tv Tucker Carlson Tonight FOX News June 18, 2020 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
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♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you've been paying attention recently and you probably have, you've likely sensed that something profound is happening to this country right now, something that could transform what america is. you can feel it happening. our leaders deny it, officials on both sides reassured as they are not planning wholesale changes to the country. they're just trying to fix specific problems. a man was brutalized by police officers in minneapolis. another man was shot to death in the parking lot of wendy's. those things are bad, they are telling us in abuses like that or what they are fighting against. b they say we need new laws, more good faith, more attention to injustice and that sounds rightt to most americans.
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americans are decent people. they want to do the right thing. certainly republicans in congress appear to believe all of this or maybe they are so scared they pretend they believe it. either way, just yesterday, the g.o.p. leadership enthusiastically backed a law enforcement reform bill, they are proud of that, they seem to think that raining and the police will fix the underlying problems and pretty soon we can all get back to living in 2014 again. republicans appeared to believe this iss a policy debate. but democrats know better than that. they don't lie to themselves for they understand there is a revolution in progress. the death of george floyd may have sparked widespread sincere outrage and they may share that outrage, but they also know that what is happening now has very little to do with george floyd for people like him.ay like all revolutions, the point is to destroy the system and replace it with something new. but replace it with what? that is the question the rest of us should be asking right now. we should know what's coming. we know we have now made our current system has been in place
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for hundreds of years based on a very simple idea. k all people are created by god with equal moral value. period. every one of them. for that reason and that reasonn alone, all americans are treated equally under the laws of the united states. in this country, we judge you for what you do, not how you were born. that idea has been the defining principle of america since the 18th century. it's the main reason we are the fairest society in the world. it's the reason people move here. to the extent that america has failed to live up to that principle of equality, we are ashamed of it. is the most important thing we have and we should defend it. we should practice it. now for the first time in our history, we are witnessing a broad and powerful attack on the principle of equality. daily told that all people are not created equal, some americans are guilty, some are innocent. nothing can change this.
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was all determined at birth. all we can do is respond accordingly. people in favored groups must be held to one standard and those in disfavored groups, the more they tainted ones, must be held to another standard. mostly for the sake of formality, but we must apply those laws in very different ways according to the dna and the background t of the accused. that sounds familiar, it's because this kind of system we just described based on heredity and blood guilt has been very common in history. was the rule in feudal europe and a totalitarian regime on that continent more recently. is still in practice and parts of the world. in north korea, children are sent to prison camps for the sins of their ancestors and unfortunately, we have seen this here too. you may have wondered how politicians could have justified practices as perverse as slavery and jim crow in a country with a constitution like i was the answer was simple, by arguing that not all people are created equal. some had a lesser moral value from birth, those people carried
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the stain of sin with them. you were allowed to treat them differently based on who they were. at the time, many understood this was a lie, slavery persisted for hundreds of years but always some in history that considered as evil much is because it was abusive, which it was, but because the existence of it violated the central principle of this country, and they were right. where are those people now? look around. is anyone empowered defending absolute equality under the law? if there was ever a time to remind america that we all have equal value under god, that time is right now. but no, no one in charge of saying that. how leaders are cowards when we need them to be brave. they are modeled when we need them to think clearly. it's possible they no longer even believe in equality. 40 years ago, this was a middle-class country and as a result, america had strongly egalitarian values pretty pretty much everyone used commercial
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airports and ate at mcdonald's. remember that? people talked without irony as their rights. you couldn't pay extra to jump at the head of the line at disney world. the idea that someone like jeffrey epstein could beat us extract because he was rich would have shocked then and would have demanded an investigation into just how he died. why? because americans hated corruption. they saw corruption as an offensee against equality. that was 40 years ago. things are moving in the opposite direction ever since. we now accept on the critical acclaim that some people deserve better treatment based on how they were born and some were spread this is the most poisonous and destructive of all ideas. other nations understand that. rwanda has made it a crime too make ethnicf appeals giving election to practice identity politics because they know very well where that leads. he had identity politics is accelerating here. shouldn't surprise you that most of the people pushing this poison are benefiting from it.
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they are using the recent chaos to codify dangerous trends already in progress, a permanently unequal society where they are elevated in others. lewinners and losers preordained by law, thus the country they are working towards. they lecture you with maximumer self-righteousness about how they are doing precisely the opposite of that. >> nobody is above the law. >> no one is above the law. >> no one is above the law. >> no one is above thes law. >> no person is above the law. >> nobody should be above the law. p >> nobody should be above the law. >> no one is above the law. >> tucker: no one is above the law, they scold, meaning you aren't.w. they admit this out loud, not
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pretending anymore, they are moving to repeal proposition 209. explicitly bans racial discrimination in hiring and education. democrats in california are now fighting for discrimination. this is not considered strange in 2,020, no one even mentioned, the sheriff of kentucky announced plans to bring universal health insurance to the state but not for all citizens. just for people with the right skin color. everyone else would pay but only certain ethnic groups would benefit. w still in office tonight and no one has tried to impeach him for suggesting this because ideals like t this are everywhere now, totally unchallenged. this is the most divisive possible way to run a country. you wanted to make certain that your children would hate each other, he would hold them to
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different standards and they certainly would. there is a reason that racial tension is rising in this country. is by design. the race is nots the only dividing line. the coronavirus lockdowns had nothing to do with race or white and black, thank god. quarantines are instead scientific, purely a matter of public health. that's what they told us and we believe them. we sat passively as they destroyed our country's economy as they indicted americans were trying to make a living and then the black lives matter riots started and we learned it was all fake. the very same officials who threatened us with the rest for going outside urge their own voters to flood the streets, and they did, and no one was punished. how could this happen? it was such a flagrant double standard, not even right in your face. they didn't try to explain it, they didn't bother to justify it. why? anyone familiar with totalitarian regimes can tell you exactly why.
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this is ritual humiliation. forcing people to accept mistreatment is a time-tested way to subdue them. of course we are not treating you fairly, they are telling us. you don't deserve fairness. you deserve what you get. that's the message. and after a while, the population accepts this. some believe it. they blame themselves. that's the goal. but we should never accept it. the promise of absolute equality under the law is all we have. laws are designed to protect the weak, not the strong. at the moment, the people leading this revolution against our system are strong.la that's why they are trying to subvert our laws paid if they succeed, there will be nothing to protect the rest of us in this p country. we cannot let them do that. in the united states of america, all of us are equal under the law. period. say that as loud as you can. the author of -- he joins us tonight pete i can't imagine that one in 1,000 americans seeks to divide the population
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by race. is the cruelest and longest lasting say and you can commit in a country and yet clearly, they were people intentionally trying to do that. why? >> i think you have to ask yourself who benefits from a lot of this tension and his division. you think about a business black owned or white owned that was destroyed in a light over the past few weeks, who gets richer from that? we know amazon has a bit more market share offense of jeff bezos makes more money. you think about what prevents new businesses from coming on line and competing those megacorporations that rule our financial world, every time a small business gets denied for a loan, every time a small business goes out of business, that is obviously good for the folks who run our corporate culture and at the end of the day,io what are we not talking about right now that we should be talking about?d
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what killed 70,000 people still in this country, not talking about concentrated financial power which is the biggest problem that white and black middle-class americans face today and at the end of the day, what we are doing is creating an entire narrative that is dividing the country instead of actually causing middle and working class people to unify and to try to convince through watching hasns others to share been largely funded by corporate america? >> i think that's a huge part of it and one of the weirdest things, people on the left right now act like they are on the side of the oppressed. they like to think that they are standing up for the little guy, standing up forhe working peopl, but on every single one of these major issues, you look at the big supreme court cases that of come down the line the past few days, you look at what's happening with the protests, you look at the actual goals of the protest as they've been stated, abolish the police.
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you look at public policy polling, 70% of black americans like their local police department. how is it on all of these big debates, the left finds itself on the side of corporate america, finds itself on the side of international businesses. i was a member of a political movement that stood up for working people and found myself every single time on the side of amazon, on the side of apple, on the side of google, i might ask myself if i've actually chosen the right allies and what it says about me but unfortunately, too many folks on the left to start doing that.sk >> tucker: why are republicans playing along with this? they seem to think that this is some kind of policy debate that can be won by passing some stupid bill in congress. the people they are arguing again see this as a resolution with the new one. elected republicans to grasp. one of the thing ise that it's pretty obvious of the republican party has been for far too long in the pocket of major corporate interest, that is true in the
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think tank world and we see it is true for a lot of major republican politicians and i thinkte republicans have just so forgotten that they are our real economic and real social challenges in this country that needs to be solved, comfortable with just doing whatever the mainstream media says they should be doing instead of actually fighting back in a real and substantive way, really the story of the past 30 or 40 years of american politics is thatsu n their own different ways, they have both found themselves effectively preaching that they are standing up for the middle class when in reality, they are elanstanding up for corporate interest so i think the answer is republicans have just gotten used to not solving real problems, to not doing things they are supposed to be doing has political leaders and this is almost the most important point here. you look at the average
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american, black, white, brown, whatever, they are very sensible. they want common sense solutions. they recognize something is wnetty broken about our current system. is fundamentally a problem with leadership we are not talking about the biggest issues to confront in the country and so unfortunately that falls on republicans just as much as it does with democrats. >> tucker: they are not defending their voters or any american. thank you for your insightful analysis.fe >> thank you.. >> tucker: today on the house, matt gaetz warmed up in an argument with the democratic member of congress who told him he was not allowed to participate because he was a white man and he doesn't understand what it's like to raise a child who doesn't look like him. that prompted the congressmen to respond in a very personal way and he joins us after the break with his response. ♪ you doing okay?
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congressman of louisiana argued that some people just shouldn't be in the debate because they are the wrong skin color or their children are. richmond's claim started off with a fight with florida congressman matt gaetz. >> you all are white males. you never lived in my shoes and you do not know what it's like to be an african-american male. >> are you suggesting that you're certain that none of us have nonwhite children? because hehe reflected on your black son, that none of us could understand. >> i am not about to get sidetracked about the color of our children. i reclaim my time. it is not about the color of your kids. it is about black males, black people in the streets that are getting killed and if one of them happens to be your kid, i'm concerned about him too and clearly i'm more concerned about him then you are. so let's be clear about that. >> you think you are more concerned about my family. you should take those words down. >> the gentleman will suspend.
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>> the gentleman will suspend. it belongs to the gentleman from louisiana. >> was that a nerve? >> the gentleman from louisiana. >> tucker: when you attack people on the basis of their race and their children, you get exchanges like that. cedric richmond will never be disciplined for it. afterward, matt gaetz issued the statement on twitter. "for all those wondering, my son came from cuba legally and lives with me in florida." thank you so much for coming on. cedric richmond who went to tulane law school and brags about his law degree was telling you that you are not allowed to participate in the conversation because of your skin color? >> i believe everyone should be able to participate if they are black, white, or otherwise and it is certainly offensive to have someone tell you that you don't know whatre a certain
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experience is like when they know nothing about you. nestor is the light of my life. i couldn't imagine loving him anymore if he was my own flesh and blood. i've raised him for the last six years,e and he is the most remarkable young man. i am proud of him, and i am honestly embarrassed of the united states congress that we have resorted to criticizing each other based on our race and the race of our children and i wish that we could be more productive going forward. >> tucker: did any republicans on your side of the aisle stand up and make that point? it seems like a pretty basic threshold that we are not going to attack people for things they can't control. did anyone else joining your defense? >> there were some republicans who pointed out that we shouldn't be treating anybody differently as a consequence of their race. just gotot to say, he has a remarkable youngy man. i am proud of him, and i have raised him to believe that in. our family, we treat everyone equally. doesn't matter what their background is, we treat every
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american with respect. >> tucker: does he learn that at school as well? and using the culture in which he is going up reinforces that? what do you make of cedric richmond's attacks? did you see all of this? >> i did not see it because i was sleeping from work the night before, but once i woke up, i woke up to seeing all these tweets and i was like what is going on? and give meme a call telling me about it and then i saw it, and i think it's unfair to tell someone that they don't understand because they don't have -- because of their racial color.
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while he is fighting for equality but if you tell someone did not get involved, doesn't understand because of the color, you are being a hypocrite there. >> tucker: i think that is very nicely put. congressman gaetz, saying this out loud seems like the kind of things that in normal times, you would be censured for. >> i cannot believe that it's acceptable in the united states congress for someone to tell someone else that they are fighting for their children more than they are. you have a son. how would you feel if someone said to you that they were fighting for your own family more than you were? that's why i got very upset, but for the sake y of nestor and my story, we are very proud familyl and love each other very much and he's on his way off to college in the fall and i couldn't be happier and prouder of the young man he's become and the fact that he is embracing these american values that everyone should be treated
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fairly and equally.. >> tucker: that's exactly right. i tell my kids are not responsible for who your relatives are, you are responsible for what you do when the choices you make. we abandon that, we are done. thankn you so much for coming o, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too, tuckern >> tucker: facing execution tonight for killing a suspect armed with one of his weapons, a taser. not because the police officer broke the law, that is pretty clear. it's because the mob is demanding his head. i will tell you what we mean after the break. ♪
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>> tucker: police officer garrett rolfe of atlanta has been charged with murder and is facing the death penalty for shooting a man called rayshard brooks. rayshard brooks stole the police taser and try to use it against officer rolf and now atlanta police are in turmoil with widespread and 70 absenteeism. trace gallagher has the very latest a on this.
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>> officers brosnan and garrett rolf -- being held without bail for felony murder in the shooting d death of 24-year-old ray rayshard brooks found sleeping in the drive-through of an atlanta wendy's. when the district attorney laid out the charges, he said his office interviewed ten witnesses and watched eight videos ofof body cam cell phones and surveillance cameras. they concluded that he never displayed aggression had never presented himself as a threat putting here "even though mr. brooks was slightly impaired, his demeanor during this incident was almost jovial. his attorneys called the d.a. statements unethical saying they are prohibited from making comments to heighten the public condemnation of the accused. as with the d.a.'s contention that brooks was jovial and pose no threat, rolf's attorney says during the incident, he
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committed three felonies. resisting arrest, attacking officers, punching officer rolf in the face and taking his taser and pointing it at him. his attorney also knocked down the das comment about cooperation. >> i regret that the district attorney was given misinformation yesterday and officer brosnan is not going to be a state's witness. >> also criticized for not allowing the georgia bureau of investigation to complete its investigation into the shooting inin the meantime, we should noe the atlanta police department says they are experiencing a high number of officers calling out sick for their shifts, but maintain they do have resources to be able to respond to calls. >> tucker: we will see if that holds true tomorrow. trace gallagher, thank you so much. stacy abrams who pretends to be the governor of florida despite losing that office and the other democratic officeholders tell us that officer rolf deserves to face execution because rayshard brooks only had a taser. >> there's a legitimacy to this
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anger, the legitimacy to this outrage. ta man was murdered because he acwas asleep in a drive through. what happen yesterday to rayshard brooks was a function of excessive force and the decision that the fact they were either embarrassed or panicked led them to murder a man who they knew only had a taser in his hands. >> tucker: they didn't know he only had a taser in his hand. stacy abrams is making that up as she often does make things up. it's basically harmless toys. how long has the standard existed? if you take a guess, it was invented this week by demagogues like stacy abrams when it became useful for furthering racial division which is their
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signature. in 2012, a "new york times" tweet warned that "taser shot to the chest can kill." just two weeks ago, fulton county's district attorney explained that under georgia law, tasers or deadly weapons. >> charged with advocated assault,at this is for appointig a taser and as many of you know under georgia law, a taser is considered a deadly weapon under georgia law. >> tucker: and in fact, many cases of police in this country being cleared for shooting suspects who grab their tasers. in 2018, for example, officers ordered felony suspect jamaal parker to sit on the ground and insteadd of sitting, he charged them, grabbed a taser and pointed it at the officers. he was shot and survived but the officers were not charged for shooting him. was considered justified. in 2013 in dallas, texas, seized pointed it at the officers. in 2013 in dallas, texas, seized a taser from an officer, refused to drop it when asked and try to
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use it against the officer was shot dead. here's one more. also from georgia a year ago. david schmidt was running into traffic blocking cars and according to some accounts trying to get into cars. arrived to apprehend him and when he did, schmidt attacked the officer. try to use his taser and wanted to use less than deadly force but schmidt instead sees the taser and try to use it on the officer. when he did that, guerrero shot him. the result of all of this? guerrero has been cleared. "i found the shooting legally justified and declined to pursue any charges against the officer." "the new york times" did not do a series of articles and schmidt has t been charged with aggravad assault but of course all happened last year. this year is year zero and that means brand-new rules for everyone because of evolutionism progress.o southeast regional director of the national brotherhood of police officers, and we are happy to have him tonight. thank you so much for coming on.
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so it looked to meme like this officer is being charged under a standard that didn't exist beforeh this week. >> we believe that the officer has not been given his due process. we believe this is not more than a political move by the district attorney. >> tucker: have you ever seen this happen to an officer before?? charged with murder for shooting a man who was pointing his ownho taser at him? >> no. i've never seen that, and i've never seen anyone charged with murder without a full investigation. >> tucker: right. thank you for pointing that out. that there is or was an investigation and progress of this incident but the district attorney who was in a runoff for reelection and facing corruption charges decided that he wasn'tin going tois wait for it. so how are police officers in atlanta responding to this? >> the police officers are definitely scared -- scared is
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in it, but they are afraid to do their job at this point because not because they are afraid of how to do it. they've been trained to do that. they know what they're doing. the problem is, they've been betrayed and backstabbed by their own mayor and thinking if they go out and do their job the way they were trained unlawfully, we still could be terminated because the mayor of the city doesn't like the way it looked on video. the problem with that is 95% of all videos that you've c watched police officers doing their job don't look good. that's the standard we go by, that's a terrible standard. doing an investigation and the proper authorities as he has done for years now. that he makes that decision and goes as far as charging him to also almost put a person to death for doing his job.
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>> tucker: charging with the death penalty. do you think this will draw attention away from the accusation that the d.a. stole money, government money from a ntnonprofit? >> i hope not, and we are going to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen and we appreciate you doing everything you can to keep that from happening, but i do believe that is what he is trying to do. >> tucker: has it occurred to you, that politicians in atlanta, you said police officers won't be able to do their jobs and that's clearly true. has it occurred to you that maybe that's the point of this? they be politicians in atlanta who don't want police officers to enforce the law? >> it definitely crossed her mind especially since we had and i distinguish between the protesters and writers but since the rioters appeared and we hear them calling out to they don't need police departments and we don't do anything but kill innocent people, so i think they are listening to that and they've decided maybe we don't
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need a police't department and that's the worst decision they could ever make. >> tucker: you have been a cop, obviously, you represent them as a union official. what do you think happens to atlanta if the police disappeared? >> it would look a lot worse than when you have the riots and the question would be just like what we're seeing now and i wish people would look at that and what's going on in the north with the taking of the area. somebody will eventually take up arms and say they are the law there which is what has happened already and once they take those up and do it, at least now, you have laws and rules and training that we have that they have to abide by and go through. what are these people going to do? they are going to decide what they want to do when they are going to do it and they are going to hurt or kill anyone they decide is necessary.
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>> tucker: that is such a wise point and i'm glad you said that out loud. wouldn't mean the end of authority, it would mean the rise of w armed militia, and it would mean we basically become a third world country and maybe that's what they are looking for. i really appreciate you coming on today. can't imagine what your life is like right now. good luck. i>> thank you very much, sir. >> tucker: a final point tonight, a coda which really tells you everything about what's happening to our country right now, how it has gone with amazing quickness from one of the most tolerant places, places of goodwill on the planet to something very different and very, very fast. so we have been telling you the story of the police officer charged, officer rolfe. until today, his stepmother was the hr director had a place called equity prime mortgage in atlanta, georgia. but today, she was let go. no longer in that role. apparently, she was fired and her only crime was being officer rolf's stepmother.
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was promised that her job was safe but today was told "we have to terminate our relationship with you." no other explanation was offered or needed. it's obvious what happen. has already been scrubbed from the company's web site, wiped away as the bolshevik stayed with those that were in favor with joseph stalin. that will keep happening when they protect ordinary people from its predation.he it's a place where you can be punished for this oppose admits deeds of your relatives. you don't want to be that country. all of us should put on the brakes immediately. seattle isn't just the home of earth 196 country, other things are happening they are too, problems that have been around a lot longer. the business owner says he isro about to give up on seattle.
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♪ >> tucker: we just told you a moment ago that the stepmother of officer rolf, the atlantic cop who was facing the death penalty was just fired from her job today had a place called equity pride mortgage in the atlanta area. we told you she was fired with no explanation obviously because they disapproved of who her stepson was and in america we don't do things like that because it's immoral. we just got a statement sent to us from equity prime mortgage blaming the stepmother eluding that social media comments, they don't specify what those are, and added a long boilerplate comment about how they support diversity. the bottom line is it seems pretty clear they fired this woman because of who her stepson was unjust to restate the obvious, that shouldn't happen in this country because it is wrong and people should say it's wrong or he will continue to keep happening. well, we've been highly amused this week, the one bright spot in the week was the nation of
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chop. it's a deeply progressive place with a very secure border, and its own armed guards. but chop is just the latest problem for a city that has become unlivable for a lot of people who are from there. he owns a store basedm in downtown seattle that was forcibly shut down due to coronavirus and said the city's troubles have been building for much longer than that. also joins us tonight, thank you so much for coming on. so your point is that the triple whammy of coronavirus, these riots, and now chop, that is just the latest in a series of problems. tell us what you face as a store owner in seattle?nd >> i have lived in seattle for 38 years. and the last three years, i have seen the crime rate surge.
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i have seen homelessness flash and gangs take over our downtown, not to mention the destruction of property that is happening here in seattle with no consequences. we have a judicial system here that is a revolving door, so if you are a store owner or a restaurant in seattle, these are very difficult times. i met with the mayor at a dinner in february, and i walked up to her table and asked listen, what can we do, what can you do to help us downtown to bring back downtown? and it's a very simple question. she says it sounds like you are very passionate about that, why don't i start a task force and i like to invite you to be on it, so this was in february. i called her office to no answer. i will give her credit, she did decide she offered to buy my dinner which i said no thank you, how about serving up
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somenn law and order in this to? so we have reached a point here in seattle where it's a utopian socialist city on the backs of all of us taxpaying citizens. >> tucker: doesn't look like utopia. looks filthy and disgusting. that's your store behind you right there? >> this is what seattle looks like and this is what people don't see when they go up to chop and whatever they call it today, whatever they call it. so downtown has been decimated. all you see is plywood, particle board, there is no chance that the town will soon come alive again, although if you talk to the mayor, she will tell you that that's her goal. this is what i'll tell you,, things couldn't get crazier.
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the fact that art supplies to the people, stuff to do when under down time so crayon spray paint and more particle board so they could occupy their downtime. that is the craziness happening here. >> tucker: your mayor is a narcissist independent joke. you pay taxes for 38 years in seattle and in return, they've ignored you. are you going to stay? >> i'm telling you, speaking for myself and for other friends that have either restaurants or other businesses, i can tell you it is about to have -- seattle is going to experience a mass exodus and i hear people going toan idaho. >> tucker: a lot of people are going to idaho. good luck. call us when you get to boise. probably better.
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>> tucker: pretty much every single nfl player is under 40. there are virtually no risk form coronavirus. they have already started games there, so why not have the nfl return this fall? dr. tony fauci is not a football fan apparently and told cnn it may be too dangerous to let football return this year. why exactly?? dr. marc siegel joins us to unravel this mystery. thank you for coming on. >> dr. tony fauci is a
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tremendous infectious disease expert but often steps outside his lane. in this case, his lane is basketball. he was a star basketball player. i talked on nfl radio last weeke about how we can make this happen. as you set already, football players are young even if they got covid-19, they would get a mild case most likely. we test our trainers all the time, test the football players regularly. we would look for symptoms, check their temperature, any kind of a sniffle and when it comes to football, you know with the number one problem is? not covid-19. is going to be severe concussion, by far that's the problem, not covid-19. so i think we can start to move the ball forward on this especially since they've already got soccer going in europe right now all the way across europe lifting spirits and thinking of putting fans back in the stands in italy for soccer next month. speaking of fans, how are we
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going to do fans with professional football? going to have to test the ticket takers and going to have to alternate weeks or every third week we are going to have to social distance everybody, even social distance the beer and social distance the hot dogs and when you are rooting for your team, usually get very excited and you're shouting, so you could spread virus so i want people to be very aware of that and i might move the team if it's in a hot spot and i don't want people with high risk conditions they are. don't want people overweight, i'd be very careful about that, and elderly people, senior citizens wouldn't let into the games right away. speaking of senior citizens, there was one senior citizen i would give a pass to, a senior citizen by football standards, going to turn 43 this year going down to tampa bay, the top pastor of all time, tucker. i want to give tom brady a pass, and i want him to cheer us all on for the football season.
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>> sean: medical advice most people would support. why don't you call it of black lives matter rally and just let it roll? by the way, dave portnoy comes tomorrow to respond to this. the great sean hannity right now. >> sean: thank you. and how about everybody wears a mask and everybody -- maybe we asked the older people to sit it out and let the american people choose for themselves? i believe in freedom and i know you do too. >> tucker: just call it a rally and let's just do it. >> sean: you don't want to go, don't go. i'm going, i'll wear the mask for the sake of others. welcome to "hannity." tonight, so much breaking news we will be covering throughout the entire hour tonight. now both officers are charged in the rayshard brooks killing in atlanta. they have now also surrendered and we have key details
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