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governor of new york, andrew cuomo, waiting on his removal. >> people are making a statement about equality, about community, to be against racism, against slavery. i think those are good statements and it depends -, can you overdo it, of course you could, for the new york, i don't think we've overdone it and i think it's a healthy expression of people saying let's get some priorities here let's remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let's not celebrate it. >> tucker: were you listening carefully to? in the state of new york, the governor tells us, we haven't overdone it. the strong public property is "a healthy expression" of people saying let's get some priorities here. okay.." so that's the standard set forth by a democratic party leader. let's think this through for a i minute. andrew cuomo lives in thee governor's mansion in albany. teddy roosevelt once lived there too. so to governors grover cleveland

and franklin roosevelt. by current standards, both clevelandd and fdr were racist. cleveland extended the chinese exclusion act, fdr interned japanese-americans by the tens of thousands during world war world war ii. therefore, like the statues now lying smashed one, the ground in parks across the country, the governor's mansion in albany, new york, is suffused with the spirit ofw white supremacy. it's very existence as an object is an act of violence against marginalized people. it cannot stand. should the mob burn it down? would torturing the racist governor's mansion amount to a "healthy expression of people saying let's get some priorities here"? what do you think? are you crazy? of course not.rs andrew cuomo lives in the governor's mansion. you got within 20 feet of that building and you'll have one of his goons shoot you to death. andrew cuomo is all for destroying things, which is not his own things. by the way, hands-off new york question is latest monument, the mario cuomo bridge, which andrew

named after his father. that's off limits too. okay. so what exactly is "a healthy expression most code of moral priorities in a moment like this? keep in mind, this is a big country and not everyone has the same priorities. it may be hardun to believe if u consume a steady diet of popular media, but not every single person in america is an upper-middle-class white kid from brooklyn with a predictable political views to match. there is actual diversity in views out there. for example, there are quite a few muslim americans in this country and many of them don't love mahatma gandhi. they consider gandhi a hindu nationalist. yet at the same time there are dozens of statues of mahatma gandhi in the united states. one of them stands right across the road from the vice president's house on massachusetts avenue in washington. our angry mobs allowed to rip them down? would governor andrew cuomo consider that a healthy expression off priorities met worth asking.

or what if he didn't like martin luther king. most people do like martin luther king, but most people also like teddy roosevelt and george washington. so clearly popularity has no bearing on whether you're statue is allowed to stand in this country. so can you spray paint of sundaes on martin luther king's monument if you don't like him?m how healthy would that be? these are theoretical questions, obviously, you know the answer to them because you know the rules. the rules are never spoken outut loud, but they are obvious. if america two standards of justice. when they do it to you, it's social justice. if you dare to defend yourself, it's a hate crime. consider what we've seen recently. how many stores in parks and statues inn public buildings hae been destroyed recently by rioters? how many churches and memorials and monuments to our fallen soldiers have been desecrated by that? too many to count. now ask yourself, how many people have been heldno accountable for these crimes? some, a few? no, hardly any.

politicians applauded this destruction, law enforcement has ignored it. why is that exactly? rioting is a federal crime. so is arson. so far two people have been arrested and charged in the burning of the third police precinct in minneapolis. two. video footage, which is everywhere, you've seen it shows clearly that scores of people involved. authorities could identify them and charge all of them. we might have fewer riots if they did that. but no, the justice department isn't interested in doing that. what are they interested in? let's see. recently a nascar driver called bubble wallace claimed that someone left a noose in his garage in alabama. the media reacted as if the wari had broken out. wall-to-wall coverage that made it precisely clear who the enemy was. and of course countless segments on adobe morning show spraining the whole thing as a milestone in the march toward civil righ rights. >> these scenes of unity coming just 24 hours after a noose was found in wallace's team garage

stall, an area restricted to only essential personnel. nascar and the fbi are only investigating. >> tucker: these scenes of unity. unfortunately no one covering the story ever bothered to ask the obvious questions, where exactly was this news, the actual news bubba wallace kept talking about? no picture of it ever surfaced. by the way, haven't we heard this story somewherere before? like repeatedly? between 2015 and 2018, there were six high-profile so-called hate crimes involving nooses. all of them are promoted heavily by the media. every one of them turned out to be a hoax. every single one of them. that's not even counting jesse smallnd at varied the odds that this news hate crime or real were always very small. it's just not a very racist country actually in the end. most of us know that. but you never know it from listening to the authority. if the u.s. attorney suggested federal charges would be brought, brought against whom? that was never clear.

meanwhile, the fbi swooped in by the van load. the bureau sent at least 15 agents to investigate this provocation against a millionaire race car driver, 15 agents at a time when mobs were roaming the country completely unchallenged by law enforcement. burning things, assaulting people. in the end, as you may have heard, it was, needless to say, yet another noose hoax. there was no hate crime in bubba wallace's garage. we will have details on that story later in the show, but for now, what does it tell you thats the fbi and federal prosecutors fell for this hoax so complete completely? it tells you everything. at thehe very moment bubba walle was doing his star turns as america's latest victim of injustice, lecturing his fans about the racism, being backed up completely by the morons who run nascar, a mob of violent lunatics was working on the statue of american patriot francis scott key in san francisco. on his empty pedestal they spray-painted these words, which effectively other slogan.

"kill the colonizers, kill whitey." in other words, murder americans for the color of their skin. you can argue about whether hate crimes ought to exist as a category in american law. but as long as they do exist, that would seem to qualify as one. and if the fbi did not sweep in with 15 agents to investigate. it's not clear if anyone ever investigated, because no one in power cared. if anything, they agreed. and that's the point. the mob does not operate independently from the democratic establishment. the mob is an arm of the democratic establishment. in the city of philadelphia, both the mayor and the district attorney -- we told you about repeatedly cheered as mobs set fire and destroy public property there. but when a group of working-class philadelphians try to protect the statue of christopher columbus from being destroyed, they threatened to prosecute them. t you think the mob will ever show up at his house?

not likely. in fact, no, never. and by the way, nancy pelosi is also safe at her estate in napa. democratic politicians don't fear the mob. do you notice that why? n because they don't need to, they control the mob. the mob operates with their permission.on these are there for childress. this is their militia. in guarded moments, democrats make it very clear that they know this.y here's a revealing video shot just today. in it you'll see the nonvoting democratic delegate from d.c. ts the congress -- you'll see her being interviewed by a well-known msnbc anchor near the white house. out of nowhere, a man dressed in women's underwear charges at them. that's the kind of moment we're living in right now. and for a second they were frightened. watch what they said. >> [inaudible] [bleep] [bleep] [inaudible]

>> tucker: where are the police when you need them? that was their first reaction. at the moment they said that, the two were standing on the street with a mural that demands we fund -- defund the police. of course they missed the irony of that completely, it never occurred to them that the slogan might apply to them too, because they know it doesn't apply to them. they know they will always have police protection. thing is, they're right. they will. federal law enforcement is entirely on theirr side. that's why there have been few prosecutions of rioting and so much fbi attention to bubba wallace 's vacate crime. career bureaucrats in the federal agency support the democratic party. that means they support the mob as well. it's their militia too. virtually every american power center now stands on one side of the political divide.

what you're watching the streets as an attempt to crush the holdouts. ask yourself who is being targeted for destruction right now? anybody who is not on board with their programs. that includes police department, orthodox -- gunowners, foxes, nascar fans, traditional christianity. that's not a random assortment of institutions, it's the people standing in their way. there's a reason that black lives matter leader shawn king yesterday called for the desecration of churches. that will bring those missions to heal.ee none of them should be surprised as we should have seen it coming, it should be obvious. we've known for 50 years that much of the poison in our society emanates from universities but we've done nothing whatsoever to fix that. we continued to fund them no matter what they charge, we keep sending our children there. we've known for more than three years that the federal government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies are dangerously corrupt. they act as armed enforcers to the democratic party.

that's why roger stone is going to prison. they no longer even try to hide this. order partisan affiliations. just today a group of dozens of former national security officials announced they will be campaigning for joe biden this fall. and yet once again in the face of mountains of evidence, we've done nothing about it. there has been no meaningful reform of the cia or the fbi or any of the other terrifyingly powerful agencies that operate independently from our democracy and on the side of the democratic party. we know all this, we still pretend they're legitimate. we dutifully send in our taxes o every quarter to pay their salaries. if there's any good to come out of this moment, and we hope there is, it's that we can no longer lie to ourselves about what is happening. our institutions are not serving all of us equally.s some are actively trying to hurt us. when this is over we need to do something about that. this time for real.

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>> tucker: well, it took the pointless murder of a 19-year-old man, but authorities in seattle are finally claiming they may try to do something about the breakaway nation of chop, established in their downtown. but the cause has already inspired imitators in the nation's capital. demonstrators are trying to create their own cop-free zone, they call it the black house autonomousus zone, bhas. tracking the rise and left-wing extremists and the police. >> [inaudible] >> tucker: demonstrators seem to have made essentially a career given that most of them don't have jobs out of screaming lunatic things at the police.

>> [inaudible] >> tucker: joins us in just a moment to describe what he saw today. but first we want to bring you some when you know well, brian kilmeade, season five of his fox nation series, what made america great, debuts this sunday. in the episode, he will speak with the president about attacks on our country positivist monuments. here's how the president responded. >> they would knocked on lincoln, there's a group that wants to take down lincoln. haven't figured out exactly why yet. george washington, thomas jefferson. i stopped them twice now i'm going over to the jefferson memorial. if i weren't president they would have knocked on -- of a guy like biden was president, they will knocked on the jefferson memorial. >> tucker: just hours after that interview was recorded, demonstrators did try to knock on president jackson's stature

near lafayette park. they were prevented from doing that. brian kilmeade joins us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. before asking why no one's really doing anything about all of this, and no one really is, what is the point of a?t why statues? what my stomach message are they sending to the rest of us? >> just to show you how newsworthy this is. he look at what made america great, you look back in the past, i was in the oval office during history of the white house wanting to get him to talk about history. he said i'm -- he segued right over the statues, they're trying to destroy our history. i brought up andrew jackson because they're trying to take down jackson's statue in new orleans. i turned on your show and he commented on that. i turned on your show and you opened last night with just a half-mile away, two hours from when i left them, they're trying to take away andrew jackson. i tell you what, by the time you were off they are, i thought that stature would be down. thankfully the police got there -- i don't know what took them so long but they got there to stop it.

i think big picture, people are trying to find fault with our past because they don't like the country. these people aren't trying tont make our country better. if you want to make your country better, you know what you protection? andrew jackson had. as great as he was, jailed in the revolutionary war, were you fighting for the country at the age of 14? also, when you lost a family to the war to the british, did you pledge allegiance to your country and become a lawyer, an attorney general, a judge, a congressman, they major general to win at the most decisive impactful battle in our history to the point in the battle of new orleans and then going to be be a two-term president? this is an american success story. if you want to make america better, you say he had in his day and is part of the indian removal act and those weren't positive things, but there was a generation called the jackson generation. the jacksonian era. that's why there's a statue. we don't want to make america better, you want to destroy our past if we don't live up to the

lofty standards of the shirtless skateboarders who want to petition in protest and try to intimidate reporters on a nightly basis. >> tucker: they have the lowest standards and not just of personal hygiene, that i've ever seen of any group. they're totally ignorant, illiterate vandals. in our leaders, with very fewti exceptions, have decided to let them rampage throughout countryn and i don't understand why, do you? >> no, i don't, and it makes no sense.se even guys like tom cotton, who won't stand for it, serves in the ivy league schools, served in the infantry, he believes red, white, and blue and that'se probably five or six in the senate, maybe three in the house. not one democrat. by the way, he was the first democratic president, stands up for them. why am i standing up for him? why is tom cotton standing up for him? spin when your american. >> you mentioned fdr. yeah. you mentioned fdr. tucker, they never told us, the sleep thoughgh my people in the social studies books are perfect, they told us they were important to the makeup of

america. america gets better and better and better. we never saidd we were perfect. what's great about us as we try to be. and that's what jackson was. he was in every man, he wasn't a founding father. het had no collection to washington. they hated them, they told him not to go, told his family couldn't trust anyone.e. when washington rejected him, he brought his case to the people. when he lost a close election, he shook the hand of john quincy adams and essentially said rematch. he beat him four years later. he was the everyman president. when south carolina tried to secede, he told south carolina, you secede i'm sending in the army. he kept our country together another 30 years. you can analyze the administration, do a paper on it, take dominic get a phd. i'm so glad they made a statue a stop is the person because they couldn't get him down with chains, w they couldn't get him down with ropes. they can defile him, but they couldn't take him down. i'm not saying i want to be under jackson. i'm telling you if i suffering from dysentery and i had to lead

an army of ragtag americans, indians, regular marines, pirates, putting together in three weeks and beat an army that just beat napoleon and wipe them out in 45 minutes, i think that's a pretty special americ american. >> this is a fox news alert. in los angeles, president trump speaking to the press in washington momentarily we are told after spending the day in phoenix, arizona, and a mega-church filled with students for trump. he also visited the u.s.-mexico border to inspect the newly completed section of the border wall and also sign their names on the wall. arizona seeing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases over the last few days, reporting a record high of 3500 -- more than 3500 new cases on tuesday with nearly 60,000 known cases in the state overall. the president also noted the rate of testing his way up in the mortality rate is way down.

again, president trump just landing after a trip to arizona where he spoke to a group called "students for trauma." he just now looks like he's just arriving. we thought we might hear from him. does not appear that he's going to be speaking with reporters right now but if he does, we will certainly bring that to you. for now, back to tucker carlson. >> turned on the stature of andrew jackson and so that's why they pushed the perimeter out there completely. and i just came from the linkin park, which was in the capitol hill neighborhood and their expressing their outlets towards the emancipation statuary chose abraham lincoln and they are saying that they are planning on tearing down that statue in that park on thursday. >> tucker: so the man who freed the slaves is now recast as a racist. it's not even worth discussing how stupid these people are. it really is an indictment of our education system above all,

but i'm interested since you were there, what were they saying? >> one of the main speakers there, he said that that statue of lincoln was just a classic case of showing how black people -- he says that -- because the park is federal property and so he said that that land so they were standing on was stolen land and that it actually wasn't federal property all. and so they were really upset, again, because of how it portrayed lincoln with the freed and there was some disagreement among the crowd. there was an older woman who said that where was this outrage when the statute was being built and they were sayinghe that they didn't have the power back then to prevent it from being put up and like i said, they're not planning on tearing down the statute today, the planning on doing that on thursday. >> tucker: i know that some sectors of lincoln in this country were paid for by the

donations of freed slaves, who you can imagine -- i think it's a fair assumption in large part for pro lincoln and for obvious reasons. we've known these people are morons, they know nothing, they are illiterate, but did anyone say that? >> again, yeah, there was some disagreement because there was a woman from a b white woman, how they bring schoolkids by that park to talk about emancipation. they have a gathering on emancipation day and she was shouted down by the crowd, saying go home karen. she felt uncomfortable because she said that there was a mob and it took offense to saying that they weren't a w mob. but because she was a white woman, some of the people in the crowd were black, they were saying that she was kind of co-opting their protest and so they weren't too happy with her presence there. >> tucker: go home, karen. okay, so the media tolerate a

racial slur, that's just demeaning and it's gross. whatever you tolerate, you get more of. [laughs] julio, be safe, good luck, please comeaf back. >> thanks, talker. >> tucker: coronavirus cases arising in this country as various states open up. should we be worried about that? what numbers really matter if you're interestedhe in what the dangerous and what numbers are misleading? no one has a tighter handle on this, joins us next. ♪

>> tucker: after weeks of slow decline, new cases of the coronavirus are rising once again, now more than 30,000 new cases a day. it's not surprising, the protests you're watching on television have had an effect. our leaders aren't bothered by that. they're more interested in politics at the moment. right now for example in lincoln county oregon, officials have decreed that all people must wear masks in public, but the order only applies to people

who ber are white. nonwhite citizens are exempt asn long as they claim to fear "racial profiling."s so where do we go from here now the coronavirus cases arising? another lockdown on the way? or is there more toow these numbers? the author of unreported truths about covid-19 and lockdown. he's done more than anyone to get to the truth and joins us tonight. bottom line it for us, which of these numbers mean? >> so first of all i would actually push back on you a littlele bit. it's not clear that the protests have played any role in the community spread because we would be seeing something more nationally i think if that were true and instead we are seeing in a couple of states, large sun belt states. so what's happening is texas, florida, arizonang especially, which have about 60 million people combined, there is a notable rise in new positive

tests, which the media generally cause -- and in the last week or so there's been a notable rise and certainly texas and arizona in icu beds being filled with covid patience and hospitalization, so i don't want to sugarcoat that. one of the things i promised y you, i promised her audience to tell themi truth. and the truth is there's a reason to pay attention to this. but i will also be clear, it's not clear how serious this is. it doesn't look like at this point that it's not manageable what sort of normal hospital settings -- do we need surge capacity? not right now. is this a result of better testing? it may be but it also looks like there's a real community spread happening. is it a result possibly of testing people incongruent setting -- it's possible, but again, there appears to be some real community spread happening and i don't mean to downplay that. >> tucker: so what does this mean going

forward? we heard for months about a possible resurgence in the fall. the course of some flu viruses, is that still likely? >> that's a great question. this has been one of the first times in the last few months when cases have taken a turn that has actually surprised me. i would say given the fact that it's a sun belt state hasis actually worked on showing that it looks like basically if you look at what's called cooling degree days, which is the number of days the people are going to have air-conditioning on, there's a very high correlation there, so what that indicates is that maybe people are sort of being forced into their homes and the virus we know spreads much more efficiently inside, especially in situations where is being circulated, so that tom me does not say let's lockdown again.'s that's just the opposite. that suggests it may just be a transient problem in these states. again, i'm not going to poly avenue. it's not good that i se icu beds

are filling up. >> tucker: sick people are never good but the question is how do we respond to it and it sounds like you haven't moved from your original position, chich is outdoor is good, indoor is bad. >> that's correct, and by the way, there's not a lot of evidence that masks would help. i don't some people say it's because those states don't have masks. if that's true, how come in canada, where mask wearing is not required, there has not been a resurgence. holcomb in europe there is not been ove a resurgence? seems to be going on in the southern united states and we need to figure out why. it would also help with the of the media instead of pointing at the numbers and screaming -- i don't want to say the screaming about how wonderful this is but there is ais tone of i got you,i got you. actually went on to the hospital and talked to people about what's really driving this. again, i've heard from some nurses in dallas, in houston who said we are testing people, there are people who are being

centrally asymptomatic but covid positive in our hospitals being counted, but that can't be the reason we are seeing icu beds. let's do some real reporting here. >> tucker: moralizing make that really hard. alex, great to see you tonight, thank you. thanks, talker. >> tucker: meanwhile, the european union is considering a new travel ban on america. a ban on americans traveling to europe in response to coronavirus cases. dr. marc siegel joins us with the latest on this. doctor, thanks for coming on. >> hi, talker. let's take this back to march 11th when italy passed 10,000 cases and in the united states are we had 1100 confirmed cases and president trump issued that travel ban were he basically said 26 countries stretchinghi from iceland to greece, you couldn't travel to hear from europe and you know what the european union did? they were w horrified.

he told president trump irresponsible. but looking backwards, we see actually that most of our cases, at least on the east coast, came here from europe because they were receiving cases from china and then on into the united states. look today at june 23rd when we have 2.4 million cases in italy has one-tenth of that. now the european union is getting ready to reopen their borders. guess who may not be on the li list? the united states. guess who is on the list, talker? china. the european union is calling our handling of the coronavirus a failure. maybe it's a failure because without we had 1100 cases will probably head over million or at least several hundred thousand by that point. they are saying that if you live in a state or region where there is less than 50 cases per 100,000 people, maybe then you can travel to the european uni

european union. maybe then you can travel to europe. let's see now, montana, new york, texas, arizona, california, you're, out. i think this will have a huge impact on our economy and i'm actually wondering whether this could have something to do withu president trump this week saying that foreign workers with visas are not allowed into the country. could this be retaliatory? possibly. would it be public health? whatever it is it's not the tone they sounded back in march when they were horrified at our travel ban at a time when thousands and thousands of cases were coming here.o so i have a message for the european union tonight. how about remembering what we did for you in the middle of the 20th century? talker. >> tucker: i think that's worth reminding. global power politics at work ir always under the masquerade of public health. doctor, thanks so much for explaining that, good to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: at least 15 fbi

agents scramble down to alabama to investigate a noose a nascar driver claimed he found in his garage. they find exactly what you might expect, another bogus hate crime and when they left, they thanked him. what is going on in this country? we will ask planet after the break. a massive cloud of dust, a dust storm, en route to our country from the sahara desert as if things couldn't get weirder. we will tell you what that means just ahead. ♪ i got an oriole here.

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♪ >> tucker: late last week, the mayor of oakland, california, who tonight is in the running for the worst and most incompetent mayor in the united states, promised a hate crime prosecution after what she described as nooses were discovered in a public pa park. after a brief investigation by the local tv station revealed they were nooses, they were in fact to just ropes with loops at the end, they were put up a local residents for exercise. >> out of the dozens and hundreds of thousands of people that have walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose.

right, folks have used for exercise. you know, it was really a fun addition to then park. >> tucker: yeah. thousands of people walked by, none of them thought it was a noose, because none of them was half as hysterical as libby schaaf or have is political. it's an amusing story really but should because theld rest of uso cause dumb i pause and reflect. every month there seems to be new hysteria over noosesd discovered somewhere, often in a public place, and almost inevitably, the hate crime we've been warned about turns out to be fake. the story has been told again and again and again, but our authorities never learn the obvious lesson, this isn't a very racist l country. sorry, democratic party. we understand you want to get elected to power on that premise, but it's just not true in most people know it isn't. when a noose was found in baba wallace's garage, everyone instantly assumed in the media anyway that it was a hate crime. nikki haley, who wants to be the

republican nominee next time and wants you to believe she's conservative tweeted this. ", we should all stand with bubba wallace today against the cowards who secretly put the noose in his garage stall. watch your back, cowards, bubba has a bigger army than you do. hashtag hate won't win. nikki haley believed it immediately. and used it to make the point nikki haley often makes, which is that america is a very racist country. nascar president steve phelps immediately bowed to ben the perpetrator for life. jamal hill used the incident to target millions of nascar fans as racists. >> this reminder is the stunning, shocking, this custom reminder of who the sport is f for. i'm very curious to see how nascar handles it because based on what everything i've read it's that this had to be an inside job, because this garage was only open to essential personnel, but somebody

associated with nascar likely may have been the culprit. >> tucker: in the beginning there were a few who expressed public skepticism. might this be a misunderstanding? bubba wallace, who never produced pictures of the noose,f had a message for anyone who questioned the story. they were stupid and they were racist. >> what would you say to those people who are doubting that this even happened or that it's true? >> just like steve phelps said, it offended me the people go to those measures, but again, i'm not shocked. they used everything in their power to defend what they stand up for and instead of trying to listen and understand -- >> tucker: the fbi bought the story completely. they've done nothing to arrest the people were burning police stations or tearing down monuments of george washington, but the fbi sent 15 agents to alabama to investigate the news.

after days of investigation, they discover the noose was in fact a rope with a loop used by workers to pull down a garage door.e one of these nooses was present in every garage at talladega. once again, authorities rushed in to believe an absurd story because it could be used to advance in a political agenda. horace cooper joins us tonight. horace cooper, thanks so much for coming on. i'm amazed most of all by the response from the authorities, the people in positions of power in law enforcement, in politics. why do they react as they did? >> we are all under this grand delusion that racism is running rampant in america. when i was just a little kid, my grandmother told me the story about the emperor that had no clothes. you may remember the story.

myry grandmother ended the stor, she explained -- she said buck naked and finally a little kid said what everyone saw, knew to be true, but was denying. i've got my own truth bomb. america isn't a racist country. in fact, racism is so hard to find, you have to create these circumstances in order to find one. you are member that guy in chicago? he had to hire foreigners to do the racism that american somatic america just won't do >> tucker: we covered the story for a month and never used that line, that is so good. but why -- and i think you're absolutely right and i think most americans, no matter who they voted for, understand really that you're telling the

truth. the question is why did they keep telling us this if it's not true? the point? >> well part of the problem is it feeds a narrative that some people who sustain themselves politically, it feeds a narrative that they are empowered by solving -- we come to rescue you from the big bogeyman racist. i've got another truth bomb. whether you're black, white, brown, gay, straight, male, female, all americans occasionally find they have struggles and setbacks. but because of this narrative, only a few groups are allowed to experience their struggles and their setbacks and their difficulties, but what that has done is it has divided the rest of america, the rest of america, who has a difficulty, who has a

struggle. it's not racism, it's not bigotry. america is an amazing place, but as our economy has changed, our elites haven't responded to those changes and they tell poor people, mostly white, too bad for you. >> tucker: because those people don't vote for them. they're never calling the residents of santa monica or cambridge massachusetts racists because their reliable voters. that was great, thank you so much for coming on. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: we don't want to wreck your evening but an immense crowd of desert sand fromrt the sahara is now blowing this way to america. where will this rank in the long and growing list of 2020s bizarre calamity? part of the country will feel the effects of this? that's all next. ♪

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alert, it's about to get very dusty, a plume of airborne desert sand is floating across the atlantic from north africa, it's about to arrive here. how will your city or state fa fair? fox news meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the storm for us tonight. adam, what are we in store for? >> it's not as scary as it sounds, nothing next thing lined up in 2020, even though it does feel like that a little bit. folks seeing this particular system, every year, we get this big strong wind from africa across the atlantic ocean, the caribbean, the gulf of mexico, this year a little stronger than typical years, but you see the dust plume that will lift the desert southeast, a southern portions of the midwest, and tucker, the actual good news with this is it's going to suppress any sort of hurricane, and it's actually going to make for some beautiful sunsets along the gulf coast. so, this is actually good news,

not bad news. >> tucker: adam klotz, a glass half-full kind of man. >> you know it. >> tucker: what a nice end to the hour. great to see you. that's it for us tonight, but there is more. the great sean hannity stands by. >> sean: i was thinking the same thing. i'm looking at that thinking "is there a goodbye to that?" becausee that looks pretty scar. great show. welcome to "hannity." we begin tonight coming out of news on this tuesday night, a fox news alert. breaking tonight, massive chaos in america's cities, it's ongoing in atlanta tonight, reports of armed vigilantes patrolling the burned-out wendy's where the rayshard brooks shooting took place. will take you there live in a moment. in seattle, breaking this moment, morning, yet another shooting near the c.h.o.p. autonomous zone. we have updates on the ground from that city, and also tonight come in new york, a vial of salt caught on tape. look at