safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today. stay safe and stay well. tucker carls ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." just a few hours ago, the fulton county georgia district attorney paul howard jr. charged former atlanta police officer garrett rolfe with murder in addition to ten other criminal charges. if convicted, rolfe faces execution. the alleged crime of the heart of it is the shooting of a suspect called rayshard brooks. we told her the details of it two nights ago. last friday, rayshard brooks passed out drunk in the drive-through lane of a wendy's in atlanta. his car was blocking traffic, so restaurant employees call the police. they arrived, rolfe and his partner, they woke brooks and asked him if he had been drinking.

brooks admitted that he had been. officers then move forward with a text with dui arrest, nothing unusual, but when they try to take brooks into custody, he started swinging. he fought the officers to the ground and then snatched a taser from one of them and try to use it against officer rolfe. when brooks the taser to fire, rolfe shot and killed him. here's some of the video. >> sir, you all right? you're sitting in the drive-through line here. stop, very good. how many? >> one and a half. like i said, i told her, let's go because i'm hungry. >> what kind of drinks did you have? >> i'm not sure, something she ordered, she set top shelf orha whatever. take me home, i'm ready to go. >> so you had about one and a half rings but you don't remember what hindrance there were? >> i really y don't. >> i think if i too much to drink to be driving. put your hands behind her back.

hey, stop fighting! stop fighting! you're going to get tased! you're going to get tased! the taser! hands off the taser! stop fighting! he's got a [bleep] taser! >> tucker: after the shooting, officer rolfe try to keep rayshard brooks alive. he performe cpr the man he just. >> mr. brooks, keep breathing! mr. brooks, keep reading for me.

>> tucker: mr. brooks, keep breathing, rolfe said, keep breathing for me. no matter how much you look at these videos or how closely, eo's a tragedy every time. the father of three girls is dead. the question is, was it murder? ask yourself, how do you think you would do, regardless of what color you are, if you snatched a cop taser and try to shoot them with it. most likely you'd be dead. no one would march in your memory, no one would burn a building in your name.mo no one would consider your death controversial, must do much less a rasul act. that's what happens when your tie police officers with their own weapons, everyone knows that, but in this case things are very different. officer rolfe is facing the death penalty. he's been charged by d.a. who was under enormous political pressure to prosecute. the mob once vengeance now. they've expressed that by burning a wendy's or rayshard brooks died to the ground. they committed violence. while they commit more if he is not charged? that has to be weighing on paul howard. and not just that, paul howard

is fighting for his job. isbert is facing a runoff election soon. howard is also being investigated for sexual harassment and for stealing money from a nonprofit. so paul howard has every reason to change the subject and to bow immediately to the mob's demands, that's what he's doing. during his press conference today, however describe rayshard brooks, the men who went berserk onto police officers and knocked them to the ground as "jovial." watch howard's statement here and compare it to the video we just played for you. >> mr. brooks on the night of this incident was calm, he was cordial, and really displayed a cooperative nature. secondly, even though mr. brooks was slightly impaired, his demeanor during this incident was almost jovial. >> tucker: jovial. you just watched the tape, calm and cooperative are probably the

first words that came to mind. especially the part where brooks grabbed the cop's taser and fired it at him. just two weeks ago, this very same prosecutor, the one you just saw, paul howard, noted at a press conference, and we are quoting, a taser is considered a deadly weapon under georgia law. whatever. that was then. by the w way, it was a taser, it could very easily have been officer rolfe's gone. brooks would not have known the difference between a pistol in the taser in the middle of a brawl. had that been the case, officer rolfe would be dead right now and you never whatever the story because no one in the meeting would have cared enough to telle you. the 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. >> tucker: just a guype peacefully sleeping in his car, and now he's dead. so why were the cops hassling a man who was just peacefully

sleeping? welcome the prosecutor suggested why. take a guess. >> officer rolfe actually kicked mr. brooks while he laid on thea ground. while he was there fighting for hisua life. officer brosnan actually stood on mr. brooks' shoulders while he was there struggling for his life. the 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're going to tell us this was a racially-motivated killing. and maybe they can prove that it was. we are always open minded. but at this point we very much doubt it. there is zero evidence of that so far. in the absence of evidence of

paul howard not say things like this press conferences. it makes people hate each other. it turns the country apart, which is the last thing we need right now. atlantis police department is 58% black.en that's a higher percentage of black people than the city of atlanta itself. so explain how systemic racism is responsible for the shooting come and speak slowly so we can understand. cops in atlanta know exactlypo what's going on and what's likely to happen next. there are reports meantxa that many of them have walked off the job at the beginning of their shift. no doubt many will retire from the force and leave. the police chief has already quit. who would want to enforce the law in a political environment like this? you make less than a plumber. everybody hates you, you could very easily get killed. you try to defend yourself in the charged with murder. 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's lot of very bad people becoming police officers, and that's one of the many ironies

here. pressure from the mob will not stop police brutality. it will almost certainly increase police brutality and the worst kind of people becomee police because who else would want to? for now though, attacks on law enforcement mean that many of uss have no police protection at all. recently the black lives matter right came to charleston,nt south carolina. police disappeared. what happened next? this hasn't been widely reported but we thought we would share it with you. it's a transcript of a 911 call from a restaurant in downtown charleston near the battery. this is a quote. it's the macintosh restaurant. i called earlier but it's gotten worse. the riots broke into the restaurant and they are stealing all the money, the alcohol. they're tearing up the seats. 30 employees are stuck in the courtyard, they're barricading the doors.he and they're trying to break in. i called maybe 15 minutes ago and there's still no cops there are 30 people in danger. no evidence the cops ever came. ken schneider owns a wine bar nearby in charleston.

black lives matter rioters came for him too. he and his staff repeatedly call the police for help, but no one came. ultimately, he told a local television station, he told dispatchers, "forget it, it's too late, my place is destroyed." he later said he was completely in disbelief at the police didn't come. he should consider himself lucky byom comparison. people are losing more than just the businesses in this environment. in new york city murders are up 25% just this year, that's despite the lockdown. in just the past month, the number of murders reported in the city has literally doubled compared to this time a year ago. it's not really surprising. we saw the same thing happened in baltimore after the freddie gray riots. when you politicize law enforcement, innocent people inevitably die. that is not a partisan point. the expectations the police will come and protect you is not ideological. ask any liberal who's ever call the police in crisis and have them not show up. it's terrifying.

the matter who you vote for. protecting the public from criminals is not some feature of government we hope for. it's why we have governments.or if the whole point of government. there is no reason to have government otherwise. it's the reason we pay taxes. if you want to a restaurant and they refused to serve your food, he probably wouldn't pay the bill. if the restaurant tried to make you pay the bill, you would resist and you would have every right to resist. no one should be forced to submit to theft and taxation without protection is theft. it's the definition of it. the rest of us have a right to say that. in fact, an obligation to say. don't let them strike you or confuse it with slogans or rioting. this is not about the shooting death of one man outside wendy's. it's about something much larger and much more important to every american, no matter where you live. it's about whether we're going to have a justice system that treats all american citizens equally regardless of what the mobb demands. it's about whether we can live peacefully in our own homes with our families without fear.

confident that we are protected by the government that we pay for. if the government will not protect us, we should stop paying for it. and that might finally get their attention. sammi colson is the former deputy assistant director of the fbi, joins us tonight. mr. colson, thanks so much for coming on, you've been in law enforcement all your life, you talk to people who are still in it, why would anyone -- >> thank you very much, tucker. >> tucker: why would anyone want to enforce the law right now? >> well, that's a great point and what you're seeing in atlanta, officers are walking off the job. you know, lady justice is supposed to have a blindfold onp but in this case, lady justice is looking in the eyes of a corrupt politician and answering to the mob and it's a travesty. also i think there's an important case here that we need to point out, and thates is that the georgia bureau of investigation that was asked to investigate this case and this prosecutor announced charges for the investigation was even done,

so where is due process? where is the rule of law? we don't have it now. and it's a travesty and i'm in contact with police officers in literally every day of my life and all of them are looking to leave or retire or get out of the business. and that's really too bad. because frankly they are some of our best train, most loyal and a 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, so i know that video can distort the truth and have certainly seen other stories including recent where the video doesn't really tell you what's happening. here's my question to you as someone who's been around it all your life, if the prosecutor had more evidence that this was in fact a murder and not just a tragic shooting and he had evidence that there was w some bias behind the shooting, he would have told us that if the press conference, correct? >> he doesn't have it. and frankly, it looks like to me that that officer was just about doing what he's doing. every policeman in the country is trained but if you're

opposing an individual with a taser, that'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. confused about having a factual rendition. and he should be removed. should be disbarred, removed, and let us do an investigation.b but the civil rights division come in, but georgia bureau of investigation to it and let's find out what happened. i think we're going to find thak those lives of those officers were in peril of the actions of individual. >> tucker: i keep hearing from people i know in atlanta the prosecutor likely felt he had no choice. this is the view among people in atlanta because if he didn't charge this police officer with murder, the city wouldha burn. what kind of society do we live in where we follow the demands of people who set buildings on fire? >> well, that's mob rule and that's exactly what we don't want. it gets back to the seals of justice and lady justice is

supposed to be blind to that. you saw it in. the prosecutor there and those officers without any evidence to answer the call of the mob. she even said that, i hear what you're saying and they were all acquitted. what's the result? policing in baltimore is at an end. they just let it go, they're not going to go in there and risked their lives, their careers and prosecution because of some prosecutor that answers to the mob. that's what we are all about. >> tucker: weer saw this ironically in the south 70 years ago and we said we were againsts it, but we are applauding it now for some reason. danny, great to see you. >> thank you, it's always a pleasure, i enjoy your show. >> tucker: thank you. heather macdonald has spent years studying the subject, thee author of "the war on cops" and we are always happy to have her on the show. thanks so much for coming on. so it does seem like our leaders have kind of given up on the idea of equal justice, something that i think we hired them to defend, it's the most important

thing we have in this country but have you seen any defend that idea? >> we are living through a civilization crushing failure of elites, tucker. this is an absolutely terrifying moment. across-the-board, americanif elites, whether it's the political class, media, education have embraced a patently false narrative about systemic police violence. that narrative is easy just preferable by looking at the most basic facts about policing and crime. but by embracing that false narrative they are undercutting the legitimacy of law enforcement, of our criminal justice system and in so doing, they are putting thousands more lives at risk. there putting black lives at risk who will be taken now through unchecked criminal behavior, gang banging, drive-by shootings one officers back off of proactive policing. we saw this in 2015, 2016, an additional 2,000 black far less

were murdered thanks to cops backing off from what i called the ferguson effect. we are also putting officers lives at risk because by so undermining the legitimacy of law enforcement, you're going to increase the type off resistance to arrest that we just saw in atlanta because people hate the copsse even more. that is going to result in officers themselves escalating their use of force, possibly the lethal levels and we are going to enter a vicious cycle where both suspects and officers lives are at risk. instead, if the elites cared about black lives, if they cared about all lives, they would be sending an unequivocal message, don't resist arrest. following officers lawful commands if you have a disagreement with those commands, you take it up after the fact. and now the violence that we've 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 an elected official say today that the appropriate police response would be to say to rayshard brooks, just walk home. you're passed out drunk in a drive-through lane at wendy's, but just walk home. so we are not penalizing drunk anymore? this madd notice? when did this change? >> what if he had walked home and got hit by a car? than the officers would have also been accused of murder and indifference to black lives. the fact of the matter is cops across the country condemned unequivocally the george floydy arrest. this is a different case entirely. it bears no resemblance. somebody who grabs and officers equipment, fights them, and uses it against him is putting on notice that he's going to try to kill that cop.

>> tucker: that's exactly right. heather macdonald, thank you for that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: demonizing law enforcement has consequenc consequences, and as always the consequences call most m both vulnerable. in places where people are poor. in new york, shocking video shows an elderly woman shoved to the ground by a man who it turns out has been arrested 103 times. he was let out every time. we've 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.r: l he insisted that new york city was better than it's ever been. maybe new york was holding steady, because de blasio was busy with his doomed presidential run and wasn't there to destroy it, but he's back now. coronavirus and the government have combined to unleash a crime wave in the city. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has an update on the condition of new york tonight, hey, grace. >> back in march when andrew cuomo issued a statewide order demanding jails and prisons release inmates to abide by covid-19 social distancingat guidelines, the nypd says it did not object to releasing older defendants and those of underlying conditions. it did object to the widescale release and now we know why.

of the 2500 inmates released from rikers island, 250 of them have re-offended. in those 250 have been arrested 450 times. 27-year-old jonathan martinez, who was convicted in 2014 of strangling his girlfriend. since his release a few months ago he's been arrested for six new crimes, including forcible touching, robbing a makeup store and robbing a person at knife point. after each newro arrest, he was given a court date and released and speaking of repeat offenders, 31-year-old was walking in manhattan when a 92-year-old woman walks past him. he pops a her in the face, she falls to the ground, hitting her head on a fire hydrant. he kept watching, but was later arrested fordr the 104th time, including abusing a 13-year-old girl and ten other offenses, which is supposed to disqualify him for early release, and yet here he is. the 92-year-old woman is

recovering physically, but a mentally says she will never again walk alone in manhattan. finally, over the past 28 days in new york, serafin 38 murders, that's twice as many as the same time period last year. overall the new york, murders in 2020 of 25% over last year. one nypd official says the trend is the worst in seven years. tucker.ev >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. can protect old ladies as they walk alone, your failing. columnist for "the new york post" and the "washington examiner," happy to have her on the show tonight. thanks so much for coming on. they're so much lying about everything from a very hard to get to what's really happening, but 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 wrote about how the quality of life crimes in new york were going unpunished and how that was beasley going spiral into a bigger situation. in the crime spike is really not

a surprise for anybody that's been following it. in december, when i wrote that article about the quality of life crimes, i was told well, 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 your pro police or you believe black lives matter, but the truth is, if your pro police, it's because you believe black lives matter and if you look at the recent crime spike, it's happening primarily in black neighborhoods. that's why these white activists have been pushing this defund the police idea, because it's not happening in their neighborhoods. if it was, they want triple the police on the streets. >> tucker: aspen and martha's vineyard are still very safe. is anyone pushing back? >> you know, i'm seeing somewhat just on social media and i'm a lifelong new yorker, i have a lot of friends in new york from all political stripes and i am seeing this movement among new yorkers to say we don't want

to defund the police. we want t the police on our streets, we feel safer when the police are there and i think itp is growing because these crimee, numbers, they're not going to go ignored. and again, when they're happening in white neighborhoods, you're going to see these liberal white people decide that they do like the police after all. >> tucker: do you think anyone -- it seems like new york has to learn the same lesson every 30 years or so. >> that's probably true. i think 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 really misplaced idea of what new york city is like and what it's been like. and 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 that new york was bad. >> tucker: they think history started yesterday, a lot of people are going to leave new york and it sat, obviously.

thanks so much for coming out tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: well, our cultural revolution is in progress, as you know, in the main signifier of that, artwork is being destroyed forf ideological effect, like in mao's china for the taliban's afghanistan. where will it stop? will any part be left by the end? that's next. ♪ the end? that's next. ♪

>> tucker: political cults all have one thing in common, they just try to destroy history and culture to conform to their vision. it's always year zero for them. we've seen it all over the world throughout history. iny afghanistan in 2001, the taliban dynamited 1500-year-old giant buddhists. they called them idols, they destroyed them. mao's red guards desecrated the great red emperors and destroyed ancient art by thegu truckload. now that same impulse to destroy art has come to the

united states. start with confederate statues, but it moves very quickly too, for example, statues ofy abraham lincoln. one in boston apparently is coming down. d the men who signed the emancipation proclamation is now two racist to be represented inn art. columbus statues are being dumped in the lake. a georgia law professor wants to destroy stone mountain, any replaceable work by the man who carved from rushmore. speaking of which, how long to think will be before they bomb mount rushmore? art is being destroyed on a greater scale than any time in american history. no one is defending it. so we asked a pulitzer prize-winning art critic, a man who appreciates and writes about art for living. he thought. here's his reply. there's no issue. a revolutionary wave has swept across this country has basically said enough withro 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 the country we live in tonight. the author of "they're not listening, how the elites created the national populist revolution. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on.s so one of pulitzer prize-winning bargaining 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 end? >> yeah, i think we need to look at these people the same way that loyalists of chiang kai-shek looked at mao. a this is to quote peter hitchens, a regime change. they realized the antiracist movement has realized that the institutions that it was supposed to safeguard tradition and history and art have really given up and they are kowtowing out of them and we have this strange post-secular vision of the world where we are starting at year zero, as he said, that everything must be viewed as it is today.

better jehovah than focal because at least with organized religion, with a real religion, christianity or judaism or whatever, you get things -- forgiveness and salvation. you don't get that coming of the penal code and the antiracist movement. you can sit there and be guilty of having white privilege and being born white, but you can never get salvation for it. you can never get redemption for it and then this -- you can never be woke enough and in this new age of reason, we are in a very bleak period because that's what rogers portnoy said, good things are hard to create an easy to destroy. registering a lot of them. >> tucker: they have become exactly this but my whole lifetime, 50 years, telling us they hated. they are advocating for segregation, for racism, for the destruction of art and for the destruction of books. npr ran a piece about the colonizing a bookshelf, burning books. this happened so quickly. are you surprised by? >> no, but the thing is, it didn't really happen that

quickly. in my book that just was released, if you look at woke terminology -- and it's a great guy named zach goldberg, phd student i believe. and he tracked how woke terminology has increased in major media outlets like "the new york times" and "the washington post" since like 2006, 2007, so it started with colleges saying you can't produce ernest hemingway and make people read ernest hemingway because it's too masculine, to appear that we are in right now. and let's face it, there's two realities, there's the world of, data, which shows it's better to be a black person in america today than ever before, black incarceration rate is down 40% in 30 years. the killing, shooting and killing of unarmed black man is down 80% in five years alone. the wage gap is diminishing. the wages are going up under president trump and if you would reform legal immigration stop work visas, they go up even higher and then as the world of the media and then as the world ofen social media. you are nine times today to hear about a black victim of police fertility than a white victim.

that doesn't mean they are being disproportionately attacked. >> tucker: and get our elites are falling for it, wholesale. and i'm sure your book expends why. very smart man, happy to have on the show, i hope you'll come back. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: time for an update from the brand-new nation of choppers. look at chops economy. just how much foreign aid is getting into the autonomous zone? is on the thing being created there? does anyone have a job? what is the ngo keeping shop afloat? we got to the bottom of that. the answer will surprise you. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: thanks to coronavirus, extensive rioting, the disappearance of police and other creation of an entirely new nation in downtown, it's a tough time to have a business in seattle. one store owner recently explained. >> walking through downtown seattle is not like it used to be before the covid-19 pandemic. >> it becomes mind-numbing, quite frankly. >> we spoke to a few months ago,

says down some tourism has struggled for a while. he believes people are afraid because of a long list of violent crimes in the area. >> just a real bad case for people to come down here, deal with panhandlers, deal with everything that's going on and so for us as retailers down here, we've been hanging on and then all of a sudden covid hits. >> tucker: that store owner will be on the show tomorrow night. while people with jobs in seattle are struggling, people who don't work and smoke weed and spray paint buildings for living are doing better than ever, they have their own country now. chop, the economy there are starving, again not because anybody does anything. not a single person in chop works or has ever worked. instead, like so many fragile emerging nations, they are steady diet of foreign aid from ngos. radio host jason has spent another day at chop for us. our trap correspondent joins us now. thanks so much for coming on.

we are getting reports from chop that the entire nation's economy and its critical infrastructure, porta-potties among them is being supported by an ngo. an aid group. which? >> essentially, yes. so they are a proud people at chop and they don't really want to ask for help in the good news is they don't have to ask for help because the city of seattle under the leadership of mayor jenny durkan have decided to come in and provide a lot of the services there. you've got city workers were coming in were cleaning up the park, cleaning up the space, they're doing the pickup after people have decided to litter at the park. if they are cleaning of the porta-potties they have brought in. they are doing just some of the basic necessities forie any country that needs to run smoothly, usually you have the actual country doing it or the city doing it. in this case you've got the mayor of seattle doing it for them. speeone's was a little bit like orbeing a stoned teenager in mos attic.

you get high, she does the laundry. >> yes, although usually when you're a parent and you find your kid is getting stone, you usually punish them. here you do the chores for them. at the same time, seems to be a new leadership group coming forward, a woman by the name of jaden grayson has stepped forward and she actually is doing what parents normally do, which is providing a time that everyone has to be at home. there was 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 not purely about taking over the entire area. so yesterday when i came on 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 to actually block one-way street. one of them is back open as of today, but the other one remains closed. >> tucker: i feel like an idiot for working.

we should burn a wendy's and maybe jenny durkan will bring us dinner. call me. jason rance -- >> at some point it does feel like maybe with that slope be doing. >> tucker: i don't think you're paying a lot of taxes. >> no taxes, by the way. >> tucker: no taxes, pretty good deal. thanks to coronavirus, the 2020 lipids in tokyo were postponed from a major league baseball may not come back either. but fear not, sports fans, there is yet hope thanks to a new athletic competition, the chop summer games. it's a brand-new country so it's fitting the games will have a whole new battery of sports to compete in. as a two-man barrier push to keep the police out. those who value speed over strength, there is social justice streaking. there is a contest for the most egregious assault on an outsider. here's a front runner for the gold medal. >> your choking me! >> tucker: pretty physical,

but not all contests are feats of strength. try to meddle in pesticide-4 gardening using chop 'us precious piles of dirt and dixie cups and marijuana seeds. those with vocal talent can compete in the loudest nonsensical screamingan competition. ourid not respond to request for a request for information about what they plan to do next. >> tucker: denies the price for the most vulgar graffiti spray-painted on the storefront, extra points for size. theree is still time to size up the for the games. fierce competition, unlike the actual olympics, there will be absolutely no drug testing of any kind. 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. marcus curry to see you. i assume you will be competing in chop? >> well, i will certainly be following it. you referenced the dope testing.

that's not actually going to well at the moment. for a couple of weeks of delivering out on the streets ol chop, many of the top performers are in a bit of a bind because traces of urine have been found in the drug samples, so that's actually a bit of a problem. >> tucker: and gross, if i can say. >> mitt romney -- mitt romney, who, as you know, as i believe the first u.s. ambassador to the people, he really fought hard for that job and as you know, he ran the winter olympics. he's actually gotten -- managed to record a top of the olympic winter sports into the chop summer games. the two-man luge. that's a bit of a difference, the guy on the bottom is one of the top residents, but the guys on top is actually a statue of christopher columbus that they've toppled. that's all for the pulmonary rounds, i believe it's the richmond -- richmond, virginia,

christopher columbus statue that is in the lead. the boston christopher columbus statue is close behind, but there's some technicalph dispute with the judges because that guy had his head decapitated and it's not clear whether a headless customer columbus is actually eligible for the two-man luge. mitt is also personally going to be judging the ice dancing. this is where members -- citizens who were formerly undocumented americans, they put on the bolero jacket and they dance around i.c.e. agents and oddly enough, they all skate, even though they were scheduled for the partition. so a lot of interesting new sports at the chop summer games. by the way, he will be -- mitt is actually personally going to bring the blazing -- the olympic torch from the nearest flaming

wendy's. it's been carried by mitt running wendy's to wendy's to wendy's. one flaming wendy's to another across the globe until it finally arrives in the top olympic stadium. >> tucker: the torch having been rolled by ziggy marley. like 3 feet long. >> absolutely. >> tucker: mark steyn, great to see you tonight, thank you so much. >> hey thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: well, 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 her. joe biden is trying his best to keep up with that, he's agreeing all the way. dana perino on that next. ♪

>> tucker: joe biden is at that stage in life where fundamental decisions can take extra time. what for breakfast, muesli or a

bagel? you could take hours. his presidency will be controlled by other people, likely central figures of the woke fashion 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 the our show.w. 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. >> it is interesting because usually when a candidate gets to a general election, they start to move back to the center because in the primary, they got pulled to the fringe. he was able to propel himself into this position where he is the democratic party is very much farther left than he thinks he's ever been. now, moderate -- it depends on how peopleev describe it now,

right? it's been defined differently, now. you have somebody like joe biden, who's's actually been pretty liberal over the years, but where he is now compared to where the rest of the party is, it's quite in the center. he's not a very talented politician, think we all know that. these may be even less of a talented politician andd hillary clinton, someone of the things that's happening as you have him being pulled by the far left, congresswoman aocs of the world, and if you notice the other day, 50 different environmental and liberalfe gros all gotta together, sent a lettr to joe biden, demanding what his position should bede on somethi. so he is going to continue to getoi pulled in that direction, while president trump is out there doing his rallies and just being himself. >> tucker: in a moment like this,, weak people get overwhelmed immediately. do you think there is any, at his core, principle that joe biden will defend against

the left, in his own party? speed >> well, i like to say, defund the police. he said -- and he wasn't the only one the democrat party, but he was pretty quick to say, yeah, i'm not for that. you had clyburn, kamala harris, others come out and say we are not for defunding, but reforming thes, police. now, it might be an interesting thing, but if he were to win election -- we've got five months to go. let's say he were to win. i say he would probably be ablew to withstand being pulled evenei further to the left because he's even intimated that maybe he would just be a one-term president, so he wouldn't have that desire to try to move and help the base at the position. we'll see. we've got five months left, tucker. >> tucker: it's a long time, but it's moving fast. >> a lot can happen. >> tucker: oh, are you kidding? a lot has happened since monday.

[laughs] i can barely keep up. s >> i know. >> tucker: thank you. good to see you tonight. >> bye. >> tucker: speaking of spouse, that our went fast. we will be back tomorrow night, but we have a surprise for you. the great sean hannity standing by a new york. >> sean: i'm having a hard time dealing with this, i don't know, maybe i wasn't praised enough as a kid. thank you, tucker. great show as always. buckle up and welcome to "hannity." a fox news alert, breaking right now, according to the atlanta, georgia, police department, they are now experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs 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 importants development, and scay development, later in the program. also, we have a lot to cover, just moments, the president of united states, donald j. trump, will be joining us for an exquisite interview. also tonight, we will discuss the breaking news out of