got it! go time! with freedom unlimited, you're always earning. i should've purchased lighter weights! we will see you right back here on monday night at seven, i have a great weekend. if tucker is up ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." chicago is the third biggest city in the united states, millions of people live there. for 150 years, that was the hub of l the manufacturing economy. if what any one place can claim to have built this country at chicago so we should care what happens there. unfortunately what is happening they are chicago, and thanks to the corruption of local officials, chicago is bankrupt. the city is so deeply in debt, williams and billions, tens of billions of dollars in debt, that no economist believes it can never pay its bills. taxpayers knowt this. they understand they will be

punished for the crimes of their leaders. just this week so far, 106 people. there was one drive-by shooting. on the city's southside and two died. it's not just happening in poor neighborhoods in chicago. here's surveillance video of a gunman opening fire downtown. two people hit by bullets and one was killed. among many others murdered in chicago, including many children, this man's first grader for example was shot in the head. >> to see my daughter on the table with a gunshot wound to the forehead -- >> 7-year-old natalia wallace was shot in the head and killed over the weekend in chicago she playedhe outside with her siblings. >> visualize the 7-year-old a shotot and bleeding to death whe the families they are.

>> also among the innocent victims, police a 14-year-old hernando jones was shot andd killed by gang members on the fourthnn of july. >> tucker: it's awful. chicago wasn't always like this and if you are from there you know very well come chicago is is a beautiful place. for a lot of reasons it isn't c anymore but on the top of that list, is a mere called lori lightfoot. like a lot of big city mayors, she is incompetent and has no idea what she is doing. you wouldn't let her play in your spring break, she would send youtube will haunt by accident. but what makes lori lightfoot unusual is a remarkably aggressive way that she lives. lightfoot says things that are so impossible they couldn't be part of the comedy routine and she's not joking. she expects you to believe every word c of it. here she is, for example, blaming violence in chicago on, of all people, republicans. >> why are we engaged in such violence? because they are too many guns on our streets. why is that so?

the republican leadership for way too long including this president refuses to even have a conversation about common sense gun reform. >> tucker: see, it's a republicans fault that chicago is more dangerous than many third world countries. that makes sense. the only problem is, there aren't any republicans in chicago. donald trump got 12% of the vote they are, of the 50 aldermen on chicago city council, right now, not a single one of them is republican. a not one. so if you are blaming the republicans in west texas, you might have a point, but in chicago, it is absurd. even lori lightfoot seems to know that that excuse just won't work. it's too stupid. so she moved on to a new excuse. you know why all those children are getting murdered? because of christopher columbus. yes, an italian navigator who never got within a thousand

miles of the loop and who, by the way, died, he did it, it's columbus' fault. this morning, lightfoot ordered the city to take down two christopher columbus statues. that will fix the problem and you can let your kids play outside now. in case you are wondering why lightfoot chose a christopher columbus to blame, why not marco polo? why not basco da gama. there is a reason, her constituents demanded it. not boaters or taxpayers. there was never any groundswell to christopher columbus and chicago. no, lightfoot's actual constituents wanted columbus taken down. they descended upon grant park to rip down the columbus statue. [chanting]

[bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [chanting: burn it down] almost 50 policefo officers were injured in the riot that you just saw, but lori lightfoot didn't care, they aren't her voters. lightfoot cares about her base, the looters and destroyers. when they tell her, lori lightfoot acts immediately. the problem for the rest of them, the mobs will not stop with christopher columbus, he's just the beginning. if they can tear down statues whenever they feel like it, how long before they tear down buildings, how long before they tear down homes? how long before they tear down human beings? probably not for long. violence rarely remains symbolie and accelerates of total good

people rise up to stop it. if lori lightfoot and progressive mayors like her around the country, and there are many, are allowed to divert attention from her own behaviors find bowing to the mob and destroying public property, this will not end with christopher columbus. it will get much worse and more dangerous. fines you may not think tearing down a statue is a big deal until you are the next designated christopher columbus. todd watson has studied american cities for decades and he founded the woodson center and we are honored to have them on tonight. mr. woodson, thank you for coming on. i see a theme here and it's not just t lori lightfoot. it is many big-city mayors and even smaller city mayors. as the problems they face become more complex and harder to solve, their solutions seem to be more frivolous and disconnected from reality. fac have you noticed this? >> absolutely. what they are doing is falsely claiming that the failures of the last 60 years and most urban centersha all over the country

have been run by liberal democrats, many of them veterans of the civil rights movement whn moved from politics -- i mean from civil rights, to run these cities. they also had to spend about $22 trillion on poverty money in the cities and as a consequence, all of thesen inequities that they have been talking aboutie have been done on their watch. as conditions and spending when conditionsin deteriorated, but they adjust the reality of what they do, and that's the responsibility for taking care of these problems. now the left is coming in and exploiting the disparity and using it to really decimate the country, and the collateral damage. the lives of poor blacks in the

cities because what the left is doing is vilifying the police as agentsts of a white supremacy ad the more they are vilified, the less aggressive they are about enforcing laws and the more the murder rate rises. what low income blacks are facing, and treasonous behavior. bigotry is not their biggest challenge. it is treason. what is happening in the cities is a difference, tucker, between a burglar who steals what's in your house and an embezzler who steals everything that you can relate over the lifetime. and what black america is being stolen, is there a history of how they resisted and overcame oppression, and that's being wiped away. chicago used to be the black wall street in segregation. in 1929,

there were 739 black-owned businesses and there were 100 million in real estate assets at a time when segregation was the law. so you can't blame institutional racism or systematic racism, or the legacy of slavery for the failures. this has occurred precisely as civil rights leaders became leaders of the cities. >> tucker: it's oh lori lightfoot will tell you, and it's not just lori lightfoot by a mile, but she cares so deeply about the poorest people in her city. should we believe that?t? >> absolutely not. i believe tucker that the salvation of this country may sound odd and that will be the sleeping giant. when no income blacks wake up and realize that they are being bamboozled and hustled and scammed by people like lori lightfoot and others, they are going to realize that they must adjust the enemy within,

because the left derives this moral authority as being of legitimate representatives of the poor. a metaphor of that occurred in oregon when a black police officer was talking to two young black demonstrators and a white demonstrator interposed herself in between and santa, f the police. that's a metaphor for how whites are exploding exploiting that. but one day, there are is evidence of the sleeping giant, the low income leaders around the country are recognizing this as in washington. an 11-year-old boy was killed, tucker, on fourth of july and the people demonstrated internally and said, no justice, no sleep. they picketed and made noise until the killers were turned in. another group of the alliance of concerned men in washington, d.c., it's gone now

65 days without a sickle, single violent incident because they adjust their problems by mobilizing the internal resources and the resilience, the self-determination of people inside, and so we have demonstrated that islands of peace can be created if you stoa looking externally and start listening to the left and instead listening to the people and to give them the power to be agents of their own uplift and to stop these hustlers from exploiting them. like lori lightfoot. >> tucker: and it is about the power of the democratic party, that's allll it's ever about. r:thank you. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you. anthony fauci has demanded that you wear a mask. he wants you to back off from the people you know and love and he wants you to stop shaking hands. b

not all of dr. fauci's advice comports with known science. he asked the president about anthony fauci. in an interview with the white house and here is how it went. >> so every time he talks about the country, i don't like the aspecti.ry of that. he says the country should stay inside to. to see it close up for a couple of year but that's okay, i'm the president so i will say i appreciate your opinion, now give me another opinion, somebody please. >> overruled. >> tucker: so dr. fauci took a day off and throughout the first pitch of the nationals game in washington. but once dr. fauci thought he was off camera, the masktc came off, literally. you want to see hypocrisy and action? look at this. here he is sitting within 6 feet of other people in a mostly in the stadium without wearing hisn mask. he was immediately called on this but rather than copping to

it and being honest, he acted like so many people empowered to do and scorned anyone criticizing him watch. >> i think this is sort of mischievous with this thing going around. i had my mask around my chain, i had taken it down, i was totally dehydrated end of his drinking water trying to rehydrate myself. and by the way i was negative covid literally the day before so i guess people want to make that thing about it, i wear a mask all the time when i'm outside, to pull it down to take some sips of water and put it back up again, i guess if people that, they can. >> tucker: if people want to make a thing of it, if people want to make a fetish of mask, lighten up america. i'm sorry, you are dr. anthony fauci and you are one of the reasons our economy has ground to a halt. you are one of the reasons people are as unhappy as they

have ever been. were you just lecturing us about why we are immoral if we didn't doe it? but when you do it it is totally cool and you have good excuses because you were thirsty. no, you are laughing with your friend. we bet that dr. fauci won't have to pay the thousand dollar fine that the district of columbia is now imposing on citizens who don't wear masks in public. here isumt the mayor of washin, air quotes around that one, muriel bowser announcing the policy. watch. >> i am also today signing a new mayor's order on masks and basically what it says is, if you leave home, you should wear a mask. this means if you are waiting for a bus you must have on a mask. if you are ordering food at a restaurant, you must have on a mask. if you are sitting in a cubicle in an open office, you must have on a mask. >> tucker: until the day joe biden wins the presidential election, you, mr. and mrs. america, must wear masks. unless you are the people who wrote the mask ordinance in

d.c., the politicians, they exempted themselves. oh, because they have suspended the rules of science because they are in power and you are not. so shut up and obey untold biden wins. that's the rule. mask for the but not for me. well, a secretive pentagon unit that has been studying unidentified flying objects for decades is now divulging some of the secrets. it turns out some of them are a big deal. a retired naval aviator who has seen unidentified flying objects joins us now. 49... 50!

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>> tucker: >> tucker: much of the media have mocked the existence of unidentified flying objects and the u.s. pentagon has been studying this subject for quite a long time. apparently they will soon release some of their findings which will remain classified. according to a new report in "the new york times," the u.s. may have vehicles that were "not -- may have physical evidence f

vehicles not made on this earth. they have also released footage of ufo sightings including a 2004 encounterdi recorded from n advanced navy fighter jet. commander david freighter is a retired naval aviator who wants something he could not explain in science can't explain and we are honored to have them on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so tell us if you think this is being misinterpreted. according to the new "new york times," the u.s. has some evidence of some sort of evil not meet on this earth, is -- vehicle made not on this earth. it is that what it sounds like? i >> it sounds like that to me. i never want to speculate what the government truly has but i would say there is stuff out there. the four of us that chased the tic tac in 2004 have attested multiple times that what we saw exceeded anything that we had in our inventory and was far superior to the airplanes that we had at the time. and at the time they weret brand-new. so i would say yes, there's

something out there and hopefully the government does have stuff. >> tucker: it's we spoke before about this and you suggested the object that you saw that you taste, the tic tac, behaved in ways that challenge your understanding of aeronautics and physics and you didn't think it was likely that that object belongs to a foreign military. do you think the u.s. government has concluded that this is not russia, china or some of the country? >> i'm pretty sure of that. just by some of the phone calls that we have gotten, some of the people we have talked to in the government,ne they are unaware f what this is and i think that ties directly with the east coast citing, with the gimbal video, and i would be willing to say, because i'm inhe contact with a lot of these people, there are more incidents that are starting to come out and people are starting to report inside of the government channels, the things that we are seeing. i think you're seeing it from the past because it always hadrt that taboo, you are not finding people from the past is that i saw this.

i was just never told to report it or when i did i was told not to say anything. so i think since 2017 the world is starting to change, because of lack of publicity and because of the attention in the senate and the congress. because of peopleof like marco rubio and the intel committee, and the government does have stuff, and that, and where is that all that. just by odds, something would be here. >> so that raises the question why the secrecy? clearly the u.s. government has lied for the public for maybe 73 years, why dore you think? >> if we go back to project blue book, one thing, the sidings that people saw.

but the other one primarily was sent out out to prove that it wt board to make excuses of why it wasn't. i think some of it was trying to capture that technology. if something lands in your front yard it there's no reason to deny it existed order for the government and then why would you hide it. that just baffles me. why wasn't it thoroughly investigated at the time for something that literally could penetrate, and nothing was done until about 2009. >> tucker: it there's a story here that a lot of us can't wait to see.ke finally, do you feel vindicated? >> i never -- if you could say that but most of the fellow aviators that know the group of us, we were never like chastise or, you get ripped but it was never like you were crazy or anything like that.

people take you seriously by definition. >> i try to be very believable for you. >> tucker: and you are, we appreciate that. >> thank you. annette and other amazing and heartening news, a quarter million dollar lawsuit was brought by a teenager they slandered and attacked. an amazing story, one of the wins for decency lately. we will bring it in all itsee details after the break. ♪ it bottom line is, moms love that land o' frost premium sliced meats have no by-products. [conference phone] baloney! [conference phone] has joined the call. hey baloney here. i thought this was a no by-products call? land o' frost premium. a slice above.

>> tucker: every day a small group of highly privileged people seem to get more powerful and increased to crack down on the country, but occasionally there are reversals of fortune

that we want to call attention to. today was a day like that, "the washington post" settled a quarter billion dollar definition suit brought by nicholas sandmann. he is the high school kid in kentucky. he was vilified by the media and it sounded like he was harassing an american indian. in fact the full video showed the exact opposite of that. we reached out to "washington post" today, s and e asked them to come on and explain "the washington post" role, and he was of course to cowardly to do that. here was don lemon on cnn describing the encounter. >> they carry a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from a lot of people. >> international tv star of don lemon wants you to know that

if someone disagrees with his politics you are allowed to harass them. maybe even beat them up, who knows. cnn sued for that, too and settled a million-dollar case earlier this year. but it would be a mistake to say that was just "the washington post" or cnn, it was in bc, too. >> do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? do you see your own fault? you looked at that video and felt from other perspectives. there was a lot of view, a handful of others, something aggressive about standing there. every single day these people bully americans, ill let them come berate them, attacked them and force them from their jobs. the countries are cowering in silencee thanks to things like

this but occasionally someone fights back. but more occasionally, someone and it so we thought it would be worth having them in tonight. so what's your reaction to this since you've been on this since first day? >> i am really glad that there has been recognition and that they did get it wrong. i'm glad he's getting a measure of justice. i'm not confident this message will be received, but this could be the message to others in the media and it would have been to be at a clip. and it was a race to smear someone, that's wrong, that goes against norms of journalism to

seek the full story. so to consider the newsworthiness, there was no reason to do this story so i want that to set in, you don't always need to do a story about someone wore a bad halloween costume or a sent a homophobic tweet. the other -- the drive to cancel or smear orr attack normal regular people who aren't famous or important, and that really needs to change, so i hope this could be a step in that direction. i'm not confident that it will be. >> tucker: i hope it is. here is the richest man in the world, jeff bezos, his personal newspaper attacking high school kids for what? robbie, great to see you,

thank you. we should say that neither "the washington post" nor cnn. disclose the value of today's settlement. jason whitlock writes for and is part owner of belt kick. he joins us tonight. jason, you've been in journalism for a long time so you know the power of it, you can really hurt people and a lot of the time that's fine. but shouldn't these organizations be careful before training the bazooka on them? >> we are supposed to be the voice of the marginalized and the week. that fits the profile more than a 17-year-old high school student, but i think as you alluded to early on, this is all about donald trump. this is about that hat that the

kid is going to wear. we have justified in the media anything that is against trumpmp is a positive. and the ends justify the means. anything we can do to stop trump because he may be an evil dictator or this or that. it is such an exploitation and it's a misuse and misunderstanding are just outright lying to the public. the president of the united states just doesn't have the power that we keep ascribing to. the legislative branch, the judicial branch can limit the president.an we have term limits. this isn't the next joseph stop one. this isn't fidel castro ruled first 30 some odd years. this is a guy who could rule for four years maybe or eight years of the most, and then he's done. he can only do what our legislative branch does and it's crazy. and that's the country understanding how we operate.

>> tucker: that is such a smart point. i always give people a pass at politicians and i think you have the right to give the finger to the people in power, and as you noted you would think somewhere along the line, there's a difference between a politician in this case, trump, and the people who voted for them. he has power, but they don't, no one says that. >> also, the ends don't justify the means when you are a journalist. we are a held to a higher standd and we've been having the conversation in america the last ten years or seven years. hey, police, we have told them to and we take an unstated both. to a higher standard. blah, blah, blah. as a journalist,

we are intentionally misleading the public. president trump, president obama, and if we are cuba, and they think they are going to just take over and trump will be this totalitarian that runs a country down. no, he's not. four years, eight years, it's a short time and we have survived so much worse, if you consider. let's take their argument that trump is the worst thing that ever happened to the presidency. this country has survived slavery and this country has survived the civil war, and weth this country has survived rule ship of great britain. and we survive -- the limits of rights,

we can survive for her eight years of the president that antifa doesn't like or the media tdoesn't like. they are whipping us into a frenzy and have whipped all of us into a frenzy. if we don't destroy trump, are you kidding me? and anybody supports them come america cannot continue. that is a joke. >> tucker: nicely put as always. jason whitlock, thank you so much. >> thank you. so california and new york, whatever you think of the states, do have some of the best restaurants inin the world. now those states are terrorizing restaurant owners who are trying to reopen. we haveos details on that. plus dr. marc siegel interviewed the president the other day.. but perhaps no one is more entranced than the fashion industry and we will explain why, just ahead. ♪

>> tucker: earlier this week, we sent our doctor, dr. marc siegel to interview the president at the white house. he is typically against viruses, that's his job, but the

interview itself went viral. it's now shaping the american fashion industry. and here's proof. >> president trump: there is 30 or 35 questions. at the first questions are very easy in the last questions arest much more difficult, like a memory question. it's like you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so they say, could you repeat that? and i say, yes. so it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay, that's very good. we have to have somebody that's sharp. if this person isn't sharp, because i can tell you that president xi is sharp. president putinis sharp. you don't have nonsharp people that you are dealing with. >> tucker: a person woman man camera tv, repeat after us. you'll be able to because soon those five words will be everywhere.

t-shirts, baby clothing, hoodies, totes, mugs, face masks. >> dr. marc siegel started this craze and that's a pet rock of 2020 and were honored to have him on, dr. great to see you tonight. >> tucker, great to see you. now, if you think i'm a celebrity i actually waited in line to have a tire fixed today. and last week when we went trout fishing, i don't think the fish said, there is tucker carlson's hook, or avoided going towards it. but you know what i think it is special, being in the white house was special. and we were given mass, and during the interview itself, and why didn't you interrupt him on the cognitive question? i was brought up not to

interrupt people. p just as you don't interrupt me here on the show.ou it is a sign of respect. i would do that for any president and any party, any world leader, i don't believe in interrupting. >> tucker: let me enter it interrupt you for the first time ever, it's a way to hear them talk. if you are interview for some it's so true. it's about them. listen to them, which you did, and i'm glad to. >> that is so true. and he was talking about something that was probably something from the montreal cognitive assessment tests where you draw a clock and you draw a cube and then they ask you to identify an animal. as you pointed out last night some anchors on tv can't get the animal rights. then he talked about word choices and how he remembered them. and i thought this is it teaching moment. this is going to lead to a discussion cognition, and can they still be of and the people over 70 years

old. can they pilot a plane, can they be a surgeon, can they be a teacher at school's come back? an open discussion, right? instead, we got back to the usual political quagmire, we had late-night comedians mocking you and that we have shirts. and again, the president comes under attack. i was so disappointed with that. and i felt that political division ruled and come how you assess cognition and function for the elderly is really important. so i have a prescription for america this weekend. for once, let's not attack each other for the weekend based on their positions and trying to destroync each other. let's go for two words like show me at the white house, respect and kindness, tucker. >> something to meditate over the weekend. doctor, thank you very much for that. >> thanks for interrupting me,

tucker. >> tucker: at "the drudge" report was for decades a mainstay of conservative media. it has changed dramatically, so what happened exactly? a biographer joins us after the break. ♪ now, simparica trio simplifies protection.

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♪ >> of the states all of a sudden have an awful>> lot of power thy didn't used to have things to the coronavirus pandemic in california. they are using those powers to police restaurant menus. that seems like a wide use of time. chicken wings, calamari no longer constitute dinner options in the state of california. in new york, you can't have a bag of chips with your beer. they don't think that is good enough. and plus trace gallagher has all the details on this bizarre story, trace. >> in california you can't drink alcohol in a restaurant without eating but you have to eat what the state says is a meal, fried cheese sticks and fried

calamari, 2,000 calories, that is not a meal. a 500-calorie salad is a meal. chicken breast, yes, chicken wings no, tacos comeau pizza bites, egg rolls, onion rings and french fries are also you areiant and if confused, the california health department offers this clarity according to multiple courses not required to constitute a meal in order for the patrons to be served a meal a sufficient quantity thatit it would constitute a main course. md a dining experience. all cleared up. if you think california has bizarre, try new york. >> you have to have food available if a bar. soups, sandwiches, et cetera. more than just hors d'oeuvres, chicken wings, you have to have some substance and food. >> so a beer of a bag of chips not substantive but a bowl of soup will keep you sober. it is interesting last week

birds in new york served cuomo chips with every drink order and the chips did comply with the food requirement. now chips are out and bow bar owners feel like they are being unfairly singled out, tucker. >> tucker: they were soggy chips at best. trace gallagher, have a great weekend. for decades, one of the most influential figures in conservative journalism, and before it broke news, set priorities in digital media. the presidential candidates will link the famous drudge a high priority. for several including donald trump, it paid off big. but if you see recently, you know it has changed dramatically. 180 degrees. and now from the iman the progressive left and at times, distinguishable from "the daily beast" or any other woke propaganda outlet in the news company. many of georgia's longtime readers pledged to the field of void he has left.

but the question remains, what happened to matt? it is an interesting story and tonight, very few people might be able to tell us. matthew, the biographer a long time reporter and the author of the book "the drudge" revolution and it set to be released next week. thank you so much for coming on. and so you have done what reporters talked about for 20 years of doing, which is right to defend a biography of matt drudge. so you are in a position to at least at least guest why has g "the drudge" change so dramatically do you think?ueso thank you for having me, tucker, one of the things people try to analyze matt drudge, they try to look at him through a political sphere. the reality is meant, his history shows his loyalty with clarity or ideas, for example, a great part of my book where in

2008 andrew breitbart, the editor absolutely convinced that matt coverage, and then senator barack obama. so yet, some he says look up in a response by him, barack obama might be terrible for the country, but it is truly great for my website. and you know, i can't think a handful of people who did it better under obama than matt drudge. his net wealth is estimated over $100 million. so i hear all this chatter by matt, his political stance, and i think just being met. and it's more than anything el else. and, and how it works out.

>> tucker: yes, it is a remarkable change. so there were reports, and i think you chronicled this in your book early in this administration,is drudge had ben close to the president's son-in-law jared kushner. are they still close, do you know? >> unfortunately, we have lost the shot of matthew. unfortunately. but it is a really interesting book, and a very interesting story what happens to matthew drudge. and we told you about "the washington post" which settled a quarter of a billion-dollar suit after slammed a high school student. we told you we were hoping to speak to someone from "the washington post" and of course, eric who covers media there and covers for the owner of the paper, one of the world's richest men jeff bezos. he didn't come. he was afraid to come onto show. he has been here before. we want to put a picture on the screen because it's one of our favorite pictures ever.

we want to read he had to rate our o invitation. if you ever want to defend your newspaper, there is always room for you on the set. o we are out of time tonight bone we hope youes have the best weed with the ones you love. that is always the payoff and we will see you monday. ♪ >> sean: >> welcome to the special edition of "hannity." the road to 2020. 102 days until the election. i am jason travis in for sean and how the democratic party radically to transform this country into a far left utopia. restart in portland, oregon, where city leaders hate trump so much that they are willing to let their own city burned in order to prove just how woke they really are. the portland riots are now on night