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the little old lady who disagrees with you. that's our system. the week are supposed to have as much power over the government as the strong, and that is the basis of our equality as americans, something that we should cherish and protect. political violence immediately short-circuits this. it ends democracy. violence instead returns us to the most primitive of all systems. one in which might makes right. people who hurt others get to do exactly what they want, everyone else has to obey them. there is no greater threat to civilization than this and we used to understand that because it's obvious. but things have changed. people who run this country are no longer shocked by political violence, they welcome it. they slyly encourage it. they are its beneficiaries. they tell us the only real crimes are thought crimes. it's okay to set fires or smash strangers in the face with two by fours so long as you are chanting the correct slogan. if you're on the right team, everything is allowed.

but if you dare to dissent from the orthodoxy, you will be swiftly punished. go ahead and express the wrong opinions. try it on facebook, they will find you. you will lose your job, your reputation, possibly even your life. the message they are sending you is very clear. americans are not equal anymore. there are two standards in this country. one standard for them and a very different standard for you. over the weekend we saw exactly what they will excuse from their own supporters. armed mobs of joe biden voters torched buildings, smashed cars, attacked police officers. they rioted. they hurt people, a lot of people. in the media, watching closely, lied about all of it. they pretended it didn't happen. they made excuses for it. they buried the truth in euphemism. the liars at "the new york times" described the rights as "protests" buried as if the violence was justified or could be justified.

here's the truth about what happened. here's what actually happened in seattle over the weekend. take a look. >> [inaudible] [inaudible] >> tucker: protests. these were not protests, these were scenes from war. the rioters threw rocks, bottles, wood, explosives at

police. one explosion left an 8-inch hole in a police precinct. because no lie is too absurd for cnn to tell, the described the violence against police as "a demonstration against police violence." not that? it's a perfect conversion of the truth worthy of 1984. ignorance is strength, full freedom is slavery, war is peace. they repeat it because they expect you to believe it, and no doubt, some do. seattle police department gamely tried to push back by releasing actual body cam footage of the violence. it's not clear how many people saw it so we are going to show some of you -- we're going to show some of it to you right here. >> [inaudible]

[bleep] [inaudible] >> tucker: a total of 59 police officers were injured in this demonstration against police violence. cnn would like you to believe they attacked themselves, they did not. not in seattle, not anywhere buried in oakland, mobs with helmets and shields attacked a police station, they shot cops with fireworks, set fire to a courthouse. here are pictures of it. [inaudible] >> tucker: according to "abc news," the rioters you just saw were "protesters." they burnt the courthouse "after a peaceful demonstration intensified." oh, intensified. just like the world trade center collapsed when a commercial airline flight intensified. it's remarkable. you've got to believe there are still normal people working at abc news, maybe in the tape library or in the cafeteria.

are they watching their own coverage? how can they stand it? the apologies for violence. the relentless, shameless lying. it's hard to believe they haven't resigned. they probably have mortgages and kids, you feel for them just as a feel for the cameramen who flee the mob in sacramento over the weekend. they were surrounded and apparently assaulted by 150 joe biden voters dressed in black paramilitary garrett had to run for their lives. you think other journalists would be so pathetic to this. they used to be. not anymore. the stakes are too high, which got an election coming up, so instead they lied to provide cover for the rioters, the ones who threatened the cameramen. they tell you that the protests were actually peaceful. the newspaper did it attempt to dump of the violence including the fact that protesters were trying to disarm police helicopters with laser pointers. one of the peaceful protesters ran into the streets with a chainsaw in order to block traffic.

no problem, nothing to see here. meanwhile, at mostly peaceful protests in austin, and aurora, colorado, people were shot. in downtown louisville, heavily armed militia and military outfits walked through the city threatening violence if police officers weren't sent to jail. no problem, just a protest. in milwaukee, a black trump supporter named burnell trammell was executed in front of his office in broad daylight, kill killed. a bag full of rifle magazines and molotov cocktails. not a big deal! city leaders in portland have ignored 60 straight days of rioting. it's fine, they say. really? yourself portland looked over the weekend. [bleep] [inaudible]

[bleep] [inaudible] >> tucker: this isn't fine, it's not normal. it's not a protest. these aren't children comedies are adults, and they're destroying their country. they are completely out of control, they are violence. are they punished? no. where is the justice department in this? don't we have an attorney general? isn't he supposed to be conservative? why are we allowing this? chad wolf runs the department of oman security. whatever you think of him, he's been one of the very few officials in washington who seems to notice that any of this is happening. he sent federal law enforcement to portland to keep the mob from burning down the federal courthouse there, which the mob does not own, its federal

property, they have no right to torch it. if not theirs, it's ours. for doing that, for being one of the very few to actually push back a little bit, he was punished, the mob came to his home yesterday and they threatened him and his family, and they didn't do it subtly. there wasn't subtext, they said it out loud on camera. watch. >> we must make social consequences for these men and women. we must make it uncomfortable for them. we will not be good -- we are angry neighbors! [inaudible] quietly and is able to live just like us. >> tucker: are you starting to figure out why the department of justice isn't actually doing anything? why they have and the frog marched the leaders of antifa in front of the camera, why they haven't stopped this stuff, why they're acting like they are powerless? maybe they don't want mobs like this in front of their motto house. we must make it uncomfortable for them, she says, in a

megaphone. what does that mean? we don't need to guess, because we just spent all weekend watching what it means. here's the contrast that we should never forget. things change so quickly imagine things have always been this way, but they haven't. there's a presidential election a few months from now. if you disagree with what chad wolf has done, you get to vote against chad wolves boss and chad wolf will be out of a job. that's the way we used to do it when this was a democracy, but not anymore. now they just go and threaten chad wolf's children in the media applied. last month the radio show host in seattle mocked reports that his city was descending into chaos. these are peaceful protests, he suggested. on twitter, he reported that he saw "no burning, pillaging or deaths." of course those things were happening, we exist, we showed a tape of it at the time. people tended otherwise. we don't know why we have to assume because we thought it would help his team.

then the rioters showed up in the building where he lives, in his apartment building, and they destroyed the starbucks downstairs, and that scared him. now he says he's buying a gun. it turns out it's not so easy to lie about violence when it's aimed at you. jason rantz is a seattle-based radio host, we are happy to have a montagnais. jason, thanks so much for coming on. so you just had a lot of violence in the city of seattle over the weekend. tell us what you saw an tell us with the reaction from local government was, please. >> it's on us like we're dealing with a master class of gas lighting because i know what i saw and i know what a lot of people who saw the images that i posted online saw. which is violence, our sin against construction trailers, a starbucks that was completely ransacked and someone tried to set it on fire. they didn't of course stop at starbucks, they also impacted some of the businesses. but we are being told that it's peaceful or maybe it's just a few people, a few bad apples in a larger crowd. as if they were redecorating the

starbucks with their rocks, as if they were celebrating the lease by throwing fireworks at them. what we are seeing is violence, what we saw was a riot and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. i understand that there is some new wants to go into when you're talking but a very large crowd and there are like two or three bad actors, but the entire crowd is almost full of bad actors. it started off peaceful on saturday as they walked to the juvenile detention center. there were about 4,000, 5,000 people. then they set it on fire and all of a sudden the crowd was about 1500. the people who stayed are the bad actors. the people who stayed on the rioters. the people who stayed were saying some horrible things in their goal is not to protest against police brutality. this has nothing to do with george floyd, this is every thing to do with a very specific ideology and i think that there are politicians and media members who believe that this is going to create enough momentum and chaos to get donald trump out of office. i think it's a mistake. i think it's going to backfire on them but i do think some of them are willing to sit by and see some of the cities complete would get destroyed, and yes,

some people lose their lives. it's an evil position to take because they're justifying we can get donald trump out of office, this guy isn't supposed to lead us to the end of civilization that didn't quite actually happen for the period of the last three and a half years but this time it will happen if he gets reelected. they convinced themselves of this. >> tucker: i don't know what kind of person could justify harming individuals in the name of winning a presidential campaign. i don't think any decent person on either side would ever do that and i mean that. >> evil people. >> tucker: i think that's right, great to see you tonight, him think he. >> to see you. >> tucker: speaking of violence, one of the epicenters of it in this country, this has been true for a while now, tragically, chicago. 2,243 people have been shot in the city of chicago so far this year. how many people is that? it's enough to fill 46 fully loaded school buses and indeed, many of them were children. the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot, doesn't like the

police and she is responded to by demanding more police units outside of her home. wait a second, she doesn't like police, but she wants more cops outside of her home. why is that? because her safety is the only thing she cares about. she knows she presides over a city where people are getting killed and she doesn't want to be one of them. sources told the show that heard the strict police commander refused to move more cops into her neighborhood. he said that his officers were already stretched too thin protecting the citizens of chicago. for this he was punished. he was promptly reassigned to another unit. we ask of the office about that and they angrily denied it. they said the mayor had no role in the reassignment of the police commander. of course they didn't pledge to jump in and fix it. we will let you decide whether they are telling the truth or not. joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. i'm well. but the ideas that the mayor of chicago ask for more police

protection for herself when thousands have been shot in the city so far this year makes me dizzy, the hypocrisy of that. >> yeah. you know, honestly i can't attest to that situation in general but what i can tell you, talking to many police officers and many high-ranking officers is a lot of these commanders, these captains who kind of a get into the boiling point right now, they're just so understaffed, they don't have enough men and women police officers on the street. and when they are forced to reallocate police to different portions of the city that can't handle the crime going on right now, they are leading their districts in their neighborhoods more vulnerable. it's getting to the point right now like i said before, we are not able to keep up with the rate of attrition because they are retiring. they feel like they're leaving the men and women out there in harm's way and it's a scary point right now for them. >> tucker: so if you look at the crime stats in the city, they are overwhelming and tragic as each one represents a life ended or halted.

, you've got to kind of -- no honest person could conclude that the police are responsible for 2400 shootings this year. the cops didn't do that. what's the purpose of pulling back the police in the middle of a crime wave? honestly. >> if you actually look at the stats, i think shootingwise in the city of chicago, police account for may be .06% of the shootings. >> tucker: exactly. >> compiled in our -- pulling the back right now, i don't know. it just doesn't -- it doesn't make any sense. we can't -- we can't get enough police officers actually to even take this job right now because of the deformed movement and the antipolice movement, but on top of it right now, officers are not afraid to be the police. they want to be given the go-ahead to be the police and have someone actually back them. someone get behind them and know that they are doing -- they are doing their job to the best of

their ability and mistakes will happen but you're going to back them on behalf of saving the city. pulling resources is just -- i live in the 16th district, 32 square miles or we will have 3-4 police officers patrolling the 16th district. if it's absolutely ludicrous. should have anywhere between 32 and 38 in our district but it's based on the reallocation of officers to other areas. and it's forcing officers off this job. >> tucker: it's terrifying. you are 1 of 50 -- i hope the other 49 listen to you and the mayor. thanks so much for coming on tonight. >> thanks for having me, tucker. >> tucker: major league baseball started its season last week. that's the good news. bad news is the coronavirus is already threatening to end it. dr. marc siegel joins us after the break. plus, we've talked to a new jersey gym owner several times on the show. he defied the governor's orders. he said he was willing to face the consequences for that. his morning he was arrested. and handcuffed.

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"health precautions would have greatly diminished the educationalh value of hosting e debate on our campus." it's possible that's the literal truth and the entire story. on the other hand, given that every major institution in american life opposes donald trump's reelection, maybe there's more to it. on the face of it, it does seem like an odd move. schools usually fight to most debates, it's great advertising. hofstra, washington university in st. louis, the chances are you've heard of those places because they posted presidential debates. but notre dame says it doesn't want a debate because not enough students could attend it. while other schools reach the same conclusion? if they do, could we wind up with an abbreviated number of presidential debates staged by remote say facebook or zoom? we do know that would certainly help joe biden. 11 players and two coaches on the miami marlins have tested positive for the coronavirus.

the outbreak comes less than a week after the league launched its short 60-game season. so what does this mean for the rest of the season? fox's medical contributor marc siegel joins us tonight with an answerrc to that questi. doctor, good to see you. >> tucker, in 1969, three things happen. you were born, man landed on the moon and my miracle mets won the world series. and you know what? the american psyche, the national psyche is tied into our national pastime, baseball. all sports, all eyes are on major league baseball and the problem tonight, as you just s said, several players in the miami marlins from the hot spot have testedd positive. the problem is not with baseball itself, tucker. baseball is a sport that is socially distanced by definition. if you're standing in the you're all alone, there in the infield, you don't encounter anyone. if the problem is that the way baseball is right now, everyone is playing in their home park, they are on the team buses,

traveling together,he eating at restaurants, they are sharing equipment, equipment bags are being brought onto buses. where is the nba and the nfl are doing bubble-type techniques where they are playing in one place. nba and orlando, nhl national hockey league in edmonton and n toronto.eb major league baseball needs to survive this season to send a message to all sports. we need our sports, we need major league baseball. i want them to consider my prescription for major league baseball tonight, consider going to hubs. consider going to cities in area where there's not a lot of covid-19 and not traveling as much and sticking together and not going around to as many restaurants and as many buses and as many planes. it lets restrict some of that and keep baseball going at all costs. very important, tucker. >> tucker: i think it is. all parts of this 250-year-old culture are important and that is certainly one of them. doctor, thank you so much.

>> thanks. >> tucker: so we've introducedtr you to the owners of the gym in belmar, new jersey. a couple of times on this show. this morning, they were arrested. why? for defying the state's mandatory shutdown orders. those arrests come after a three-month standoff between the co-owner of the gym and the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, both of whom have been on the show. at one point, smith removed the doors from the gems of the state can keep them shut. he announced it was willing to deal with the consequences of violating state law. you are openly defying him a television, what you think is going to happen to you when you do this?pa >> we are prepared for any and all consequences. on monday are going to be grounded in the ideals of civil disobedience. >> tucker: should have just set a federal building on fire, screamed to the right slogans, he would be fine, but he didn't, he was arrested, joins us

tonight. good to see you. >> good evening, tucker. >> tucker: tell us what happened. >> from the last time that we spoke, we had lost our newest case of contempt of court and that was on friday of last week. the governor said that -- and requested in court to take extraordinary measures to stop us from operating a business and judge agreed with him. i partner and i had had the doorsdo were moved since thursdy and we had not left the building since, we had two weeks worth of clothing and were prepared to stay inside at all costs but we did agree that we would go peacefully if law enforcement came. that time came this morning at about 5:10 this morning when a county sheriff walked in the building and said that we were under arrest. frank and i at that point went peacefully and when we arrived back after being booked, we had boarded up doors. >> tucker: i hope the sheriff was embarrassed, i assume he was, there were murderers walking free, a lot of them, in

new jersey tonight. if you went this show, you knew that that was wagging a finger in the face of the tyrants who run your state, you did it anyway. why? >> because i'm not afraid of tyrants and no americans should be. because we outnumber them greatly and the only thing that they run off of his fear, which is why you see what you see in the media where they are pumping fear into the coronavirus one what they should be pumping his solutions. if they don't do that, they d don't ever offer any solutions. it's wear a mask, shut up and wait for a vaccine. that's not public health and i won't subscribe to it. >> tucker: [laughs] it's the most moving thing i have heard in a long time and i just want you to restate for our viewers who didn't see your last appearance on this show, how many infections of covid-19 have been documented in your gym so far, just to give our audience some sense of the public health threat that you post. >> at this point we have record from june, june, that we

reopened and allowed visitors to our facility. we have over 13,000 visitors who have come to the gym and not a single case so far. governor murphy cannot say that about the long-term care facilities that are 100% of his control but have been shutdown down since march and account for over 50% of the deaths in his state. >> tucker: so you pose a document to -- this is not speculation -- the health authority say you posed no threat at all. not one infection and you were handcuffed and arrested because you defied governor murphy. you are a brave man, ian, and i'm grateful you've come on the show and i hope you will keep us posted as to what happens next. >> just one more thing to end the night, if i could. governor murphy asked us for 14 days to shut down, 14 days. today in new jersey it is day 132 of the shutdown. i would just like everybody to think about that long and hard before they support his policies. >> tucker: once they get power, they never relinquish it, as you know.

great to see you tonight, thank you. >> good night, tucker. >> tucker: good night. so here is the least controversial fact in social science. children who are raised by two married parents performed much betterie in school, earn more as adults, much more likely to graduate, much less likely to become addicted to drugs or alcohol, far less likely to go to jail and are healthier. there are many benefits to growing up, in fact, in an intact nuclear family, but 2-parentwo households are in stp decline. an update on the state of the american family is next. ♪

>> tucker: one of the most outspokenly conservative professors in the united states died last week. there are not many. mike adams taught at the university of north carolinada wilmington. he was direct about his views. he opposed censorship and thought abortion was wrong. he believed in the facts, believed historicald records. o here's a clip of adams

describing what he thought of campus speech -- >> they consider this to be a political weapon for them to shut down speech that they can't rebut. i've got a definition by the way for hateor speech. i think it's speech that the left hates because they lack the intelligence to rebut it. >> tucker: it's one thing for a talk show host to say that but you can imagine the response one professor says it. for articulating his beliefs, adams faced never-ending harassment after he criticized the tyrannical behavior of the governor of north carolina during the coronavirus shutdown, thousands petition for his removal but in the end the mop won. the university of earth: wilmington forced him into early retirement. his last they would have been last week. last week he apparently shot himself. but it wasn't enough -- nbc news ran a piece entitled "fester behind vile, racist and sexist tweets found dead in north carolina home."

that's real. buzzfeed ran a story with this headline. "a professor who was known forss his racist, misogynistic tweets, was found dead in his home." imagine doing something like that. writing something about that about a dead man. they didn't think twice, that's who they are, that's who they are, that's what they do to youc there's been a lot of research, longitudinal, serious research over the decade and it's very clear it couldn't be clearer. children raised by married parents vastly outperformed children who weren't. on every scale. on average they are happier, healthier, more successful, they are paid more, they're not in jail, they graduate, so we should be very concerned about a new senate report. it shows the demise of 2-parent households has accelerated dramatically. one notable collapse is the percentage of young women who are married, that's dropped from 71% in 1962, 242% in 2019.

the result of this, people aren't getting married but they are still having children. that means a massive uptick in out of wedlock births. they rose from 5% of all births in 1962 mac 40% of all births today. heather macdonald is the author of the diversity illusion, she struggled these trends carefully and we are happy to have her on the show tonight.ll heather, the first thing i noticed, and i think the science of this is so clear, i don't think there's even a debate about it, but i noticed that in affluent neighborhoods like the one i've spent a lot of my life living in, not one person will judge out of wedlock births, but there are no out of wedlockck births. everyone is marriedir and has ks within marriage. what does that tell you? >> it tells you that the elites have lost faith in the bourgeois values that they practice but are not willing to articulate because they believe that somehow they are associated with white supremacy. we've been hearing a lot, tuck

tucker, about this white privilege mean. that's a poisonous fiction.'s here's the real class divide in this country. and sadly it's also a race divide. the likelihood of growing up with two marriedwi parents. i'm going to break a massive feminist taboo here and say that males matter. the father's matter. that fathers bring a set of values and norms to child rearing, whether it's self-reliance or self-discipline, honor and courage. on average by complements what mothers can bring. >> tucker: of course. >> and when you lose that symmetry and that emotional support for children that goes so far beyond economic support, which is largely irrelevant. it's the fact that you have twiceve as much kinship support and the two parents can spell each other when one is exhausted, that's what results successful children and the anarchy that we've lived through with the looting and the rioting

of the last month, tucker, has been preceded by a more slow-motion anarchy and breakdown, which is the breakdown of the family, because our prisons today are filled almost exclusively with fatherless men. >> tucker: i can't think of any national politician who would say that. barack obama talked about fathers, ier don't think he ever once mentioned marriage because unmarried mothers are a core constituency and his party. other than maybe kanye west i can't think of anybody who said anything like that, why? >> the feminist rule our discourse. you're not allowed to say that men matter. believed survivors, believe that they live in a rape culture, i will so that before he was elected president barack obama gave a father's day speech from chicago that i urge all your tsteners but i urge in particular the so-called progressives to read where he gave the fact that you started with, tucker, about the much

greater chance that fatherless boys end up in prison, and up out of school, end up in gangs. sadly obama did not act on that speech and the republicans of not been much better. part of the problem is that so many of them, if they were married initially, are now divorced. so it's a hard thing to turn this around, but we have to, because the breakdown of the family is the biggest can civilizational catastrophe, it's the root of the spiraling crime, insane drive-by shootings that we see in the inner sitting in the lack of human -- the destruction of human potential. >> tucker: i couldn't agree more. the science is completely clear -- and by the way, just because you're divorced doesn't disqualify you from telling the truth. if you drink too much, it doesn't mean you want your kids to be alcoholics. all personal is political identity among one of the dumbest ideas we've ever internalized. heather macdonald, really one en our smartest guest ever.

great to see you, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so greg gutfeld, in addition to being a tv star, has thought deeply about so-called cancel culture and how to defeat it. it's possible he wrote a whole book about it, he's here to tell us what he's concluded, next. ♪ is dr. harold katz.

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beard. i had to get that out of thes way. there's the deal with cancel culture. you should. here's the thing about cancel culture, this is the first workaround for the first amendment in history because whenever you -- whenever you complain about cancel culture, they will say, you have the first amendment, freedom of speech. we're just going to ruin your career and take your livelihood and drive you to suicide. so it actually makes the first amendment meaningless and there's no way first amendment can help you. so i've identify the problems, right? cancel culture defines you what your worst, the past is always present, something you did a long time ago, doesn't matter. if you apologize, that's merely an appetizer and the media becomes the amplifier for these deeds simply for clicks. the solution which i have in my book, you need to make cancel culture costly, because right now it's too cheap to pull it off. the load barrier for entry to join a mob is nail.t

the solution is to make it expected. the key is used to share the. if we stick together and it's really easy, the price becomes too high for the mob. the only reason why they exist is because we don't stick together. we get scared, we hide. companies will virtue signal rather than protect their employees paired we also need to ensure mutually assured destruction. something that cancel culture could rebound on them, destroyed -- remember the reporter that canceled the kid donated all that money for the children's hospital. he found like an old tweet unlike a weekk later they found tweets of the reporter. he lost his job. it has to be like that. >> tucker: so you have to use -- i'm not sure i'm for that. there's no way to not use their tactics and beat them. just discussing what they do. >> you can be nice. it really is. i think that's a really positive

part about this in terms of being -- you should defineeo people by their best intentions. you should everyday ask yourself if you are contributing to mob culture, especially on social media. sometimes i'm guilty of it, especially if i drink a little wine, so i try to stay off. we tend to look at twitter as annex, we are trying to impress them rather than looking at is a lot harmful unknown quality. the reason why tucker carlson is the happiest fox show host on earth is because he never sets foot on social media. i'm not even sure he even know such a turn on the computer. that's why -- he doesn't care. one of the solutions to cancel culture is not giving a damn. the problem is the culture can still care about you. you can't just drop the weather, they can follow you everywhere but i think you have to share the risk and everyday ask yourself is there a way to help people who are in trouble? >> tucker: i think that's really wise advice and on your way out -- this is for you,

greg gutfeld, we have a picture of the beard you'd like to live inside. the rotted oak tree you'd like to toaster acorns two. >> do know how cozy that would be? >> i'm all for cozy. >> tucker: unbelievable. congrats on the book! >> you endorsed it. thank you, buddy. >> tucker: sort of. thank you. there's been a lot happening in this country and the pandemic, trade wars, domestic upheaval have rocked this country in a way it hasn't in a long time. who is benefiting? is benefiting. we will talk to someone who has thought a lot about how they are benefiting next. ♪

>> tucker: there is evidence that the coronavirus began in the chinese lab. the chinese government lied about the spread and that engaged in sketchy trade practices that destroyed millions of factory jobs. hundreds of thousands of americans died from it. china has caused havoc and are they benefiting from its? if that's the question for bill haggard was running for senate in tennessee in the middle of a tough primary. we got to talk to him and he serves as the u.s. ambassador to japan and having him on and thank you s so much for coming . the concern is that after all the problems we've dealt with thanks to china, they are taking advantage of our weakness and you think that's happening? >> absolutely, tucker, i know that's the case in one of the key reasons that president trump's endorsement of the united states anden its he

needs an ally that understands to see china close and personal. i've dealt with them and they got to deal with china strictly. >> tucker: the question is baffling to me and hundreds of americans have died from ods and covid-19. chemical coming from china and nobody has said that, why? >> we should be saying that send president trump negotiating to stop this and they haven't. again, we need to stand up strong to deal with it. they are killing americans and sending the material over to mexico and coming on cross the great border and we have to understand president trump has to sue seal the border. >> tucker: doesn't seem like tensions between u.s. and china are escalating to a new level? are they? >> indeed, tucker, and u.s. ambassador to japan i've seen it up close. the advanced on this militarily in the moment we step back in the south china sea the advance

forces and that's why president trump sent to aircraft carrier groups out in the direction. we have to stand up and diplomatically you have seen what they've done. they overtook the world health organization and i applaud president trump for taking us over the group. we see democrats or republicans look the other way as they continue to mount theoo aggressn and they destroyed the economy with the pandemic and killed 150,000 americans and they need to be held accountable and i look forward to serving to do it. >> tucker: thank you for coming out in the former u.s. ambassador to japan. thank you very much. so many things going on it's impossible to keep track of all of them. spending an inordinate amount of time and we think it's worth it but covering the chaos in our streets, that doesn't mean that there isn't a lot happening behind it. ween are going to make every

effort we can going forward to not let stories falter and crack when they really matter. meantime, we'llil be back in tomorrow, the enemy that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. have a great night withve the os you love and now time for sean hannity from new york. >> sean: tucker, great show as always. welcome to "hannity." tonight another story we are now 99 days away from the biggest choice election in our lifetime where you will be a the ultimate jury because now more than ever this country, we are at a tipping point. at a point where we will either go the way of peace and prosperity and oh, let's see, the greatest standard of living ever created by man. w way of safety, security, or down the road of left-wing lawlessness and total anarchy. the chaos, the carnage, they crime taking place on city streets all across the country from seattle to portland to austin, texas, to oakland to omaha to los angeles to new york city, it's not just a clear and present danger to our country. it's also a preview of coming attractions.