for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com that's "the ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." here's a headline that would have been impossible to imagine a year ago. today the president announcedo. his support for opening the countries schools this fall. seems like a pretty obvious position, but suddenly it's not. any people violently disagree with it for reasons that still are not clear, but definitely are not rational. in any case, here's part of what the president said today. >> we hope that most schools are going to be open. we don't want people to make politicall statements or do it for political reasons, they think it's going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed, no way. were very going to put pressure on governors and everybody else

to open the schools to get them open and it's very important. it's very important for our country, very important for the well-being of the student and theer parents. so were going to be pushing a lot of pressure when opening the schools in the fall. >> tucker: so kids should go to school.o that's the new position. you may have thought this was a debate that we settled conclusively in the 19th century when we banned 8-year-olds from working in factories. parents are certainly on board with that. they want their kids back in the classroom september. every poll shows that. most kids and most teachers probably feel the same way, so who is the most opposed to opening schools? take a guess. the teachers union. theirsr position on every questn is always the same. they would like less work, no accountability and much more pay. at least one chapter of the american federation of teachers is planning to go on strike if they have to work this fall. many administrators and school

districts have no choice but to obey their demand. in miami-dade county, -- the superintendent has warned that his goals might have to stay closed in the fall. >> i will not reopen our school session. august 24th. if the conditions are what they are today, our reopening plan contemplates a phase to reality. we are still in phase one, a phase one that has degraded over the past few weeks. >> tucker: many schools that do plan to reopen will do so under a series of restrictions that have no basis of any kind in science. kind of bizarre helps [inaudible] students will be kept 6 feet apart, everyone will have to wear a mask, class size will be limited, in some schools that will be scheduled bathroom breaks, et cetera, et cetera. no sports. in washington state, education officials are considering letting kids go back to school

on the basis of their race. nonwhite kids would get to goo back first while white students would be ordered to stay home until the virus subsides. you may have thought that plans like that were eliminated with the brown versus board of education decision 65 years ago. but no, it's all coming back. the teachers union tells us this is all about public health. today you need in retweeted this self-righteous little cookie. "educators would much rather be with our students in person, but our number one responsibility is to keep our students safe." that's a lie. if there's only one way for educators to keep their students safe, and that's teach them in person by reopening schools. distance learning is not learning. this has been studied and we know it. the los angeles schools checked the participation in distance learning, they found exactly what you'd expect them to find. on any given day, fully a third of students never logged in at all.

two-thirds of teachers reported students were less likely to complete assignments once they began so-called distance learning. and according to one recent -- students who have been learning online loose far more of their knowledge over the summer break then they typically do, and that's saying a lot. so no, distance learning is not a substitute for actual learning, and you know that well if you have kids who have been trying it. parking a student in front of a computer screen is not a substitute for a classroom. there's a lot at stake in this debate, more than just the accumulation of knowledge, more than just education. two weeks ago the american academy of pediatrics, not educators, they are pediatricians, strongly recommended reopening schools in the fall. why? because they noted that keeping children at home isolates them and increases the risk of depression and suicide. it also prevents teachers from noticing and reporting physical abuse of children. abuse is almost certainly more frequent for kids who can't leave home. so for children, the risks of

staying locked at home are high. the risk from the coronavirus by contrast are not high. the virus is deadly to the very old and to those who are already sick, we know that. but to children in the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults -- and the vast majority of teenagers, it poses virtually zero threat. for children it is far less deadly than the seasonal flu. in fact, if lockdowns cost just 1% increase in teenage suicides, which is entirely possible, they will constitute a higher death toll than all coronavirus deaths among high schoolers nationwide so far. and in fact we have good reason to believe lockdowns have boosted suicides far more than 1%. if the numbers not in completely, but the numbers we have so far horrifying. nor are children significant risks to adults. they do not generally spread the virus to others. a swiss study found that among infected children, viral load's were very low and that made it difficult for them to spread the

disease. children are much more likely to get the virus from their parents than the other way around. other countries realize this and they believe in science, unlike our leaders. in germany in early may, four major medical associations all call for the immediate reopening of that schools and day care centers. the call for reopening without restrictions. no masks, no social distancing, no scheduled back to bathroom breaks. adult countries don't act that way. industrially, the deputy chief medical officer published an open letter to the public in may making the very same point. "covid-19 is not the flu. far fewer children are affected by covid-19 than by the flu and the number of transmissions from children to children and children to adults is far less than the flu. as an infectious disease expert i have examined all the available evidence from within australia and around the world and as it stands, it does not

support avoiding classroom learning as a means to control covid-19." it couldn't be more conclusive and doctors around the world agree with that. sweden never closed primary schools at all. it didn't close takers either. the coronavirus outbreak in sweden, despite what you have heard, has been no worse than ours here, the numbers show that. austria, finland, norway, singapore, have all reopened their schools and none of those countries have seen an explosion of cases linked to the school spirit in denmark schools have been open since late april. masks have not been required but the number of infected children has not grown, in fact it has steadily declined. none of this is opinion.n. none of it is political. all of it is actual science and there's an overwhelming amount of that science. it accumulates daily. coronavirus is not deadly to children. sending children to school will not spread coronavirus. keeping children home hurts children and hurts everyone else, schools must open, it's that simple.

nothing affects the life of an ordinary family more than questions of where to go to school and when. without schools returning to normal in the fall, millions of american parents will not be able to work. even as we descend into recession. millions will be ordered to work two jobs, their own job and the jobs the teachers are refusing to do while still getting paid by the rest of us. get instead of some of those and with the plight of suffering american families, the head of the american federation of teachers, randy, rejoices at the prospect. according to him, employers must adjust work schedules to accommodate the leisure time of her members. >> a lot of employers would then actually follow what the schools people are doing and will adjust schedules because there shouldn't be a difference -- we should never be pitting parents against peoplee to teachers or kids needs against parents needs to work and i think that

employers -- >> randy can i -- >> tucker: so what you just saw -- none of this is rational. it is hysteria and of course it's political too. america's teachers unions are some of the most stridently partisan organizations in our country. the biggest backers of the democratic party. this is an election year, they believe more chaos and more displacement will help them won. maybe they're right, but it's sick. these are people who will destroy -- unfortunately this season that means hurting your children. a novelist, former "new york times" reporter, best selling author who's been covering the science of coronavirus since day one we are happy to have him on the show. thanks much for coming on. we touched briefly on the science, the data that have accumulated internationally on the question of reopening schools, can you take us a little bit more deeply into it, what we know about the risks? >> i mean, you hit a lot of the most important studies, you hit australia, you hit sweden. there's a very good paper that

came out of the netherlands. the netherlands health ministry, about two weeks ago that said the same thing. the netherlands schools open open for a while. it's hard actually to find a data point that doesn't line up with what we are talking about here. and what i would say is -- he talked about teachers unions and that's a veryyo important piecef this puzzle. there's a couple other pieces of this puzzle. liability is a big issue. it's a very big issue. you can imagine one child and is going to be idiosyncratic cases. by my count i looked at the cdc data before i came on with you, there are 29 deaths of children from coronavirus under 15. that compares two -- this is since february. that compares to 100 of the flu but because coronavirus is such a big -- will be such a big target for plaintiffs lawyers, there will be liability concern and schools are very worried about that. and frankly there's a lot of teachers who don't really understand and are scared. there's teachers who really want to get back. i've heard of a lot of them but

they don't want to fight with herca colleagues publicly, so te union leaders basically are allowed to push -, you know push their agenda. >> tucker: it's interesting you mention t viability. there are companies who fear the same. there are parts of the american economy that have liability protection given by the united states congress. why wouldn't we offer the same to educators? >> i think that's a totally legitimate question. i don't know if the politics right now will allow that, but, if schools are going to be able to reopen normally as they have now -- i was actually just in france just a couple weeks ago. france reopened partially. they went to a full reopening with no physical distancece and, no health theater. if are going to allow schools to reopen and really reopen in a way that's normal for kids, especially elementary school kids who aren't going to understand the point of any of this nonsense and they'll be frightened by it, then maybe we should consider extending some

kind of blanket liability protection here knowing that the risk is very small but that -- as we do with vaccines, right? vaccines on which one away in the united states because of these idiosyncratic cases and we decided that we had to protect vaccinations of kids. maybe that's something we should think about doing. >> tucker: i was just thinking that exact same t thing. i know you don't like to go to moto because you are reporter, but do you -- i mean, there's another level of motive here. this is so -- am i being unfair? this is so detached from rational thinking that something else was happening here, do you think? >> i would say it is clear that if schools don't reopen normally, society cannot function normally that would be true for as long ass they won't reopen and schools are incredibly important. people make decisions about where they live, they spend their last dime to get into the right school district. and so whoever is doing this is aware of this and they're aware

of the disruption that they'ret, causing. at the least outs of the teachers union don't seem to care. >> tucker: no they don't and it's distressing, they should care, but they don't. alex, thanks so much. >> thank you. tucker. lot, >> tucker: one person at the very center of this debases betsy devos, we are pleased to have her on tonight. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. i don't think there is a lot of debate on the science of it in the present has just -- you're very aware, today and said that we have to reopen schools. what can that department of education do to make certain thatat happens? >> well, like the president said today, there is no excuse for schools not to reopen again and for kids to be able to learn again full-time. the data doesn't suggest anything different, the medical experts and suggesting anythingn different and as you pointed out in her opening statements, this is moree an issue of adults who are more interested in their own issues than they are about serving their students.

it's very clear that kids have got to go back to school. >> tucker: i think that seems absolutely right and millions of american parents on both sides or no side, nonpolitical people, want this to happen. second the department of education withhold federal funding to schools that will comply with common sense? >> well, that's definitely something to be looked at. the reality is, most of the education funding, as you know, comes from the state and local levels, so in excess of 90% of it does, but with the president and all of those at our roundtable today made very clear is the expectation that kids have got to continue their learning. there is no reason to withhold education -- full-time education and i have to give a shout out to commissioner corcoran in florida for putting forward a very comprehensive plan yesterday that had an expectation that all students would be able to be back in school in person, five days a week and then giving a lot of latitude as to how schools deal

with special situations. i think if nothing else, this will coronavirus has made more and more parents aware of what's going on in their own children's schools or what isn't going on. i think right here in suburban d.c., one of the most elite public school districts in the country, over $16,000 per student per year, they had an absolute disaster this spring and now that it's fall they are suggesting that as a way to start school again, you can choose zero days a week for your child to be in school or two days a week. that's not a choice. that's a pretense of a choice. so more and more families are at a point of demanding that their kids be able to continue to learn and they want more options and choices for their kids too. >> tucker: let me just gently press you on my question though, you said 90% of the funding come from state and local sources, course, but some funding does come from your department. how serious are you looking at withholding that funding?

>> we are looking at this very seriously. this is a very a serious issue across the country. kids have got to continue learning, schools have got to openy. up. there has got to be a concerted effort to address the needs of alll kids and adults who are fearmongering and making excuses simply have got to stop doing it and turn their attention on what is right for students and for their families. >> tucker: i think that's right. a secretary, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks so much, i appreciate it. >> tucker: the trump administration began its formal withdrawal from the world health organization today, welcome development. for decades this country has funneled billions of euros money to world health organization and in return we got a group whose leaders once covered up cholera outbreaks in ethiopia. talk about irony. an organization so corrupt that its members first class across the group to impoverishedat nations. we got a chinese puppet, one

that praised beijing as a global model and refused to acknowledge the existence of taiwan, democratic nation under threatn from dangerous dictatorship. the world health organization failed the planet on coronavirus. it lied about how much china withhold it about that virus. it repeated those lies that the virus could not spread person-to-person. it suggested early restrictions on travel work racist. in short, the world health organization is a failed organization and for once, americans should stop participating. ♪ across the nation, democratic lawmakers are announcing -- denouncing the united states, some of them think that despite that they can never be criticized. their identity protects them, which is great, we will tell you why, next.ha ♪

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♪ >> tucker: so last night we played you long clips from the president's recent address at mount rushmore. it may have been the best speech donald trump is ever given. it was distinct and clear and it was true and for all of those

reasons the democratic party and its many minions absolutely hated it. they denounced of the speech and this may not come as a complete surprise to you as "racist!" that's a slow long divorced from any actual meaning but we should tell you that as a factual matter, it's a lie. there was nothing if nothing even conceivably racist about trump's speech, go watch it for yourself. there was not a racist word or idea in the whole thing. the only time trump even brought up the civil war was to praise abraham lincoln, who think god, won it. he never mentioned the confederacy or anyone in the confederacy. instead trump praised unabashed american herbs like george washington, clara barton, the wright brothers, jackie robinson. senator tammy duckworth of illinois watched trumps speech, or claimed she did. her summary of it? "he spent all of his time talking about dead traders." george washington, clara barton, jackie robinson, they are all, according to tammy duckworth, dead traders. pretty shocking. in case you think we are being

unfair here, in the same interview, the senator was asked if we should tear down statutes to george washington. sure, she responded, let's talk about it. the play that tape you last night and we noted how grotesque it was. only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder. brantley tammy duckworth saw what we said. she didn't disagree with it exactly. instead she questioned our right to criticize her at all since she was once injured while serving in the illinois army national guard. that's what passes for an argument in modern identity politics. they don't address the points that you make, the question your right to make them at all. the irony of course is that george washington himself, the dead trader, tammy duckworth has such contempt were also served in military beard washington spend most of his adult life under arms. he fought in two wars. at one point in the winter of '77 he lost almost a quarter of his entire army too cold and malnutrition. so george washington paid his

dues. he was, as we might say today, a combat veteran. by the way, he also created the country we liveco in. george washington was a genuinely great man, but to morons like tammy duckworth, washington is to some old white guy who needs to be erased. and let's start the statues and renamed the city's sharpton on mandela at other revolutionsns continue.pt but hold on, not so fast.nu change is that profound a deba debate. not some national conversation with a scream commands that you would you get to obey. but a vigorous recent exchange twin adults. we wanted to have an exchange of that with tammy duckworth tonight. so we called her office and we invited on the show. they informed us that before even considering our request we must first issue a public apology for criticizing tammy duckworth. in other words, i will not debate you until first to admit you're completely wrong. keep in mind, tammy duckworth is not a child. at least not technically, she's a sitting united states

senator who is often described as a hero. yet duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable tv show. what a coward. tammy duckworth is also a fraud. five years ago while she was a member of congress, whistle-blowers and the va hospital illinois approach her to report the widespread mistreatment of miss veterans, remember that story? whistle-blowers met with tammy duckworth three times. she refused to help them. according to a cardiologist to attend those meetings, she dismissed the systemic cruelty inflicted on dying veterans by saying that "that's just how it is" at the va. the whistle-blowers were horrified by her response. ultimately in frustration they their story to the media and it became a national scandal. this is the person lecturing the rest of us about our moral authority as a veteran. sparrows. tammy duckworth is a callous hackle ignore the suffering of actual veterans when it actually mattered. she has no moral authority,

she's just a politician with the rest of us. she works for us, this is a democracy, she has an obligation to explain herself and answer our question. and our first question would be, how can you lead a country you despise? it's not something we would ask only to tammy duckworth by the way. hating america as a majoron thee in the democratic party right now, it'sri everywhere. turn on the tv. if here's ilhan omar just today and if anyone should love america, it's ilhan omar. this country rescued her from squalid refugee camp and made our national figure, quite an ascent but she's not grateful, she hates us for it. watch all my tell us it is time to dismantle our country. >> as long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who was being shut out, we will capitulate this inequality.er so we cannot stop a criminal

justice, we must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. >> tucker: dismantled the american economy and the american system of government, institutions that generations of americans built over hundreds of years. tear them down, say ilhan omar and tammy duckworth in so many others on the left. we don't like them, we hate this country, we want a new country. the problem is there are many of us here who do like this country. we live o here. we don't want to destroy it. we have every right to fight to preserve our nation and our heritage and our culture when vandals like tammy duckworth and ilhan omar tell us that we are not allowed to question their a patriotism, even as they scream about how horrible america is, we have every right to left in their faces. and we h should. the war in afghanistan is old enough to vote now. and soon it will be old enough to drink.

soldiers keep dying there, american soldiers, but congress refuses to end it. we will investigate why, next. ♪

>> tucker: american troops are still dying in afghanistan. they have been dying in afghanistan for 19 years. billions are still being spent there every year by the u.s. congress. it seems like ancient history but remember back in 2012, that's when vice president joe biden promised us we are leaving in 2014, period. we didn't leave. that was six years ago. if the work continues because washington demands that it continue. two weeks ago, this is the latest pretext, sending unverified reports from unnamed intelligence officials, "the new york times" claimed that russian agents had offered bounties to afghan militants if they killed u.s. soldiers because of course they needed bounties to do what they do anyway. if that sound familiar it's because it is.

it's the same strategy "the new york times" used two lie us into the iraq war 17 years ago. just as in 2003, congress is mindlessly going along. both republicans and democrats, flows all of them all on the house services committee, have backed an amendment, the defense authorization bill that would make it far harder for the president to bring american troops home permanently from afghanistan. as he has promised to do and try to do for four years. maybe his most consistent policy position, and the war in afghanistan, but he can't because his generals and the fools in congress prevent it. why that?on no one we don't spend more time in the country and also better than eric, joins us tonight. eric, thanks so much for coming on for >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: it seems like the president has been thwarted once again. if the number of times he has tried to accelerate troopgaot withdrawal and he's been stopped by permanent washington, what's happening here?

>> blood, he keeps going to the same people that give the same advice, it's a circular loop, back with the same 19 years, we've gone through 32 troop rotations now, so there's no continuity and there really is no plan. all that washington can resort to a spending more money on more troops. this first national security team actually wanted him to send 70,000 more troops to afghanistan. he's been trying to go the other way. sadly the public advice i offered the president in 2017 still applies. there is a way to rationalize u.s. presence there. if the u.s. pulls out everything complete become of the afghans. government, the security forces will collapse and, you know, it will be a true terrorist state at that point. however, you know, taking -- letting veterans go back in my contract the afghan government and provide them the essentials that they need at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the numbers that are there now, remember, you have about four

and a half thousand u.s. troops there now and about 25,000 contractors.nd okay? less than 6,000 contractors remaining, you can keep the afghan government operate and effective the same way that the u.s. did with the flying tigers helping defeat japan early in world war ii. it's a way for the president to make good on his promise to end the u.s. war and not leave the afghan government and the afghan people hanging, which i think was everyone's goal. the problem is there is so much money that congress appropriates to the pentagon and it gets washed through all the congressional campaign coffers and it's a very unhealthy cycle. the more they keep troops there, you know, when you have the generals going onto the boards of the largest defense contractors in the country, the cycle continues. >> tucker: so you floated this idea some years -- you floated it on the show and uniform officers in the pentagon set about trashing you and

reputation.he some of them want to take a seat on the board, why do we allow that in this country? wider generals get to move from the pentagon to defense contractors? >> that is a law matter, that's not a matter of opinion. but that's just what happens in washington. in many of the same generals of the congressional staff go to work foram the defense contracts and it's a very unhealthy cycle. if you are one of those parents of one of the 4500 that are still in afghanistan, barely holding the line, kind of a mobile target, if you have 4500 troops, less than 10% of those actually leave the wire, go a outside the base to do anything, so there's really not enough toh do their other than by walkable. when a veteran contract of force could support the afghans and

medevac. you're seven times more likely to die of your afghan shoulder if you get shot. it's a recipe for systemic collapse in the video the helicopter off the rooftop of the u.s. embassy just like you sans i in '75 -- i was only 6 when that happened, i still wear member that. a veteran force going back in. we don't need to leave u.s. troops in afghanistan for 70 years like some have advocated like we have in korea and not. enough of the permanent war. >> tucker: eric prince, i hope you prevail in the end, i hope reason prevails. >> the option is still valid. >> tucker: exactly. thanks. well, murder and mayhem are exploding in new york city. our biggest city. if we give you the numbers last night. in response to the scum of in manhattan wants to release rioters while investigating the police.

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>> tucker: it seems like ancient history now because it is, but in 1981 there was a whole sub genre of movies about how dangerous and disgusting new york city was. escape from new york -- if you're bored sometime, look them up. if that's what new york was like in the late 1970s and early 1980s. new york leaders seemed determined to bring the city back to that era. defunding the police, giving riders free reign. the results of the fourth of july weekend were exactly what you would have e predicted. >> this video showing a father walking with his 6-year-old daughter sundayg night in the bronx, just before he shot and killed by a passenger in a car that pulls up next to him than fires. another shooting sunday taking place inside a building on east 171st street, two of the three men shot during this incident later died. july 4th weekend turned out to be a deadly one here in new york. police say 64 people were shot and 11 were killed.

>> tucker: instead of helping the police restore order to the city and helping ordinary new yorkers by doing that, prosecutors in new york have a differentke idea. jeanine pirro has obtained an internal memo in which vance tells prosecutors to go easy on people who are arrested for rioting. while announcing an exhaustive effort to find and punish so-called police misconduct. judge jeanine pirro it was a prosecutor for three decades in a three-time d.a. at westchester county, new york. thanks so much for coming on. so what does this say? >> welcome you know, as new york city burns, you have a sitting district attorney in spite of the fact that the businesses have been looted, many of them minority owned, many of them because of the protests closed forever.nd if you got a d.a. sending a memo out to his staff basically saying number one, as it relates to the protesters, go easy, dismiss them, we are not worried about that, but we want

proactive investigations into possible police misconduct and in that regard, what we're doing is we're doing an extensive open source data mining, digital social media analysts -- analysis so that we can identify and possibly cross reference -- if someone's been arrested says that cop mishandled me, then that person, they're going to end up testifying against the cop. and so is if the cops don't have enough going against them, now they make the arrest, they put their lives onno the line in the first place going out there, they do the paperwork. the d.a. is basically saying we are going to get rid of these cases of thesee protesters. we don't want them. and turning new york city into a bank for those arrested because once they say i've been a victim of police brutality or misconduct, you know that they're going to turn around and sue the city and there's going to be some kind of liability,

alleged in the city is going to end up paying. not the businesses that have been destroyed but they're going to end up paying the defendant and what we got with this guy is a guy who believes in bail reform.ho iin fact, five months ago, rigt before the pandemic, he wrote an op-ed piece and what he said was he said listen, bail reform in new york has not gone farot enough. what we want is no cash bail for any crime, for nothing. we don't want anything that requiresng that somebody has to make bail. it's not fair. so now we've got 35,000 cops in new york city, everyone of them them with a gun. they have not been told in light of the new law what they can do, how they can effectuate an arrest. they've only been told you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this. nobody knows what's going on bug we do know hey we are going

after those cops were police misconduct and new york city is not alone in this.ne people can say, well, new york is new york. it nobody wants vandalism, nobody wants violent crime. and as this bail reform continues, then we are going to see more defendants were being released from jail. continuously. >> tucker: meanwhile, if you argue with someone who threatens to kill your dog or if you try to remove blm graffiti, the law is swift and certain. this is the political application of the law. am i missing this? this is a political person using political calculations to charge people. right? >> it is the politicization of the criminal justice system. lady justice is a must be why but i guarantee you she sees the hypocrisy in this. what we are seeing is the decline of merrick city and cities across the country. victims are not getting any kind

of protection in terms of what we are seeing now, it's just like let's get the police and let's not worry about anything else. this is sad commentary on where we arels going. >> tucker: the good news is i think we're about to see real population of rural america, that's not all bad. jeanine pirro, thanks much. it is good. >> thank you. >> tucker: jeff sessions is running to reclaim his old senate seat in s alabama, a principled man, you don't say that about many politicians. he understands what the country's real problems are. andd yet he is not ahead. why is that? sender sessions joins us after the break. ♪ so what's going on?

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♪ spline back on the leadership of the republican party pushed in secret to give amnesty to illegal immigrants, and they d did. senator jeff sessions stood almost alone in opposing it, against a president who saved that country, with americans

heritage under attack, jeff sessions has stood up against the mob but right now, has not been awarded for it. he is i in and close runoff race against a former football coach who does not share these views and only moved to alabama two years ago. that runoff is next tuesday. senator jeff sessions joins us. i asked this question with respect, sincerely one of the few politicians i do respect. you were up against a guy who is not as conservative as you are at all, why are you crushing him? what is going on? >> it is an important time for america. we are losing this country, we need a voice in washington who understands it, who has principles and convictions and the courage to stand up for those convictions, the ability to advocate those values that alabama believes in and i believe in, i've been raised with and you are right, my opponent just passed through the state, hardly knows the state. i know it like the back of my hand.

but more importantly, we have to have some warriors in congress and we need them to push our republicans. many of them hiding out and not speaking out. i did defeat a billion-dollar program to pass this amnesty bill, would have given amnesty to millions without ending the illegality and we fought that battle and won it, the fight against the pacific trade agreement obama did. >> so it seems like you should be rewarded for that. seems like people you work for in washington should revere you hand it seems like the voters in -- and it seems like the voters in alabama should support you. i don't think anybody dislikes you personally, that you are mean or have anything untoward in your personal life. so does it frustrate you? >> well, look, pouring in a lot of money from out-of-state and big pac money ads that have

impacted the rights, we are on the tv right now, we are aggressive and will continue to the last day. my opponent is hiding out. he won't even talk to the press. and if you won't debate me or defend your values, then something is dangerous here. that's the message i'm trying to take to the people of alabama. at age 65 and had never given any contributions to any candidate, never even said he riwas a republican. we don't know this man, he is an empty suit, someone who is really not -- he doesn't have the convictions and the courage to represent us. alabama needs to send a very strong voice to washington. and we need to send somebody who can stand up and take the heat who is not afraid, and i've dons that. they don't have anything on me. not worried about him one bit

and that includes my friends in the republican congress and we need to fight in this country is at risk, law enforcement is you just talked about is one of the worst situations ever. cannot be that we allow a law enforcement to be denigrated the way it is today. >> tucker: it seems like we should support politicians who stand up for them and you are one of those. attorney general sessions, thank you. that's almost it, but first, some great news in these sad times. one of our senior producers and top ogre in cable news had the happiest thing that can happen to you today. she and her husband, our friend who also works at fox welcome their firstborn today, arrived at 1:36 this afternoon.

6 pounds 3 ounces and healthy. we want to welcome him, can't wait to meet him and to hug kelly who are all-time favorites. so congratulations. have a great night, the great sean hannity stands by the new york city to pick up the baton. >> sean: great show as always. think about this, only 119 days away from you becoming the ultimate jury, the 2020 election. let's be honest, if they enact their radical extreme socialist agenda, just to be frank, america as we know it will become unrecognizable. they will raise your taxes, confiscate your wealth to redistribute it and get power for themselves. they will control industry and business and shove this insane new green deal down your throat. that will destroy the greatest economy in the world. america and the world is on the brink. it's up to you. in the midst of the ongoing coronavirus, they would like to completely open bord