♪ >> tucker: good evening, happy fourth of july weekend, and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." 2020 has been one of the most remarkable years in living memory. tonight, we want to honor the up tomericans who stepped protectni their rights, their businesses, and their way of life against government wnaticism during the coronavirus shut down. one of those was a man from new jersey called ian smith, targeted by state officials were trying to open his gym to willing customers. we will visit that conversation and just a moment the first, here are some of the more arbitrary regulations we had to endure in the past four months. the problem with assessing

political candidates as you never know what they are like until they get a hold of power and by then, of course, it is too late. the decent ones wield power with restraint and humility and understand the limits of their own wisdom and also understand the inevitability of unintended consequences, they know they won't be in charge forever and so they tread lightly. but the bad ones go crazy and the more power they get, the crazier theynd go. power is the drug they've been searching for. it's why they went into politics and the first place, not to help you or improve our society, but to fill that empty space inside themselves. these are profoundly damaged people. not a single one of them has a functional relationship with their fathers, not one. unfortunately, people like that run a lot of this country right now. they've never had more power at any time in our history. ahas this pandemic receives, becoming clear that cities and states that have cautiously reopened did the right thing. they are reaping the benefits of

that. nowhere has the virus surged back, death rates have not spiked. hospitals have not been overwhelmed. the time for mass quarantines is passed. and yet, in some places, and this is the measure of bad leadership, lockdowns are icoming more restrictive, and much, much weirder. in illinois, for example, in aging ne'er-do-well who bought the governorship has issued yet another emergency order. has issued another emergency order. this time, he vows to imprison business owners if they try to reopen. meanwhile, pothead mayor bill de blasio has announced that anyone who dares ce swim will be yanked out of the water because the virus spread so easily in the ocean. pothead bill. in los angeles as we told you on friday, the mayor has told beachgoers they can walk on the wet sand totally fine but not the dry. dry sand is dangerous. on long island, laura karen has

band doubles tennis. watch. >> i will fill you in on what rules are from a singles, no doubles, you have to have a court between players. between the set and people playing. every player unless they are from the same household has to bring their own tennis balls so you don't touch other people's tennis balls. >> tucker: singles only, no doubles. she wants to know in nassau county committee is illegal to touch other people's tennis balls. for this is what happens when neurotic, dumb people get power, they threw you in jail if you complain about it.po thankfully, in spots around the nation, people are starting to remember that this is america. just because would like to stage this would does not mean the rest of us have to play along. several sheriffs and illinois have announced they will no longer enforce his orders, they are too stupid and absurd and unconstitutional.

many others are standing up for themselves in quieter ways. here's how we know. becausendor it controls your smartphone, apple contract travel across the country. that's scary but in this case, it's interesting. here's why. over this past weekend and for the first time since the lockdowns began, nationwide driving trends were well aboveve thehi baseline average. that means americans are voting with a their feet ignoring the orders and breaking their isolation. last week, we talked to a new jersey gym owner called ian smith. smith vowed to reopen his gym today no matter what. so mercifully clearly doesn't know what to do, so many have died, he has arrested people for attending weddings. you are openly defying him on television, what do you think will happen to you when you do this? >> we are prepared for any and all consequences. our actions are going to be grounded in the ideals of civil

disobedience.al and what we intend to showcase is that we reject the premise of essential versus nonessential businesses. >> tucker: so smith wasn't joking.re his gym reopen today in a big crowd arrived when it did. the police arrived too. here's what happened next. >> we are only here for people safety. seems like that's what we have out here today. [applause] you are all in violation of the executive order. on that note,, have a good day, everybody be safe. when that kind of a touching exchange. a happy ending, but didn't last long. the police come as you just heard, prefer to leave citizens in peace, weren't hurting anybody within their supervisors force them to return with threats. >> peacefully disperse. you do not disperse, you could be charged.

you can exit the area at either end. >> tucker: so how do things stand at that gym tonight? ian smith joins us now. thank you so much for coming on. so tell us what happen. a lot of people across the country w so the first video whh was a nice moment, the police understand.id it brightened my morning, but then they came back. why and then what happened? >> i assume that they came back because they received an order from higher rep. my business partner frank and i received a summons forig violatg a governor's order. >> tucker: what are the consequences of that? >> i guess only time will tell. my attorney didn't seem to ruffled up by it and neither are frank and i. >> tucker: so it sounds like you suspect that the governor, the former goldman sachs partner

felt that his personal integrity was on the line here. t he couldn't let you do this. >> that is certainly what it felt like. i don't know entirely, but moments earlier, half hour earlier than what we had that beautiful exchange with the officers that had been present all day and whom we've had nothing but a great exchange with, just love and positive all daygat and with the exception of handing over a summons, it remained that way. >> tucker: the police presence is striking and again as you just pointed out, i'd bet money these guys don't want to be there. they think they've got better things to do so that's my question, has all violent crime ended in the state of new jersey, is camden a safe place tome walk around now? >> i wouldn't go take a stroll, no.

>> tucker: so because somebody sent all these cops to your business for the crime of just wanting to make a living, that meansme other crimes weren't prevented. is that a fair assumption? >> absolutely. there was a heavy police presence starting pretty early in the morning and they helped us maintain order, there were a lot of people there so i am thankful for that, but i'm sure that their job could've been done better elsewhere. >> tucker: you did us the favor of explaining in some detail how you major jim safe in a time of transmissible disease and it sounds like you really thought that through, so now the governor apparently is threatening you andth your business partner that anyone who shows up tomorrow was going to get a next level kind of punishment, what do you think that means? >> i'm not entirely sure, but we are ready for the consequences. one of our has already started up a gofundme for all of our members and our staff as well as frank and i, and we intend to

open up tomorrow and our attorney has expressed that he is more than happy to represent all of us. >> tucker: i assume you got into this business because you cared about fitness, not because he wanted to engage in acts of civil disobedience. and you have a look at your life and wonder how you got here? >> it's been a pretty crazy week. i put out a public statement on instagram a week ago and i've been on the tucker carlson show which i watched regularly twice now and have gotten a tremendous amount of support and outreach from people all over the country and people seem really energized by this idea that it's okay to stand up for what you believe in and that we can get back to being a prosperous nation. at the same time, being safe and

upholding the ideals of public health and public safety. in. >> tucker: another business owner who stood up against a powerful democratic governor was targeted for trying to reopen even though his county had virtually no cases of coronavirus. >> i should just say at the outset that you gave away over 10,000 meals to people in your community for free so it's not like you're not engaged with the people around you. you are planning to open up tomorrow come of that is illegal in the state of maine. whyte are you doing and what do you think will happen? >> it originally started and we closed for six weeks, we cooked for the community, remodeled it, cleaned it, and it's time to open back up. we've gone through other parts of maine, people everywhere. i've got a restaurant that seats 250 people inside, a deck that seats 100, i can put people within 6-foot spacing everywhere

and be open back up for business so p of each person tailors ther business for what works and people feel comfortable coming in, then come in. you don't, we will deliver to your car. we've tried to call the governor. you can even get a hold of them. the lawmakers are left in the dock both republicans and democrats. she was doing this all broke on her around so we've had enough of it encouraging all businesses in maine to open up. we should never have been shut down on the first place. we need to get the business going where we will a third of our restaurants and who knows how many motels and other businesses so we are advocating for everybody it is time to go back to work. people don't want to go out, quarantine yourself. we are a very clean restaurant. i've got one of the cleanest restaurants in the state of maine and i'm going to challenge the state to come and see this is what we are doing great if you don't like it, take me to court. and if goiosoi they do, i will y tax money that i collect this

month and use that to fund a lawyer. >> tucker: saw last time i checked, you are in oxford county maine, there are no coronavirus deaths, estate comprised of small businesses which are dying as you just pointed out so i understand why you're doing this, what do you think the authorities will do. janet mills. you are admitting this on television, what do you think will happen tomorrow? >> i don't think anything will happen because she's over her head.te she's not consulting the experts. she's just doing this to break us even more than we are right now. we were broke before this, she's trying to get federal money from the government to bail her out, so she makes a statement like we are broke to get more federal money and she doesn't care about the people in a state of maine. she did, she'd reach out to these businesses. i told them when this first happened, i called the lawmakers and said if you guys gave us back the tax money we collected from january and february and suspend in march, we could all get through this and it would be

really easy. the restaurants that are open, it's been really easy, they already have those numbers, we sent the money, never heard back from them i got a a couple of weeks ago that said don't forget, you still owe march sales tax. >> tucker: come on. jan mills is the most incompetent, dictatorial t self-involved governor i have seen in a long time. godspeed and good luck tomorrow, rick savage, i hope he will tell us how it goes. >> i really appreciate it and i hope these restaurants will be open. >> tucker: just ahead, we will revisit the case of shelley luther, the dallas business owner who literally went to jail for defying the quarantine. first, we spoke j to a democratc governor in one of the hardest hit states and asked him why he was keeping liquor stores open the closing of churches. the interview is next is our special continues. ♪ it's pretty inspiring the way families

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♪ >> tucker: churches are barred shut, liquor stores are open, they are essential. having a funeral for your mother is illegal but marijuana shops are critical infrastructure. protesting lockdowns is against the law the black lives matter protests are encouraged because are sacred. there have been a lot of rules governing peoples lives of the past three months and in many cases, politics seems to have given them, the constitution maine a mile is dismissed as irrelevant.ro in april the lockdowns brought their peak, we spoke to the governor of new jersey about his priorities as he managed the state. here's whatis happened. large gatherings are banned, but liquor stores are deemed an essential service. on the basis of what scientific evidence did you decide that?

>> a couple of things. of one as they were liquor stores that actually have a little bit too many backroom gatherings so we had a bit of a challenge, had to remind folks that liquor stores may be open but to your point, gatherings are not allowed. we relied on a lot of input from recovery coaches, addiction coaches, and they cautioned usic if we were to shatter those stories down, we would have unintended mental health and addiction prices to pay, unintended consequences and so far, that's the route we have taken and my guess is we will continue to take that route. >> tucker: but you have closed church services and synagogue services and arrested people for attempting to attend them. did anyone say that practicing your faith might be important to someone's mental health? >> i think we have had a very good common ground with faith

leaders of every faith who understand this andmo whether it is a liquor store, a pharmacy, a supermarket, we expect folks to distance themselves from each other and we are face coverings, et cetera. there is an enormous amount of faith going on virtually, a lot of practicing going on and we cared deeply about both physical health and g mental health. >> tucker: of course that i don't want to be to persist in on this but i think it's important. on what scientific basis did you decide that sitting inin a churh was much more dangerous than buying liquor in the liquor store and why is buying liquor more important for the social fabric to string to figure out. the only governor who's done this i don't understand the reasoning. i don't want to think it had anything to do with tax revenues. >> has nothing to do with tax revenues. that would be a rounding error,

trust me. our revenues are so blown up this is not either or. it can't be and both. i have spoken to cardinal tobin, to leaders of the jewish community, t community, people are at peace or we have come out there. no one is happy. everyone wants to get back to what they think of as the norm and who could blame them? i want to do that as well, but i don't think these are one versus the other. i think you can have both of these realities at the same time and that's what we have in new jersey right now. >> tucker: so back a couple of weeks ago, you close state parks and people have been arrested for using them, p a man arrested for sitting alone on the beach. tell me why that poses a danger, on what scientific basis did you make that decision? >> we were coming into both the warm weather and big religious seasons. passover first, then easter,

ramadan coming up shortly. in counties were beginning to close their parks and the concern was that the folks who couldn't go to their normal park would go to another park, and other county or state park and it wasn't just a gut feel, we surveilled the state up and down the state on that first weekend of april where we had some good weather in new jersey and that was just what we saw, lots of people congregating, lots of out-of-state license plates. so i took no joy in taking that step, but it's one we felt we had to take. >> tucker:we but on what basis? i am just trying to get to the science here because i assume all of us are following the lead of epidemiologists, arresting someone for sitting alone on the beach, tell me how that arrest the spread from an epidemiological point of view. >> i wasn't referring to that

and i don't have the specifics as to why that happened in. i meant congregation at state and county parks of which there was an enormous amount when the weather got warm and the fact that folks weren't -- not that they couldn't be in the park and jogging by themselves are walking on their own and keeping distance. they weren't and there were a lot of out-of-state license plates in the parking lots and we've got some of the nicest parks in the northeastst if not the country, it brings me to no joy but we felt that was the right decision to make. >> tucker: so you made that decision and as i noted before, 15 congregants at a synagogue were charged for being at a synagogue together. the bill of rights as youth well know protects americans the right, enshrines their right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully. by what authority did you nullify the bill of rights in issuing this order how do you

have the power to do that? >> that is above my pay grade. i wasn't thinking of the bill of rights only did this. we looked on the data in the science. people have to stay away from each other, that's the best thing we could do to break the curve of this virus that leads to lower hospitalizations and ultimately fatalities. >> tucker: i do think there's a debate, this is a rolling conversation because we are learning new d things every day and nothing is settled but since you are an elected official, a leader in the government, and i executive, how do you have the authority to order something that so clearly contravenes the bill of rights of the united states, the u.s. constitution, where you get the authority to do that? >> here's the thing. we know we need to stay away from each other, number one. number two, we do have broad

authority within the state, and we would never do that without coordinating, discussing, and hashing it out with the leaders, the variety leaders of the face of new jersey. >> tucker: i am sure that you talk to every rabbi and priest, but there's a deeper question here and i'm just going to ask one last time and i'm sureer you've thought about this, you can't just has the governor of the state tell people who they can talk tohe when and where because the constitution of the united states upon which all of this is based prohibits you from doing that as you clearly decided that you could do it, did you consult an attorney about this? this is a legal question as well as a medical one, isn't it? >> i don't go to the men's room without us consulting an attorney but i'll>> give you an example not related to the synagogue, i called up cardinal tobin their new work, five or six archdiocese in new jersey coming up to easter and holy week in particular and i said i'm really concerned about

drive-through communion because we had heard some stories about priests who unwittingly had the virus and unwittingly passed it on to parishioners and he said we are not doing that, andan i will confirm that with my fellow bishops. in let's not denying someone there right to worship in any way, we have to find a different way to worship and that's the point. god bless america. >> tucker: but the government is not allowed to tell people how to worship just as a fact. last question, soo these orders which again i am presuming and i believe were taken in good faith under trying circumstances have nevertheless resulted in an awful lot of suffering, 577,000 new jerseyans, doubtless the suicide rate will increase, liquor stores are open as we noted. how much does that way on you that the suffering that this lockdown has caused my equal or

perhaps outweigh with the virus does, do you think about that? >> it weighs heavily and you ask yourself every day if you're making the right decision and the answer is this twofold. one is we continue to make every call based on the facts, the data, the science is best as we can and secondly, a look at what we're doing versus the alternative, and i know the alternative had to be stepped back and let this virus run amok three plus million people in our state would have been infected in the health care system wouldd have had no chance to have kept up with that in a fatalities would have been multiple. so each life lost as a precious life lost, let there be no doubt about it but the alternative would have been multiples of this as it relates to economic suffering if it hadha been millions, it would have been a lot worse, wee chose to rip the band-aid off and deal with this upfront and god willing we have made the right set of decisions.

>> tucker: best of luck, thank you for joining us tonight, appreciate it. just a month after that interview, when clergymen finally had enough of allowing governor murphy to abolish his constitutional rights and sued the governor and came on the show to explain why. so explain if you will the grounds on which you are suing the governor of new jersey. >> the first and the 14th amendment of the constitution and the natural justice, the natural law that gives people the right to worship god has he wishesas to be worshiped and its just common sense that we should be able to worship god as he desires, and we need that worship of god. there are so many suicides prevented from the counseling and confession and the catholic sacraments. it's a life-saving business that we are in.

>> tucker: i think you're exactly right and i can tell by your accent that you probably didn't grow up in new jersey, probably came from abroad. he must have assumed because all immigrants i think certainly you still there and that this was a country governed by the bill of rights and the primary freedoms we have, were you surprised to see it taken away so quickly? >> yes, so quickly. in march of this year, it's totally different from before, this country that i have adopted. i became a citizen two years ago, and the patron saint of our society who 100 years ago gave great promise that responsible liberty of america will do great things for the glory of god,d, o i am proud to be an american. >> tucker: we are grateful to have you. what do your parishioners think of what you are. doing? >> they are very pleased with the effort to try and bring some pressure that the governor will

do the right thing andri allow s simply to open up. i live in connecticut, but drive to new jersey every weekend and in connecticut and in pennsylvania, we have 50 people allowed it masses so we have six masses every sunday keeping all the sanitary situation and the distancing, and six instead of two masses on the people are very grateful. we cannot do that in new jersey. there was a secret order that only ten people could gather and even then until he corrected that with this executive order number 142, even the ten people the police could come and interrupt and disperse so completely unjust. >> tucker: as far as i know, there were no restrictions at all on abortion clinics in new jersey. how does that make you feel? >> there is one a few miles from our church, you can book in for an abortion, a life ending procedure, and we are doing

life-sustaining worship, counseling, and outreach to the community. >> tucker: i don't want to put you in an uncomfortable position asking this but i can't resist.p we had governor murphy on the show and asked him the obvious question, how can you shut down religious worship in a country in which it is guaranteed and he said religious leaders in new jersey welcomed us and i'm wondering why it's fallen to you, an australiann immigrant priest to sound the alarm. i don't want to make you uncomfortable, but what is this? >> i will give you a simple answer. we are group of catholics under the pope through the superior general of our societies, so we are missionaries and i've been to 25 countries giving the traditional latin mass, catholic sacraments. we respect the local bishops, but we alsoat know the limits of their jurisdiction just as the governor has the limits of his jurisdiction, so do the bishops.

there is no other catholic priest in good standing in new jersey that her lawyer knows about talking about christopher ferraro who is special counsel for the w society who is taking on this cause, no other priest he could find that would be willing to do this and even offer a public mass if the bishops didn't want it. we are allowed because we are a missionary order. >> tucker: i'm glad that you are standing up, americans have a constitutional right to worship their god, so thank you ndfor standing up for that right in this country. >> i appreciate what you do for the country as well. >> tucker: this is not a tough one. good to see you. >> god bless you, thank you for everything you do. >> tucker: a dallas salon owner called shelley luther believe so much in her right to earn a living that she went to jail for it. when she got out, she came on this program. that's next is our special

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♪ >> tucker: many business owners risk fines, harassment, or illness to reopen their businesses this spring but shelley luther of dallas went even further, she went to jail for her right to earn a living. she operates a hair salon and for a month gave up all her income for herself and the rest of her contractors but by late april, had reached her limit so she reopened the salon with

safety requirements. for doing that, she was arrested and dragged before lunatic. he was enjoying a six figure throughout the pandemic ordered luther to apologize for her sins and she refused to do that. >> perhapslu you disagree with e when you say that i'm selfish because feeding my kids is not selfish. they would rather feed their kids. so if you think the laws more important than kids getting fed, then that's yourur decision buti am not going to shut the salon. >> tucker: for refusing to grovel, she went to jail and just a month later, the same authorities who aggressively shut down her business and allowed looters to plunder the downtown had changed their view all for getting outside and protesting. after getting out of jail, she came on this program to discuss her experience and her goal of

helping other business owners survive theam lock downs here's what she said. you don't look like a criminal, the only people who went to america who entered jail, they're getting out. what you learn from the experience? >> i definitely learned that whatever's going on in that court system is not fair and we need tond take a harder look at that for sure. >> tucker: you were lectured by a judge, a harvard law school graduate who likes w fine cigars who told you you needed to apologize to him personally, you needed to kowtow before his venture you would go to jail. you would refuse. why did you refuse? >> he wanted me to apologize for being selfish and i just told him the government didn't give me any choice. we are not getting the government funding that we are promised and weeksks go by, they forced my hand and going back to work and i was not going to

apologize for working to feed my kids and let my stylists feed their family as well. >> tucker: most people would have said i don't want to apologize to this pompous and on the other hand i really don't want to go to jail. did it occur to you to cave this one time and call it a day? >> it never did. i talked to my dad before the ruling and he was kind of trying to talk me out of it and i said i just can't because so many people are relying on me right now, exmoor veterans, thousands and thousands of people thanking me for standing up for what was right and i felt like if i gave in, everything we had done so far would be over. >> tucker: so you are a female business owner who took a stand on conscience and was jailed for it. that's the profile of a hero in our culture. why do you think that is?

>> it is not all the news media, but a lot of them think that the money was a scam, the go find me account. i went into jail with $20,000 of legal funds that someone i didn't even know started for me. i was in jail two days and woke up there was half a million dollars in there. i had nothing to do with it. not that i'm not grateful that i want the plan great things with that, d have my brand-new charitable organizationn coming up called courage to stand and we just put up our web site and i'm so excited to share that money and share my voice for people that are too scared to stand upxc themselves. >> tucker: hundreds of so-called journalists at america's most so-called prestigious publications mindlessly obeyed and then enforced every government decree on coronavirus. thanks to that, an unlikely hero for truth emerged in the middle of the lockdowns. our interview with

him after the break.

♪ >> live from america's headquarters. president trump is kicking off the fourth of july weekend with a speech and fireworks display tonight at mount rushmore, the president expected to defend the nation's monuments and announce protesters attacking them. social distancing is not being enforced and masks are optional but attendees will be screened for symptoms. send another record today with more than 52,000 newly reported cases, infections on the rise in at least 37 states. the president's address to the crowd, it is time to speak up

loudly and defend the integrity of the country. and activists were engaging in behavior that is telling the crowd at the end of the countries and, that the best days lie ahead. the president and the first lady will host independence day back in washington including a airshow. i am ashley strohmeyer and now back to "tucker carlson tonight." >> tucker: one of the strongest voices against lockdown excesses came from an unlikely place, dave portnoy of barstool sports. in an impromptu speech that million sought online, dave portnoy asked a very simple question, why did our goal change? wanted to go from flatten the curve to have zero coronavirus case is? >> what the [bleep] is going on? when did this become flatten the curve to wes have to find a cure for everyone is going to die? find a cure? who says we're going to find a cure?

people have beenen mentally preparing, we've done exactly what you said and they are changing the rules. >> tucker: that went everywhere almost immediately because it was true.re he then came on the show to explain it and here's how it went. what inspired you to do this to make this video? >> if we are being honest, i've been in the stock market. the stock market tanked and a lot of it tanked basically going before the senate and the future and the l.a. mayor saying he was going to lock the city down until they found a cure. and i'm in new york city, so i'm in the heart of it and i haven't gone outside and months and to me, new york city is through corona fatigue. everyone is just trying to do their best which is be insight, social distance, flatten the curve. the combination of the hearings or the senate and the l.a. mayor, that came out of

left field. i hadn't been hearing that. i felt like there was a collective positive vibe in the country, especially new york, getting close, getting closer every update seemed more positive, you weren't hearing the horror stories necessarily anymore and then this comes out of left field like we are no closer than they we were two months ago. i started barstool 17 years ago when the main just and it shouldn't be political, it shouldn't be left or right. >> tucker: i don't think it is political. >> but if you gave me the choice, took me ten years, a decade of working almost 24 hours a day, no exaggeration, to turn the corner and become successful. corona hit at that moment, i would go out of business and everything would be flushed down the toilet. at the very least in barcelona's

going to make it, so thank god but a lot of people are in atlo the very least, they should have the option. i don't know what to believe. you hear different things. wear a mask, don't wear a mask, and i think most doctors, this is a new disease, we don't know what we are dealing with, fine. give me the choice then. let me go outside and risk potentiallyea getting sick or di want to ruin my business because of it was me, i would rather die from corona than have to start over, how are you going to put money on your family's table when the economy is going to be gone so that was the rant. at the very least, e i feel bad for people who aren't given the choice. what's worse, losing my business, my livelihood, or the chance of getting this disease which we know so little about i feel like. we are no closer.

that's what the problem is. >> tucker: and finally, what isis your plan now? you've been holed up, expressed her frustration, you think the policies are stupid, which they are. her are you going to live going forward? >> the crazy thing is, this isn't about me personally. i feel bad walking around the city and now these restaurants are starting to see signs saying we are not coming back in the crazy thing is if you go for a walk on the hudson river today when it is 75, there are tons of people outside. so thes policies are keeping people inside, it's just keeping businesses closed and if florida is open in new york is closed, i'm going to florida, and lots of people are going to do that so the whole thing isn't going to work, the policies are flawed regardless of how you look at it. if not everyone working together. >> tucker: a lot of people aren't coming back to new york and i don't know if they get that yet.

thank yoube so much for this. you look great for a man who has been in quarantine. >> i've still got the purple sweat pants on. >> tucker: must be pretty rank at this point, good to see you. lockdowns for the, but not for me. that was the guiding principle of our politicians is the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. nobody demonstrated that better than cnn'sgi chris cuomo with hs phony return from a fake quarantine. all of that as a special continues. (upbeat music) - [narrator] this is kate.

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>> tucker: there are a lot of bad actors during the coronavirus hysteria, but no group was dumber or more hypocritical than the news media. that became obvious a month ago when all of them raced to endorse theit black lives matter riots that occurred across the country during the lockdowns. the behavior of one christopher cuomo at cnn. contracted coronavirus and we express sympathy for him that night, totally sincere, but then we watched him seize every chance to remind everyone watching that he was very sick and in very strict containment. >> i am doing this show as you know in my basement in covid containment. is this the new normal, how it's going to be. no, can't always be in your house, got to get back to work. i am down in the basement doing it superer strict. it's not easy, it is necessary. i know it's what a lot of us want to hear. i want to hear it.

i'm sick of being in my basement, i want to get out. >> tucker: thankfully, he got better and we are happy to hear that, not kidding. but cnn, shameless cheese balls that they are, celebrated by t filming cuomo rising like a buff cable news lazarus from the grave and back into ordinary life.d >> a huge day-to-day, take a look at this. here it is, the official re-entrance from the basement, cleared by cdc, a little sweaty, just worked out, it happens. this is what i've been dreaming of, literally, for weeks. this is the dream just to be back up here doing normal things. >> tucker: went to journalist start talking about themselves so much? it is not a story, it is narcissism and that's weird enough, but it's not all. that was fake just last week, he admitted getting into a fight

him for going outside and congregating with other people, something cnn has been vilifying ordinary people for wanting toar do. >> i don't want some loser biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space and talk belief to me. i don't want to hear it. >> tucker: by the way, if you are the loser fat tire bicyclist, you are always welcome on this show, it seems unpleasant but there's a scandal underneath it. here you have a top cnn anchor who appears to of been ignoring the social distancing rules and his network has been promoting and enforcing on everyone else. seems like he wasn't telling the truth about staying quarantined in his basement. his own video was humiliating enough.em

that's it for tonight special. goes fast. have a great and a happy fourth of july weekend. i we will see you monday. ♪ >> this is a fox news alert. throughout the night, we will take you live to south dakota where president trump is set to kick off a historic july 4th celebration at mountta rushmore. welcome to the special edition of vanity.ff i'm jason chaffetz in for sean. anti-trump were attempting to block access to mount rushmore and some park their vehicles in the middle of the street and removed the wheels to prevent anyone from getting through. of course, the show will go on. in just a moment, the president will board marine one for a very special flyover ahead of his prepared remarks and a fireworks display. joining us now with more on the ground at mount rushmore is jonathan hunt. jonathan?f