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raphael warnock. we'll take you through all of that. that is "the story" for december 2. "the story" continues tomorrow night at 7:00. next, tucker carlson. good night, everybody. >> tucker: we've got news from staten island, new york. a large group of people gathering at this moment outside a bar called max public house. last night one of the owner was dragged away saying that he was defying the lock down rules. we spoke to him monday. watch. >> brought us to a point that they're saying they're shutting us down again, they're not allowing inside dining. i was put against the wall. it's either i took a stance and end up opening my container, keeping my establishment open so i can pay bills and end up
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providing for my family. i'm so behind on bills that i really felt i had no other choice. >> tucker: he spoke out in public, and then the police arrested him. in just a minute, we'll take you live to the scene. that moment is unfolding. we'll speak to the restaurant owner about what happened and what he plans to do next. good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. we'll have more on voter fraud. first, a larger problem. news about a global fraud that began before election day here and has ruined millions of live. without question, deeply affected the outcome of our presidential election in the united states. the coronavirus pandemic. it's not what we thought it was. we've been lied to. the latest evidence comes from samples collected during red cross blood drives last year and
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now analyzed by the centers for disease control. in a study published monday, researchers tested 39 blood samples from california, oregon and washington. that blood was collected between december 13 and december 16, 2019. at the time no one in the united states had heard of covid-19. the chinese government didn't acknowledge its existence until december 31. every one of those samples just tested has come back positive for the coronavirus anti-body. all of them. keep in mind that anti-bodies don't develop for at least a week after exposure to the virus. that means the wuhan coronavirus was being transmitted throughout the american population far earlier, possibly months earlier than we were told. what does that mean exactly? how did it happen? we don't know yet how it happened. we know for certain it did. the cdc has found dozens more
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positive samples from blood tests taken the beginning at the end of december and found them across the country. michigan, iowa, massachusetts. analysis of tests in other countries has shown earlier spread of the virus. scientists now know the virus, the coronavirus spread to italy as early as last september and south america two months later in november. so clearly, what we have been told for almost a year about the origins of the coronavirus is not true. why are we just learning this now a month after a presidential election? we've had reliable anti-body testing since summer. so no one thought to test red cross blood samples until now? why weren't elected officials demanding an account of this virus that changed history, where it came from, how it got to the united states and how it spread through our population?
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why don't we know that yet? nobody seemed to care. our elected officials were too busy enjoying the new-found power. shutting down small businesses, arresting people for kayaking without masks. back in january, 11 months ago, the department of homeland security warned that american airports could be ground zero for a new pandemic. congress yawned. they were occupied that day. on january 24th, a day when these blood samples now prove that the virus had already spread across the continent, the trump administration held a classified briefing on the coronavirus for the entire u.s. senate. only 14 senators showed up for it. why was that? well, that briefing was held on the very same day as the deadline for senators to submit their questions for impeachment. so the people in charge of protecting the country were not worried about coronavirus. instead, they were standing in front of their mirrors rehearsing their star turn. the moment that they could
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confront alan dershowitz about the phone call. now they claim the pandemic caught them by surprise. how do they get away with that? because their public health establishment gives them cover and has all year. two days before that classified briefing that 14 senators showed up for, dr. fauci went on television to re-assure americans that they could relax. calm down, america, you can trust the chinese government. if the chinese are telling us that this virus jumped from a wet market and nobody knew it existed until new year's eve and we're doing our very best to contain it's, that's what happened. >> china has been known to fiddle with their stats before. do you trust what they're telling us about this illness? >> from what i can see right now, they really are being much more transparent than what happened with sars where they kept back information for a while. it was embarrassing to them. they're really transparent now.
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they put the sequence of the virus on the public database right away. so in that respect, they've been transparent. >> tucker: they're really transparent now said dr. anthony fauci. now, any well-functioning country a line like that would make certain that you never work in public policy again. transparent? transparent dishonest. we know that for certain. chinese officials are now claiming the virus came to their country from somewhere else. it arrived in frozen food. possibly as a bio weapon staged by the u.s. military. they're not saying that in secret. they're saying it on social media. so far twitter hasn't bothered to fact check that claim. like tony fauci, silicon valley trusts china. trusts china far more than they trust you. ron clain is job's pick for chief of staff. he told axios that china has
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been more transparent and candid than it has in past outbreaks. why did he think that? possibly because the world health organization told him to think so. on january 8, the who funded by the chinese government said -- >> it was like a press release. in other words, the rest of us ought to be thanking the government of china for the blessing of covid-19. much appreciated. a week later, the who was back with more untrue propaganda straight from their over-lords in beijing. "preliminary investigations conducted by the chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the coronavirus."
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that was another dangerous lie that twitter didn't fact choke. instead, the media amplified the message. china did nothing wrong they told us. anything would to suggest this chinese virus came from china is by definition a racist. whose fault is it that americans are dying from the virus? it's america's fault. it's your fault. stop asking questions. by the way, they're still saying that. so thorough was the news blackout on the origins of this virus, the chinese origins, that you had to go to australian television to find out what was actually happening. >> from the very beginning throughout december, it was spreading and we now know it was spreading human-to-human. but the official line of the chinese government was that this was all related to an animal market and once they closed the market, it would all go away. >> did they know differently at that time? >> absolutely. because they were seeing cases
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coming in to the hospitals. they had nothing whatsoever to do with the animal market. >> tucker: had nothing to do with that animal market. viewers of australian television knew that. viewers of american television had no idea. american tv channels said what is that? it had nothing to do with that or baths or the wet markets. you'll remember a few weeks ago we interviewed dr. li on the show. she fled her country with a message for us. she said this virus came from a government lab in china. she said she knew that. in her own count trip, she would have been punished or possibly killed for saying so. so she came here to the land of the free. what did she find? she found her words censored by american tech companies working in tandem with the tyrants she fled. once again you had to go to "60 minutes" australia to learn what
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was happening to people like dr. li. >> as china now tries to rewrite history and claim with us transparent all along a final nail in the coffin. just two weeks ago, the hit of emergency at wuhan central hospital, dr. fin also went public saying authorities stopped her and her colleagues from warning the world. she has now disappeared. whereabouts, unknown. >> martha: >> tucker: internal documents now prove that chinese officials knew that they were facing a coronavirus pandemic. something that they had never seen before. but they hid that information from the world and they arrested those that tried to report it. more critically millions of people continue to travel through the city of wuhan in central china. the epicenter of the pandemic. then more than a million chinese citizens flu here to the united states, more than a million. it wasn't until january 20th
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that the president of china, president xi admitted the virus could be spread from person to person. what is that? at best it's criminal negligence. at worst, it's something like mass murder. but no, said the world health organization. in fact, it was just more evidence that the chinese communist party was doing an extraordinary job managing the pandemic and the american media hardly agreed. watch this amazing clip from late march. >> right now there's very few countries that have been able to reverse this epidemic and bring their case down to very low level. the only country that has done that is china. it was the passion, the diligence, the sense of responsibility, the seriousness of the average chinese. i want to use that term very carefully. they weren't average. they're extraordinary people, but they were driven by a sense of collective responsibility.
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>> tucker: that's right, ladies and gentlemen. the passion and diligence and sense of responsibility and seriousness of the chinese. they're extraordinary people. it's in their blood. they're driven. we want to quote this verbatim because it's important for the rest of us to learn from our mistakes. the chinese are driven by a sense of collective responsibility. contrast that with us. fat, lazy trump-voting americans. so selfish and short-sited that we demand to go to church on sundays or go out to dinner with our families once in a while. and then deservedly, we get sick and die. not jinping and his communist nation. they found a better way. that's the message from the media and the health establish meant and the message from our elected officialings. it has been almost a year. it's not the whole story. we know that now. we're still not even close to knowing what really happened. we should find out.
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alex barrenson is one of the few people to cover this pandemic honestly no matter where his reporting leads. he's the author of unreported truths about covid-19 and lock downs, part three, which is about masks. alex joins us tonight. so alex, this seems like significant information and seems like the cdc study proved that this virus was circulating among our population long before we were told it was. what do you make of this? >> so let me correct you on one point. get what you said in your monologue. the cdc study showed that they sampled about 1,900 blood samples in that time period in the december time period, december 2019. they found that 2% or 39 people were positive. so it wasn't all 39 were positive. it was 39 out of 1, 900 which makes more sense. that suggests the virus was possibly circulating at a
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relatively low level. as we know, this virus is so not dangerous to younger, healthy people likely to be in that blood donor cohort that it's possible that none of them knew they had it or thought they had the flu. what you said more broadly is correct. there's evidence now from all over the world, from waste water in brazil, blood samples in italy and from this cdc survey that -- and also from waste water in spain that this was circulating in the fall of 2019. we don't know exactly what that means, tucker. and you know, there's going to be virologists that say it's not proven yet. perhaps this is a cross with other coronaviruses out there. it's very strong evidence that this was out there and the world should be asking because this resets the timeline. it raises the question of how dangerous this is if it was
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circulating for months before anyone knew. your bigger point is even more important, which is the tech companies and the conventional media like the times where i used to work are not asking the right questions. they're so focused even know on punishing trump and on telling americans who want to spend time with their families or go out and work that they're evil, bad people. they're not asking real questions about whether lock downs work, where this came from, about whether or not that, you me, might have escaped from a chinese lab and about masks. i can't believe that amazon censored me about masks. it's shocking to me that we can't have a discussion about whether or not masks work when everybody -- not everybody, but when many scientists before march of this year agreed that masks didn't work. so our media is -- i don't want to say it's dishonesty but not being willing to ask questions that are idealogically difficult. you and three other people are about the only other people
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willing to do that right now. >> tucker: seems like a synonym for dishonesty. but why is this happening? why have the people in charge say there's no deviation from the official story line about? what is that about in what are they afraid of? >> i mean, clearly before the election, there was -- anything that might have taken blame away from donald trump was something the media did not want to discuss. i think we can actually -- that's quite clear now. now that joe biden is going to take office in january, i don't know why it is that we're not allowed to challenge china. to be honest, there's eminent biologists and researchers -- there's a guy at fred hutch in seattle, a guy named david relmin at stanford. these are people that have labs named after them. trevor is one. david is another that are saying that we need to investigate where this came from. even with these people who are
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no way republican or trump supporters, anything like that, they're biologists. their voices cannot be heard right now. i don't know why. i don't know why we can't have a conversation again about masks either. at least talk to people about whether or not they should be wearing them outside, whether or not children need to wear them. there's so much that is off limits right now. >> tucker: yeah. we've replaced religion with some weird kind of witch craft. it's worrisome. thank you, alex, as always. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so on monday we talked to one of the co-owners of a bar called mack's public house in staten island. he said his restaurant is an autonomous zone and he would defy the governor's coronavirus lock down. the lockdowns didn't make sense to him. you can walk a block away and eat indoors. he said that out loud. might have been a mistake. last night authorities hauled the co-owner of mack'spublic
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house away in handcuffs. tonight a large group of supporters have gathered outside. danny presley joins us with his attorney. danny and lou, thanks so much for coming on. first, tell us, danny, you were arrested because your business partner said publicly, my understanding, that he was defying the orders. what happened? >> we had a little meeting inside yesterday. i did have some guests in there. sheriffs came in, seemed like a lot of them. we were really good with them. really cordial. and after a while, just wanted to take me out, whole big ordeal. >> tucker: so lou, danny was arrested in a city where people
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push human beings in front of subway trains and get away with it. why do you think your client was singled out for all the criminals in new york right now for jail? >> tucker, thanks for having us. i have to tell you, my mother-in-law is battling cancer and she's your biggest fan. but as far as my client goes, they came in -- 15 sheriffs came in yesterday. we were peaceful, quiet, respectful and cordial the whole entire time. i told my clients to be that way. everybody acted that way. at the end of the day, after giving out over $50,000 in fines and fining me and giving me four summons for just representing my client in a polite respectful manner, he gave us $50,000 in fines throughout the building and wind up arresting danny and putting him in handcuffs and charging him with disorderly
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conduct when he never raised a voice and in his own building that he's the leaseholder on them. >> tucker: it's shocking. i'm not sure what we're looking at. this is live. what is going on around you right now? who are the people outside your bar and what are they saying? >> tucker, we have over 1,500 staten islanders protesting tonight. probably 1,000 left. we're peacefully protesting. no rioting, no looting. we have about 25 sheriff deputies in front of the place that were kind of aggressive at times. but we have 1,500 staten islanders in a peaceful protest. protesting and supporting business owners, local business owners and danny and keith and the actions they took to stand up for themselves and stat ten island and business owners everywhere. >> i don't think we've seen a protest like this so far. i expect we'll see more in coming days. you're saying these are people
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protesting the governor and the mayor's coronavirus lockdowns? >> tucker, you've been on it from the beginning. they're protesting the fact that the governor and all of his wisdom split staten island in half and considered the south shore of staten island an orange zone and the north side a yellow side, a 1 1/2 blocks away from mack's tavern, you can have a burger and a beer but at mack's tavern you can't do it. but the south shore of staten island did not vote for governor cuomo or mayor de blasio. >> the side of the borough that is shut down under coronavirus law now. is there scientific basis for this that you know of? >> i don't know, tucker. i mean, use some common sense. we'll all use common sense. >> i'm not a scientist. i'm an attorney.
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that the covid virus doesn't stop at the railroad tracks where you can go eat a block away. i'm assuming the covid virus doesn't stop there. but governor cuomo's wisdom, i have no idea what science they have used. >> tucker: what are the police doing right now? you said there's deputies on the scene. >> the sheriff is on the scene. they created a blockade in front. they won't let anybody in. they said they're not going to leave any time soon. we want to make cheer that they're not the nypd. they're the new york city sheriff. so nypd has worked with us. really good guys. we support them fully, this is a new york city sheriff's department and they created a blockade and won't let anybody in the place except for myself, keith and lou. >> tucker: danny, is your bar open now? >> even if we wanted to try to
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get in there, they have created a blockade of about 25 sheriffs standing in front with barriers. so there's no way anybody can get in right now. >> there's a blockade, a literal blockade on a small business. >> tucker: i have to ask you this question on the way out. how many confirmed cases of transmission of the coronavirus have come from mack's pub? that you know of. >> zero. >> zero, tucker. and i think there's zero 1 1/2 blocks away where you can eat also. >> tucker: just want to establish we're not dealing with typhoid mary here. thanks for coming on tonight. good luck. >> thank you, tucker. thanks for having us. thanks for all the work you do. >> tucker: after we brought you scenes like that from around the country, many in the northeast and in california of a state cracking down on everyone without any pretext whatsoever of scientific basis.
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there's no study that shows this works. they do it anyway. one state stands apart from this and probably not surprising a state to which thousands of people from the northeast are moving every week. it's florida. the governor of florida, ron desantis says more lock downs are not needed in his state. he explains why. thanks for coming on. you took a lot of heat for going lighter on the restrictions in florida than other states. are you happy with that decision? >> in florida, all businesses are open. we've had things like theme parks, beaches open for months and months. we have schools open. all k-12 school districts. private schools, charter schools. we have sporting events. and i think that for me, i think as you alluded to, a lot of these lockdowns have been very ineffective. they have huge negative consequences. in my view is that everybody is
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essential. whose government to say that your job is not essential? i think it is essential. some of the stuff in march and april didn't work. i think you have to let people earn a living. it's not even government's role to say who can pick and choose. we want everybody to have gainful employment. we want businesses to be able to operate. i think that that is a better approach in terms of understanding that the virus is a problem. we need to deal with it but you also have to deal with all of society. so we've done things like focus on long-term care facilities, the elderly population. working hard to deliver the vaccine to a lot of the vulnerable people this month in december but also keeping people working, keeping kids in school and i think that people are happier here and that's part of the reason why you have so many people coming here. >> so i mean, just because government doesn't require people to take certain precautions doesn't mean they don't. presumably some adults in florida have decided that they don't want to leave their homes
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or they're at risk. they can make those choices themselves, can they not? >> absolutely. that's from the very beginning. we have the villages retirement community. you know it. most of your viewers are probably watching. early on, they made certain ajustments. they stopped having large indoor events, dialed back other functions. they were out playing golf every day, doing things that were low risk. they were taking adequate precautions. they've been able to tackle this far better than everybody was predicting. so i think empowering people with the information about the risks and trusting them to make good decisions and also some of the industries that you've been having, the restaurants being targeted. look at the restaurants in florida. they're working hard to have a great environment for their customers. they want it more than anybody. they've done a great job in the state of florida. >> tucker: i have to ask you because i can't resist. i'm sure you noticed it. the past six months you've seen flare-ups of the virus in your
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state as a lot of places. when they happen in florida, there's a gleeful reporting by the media. see, florida is suffering for its sins. why do you think that members of the american media would feel joy when fellow americans get the coronavirus? >> it's political. they have an agenda. it was an election year. the fact that florida was considered a key swing state had a lot to do with it. at the end of the day when we had the sunbelt surge, you know, our hospitals worked, we worked with what we had to do. they would try to say the hospitals were overcrowded. it wasn't true. so we focus a lot on making sure that we have that type of capacity. a lot of it is agenda driven. you look at some of these states that have way more per capita cases, hospitalizations, mortality. you would never know it if all you followed was the corporate american media. >> tucker: yeah. look at where people are moving. that's one statistic that
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doesn't lie. you know what people think? watch what they do. congratulations on the success of your state. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: so there's still looks like over 1,000 people outside that bar on staten island. we haven't seen anything like that. so we're going to con to monitor that and bring you back if news emerges and it may. also developing, information -- new information on some of the voter fraud that occurred in last month's election. in nevada, for example, photo evidence now appears to show that cash was exchanged for mail-in votes. victor davis hanson joins us to talk about it in detail. we'll be right back.
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>> tucker: so you're hearing a lot about voter fraud. hard to keep track of all the different threads. some of this is entirely real. we want to bring it to you. a month after election day,
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dozens of ballots have turned out in a new york house race that has not been decided. one of the most shocking examples. lisa boothe is on it. a senior fellow at the women's independent voice and she has the story tonight. hi, lisa. >> yes. they found 55,000 votes, 44,000 of which are valid. 11,000 are not. this is the same county that faced a cyber attack right before the election, which they think the origins traced to hong kong. it's not just this county in the 22nd congressional district that has raised questions. there's oneida county. they handed over ballots to the supreme court. among the ballots were objective ballots and supposed to be sticky notes if they were counted or not. the notes were not there. nobody knows if they're included
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or not. two counties had tabulation errors as well. part of the challenge for this congressional district is in the state of new york, they made last-minute changes to the election including allowing for registering to vote up until the election closer than in previous elections. they're used to getting a few thousand absentee votes. they got 60,000 absentee votes this election. it's a microcosm or the what is going on in the rest of the country where you have election officials that are not prepared for this influx of absentee ballots and some of these other counties i indicated, they're not able to handle the sheer volume of absentee ballots. >> tucker: in this county, it will change the outcome of the election. >> certainly.
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right now claudia tenney, the republican in the race challenging the democrat, the different is 12 votes right now. so obviously -- especially the 55 votes. any votes can count. right now the oswego supreme court is looking at i think a couple of thousand of absentee and affidavit ballots right now. you have both sides that are contesting certain ballots. this is coming down to the wire. throughout the time line, claudia tenney was up by 28,000 votes on election day including early voting. obviously that dwindled down when absentee ballots were included. it raises questions right now as we're looking back on this election, we have a lot of conservatives with questions based off of the chaos and things like this where you find 55 ballots that were suddenly discovered a month after the election. of course, people have questions
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right now. i honestly think it's crazy to not be asking questions when we did a science experiment of elections and these officials in new york's 22nd congressional district and the rest of the country weren't prepared for it. >> tucker: or maybe they were prepared. republicans think about why people vote. democrats think about how they vote. 55 uncounted ballots. >> great point. >> tucker: thanks, lisa. that's the story that you'd expect to hear out of a developing country. as of today a month later, thousands of votes remain uncounted. a month later. in suffolk county, new york, 80% of votes have been tabulated as of tonight. in westchester county outside new york, 56%. today the president pointed out the obvious. democracy can't function like this. >> we used to have what was
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called election day. now we have election days, weeks and months. lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time. especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote. >> tucker: so the justice department said yesterday they have not collected enough evidence of fraud to change the outcome of last month's election. that doesn't mean there wasn't fraud and doesn't mean they won't. the trump campaign has said that the doj has not seen all the evidence and more is coming. tonight in arizona with the republican party held hearings on election integrity, there's evidence that the state sent ballots to voters that didn't request them. voters said they had no idea why they received a ballot. that's an obvious risk of fraud. how did that happen? we know. how widespread was it? what effect did it have? we don't yet have answers to
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those questions. we can surmise. meanwhile, the state of nevada we learned that some native american voter advocacy groups handed out gift cards and electronics to people that handed in an absentee ballot. that's illegal as far as we know. on facebook, one of the groups bragged about the arrangement and included pictures in exchange for money. the caption read people getting their gas card. if that is real, it's a crime. seems like there were some crimes in this election. victor davis hanson has been following it. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. how do you assess the integrity of this election? >> well, i look at what the american people think, tucker. according to nate silver at 538, 6 out of 10 thing something went wrong.
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that's not because donald trump complained. it's because of the things you listed. if we were talking four years ago, jill stein was in the process of suing wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania on claims that were proven -- were not proven that there was a wrong vote. if we go back 20 years, we still had another 11 days of al gore demanding recounts until he was stalled by the supreme court. it's a very intricate thing. there's a judicial problem, a legal problem and as trump has shown, a lot of these state legislatures, laws were overturned unconstitutionally by officials that didn't have a right to do that. that has to be pursued. there's troves, glitches. the key question is in the next 11 days or excuse me 12 days before the electorates meet on the 14th, is there a preponderance of evidence not that things were wrong but change the outcome of the state's election count that would change the electoral
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college. we don't know the answer yet. he's legitimate to do this. on the other hand, he said people that said you won't by 70%. you have 400 votes. it's the greatest scandal in american history. if that were true, we would need a greater preponderance of evidence. then there's a time issue. quickly. once you get past these states that are mandated to reflect their certified votes and pick their electors accordingly, then you're saying you want to go back to a 1876 or a 1888 scandal where you go in and challenge the electors and in scary territory. finally, a political question. that is trump's base will not stick with him if they think he rolled over in the fetal position and didn't protect the sanctity of their votes. the independent and swing voters won't stick with him if they think there was not enough evidence to change the vote and he keeps pressing it. he has to thread the needle.
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a lot of stake in georgia. he needs the constituents to come out, save the senate, save the nine-person supreme court, save the filibuster, same the electoral college. then he can go on if he wishes in 2022 and win the house back and on to greater things in 2024. but time is of the essence. after december 14, even these legitimate complaints that are probably valid in many cases, if they're not a djudicated, we'll get to where we were in 1824 and 1988, that's not where we want to be. >> tucker: time is of the essence. always has been. thanks, victor. one of the people we trust. >> thank you. >> tucker: so this is what we've been warned act for a long time. democrats in congress have
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identified a new and dangerous far right extremist me of the alt right if you will. that right winger was last seen developing a comedy series for the streaming service netflix. can you guess his name? mark steyn has it. he has it after the break.
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>> tucker: a fox news alert. a huge demonstration outside a bar in statten island, new york. it continues tonight. the owner of the bar was arrested for publicly defying the governor's orders. 2,000 people showed up outside his past to protest his arrest. many are still gathered at this hour. we'll continue to keep an eye on it. haven't seen anything like it before. it's no secret and we're told every day by "the new york times" that the far right have been emboldened since election day. portland is boarded up terrorized what might come. wednesday our worst fears came to past. a former president of the united
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states and a member of the democratic party came out as a proud member of the alt right and he did it on the internet on a political slow without any hesitation at all. >> i guess you can use a snappy slogan like defund the police but you know you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're going to get the changes you want done. the key is deciding do you want to get something done or do you want to feel good among the people you agree with? >> yeah. like to defund the police. but don't tell anybody. don't say it out loud. that's barack obama's advice. people were offended. iannaa presley was shocked. she said -- >> ilhan omar, resident genius in the house of representatives wrote --
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>> tucker: this is unbelievable. no one is more shocked than the cast of "the view". they trashed all of their barack obama memorabilia. the newspaper clippings, the yes we can coloring books. and then consumed by theory, they went on the air. >> you know, i'm always loathed to criticize president obama because i'm such a fan but i think he's wrong here. when you think about defund the police, that's not a term that was crowd sourced or tested in focus groups. that's a term that was born, a rallying cry out of over policing, black and brown communities. president obama was a community organizer and i really think that he knows better. >> tucker: yeah. the rich ladies are mad. rich ladies are always mad. in this case they make a fair point, a community organizer should have known better. have our standards for community
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organizers fallen too far? mark steyn is a resident expert on community organizers especially those that are far right netflix producers. he joins us. what do you make of this, mark steyn? >> i don't want to live in any community organized by community organizers. count me out. to be honest, this is part of a kind of a good cop defund or babb cop defunder routine. obama stands there and he does this rather bloodless professorial thing and the radical ladies get mad at him. this is like what he was doing ten years ago when he was officially opposed to same sex marriage. everybody in his own party pretended to believe him. instead of understanding it for what it was. a political feint. we're going to see more of, this i don't buy this island that the democrat party -- joe biden has
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to juggle these -- the moderate wing of his party and then all of these radicals like ilhan omar. they're laughing at us. that is strictly for public consumption. they're serious about power and whether or not they agree on any particular policy position, they agree on all the elements of power, which is why they're still busy as in -- what was that county lisa was talking about? shenanigans county in new york? never heard of that. why they're driving boxes of uncounted ballots around. this fake tension between elements of the party is actually the opposite of what is going on. they're fairly united. joe manchin and ilhan omar are serious about power and that's what binds them. >> tucker: so smart. does make you miss bill clinton, who was a habitual liar. when he lied, it was
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transparent. you knew it. there's something terrifying about the coldness with which obama tells lies. it's harder to perceive. it's more effective. i find it scary. >> yeah, it's that whole detached bloodless i'm mr. spock, i just landed from planet zongo routine. i can understand why that's not the kind of guy the ladies on "the view" warm up to. but they don't have to worry. they're in lock step on this stuff. >> tucker: it's interesting. this is a whole separate topic and we should do a whole show on it. why are the most privilege in our society the angriest? have you ever wondered that? >> it is a revolt against the masses. i think actually it's a problem -- if you like with meritocracy. it's not you're the son of a duke and you're born to rule. these people think they should be ruling because they're the best. that gives them an arrogance
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about how they think of the people who aren't the best. >> tucker: yeah. it's very hard to have a democracy with people like that in charge because they just don't believe in it. i think that is clear. mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: we're monitoring the protest underway outside that bar in statten island. protests against the governor and the mayor's new coronavirus laws. plenty of police there. lots of news tonight. more ahead.
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>> tucker: live pictures from outside max public house in staten island, shutting down by the state of new york. it demonstration underway, dispatched law enforcement to keep people from defying lockdown orders. if you should know, the police were told to stand to downwind blm rioters broke into macy's 45
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fingered discount on jimmy choo's, but when someone goes on fox to complain about the lockdown, they show up in force. that tells you everything. if have the best night, we will be back tomorrow. in the meantime, from new york, sean hannity right now. >> sean: by the way, if you need a place for you and your family on christmas, i've got a hideaway bunker, the government will never find us. you're welcome to join me. at the whole family can join us. >> tucker: that sounds fun! at christmas and a bunker, i'm there! >> sean: everybody now knows what the rules are. everyone has assessed the risk. of course we've got to protect to be sick and elderly, we are doing that. people hopefully will listen. do you have a place at her christmas table. the whole family. we may shock you. good coverage. welcome to "hannity." we are tracking multiple breaking stories. the president is going to hit

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