i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucked: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we take a lot of digs at the media on the shell, and we do it for two reasons. it is fun and they deserve it. recently, we watched with growing a amusement as they thrash around in a frenzy of foaming hysteria over the possibility that someone somewhere might dare to present facts or form opinions without their permission. freelance thinking is what they hate most, it is a threat to their monopoly pit i can say that out loud, so instead they call it disinformation. disinformation is the real threat.

it's ridiculous. but before you judge these people, take a moment and feel some compassion. consider how they might be feeling right about now. imagine if you had spent 30 years making a good living as a car mechanic and all of the sudden gm and fence and menti cling to conspiracy theories. this is all evidence of radicalization. and that's not easy to say, it is not an easy word to use. but it is way past time to talk about this honestly. nobody is a tiptoe pass this predicament. this information network is causing people to lose touch with reality. >> tucked: disinformation networks? that doesn't sound like a misleading social media post. it sounds like a terror cell. and it sounds that way on

purpose. the thing about disinformation they are telling us is that it is not simply harmful to you personally, it is not like eating a pint of ben & jerry's or sneaking a smoke while the kids are at school. now, it is a day's end. it is a crime. disinformation hurts everyone. it is an offense against this country. disinformation is an attack on america, and not just on america, but more critically something called eyewear norms. >> our norms are so out of whack that it does become surprising when good things happen. >> even after four years of us talking night after night about the norms that are being shattered. >> he is doing everything to shred every one of these norms. >> we can't allow these kind of democratic norms to be shattered. >> we have abided by these norms, but this resident and administration has just blown right through those norms. >> not since the red scare have once good men and women been dragged into this kind of sabotage of our democracy and

social norms. >> tucker: our norms. shattered. shredded. crushed. destroyed. bone through. why is it always our norms that are the first to be attacked? may be because our norms are democracies first responders. they run to the sound of gunfire. norms are like the young lieutenant in vietnam walking through the rice patties, exposing themselves to fire orders to save the platoon. never more so than now. you thought underwater welding was a treacherous gig? you fear for the guys who fix antennas on skyscrapers? that is nothing. imagine being a norm in today's america. they don't last long. okay, we will stop. it is all amusing and hard to resist, our norms, our norms! on the other hand, being completely honest here -- we strive to become fully honest -- that we have to admit there is a kernel of truth and what they are yelling about. there is disinformation out there and it does hurt people, and makes people stupid, for one thing. it also impairs their ability to make wise decisions.

you cannot know what to do next if you do not know what is really going on. a lot of people in this country are in that position right now. we saw evidence of it just this week. write a research paper called "how informed our americans about race and policing?" published by the skeptic research center. check it out online if you have not read it, it is a pretty amazing document. the researchers asked people to estimate the number of unarmed african-americans who were killed by the police in 2019. here are the results. 44% of americans who describe themselves as liberal believe the total number of killed was "a thousand or more." more than a thousand unarmed african-americans gone down by cops. is that true? well, as it happens, we have definitive statistics, publicly available, you can find them in about a minute. the actual number of unarmed african-americans killed by the police in 2019 was 27. so, more than a thousand versus the reality of 27. quite a spread. and it was not an anomaly. the rest of the study found

similar results. self-described liberals, for example, believe a strong majority of people killed by police in 2019 were african-american. the actual percentage was less than half that, closer to 25%. these are not small mistakes. a lot of americans are completely and utterly misinformed, and that has actual consequences. public policy can change dramatically in the face of things people think they know they don't actually know, and we have seen that a lot. entire police department got defunded. so it is worth finding out where the public is getting all this false information, this disinformation, as we will call it. so we checked. we spent all day trying to locate the famous qanon, which in the end we learned is not even a website. if it's out there, we cannot find it fair that we checked marjorie taylor greene's twitter feed because we have heard you traffics in misinformation, cnn told us, but nothing there. next we called our many friends in the tight-knit intel community. could vladimir putin be putting this stuff out there?

the proud boys? alex jones? who is lying to america in ways that are certain to make us hate each other and certain to destroy our core institutions? well, none of the above, actually. it was on marjorie taylor greene. it was cable news. it was politicians talking on tv. they are the ones spreading disinformation to americans. maybe they are from qanon. you be the judge. >> we have a long and wretched and disturbing history in this country of black people being murdered by law enforcement. >> training for police officers on implicit racial bias and procedural justice, because to deny it exists is to deny folks liberty, and in many cases, life. >> how do we continue to lose lives of unarmed black men in the united states of america at the hands of white police officers? >> i never had to tell my daughter, if she is pulled over, make sure she puts -- a traffic stop -- put both hands on top of

the wheel and don't reach for the glove box, because someone may shoot you. >> tucker: so not only are huge numbers of unarmed african-americans murdered every year because of their race, to deny that or question that fact is to effectively participate in those killings are self. denying this is denying them life, as kamala harris put it. or i cnn said, it is mass murder. >> no, i'm not telling people to go there and riot, but tell me what the proportional response to mass murder over the years is? what is a proportional response to that? >> tucker: i'm not telling people to go out and riot, but what is the proportional response to mass murder? good question, cnn. burning wendy's, obviously. but where are you asking, this is the missing piece. the channel claimed cops had tried to execute an unarmed african-american man called jacob blake in wisconsin.

and they repeated the claim jacob blake was unarmed again and again and again. >> no charges will be brought against the police officer, or any of the police officers involved in the shooting of jacob blake. an unarmed black man who was shot. >> viewers may recall an officer shot blake in the man seven times while he was unarmed. >> another example of african-americans not receiving equal protection of law. him mr. blake was unarmed at the time he was shot. >> tucker: so it is sad that jacob blake got shot, since seriously, it is always sad when people got shot, whether you agree with them or not, period. but why jacob liquid shot is kind of the whole point of the story, isn't it? mr. blake was unarmed at the time he was shot, that's what they told us, and yet someone in the news division forgot to check with jacob blake about that because a week later jacob blake himself admitted on camera

that he was, in fact, armed. >> i am rattled. i realize i had dropped my knife, my pocket knife, so i picked it up after i got off with him, because they tased me and i fell on top of him. i shouldn't have picked it up. only considering what was going on. at that time, i wasn't thinking clearly. >> tucker: oh. just to be totally clear, we feel sorry for jacob blake. he got for it hurt. that will change his life forever. but is not the neat little morality tale we thought it was. is it? and again, we are not telling you that, we are not correcting the lie because we are smug and self-satisfied and enjoy highlighting the other people's errors. we are just defending our norms here, as any americans would. it just feels like the right thing to do. but it is a never ending task. to give many examples, here's one for the weekend. hundreds of activists gathered in new york to stage a march

against white nationalism, seeking justice for an 84-year-old man from thailand who had been flashed with a box cutter on the subway. a lot of violence on new york subway right now. protesters stormed through washington square park chanting slogans like "whose streets? our streets!" one held a sign that white nationalism is the virus. maybe it is the virus but it is hard to know who has been infected with. police have now arrested a 19 year old man called anton watson for the crime. let's say it is hard to imagine that anton watson is a white supremacist. so why are they suggesting otherwise? what is all of this about? well, here is an interesting theory, and it comes to us from a researcher called zach goldberg, who does not work at cnn, by the way. old bird look at every time racn america's largest newspapers ane noticed a noticeable spike just after 2011. not coincidentally, was right around the time of the occupy wall street movement, when people were starting to talk about what wall street actually does in public.

suddenly, all at once, journalists agreed the real problem in america is its racism. america is not a place with a screwed of economic system that rewards a tiny number of emotionally damaged grifters who possess otherwise useless skills applicable only to finance and a place where everyone else -- people in finance or making more, but that is not a problem. oh, no. stop talking about it immediately, and that is in order. no, america is instead, we learned from a place for the rest of us must hate each other at all times because of our skin colors, which by the way, cannot be changed. that way, once we are all yelling at a grieved and angry about irresolvable race questions, once we have picked the wound until it won't stop bleeding, we won't have the time to ask even the most basic questions about economics. questions like why do all these be a leaner hedge fund guys pay half the tax rate i am? and who precisely is getting rich from the federal reserve? wears all that money going? it would be nice to know. you do not see a ton of stories about those questions in

"the new york times." they are too busy talking about race. it's a pretty sophisticated operation, this cover wall street op, if you think about it. vladimir putin could never pull it off. he would by mike a few dopey ads on facebook and call it a day. it takes a sophisticated operator to live this effectively, to take the central problem of american life, which is the agonizing death of our middle class, and cover it with a smoke screen of manufactured race hatred. so that no one even realizes it's happening. you really need to be, well, cnn would put it, a disinformation network to pull that off. the irony, because everything is irony, is cnn itself has become a disinformation network, more powerful than qanon and far more destructive. you have to wonder if jeff zucker will over to get called up to congress to answer for that. in the meantime, jamie dort joins us, a man often accused of misinformation from host of "the jamie dort show," and he joins us tonight. appreciate you coming on the show knowing how attacked you

are when you do. why do you think we are hearing so much about misinformation, and i should say you are on the left, i am not, both of us have been accused of it, what is this about? >> well, i just want to say about it -- i think two things can be true. i think your assessment of them not covering the real problem in america is true. i think we can also have a racist criminal justice system, just because -- >> tucker: that's true. >> so we can have two problems at once. >> tucker: but we don't talk about the other. why is it, for all of the conversation we have about race, most of what you are not allowed to participate in and no one wants a real conversation about it, but why don't we ever have a conversation about what is happening with all of the money for the federal reserve is printing and why is it only going to a tiny percentage of the population? seriously, why don't we have a debate? >> well, that is because -- you know, the democratic party are beholden just as much as any politician to wall street,

military industrial complex, big health care, pharma, liberals believe a lot of things that ar. they believe russia gate, a conspiracy theory -- still doing it, by the way. why are we talking about stuff like that instead of the things you wanted to talk about and the things i want to talk about, which is the economic devastation of america and workers? that's right, they don't want to talk about that, because both parties are complicit in that, right? biden told america that if we voted for awsat and warnock, we will get twodollar checks the next day. that is misinformation because we did not get it. they told us we were going to get $2,000 checks, and how they say $1400 is the same as $2,000 checks. those are not the same things! those are totally different things. that is misinformation right there. and you know, when i talk about covid, i can only do with the ministry of truth says is okay to report, so if i said what

andrew cuomo said two weeks ago, that the experts -- i would have my youtube channel taken down. the governor, who is getting a emmy before the his covid handling, which by the way, totally corrupt, complicit in killing people in nursing homes, and then he covered up the numbers, and i was complete misinformation, and this is the guy the liberal press wants to resolve as some kind of anti-trump. no, it turned out he was just the biggest misinform her as anybody and he is still doing i. they are distracting us because they don't want us to see that we live in a failed state, tucker. this is a failed state. other countries are not doing to their people what we are doing to our people during covid. every other country is making sure their workers come if they shut their business down, get their wages paid. canada has been getting a $2,000 ubi since covid started, plus they already have health care. people in the united states do not know that this is the only

country handling it this way. we are punishing our own people, and nobody can give me an answer. we are fighting over a one time, $2,000 check, not a weekly, not a monthly, a one time $2 check, and only happens once every year instead of happening monthly, so we are living in a failed >> when donald trump donald trump got elected they wanted to talk about russia and vladimir putin instead of the reason why donald trump got elected was because the government abandoned working people and it turns its back on them on favor of globalism and outsourcing all their jobs. then when the economy does tank, they take care of wall street and screw everybody else. as a matter of policy, that is what they are doing with covid. everybody who has a restaurant, gym, bar, and they shut them down, they have decided effectively as a policy they are going to kill one-third of the economy with no plan to help those people. we had protests all through the summer by bad people and what did they get for it?

nothing. then we have white people also protesting. what if they get for it? nothing. they did impeach a guy who was and even president anymore. that was amazing. they can snap their fingers and still wait for covid relief. >> tucker: the only vote they took. jimmy dorn, they give for connecting those dots. i appreciate it. a few weeks ago, we caught bank of america turning over the private information of its own customers to the fbi without telling them. now, the fbi has been caught spying on americans including members of congress. nobody is saying anything about it. senator josh hawley will. tiger woods rolled over in a car today, taken to the hospital. we have a report on that as well. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ forward. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter... she's cute like her grandpa.

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capitol police had somehow beena conspiracy and help the writers get inside the capitol complex on purpose. >> they allowed them in yesterday and they destroyed a good portion of our house. so they had help inside the forest and you can assume about 30% of that force support at the guy in the white house. that is just the demographics. >> tucker: he went on and on, and on, and on. if you really want to know what this is about, go on the internet and search his name. they held their first hearing today to probe what did happen on january 6th and at that hearing senator josh hawley asked the former capital police chief to respond with general we general had said. >> the appearance of complicity during the attack and also said that you are potentially

undertaking complicit actions, those are his words, during the attack. where you complicit in this attack on generous sixth generous sixth? >> absolutely not that i've heard those comments as well. i think it's disrespectful. >> tucker: outrageous thing to say, particularly on the basis of zero evidence. but that is not the only norm that has been shredded in the wake of january 6. we learned today that the federal bureau of investigation, the fbi according to the intercept, seized thousands of phone records belonging to everyone around the capital complex on january 6th and that includes members of congress. is that legal? how can it be legal? they did it anyway and the fbi used emergency powers that required a warrant. nobody is talking about this. senator hawley joins us tonight to respond. a senator, they get so much for coming on. first two-year exchange over general honore today, do you

think he was an open partisan -- i would say a bigot, could he take the role that nancy pelosi is visiting on the floor? >> this is obsolete outrageous, the idea he's going to lead a security review. this is the guy who blamed the police first. he has no facts, no idea what actually went on and he's out there blaming the police and saying that they are complicit in that they help the rioters. that is absolutely outrageous. if you look at his history, he has over and over again blamed law enforcement. he criticizes law enforcement who is responding to rioters all last summer including in portland and elsewhere. this is somebody who has no business, no business leading a security review. >> tucker: of the capital city of the united states is still occupied by the u.s. military. now we learned that the fbi took with no warrant, still effectively form records from members of congress and anyone

who was at the capitol that day. how can that be legal? >> i'm not sure that it is legal. and i have to say, it's unbelievable to read the stuff in the press. this is the only way that members of congress are finding out about any of this. once again, we've got the fbi going and doing the stuff without oversight. listen, our agencies should be tracking down criminals. they should be bringing them to justice, they should be prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law. the issue here is that we have seen this movie before. we have seen these law-enforcement agencies go go way over and above and sweep in law abiding activity. you reported about bank and will not bank of america voluntarily turning over customers personal data. now we've got the telecoms apparently turning over. it's reported the messages, the cell phone data of folks we have no reason to believe were anything other than law-abiding. this is really, really frightening stuff and to those who say we need a new domestic war on terror that will give even more unaccountable power to

these law enforcement agencies without any kind of oversight boy, that is a scary prospect. i'm totally opposed to it. there needs to be real oversight and real accountability. >> tucker: if the democratic party is trying to create violent extremism, they are doing exactly what you would do if you wanted to create it. making people paranoid and crazy. people feel totally undefended and afraid. will more republican stood up and say wait a second, what are the troops doing here? why is the fbi stealing our text messages? will anybody push back other than you? >> i sure hope so. you heard today at this hearing, you heard at least one of their member asked what about all these national guard troops, thousands of them's here? why are they here? nobody had any answers for him. nobody could answer him. we still can't get any answers. so there's got to accountability, real oversight. >> tucker: really scare people. it really appreciate you comingn tonight. >> >> tucker: thanks.

so george floyd died last summer and we began a revolution to dismantle the systems of oppression. we've noticed that many of those systems remained totally on dismantled, unchanged. the real power centers in our country are thriving, places like yale and harvard. why is that? we have a plan to fix it, actually. after the break. ♪ ♪ ur great outdoor family, you may be feeling a little cooped up but don't forget-- there are still rocks to be skipped; trails to be trampled; fish to be caught. the great outdoors are wide open and they're calling us like never before. in these trying times, we need nature more than ever. we need nature to remind us that like a sunrise or the turning of the tides, these challenges will pass.

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>> tucker: so sometimes it's hard to see the outlines because we are right in the middle of it, but america is in the middle of a profound social of people. nothing is the same. it's not your imagination, it's really happening. it's a history changing revolution in place of the famous liberty a quality fraternity. we have produced their own three word revolutionary slogan. diversity and inclusion.

in america, the working class is not the hero of the story. our working class is the villain. this is not a proletarian evolution, it's a revolution from above. and you can tell by who is running it. college professors write the radical literature. the biggest companies in the world pay for all of it. so maybe not surprisingly for all their revolutionary fervor, the groups pushing this revolution leave their own power untouched. when you hear people talking about dismantling systems of oppression, they are talking about you. this is a revolution expressly designed to empower the already powerful. and it has been that way since the first day, since the summer when george floyd died in minneapolis. the first and most obvious question we might've asked at the time and no one ever asked this, but it is clear, why was he 46-year-old man reduced to passing badly counterfeited dollar bills in the middle of the day? he was unemployed. why was he unemployed?

how many other people like george floyd are unemployed and why? that would've been an interesting conversation. it might've been a fruitful conversation for all of us, but we didn't have it and we didn't have it by design. instead we learned a lot about the racial composition of the minneapolis police department. we are told the police there weren't diverse enough and that was a national emergency. months later, they destroyed the city of kenosha, wisconsin, and we were informed that the main problem was the lack of diversity among their low-paid cops. "overall, the city's police force is 89% white while the cities population is 67% white." okay, kenosha. that's the message. as a result of that message everything changes. but actually not everything changed. and fact, many things stayed precisely the same.

patterns of residential segregation did not change, they accelerated. barack obama's neighborhoods are probably less diverse than they were a year ago. and that won't change soon, because too many people who have a lot of money live there. but most striking of all now that we are discussing things that haven't changed at all have been the university. the overwhelming majority of ideas behind this revolution come from college campuses. everything you hear about white privilege and systemic racism began as a lecture about deconstruction in some classroom in the 1990s. that is why so many blm activists talk like sociology professors. most of the actual changes have been superficial. he no longer pretends to teach students at anything, justin dockery it's them. here's what hasn't changed at all. what hasn't changed at all is the kind of people who go to yale in the first place. they are rich kids from rich families who plan on staying

rich. not speculation, here are the numbers. before covid, the median family income was about 65 grand a year. at yale it is three times that. the median family income of the el university student is 192,000 a year. that is the median. at the university pennsylvania, it's 960,000. at brown university it is 204,000. these are all ivy league schools with multibillion-dollar endowments, heavily subsidized by you from your tax dollars. they could afford to educate poor kids, they just choose not to. at princeton, 72% of students come from families in the top 20% nationally for household income. nobody seems to have any plans to change any of this. diversity is for wage earners, not for the people in charge. no one is trying to diversify them, because in real life, let's be honest, the lack of diversity is the real reason that people go there in the first place.

no one applies to yale in order to learn things. that is not the point. the point of going to yell as to cement your position as credential member of america's ruling class paired that is the singular purpose of the experience, the only purpose. more than any other standard, more than any award in american society, and ivy league degree increases the chance that those who hold it in the end will be giving the orders, not taking the orders. that's effect is real and it lasts for generations. when you go to yale, your grandkids probably want to have to work instruction. so the question is, why should this arrangement continue? and that is a serious question, especially now. if you are going to dismantle systemic power, and we have decided we are going to, you probably shouldn't start with unionized cops in kenosha. it should probably start with systems that wield actual power. america really does have a class system. they are absolutely right about that. that system is getting more rigid by the day and we should probably do something about it pretty soon or the next

revolution may not be as peaceful as this one. so here is an idea. beginning immediately the top ranked 50 colleges and universities in america should be prohibited by force of law if necessary from accepting students who parents or grandparents went to college. no more rich kids. harvard should be reserved exclusively for students who have never experienced the many advantages of living in a ruling class. if you are for diversity, equity, and inclusion, there is no faster way to achieve it than this. so what would happen to harvard if we did this? it wouldn't be hard for them to find new students. millions of college kids are itching for the opportunity. for example, the biden administration is giving amnesty to 4 million nationals now living in the united states illegally. now as of right now, you should know this, there is no plan to elevate any of these new americans into our middle class. no, the plan is to keep them in serfdom at the bottom of the economic ladder.

we need to trim our cheese and toss our kale salads. that is the view of democratic donors and they get their way always. but why should the rest of us except their plan? designed only to benefit them. to do so obviously unfair. why shouldn't the children of impoverished illegal aliens go to do? cornell? princeton? why should they occupy every single bed on every single one of those campuses. but wait a second, you ask, says the democratic donor. if the honduran immigrants get into columbia, who is going to work at the chicken plants? good question. we nominate the children of "new york times" editors. "new york times" editors might not like this arrangement very much great they may incite revolution network, but at the same time they are fanatically content on sending their own kids to yell. and they will do apsley anything to get them to yell. they don't want their kids working at chicken plants. they want them working at mckinsey. the problem is the revolutionary

moment like this you cannot always get what you want. especially when you are as committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as your average "new york times" editor claims to be. in order to make omelettes in this world coming after break some eggs. here's our advice to the members of the will professional class at the times and elsewhere who are about to discover that their own rules might actually apply to themselves. here is our advice. stop complaining. when you discover that your own children have been forwarded due to a new imperative social justice, don't say a word. don't whine or moan or file a lawsuit. don't even acknowledge it is happening. just accept it. it's not like you could pretend you didn't know the meritocracy was fake, he single-handedly destroyed it yourself. sorry, the revolution has finally come for you. you pictured your kids graduating at a local friend school and moving onto cornell

to immerse themselves in gender studies and international relations. not anymore, it is a new era. an error that you designed. now your kids will be taking the bus to a poultry processing facility in rural iowa to begin their new lives serving as the critical culinary leads, the ones now going to cornell. and maybe someday if they are lucky your kids can learn to code. but no matter what happens to them over the next several generations, do not fret. once again come above all, don't complain. complaining is racist. that's the main idea of america which is you have often told us is simply an idea, not a nation. all of this might be hard for you to see and to be get it. because it is happening to you, it might seem unjust. trust us, it is not unjust. it is the definition of justice. operating a small business is now illegal in many places in california, but one restaurant owner has decided they're not

going to put up with it anymore. we are going to talk to that man about what he is planning straight ahead.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: as you've probably seen, golfer tiger woods was involved in a pretty bad >> tucker: as you've probably seen, tiger woods was involved in a pretty bad car accident. we are going to update on his condition and more information about what exactly happened. we have that story for you tonight. hi, matt. >> hi, tucker. officials confirm this is the hospital that tiger woods was taken to an serious condition earlier today after that horrifying rollover accident. the l.a. county sheriff said it is a luxury genesis suv that tiger woods was driving. rolled 700 feet after it hit a median. at the golf legends agent tweeted that woods suffered multiple leg injuries and was sent into surgery. the sheriff said the area that woods was driving had slopes, curves, a high frequency of accidents. woods suv was driving at a relatively greater speed than normal. tonight, the sheriff says tiger woods is lucky to be alive. he was wearing his seat belt and did not show signs -- he was

able to talk. extricated from mike suv using a prime tool and an expert is not clear what condition he is and at his hospital. but his injuries have been described as nonlife-threatening. doctor. >> tucker: appreciate that. state and local officials haven't offered any reason for it. if you ask them directly, they will blame other states. for example, watch the chairman of san diego, a man named nathan fletcher, explain is not released responsible for managing his own county. that's because there are 45 states that do not have school closer orders. in san francisco and chicago are now reopening their schools. long island, new york, to start to let their high school athletes play sports and it's going great. the cities all across the country are reopening businesses. our case rates here in san diego and icu numbers are as good if

not better than theirs. why is there signs different and why are we so behind? >> you would have to ask them, tell me. >> tucker: ask idaho. hundreds of businesses in california have now decided they've had enough of this insanity. michael kern's lawyer represents 600 of them. a few days ago he made it clear that those businesses plan to stay open. >> we have determined that we are the people and when the government doesn't get it right, we gave them the power to govern and we can take it back. today, we take it back. we are declaring ourselves open for business. safely and responsibility. these are adults and very good business owners. they know how to run their businesses. they have done it safely for generations. we don't need a governor to tell us how to or not to run these businesses. they know how. >> tucker: finally, someone. before amazon owns the local

pizzeria. michael kern represents him as many others. michael, they give for joining us. we appreciate you both for coming on. just be totally clear, you run a restaurant that told you you apparently have to shut it down, but you are not? is that correct? >> thank you so much for having me here. basically, my lawyer, we are part of our constitution, our rights. we are following the protocol, the system. unfortunately i cannot close my business anymore. it does me and my employees. it does been over 11 months right now. we are dealing with this big virus that is going on. unfortunately, after so many months to me i have a wife and daughters to take care of.

this is something we are a small business trying to make our living day by day. with me and all my employees, we are getting through this crazy year. which was completely hard for us. as a business owner, we came out with fine dining trying to work with the community. we were just trying to follow all the protocols. we missed a lot of money on the outside trying to do improve after improve and believe me, after one year with travel, we don't know how to go anymore. you know what i mean? big space, meal plans, new owner. we invested all we have and right now in december they come up and they told us, guys coming

up to close again. believe me, if i close my business again it will close for good. i will see my beautiful wife, my daughter, and all my employees which we are working together as a family for over 12 years. you know, this is something that -- we are talking about life. >> tucker: i understand that completely paid we've seen a lot of it. i want to ask you michael kern who is leading this effort on behalf of so many small businesses on the east coast, people who stand up and say i'm sorry i can't do this anymore have been crushed by the state. are you worried that will happen to these businesses? >> we were in the very beginning. we started this after a constitutional peaceful protest. we were told they can understand their constitutional rights. just because we have a pandemic, the constitutions don't go away. they are still in full effect.

we have let this governor noem, we have let local politicians know that you may choose to ignore the constitutions and rights, we are not going to ignore those. we are going to exercise our rights to stay open. and for us, that takes the form of keeping our businesses open safely and responsibility. >> i can't overstate how much we are rooting for you. i think a lot of people around the country are hoping that someone can finally stand up and put an end to this. thank you both for coming on tonight. >> we appreciate your support of our constitutional fight. thank you. >> tucker: you have it. thank you guys. we will have a lot more when we come back. ♪ ♪

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fox nation. obviously, we promise to explain all of that before thiswe launches. we will be back every weeknight on the show. the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. and a friend of sean hannity's, who joins us right now.ly >> sean: all right, tucker, thank you, and welcome to "hannity."ha we begin tonight with a fox news alert. n legendary golfer tiger woods is now in a southern california hospital after sustaining serious injuries in what was a gruesome, single car accident earlier today. our thoughts, our prayers are with tiger woods, his family, his kids. in just a moment, we are going to get my full monologue but for first, joining us with the very latest is our very own trace gallagher. trace, what is the latest? >> sean, tiger woods left his hotel earlier this morning, driving north on hawthorne boulevard coming down through palos verdes, it was fairly steep and includes a sweeping left-hand turn and en