and we will see you back here tomorrow night. and tucker carlson is coming up next. musical physical >> tucker: good evening and welcome to the "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two centuries, the u.s. senate has required support of at least 60 senators before they passed major pieces of legislation and that makes for a cumbersome system. it requires compromise and patients. it has endured through the centuries. despite leadership of the body, and that standard, of 60 votes

often referred to as the filibuster rule, and it's a democracy, and so when people note, you had better be certain that a large majority of your citizens support what you are doing as a principle behind the system of government. whatever you do as a lawmaker, you better be thoughtful about it. whatever you are doing is wise and won't hurt her grandchildren in ways that you hadn't bothered to think through and that's why for 214 years we required a super majority in the senate. it's not just an arcane piece of senate procedure, i wonder if people with different attitudes took control of people in our system. what if these new people didn't care about the wisdom, what if

they didn't believe in democracy? what if they consider debate and persuasion, winning people over? instead, intended to rule by force. what if all these people carried about with power? it would be an obstacle in your path to total control. they never were directed about anything. in fact they despise clear and precise english. instead they would rely on feline misdirection, they lie about everything. they themselves were committing, and if they wanted to turn the party into a one-party state, they wouldn't say that out loud. instead, anyone who oppose that goal of "partisanship, they wouldn't even smile as they said

it. watch. >> when the democrats have the white house again, if mitch mcconnell tries to do what he did to president obama and put small minded partisanship ahead of solving a massive country, we should get rid of the filibuster. >> small minded partisanship. they served the u.s. senate for decades and supported the filibuster when he was there. we will cut them out of the conversation. >> they suggested that we be open to eliminating the filibuster if republicans obstruct the agenda. are you more receptive to taking a look behind that?

job number one is to get the majority. the second we take control, we are getting rid of the filibuster. >> how do we justify, and on what grounds. we justify that the same way we justified tearing down ancient statues. and they wrote a piece, because apparently and, there's a lot at

stake in this conversation. but the last check and balance gone, there will be no limit to the ways that the democratic party can remake the country in the first few months and the power. we don't have to guess about their plans, they told us what they have plans to do and without, that's criminals and behavior and crushes independent media voices in this channel. that past a lunatic prenew deal which does nothing for the environment and does an awful lot for the control of the country.

they will call that immigration reform. their core voters are demanding they do all that. this conversation i take passes most people's attention because it contains the word filibuster. tell us why it's important to the country. >> like i said tucker without the filibuster, there is no minority voice. democrats would not ever need to approach a moderate republican,

and if they have 53 or 54 senators they would need to approach christensen amount or joe manchin either. they are all democrats in their own party which would be ostracized as well. 51 voigt votes, and a very radical piece of legislation. people forget how hard obamacare was to pass. they just bury barely passed, and they could have passed socialized medicine. and that's much further than they have now, and giving citizenship to people. and there is a nancy pelosi weighing up the democratic party. and a planet with the electoral college and they are moving

forward and forward and forward and these are the same hypocrites mind you that sat there for three and a half years screaming that donald trump was attacking every democratic institution in the country and that is their exact plan if they come to power. and that's a fundamental question. some democratic leaders are expressing for anyone disagrees. like anyone who doesn't have my views as in the way of progress and must be silenced, ignored and crushed. that's not how it democracy is going to work and that's not how it has worked. there are both parties i don't have a say anymore, that's a

hard core activists, protest, they will get that's who they are appealing to. we are trying to make it more fair and getting more health care, but we are going to appeal to the donor class. they are going to stop the program and won't have any problem with it whatsoever. you won't see that the ever-expanding government with a solution and then, if there is another quiet chance for a republican president and republican congress, they will lose their minds about this again. this is their goal, this is their goal to sit there and radically change the country and under a year and bring us into our new dark age where there is -- you a grade with woke agenda.

, if you agree to this plan, even any moderate conservative voices. it is that fundamental. if they didn't stop for a second saying orange man bad and donald trump is bad, we could have a clear, coherent conversation about how we can take this country forward to. >> that's better than i explained it. this is great, thank you. the white house press briefing exists for a reason and it's supposed to be a chance for you to be represented by the media. that is no longer what is happening and hasn't been for quite some time. now it has become an actual sideshow. al jazeera correspondent kimberly hawken at the briefing.

>> there are questions about mass may not voting and i know that you don't want to hear them which is why you talk over me but i encourage you to will read the >> tucker: is so huge controversy broke out today many heard a slur, swearing >> thank you. so, did she swear the white house press secretary? we don't know, i could kind of see both sides of that. why would a white house reporter

do that, because creating a moment like that almost tailor-made for social media to transform an unknown blogger into a twitter star in just a few minutes. that phenomenon explains the existence. so he got more likes on social media. meanwhile, the country is whirling, and instead, pardon me ma'am. if i may ask on the russian

investigation, are you concerned that -- it's a hoax. that's enough, put down the microphone. >> mr. president, are you worried about indictments coming down? mr. president? >> cnn should be a ashamed of itself, having you working for them. you are a router, terrible person. >> he has mastered the art of the grandstand. that's a gathering and he forgot. >> this whole notion, they have to learn english before they get to the united states and are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> i'm shocked that your

statement, and if he reveals the cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree >> that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things we have ever said to. >> tucker: brit hume spent many years of the microphone in his hand asking tough questions of politicians, covered many administrations and we are happy to have a montagnais. thanks so much for coming on. i guess what i'm struck by is not just a partnership, but the lack of useful information coming out of those. and, reporters did not ask the experts on hand questions about the disease, and where and when

it was spreading and what could be done about it and what the data were showing on someone? some of those experts, and i thought about all kinds of questions i would like to ask but none of them did. i remember thinking at the time, i don't know what story these reporters think they are covering but it isn't the current virus outbreak that they have been covering. what they are covering his donald trump and donald trump, to them, as some when i think is reasonably clear. most reporters do not respect or admire and i think they hold him in contempt. despite the years and years of aggressive behavior in the white house briefing room, we have seen things with this president who go far beyond th that.

and, and we didn't contradict and you didn't argue. she was not held in high esteem. >> nor by me, i can say. i think it's fair to have contempt for -- i have contempt for most politicians but, if you are talking to one, don't you have an obligation, and trying to get them something meaningful from the exchange. >> it's not just a gotcha game.

it's to extract information. and remember sam donaldson who was as aggressive as any correspondent who ever cover the white house, he preceded me there for "abc news" and was there for 12 years. and they rarely interrupted or argued. even though the white house briefing room was nowhere near as cozy as the press briefing that you would have on capitol hill where they bordered on the buddy buddy, i remember when i first went down to the white house i was struck by what a different atmosphere at once. even then it was nothing like today but what brought this on was watergate. and a couple of guys are working on the city desk of "the washington post."

and the atmosphere got very aggressive but it never got like this. >> tucker: what happens during the next administration, whatever that is? does this continue, it doesn't revert to what it was? >> while my guess is if the democrats get the white house and joe biden becomes president, he will be treated vastly differently than this president has been because most reporters will, whether they admit it or not, be sympathetic to him and hope that he succeeds. so the atmosphere will be different. it certainly was different under obama, still relatively aggressive and reporters have asked pointed questions of president obama but it was nothing like what we saw today. and i suspect it will revert back if the democrat wings. if president trump wins, heaven knows. is it worth having the briefings

at this point. and they don't have any real sources of getting the calls return and it was also a chance to give these reporters the way to question the white house. and get their questions answered. if i had a story that i was working on, the last thing in the world that i would do would be to raise it in the briefing room and thereby inform all of my competitors of what i was doing so, i never did that which is why, you know, you go to the

briefing just to see what the white house was saying and see what they were putting out. i never thought they were worth a lot and when they weren't happening for a long period of time come there before kayleigh mcenany came in, i didn't really miss him. >> tucker: brit hume, thank you so much. a new jersey gym owner is battling with the state to keep his business open and unfortunately, it doesn't run an abortion clinic, so they are trying to shut him down and they are here next. plus remarkable chilling video of this chinese government floating mask and bound ethnic minorities onto a train. let's next.

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speak to our initial shutdown was to prevent the overflow of our hospitals and to allow us to meet the demands caused by this global pandemic including the ventilators and a permanent shutdown was really never an option in terms of what we are doing right now. this would be completely unsustainable, produce debilitating economic fall back and it lead to catastrophic public health consequences. there are consequences to

shutdowns. >> tucker: that was the president of course at his coronavirus press briefing today. fox news correspondent marc siegel is on his wa way to washington tonight, we are sending him to the white house to interview the president but what the administration is doing to contain the work on coronavirus areas here at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and part number two is on shannon show at 11. but first a new run down, ed smith, the owner of patel as gym in belmar, new jersey, we spoke to him earlier this year and he tried to open his gym in defiance of the state shutdown order and now he's taking extraordinary measures to stay open. even removed his front door to prevent the state from keeping the door closed. too bad he is not an abortion clinic or liquor store, he would have no problem at all. so the state is trying to shut you down. is there -- first to the

science. is there evidence that your gem has been a vector for a hotbed of the spread of coronavirus? >> we have record of every single person who has stepped foot and of the total number of check ins well into the thousands. not a single case has been reported so far and with kept detailed records of that all the way through. >> tucker: it's he would have been better off joining a mob of rioters, why are you being hounded by the state do you think? >> i think we are being hounded by the state because we are pushing back against a very, very clear political agenda at this point and we have become a thorn in the side for governor murphy. my partner and i are not willing to back down and we are not going to have our lives destroyed over a political agenda that has nothing to do with us?

>> so what is the governor threatening to do to your gem? >> of police force was threatening us with citation after citation, then as the court system, the court system enforce the shutdown and lock our doors on us and we finally got them removed. wwe had workouts outside for a couple of weeks and it was absurd. we were dragging half of the gym outside, close to 30,000 pounds of equipment every single day and on july 4th we resumed another court is being weaponized against us. we were held in contempt of court and we narrowly escaped that last night. again, it's just a weaponization of these public organizations and offices that are meant to serve and protect the people and they are clearly being used to punish us. >> tucker: and a certain kind of people. if you are an abortion clinic,

he would have no problem. do you think it's odd that they are persecuting you? >> i think it points to the very clear fact that this is not about public health. first of all, public health is not a one-dimensional issue, it does not start and finish with covid. there are other things we have to consider, mental health being one of them. everything that seems to be unhealthy for you, or at least sort of average is allowed, but you can't go work out. the studies all around the world coming out of norway, while the science points to the fact that if you allow people to work out regularly, they provided no data to show that gyms are of no danger to anybody.

and they collected a bunch of studies and they all had this information. it's almost like they are trying to weaken and degrade the population. great to see you and good luck. >> old law and order has collapsed, if not all over the country, but the cities are at crime rates and record levels. so i think this would be the moment, and the second amendment has never been under a greater attack. we will tell you how, in secon seconds.

>> tucker: the government exists to keep the country safe,

to make it possible for you and your family to live without fear. when they failed to do that, when they refused to protect you it's up to you about the natural right. a violent mob showed up at their house, and for doing that they had been charged with felonies and have been roundly attacked by the news media. there wasn't a need to brandish a weapon in the threatening way. >> this image is getting a lot of a lot of backlash online, and that has become a symbol and these are their neighbors who they are threatening. their lives with these weapons and many pull out a gun you better prepared to lose use it,

that's a terrifying thing. >> we have a second amendment and that's the good news. you've had it for 250 years on the bad news is, you are not actually allowed to invoke it. it doesn't really mean anything. and if you try, they will put you in jail. ryan click is an army ranger. they've chronicled it in some detail on this show over the past couple of months, a horrifying combination of the collapse of the state order of police. my question is who is pushing back against this and who is standing up for the rights to keep the family safe. >> you are and we are, i hope we all get together and get a big wake-up call. we are absolutely under attack. is that it right, the government's interest is to protect its people and when the government fails, when they make

the situation worse, when they may be encouraging some of these activities to happen, they let these groups occupy american territory and when they allow it to fester and grow and grow, that's where the average american citizen has no resort left but to stick up for themselves and defend themselves and the government comes after those people and not the violent mob. we have no choice. i hope the wake-up call for people here is that you are responsible for yourself and your family safety. and if you haven't gotten a firearm yet, if you thought about what you needed to do to take care of yourself, we are behind the times. >> i don't think most people are aware of that but a coordinated effort to strip people of the right of self-defense.

and it, and academics. why would anyone try to make it harder for americans to defend themselves at the same time they are making it more dangerous to live in america. what is the theme here. >> i don't think the torah talia terrien left, and not only did they physically take the mccloskey's guns, when they charge them with a felony, and i don't know if everyone knows this but when you get convicted of a felony you are no longer able to ever possess a firearm. your rights are completely taken away. this is everything that we were told wasn't going to happen, it's happening now. i think there will mccloskey's use of the firearm to defend themselves as the best and it's

time for him to wake up. >> tucker: of a amen, i agree with that. i wish i didn't, but i will. the riot destroyed many small businesses and a police station. it turns out, it also killed someone, someone we didn't know was killed until recently. that's coming up next. ♪

>> tucker: rights in minneapolis broke out nearly a month ago. yesterday morning they found a body in the charred remains of a local pawn shop. fox's chief breaking news are reported trace gallagher has elitists. >> come almost two months after that palmtop was torched by writers following the death of george floyd, and the body appears to have suffered thermal

injury and we do have somebody charged with setting that fire. somebody it is montes lee who they say was caught on video pouring liquid from the metal container into the pawnshop. he's also caught on video saying blank this place and we are going to burn this blanket down. and at the time witnesses reported that somebody inside of that story did not make it out. but a search of the business, if the victim found in the pawnshop could be found in the liquor store. if the death is ruled a homicide it will be the second of the minneapolis riot and minneapolis had 18 years.

thanks for that. you can see that their hands are tied behind their back. the government has been cracking down we've the been forced to work as slave labor in factories. there is a decent chance of the coronavirus face mask that you were to the grocery store today or that nike tennis shoes on your feet right now are made to buy it uighur. >> can i ask you why people are kneeling blindfolded and shaven and being related to trains and women trying to, what is going on there? >> i do not know where you get this videotape. you know, sometimes you have the transfer of prisons and prisoners, and you know in any

country -- >> what is happening here ambassador? >> he is the author of the book, the coming collapse of china. i can't come too soon. thanks so much for coming on. first to the factual part of the story, what will be looking at in that video? >> we were looking at scenes from 2018 and what the chinese call center job and with a local in inhabitants called east turkestan. this is video that is shot by a chinese government drawn in this footage was leaked to the international community. >> tucker: and are you convinced that this is an unusual event, does this represent the chinese government's treatment of the uighurs? >> this video shows scenes which are not unusual.

in a story in nonpartisan think tank, the strategic policy institute in march said there are about 80,000 uighurs and others who have been transported around china and forced to work for international brands. they named 82 of them and two of them were nike and apple. >> tucker: sold nike and apple are not american companies although they often pose as such, they are multinationals owned by shareholders. but we consider them american companies and i don't ever hear anybody on the left criticize any of those companies for their labor practices. >> this is inexplicable, because through long-term suppliers, they've been using hundreds of eager women and the secretary of

state actually talked about modern human slavery and he's absolutely right about that. what we are seeing are horrified practices on the part of the american companies. >> tucker: so-called american companies. did you see the irony, that they lectured the united states about his originathe original sin whis slavery. how rich is that? >> this is just unbelievable. as he said to come nike is taking the lead and lecturing them can people about racism and yet in china it's using a racial minority as to manufacture sneakers. we have heard denials from nike but those denials don't stand up. if there's a lot of "washington post" reporting from february and march of this year which shows that nike's denials are indeed false. remember, this is a long-term supplier of nike and they had to know what was going on and so,

this was basically nike using slavery and transporting them around the country for labor purposes. >> tucker: shocking. gordon jane, thank you for that. so liberals used to tell you a lot about income inequality, now that income inequality is has accelerated and they are getting rich from it, you don't mention it much anymore. we have the most amazing case of all to tell you about, after the break.

>> the coronavirus shutdowns whether they were necessary or not have indisputably crushed huge parts of the american economy. millions of americans remain out of work and many are -- the government stops paying a huge population to stay home, we don't know what will happen. at least one person has become

extremely rich, richer than any man in history from all of this including a lot of the suffering. that would be amazon ceo, democratic owner, owner of "the washington post," jeff bezos. jeff bezos just yesterday made $13 billion. 20 years ago if that had happened, had made $13 billion in a single day while the country got poorer, the democratic party would have something to say about it. not anymore because people getting rich are members of the democratic party. he is an editor at spectator usa and happy to have him on, i am not against free enterprise. but $13 billion in a day suggests something is skewed with the system, no? >> i'm beginning to think that maybe this isn't your parents democratic party or even your parents or grandparents communism. while jeff bezos makes

$13 billion in a day and of course is not the only one, mark zuckerberg also had a very fantastic week and since coronavirus big tech is obviously making money hand over fist during the coronavirus pandemic which is one of the reasons why they have been censoring anyone especially medical professionals who dare to question a lockdown, but i'm beginning to think that while they are doing this, you've got "the new york times," "the washington post," the atlantic, every left-wing media outlet run by these smug elites while they for ten to care about the little guy, what are they doing? bashing police officers who make 60 grand a year. this is the new party. this is not communism or socialism of the progressive era of the early 20th century, even the labor movements across 1970s. this is already in a place for rich people and elites.

of course, the exception to that is they would like to see a permanent underclass working quite hard to ensure. they really don't like average working people, they don't like people who make the kind of salaries that police officers do. >> really quick, i was confused when he personally bought a garbage publication and i'm thinking it's pretty smart p.r., by the paper so you never get criticized. >> and the rest of the papers won't criticize him because they're all on the same game together especially in an election year so i would they dare criticize the owner of one of their allies to help if the man into office? >> one thing about jeff bezos, not stupid. i'm not a fan, but you've got to say, he's pretty smart. great to see you tonight, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> another hour has drained through the hourglass, life in the microcosm. that's it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow night

8:00 p.m., the show that is now and always the sworn enemy of lying, smugness, and groupthink. our annual reminder to try to figure out the dvr if possible and if so, congratulations, beyond our capability. have a great night and now, sean hannity takes over from new york. >> sean: people can make mone money, goods and services, that's america, called freedom, capitalism and as long as it's honest, right? great show. welcome to hannity. this is now just breaking just the second, literally a minute ago, nine people were just shot in the city of chicago according to the "chicago tribune," getting the details and we will bring them to you in a moment. nine people just now and the hysteria on the left completely out of control, it's hurting our country. we see it in american cities were hating president trump clearly has become more important to democrats than the safety of innocent men, women, and yes, children.

it's repulsive and beyond psychotic madness, also seeing this mania all