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>> bret: gentlemen, thank you. talk to you soon. tomorrow on "special report," country music star brad paisley joins us to talk about his efforts to get americans vaccinated and plans for concerts, yes, concerts, the summer. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for the "special report." they are, balanced, and unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by ben domenech starts right now. >> ben: a concert sounds like an appealing thing to happen this summer, bret, looking forward to that. good evening, and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ here is a rule that will help you understand the american crisis: only big business can afford big government. america was once a nation where businesses were based everywhere. business interests weren't confined to coastal cities, they existed throughout the land and espouse the values of the planes, the mountains, the desert. they represented main street americans because that's who
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they employed, who they sold to, who they work for. today, things are different. the most powerful interest in the corporate world are based in san francisco and new york. their cultural values are marked not by the homespun wisdom of the heartland, but the woke religion of the millennials and their hr departments. for far too long, republicans confuse the priorities of american big business with their own, bending to their will on virtually every area of meaningful policy. while they may share conservative impulses toward the regulation and low taxes, these big businesses also seek to employ the government to prevent competition and protect vested interests. now these same institutions are weighing into the culture wars in an unprecedented degree. they view these decisions as inherently having low costs, the path of least resistance that allows them to make soothing, woke-sounding whale noises while avoiding closer inspection of their policies and actions. but the old theme of no
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consequence culture war weigh ins is not something that can last. americans are waking up to the reality that these so-called american companies are not interested in harmonious living. they are loudly taking sides against one political affiliation in favor of another. it is no accident that we see the corporate donations to mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy disappear at the same point the small dollar donations from individuals explode. it is because they are listening to the people, not the corporations. it turned out the fatal flaw in libertarian assumptions about corporate motives, my own included, is that we assumed greed would be their primary motivation, and that was a good thing. their new attitude is basically "republicans buy sneakers, too, but should they?" and no one has this attitude more than big tech, which is cutting off customers every day because their views are too conservative. the outsides powerful tech oligarchs is unprecedented in
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history, billionaires unmoored from what made this nation the envy of the world, believe they have inherited and got set of the universe with the ability and duty to reshape the globe as they see fit. for the aged elected officials did there, they intend to make the world a better place by controlling it to the greatest degree possible what people see, what they know, how they think, and ultimately, how they vote. they already control what most people know. they decide what is acceptable speech and what is not. and they've decided you're not acceptable. they've decided they are going to use their power to sway our politics. the real question we should be asking about these tech giants isn't whether they respect free speech, whether they should moderate content differently, or whether jack dorsey's micro-dosing too much. it is a simple, straightforward question: is there a point where these giants become so powerful, so all-encompassing, that they
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threatened the variability of the united states of america to survive as a democratic republic. have we reached that point already? how would we know? joining me now, republican senator from florida rick scott. he is the national republican senatorial committee chair. thank you so much for taking the time to join me today, senator scott. >> well, you set a lot of logical things. i sent a letter to all of these woke ceos this week, i put it up on fox business' website. stop lying, stop acting like you are the elitists, like you are all-powerful, all-knowing. your mind about what happened in georgia, and you know, there is a day of reckoning for your lies. we are seeing that all you care to do is just count how to the radical left, but you still -- well, first of all, you are hypocrites, you still want us to buy your stuff, like coke. there was no voter suppression in georgia. there was not a racist act. and by the way, coke sells a lot
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of coke in china. they've never complained about the chinese election laws, and delta, their ceo complained about the election law, mind about it, and he still flies to beijing, wants to sell tickets to fly to beijing, and major league baseball, that is the best. they took $100 million in jobs out of atlanta, but it is okay for them to go play a game down in havana, they played in a stadium taken at gunpoint by the regime, but that's okay. but gosh, atlanta, where they try to pass a law to make sure your vote counts and it is not wasted, there is something wrong with that, so there is a backlash coming up against these ceos. we are going to win the election, take the house and the senate in '22, the white house in '24, and when these companies come to d.c. and say we want you to give us money and bail us out, they are not -- they are not going to be listened to very much. they are going to have to hire a lot more lobbyists and they have now. >> ben: senator scott, the
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thing that is a problem for me is i feel like there is very little that republicans are doing when it comes to brushing back these american corporations that seem to have priorities that are not really american, in terms of their -- in terms of their list of issues that they go down. they are completely willing to look the other way when it comes to the chinese actions, with regards to genocide against the uighur muslims, the very damaging foreign policy in so many different areas. they are completely willing to ignore that, but everything that is wrong with america, they feel they need to stand up and say something to the people or to try to lecture them in some way or the other. can republicans push back against them while still being in favor of the capitalist idea of america, which is something i think we are all in favor of? >> yeah, well, first off, small businesses, they really care about capitalism, they want free market, they want lower taxes,
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they don't need a bailout, they don't need a handout from the government. the big companies do. but take coca-cola as a sample. they are a sponsor of the international olympic committee, which will hold the olympics next year in communist china, where we know the uighurs are put in jail for their religion. they harvest organs. communist china walked in and took all the basic rights of hong kong citizens. they are hypocrites. their absolute hypocrites. so i've asked everybody to do is let everybody know these olympics need to be moved. i have asked the fight into focus on it. i'm glad there are about 180 human rights groups around the world focused on moving the limits out of china. but all of us have to say stop buying chinese products. stop buying chinese products. first off, if you are buying cotton from china, it is probably made with slave labor, so we've got to wake up -- and by the way, they want to build their economy to dominate our society. they want to build a military to
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be able to beat us militarily. they want to take all of our jobs. they want to control the world. they do not believe in our freedom, and these companies, they are anxious to make as much money as they can, they don't care about her institutions, they don't care about our freedoms, they don't care about whether your vote is diluted or not, but you know what i really believe that americans are going to show up. what you said about donations, in the first quarter, the national public and senatorial committee had 220,000 donors, 290,000 donations, average donation $32, americans are standing up and we are going to stand up for freedom and liberty, what we all believed i. >> ben: i have to ask you, senator, before i let you go, this hate crime bill that passed 94-1, i know it is something that is concerning to a lot of conservatives across the country, who believe the biden administration and their doj are going to use it to crackdown in different ways on different communities. tell me why you voted for that bill, and explained to me why it is something that we shouldn't be concerned about.
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senator hawley seems very concerned about it. >> well, first off, none of us want any discrimination, and we don't want any discrimination against asian-americans. the worst thing about this is the democrats that they don't want any discrimination against asian-americans, except they allow it in our universities and our colleges. we had an amendment today that every democrat, every democrat voted to say they don't like discrimination, but it is okay if our universities do it against asian-americans. so i'm going to do everything i can to make sure there is no discrimination. i hope that is what the biden administration does come up with the democrats, you look right now, they are okay with it for who they like, they love our liberal institutions. >> ben: senator scott, thank you so much for taking the time to join us. >> have a good evening. >> ben: also here tonight, abigail schreier, the author of "irreversible damage." abigail, thank you so much for taking the time to join me tonight. as you probably heard in my open, i am very concerned about
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the kind of discrimination i see from these big tech corporations. i know you have yourself been targeted by them for a lot of the things you have been saying, which seems to be the accepted opinion in america until about . tell me a little bit about what we ought to be doing to push back against these will corporations that seem to be more and more interested in cracking down on anybody who, you know, has the basic idea that boys and girls are different. >> that's right. i think what we are facing in america right now is an acute emergency brought on by the hard left that is really attacking the foundational principles in america, you know, rule of law, due process, equal protection, free speech, and i really do think, as americans, we need to join together, i don't care if you're a liberal or conservative, but if you care about those commitments, if you still care about the rule of law, equal protection, and free speech, i think now is the time to come together and really push back.
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>> ben: you know, this is the thing that really bothers me so much. we have, in america, and assumption of the ability to have free speech, to have freedom of thought, and yet these companies seem to be of the mind that they can control and completely dictate what is acceptable to say in the public square, and what you have been saying, obviously, is something i think the vast majority of americans agree with, and yet, jeff bezos' amazon was a company that really didn't like to hear that kind of thing from you, and it seems like every kind of san francisco-based tech company is, you know, is triggered by the kind of things you are saying. what can we do, as american citizens, to push back against these companies and to make sure they don't shut down the kind of speech that we have historically valued in this country? >> i think we need to leave our political silos a little bit and
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come together and oppose measures to censor, you know, various forms of speech. look, my book was only represented one approach to the rising rates of transgender identification among teenage girls. that's it. there are hundreds of books out there that took, you know, other views, and celebrated immediate teenage transition, with no oversight, and that's fine, i would never want those books censored, but unfortunately, my book has been a constant target. my interviews have been taken off youtube. i am now, i have been fact-checked, so-called, by "usa today" for my opinions, you know, it's a joke, and it is profoundly un-american. >> ben: this fact-checkers, by the way, are mostly interned to have no idea what they're talking about, from my own experience. look, abigail, this is a serious issue and something i care about a great deal, especially as a father of a daughter who is going to come up, and frankly, i'm worried about the kind of experience that she is going to have. you are someone who is at the edge of this, at the leading
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edge of it, but there are so many citizens out there who agree with you, even if they aren't an author, even if they aren't someone who is a media figure. what is your advice to them about how they interact with their friends on this issue, and how to not be afraid of expressing their own viewpoint on the differences between boys and girls, and why these transitions are such a significant and questionable, serious issue when it comes to our communities? >> well, i will tell you a little secret, and that is that i see my inbox, and my inbox is flooded with people across the political spectrum, and the reason i know it, just a few weeks ago, a high-ranking advisor to one of the top democratic candidates for president wrote to me to express strong agreement and to let me know that not everyone on the left is insane, and i can tell you, there is broad agreement in
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america, so wherever you are, whatever you do, if you are a teacher and you see things that aren't, you know, good for children, like critical race theory being taught in the classroom, if you are a doctor and you know there is no medical oversight for these transitioning procedures that are given to teenagers on their first visit, speak up, now is the time. if you see things censored, if you see only one side of every discussion continuously censored, speak up. that is just un-american and really, right now, we need to come together to push back. >> ben: our heritage is rebellion, our heritage is, and that is a good thing when it comes to our ability to go out there and speak the truth in spite of everything that we see. abigail, you are a brilliant woman, and i thank you for your courage in terms of this issue. >> thank you. >> ben: coming up, the media not letting the facts get in the way of a good story. why nbc is under fire for some deceptive editing during its coverage of a fatal police shooting in ohio.
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who joined the force in decembeo a 911 call. >> get a police officer here now. >> ben: and here is the actual 911 call. >> this girl over here trying to stab us, trying to put hands on our grandma. >> any weapons? >> grandma! >> any weapons? >> we need a police officer here now. >> ben: joining me now, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and joe concha, the hills media opinion columnists. both are fox news contributors. joe and molly, thank you so much for taking the time to join me tonight. >> how are you, been? >> ben: so, i have to ask for your opinions on the situation with nbc. it seems so many of our corporate media entities out there are interested in fomenting racial rage as opposed
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to actually depicting the true story about these different events that happened, that certainly are concerning, but are not depictions of race-based violence on the part of cops against various people in america. mollie, what are your thoughts on this? >> so much of the privilege that media figures have had has been built on this idea that they take and synthesize information and they provide context and help provide a shared set of facts for the american people. that is not what they are doing anymore. they have moved into straight up propaganda. in this case, it does seem they are designed to foment racial division because that aligns with the political goals of their favorite party on the left, but they do it in so many ways. i think people need to stop being surprised when they see it happening because it happens with everything, whether the russia collusion hoax or the kavanaugh hoax or the covington hoax, or selectively editing governor ron desantis' mixing distribution. it is just what they do as a
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matter of course and this week we have seen they will even do it when it is something as fraught as racial divisions. >> ben: joe, i think this is a situation that unfortunately does not seem like it has any real solution. is there a way to get these media entities to start behaving more responsibly, and not, you know, trying to push this toxic, racist approach to every frame of every story? >> ben, they've got to be called out, but they've got to be called out by their own. i want to see the beds in "the new york times," in "the washington post," by cnn, o criticize them, nbc, in this case, because that is the only way you are going to get their attention. you mentioned about how the media is starting to divide the country further, oh, yeah, gallup had a poll last year, 83% of americans believe the media bears the blame for division of this country. in 1976, media had a 72% approval rating in the cronkite era. today, nbc had to put out a
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statement to apologize for not issuing the form 911 call because that is the real context, when you hear a girl pleading, she is trying to stab us, or when they actually edited out a knife in the hand of the attacker in the original report. we should have seen apologies. we should have seen retractions. we saw nothing. always always punditry on places like msnbc, which actually justified knife fights going on between kids. this was a one-way knife fight, a, and b, there was a 13-year-old girl in cincinnati that was stabbed to death by another 13-year-old. this isn't playtime now, and this is a very serious situation that we have here in terms of police and race and tensions are high. nbc had to get it right. they got it wrong, and to mollie's point, they did not get it wrong because they made a mistake, they got it wrong because they returned to push a narrative from a dangerous one that could end up getting people killed. >> ben: you mentioned the commentary on cnn and msnbc, let's run that and get some reaction. >> what a for your daughter?
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what if it your daughter? what if it were members of your family, your neighbor? >> a teenage fight, a schoolyard fight. >> i remember fights in high school or younger than that, where a kid brought a penknife or something to school, and teenagers are able to defuse that. >> ben: mollie come i listen to this, and it seems so deeply unserious, but also, it is gaslighting. it is trying to make you believe something that is at odds with everything that you see in front of you, isn't it? >> there is no comparison between a backyard tussle or getting down with someone in a schoolyard, and an attempted murder, and everyone should be able to look at this situation and have thoughtful commentary about how awful it is that there even is a situation where this one girl is attacking another girl, where there are adults involved, where a police officer has to make that kind of decision, but to just make up
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ridiculous things like acting like it is normal for two teenagers to try to kill each other, that is not normal, and if it is normal, there something wrong with that, as well >> ben: joe, one more thing i want to bring up to you, this interesting story from the "washington examiner" about "politico" setting an email, sending a letter to their own writers saying, essentially, that they cannot use the term "crisis" when describing the border, despite the fact the president himself is actually used this word. to me, this seems like a classic example of the media trying to reframe a story that they don't like in ways that they would prefer it to exist. this type of thing, i'm sure, goes on behind the scenes, but knowing that it's going on at a major publication like political, shouldn't there be a response from readers to basically say, are you trying t? are you trying to reflect a certain perspective that you would like to exist, as opposed to the reality?
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>> oh, ben, i would not use crisis, either. i agree with "politico," it is a catastrophe going on at the border right now. when you see facilities at 17 times their capacity during a pandemic, when you see reports of young girls possibly being sexually abused in these facilities, when you see 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children now in u.s. custody, and one facility in houston having to be closed because it was so dangerous, yeah, i think crisis definitely applies. catastrophe does. for "politico" to try to downplay this, i would love to see the justification around that, what word should be used, "politico," because this is something that is problematic and the biggest issue facing the fighting and administration, and they are providing cover when it is not a game at the border, it is a serious situation. >> ben: mollie hemingway, joe concha, what you do when it comes to media criticism is one of the most important things that we have in terms of our conversation with this country. thank you for joining us. >> thank you.
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>> appreciate it. >> ben: up next from a guilty verdict is not enough for the totalitarian left. why radical progressives are abandoning justice for power in an attempt to remake society. the hoover institute's shelby steele joins us after the break. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. scotts turf builder triple action kills weeds, usaa. prevents crab grass and feeds your lawn. all three,in just one bag. i like that. scotts turf builder triple action. it's lawn season. let's get to the yard.
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vengeance. within our hearts, when we appeal to our better angels, we know the ugly nature of that reaction and that it isn't justice. so what is justice? we feel it, but it is so ingrained in us, only the philosophers among us spend much time thinking about where it came from and what it is. joe biden is a fan of coding the irish coding shamus haney. but biden gives no understanding of understanding the words. history says don't hope on the side of the grief, but then once-in-a-lifetime the long title wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme. justice is as old as the ideas that built our society, from the garden of eden on, god distributed justice and gave laws by which to live. christianity, judaism, and islam all trace their understanding of justice back to abraham.
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we understand it in the west that the idea that the man has rights. the things we own in the life we have and we ought to be protected from crime, being hurt or killed, and the decision must be fined because it must not matter if you are poor, rich, young, old, weak, all-powerful, a society that is just protect your rights, and when someone wrongs you, and we decide together as people reflected by our laws, our judges, the jury of our peers, look at the knee on the back of george floyd and we feel something is wrong. we want justice for the victim, the families, and yes, for the officer, for all parties. civilized people like you know that no matter how angry we are, burning down small stores and restaurants, looting and stealing, assaulting random policeman, attacking motorists and children, shooting down elderly men, we know that is not justice. but there are people who embrace all these things. no justice, no peace, they
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chant, as they smear pigs blood eyewitnesses home. on tuesday night, when a jury handed down the unanimous decision, a lot of right-thinking americans thought this is justice. it was a tragic and terrible thing that happened at an incredible amount of terrible wrongdoing followed across america in its wake, but what was on display is how western justice works, and would have been, regardless of the decision the jurors had come to. they wrongdoing was identified, a party was held accountable. no amount of money or penance for apologies from that person could undo that wrong, but a jury verdict and a jail sentence are the best justice our flawed human nature allows. only god can raise the dead. at this time, we heard something different. this is not justice, we heard, because it does not restore george floyd to us. this might sound strange. the end of this might not be happy because a death still happened, but it is justice, as
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we all understood until recently. as we come as a society understand it. unless we collectively prevent all human mistakes going forward, we don't get to call any attempted restoration justice. joining me now, shelby steele, senior fellow at the hoover institution and author of "shame: how america's past sins have polarized our country." shelby, thank you for joining me, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thanks for having me. >> ben: this is an incredibly divisive time in america. we have seen this verdict come down, and we have seen the reaction from the left to it, saying that it is not enough. that there is not justice within the spirit from my perspective, this does seem like justice, something that was -- we reachet on, what can we do to push back
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against this dominant media and leftist narrative that this is not good enough and there has to be additional recrimination? >> i think the idea that this is not good enough, i agree with you, i think -- i think it was enough. i think it showed our legal system to be focused and detailed and deliberate and earnest. so i thought it was very good in that regard. however, the argument that the other side is making, that the left of america is making, is the verdict may have accounted for what really happened, but it did not account for systemic racism, and systemic racism, ben, basically expands the idea, the claim of racial
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victimization. and when you get to racial victimization, that is one of the greatest sources of power in america, it is the source of power that black americans have wielded now for 60 years. you see it in many, many different areas of life, the corporate world at the moment, coca-cola, delta, and so forth, are all will obedient to that idea of the blacks as victim, sl power, justification, so i think -- on the left, was hoping they could come away with this terrible incident with a clear-cut decision, verdict that would somehow make -- make this man guilty of a systemic crime, rather than a localized crime.
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>> ben: shall be -- >> because it would enhanced the black power. >> ben: shall be, i know you are familiar with the degree to which someone like ibram x kendi, the advocate for antiracism, which as he says, anticapitalism, is funded by these will corporations, is backed by these big money corporate donors and the like. i feel like this is the most toxic thing that we see in america today. i feel like it is basically the real end point of what the left wants to achieve, in terms of breaking our thriving capitalist multiethnic democracy, a republic that has survived and gone through so much and been the envy of the world. what can we as individuals do to push back against what seems like the dominant, corporate-backed,
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identity-based, racist agenda that is backed by all these hr departments and by so many different nonprofits and the like? >> that's right, and those forces are well advanced now, and infused into our culture. in my workplace, it is stanford university, we now have the whole hr sort of focused, that u see across the board in american education and so forth. what can we do? what we have given into in american life, and i think the real source of all of this, is what i call white guilt. not a real guilt, not a feeling of guilt, but a terror of being seen as racist, so that you then act guiltily in the world. these corporations are afraid to stand up and say "we do not
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practice racism." that is why we -- and we don't need, you know, we don't need to be held accountable, or blackmailed into admitting or confessing that we are racist. so, the bludgeon that the left wields here as we were just beginning to see the depth of its power in our lives, you were talking about earlier, cancellation phenomenon. the same sort of thing, from all around, it just sort of ekes its way in. what can we do as individuals? there is no magic in the world. we have to stand up as individuals, we have to find some courage, we have to fight, we have to be relentless. these people are not going to just fold up and run away. >> ben: shelby, you are one of the most courageous intellectuals in the country today, and i appreciate so much,
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♪ ♪ >> ben: today, president biden spent the morning virtual signaling to his far left base and an international climate summit with 40 quantities. countries. he pledged to cut emissions by 2030, but forgot to confront china, the world's biggest polluter. chinese president xi saying thanks but no thanks on the offer to reduce his country's pollution. joining me now, melissa chen. melissa, thank you for taking the time to join me tonight. >> good being with you. >> ben: i want to talk a little about what we see in terms of the relationship between the biden administration in its early going anti-communist chinese party. we see so many different
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elements where i feel like america is projecting weakness, is not really going in terms of any direction that would seem confrontational with anything that the chinese are willing to do, and, you know, the anchorage meeting, in particular, was an embarrassing moment for america. what do you see, the relationship between this administration and china? >> so, there is what is said, what is said on the rhetoric level, but also what is done, and in terms of the biden administration so far, what we have seen is a lot of strong rhetoric. blinken came out just like pompeo did before him to reaffirm that this was what china is doing is perpetuating a genocide. they are strong on words, they sent envoys, retired politicians to taiwan, but it is very cosmetic, and in the climate case, this is pretty obvious. last week, they sent john kerry over to china, and he made, you
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know, the sole agenda of his trip was to get concessions on climate change, and it wasn't about, you know, what was going on in hong kong, no discussion about taiwan, and what it does is it really singles to the ccp that the u.s. government is elevating climate change as this, you know, priority, in this bilateral relationship, and it is a signal -- this is a complete sign of weakness. >> ben: it seems to me like this is an administration that doesn't really want to grapple with the various moral failings of the chinese communist party, and everything that is going on, within china today, because that would be particularly hard and have negative ramifications when it comes to an agenda issue like climate, as opposed to looking at the human rights issues that are clearly an essential and important thing that we need to address and that america in
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particular needs to stand up for. >> yeah, no, you are right, international climate change politics is definitely an arena china knows it can score a lot of points, it is a soft powerpoint, so they know if they position themselves as climate leaders, they will be able to gain brownie points with the europeans and all the western nations, and sure, china is not a democracy and by all accounts a totalitarian techno- surveillance state, but it is a carbon neutral totalitarian techno state. >> ben: isn't it funny how much they have been able to manipulate our international media coverage of all of these issues? melissa, thank you so much for taking time to join me tonight. >> thank you for having me, ben. >> ben: coming up, the george floyd autonomous zone in minneapolis has special instructions for white visitors. want to know what they are? check your privilege, come back after the break.
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>> the george floyd murder trial may be over but the george floyd autonomous on his indefinite, much like portland and seattle protesters, activists are getting awfully comfy and have no plans of leaving stomach leaving the square. and they have rules for visitors especially if they are white. it is a fun sign, white people should "dissenter themselves before entering. bringing her own processing to other white folks he won't harm people of color. and confront white folks doing problematic things. joining me now, and you know, author of the "unmasked. thank you for joining me. tell me a little bit about what your reaction is to seeing this type of permanent racialist agenda advanced in the wake of the george floyd verdict. >> i'm not surprised that they are not going away with these
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autonomous zones whether that be in minneapolis or seattle, it really has nothing to do with the people because it supposedly named after. it's about flexing control against the state and intimate in the public and in this case in minneapolis, the george floyd autonomous, it's a liberal shakedown. they have a list of 24 demands and that includes hundreds of thousands of dollars, the political prosecution of their enemies among other demands. >> this is symbolic but it's also something that i think is deeply troubling because it represents a type of anarchic racialist approach to the way that we engaged in our politics, it is designed to create fear in people that already is a of these areas. what can we do as citizens of the united states to push back against these ideas and to make it known that we are not willing
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to accept this kind of dominance from a mob it designed to scare other citizens? >> unfortunately, i think the fear is legitimate. these are not just boys playing around on the street, they actually have people there with guns and knives and other weapons mending those checkpoints and these areas have become deadly. in minneapolis there was a shooting where somebody died, when i was in on the ground in seattle, there were two murderers and an attempted rape. in terms of what people can do, he would think that you would return to your elected officials to bring some type of control over this anarchy but, these weekly errors, and it's terrified. >> it's really disturbing to see andy, that's one of the few
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people who are brave enough to stand up for one of these folks. thank you for joining me tonight. thank you for watching fox news prime time. i'm been dominance. we will be back tomorrow night at seven. until then, be lovers of the freedom and anxious for the fray. "tucker carlson tonight" is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." good news tonight. after a decades long search by a blue ribbon commission of internationally renowned experts, mckinsey and company and law school, they announced they finally have identified the most utopian policy ever adopted by the western government. they would be looking hard to find that if you would have noticed. leading democrats unveiled their findings which are now a plank in the party's platform. they are g

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