tomorrow, "special report," traditional liberal media bias get more pronounced during the trump years and has somehow moved journalism toward automatic opposition to republicans, somehow tolerance for president biden and the democrats. an in-depth look, we will take that. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report." fair, balanced, and still unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted this week by lawrence jones starts right now. hi, lawrence. >> lawrence: hi, bret. thank you. good evening, i don't want "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ i'm lawrence jones, and tonight, minnesota braces for more violence in the weight of the death of daunte wright. it's been more than a little -- 48 hours since wright was killed and the officer who shot him in brooklyn center police chief have resigned. this is in the greater minneapolis region, destroyed and looted. we'll have an update on the ground for you in a moment.

but first, i have to be honest with you, this is a difficult topic for me for many reasons. i'm a young black man in america who grew up wanting to be a cop. when i was a kid, my friends and i would play cops and robbers. and i was always the cop. i was a police explorer. i went on to major in college and criminal justice. i have nothing but respect for the profession. i know how hard their job is. i know the stakes. i understand the inherent danger that comes with being a cop. but sadly, i also know what it is like to have a negative experience with a police officer. i personally understand how experiences like that can lead to fear and distrust. and look, i'm not alone feeling this way. we all have stories like senator tim scott. >> i recall walking into an

office building just last year, after being here for five years, capital, and the officer looked at me, a little attitude, and said "i don't know you. show me your i.d. i will tell you, i was speaking to myself, either he thinks i'm committing a crime, impersonating a member of congress, or what? >> lawrence: now that is a republican. stopped six times in the capital in one year. look, i get it. every time a police officer makes a stop, they have one goal in mind. they want to survive it. they want to go home. and the citizens they interact with, they want the same thing. they just want to go home. how could something so simple become so complicated?

unfortunately, it is. tragedies like the death of daunte wright can happen. even when an officer has the best intentions. and these tragedies, they leave voids and families. they leave voids in communities. they leave voids in our hearts. the problem with a void is it needs to be filled. nature hates a vacuum, so we try to fill these tragic walls with bad ideas. some big, with policy, with calls for reform. the political left understands this all too well. they know better than to let a good crisis go to waste, and they fill these voids with those bad ideas, and rhetoric that don't make the communities or the officers sworn to protect them any safer. take congressman rashida tlaib.

pouring gas on the fire with this tweet. "it wasn't an accident. policing our country is inherently and intentionally racist. daunte wright was met with aggression and violence. i am done with those who condone government-funded murder. no more policing, incarceration, or militarization. it can't be reformed." so let's get this straight. rashida tlaib wants to take away your guns and the police officers sworn to protect you. what could possibly go wrong? think about it. then there is former president obama, who tweeted this: "here is a reminder of just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public health safety in this country. here is an example of reimagining policing, courtesy of brooklyn center mayor mike elliott. >> i don't believe that officers

need to necessarily have weapons, you know, every time they are making a traffic stop. or engaged in situations that don't necessarily call for weapons. >> lawrence: look, that's not just a bad idea. it's a deadly one. any cop will tell you that traffic stops are among the most dangerous parts of their job. you don't know who is waiting for you as you approach a car. it could be a sweet old woman with her license and registration, or it could be a violent criminal with a machine gun. take this officer, new mexico police officer darren jarrett. he was armed when he was killed in the line of duty. i want you to look at this picture and tell me that the cops that protect us shouldn't have guns during traffic stops. look at that video.

that's obviously an absurd idea. black folks don't even support this nonsense. but the problem with the left's bad ideas on police reform as go unchallenged. they can take up all the air in the room. because conservatives aren't offering up enough common sense ideas in the wake of these tragedies. the democrats' echo chamber is responsible for defunding the police, and we are already seeing the dangerous consequences. take minneapolis. the city council voted to slash the police budget by $8 million. what happened? the number of gunshot victims doubled. carjackings went up 330%. it suffered 1,000 more violent crimes in 2020 than in 2019. it backfired so badly that the council voted to refund the police. but the original bad seed of an

idea lives on. and will take root in other cities. the left will win this war of ideas if republicans won't even show up to the battlefield. their ideas will become policy. and we will all be left paying for it. the tragedies will keep happening. our cities will continue to burn. joining me now for reaction, will have senator john kennedy in a few moments. but first, we will go to international correspondent mike tobin, who was on the ground in brooklyn center minnesota with the latest. mike, what is going on down there? >> what is going on right now, lawrence, is a crowd is growing for a third night of demonstrations here in brooklyn center. one thing the demonstrators will not be up against tonight in this town is a curfew. there is a curfew for some of the surrounding towns, but mayor mike elliott said he

imposes a curfew, that becomes an excuse for more arrest and violence. all of his coming down in a day of dramatic developments and rapid-fire developments in this case, the latest flash point of racial unrest in the nation. first, you have the resignation of the police chief here, tim gannon submitted his resignation, as did the officer at the center of the flash point, kim potter. her resignation letter stated "i have loved every minute of being a police officer, but i believe it is in the best interest of the community and department, my fellow officers, if i resign." now last night brought more demonstrations, more rioting, more unrest. police sent a delegation out to negotiate, if you will, with the demonstrators, try to get them to respect the curfew and go home without clashes. the response was bottles, rocks, fireworks, thrown and fired at the officers. police responded with tear gas, with pepper bullets, and ultimately, mass arrests, more than 40 people were arrested.

there was some looting out here last night, in particular the family dollar was ransacked. we saw a fire burning there for a while. the fire crews with the end copy and meant of guardsmen came and got control of that situation. we are watching us things about tonight, some 2,000 guards who have been activated, can see them out here in front of headquarters, the police department, and we are just watching to see how things go down tonight, lawrence. >> lawrence: excellent report, mike. we will be following it tonight. thank you so much. also here tonight is louisiana senator john kennedy, a member of the judiciary committee. senator, i always appreciate your voice. you seem like a straight shooter, always telling it like it is. what is the republicans response to what is happening in america? because it is bipartisan. when you have your colleague, senator tim scott saying his experience, i'm worried that

america's cities will burn if republicans don't show up to this battle, so what is the response? >> well, lawrence, here's my response. i listened to your monologue. i thought it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking. here's my perspective. unlike some of my colleagues, i do not believe that america is a racist nation. we are not perfect, but i think we are good. now, we have racists in our country, just like everyplace else. there are people in our country -- there are people all over the world, lawrence, that are going to judge you and not like you because of the color of your skin. and there are others who are going to judge me, think they know everything they need to know about me, because of the color of my skin, but i don't think that's most americans. and i don't think that's most cops in america.

without order, there is no justice. we can't have a society without order, and we have decided to hire law enforcement officials to maintain order. we hire whites, blacks, browns, men, women, to maintain order. many of our law enforcement agencies are a majority minority. and if you decide, just like you want to judge someone solely by the color of the skin, if you want to make a pejorative judgment about a cop, i'll put it this way, if you hate cops just because they are cops, you don't know a thing about them, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead. now, having said that, what we are really talking about here, what we are talking about here is the relationship between crime and race. let's just cut to the chase. it is a statistical fact that

just as it is the case that more men than women commit crimes, just as it is a statistical fact that more younger people than older people commit crimes, we have racial minorities and ethnic groups in america that have higher crime rates. why? poverty. but that doesn't tell you anything. how do we stop poverty? i don't know a single person who is poor who wants to be poor. >> lawrence: the problem, senator, we have to get to the root causes of crime. but even if -- i love when you say law and order because it is true. a nation without law and order -- but even within that law, there is due process. due process for the people that commit those crimes, and due process for the law enforcement officers that have to confront those -- >> well, that's true. >> lawrence: it is one thing to confront the crime, which we have to do as americans. and support the law enforcement

officers that do that. but when you show up to the scene of a crime and the citizens of this country have given you that responsibility, and you have a bad shoot, there has to be a process -- which we have a legal process, but republicans have not responded to that. >> respond -- >> lawrence: it can't just be "there is crime in america." crime is always going to exist, we have to deal with at. >> i can give you two things we can do to reduce the crime rate among all demographic groups, but especially among african-american youths. number one, we are sending 2 million of our young people te failure factories. let me tell you, if i working for a day, here is what i would do. i would turn to all of the parents of our kids below a certain social economic level, of all races, and i'd say "here is the money that the state is putting up to pay for the school

you are going to. i'm giving you the money, not the school. use it anywhere you want to. you want to go to a charter school, go. you want to go to a private school, here's the money." we have to have more freedom of choice and more competition in education. number two, family formation. nobody wants to talk about it. i'm not saying a single parent can't be a good mom or dad, but a child who grows up in a single-parent family is six times more likely to grow up in poverty and a child that grows up in a two parent family. and that is just a fact. >> lawrence: you know, senator, i have been vocal, i have been fighting for school choice my entire career. and so i support you on that, but i look forward to seeing the republicans form a response. tim scott had a bill, but that is a federal bill. i want to see something on the local level, and i will invite you want to talk about that later. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, lawrence.

>> lawrence: you bet. also here tonight, ronald johnson, the captain who led the ferguson riot response. he is also the author of "13 days in ferguson." sir, i remember you from my time on the ground in ferguson, when the city was literally in flames, but before that, you have a tough job of bringing folks together. how did you do that? >> by communicating, by actually getting out there and talking to the people, but listening, not having quick answers but listening and taking action based on what i was hearing. >> lawrence: yeah. officer johnson, when i was there on the ground, one thing that i noticed is that there was a narrative on the ground for the community, because there was already an investigation done locally where you talk to community folks and they had a narrative about mike brown.

they knew the encounter, those people end up testifying with the grand jury, but then there was a national media narrative, as well. in these local situations, how do you get out in front of a local story that has become this national narrative? >> well, i think you have to be transparent, in every way that you can. be out front with it. the things that are going well, yes they are come up with things you need to work on, you need to talk about those issues and discuss those issues, a form of inclusion of everybody that is involved in the situation there. >> lawrence: what needs to happen next so we can stop repeating this over and over and over again? i feel like, you know, we are talking about it today. it could be next week. there has to be some type of solution to bring people together, to have justice for the people in the community, have justice for the cops.

what is it like being out there patrolling? >> i tell you, it is a tough job. it is a rewarding job. but it is also tough for the citizens that we encounter sometimes, especially our citizens of color. and we have to begin to have hard conversations, real conversations, and not just training that checks off the box, and so, you know, when i go across the country and speak to law enforcement or businesses, i talk about concrete and real conversations. >> lawrence: captain, thank you so much. we appreciate you. >> thank you very much. >> lawrence: you bet. coming up, president biden being celebrated tonight over reports he plans to remove all u.s. troops from afghanistan by september the 11th. never mind that president trump aims to have them out may 1st. if the taliban met certain conditions. general jack keane is here to respond next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is my body of proof.

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>> well, i don't have any view on where he is making the announcement. public policy is his choice and where he chooses to do it. i fundamentally disagreed with president trump, announcing a 1 may withdraw, although he did have in mind there would be certain conditions before the united states would withdraw, and that would be, hopefully we would have a peace agreement negotiated between the afghan government and the taliban. and also, a cease-fire. we don't have any of that. we have stalemated negotiations. secondly, the taliban has increased the level of violence in the country itself, so the taliban sees there is political weakness here in the united states, in terms of a resolve to stay, they have been obviously taking advantage of that situation. i think this decision is misguided because it's reckless and it's also shameful.

it's shameful because we are abandoning the afghan government. in my mind, if they surrender to the taliban. it's reckless, because why are we still there? what are we really doing there? first of all, we are not fighting a conventional war, as people are ascertaining we are. we haven't done that since 2014, when we pulled all the combat troops out. what are these few thousand troops doing there? they are in afghanistan for the same reason that we have troops in four other places where we believe radical islam will do harm to us. there's 40 or 50 movements of radical islamists around the world. we are not chasing any of those. but multiple presidents have said we have a problem in syria, with isis reemerging, let's make certain that does not happen. and we have a few hundred troops there. we have troops in iraq for the same reason, and that is a couple thousand.

it's classified, the number that is targeting the al qaeda in yemen, but they have aspirations also to attack america. we have 700 or 800 troops in eastern africa, because that radical islamic organization, al-shabaab, has aspirations to attack america. that is it. and the 3,000 troops in afghanistan are there for the very same reason. the potential rise of al qaeda, which was the place where they attacked us from 9/11, and make certain that basis, which has grown in the country, does not do that. most of us look at that and say, "my, that is a modest investment to get such a positive gain out of that." an insurance policy be united states is not going to be attacked again. >> lawrence: you know, general, i have immense respect for you when you are an expert on this issue, but the majority of the country doesn't feel that way, and many ask a question because there is always a chance of a vacuum opening, and

terrorists coming back and forming some other group. when will they ever leave? >> well, the terrorists haven't left the battlefield, lawrence. we don't keep the american people informed and advised, is what's going on. none of our presidents have ever done a very good job of doing that. and the facts are, they are still out there. and as i said, i think what we have done and what we have matured and evolved to is a very specific and focused threat on only those groups that have aspirations to hurt america. and the american people. and it is a modest involvement in doing that, and it's a complete distortion, talking about this major war that we are involved in afghanistan is just not the case. >> lawrence: so, general, and i have to go, but if i could get a quick response to you. is it no longer a strategy of the united states to change hearts and minds there? is that no longer there?

>> i don't know when we ever had that strategy. we went there to kill the taliban, who would not give up the al qaeda, which we did summarily, and deposed that regime, and then run the al qaeda into their holes and kill as many of them as we can, and we did that. what we didn't do is we got deflected by the war in iraq and we did not follow the al qaeda across the border into pakistan and finish the job is what we should've done. >> lawrence: thank you. >> so there's other policies that got in the way. >> lawrence: thank you so much, general. i appreciate your insight. >> yet. good talking to you. >> lawrence: a lot of americans want to come home. up next, why dr. marty mccarty says the fda is going way to far pausing the johnson & johnson vaccine, and how the state of florida slapped the biden administration with a major 20 page -- 21 page lawsuit. florida attorney general is here to explain, straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> lawrence: welcome back. the race to get americans fascinated is facing a big step back tonight with the biden administration now pausing distribution of the johnson & johnson vaccine. it comes after six women developed a rare blood clot and stroke like illnesses. six out of nearly 7 million americans have received the vaccine. the white house claim with a will not have a significant impact on the government's vaccine plans, but other experts warn it could have devastating impacts. here now, dr. marty makary, johns hopkins university public health professor and a fox news medical contributor. doc, i've got to be honest with you, when americans hear these stories, there's already some trepidation when it comes to the vaccine. so, does this help? >> no, it hurts, and it was an overreaction. they should have pause the j&j vaccine in the group where we saw the complication, that is the blood clot, the six women that have the blood clot,

including one death. now, if we start shutting down medications because one in 7 million people died, lawrence, we are not going to have many medications left to use. tylenol kills more people. the job of the fda is to prevent us from getting snake oil and to protect the public, where the risks outweigh the benefits, but we are in a health emergency right now. they should have targeted that pause to women of childbearing age, or those at risk of clots, and not be so paternalistic. whatever happened to letting doctors and patients make their decisions together and letting patients make their own health decisions? >> lawrence: so doctor, this may sound like a dumb question, but you know, they've got to know that, so why make this decision? >> well, i don't know. you know, it's very odd, and it explains some of the track record we have seen with the fda. unfortunately, this is going to hurt rural communities and lower income communities because that j&j virus vaccine doesn't

require the freeze chain, so it is good for transportation. you know, i don't know, this is not botox, this is a life-saving vaccine. it's a life preserver two people swimming in an ocean and didn't think it may have been reasonable when supply is greater than demand, but right now we have to get more vaccine out there and increase confidence in the vaccine. >> lawrence: .com i want you to listen to this clip from dr. fauci, and that i will get your reaction. >> we are totally aware that this is a very rare event. we want to hold off for a bit and very well may go back to that, maybe with some conditions or maybe not. but we want to leave that up to the fda and the cdc to investigate this carefully. so i don't think it was pulling the trigger to quickly. >> lawrence: your response? >> well, look, a reporter asked a very good question, why react with such a blanket hold on everybody who is going to get a j&j vaccine? people were supposed to show for their appointments today and tomorrow, now they are being

denied. i would give a patient the information. i would tell them that there is a one in 7 million chance of dying from this vaccine based on the observations that we have. six people out of 7 million had a blood clot. and they were all concentrated in women of childbearing age. if you're in that group, i wouldn't recommend it. if you're out of that group, those are the odds, make your own decision. why are we so paternalistic and shutting down access to a life-saving vaccine right now when we need to get it out there? >> lawrence: the federal government, paternalistic? come on, doc. thank you so much. >> thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: try to rule your lives. anyway, the state of florida is pushing back tonight, suing the biden administration over the ongoing ban on cruise ship travel. governor ron desantis and the administration arguing the cruise industry is being unfairly prevented from reopening. it comes as florida state's government is also battling big tech. blasting youtube and google for removing a discussion they've hh

scientist opposing mask mandates. here now, florida attorney general ashley moody. general, tell me about this. you guys are taking on big tech. many lawyers would say, but do they have a standing? what say you? >> well, look, you don't have to be a lawyer to note big tech has too much knowledge and too much control. i've pushed back, along with a few other attorney generals in this nation, but you have to be asking yourself, if you are living in a state in your attorney general hasn't gone after big tech after you are seeing person after person canceled, opinion after opinion just deplatformed, you have to ask yourself what your age he is doing about that. hopefully they are going to push back like we are here in florida because the fight for the american people, it takes more than just legal knowledge, it takes backbone. >> lawrence: yeah, it does

take backbone. i'm interested in that legal argument because i obviously agree with the fact that that panel should be able to be listed on youtube. more americans need to see those conversations. but what is the legal strategy to battle a private business? how do you accomplish that? >> well, here in florida, we have laid out proposed legislation that requires these large tech companies, lay out their policies, make sure they are followed, and it provides a mechanism to hold them accountable if they don't. and here's the deal. you have to have administrations in the state that are willing to fight for their citizens. we've demonstrated here in florida that we will do that, and the other ags across the nation need to realize the enormous control and power of these companies and start pushing back, as well. >> lawrence: i want to pivot to something else, the cruise industry is big in your state.

because of the federal regulations, you guys have not been able to have those cruise ships. what is the strategy on that? it seems unfair to the people of florida. >> well, think about it. an entire industry has been docked for over a year. the biden administration has been asked repeatedly by officials in our state, governor desantis and i have met with those who have lost their jobs, hundreds of thousands of floridians are no longer working because this industry is down, and you cannot have an agency decide that entire industry is canceled. that cannot be. it's not legal. and we said if they didn't get some relief and we didn't get a reprieve here in florida where we have 60% of the nation's cruises leaving our ports, that we would take action, and we did. >> lawrence: so, i've got to ask a question. do you guys have the ability to tell these cruise industries to just get moving? or does the federal government have that much power that they

can force them to doc? while you guys are going through this legal process? >> well, over a year, the cruises have been docked, and i've listen to the personal stories of the folks that haven't been able to work for over a year, and it's not just the cruise line employees, its caterers, you'd inform employees longshoremen, it is so important for our economy to gep and going, that the federal government pay attention, that bind and pay attention. i mean, come on. cruises are already taking place in other countries in a safe manner, and now they are threatening to move their ships to other countries. so, if they do that, and america loses at source of revenue and business to our country because biden is asleep at the wheel, it's on him. it's unacceptable. his agency need to get moving and allow our cruises to operate again. >> lawrence: see, this is what happens when you give the state

this amount of power. when it is time to give it back to the people, they never want to, which is why i was against lockdowns from the very beginning. people should be able to make personal decisions themselves, and i think that is how florida has excelled, not only with vaccine distribution, but reopening, as well. general, thank you so much for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> lawrence: coming up, she has been tapped to fix the crisis at the border, but vice president, harris, will she ever visit the southern border? florida congressman byron donalds here next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> lawrence: welcome back. there is still a crisis at the border. we all know it. joe biden says he is doing something about it, but the staggering numbers of on a company migrant kids crossing the border suggests otherwise. meanwhile, kamala harris hasn't even visited or held a news conference at the border, so congressman byron donalds decided to go down himself. he joins us now. congressman, you went down to the border. you took it upon yourself. what did you see? >> frankly, what i saw it as a crisis. it's a travesty, what's happening our country.

our border is being overrun, and frankly, the cartel is making millions and millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars, not only trafficking children, but also trafficking drugs. and this administration, in my view, is complicit because their enforcement policies are a joke, the cartel is playing with the administration, frankly, we are all being played for fools here in the united states, simply because this administration will not enforce the border. it is that simple. >> lawrence: so, congressman, when people look at this crisis, they always go to the kids, and because you see them. they are in these tight spaces. many of them have covid. they have been abused. i think the one question that people are all worried and pondering on is what is the difference from these kids that were in these -- they look like cages without the wire -- then when trump was in office? what is the difference? >> the difference is very simple. what we were seeing at that time

was a move by cartels to bring families, as well. turbine administration put policy in place so a lot of asylum applications were actually being handled in mexico. when this president was inaugurated, president biden, he ramped up not only the mexico policy, but everyone put in plae by the trump administration. you have the cartel laughing at us. they know we are not going to enforce the border. they know we are essentially going to be taking kids, so right now, they are forcing all of these kids across the border. the cartels knows our laws and are using it against us, and we are not taking this threat, this crisis seriously, and this administration needs to do so. >> lawrence: it is crazy, you don't see people crying and taking photos outside, from the left, to hold the administration accountable. if it were donald trump, it would have been something different. congressman, i really want to know -- because i don't think the audience understands. i've been to the border about five times. explain the criminal enterprise

that is on the border. because i don't think people understand that you don't get to cross unless the cartel says it's okay. >> the cartel runs every square mile of land south of our southern border. commercial trucks cannot get through unless they pay a fee to the cartel. there is no 9-year-old child from guatemala that is making the thousand mile journey from their country to our southern border without the cartel being paid to let them through. this is how serious this issue is. on top of it, in the united states, you have an administration that won't go down there, won't go see these children firsthand, and what they are actually doing right now is building emergency facilities and using empty hotels all across the united states to house these kids, to disperse these kids, so it will look like a crisis when they finally go down there. that is how serious this is. the cartel knows the game. unfortunately, this administration knows the game. and children who live south of our border and are coming into the united states are being used

as pawns in the process. >> lawrence: well, i know the game, too. especially the game of politics. many people have said you may have for future aspirations. are you running for anything soon? >> right now, i'm doing my job to represent the people of florida's 19th district. part of that was me going down and seeing the absolute tragedy on our southern border. but listen, politics will take care of itself in the future. our job right now is to not cause problems, it's actually to fix them. and this administration want to talk about how this is a humanitarian crisis, no, it is a political crisis created by the president of united states. >> lawrence: the freshman congressman from florida. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> lawrence: up next, msnbc start joy reid is in hot water tonight, accused of discouraging millions of people from getting the covid-19 vaccine. kat timpf joins me straight ahead. look her. ♪ ♪ advanced non-small cell lung cancer can change everything. but your first treatment could be a chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works differently.

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>> for many people, a vaccine is a symbol of hope, a sign that things are finally getting back to normal. if not for msnbc is joy reid. she'd rather scare her audience into always wearing a mask and everything people indoors. "even when i get the second shot, i am too scared to be out there wilding. no indoor activities for me, no. if we double mask and our family and we will still be doing that for the foreseeable future. here to join me as kat timpf, fox news contributor and the host of sincerely cat on the fox nation. if our first guest. >> this feels crazy, but it shouldn't just like going to a restaurant, i don't understand this beyond for the past year, people have been able to put themselves on this pedestal of being so much better than other

people not just while doing nothing but simply because they were doing nothing and now that that's ending, they are really trying to make it last, i don't get it. >> this is not fun, i want to see my friends and my family, i want to see my grandparents and i want to have a nice meal indoors when it's raining, we can do the outdoor dining and they seem to have no concept. >> locked inside for a long time and i do want to do some wilding this summer to be perfectly honest with you and i am vaccinated and it's so insane to accuse other people that people are hesitated to get vaccinated, people are hesitant because people are telling them i know you might be nervous about this vaccine but just do it and then everything stays the same for you, what kind of selling point is that?

>> i know it's wrong to say i told you so but the libertarians warned everyone. we won't go to work among we will do whatever you say, but these people weren't giving up their power when it was all over. >> two weeks to stop the spread. remember flat remember flatten the curve? on this last time anyone ever talked about that, that's a dream from forever ago and now it's five vaccinated and i'm still not going to go into a restaurant grade that makes no sense, nobody should have to live that way. >> is ever going to end is the big question. did we give up too much liberty get it back? >> it has to end because i can't live like this, i'm going to truly go insane. >> i refuse to live this way and

there comes a point in time for you have to stand up for the country and your rights and this is a private establishment, okay, i'll follow their rules because i believe in that but i'm not jogging with a mask. anyway, thank you so much for joining me. i'll be back tomorrow, tucker carlson starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we heard an awful lot about the coronavirus vaccine for the last several months. it's a massive achievement, something all americans can be proud of but that's not the context in which we've heard about it. joe biden's first pizza dough macspeech of the country urge the entire population to take this vaccine immediately. the celebrity industrial complex is that demand