every time i get gas. give me a little slack! with freedom unlimited, you're always earning. i said i need some slack on pump three! next. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two centuries, the at least 60 major pieces ofre legislation. if that makes for delays the passage of the centuries the senate has been controlled by republicans, other times it's been controlled by democrats but that standard, the standard of as the filibuster rule, has never changed, without it since 18061 thomas jefferson was the

president. why is that? it's not just because u.s. senators tend to to tradition know that before you make bigte changes to a large majority of your citizens support the principle behind our entire system of whatever better be thoughtful about it, absolutely certain that what you're doing itis wise and won't hurt your grandchildren in ways that you haven't why for 214 years we have required a super majority of senate procedure, it's central to the way would happen if suddenly people control of our system? what if these new people the things they date? what if they didn't if they considered debate and persuasion, winning even immoral

and if all these people cared that of cours -- they'd never at that out loud, needless to never be that direct about anything. they would despise clear, precise english and they would punish anyone who dared like this would instead rely on feline misdirection to get lie about everything, boldly denounce our enemies for the very sin they wanted to turn america into a one-party state, for example, a would instead accuse goal of "partisanship." and they wouldn't even smile as they said it when h ahead of

should get rid biden served inve the supported the filibuster when to agree with elizabeth warren. , biden said recently, we will just courses former vice it would be open obstruct his agenda, where do you stand on that, >> job number one is for us to get don't take anything for granted, but it's looking better and better and once we get the majority we will discuss it in our caucus, nothing is

nothing is off the table. in other words, the second we take control, and that could be soon, we are getting rid do you do that exactly? what grounds do change a system that has worked demonstrably, you justify at the same way you justify last week weren't even controversial. you claim they that. last month the atlantic denounced the filibuster is "another monument democratic party like he wrote a piece that getting a civil rights issue," because apparently democrats use the filibuster 60 years ago to slow the passage of civil rights legislation, which by the way, passed anyway. and therefore, republicans are bigots for wanting to? that's the level smart people in

it's also transparent. that doesn't mean it's not working though filibuster could at stake in this conversation. if not obscure, it's real the last check and balance gone, there will be in their first few months in power plans, they told a filibuster they will be fully gunowners into criminals, let actua,past the lunatic green nel which does nothing for there environment does an awful lot for theirh control of the esta, pack the supreme court by simple packing it, adding more justices. and just to make certain they

tens of will call that immigration you to call it something else, they'll charge you with hate speech think they won't do all that? why wouldn't they -- their core voters are demanding they do all that. and with no filibuster, they can, because no one author of "the"this conversation i think passes most people's attention because it contains the word filibuster and it seems like some obscure argument over senate rules. tell us why it's important to the country. >> like you said, tucker, without the filibuster, there is no minority force, really. n democrats would not even need tw sit there and approach a moderate republican like lindsey graham or liberal republican like lindsey graham if they have 53544 senators, they would need to approach a

kyrsten sinema or a joe manchin either. the moderate democrats in their own party would be ostracized as well. they wouldn't even have to go to them. 51 votes, it would be like the house of representativesgt basically, the senate would be and it would just move straight through, very radical pieces of legislation. people forget how hard obamacare was to. pass. i mean, it took a lot of work and they just barely passed it with 60 votes. if that were to happen today with 51 votes, they could have just passed socialized medicine, they could pass gun control laws much further than what they plan on now. illegal immigration, and giving citizenship to millions of people. i mean, that's really their goal. to sit there and say how do we make sure this nation as a one-party state forever? how do we stir in every state into california where there's really just a nancy pelosi wing of the democratic party versus a chuck schumer wing of the democratic party and the plan with the electoral college and moving forward and forward and forward and is at the the same hypocrites, mind you, who sat there for three and a half years screaming that donald trump was

attacking every democratic institution in our country and that is their exact plan if they come to power. so i know a lot of voters across the country looking at senate candidates like mark kelly from arizona and saying he seems like a nice guy. will he sit there and stop any independent voice in this country is such a fundamental question. >> tucker: that is exactly right. i was really struck by the contempt that some -- not all, but some democratic leaders are expressing for anyone who disagrees. like anyone who doesn't have my views is in the way of progress and must be silenced, ignored, crushed. that's not how democracy is supposed to work and it's not has worked through american history, is it? >> no, of course not. this is pure political power. really there are two wings of both parties that really have a say anymore. it is the hard-core activists who will protest, who will scream, who will get answer my mop a bottle of syrup that it is the donor class, that is really who they are appealing to, so you may sit there and say they're just trying to make it

more fair, they'll get more health care, no,ir they are goig to appeal to the donor class they are going to stop anyone who has any problem with itog whatsoever. these are the same people who have seen ever expanding government as the solution then have flipped one donald trump has used their own laws that they passed against their wishes. and if there is another chance of a republican president and a republican c congress, they will lose their minds about this again, but this is their goal, their goal is to sit there and how to radically change the country and under a year andll bring us into, you know, a new dark age where there's one party consent, one-partyty state, you agree with the woke agenda that their activist base agrees with you agree with the donor class agenda that rotted the middle of this country for decades while silicon valley and wall street got rich and the chinese communist party got rich. that is the plan and all these personalities were running for u.s. senate seats, if they agree to this plan, they a don't sit there and support any independent voices, and a republican voices and even a moderate democrat or

conservative voices. it is that fundamental and if they didn't suffer -- orange man bad and donald trump is back, we can have a clear, coherent conversation of how we will take this country forward. >> tucker: exactly right. a better path than i have explainede it. ryan, thank you. >> i don't know about that. thank you. >> tucker: white house press briefings exist for a reason, supposed to be a chance for you to be represented by the media, they really are your proxies in their effort to get information to the public about what the people in power are doing. that is no longer what's happening. it hasn't been for quite some time. it's become an actual sideshow. consider this story from today. correspondent kimberly at the briefing. >> there are questions about out voting and i know you don't want to hear them, which is why you talk over me, but i encourage you to read the

op-ed. >> the china vaccine research. >> your colleagues. >> tucker: so a huge controversy broke out today over what exactly she said. many heard a slur, swearing. others said no, she said something completely defensible. you can decide for yourself, here's a shortened clip. >> more than some of her colleagues. >> tucker: so did she swear at the white house press secretary? we don't know. you can kind of see both sides of that. the point is a lot of people assumed that she did because we are living in a moment where it's entirely conceivable that a white house reporter might do that. why would a white house reporter do that? because creating a moment like that almost tailor-made for social media can transform an

unknown blogger into a twitter star in just a few minutes. that phenomenon explains thee existence of people like playboys brian karen, here he is at today's briefing. >> one is the president signing [inaudible] >> tucker: so he got more likes and social media. meanwhile, the country is boiling, possible major crises bearing from all directions. in our media seem completely incapable of getting useful information to the public and instead they're engaged in this kind of endless cycle of performance art. jim acosta of cnn as the da vinci of that. >> are you worried -- >> that's enough. >> the other folks -- >> that's enough. >> mr. president. i had one other question if i may ask on the russia investigation, are you concerned -- >> i'm not concerned about anything -- because it's a hoax.

that's enough, put on the mic. >> are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation? >> i tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. w you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for c cnn. >> tucker: say what's real about jim acosta, and you probably have, he has mastered the art of the grandstand. it's not about facts, gathering information for the public. it's about self-aggrandizement. here's his exchange with trump advisor stephen miller three years ago. >> this whole notion of they could learn -- they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> have to honestly say i am shocked at your statement, that you think that only people from great britain and australia would know english. it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree.

>> you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country. >> that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said. >> tucker: brit hume spent many years with a microphone in his hand asking tough questions of o politicians. covered many administrations, we are happy to have monty. thanks so much for coming on. i guess what i'm struck by ises not just the partisanship that's been there for a while, but the lack of useful information that's coming out of these events, have you noticed that? >> well a couple thoughts about that. i did notice particularly back during the early round that went on for some time of those white house coronavirus briefings, that reporters did not ask the experts on hand questions about the disease, about, you know, where and how it was spreading, what could be done about it, what the data were showing and so on. some of those experts made pretty detailed presentations and i could think up i was

sitting -- washing myself on television , i thought of all kinds of questions i would dress. ourhe member thinking at the tie i don't t know what story these reporters think they're covering but it isn't the coronavirus outbreak of the covering. what they're covering was trump and donald trump to them is someone whom i think it's reasonably clear most reporters do not respect or admire, indeed i think they hold him in contempt and the result of that is we've seen behavior, despite the years and years of aggressive behavior in the white house briefing room, we've seen things with this president that go far beyond that. it's not just that they beat up on the briefer, that's been going on for some time, although i've never liked it. but they feel free to interrupt the president come to argue with the president and so on. it never used to happen. i can remember there was a time when the president would walk out in the briefing room of the members of the press withstand, not because they admired her like the particular president but because of the traditions that are attached to white house

news conferences. you can ask penetrating questions, you can ask follow-ups, but you treated the president with respect, you didn't interrupt and you didn't contradict into didn't argue. it just wasn't on. helen thomas would try to do it and she was scorned by her colleagues when she was the white house reporter for upi for many years. she was not held in high esteem by her white house -- many of her white house colleagues because she did that. >> tucker: nor by me, i can say. i think it's fair to have contempt -- i have contempt for most t politicians, but if you'e talking to one, i think they deserve it, but if you're talking to one, someone is crafting legislation, wielding power, don't you have an obligation to act on behalf of your readers or viewers and try and get them something meaningful from the exchange? in other words not just about you, right? >> it's not just a got you game. it's not just an attempt to embarrass a public official. it's to extract information in general, remember sam donaldson, as aggressive as any correspondent however cover the

white house, he proceeded me there for abc news and was there for 12 years and he could be quite firm and strong and would ask very pointed questions, but he was always respectful and courteous and he rarely interrupted or argued, that was the standard. that was the one we all observed. and even all the white house briefing room was nowhere near as cozy as the press briefings that you would have on capitol hill where they boarded on the buddy buddy, remember when i first went on to the white house, i was struck by what a different atmosphere was, but even then it was nothing like today. what brought all this on i think was watergate. white house press corps was badly embarrassed to have been scooped on the major story of the nixon presidency and the major political scandal of our time by a couple of guys working on the city desk of "the washington post." in the idea grew that the white house press corps was soft on the president -- on that president and other presidents. so the atmosphere got very aggressive but it never got like this.

>> tucker: what happens during the next administration, whatever that is? does this continue? does it revert to what it a wast >> well, my guess is that for the democrats if they 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'll admit it or not, be some pathetic to him hoping that he'll succeed, just as they hope barack obama would succeed and so the atmosphere will be different. it certainly was different undet obama. still relatively aggressive and reporters asked pointed questions of president obama, but it was nothing like what we see today, nothing like it at all and i suspect it will revert back if the democrat wins. if president trump wins, heaven knows what will happen in that room. >> tucker: final question, is it worth having these briefings at this point do you think? >> the reason for the white house briefings i always thought and i covered the place for eight years, was to give reporters who didn't have -- the

white house press corps is enormous. white house staff by comparison is relatively small, so there is whole group of reporters who work for, you know, smaller news organizations who are nonetheless in washington to cover the white house and other beats who don't have any real chance of developing sources forgetting their calls returned even by the press office, at least not in any timely way, so they developed as briefing where you come out and it was a chance to report what the president was going to do on a particular day and may be to say something to emphasize the president's message of the day or whatever and it was also a chance to give these reporters a way to question the white house and to get their questions answered. and if i had a story that i was working on, the last thing in t the world i would do would be to raise it in the briefing room and thereby inform all 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, 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, before kayleigh mcenany came in, i didn't really missn them. i'm not sure many did. >> tucker: i didn't either. with him thank so much.r: >> you bet. >> tucker:ri thank you. a new jersey gym owner is battlingm with the state to kep his business (unfortunately he doesn't run an abortion clinic so they are trying to shut him down. c he's here next. plus, remarkable chilling video of the chinese government loading masks and bound ethnicrn minorities onto a train. that's next. ♪ itching for a treat.

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♪ >> our initial shutdown was to prevent the overflow of our hospitals and to allow usou 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're doing right now. this would be completely unsustainable, produce debilitating economic fall back and lead to catastrophic public health consequences. there are consequences to shutdowns. >> tucker: that was president of course is coronavirus press drinkingou today. marc siegel is on his way to washington tonight, we are

sending him to the white house, he's going to interview the president about what the administration is doing to contain the wuhan coronavirus, part one heirs here at 8:00 p.m. eastern. part two on shannon's show at 11. but first, a new round of mandatory shutdowns is pitting small business owners against their state governments, the one they pay for. ian smith for example is the owner of the gym in belmar, new jersey. we spoke to him earlier this year. he tried to open his gym in defiance of the state shutdown order. now he's taking extraordinary measures to stay open. he's even removed his front door to prevent the state from keeping the door closed. too bad he's not an abortion clinic or liquor store, he would have no problem at all. ian smith joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: the state is trying to shut you down. is there evidence that your gym has been a vector for a hotbed of the spread of coronavirus?

>> we have record of every single person who has stepped foot in the total number of check ins while exceeding the thousands. not a single case has been reported so far and we kept detailed record of that all the way through. >> tucker: okay. i mean this literally, you would have beenhe better off joining a mob of rioters, torching other people's businesses then you are responsibly following the science and trying to belmar, new jersey, healthy. why are you being hounded by the state do you think to >> i think that we being hounded by the state because we areou pushing back against a very, very clear political agenda at this point and we've become a thorn in the side for governor murphy and my partner and i are not willing to back down. we are not going to have our lives destroyed over a political agenda that has nothing to do with us. >> tucker: so what is the government threatening to do to your gym?

>> the police force was initially weaponized against us with citation after citation after citation. then it was the health department, we were shutdown without anybody ever stepping foot inside our building. none it's the court system. the court system for sister shutdown and lock our doors and as i we finally got them removed and we had workouts outside for a couple of weeks and it was absurd. if we are dragging the gym outside, close to 30,000 pounds of equipment every single day on july 4th we resumed and all out-of-court serving weaponized against us again. we were held in contempt of court and we narrowly escaped that last night. so again, it's just a a weaponization of these public organizations and offices that are meant to serve and protect people. and they are clearly being used to punish us. >> tucker: and a certain kind of people. again, if you are running a liquor store, selling lotto tickets, running abortion clinic, you would have no problem at all. you run a gym, one of the healthiest businesses, by definition, that this country has. 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-dimensionalh issue. public health does not start and finish with covid. there are many other things that we have to consider. mental health being one of them. and all these other things and 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, studies in the united states, all the science points to the fact that ifac you allow people to work ot regularly that you have lower infection rates. and the government has provided no data to show that gyms are of any danger to anybody and we've provided data over and over again. pih rsa collected a bunch of studies and data and wrote a letter to every single governor, so they all have this information and they still seem to point a finger and point the blame at us but again, with

nothing but conclusion or statements with nothing to back them up. >> tucker: it's all most like they're trying to weaken and degrade the population so they'll be easier to control. who knows. i'm connecting the dots a little bit. great to see you, good luck. because thank you very much, tucker. >> tucker: so long has collapsed. not all over the country, but in many parts, certainly in the cities, crime rates are at record levels. a city of chicago, city of new york, minneapolis. so you think this would be the moment to cherish her constitutional right to protect yourself. and yet the second amendment has never been under greater attack, we will tell you how, next. ♪

>> tucker: the government exists to keep the country safe, to make it possible for you and your family to live without fe fear. when they fail to do that, when they refused to protect you,

it's up to you to keep your own family safe. if that's the most basic right there is. it's a natural rights, the right of self-defense. mark and patricia mccloskey of st. louis invoked that right, they had no choice. a violent mob showed up at their house, the police wouldn't come. for doing that, they have been charged with felonies and they've been roundly attacked by our newsan media. >> what they did was very aggressive. there wasn't a need to brandish a weapon in a threatening way. >> an image that's getting a lot of backlash online. a couple pointing guns at protesters, whites become a symbol of people resisting change at a critical moment for the country. >> these other neighbors who they are threatening. their lives with his weapons and when you pull out a gun you better be prepared to use it. that's a terrifying thing. >> tucker: so we have a second amendment, that's the good news. without it for almost 250 years. the bad news is you're not

actually allowed to invoke it. it doesn't really mean anything and if you try, they'll put you in jail.l brian is a former army ranger sniper, he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so this is all happening, we chronicled it in some detail on this show over the past couple ofof months. this horrifying combination of the collapse of state order, the police, and at the same time, this crackdown on self-defense. my question is, who was pushing back against this? who is standing up for the rights of americans to keep their family safe? >> you are, we are, i hope we all get together and get a big wake-up call here. we are absolutely under attack. you said it right, the government's fundamental interest is to protect its people and when the government fails to do that and goes worse, when they make the situation worse by failing to stop these riots, when they maybe encourage some of these activities tovi happen, when they let buildings get burned to the ground, they

let these groups occupy american territory, they allow this to fester and grow and grow and grow to where the average american citizen has no resort left but to stick up for themselves and defend themselves and then the government comes after those people and not the violent mob? we have no choice. i hope the wake-up call here for people is that you are responsible for yourself and your families safety. and if you haven't gotten a firearm yet, if you haven't gotten good training at, if you haven't thought about what you need to do to take care of yourself, your behind the times a little bit, you better catch up. >> tucker: there's this -- it's happening beneath the surface and i don't think most people are aware of it, but a coordinated effort to strip people of their right of self-defense. not just conventional gun rights, but any right of self-defense and it's a coalition formally between left-wing, often soros backed prosecutors and academics, including at georgetown university in washington. what would be the point of that?

why would anyone try to make it harder for americans to defend themselves at the same time they're making it more dangerous to live in america? t what is the theme here? >> the theme here is i don't think the totalitarian left wants anybody to push back or resist. and for years we've heard we are not coming for your guns, well, they just came for the guns. not only did they fit could physically take the guns, they charge them with a felony, i don't know if everyone knows this but if you get convicted of a felony, you are no longer able to ever possess a firearm. your second amendment rights are complete we taken away. this is everything we told wasn't going to happen, it's happening here. and i think they used the firearms to defend themselves, the best example of the second amendment we have. i'm tired of getting told by anti-gun people that all the second moment, you think you're going to have a tyrannical government, we are beyond that. no, i think the second to reminisce about protecting our right to defend ourselves, just like what happened here and it's time for everyone to wake up. >> tucker: amen, i agree with

that. wish i didn't, but i do. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thanks. >> tucker: so the riots in minneapolis, not liberation movement, they were riots, destroyed many small businesses and destroy the police station. it turns out they also killed someone. t someone we didn't know was killed untilso just recently. in live report on that is next. ♪ it's pretty inspiring the way families

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♪ >> tucker: riots in minneapolis broke out nearly two months ago right after memorial day, investigators are still going through the rubble of destruction of what the rioters left. yesterday morning they found a body in the charred remains of the local pawn shop. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has the latest on that story. g >> almost two months after that minneapolis punch up following the death of george floyd, they were following a tip, local firefighters, following a tip when they found a body in the wreckage of the burned out building and they said, quoting, the body appears to have suffered thermal injury and we do have somebody charged with setting that fire. somebody is 25-year-old montes,

who police say was caught on video pouring liquid from a metal container throughout the pawnshop. a second video shows him standing in front of the burnedl out building saying blank this place and we are going to burn this blank down. so far police have not identify the body found inside of the shop but it's worth noting the fire also burned down a neighboring liquor store and at the time, witnesses reported that somebody inside that store did not make it out. but a search of the business turned up nothing and it's unclear if the victim found in the pawnshop might have been the man trapped inside a liquor store, but if the death's world a homicide, it would be the second of the minneapolis riots in the 36th in the city so far this year. all of last year minneapolis had 18 murders. tucker. >> tucker: twice as many, really sad. trace gallagher, thanks for th that. we are going to show you video of thehe chinese government forcing ethnic uighurs, the muslim minority in china,

inter-train cars in the western part of the country. you can see that they are blindfolded, you can see their hands are tied behind their backs. the chinese government has been cracking down on the uighurs and has been sending them by the hundreds of thousands to reeducation camps. it's been forcing them to work as slave labor. in fact, there's a decent chance the coronavirus face mask you want to the grocery store today for the nike tennis shoes on their feet right now were made by an enslaved uighur. they recently asked the chinese ambassador about this footage. here's how it went. >> and i ask you why people are kneeling blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern china? what is going on there? >> i do not know where you get this videotape. you know, sometimes you have transfer of prisoners. you know, in any country. speak about what is happening here, ambassador? >> i do not know where you got this video clip. speak of these have been going

around the world, they've been authenticated by western intelligence agencies. >> tucker: senior fellow at the gates organ institute -- author of the book "the coming collapse of china." thanks so much for coming on. first to the factual part of the story, what were we looking at exactly that video? >> we were looking at scenes from august 2018 and what the chinese call syndrome and with the local inhabitants called east turkestan. it is believed that this is video shot by a chinese government drone in this footage was leaked to the international community. >> tucker: and are you convinced this is an unusual event? does this represent the chinese government's treatment of the uighurs? >> this video shows scenes which are not unusual. an australian nonpartisan think tank, the australian institute -- in march, said that

they are about 80,000 uighurs and others who have been transported around china and forced to work for international brands. they named 83 of them. two of them were nike and apple. >> tucker: so nike and apple -- they're not american companies, though they often pose as such, their multinationals owned byre shareholders, but we consider them american companies. i don't ever hear anybody on the left criticize either one of those companies for their labor practices. why? >> you know, this is just an explicable, because for instance, nike through a long-term supplier, supplier who set of relationship for more than three decades have been using hundreds of uighur women in conditions that can only be described as slave labor. and we have heard from both the secretary of state and the attorney general about the practices of american companies in china. the secretary of state actually talked about modern human a

slavery and he's absolutely right about that. what we are seeing are horrific practices on the part of american companies. >> tucker: so-called american companies. you do see the irony though, that mikey is the first company and apples also to lecture the united states about its original sin, which is slavery, they are right about that, but now we learn that they are benefiting fro modern-day slavery and nobody says w anything. how rich is that?s >> this is just unbelievable, because as you say, nike is taking the lead in lecturing the american people about racism and gett in china it is using a racial minority as to manufacture sneakers and we have her denials from nike, but those denials don't stand up. there's a lot of "washington post" reporting from february and march of this year which t shows that nike's denias are indeed false. a member, this is a long-term supplier of nike, they had to know what wass going on and so this is basically nike using slavery and materially aiding

the chinese government in this horrific program of taking uighurs and others and transporting them around the country for labor purposes. >> tucker: shocking. gordon, thank you for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so liberals used to tell you a lot about income inequality. now that income inequality has accelerated and they're getting rich fromth it, they don't mentn it much anymore. we have the most amazing case of all, we will tell you about it after the break. is a good bottom line is,

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democratic 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.e not anymore because people getting rich are members of the democratic party. chedwick moore is not, 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 t 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. >> tucker: 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? >> tucker: 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. >> tucker: 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 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 this 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 where 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 through washington, d.c., for the swamp,