coach lou holtz. we had a candid take on leadership, on fear, on returning to sports and school in america, available at foxnewspodcast.com and that's available until july 23. have a great night. he's a good musical >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president announced this afternoon that the republican party has canceled its traditional nominating convention in florida next month. the reason? coronavirus. >> president trump: this afternoon my political team came to me and laid out our plans for their convention in jacksonville, florida. it's a place i love and all of the state but i looked at my team and i said, the timing for this event is not right, it's just not right with what happened. to have the big convention is to

have the right time. >> tucker: that news will inconvenience people, but in the end it's hard to believe that canceling a political convention will affect the outcome ultimately of this year's presidential election. yet it's very likely that the coronavirus lockdown it themselves will affect the outcome. is your country on the right track or the wrong track? in a reelection campaign especially that is always the question and every political consultant in america knows th that. the biting campaign, and the presidential is here. in some places of early voting begins in just a month. the result of that voting will define the country's future. if the democrats take the senate at the white house, and they could do, you will not recognize america a year from now. think about how much has changed

over the past six months. imagine what would have happened if there had been no meaningful opposition to the mob, if alexandria ocasio-cortez had been able to impose her plans without any restraint. that's exactly what they intent to do. they aren't hiding it. >> if mitch mcconnell does what he did to president obama then we should get rid of the filibuster. >> raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. [cheers and applause] >> that is why we will implement legislation based on the principles of the green new deal. >> are you proposing taking away their guns and how would this work? >> i am, if it's a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield. >> yes, we will take your ar-15

incher ak-47. >> it's funny, people ask me what the world for defund the police looks like. >> they are not moderates and this is not the democratic party that you remember. don't be liberals with flaccid ideas that you probably had contempt for but in the end could live with. no, these are radicals and they despise the country they seek to govern. they claim to remake it completely. these people want power with an intensity that you as a normal well-adjusted person cannot even begin to understand. they will do anything for control. so the question is, what are they doing to win? they are working the right track/wrong track numbers. democrats understand that the unhappier americans become, the more likely they are to win. unhappy people want change, it's not complicated. so every ominous headline about the state of the country makes it more likely that donald trump will lose his job.

the more the people suffer, the greater joe biden's advantage. democrats have a strong incentive to therefore inflict as much pain as they can and that's what they are doing. on march 1st new york state confirmed its first case of the coronavirus. at the time you may not remember, the media was still attacking the president for taking the coronavirus too seriously. they said the travel ban on china was hysterical in the xenophobic. two days later citing the pandemic, the ohio governor mike dewine band spectators from a sporting event on "the washington post" scoffed at him. the paper called his restrictions "radical." on that day, march 3rd, more than 40% of the country was headed and at the number was way too high. then within a week higher education started to shut down at a life started to change for many people. hundreds of thousands of idle college aged kids return home. stores began to empty, hand

sanitizers and cleaning supplies disappeared. on march 12th the hockey league canceled at season and major league baseball followed suit. it's still 40%, and that was bad news for the joe biden campaign. the cdc recommended canceling all public events are more than 50 people present. public schools closed and so did bars, restaurants, gyms and churches. critically millions lost their jobs and businesses were shuttered and then the employment rate rose to the highest level in nearly a century. at the time they told us that mass quarantines were essential. they were saving lives with our suffering and most people wanted to believe that because most americans are decent people. science had nothing to do with

this. studies around the world showed that being outside was far safer than staying at home. that was conclusive. in michigan, which is not coincidentally a swing state, democrats banned citizens from visiting their own weekend homes or using outboard motors. after a while the authorities issuing these orders and anthony fauci for a long time, it seems like a serious man of science announced it was dangerous to shake hands with people you love but it was fine to have sacks with strangers online. they were revealed to be capricious. above all though, and this was the point, they made americans miserable. prescriptions for antidepressants rose 21% in a single month.

by the end of april the right attract/wrong track numbers inverted. and yet for the people pushing joe biden for president, that number was still too high so we had riots. as the entire country watched in real time, mob saluted and burned at the police station and minneapolis. we saw people dragged from their stores and beaten on camera, some were killed. most people watching this were horrified by professional democrats were thrilled. they slashed police budgets to ensure it would continue and it did. crime rates soared and the crackdown on normal people accelerated. your kids were not allowed to have graduation ceremonies or get married, but hundreds of thousands of confirmed joe biden voters were allowed to flood the streets and break things. then midsummer came. with the election just months away at america's suffering had to be intensified. so schools across the country announced they would stay closed in the fall. no one bothered to explain the science behind us because there

wasn't any. schoolchildren remain nearly immune to the fatal effects of coronavirus and to this day there was not a single reported case in the entire world of a student passing covid-19 to a teacher, not one case. but school shut down anyway. desperate parents wondered what they would do with their kids in september. good luck they were told, figure something out. residents of washington, d.c., were told they would be required by law to wear masks everywhere they went for the foreseeable future, and yet, the people who made that law exempted themselves from it. they already know they are voting for joe biden. everyone else in the country became dramatically unhappier. nearly three quarters of americans now say the country has become a much worse place than it was. doctors have prescribed is so much zoloft, the antidepressant, it's not on the federal drug shortage list. in fact it's likely americans have never in history of this country been as unhappy as they have right right now. it's a tragedy, but for

democrats it is a win. according to polls, republicans me now lose one safe senate seats. so say what you will about the destruction of america but as a political matter it's been a stroke of genius. marty makary is a professor of public health at john hopkins university. i want to ask you about the specific fall school shut down. schools across the country are planning on remaining shuttered for at least part of the fall term. and i'm wondering if there is any valid science for justifying that decision. >> and risk areas it makes no sense at all. in fact in some parts of the country, massachusetts and even fairfax, virginia, have talked about delaying school and probably the more scientifically logical thing to do is to move it up before a potential false bike later on. if school is in the middle of a massive surge in the middle of an outbreak, there is broad consensus, you even heard it

from the president today, but that school should then take the precautions and remain closed. we've done that with influence late in the past. right now unfortunately people are not recognizing that 14 kids albeit tragic have died from coronavirus. more kids will die from substance abuse, child abuse, lack of access to nutrition in schools and you know, cases reporting to child protective, there are no more eyes on the kids and no mortgage detection, no more than 73% of mental health in schools is delivered through the counselors. if we want to optimize health outcomes. >> tucker: are they obscure or esoteric, do you need a phd to define them? >> we see in the

politicalization of this virus and sometimes, it's magnified by those who just want to make a point when the president said he wants kids in schools, to see this reaction. but when the american academy of pediatrics that it in two weeks prior, you don't have to go far to look up the numbers of deaths from influenza, pneumonia, viral meningitis and each of those conditions which has claimed the lives of more kids than coronavirus to date. >> tucker: so if you are making a decision based on political consideration, the numbers will hurt then help you are committing a foul act. >> we want to maximize the number of lives preserved and saved on the way we do that scientifically is look at the consequences of close schools. i believe ultimately that will save lives when kids are in

school in areas where there are no active outbreaks. i don't know how they are making decisions now without the data but the data has come out and we have to evolve our strategy accordingly. when we told people to stay home, we should have told them to stay outside. when we told people to wash their hands like crazy, we should have told them to undergo universal masking. contact tracing, we were told that's a path out of coronavirus but guess what? many of those areas minutes or infection not from contact tracing back from good behavior. and it's whether or not people in the community take it seriously. to. >> tucker: while they are taking the election seriously, that's for sure. so you remember back a few years ago when the claim arose and the president amplified it, that the fbi had been spying on the trump organization, people and trumps

orbit. this is totally false. when you look at the classified documents, it's not false at all, it's true. john davis has that story. >> today, thanks to the director of national intelligence john radcliffe, we had some classified fbi documents in 2016. one thing we learned from the fbi agents involved in the spy campaign in the trump campaign was that they used a defensive briefing on foreign intelligence threats like russians trying to interfere in our elections. they use that briefing not to tell the trump administration or the trump campaign what was happening, it was there to look at mannerisms from the people

involved. so a compound question, how is the fbi not acting? >> those are really good questions. they told us when trump first said they were spying on them, oh, no, that's not possible. he's crazy. but they were actually doing was they were spying on him. they were using the security letters and confidential human sources and in some cases they were taking their own briefings of campaigns in which they were supposed to tell the campaigns of these are the real threats against you and they were using them as operations to dig up dirt and spy on them. if you assume everything they are doing is political, i'm not sure there's a reason to ever give doubt to what that agency is up to. >> tucker: it's a reason to dismantle it. and that's some of the more outlandish things the president has said, that turned out to be

true. why hasn't anybody systematically tried to reform the fbi? and that's the way it seems four years ago. and nobody has been charged, not a single person has been charged with any of the crimes that we know occurred. if they are not even going to come in and charge people who obviously violated our laws in order to spy on and then overthrow a presidential administration, why would we expect them to go and reform the agency? so why would we expect to congress reform something that clearly needs to be reformed from the bottom up? >> tucker: yes, and i know we are all supposed to have respect from the attorney general, but mine is waning. john davis, great to see you.

the mayor of portland, oregon, mr. ted wheeler showed up to last night's right to cheer them on. but the mob chased mr. ted wheeler out anyway. some of the greatest footage you will see in a long time. plus, dr. siegel's interview with the president was everywhere today. cnn was especially fascinated by the president's cognitive ability test so don lamon who is a world-famous anchor on that channel decided to take the test himself on live television, which is maybe the greatest thing ever to have been on live television. we will have a report on that, after the break. ♪ hey, kids!

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>> tucker: one thing about revolutions, and this is the good news, and the end, they consume themselves always. last night, and we are getting to the point, the mayor of portland, oregon, a character called tom wheeler got a taste of that himself. he joined his city's ongoing riot and express solidarity with the rep mob. when he arrived he was not greeted as a hero, he was booed and told to resign. he was handed a list of demands by the angry children and then he was teargas by federal

law enforcement. here is part of it. [chanting] >> tucker: that mirror ended up scurrying away like a rodent fling on foot but he was safe because he was surrounded by five taxpayer financed a body guards with guns. do you have those? i don't think so. ted wheeler does. he was harmed thanks to you paying for them. here's some footage of the riot that wheeler had showed up to support. [crowd noise close bracke]

>> tucker: well, the portland police department may be the last organization in the city that can at least kind of tell the truth. describe what you just saw as a riot, they would know. the administration absent federal law enforcement as we said to the city to try to calm things down, maybe save some property and save a life. the president just announced a new operation to combat crime in the city's so it's getting broader. mr. miller, thank you so much for coming on. i can't resist asking you about mayor ted wheeler who has been encouraging violence out for months. he shows up at a riot that he helped create with five armed bodyguards. is there anything the federal

government can do to strip the taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards from people like ted wheeler? people of portland have to live with this violence and ted wheeler protects himself at their expense. is there anything the administration can do about that? >> it's a really great question, certainly worth looking at. the democratic party for a long time historically has been the party of secession. what your esteem today as the democratic party returning to his roots. the federal law, the u.s. constitution does not apply within the confines of our city and our citizens will be held at the mercy of the mob. and of the administration of justice, the federal courthouse, will be allowed to fall under siege and that's what's happening right now in portland. >> tucker: it's been happening. cities across the country for the last four years have declared themselves exempt from immigration law and with respect, no one has done anything about it. this has been a slow moving

disaster that no one has tried to stop. having engaged unprecedented activity in this demonstration for the first time in history has taken action to restore immigration enforcement after five decades of bipartisan betrayal of the american worker. you know this better than anybody come for half a century american workers were sold out and betrayed by politicians, they drove down the wages and took away the wealth that they need to support their families. we served up to that in the president and they should be celebrated as heroes. a number of them have been injured. the strike response team have been seriously wounded in the eye by the use of lasers pointed out the retinas. they may never fully recover their site, we don't even know.

but this is a lawless assault urged on by the mayor and this administration won't stand for it just like we won't stand for the lawless murder of civilians in the city of chicago. >> tucker: and so what are you going to do about it in portland? >> in the case of portland, number one, we will not let that courthouse be burned to the ground. we will enforce federal codes, that allow us to protect that building. i would note by the way, the same politician is condemning the department of homeland security, voted for that law. voted for that law in 2002 and that law says "shall." shall protect public property anfight violent crime, it's the largest surge that has ever occurred to deal with the problem of violent crime. that responsibility still falls mostly on the shoulders of

police department's in our local community and this government will step up and used dfi, dhs and fbi to give our citizens safe. >> tucker: good luck, a lot of people are rooting for you. >> this is about the survival of the country and we will not back down. >> tucker: and you shouldn't. thanks so much for that, we appreciate it. joe biden doesn't talk too much in public these days but, when he dies, he is a very quotable man. much to the agony of his staff. he had some of his latest quotes after the break. ♪ so what's going on?

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>> tucker: joe biden has been chained to the radiator in his basement for the past few months by his handler's and his poll numbers have gone up. they'd like to keep them there but unfortunately of presidential campaign requires that you talk and so now he is on a limited basis.

here he was yesterday trying to attack the president for suggesting that the wuhan coronavirus which likely escaped from a chinese lab came from china. >> it makes me so angry when i find that people with of color for a different national origin are viewed any differently. and look what he's doing now. they make no distinction, its agent. and that's the way -- he's just using it as a wedge. >> tucker: yeah, it's a wedge. it's wrong to say what's true. it's also weird. in joe biden's america, people get their news from record players and no one knows the difference between china and south korea. but it got better. revealed scintillating new

details about his medical condition. >> i have nurses at walter reed hospital that would bend down and whispered in my ear, and they would go home and get me pillows. probably nothing ever taught -- you couldn't do it in the covid time but they would breathe in my nostrils to get me moving. >> tucker: they breathed into his nostrils? that sounds like a resuscitation attempt. we would like to speak to anybody who has blown air into joe biden's nostrils. we are on live every evening at 8:00 and we will give you a chance to tell your story to unburden yourself. you have suffered and you deserve a chance to talk about it. so call us. the 13th amendment banned slavery in america but some big corporations have found a way to get around it, just use chinese.

this video shows uighurs blindfolded and tied up and forced to board trains. some according to reports may wind up staffing sweatshops. they sell enough $100 shoes to pay their ceo $14 million per year. kind of a scandal. ned ryan has paid close attention to it. we are happy to have you on tonight. ned, thanks for coming on. i just want to make sure we are not overstating the case but, is it established, do you believe, that slave labor, political prisoners, ethnic minorities in china, the early bird benefits american companies? >> is a study out of australia from this spring that shows that these awoke corporations like nike, google, amazon and microsoft. and i posted this at the top of my twitter feed if you want to read all 80 corporations, they are benefiting off of it.

then to add to that irony they are taking out money and funding to the tune of, now estimated upwards of 2.7 billion, the black lives matter global networks. so the social justice networks that decry racism in america and say america was founded on slavery are getting money from the corporations that originated with slavery. we know why the corporations are doing this, we know why they are paying off billions and indulgences of racialized political payoffs, because they don't want to have to talk about what they are doing right now, what they say they deplore. the amazing point part is, they are literally abusing the weakest of the week and they are doing it in asia. you know why? because i don't want to pay real wages to american workers. they can posture all they want at home but a lot of these corporations are the equivalent of modern-day slavers. and i will say this, making goods and products off of slave labor is not capitalism and it is certainly un-american.

>> tucker: it's totally a immoral and yet the time is occupied with these historical figures that died at 150 years ago. and yet this is going on. let me ask you, where are the labor unions in this? they were driven by american labor unions who pointed out that the sweatshops were undercutting american workers. >> this is the shame of it. the bosses are definitely not pro-trump, and it gets even worse on these corporations. not only the complete hypocrites on the idea of racism and slavery, you think about walmart, costco, best buy and all of these, amazon included,

there's a platform company and it looks like there's 10 million american homes on the chinese control platform and that by law is required to feed data to the communist party. they are also helping trojan horse the american people. you can't make this stuff up. >> tucker: before you go, i've never gotten personal with you on the air or really with anyone but i want to ask you about your father who is in the news. >> i appreciate that, tucker. i want to give a shout out to my dad to come up the great jim ryan, he tomorrow will get the e presidential medal of freedom and i couldn't be happier, i couldn't be prouder and i couldn't be more grateful. my father is a man among men and he is so worthy of this award and i'm looking very much forward to tomorrow, so i

appreciate you saying something. >> i appreciate how much you love your dad. if you are going to divide the world into two camps it is divided between those who love their dads and those who don't, it makes huge difference. so the president talked about his cognitive exam. don lamon, international tv star over at the cable news network tried to take that exam on the air. and it's just so great that we will have to play it for you, after the break. ♪

>> tucker: if you saw the show last night you saw that dr. marc siegel asked the president about the cognitive ability test white house physicians have given him. amazingly the president was happy to talk about details. use part of it. >> president trump: there were 30-35 questions and the first questions are very easy in the last questions are much more difficult. like a memory question. like you will go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so they say, could you repeat that?

so i said yeah. so it's a person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay, that's very good. >> tucker: so guess who else was watching that? the weight lifter, over on cnn, and his buddy, don lamon. so the weight lifter, the governor's brother decided to administer the test that the president has taken to international tv starved on them on. and what happens next? >> wendy to take that, that looks like something for middle school. >> well you take that when the, i'm not a doctor and i will let dr. reiner explain it, but usually when there is some issue or concern about, you know, your cognitive abilities. >> what were the animal shapes? >> it's a lion, a hippo and a camel. >> are right now. >> you guys don't even know. [laughs]

>> i'm looking at it backwards. [laughs] >> tucker: what does it mean if you don't know a rino from an elephant? well you may not be a physician but i think you know what it means. it means a low acuity and that's not a surprise i in the case of don lamon. a perfectly cheerful person but may be the slowest person ever to appear on cable news. you may have forgotten, and if you have forgotten we have the tape, his malaysia airlines segment where he suspected me with the flight had vanished into a black hole. >> whether it was terrorism or mechanical failure, it's something we don't understand, a lot of people have been asking about black holes and on and on and they are also referencing the twilight zone which is a very similar plot. that's what people are saying, and i know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, mary?

>> tucker: it turns out because we have access to a scientific poll portal that we called google that the numerous black hole is about 3,000 light-years away and boeing triple sevens can't yet fly that far. it may seem that we are being a little bit cruel, but let me say that there is love at the bottom of this. pull it up again on google. in which he declared with total assuredness that the frozen desert but the rest of us call sorbet, it's actually pronounced sore bet. he was adamant about that. how a car is the undisputed king of england, and he's live

tonight. >> having watched don the mont on new year's eve, i think if he had been presented with silhouettes of a different type of product, i think he would have done fine. you know, shot glass, cocktail glass, i always thought that lawyers learned early on that you never ask questions in court of a witness unless you know the answer to them. obviously they didn't do too much prep for the interview. they just figure if trump says he didn't take the test, then they hit him and they say why want to take the test? so he takes the test and they make a support of him anyway. you know i've taken this test and i thought the president summed it up pretty well. you know immediately whether you are acing it or not, the face of

a clock with no arms on it, they say what it is-10? those are the same kind of test that they give you an field sobriety tests. >> tucker: that something he would pass. there's something endearing about the fact, but don lamon, a thing embarrasses him. is there something kind of appealing about that? >> wouldn't you love that? and recite the alphabet backwards, senator.

they never get much beyond m or n. would you like to see joe biden take days? he invented two new job classifications in the last 48 hours. do you ever hear of voter registration and a paid caregiver? and the disease put everybody in lockdown, it's not covid-19, it's covid nine. >> tucker: thanks so much for coming on tonight. >> thank you tucker, i appreciate it. >> tucker: we want to apologize if you've been watching all the steroid videos on the side of the screen, we have an enormous archive and sometimes we can't control ourselves and replay them. two and a more serious topic, free speech is a right that we all have and yet most americans feel they can't exercise it. they are afraid to say what they think. we will tell you why. also breaking news tonight, dead

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♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. there are new findings tonight in the search for extraterrestrial life. "the new york times" say a pentagon task was investigating ufo sightings is quite likely to release those findings soon. those findings could be standing particularly for people who have doubted their existence. the pentagon picked up classified hearings on ufos for decades and knew very little about what they found. but apparently just recovered our off world vehicles not made on this earth. that is a direct quote. we are not exactly sure what they mean by that, but some of it is self-evident. so it is a big story, and we are scouring through the reporting on it right now. we will bring you much more right here tomorrow night.

so americans are allowed to say what they think. that is the first amendment to the u.s. constitution. the lead in the bill of rights. china, a free country, that is what we tell ourselves but nearly 2 out of 3 americans don't feel they can exercise that right. they have been intimidated into silence. that includes the overwhelming majority 77% of conservatives. what does that mean? why does it matter if the first amendment if you can't exercise it? tammy bruce come on fox nation, we are happy to have her on tonight and pose that question. we have the first amendment but it seems irrelevant. >> well, it does and the previous segment, your reader there i would welcome at this point our new alien overlords considering what is happening. the first amendment, the first minute matters and that is what makes this the greatest country on earth. we are able to discuss the

issues and able to do so without fear of being arrested were put in prison. that is what the old world and the founders thought it was important to add into what matters the first thing that matters. but of course, what we have got here a decade or a new generation at this point where the left has been beginning to train us to feel guilty and afraid to speak about things. when you are afraid to speak about things, tucker, it is dangerous to think about them as well. so this is a classic leftist training, cofix training in many instances and of course, now a new report outs, two and three americans over 60% are afraid to speak their minds, but liberals over the last three years, that has jumped by 12 points because liberals at first thought, oh, that it's only for the bad people. but in the last year, 2017-2020, it is dangerous for liberals who are moderate or just normal to speak their minds as well if

they are against the liberal orthodox. >> sean: so the traditional lins from libertarians has been low, the first amendment protects you from government punishing you if you speak your political beliefs, but if you lose your job and if you are impoverished and cannot support your family, then why is there really a distinction? >> well, you see, that is of course the presumption is only the government can ruin your life that completely. >> tucker: exactly. speak with a private action, that was the concern but who cay run your complete lives however depending how one votes, people who think that way then are in charge of the government. remember, we thought a lot of people turned a blind eye because they thought it was only in the academy, only in schools. the real world and real life would knock them out of it. we are finding that did not work and of course we have to be concerned about politics in business and everything else as

well. >> tucker: very smart, tammy bruce good to see you tonight, get tammy bruce fox nation. >> thank you tucker, thank you, dear. >> tucker: out of time after a full hour. we will be back tomorrow night 8:00 p.m. and >> the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. touche sean hannity we go. >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and we began with a fox news alert, the united states, donald trump will join us for an exclusive interview. that is in a moment and we will discuss the brand-new rnc news in terms of the convention in florida has been canceled and the president's reasons why. what is the backup plan? we will ask him that. and we will talk about the violence, literally what he calls the war zone in american cities. we will talk about the upcoming election, covid-19, left-wing conspiracy theories, joe biden come a lot to get to tonight. first major breaking news surrounding what we have identified