, i'm a lifelong new yorker, i have friends in new york of all political stripes. affixing this movement among

new yorkers to say we don't want to defund the police. we feel safer when the police are there, and it's growing. these crime numbers will not go ignored. when it's happening in white neighborhoods we have these liberal white people decide that they do like the police all. >> tucker: it seems like new york has to listing less than every 3030 years or so. >> that's probably true. that's part of the thing, lifelong new yorkers like me understand that we can't just rest when the numbers are good and, when it's only quality of life crimes happening. i think a lot of the new arrivals have a misplaced idea of what new york city is like and what it's been like. they don't know a time when it didn't feel safe to walk around and they don't understand that there was a time when new york was bad. >> tucker: they think history started yesterday. a lot of people are going to

leave new york. it's sad. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: our culture revolution is in progress as you know and the main signifier of that, artwork, is being destroyed for ideological effects. just like in maths china or the telegrams afghanistan. where will it stop? and will any art to be left by the end? that's next. ♪

>> tucker: political cults all have one thing in common, they try to destroy history and culture to conform to their vision. it's always the year for them. we seen it all over the world throughout history. in 2001, the taliban dynamited a 1500-year-old buddhists that they called idols. if they destroyed them. the guard destroyed ancient art by the truckload. now that same impulse to destroy

art has come to the united states. it started with confederate statues but it moved very quickly tube, for example, statues of abraham lincoln. when in boston apparently is coming down. one who signed the emancipation proclamation, is now too racist to be represented in art. columbus statutes are being dumped dumped in lakes. an irreplaceable work, how long do you think it will be before they bombed mount rushmore? art is being destroyed on a greater scale than any time in american history. no one is defending it. so we asked jerry salter, a pulitzer prize-winning art critic, a man who appreciates and writes about art for a living, what he thought. here's his reply. there's no issue. a revolutionary weight has swept across the country that has basically said enough with racism. this isn't about left and right, it's about right and wrong.

so the man who won a pulitzer prize writing about art is all on board with destroying art, in the name of revolution. that's a country we live in tonight. ryan is the author of "they are not listening. brian, thanks so much for coming. so, when a pulitzer prize-winning artists want won't defend art, when it's left to a right of center talk show host to defend art, what kind of country are we in? >> i think we need to look at the this the way the loyalists looked at it, and they realize the antiracist movement hasn't realized that the institutions are supposed to safeguard tradition and art and they've really given up and they are kowtowing to them.

and it better than an organized religion, you have a penal code in the antiracist movement and we would be guilty of having white privilege and being born white but you could never get salvation for it and never get redemption for it. in this new age of reason there we are in a very bleak. period good things are hard to create an easy to destroy. and we are destroying a lot of them. >> tucker: that's racism, the destruction of art, and peace for the colonizing her bookshelf. that happened so quickly. >> the thing is it didn't really

happen that quickly. i cited in my book that was just released, if you look at woke terminology, and there's a guy named zach goldberg, and he tracked how woke terminology has increased in major media outlets like "the new york times" and "washington post"'s 2,000, and 2007. to the two that were in right now. let's face it, there are two realities, the world of data which shows it's better to be living as a black person today than ever before. and the wage gap is diminishing, the wages are going up under president trump and if you were to reform legal immigration and stop work visas and amass work visas that go even higher, then that is the world of media, social media. you are nine times more likely to hear about black victims in a

white victim. that doesn't mean they will be disproportionately attacked. >> tucker: very smart man. happy to have you on the show and we hope you will come back. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: time for an update from the brand-new nation of tops. and, we will look at tops economy. just how much foreign aid is getting into the autonomous zone? does anyone have a job? what is the ngo keeping the top afloat? we will get to the bottom of that and the answer will surprise you. - i'm jeff anderson.

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as we want to thanks to coronavirus, and extensive rioting, and the creation of an entirely new nation downtown, it's a tough time to have business in seattle. >> walking through downtown seattle is not like it used to be before the covid-19 pandemic. >> if he comes becomes when

mind-numbing. >> store owner joey rodolfo says downtown tourism has struggled for a while. he believes people are afraid of because of a long list of violent crimes in the area. >> just a real bad case for people to come down here and deal with panhandles. so for us as retailers down here, we've been hanging on and all of a sudden, covid hits. >> tucker: joey rodolfo will be on the show tomorrow night. while people with jobs in seattle are struggling, people who don't work, smoke weed and spray paint buildings for a living are doing better than ever. they have their own country now. not a single person in chop has worked or has ever worked. instead like so many fragile emerging nations they are propped up by a steady diet of foreign aid from ngos. radio show host jason rance has spent another day at the top for us and our top correspondent joins us now.

thanks so much for coming on. we are getting reports from top that the entire nation's economy and its critical infrastructure, its porta-potties among them is being supported by an ngo. an aid group. which? >> essentially, yes. they are a proud people at top, and the leadership has decided to come in and provide a lot of the services they are. you have city workers who are coming in who are cleaning up the park, they are cleaning up and, they have cleaned up the porta-potties that they have brought in and doing some of the basic necessities for any country that needs to run smoothly. usually you have the country or city doing it. in this case you have the mayor of seattle doing it for them. >> tucker: so it's a little bit like being a stoned teenager

and mom's attic. you get high and she does the laundry. >> yes. although usually when you are a parent and you find your kid is getting stoned, you punish them and have them do chores. here you actually do the chores for them. this group is moving forward and a woman by the name of dating grayson stepping forward and that's a deadline of being your home if you live in the chop area by 10:00 p.m. because this is no longer about protecting the folks who live here. this is purely about taking over the entire area. yesterday we had this conversation about the compromise that was made to allow for one-way streets. about two hours after we got off the air, they decided the folks at chop would walk block the

one-way streets. >> tucker: i feel like an idiot for working. we should work for wendy's and maybe jenny durkan will bring us dinner. >> i don't think there's texas. >> tucker: thanks to coronavirus the 2020 olympics in tokyo are postponed. but fear not sports fans, there is yet hope thanks to a new athletic competition, the chop summer games. a brand-new country so it's fitting that the games will have a whole new battery of sports to compete it. hope those who value speed over strength, there is social justice streaking. there's a contest for the most egregious assaults for an outsider. as a front runner for the gold medal.

pretty physical but not all contests are feats of strength. the more sedate can try to meddle in pesticide free gardening using dixie cups and marijuana seeds. those in local talent can compete in the loudest nonsensical screaming competition. >> it's a request for information about what the they plan to do next. >> tucker: then there's a price for the most vulgar graffiti spray painted on the storefront, extra points on size. if you want to participate, expect fierce competition. unlike the actual olympics there will be absolutely no drug testing of any kind and we can promise you that. so what other events should the people include in their first games? for that we turn to author and columnist mark steyn. it's great to see you, i assume you will be competing? >> well i will certainly be following it. you mentioned that the dope

testing, that's not actually going to well at the moment. after a couple of weeks of living out of the streets of chop, many of the top performers are in a bit of a bind because traces of have been found in the drug samples so that's actually a bit of a problem. mitt romney who as you know it is the first ambassador, and as you know he ran the winter olympics. he had a couple of the top winter olympic sports into the summer games. there is a bit of a difference. the guy on the bottom is one of the chop residence, but the guy on top is actually a statue of christopher columbus that they've toppled it. so for the preliminary rounds i

believe it's the richmond virginia christopher columbus statue that is in the lead. the boston christopher columbus statue is close behind but there are some technical dispute with the judges because like i had to his head decapitated and it's not clear whether a headless christopher columbus is actually eligible for the two man loote looters. he will also be personally judging the ice dancing. this is where citizens who were formerly undocumented americans put on the spanglish bolero jacket and they dance around i.c.e. agents and oddly enough they all skate even though they were scheduled for deportation. a lot of interesting new sports of the top summer games. he admits he's actually going to personally bring the blazing

olympic torch from the nearest flaming windows. it will be carried from wendy's to wendy's to wendy's, one flaming wendy's to another. >> tucker: thank you so much mark steyn. the democratic party ideologically has left what we normally think of as sanity and gone somewhere else. so fast, we can barely keep up with it. dana perino on that coming up next.

>> tucker: joe biden is that that a stage in life where fundamental decisions can take

extra time. he that means he can be told by other people and they are central figures in the walk fraction of the democratic party, what will that look like? dana perino hosts "the daily briefing with dana perino" and we are always happy to have her on her show. biden has been described very often and to this day is moderate but i don't see him pushing back very hard against the revolutionaries in this party. >> is interesting because when a candidate gets to a general election, and they move back to the center because in the primary dame got pulled to the fringe. he was able to propel himself into this decision the democratic party is very much farther left than he thinks he's ever been. now moderate, it depends on how people describe it now.

it's been defined it differently now. if you have somebody like joe biden who has actually been pretty liberal over the years but where he is now, compared to the rest of the party, is quite in the center. he's not a very talented politician, maybe even less of a talented politician then hillary clinton. so one of the things that's happening is you have him being pulled by the far left, the congresswoman aocs of the world, and you notice the other day that it's 50 different by environmental and liberal groups got together, centering on joe biden and demanding what his position should be on something. so he's going to continue to get pulled in that direction will president trump is out there doing his rallies and be himself. >> in a moment like this week people get overwhelmed immediately.

that's how they defend against the left foot in his party >> so let's say -- he wasn't the only one in the party was pretty quick to say, i'm not for that. you added clybourn, kamala harris, all the others, they are reforming the police. there are probably some things were he would be able to do that. it might be an interesting thing, if we were to win an election, we got five months to go. i think we would probably be able to withstand being pulled even further to the left because he's even intimated he would be a one-term president. so he wouldn't try to have that desire to move and help the base of that supposition. we will see, we got five months left. >> tucker: is a long time but it's moving fast. >> a lot could happen. >> tucker: are you kidding?

a lots happened since monday. thank you, great to see you tonight. >> tucker: at that hour went fast. we will be back tomorrow night but in the meantime we have a surprise for you, the great sean hannity standing by in new york. >> sean: i'm having a hard time dealing with this, i don't know, maybe i wasn't raised enough as a kid. buckle up, we begin tonight with a fox news alert because breaking right now according to the atlanta, georgia, police department, they are now experiencing a higher than usual number of callouts. is this the beginning of a departmentwide sick out? it actually has a name, it's called the blue flu. we will have more on this important and scary deponent later in the program. we have a lot to cover, the president of the united states donald j. trump will be joining us for an exclusive interview. also tonight we will discuss the