family, it's a terrible tragedy on a beautiful summer day with her family. that is "the story" tomorrow night and tucker carlson is coming up next from washington, d.c. have a great night, make it a good one. good night, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." so much going on right now in the news. new develop men from every direction, much of it seems unrelated and a lot of it is shocking. here's a way to understand it. in an election year, everything significant that happens is about the election. so all of these developments are, in fact, related. and here is the core question in every election, was up and who's down? as of tonight the president is down double digits in the polls.

americans are made miserable. they are stuck at home and fearful and millions of them don't have jobs. the number of people who believe our country is headed in the right direction has dropped off a cliff. not coincidentally, that's when a strange virus from china began to spread among our population. the rise of covid-19 in the united states tracks almost precisely the decline of top donald trump's approval numbers in the political lesson from this is clear. the more damage that coronavirus does to america, the harder it is for the president to get reelection. that's not speculation, left the most certain fact in american politics. every democratic officeholder understands that. if the population remains terrified, democrats will have more power in january. so the democratic party has every incentive to keep americans afraid and off balance and for the next 97 days they plan to do that. that is their entire campaign strategy, the only thing they

are running on. yesterday the news site breitbart hosted a group of physicians giving a press conference about medical advantages. some of the news the doctors delivered was hopeful because there is hopeful news to report. 17 million people saw that, and this enraged democrats. any scientific advancement that reduces the suffering of americans in the election year is a threat to joe biden's campaign so they decided to pull the video off the internet. you weren't allowed to ban a news story and in any case it was impossible. that has changed. the rest of us were sleeping, or in the case, so many of our senators taking payoffs from google, and there is a

politically inconvenient news story, and they did do it. they pulled the video of doctors and lab coats talking about coronavirus research and they headed that video from the public. that's exactly what the chinese government so often does. they lecture you as you do it. all the ruthlessness in chinese authoritarians but with double the self-righteousness. thankfully none of this applies to us at fox news. we happen to work with one of the very few mass media companies left in america that is not controlled by google or facebook. big tech can't censor us at least not right now. you are not allowed to watch these positions on youtube tonight but we can show them to you here and we are going to. here is bob hamilton. >> i think that is important for all of us who are here tonight realize that our kids are not really the ones who are driving

the infection. yes we can send the kids back to school i think without fear. we need to knock it out of fear, we need to act out of science and we need to do it and get it done. >> tucker: what you just heard is not a crackpot theory, it is at the center of mainstream science. increasingly what you just heard represents the consensus among physicians and researchers around the world. children are not meaningful vectors across the coronavirus. worldwide there is not a single reported case of teachers infecting us students with the virus. that's why so many nations around the world are we opening their schools this fall but, we are not. we have a presidential election in november. children must suffer so joe biden can win that election and that is the imperative. the political imperative driving our so-called health policy, but you are not allowed to know that

so they pulled the video telling you that. here's another physician from the same press conference called dr. stella emanuel. >> there is a cure for covid. there is a cure for covid. it's called hydroxychloroquine, it's called zinc, it's called zithromax. it's time for the grassroots to wake up and i said no, we are not going to take this any longer. >> dr. emanuel's claim is harder to endorse. we do know that many front-line physicians around the world have pressed prescribed ho hydroxychloroquine. and that's radical feminist theory.

that's the whole point of science. winning is the point of politics so they scrub the video. here's more of it. >> my message to dr. anthony fauci, when is the last time you put a stethoscope on the patient? when you start to see patients like we do on a daily basis you understand the frustration that we feel. i need you to realize that, they are listening to you. you have to give them a message of hope. >> tucker: in that clip enraged them. you never mock the sainted anthony fauci. and if you say that out loud they will cancel you.

he's too useful to the biden campaign so until november, and you criticize dr. fauci and you disappear from the internet. and then to google's countless toadies online dr. emanuel must be destroyed. so, including some still posing as conservatives, people your reader, people who work for places you probably have some money to. hopefully they remind you that this variety of censorship isn't really censorship because the government isn't doing it.

they didn't explain why that distinction matters to anyone, in fact censorship is always bad weather it's imposed by congress or monopolies that only exist because they receive special carve outs granted to them by congress, it doesn't matter. censorship is always wrong and censorship does not improve public health. in fact it threatens public health. if the authorities responsible for continuing this pandemic clearly have failed, we know that. some of them are decent people and are trying their best but despite their efforts they have frequently been wrong. we know that because it's on tape. so as we always do now especially in a crisis that can be solved by science is more voices in the conversation, not fewer. want proof? >> what the cdc has reaffirmed as they do not recommend the general public wear masks.

wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting the disease. >> tucker: oh, so masks are dangerous, right. that wasn't very long ago. now masts are mandatory and the cops will nab you if you are not wearing one. it tells us what we would already know if you were honest which is scientific consensus changes legitimate scientists understand that their goal is to control the outcome of the election. we should have seen this coming

alex marlow for one did see it coming. he runs up breitbart and we talked to him about this exact question more than a year ago. >> this is the battle, we are trying to win the 2020 election by shutting down, and censor the outlets that might give voices to the voiceless. it gets people disenfranchised. >> you really think you are going to get reelected president if no one can hear your message? >> absolutely. they see this crystal clear and that's why they are trying to shut down you and me. >> tucker: alex marlow rejoined us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. you were just censored by the big tech companies google facebook and twitter. but you have done research into the specifics so, i think anyone paying attention realizes there censorship going on but it's done in a very stealthy way. google has been limiting your reach, without telling you dishonestly. give us an example of what you

have learned that they are doing to our site. >> thinks tucker, thanks for having me. i will start with some breaking news that i can share on the show which is at breitbart, we are comparing it to the 2016 election and we picked that because we unearthed video reported on the global vice president of google who said that he is going to endeavor to make populism and nationalism a blip or hiccup. so we naturally took him at his word because if you understand the left, you understand that they don't tend to lie about such things. gradually since the 2016 election, google has been diminishing our search results and all of a sudden in may of this year we virtually lost all google traffic and all search traffic altogether. let me give you some specific pieces of data. google will track something called the visibility index which is sort of like the nielsen score. breitbart's is down 99.7%.

overall our google traffic is down nearly two-thirds. if you want to search for joe biden, or biden, the chances of you getting a breitbart article are virtually zero. virtually no opportunity for you to get it unless of course you add the word breitbart. now naturally we look at other outlets to see if there's a pattern and of course we have more access to our own data. but we compared the top 50 or so publishers and we found that eight out of the bottom ten when it comes to google search bar right of center outlets and that includes fox news and the daily color is one of two outlets that somehow performs worse than breitbart. >> tucker: this is not a small thing. google has a monopoly, really they should be ashamed of themselves and they are therefore at the gateway to all human information in english. so if you don't exist on google,

you don't exist. did they tell you that they were going to shut you down in order to get joe biden elected or did they just do it? >> they want to tell you specifically why, they only talk about vega talking points that are nonspecified and totally subjective and i think your thesis is right on the money. this is 100% about the 2020 election, controlling the narrative and controlling what people leader. that will be all the more people who are getting their news 100% from cnn, "the new york times" and the people who would do anything in their power to get joe biden to the white house. >> tucker: so maybe congress should have done something about this before allowing a company that is not an american company, not in any sense an american company come up to have total control over our news and information. maybe someone should have noticed why didn't anybody do anything? >> that is the mystery that boggles the mind because i don't

feel like the republican party feels the existential threat that you and i have been trying to convey to them. this is it, freedom of speech in the united states right now is controlled by google, controlled by facebook, and this is exactly why we saw these videos memory hold from the internet yesterday. and guess what explanation we got from breitbart? vague, nothing specific. and now all of a sudden google and mark zuckerberg et cetera apparently know more about hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus than board-certified doctors. >> and we should say we would rather talk to them then talk about them, but of course they deduct the invitation. thanks so much. so physicians are uniquely qualified to comment on science and medicine. we used to believe that doctors have the right to say what they think about their medical

practice but you just saw the doctors in that video have their views censored. pulled off the internet. it is not the best way to conduct science? what do you agree with their conclusions or not. fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel, we are happy to have you. >> good to see you tucker. first of all facebook, social media, twitter and youtube, they are not doctors and are not scientists and should not be censoring physicians opinions. having said that i want you to know that here is the key issue from a science point of view. back in march we were very concerned about covid-19 exploding. we were among the first and we had to go with anecdotal information and a study out of china that showed hydroxychloroquine worked. many physicians and many nurses took it and my father took it and to this day, i think his life was saved because of it.

then, we said follow the science. tucker, this week to big studies came out, one out of brazil that was published in "the new england journal of medicine." the gold standard, double-blind, and another study in the annals of internal medicine. both of them show that hydroxychloroquine does not seem to work early in hospitalization or before patients go in. that's where the scientists right now. more studies need to, and i think it is not the right time for anecdotal evidence for doctors to get there in that white coat ceremony's and to shake and rattle and say, take it, take it, our patients got better. that's a month or so ago and now we are on to scientific studies. does that mean we don't have a right to do it? no. that's free speech and they have every right to express their medical opinion and facebook should be ashamed. the video should be posted. me, follow the science.

>> tucker: thank you, dr. siegel, for that. i don't see any evidence, and that's another thing they said in the video and that was pulled off of the internet. is there any justification for that statement? >> young children are much less likely to spread this and there's no evidence that it has spread in schools that way, if they are carefully set up, the doctrine that video is a pediatrician and i think they are overstating the risk in schools. they are much less likely to. >> tucker: dr. siegel, i appreciate that.

social trust evaporates and that's pretty much where we are now. we didn't even censor the position, in fact twitter just took donald trump jr. son off-line. for the crime of sharing that. he joins us after the break.

>> tucker: big tech firms have sweeping the power that authoritarian dictators once dreamed of. somewhere in a very hot place, nikolai cha-cha schedules and envy. they can in just seconds, articles and government has placed no limits on these powers so increasingly the censorship is totally brazen. it's out in the open and they don't care. when donald trump jr. posted the photo of doctors challenging the coronavirus story line and adding their own views on it as entitled, twitter suspended his account and deleted the tweet. even that wasn't enough for the ghouls at cnn. they complained that trump's

account wasn't sensitive enough. >> from my understanding in terms of this twitter restriction for tweeting for don jr. is 12 hours. so my question is how many people saw this and believed this before action was taken. talk about if you understand the politics behind of the presidents on tweeting falsehood despite twitter suspending his account and restricting his account. the cat is out of the bag, you can't change it. >> it's disturbing. it makes a difference and it cost lives. >> we never dreamed we'd live to see journalists calling for more censorship but that's where we are. donald trump jr. is the author of the new book liberal privilege. thanks so much for coming on. so i just have to ask you the blood test possible question with respect. given the level of censorship

imposed on you and anyone who supports the incumbent president, does the incumbent have a chance of getting reelected? >> listen. i've been saying this for a long time, i wrote my first book about justice, censorship coming from the big tech giants at and as homogenous group as you could possibly imagine. if they are censoring my account, they are censoring others and they've been trying to do this for a while. i've been talking about the d platforming, that the monetization of people because tucker, you have to note, this never happens to someone saying something that benefits the left. it only hurts conservatives. when i posted that video i didn't say this gospel, i said this is a must watch because it seems very contrary to the narrative that they have been force-feeding us for a little while. now twitter takes me down for that but twitter has no problem saying that coronavirus --

disinformation spread by the chinese government does not violate the rules, and that's interesting. it happens all one-way. it was very nice watching the people from cnn and msnbc because james tapper himself posted, a study finds hydroxychloroquine and helped patients survive better. why is not jake tapper spreading this information? i'm not a doctor and i don't claim to be but i put something out there that challenges the narrative. because i have a large platform, i'm canceled. you know who else got thrown out of twitter for the same offense? sidney powell who happens to be michael flynn's attorney and someone who has been sticking it to the left. so if fake jake at cnn no one is going to confuse as a conservative can put it but not be censored, not be questioned and certainly not be grilled by a panel of his peers on cnn, why is it that it's happening to me and other trump conservatives

and other conservatives in general? >> tucker: if i see another republican officeholder backed by google and the chamber of commerce lecture me that it's not really censorship because the government isn't doing, i'm going to go bananas. i mean it, is there anybody in power who can step in to defend the most basic right of all of the american people which is to say what you think is true? >> i think josh hawley in the senate has done very good challenging this. kevin mccarthy in the house has done the same thing. and that's a problem. i've been talking about this for three years and they see what happens to my twitter fita, i know what i'm going to get before i hit send. they are doing what they can. i did a panel with josh and kevin mccarthy and they are aware. the real problem is the vast majority of conservative legislators and republicans have no idea that this issue is even going on.

more importantly they don't even realize that it's probably a top two or three issue with air base. if you are religious, if you are pro-life, if you are pro-second amendment, look at your analytics. the gone through the floor. it's been a disaster and it happens systematically on purpose and it's gone now for years. they have to wake up. >> tucker: before you go, i can't resist getting a review of. here's congressman jerry nadler of manhattan responding to a question about the violence. watch this. >> i would remind mr. jordan, mr. baig and mr. johnson to stop violating the rules of the committee, stop violating the safety of the members of the committee and to stop holding each other out as not caring by refusing to wear their masks. >> tucker: different clip but equally nuts, what do you think of that? >> this is typical democrat, do

as i say and not as i do." he was denying that anything was even going on in portland as i relate to the violence that was decimating democrat-controlled cities. again, 19 of the top 20 cities in the country are democrat run and democrat mayors who appoint democrats across the board. in many cases these cities have been run by democrats for over 100 years but magically, it's donald trump's fault. it was donald trump's fault when he sent federal officers to help and assist the portland pd which by the way were under attack every night for five weeks prior to the those officers being there. but again it's magically donald trump's fault. but that's the problem. the news that is getting disseminated to the average guy, you and me, we perhaps do this stuff all week long but if you are a hardworking man or woman and putting food on the table and consuming five or 10 minutes of news, and it's that filtered

and that biased, that is the lens by which you are getting your news, and it's hard to make an accurate opinion because you are being spoon-fed all these things and that is their intention. >> tucker: and then you wind up getting a health lecture from jerry nadler and nobody laughs. >> that would be one of the great ironies of all time. >> tucker: it's really unbelievable. >> if i start taking that advice, i got bigger problems. >> tucker: great to see you. as you heard, nadler also pretended he was completely aware of the violence around the country which makes it even more remarkable density he represents in congress is falling apart because of crime. more on that, next. ♪

>> sandra: for the past nine weeks violence has swept america's biggest cities. writers have torched police precincts and killed people at

one point in their own country. you get what you put up with and that's the most basic law in life. and it was described as a white nationalist and done by friday. and we are not seen for criminal conspiracy cases. that came up today when attorney general bill barr went before the house judiciary committee, and he wasn't aware of the violence. >> the protests had begun to wind down.

now you are projecting fear and violence nationwide in pursuit of the obvious political objectives. shame on you, mr. barr. >> course, we fervently hope that he is but here are some pictures of those mothers and veterans protesting.

>> sandra: i>> tucker: it's theg joe biden rally. >> i want to thank you for pointing out what a crazy idea this defunded the police policy or whatever you want to call it is and standing up for the rule of law. we have a video that gets right to the point. >> tucker: it will be

interesting to know, but instead he just attacked him. >> i hope that mr. jordan will never complain about the length of the opening statement. >> tucker: lecs being consistent. this has been how he is responded when asked about it yesterday. >> that's the myth that's being spread in washington, d.c. >> there are videos everywhere. there's violence and riot. >> violence like appendicitis doesn't go away because you ignore it, it tends to get much worse. there's only one that stops it and that's good policing. one unlikely success story and a great one is the city of detroit. somehow detroit has managed to keep a lid on violent protesters

while allowing people their first amendment rights to demonstrate. rioters there have not looted or destroyed a single business in the city of detroit and the city of course is famous for its devastating riots of 1967. so chief, thanks so much for coming on. you've been coming on fairly regularly for the past couple of months and we've been watching detroit and detroit has this reputation going back 50 years. it's worth finding out why. >> you know i appreciate your question because i am just ecstatic over the men and women of the detroit police department. one thing i learned from my time in los angeles, we don't r are t going to do it. you saw them in the streets where there was lawlessness and looting and burning, no sight of police officers. we weren't giving up ground to

the radicals, we just didn't do it. i saw what it was like after rodney king in los angeles, but not only just that, detroiters are fed up with the is a radical protests. i'm not talking about peaceful protesters, i'm talking about these misguided radicals that have tried to incite violence in our city. so that the great police department and great leadership, and we said enough is enough. in the last two and a half weeks, we've had three officer involved shootings and all three shootings, these violent offense. and then a self-proclaimed misinformed and misguided it

leader of this radical fringe had the audacity to change the narrative. i showed the video, you may be aware. i put the video out and it clearly depicted the officers that were faced with an imminent threat to their life. this guide today, the same misinformed leader is calling for my resignation. detroit will have nothing of that so when you talk about what's different here, we have a city that has stood together. and by the way i know there's a lot of conversation about the mayors and some of these big cities. our mayor stands with the police chief and stands with the police department that we are not going to tolerate this uptick in violence. that's key. that's real key. >> tucker: this conversation just made my night. chief craig, congratulations on my success. it's so heartening to point to detroit as a success story.

>> i appreciate it, i will always come back. >> tucker: nick sandmann was a high school student at covington high school, not living a very newsworthy life and in the media tried to destroy him. he fought back. this week "the washington post" settled a quarter billion dollar defamation suit brought against them. that's not how the story was supposed to end. we will tell you what they wanted, next. - i'm jeff anderson.

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>> tucker: nick sandmann celebrated his birthday by a quarter million defamation suit against "the washington post." the post which is wholly owned by the richest man in the world, jeff bezos, teamed up with the media to smear him with an added video. it wasn't even clear what he did wrong. he stood and smiled as a crazy person screamed in his face but he tried to ruin his life anyway. salmon wasn't supposed to fight back but he did and wasn't

supposed to win but he did. but let's be clear, it's not just about nick sandmann, it's about the ability of the little guy to fight back against the bullies and once in a while win. it's an inspiring story that all of us can take part from. john, thanks so much for coming on. so in the story that you wrote about nick sandmann and his encounter with the national media which just over the weekend a year ago turned on him with this kind of remarkable viciousness for no obvious reason. you pointed out that they really intended this kid a harm, explain what you meant. >> i mean, yeah. you saw journalists saying he had the most punishable face in america, fantasizing about violence against an underaged pro-life demonstrator had the temerity to smile and standstill

when radical black activists and an american indian got in his face, he just didn't get out of the way, he didn't cower, he didn't argue, he didn't insult them, he just stood there and wanted to destroy them. they said we need to find out what colleges he's applying to or whatever jobs he's applying to, we need to make sure this guy can get a job. basically they wanted to destroy him and what brought that home to me this weekend was they did succeed in destroying someone else, a wonderful professor and writer, mike adams. he was a professor at unc and he had been a great writer, he was a conservative christian and second amendment advocate and those things were unforgivable sins in the witch hunt atmosphere. ideological personalized hatred that is being created in this once free, once tolerant country of ours. mike adams committed suicide a few days ago, it looks like,

after being driven out of his teaching job by an online mob that accused him falsely of racism. that's the charge, that is the charge that is going to be used, may be the last taboo in america and is being thrown around recklessly and viciously when they want to destroy someone because he doesn't agree with the politics. i just thought, god bless nick sandmann, i'm glad he survived it. mike adams didn't. and if that whole thing happened, i think it happened today and this atmosphere, you would have seen the radical activists. they would have just a tactic nick sandmann and his friends, nobody would have broadcast it. even if they were killed it wouldn't have been broadcasted. the black trump supporter in minneapolis, an an end was

murdered. >> tucker: nobody in milwaukee. thanks so much for coming on tonight. they are not kidding, they are playing for keeps. from day one, the coronavirus shutdown orders have been used by governors to reward their friends and to crush their enemies. gavin newsom and the state of california is trying to shut down a church for politics he doesn't like. the church is resisting and the pastor joins us, next. ♪

>> the founders of this country had a keen understanding of the importance of religious freedom because so many of them were free and religious persecution, so they protected the exercise of religion in the very first amendment bill of rights. gavin newsom doesn't care. he is using his new coronavirus guidelines to shut them down. places like grace community church in los angeles are not

and threatening to shudder them. pastor macarthur runs that turgeon has for a long time. thank you so much for coming on. give us a quick overview of why you think you should reopen given the coronavirus? >> first and foremost, it's a first amendment right and this is the united states of america and the government can't intrude in worship. we stand that amendment. the second thing that makes this so sensible is in the state of california, there are 40 million people. 8500 of them have died with covid. that's .002. so in california, you have a 99.99% chance to survive covid. so why would you shut down the entire state and particularly when people are frightened and sometimes terrified that they're going to die, shut down the church where most of the intense relationships in our society exist? it is multigenerational.

we've had 21 weeks with no ministry to 1,000 little children to 1,000 university students to junior high students, senior adults. we've had no funerals, no weddings, can't go to the hospital, can't go on the phone to talk to dying people at the hospital. and finally, i started preaching in an empty auditorium. i did it two weeks, three weeks, norma people started coming back. they didn't buy the narrative, and they started coming back. by the way, we are the original protesters. going back to the protestant reformation. we are still protesting lies and deception for the sake of the truth. so they started coming back and they kept coming back in last sunday, 3,000 of them came back, and they rejoiced and hugged each other and didn't wear masks and they sang songs, and they understand the reality of it. i haven't had to say anything. we finally put out a document

which you probably read which affirms why this is right, and why it's critical for our society. >> i hope our viewers would read it. you're a brave man, pastor macarthur. i appreciate you coming on tonight. godspeed. we are out of time. sean hannity right now. when met godspeed to you too. buckle up. welcome to hannity. now just 98 days until the biggest choice election in our lifetime, a new extreme rage filled socialist and lawless democratic party is more destructive, more delusional, and more disconnected from reality than ever before trade also breaking only moments ago, the ap has captured joe biden's notes from earlier today. it might've just revealed who his pick for vp is, or is it a head fake? my take coming up tonight. but first, we witnessed yet another jerry nadler capitol hill circus. was a complete