>> martha: that is "the story" for wednesday july the 1st of 2020. we will be back tomorrow and tucker carlson is coming up next, don't go away. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we spent an awful lot of time this spring talking about viruses and how they spread. one person infects another person who infects a third who then has contact with the larger group of people and infects 20 more, each of whom, and you know how it works, it's exponential. pretty soon, individuals thousands of miles from the source of the outbreaks are getting sick. what we now know is the craziness spreads very much the same way. a single lunatic to pass case of it to millions of others. hysteria is the most

communicable disease known to man. and we are now living through a pandemic of it. memorial day weekend amendment named george floyd died in police custody in minnesota and that's where this outbreak first began. and here's the state of the pandemic now. >> it was just before midnight thursday when protesters began dismantling and toppling a statue honoring christopher columbus and civic center park. crews moved in and it destroyed what was left. one protester is climbing up a statue and began spray painting its face and hands possibly a civilizing blood up while others spray-painted the words george floyd with the words of black lives matter and the communist symbol. the statue has been here since

1931. >> tucker: so to translate what you just saw into the clinical language of epidemiology, holy smokes, this is getting really crazy. what does christopher columbus have to do with george floyd? christopher columbus was not a minneapolis police officer, christopher columbus was an italian navigator. they haven't even heard of george floyd. who knows, you are definitely not allowed to ask. a patient may appear to be recovering from hysteria, speaking in nearly complete sentences and bathing independently on occasion but then a single direct question most of them into a tailspin, a renewed attack of anarchist graffiti and hours of hostile tweeting.

it's safer not to say a word. that separately the policy over at the center of republican conference on capitol hill. republican senators have decided not to disturb the patients in any way even as they rampaged through america destroying our culture and history. it's easier to give them what they want so that's what they are doing. ron johnson and james lankford are both republican senators and today they issued legislation to abolish columbus day. they want to delete it from the national counter implicit with juneteenth. this is a big change. americans have celebrate columbus day as long as we have had a country's in 1792. that's a celebration of the nation itself which is why we have a national holiday. three weeks ago many people had never heard of it, even the media seemed oblivious to its existence. from 2012 through 2017, cnn did not mention the word juneteenth a single time on the air. barack obama who was the

president never tweeted about juneteenth once during the entire span of his presidency, not one time. juneteenth commemorates the freeing of the american and emancipation is one of the great moments in america's history which is why we consider abraham lincoln a hero. but paradoxically, and this is audit. the people who are pushing juneteenth on the country do not consider abraham lincoln a hero. they are pulling down the statues along with columbus. confused? that's the nature of hysteria outbreak, they make steaks dumb accents. john langford describes themselves as conservatives, as improbable as that may seem in on some level they may suspect that all the yelling about columbus day and juneteenth doesn't have much to do about emancipation with civil rights and is likely just another way to humiliate and demoralize americans. on some level they know that they are ignoring it which is easier to do with hysteria patients come. unless of course the voters notes them doing it.

a couple of weeks ago senator mike braun of indiana sponsored a bill designed to punish the police. at the very moment the country was undergoing widespread looting, arson and violence. then he endorsed the radical racial separatist blm movement. at first that constituents didn't seem to realize their senator had done any of this but when he found out they were enraged and they let him know about it loudly. mike braun is now running away from his own bill. if mike braun were up for election this year he would lo lose. senators langford and johnson are praying nothing like that will happen to them and they are hoping to quietly illuminate columbus day and then move onto the next item on the writer's list of demands. will they be able to do that? it all depends on whether or not to let them know that you noticed if they are trying to cancel columbus day. if you don't say anything about it there was no telling what johnson and langford might do next. just the other day for example

"the new york times" knocks down george washington statutes and approached our country's founder from our collective memory. today the paper announced of that we should consider closing not rush because of course, racism. senators johnson and langford have not yet endorse those ideas and at this rate it may not be long before they do. so the question is what other acts of revolution and cultural desecration can we expect from our suddenly woke republican senator friends. that's a good question and we are going to ask mark steyn in just a minute. what do you think they will do if you don't say anything, which other holidays will they be? obviously july 4th would be on the list. they have all so ben and therefore celebrating independence is also racist. especially washington's birthday, and as we just heard it's too evil to have a statute.

and every single not only was it established by abraham lincoln, a man so filthy is that she was being removed from boston but not a single one of the pilgrims wasn't from england. veterans day and memorial day? until seven years ago the armed forces were segregated. some of the americans fought and died were racist so you can't honor them. off the counter. and and mother's day and

father's day, and that the culture of festival appropriation. love is bourgeois. what else what they do if we don't stop them? to answer that question we are joined by our old friend mark steyn. this is why, i should preface everything i say. the republicans are the only alternative to the complete biden aoc takeover, and we have a salty worthless bunch across the finish line in november but i must say, these two guys, and

and i would like to replace groundhog day with republican senator day then goes back inside for the next six years and never gives it another thought. these guys don't understand that unless you are willing to surrender anything, and we are only coming back for more. >> tucker: i should say both the senator's, they are both smart and routinely make conservative noises. and i think biden has not called for getting rid of columbus, and

people are pining for an alternative. in france, and it's do we be metrosexual globalists and nothing, and not taking one statue and a single straightening. and he said today, this is fantastic.

in atlanta, and they are an american idf. the republican response is to propose a holiday two weeks before july the 4th, and that would be touted in the rival, and they would be hopping the big parades. if this is conservatives can conservatism and if this is a republican party then, just get out of the way. and, in the people we voted for,

and in order to protect us have joined the other side. i have to ask you about the question for juneteenth. why are the people who support same juneteenth against the person who made of emancipation possible is abraham lincoln. >> is about inflicting damage on of the existing american order. so if you need emancipation in the form of the lincoln statute that was taken down in boston they are happy to see ago. and, i would think republican senators should have their own emancipation day.

and it's tough on crime, tough on china and can just go back to being worthless. and that's the first wednesday in november. >> mark steyn, great to see you from that perspective. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: it's so as republicans did her on capitol hill, democrats are not tethering at all. they wage a war on police and the state would make it only a misdemeanor to physically attack a police officer. that's next.

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plus get $200 off a new samsung galaxy s20 ultra. >> tucker: it's today the mayor of new york bill de blasio announced a $1 billion cut to the city's police department, the nypd. keep in mind that budget is being cut at exactly the moment that murders in the city are up

by 21%. at shootings up 46% compared to last year. even the lunatics were skeptical of these priorities. >> the number of shootings in new york city has risen dramatically. and why is it the right time to cut money from the police department? >> we have been for years the biggest safest city in america and we continue to be i take that issue very seriously about the shootings and we have to fight that back. >> i think that issue very seriously, he said it, not taking it seriously at all. you do everything you can to stop the shooting but, and the

target of it, and normal police officers. that's before officers can use our firearms. it's not about safety, definitely not about protecting black lives. if you want to understand what's going on, watch this video from new york. >> my hairdresser has to go to school for longer than you do. half of you don't even have a college education. you can't even read a [bleep] history book, you should know better.

you are like the [bleep]. >> tucker: i get it, this is classwork. you didn't even go to wesleyan, this is -- of 2,000 are liberal arts degree makes them morally superior. it's a revolutionary downward. jeanine pirro hosts justice with judge jeanine and we are always happy to have her on the show. he saw that tape, i don't think i've ever seen anything simultaneously more revealing and more loathsome than that. >> you know tucker, you talk about cultural desecration in the earlier segment. this is not desecration of law and order in america. that was disgusting. i just sat here stunned that this is going on in our country and not enough people are standing up to it.

i give you kudos tucker for taking everyone on. i agree with you. right now in this country what is going on, it is law enforcement is being paralyzed. cops are not being given the ability to do the job. they are moralized and vilified and now in new york city especially, a billion dollars taken out of the nypd budget and it now, cops don't even know what to do. nypd is just telling us now you can't do that, you can't do this and that leadership is saying you can't do it. the perp took that taser gun.

the cop can use his gun to defend himself in that situati situation. can we do it? and they are not getting clarification. cops cannot put their hands on anyone, how do you make an arrest, how do you effectuate any kind of arrest. please, if you don't mind, can you put your hand behind your back? the police are going to respond to the scene and they will not get involved in the case because if they get involved in the case, first of all there is a target on their back to begin with and maybe they will be ambushed like they were last week in -- i forget what town that was in and in the end they will call the sergeant, the sergeant called the captain and the captain calls a lieutenant and nobody knows what's going on. this is a real problem that bozo, de blasio, has no idea

what he's talking about. in fact when they disbanded the anti-crime unit that does the undercover work, guns and drugs, gangs and the people who are going to be hurting are the inner cities, and they know it. and the fund means defund. they have their own security, and if you have a safe communi community, say goodbye to business, and this is the end.

this is intentional, and you are in bolding the criminal. and that's what the same people say when they take over. >> they were all in trouble like the mccloskey's that you had on your show and you talked about monday and had on your show last night. when you've got these defendants who are emboldened to beat up a cop, they've got nothing to lose. it's turnstile justice and the prosecutors in the city don't want to prosecute. now the police are taking away their authority is being taken away to make an arrest. where do you think we will end

up? it's not going to be good. say goodbye to new york city and you can thank bill de blasio and the people on the left. >> tucker: what a tragedy. the biggest city in this count country. judge jeanine pirro, great to see you tonight. silicon valley is the most powerful group of business lobbyists in the world and they are now pushing the trump administration to roll back the executive order on guest workers. and what's the real motivation question but we will tell you after the break.

>> tucker: last week we told you about an executive order the president signed blocking new guest worker visas temporarily. this is of course in response to

the mass unemployment among americans because of coronavirus. it's a very smart thing to do and a much-needed thing to do. but we want to do at the time that it would only work if it wasn't got eta. if it wasn't watered down. that turned out to be precious because some people inside of the of administration would like to do just that. the presidential order rick includes a requirement that within 30 days, the secretary of homeland security suggested changes to it. already we are being told that tech companies and our allies in the white house are trying to use the 30 day review. as a way to fatally weaken and fill with loopholes and distractions. keep in mind of the tech industry is the single most aggressively left-wing part of the american business community. this pushes being led by the country's wealthiest tech companies. it's not hard to figure out why. all of these companies are happy to lecture you about how it's

irredeemably racist. apple ceo tim cook is leading the way as always. tim cook tweeted this. "like apple this nation of immigrants has always found strength in art diversity and hope in the promise of the american dream. deeply disappointed by this proclamation. talk about a non sequitur. of course more than that, it's a lie. if he was he wanted to protect america's fading class but he's doing the opposite. the h1b guest worker visas are awarded to a single country, india. that's not diversity. that's one country. all workers were born in foreign countries. so pausing the h1b program for even six months will free up tens of thousands of jobs for

americans of all backgrounds. the college you are paying for, and a text field, they are not going to get their jobs because they will be taken by foreign nationals and this might allow them a chance. so apple isn't fighting for diversity, they are doing what they appear to be doing. trying to keep wages down and keep their workers compliant by importing labor from abroad. in the administration should not fall for it. if cases of coronavirus in texas are as high as they've ever been. one cause for that, texas says that every hospital patient with the coronavirus is being counted in their hospitalization total, even if they are getting treatment for something blue different. it doesn't seem honest, what's going on? dr. marc siegel has a very latest on the story.

>> tucker, it's been widely reported that there is over 43,000 new cases of covid-19 yesterday. it's been widely reported that south in the west been hard hit and it's been widely reported that texas, arizona, california and florida are reversing aspects of their reopening. it's been widely reported that dr. tony fauci says we could see as much as 100,000 new cases per day and i'm not sure where that number comes from but that's what he says. that's all been widely reported. is what hasn't been reported. as the case counts are going up, the death rate remained under 700 for a 24 hours per day of new cases. why, why is that? because most of the people that are getting covid-19 now our young people and the cdc just released a statistic that again was not reported to come up that of the last 15,000 deaths from covid-19, only 3.9% were under

the ages of 44 years old. the same group that is now spreading it in miami and spreading it in austin, texas, or spreading it in phoenix. that group has mild cases. that is not reported, and they are now getting the elective surgery. hernia operations and they are filling the hospitals. only covid-19 is actually getting in the way up all of that. tucker, it's not been widely reported until now that our young people are bursting the bonds of all of this because of the excessive lockdowns. they are rebelling and it's not good public health. so tell me. let me ask a question. why is that whole story not

being reported as i'm trying to do? the answer is one word, tucker. politics. and i'm here to cut through the politics and bring you the science, to report on the science, tucker. >> tucker: everything that happens in an election year is the election. thank you dr. siegel for your honesty, i appreciate it. so the biggest worry for the democrats right now is that the public might actually listen to their candidate. can they prevent that from happening? the debates are coming up this fall. will joe biden show or will he find a pretext against them? that's up next.

>> all you have to do is watch me, i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man i'm running against. thank you so much. >> tucker: i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive

capability to the cognitive capability -- [laughs] it's all self discrediting. but jo joe biden means it becaue in his head it still in 1993 and he's at the peak of his mental powers but those who work for him know very differently because i want to say things like this. >> good evening and thanks so much for tuning in. >> no man has a right to raise a hand it to a woman in anger other than in self-defense and that's rarely ever occurs. we have to change the culture, and keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it. >> i love this place. and what a neat town. >> play the radio, make sure you have the record player on at night. we chose science over fiction. we choose truth over facts.

>> tucker: it because when you take on domestic violence you have to keep punching on it. and voters appear to agree or maybe they forgotten either way, joe biden's odds look pretty good right now. his campaign lives in fear that he will talk, and that he does so in public late in the race and he could implode. so the question is, will there be debates? biden has promised he will debate the incumbent but will he find a pretext to pull out? dana perino host the daily briefing as the frequent guest on the show are proud to say. so this is one of those scenarios where there is almost nothing you can say to make me believe it and maybe i'm being carried away by my superstition. and he is not morally where worthy of sharing a debate stage

with me. do you think that's possible? >> he reminds me of something. you might owe me on a bet which i would remind you of before i finish this and i think you might. the other day doug mckelway from fox news asked joe biden about his cognitive abilities and that is why joe biden repeats it twice. you see this morning, donald trump and joe biden are going after each other on their cognitive abilities. you will be able to see it, i think some people in america, they think it's kind of charming and they know, and how would we know about cognitive abilities unless there were debates? unless they are debates because

everything else is so scripted. you have one, terry mccullough's plan to keep joe biden in the basement is working pretty well so far and then he comes out, the press treated him with kid gloves. they were like, you are out and you are doing an event and you are taking questions, we are so amazed. but everything else he does is very scripted. the videos, tweets, everything like that. the only place you will be able to test either candidate, i think is at the debates. there is a scenario that i could imagine where biden says, i don't need to debate him. if, for some reason, they are convinced that they are so far ahead of president trump, going into the election, maybe they would say you don't need to debate. but this race will definitely tighten, i believe there will be debates. >> tucker: so because you think the biden campaign which is very cynical, i can't say that enough -- you think the biden campaign thinks

politically they have to agree to the debate? >> i think the only reason they would not say they were going to debate would be for some reason. that's not going to happen. the numbers are not there. i think yes, joe biden's in the polls look pretty good right now, but it is also -- four months from now we will have the election. it looks like we would have that election in the blink of an eye but we would also have 4,700 new cycles until then. and a lot could happen between now and then. he saw president trump today try to zero back in on joe biden on major issues, mainly the economy and warning people what could happen to them and the economy if they don't give him another four years and put biden. >> tucker: oh, man. it does seem like we have a right to see both candidates, while candidates speak in an unscripted way and response to challenges from their peers, not

from the media, and what if we are denied that it will really be a watershed and a very sad moment in american history. >> i think there will definitely be debates. back in february when president trump's numbers were doing so well and he had beaten impeachment and the economy was going great, you could almost imagine a scenario. in fact i was asked about it not on your show but another show on fox news about whether they would need to do it. so i just think -- i think it is the tradition of the country, and we see them both in their element. it's a very important one. for example all the issues that you brought up on your show tonight. >> tucker: it right. i agree with you there. >> he told me that michelle obama was going to be his vice president.

>> it wouldn't be the first bet you one. thank you, dana. >> what happens to its stateless citizens? i will tell you after the break. ♪

♪ >> tucker: ending tonight on a poignant note, the end of an era. three weeks ago the struggling and fledgling state of chaz seceded from downtown seattle, from the u.s. itself. a week after internal revolution became trapped but the new name didn't stop the turmoil. after a series of killings the world's youngest country also had the world's highest per capita murder rate, sensing

weakness, its enemies pounce. seattle mayor jenny durkan praised chop weeks ago sent and police to re-annex the country back to the u.s. now comes the difficult task of reintegrating its citizens into american life. jason rance has been tracking jazz and chop for us. he joins us tonight. this is kind of a powerful moment to see the fledgling nation disappear. >> it is and i hate to break it to you. we were not greeted as liberators today. it's bizarre to figure out what we are going to do with these folks from chop because are they refugees? we kicked them out of their sovereign land with overwhelming force via bicycle cops. they did put up a little bit of a fight with their fortified borders of old coaches which by the way, not what they used to be because those bike cops got through them very, very quickly. they must have been ikea. trying to figure out what exactly do we do with these folks? a whole bunch of twentysomething

imbecile progressive white privilege dudes who think they basically don't have to work for a living. they can just turn to socialism and everything will be handed to them. do we really even want them in seattle? i think we should give them deportment. >> tucker: hunger helps reeducate people. no one ever does that in our country. i'm glad to see us win a war definitively for the first time in a long time. where are these refugees going to go? are they going to continue to stew in their own filth on the streets of seattle or move to portland? >> they are kind of looking for another home. there's rumors they are going to try to take up some new space outside of the west precinct, so they are going from the east police precinct to the west police precinct. we don't know exactly who's going to be the leadership this time. obviously, like a phoenix rising through the flames of a dumpster fire, came up to be a big leader and he's kind of disappeared. we don't know who is going to

take the mantle and lead these lost souls to their next homeland. >> tucker: so what are the chances were as simone goes back to his real job which was renting his apartment on airbnb? >> his apartments on airbnb way better than living in a tent in front of a police station or next to a park. he may be she go back to that and pursue his rap career. i am curious. is he living on the streets? a chop leader. i want to the lyrics. i want to see the soul in his story. he has a story to tell and i'm here to listen. speak to the first world leader to emerge from the economy. great to see you for your tireless reporting on chaz. we want to end tonight with some happy news. here's news you can use. no doubt a lot of you are struggling with the recession we are currently and thanks for the

coronavirus lockdowns. if you are sending a kid to college this fall, it's particularly tough not just because you know that a liberal arts degree will likely hurt that child but because it's too expensive. we have good news for you. colleges are struggling too and that's always a good thing. some are desperate in fact. they have grown rich over decades by exploiting young people in this country but thanks to coronavirus, they have run out of money. college enrollment was already declining a now more students are taking gap years, foreign students are vanishing and others are waiting longer to finish their education. colleges are in trouble. some may fail. they are getting so desperate in fact, they are willing to do something they have never done before and that you didn't think possible: respond to markets. some have even given a last-minute tuition discounts. a recent piece in "the wall street journal" describes how you can get one. he just asked. make schools compete with each other on price, just like you would with anything else. i know. quite a concept. one family in massachusetts got

a 41% discount on tuition at a school just by emailing the school. another student admitted to the university of miami initially received no discount but when she asked for a merit scholarship just after lockdowns began, the school gave her $20,000. obviously the right answer is to avoid paying for college, find an option. if you're going to pay for college this fall, consider sending an email to the financial aid office. you've got nothing to lose. be tough in that email. it is a buyer's market right now in education. so keep that in mind. there's absolutely no reason you should be paying 70 grand a year all in to send your kid to a reeducation camp. news you can use, as we promised. that's it for us tonight. we are completely out of time. we have spanned the gamut all the way from eliminating columbus day to the end of chop to a new dawn in higher

education which you have the power to negotiate. we promised you a happy ending. and we delivered. we are coming back tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. in the meantime, the great sean hannity. >> sean: we can make sure every family is safe and secure in their home, their city, their neighborhood and we can have the best school system in the world. we spend more per capita than any other industrialized country. great point, good show tonight as always. welcome to "hannity." so much breaking news. the ever frail and ever confused, weak joe biden is bowing to raise your taxes. what a promise. president trump heading back in a big way. the economy, huge news tonight on the great side. signs of a real robust v-shaped recovery we had all hoped for and consumer confidence on the rise and a lot of records set that will share with you.