which he says, yes, and we do. that to my friends is what i mean. thank you so much for watching fox news prime time on this national day of prayer. it's pretty cool when you get franklin graham on the program saying a prayer. our nation needed it right now. the again tomorrow night, until then, tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." people haven't been traveling much, they've been stuck at home. if you had a chance to visit new york city recently -- if you have, you know the truth. it's awful. awful, and in a very recognizable way. in new york looks like in new york in the 1970s without studio 54. the city has once again become dirty chaotic and dangerous --

just as in the 1970s, a lot of people who live in new york are feeling. maybe you're watching the show right now mask lists from your patio in fort lauderdale, glass of wine in hand thinking to yourself, why should i care about what happens in new york? i voted to get out of that place. let it rot. that's a fair point. consider another perspective. it new york is the biggest city in the united states, more than 8 million people live there including americans. what happens in new york affects all of us. in the end, we have to pay for the bench anyway. we might as well route for the best outcome. tonight, believe it or not, something good might be happening in new york city, in fact, something good is happening. bill de blasio is heading for retirement. we know that for sure. the single worst mayor in the history of representative government has reached the end of his second disastrous term.

the long municipal nightmare is over. de blasio was leaving. the question is, who replaces him? until recently we assumed that would be andrew yang, a guy who is running for president. we talked to him as he ran, and found that unlike a lot of 20/20 democrats, beto o'rourke -- looking at you. andrew yang is not stupid, he's legitimate smart, at times insightful and willing to talk about interesting ideas in public. unfortunately, in the end, the weight of andrew yang's life contrite and chills, pulled him back to the poisonous culture that produced them in the first place, and he embraced inevitably the dumbest kind of . at this point, the only real difference between andrew yang and then the next unhappy lady browsing whole foods is andrew yang is slightly more articulate, that's odd, and bites the dust. we were wrong.

he may not win. turns out, new york is changing. all of the urban decay appears to have awakened to voters actual issues. according to a new poll, andrew yang is losing to a guy called eric adams, the brooklyn borough president, controversial for many years. in a lot of ways, erica adams is a conventional big-city democrat, into identity politics, too. the differences erica adams is eccentric enough to say what he really thinks once in a while. for example, and his speech last year adams launched into an attack on the liberals who have flooded into new york over the past three decades. you're just an audience of people who have to live with them. quote, you were here before starbucks, before others came. folks are not only high jaeden g your apartments, but save the things that are important to you are no longer important.

what was erica adams talking about? what are the important things that smoke fussy liberals don't want to to talk about? crime and disorder mostly, those matter. once you're afraid of getting shot to death while walking to the store, nothing else really matters. no matter what color you are, crime and disorder ruger life. whatever else he is, eric adams is able to understand that. he spent 20 years as a cop in new york. >> we are facing a crisis unlike anything we've ever seen before. businesses are closing, crime is rising, homelessness is soaring, and our families are struggling. we can't have an education system that fails to put our children on a pathway of fixed success and leave them at a dead end of eight crime and hopelessness. >> tucker: businesses are

closing, crimes are rising, homelessness is soaring. adams said that out loud. by itself, that's a victory of new york politics, reality over dilution. if there's been a rigid code among those smog fussy liberals in new york city that you're not allowed to notice as things fall apart. if if you do notice, you're supposed to think it's charming or diverse or somehow related to equity. more drug ods and pen station, how vibrant spirited before death doesn't think that way at all. he thinks it's awful. there's a solution, don't put up with that make new york city safe again, everything depends on it. >> it doesn't make any consolation if a police officer shoot someone illegally or if a gang banger and blue jeans. no matter what community, people want their families to be safe. that resonates with every day you new yorkers.

i know my message will resonate with them. companies are not coming to new york, our tourism industry is not going to return if tourists are shot grand central station. the first of business is to get it under control. >> tucker: the first order of business is to get violence under control. he would think that would be the top priority. why have a mayor or otherwise? it's not there top priority. even as he pollutes the atmosphere with his weed smoke. eric adams is actually serious about fighting crime. if he becomes mayor, he plans to carry his own gun. he would shoot himself by accident. >> would you carry a firearm on you? >> i will. and number two, i won't have a security detail, children have a

security detail. number three, the hypocrisy of those who have citywide officials that said, you shouldn't have guns in church. of those guys walking with them, they've got guns. >> tucker: you can tell how true something is by how the usual hysterics respond to it. in this case, they were horrified how could you? erica adams later says he might've been joking. as you just saw, he wasn't joking. he obviously meant that. normal voters appreciated it. why wouldn't they? meanwhile, once promising andrew yang has descended deeper into the self discrediting absurdity of modern identity politics, something turns out most voters don't like. who knew? yang was asked about violence against asian-americans, every single human being understands

where that violence come from, but yang did not say that. his solution? give more taxpayer money to racial affinity groups aligned with the democratic party. that will make asian grandmother safe. except it won't make asian grandmothers or anyone else safe, because we tried it, it doesn't work. all that does work is enforcing the law, and most people know that. yes, enforcing the law is the one thing andrew yang opposes. yang has called for taking more money from the nypd budget and giving it to mental health services, whatever that means. in a radio interview, gangs suggest defunding the police by $1 billion, which they've done, may not be enough. >> they did shift $1 billion from the nypd. they shifted it to other things, would you do more than that? because that's what we need to be looking at. if were going to look at the city budget, the nypd is most

likely place to look because were defending a lot of money on the nypd. >> tucker: the sad thing is, people like andrew yang, exeter brown columbia are such craven kisser's, they don't understand the advantage in telling the truth. if he said, are you joking? it defund the police? that's insane. they probably would've agreed. he tried to suck up and humiliated himself. he went on from there, the police should learn martial arts so they don't have to use their weapons, just well-placed karate chops. they've also called for changing the uniforms and titles and police department's across the country. i might rename them guardians and adopt a different color scheme. you got to wonder, if there's still a concern she would see for things that are stupid. grad school liberals love this stuff. it fawning over criminals makes them feel good about themselves,

and when things disintegrate as well, and they just leave. they literally had for the hills, anywhere without the "crime problem." if a lot of them are doing that now. at the liberals who still remain in new york don't have much use for erica adams, where lee is the one black candidate they don't like. you get the feeling he doesn't like them back. he definitely doesn't believe them when they talk. here is eric adams and the radio on july sympathize and with all people, donald trump. >> were in the period of headlines. the truth be, nobody cares about truth anymore. this is an instagram, twitter universe where people say, listen, we do cells that's -- please. moderate thinking,

communication, real facts that don't even matter in this universal and right now. >> tucker: could it be the thing i fallen apart to such an extent, gotten so crazy that someone like erica adams, who you would've left off the stage 18 months ago as crazy himself actually is the sanest guy running, and the one man who can save the city from himself. it wouldn't be the weirdest thing that happens. joseph early is a new york city council member, were happy to have a mountain tonight. thank you so much for coming on. first, andrew yang. is a very smart guy, very smart guy -- i would say the smartest person who ran on the democratic side, certainly smart enough to know that if you defund the police, you will get crime, chaos, and the disorder. why isn't he saying that out loud? because a problem with andrew yang, he is doing what every other tom and harry in the race is doing right now.

he's trying to appeal to a very french very active far left. if they think by using police buzzwords like the fund and social justice and things like that that they will be able to get votes. it then have erica adams come along, who sang something else, acknowledging then policing decreases crime and increase the safety of your community, and isn't too surprising for most people in new york city that he's gaining in the polls as a result. do you go to any neighborhood from posh midtown manhattan, some of the rougher stretches of the outer boroughs, and it still just 1% of people committing all of the violent crime in new york city, even with -- come the rest of the people there don't want those folks in their community making things dangerous, making their streets a place where they can feel safe. >> i just find it hilarious, amazing, reassuring, great that this left-wing democrat, eric

adams is out there making the best case against gun control occurred in a long time, pledging he's going to carry a weapon on his person if elected, and saying he will lock them up and he's winning in the polls. does that blow your mind? >> it blows my mind, but if you do really meet average working day new yorkers, they are very distant. there's a wide delta between democratic party platform and regular people who go to work every day. it's we can paint erica adams as all too rosy, he made his political bones trying to reform the police department from the inside, and he has continued to police reforms. i don't know any democratic policy that has resulted in the city becoming safer or someone becoming safer in their own block. >> tucker: what you just described is a city in which a tiny group of people make all the decisions. de blasio represents no one.

last question, super quick, honestly have you ever met anybody in new york city who admitted to voting for bill de blasio who was elected twice? >> unfortunately, i have. i can't say i don't know anyone. >> tucker: i'm amazed! >> strange, i know. >> tucker: bless their heart. councilman joseph early, great to see you. the one thing you're not allowed to do with the biden administration is go to their administration website" the statistics that they put up. we know because we did that last night. some people were upset about it. if there's a really simple question at the bottom of this manufactured controversy, we will ask it again, see if we get an answer. we will be right back.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: yesterday morning, because we had some time, we went to the website of the federal department of health and human services. we looked up the numbers the biden administration has gathered on vaccine safety. last night, we boldly read those numbers on television. as we did that come in the administration reporting system

for injuries has been incredibly accused of being inaccurate. to that very same system has been used for a long time. what was interesting, what the numbers showed consistently across decades, one vaccine comparing to another. more deaths have been connected to the new covid vaccines over the past four months and to all previous vaccines combined over a period of more than 15 years. very same system, very different results. obviously require some kind of explanation. how does this happen? is that explanation? we still don't know. instead of answering that simple and important question, the usual course of partisans start screaming for censorship. those numbers are wrong -- okay. why hasn't divided the administration fixed its reporting system?

you would think that would be important. mark set the, what are the real numbers? how much harm have the vaccines cause? all medicine can cause harm, acetaminophen can cause harm. in this case, and a medicine that's being distributed to, as the president said the other day, 70% of the u.s. population, it's fair to ask how much harm with this medicine costs? no one has told us. their position is, you don't need to know the rate of injury. that doesn't matter. anyone who asks about harm is immoral. that's what they're arguing. if you ever find yourself arguing that, you will know for certain you have lost the threat. you are no longer at that point advocating for public health coming you're doing something else entirely. the virtual climate summit. can you guess this? climate change is an existential

threat. >> president biden: i'm going to take a moment to thank the world leaders and all of the participants from around the globe who have joined together to confront the existential threat of climate change, no threat like it. it's an economic imperative. i think it's in moral imperative. thank you for joining the summit, and thank you for stepping up to confront this crisis before it's too late. >> tucker: it not everyone was unmoved by that. alexandria ocasio-cortez says she's stepping up. she just now plans to form a civilian court to fight the climate crisis. the question is, to what extent is it a crisis? that's not settled science, it's an open question. to some extent, it's subjective. no a lot about the signs, he explained some of it in the piece published in "the new york post." he is not a partisan, he serves

at the u.s. department of energy in the obama administration. thank you so much for coming on. >> think you for having me. >> tucker: this is a long conversation, i hope you join us at a longer format to unpack it. i want to ask you about some of the claims we hear most often, which is in relation to what their offense a hurricane will rise out of the, we will have a heat wave, a cold snap, all attributed reflexively to climate change, how certain can we be that climate change causes those events? >> when you read the official reports from the u.n. and u.s. government, you find some surprises. for example, even though the globe as warmed by about 2 degrees fahrenheit over the last century, the incidence of heat waves across the 48 states is no greater now than it was in 1900 appeared at the highest temperatures haven't gone up in 60 years.

you've been able to find no detectable influence on hurricanes from humans. the models that we used to predict future climates have become more uncertain, even as they become more sophisticated. so all of the settings suggest that people who say that we have broken the climate and if a certain doom and less we take drastic action are just misinformed about what the official reports actually say. >> tucker: i wonder when you say misinformed, you say conclusively there is no evidence that human behavior has increased the incidence of hurricanes -- that's the opposite of what every news channel i've ever seen stay as fact. how are you the only person who knows that? because not the only person who knows sacraments rightly reports. it sometimes buried. it you've got to go to page 780 something in the last national climate assessment to say that we've not been able to show that humans have an influence on

hurricanes. >> tucker: you worked on this topic and in science more broadly your entire life. how frustrating is it for you to see science manipulated for political ammo? >> i think it's immoral in many ways, particularly when it's being used as a tool to scare young people, create depression, because young people not to have children and so on. we need to have an accurate portrayal of what we know and don't know, and then we can have the debate about what to do about it without using science as a weapon. >> tucker: again, i hope we can have a much longer conversation in another place. last question, he said a moment ago as the measurements become more precise, it becomes harder to know exactly what's going on. is that what you said? because what i said was, as the models become more sophisticated, they become more

uncertain, which is the oppositu are talking about science. that's why i wrote the book titled, unsettled. >> and i hope we see you again, thank you very much. >> great chatting with you. >> tucker: last year a police officer in atlanta was fired and charged with murder for shooting a man at what was very clearly in the video like a case of self-defense. if there's been major development in that case, joinig a snack, we assessed. ♪ ♪ ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart ♪ ♪ live out loud ♪ ♪ you can do it on your own ♪ ♪ stand up now ♪ ♪ be proud, yeah ♪ ♪ stand up now ♪

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>> tucker: here's a story you may recall from last summer in the city of atlanta. in june, police responded to a report of a man passed out drunk behind the wheel of a car in a parking lot at wendy's. here's what happened next. >> are you all right? you're sitting in the drive

through line, here. stop, there it is. >> i just had a few drinks, that's it. >> i think you've had too much to drink to be driving. put your hands behind your back. hey, stop. stop fighting. to stop fighting. you're going to get tased. stop. stop. you're going to get tased! the taser -- the taser! stop fighting! 53. >> tucker: hard to watch. here's the bottom line on it, the suspect, rayshard brooks,

grabbed an officers taser and wept around him pointed it at the officers chasing him, that's when one of them shot and killed him. within a few days, officer rolfe was fired from the forest, and charged with murder. now, he's been reinstated. the service board rule to his firing was unlawful because he was not given due process, something that still observed in atlanta. though not and other parts of the country. he faces criminal charges. one of the people who's been very direct about this case, and fearless on it from day one has been candace owens. here's what she tweeted, rayshard brooks and away from cops with the stolen taser which he attempted to fire at talks. a black lives matter doesn't care about facts, let's burn down atlanta. candace owens is the host of "candace." i'm always reminded by certain people who want to make you be quiet, and it's tweets like that.

do you feel vindicated by this decision to reinstate the officer to the force of atlanta? >> no. i'm actually disgusted by this decision, it should've never happened to the first place. i would be vindicated if this officer never lost his job, that would be vindication. what's happened here, something everybody should be angry about and upset about. all it took was to eyes and did an ounce of morality to call it what actually happened in this case. this officer acted and demonstrated a high emotional cutie. he tried to peacefully arrested somebody -- so kind and call him sir. in the middle of the arrest, he shakes a month, tackles them, and grabs the weapon and sprinted away. he doesn't know if his partners okay, he's chasing him on foot putting his own life at danger, the guy turns around and attempts to fire a weapon at him. in that moment, am i going home or this criminal? people forget that police officers are fathers, they have families to go home to, in this instance, he asked correctly

across the board. what happened? the mayor has come out and spoken about why he was fired in the first place. you know what she said? because if he hadn't fired him instantly and that moment because of the following of george floyd's death, it would've represented a public safety crisis. essentially what she sang, you are scared, we had to fire him because the mob was outside. it was a complete and utter act of cowardice we are talking about. at the mayor know she did something simply to please the mob appeared to she's right. she is correct. had they not fired him instantly, her city would've burned for weeks on end. what does that tell you about the state of america today? when a mob can demand something even if it's not just us, and they give it to them to keep the peace. i'm disgusted with the decision all across the board. i wish i could say i feel vindicated, but i don't. what is happening as the corrosion of values, the corrosion of ethics. where allowing criminals to run the streets, and nobody has the gall to call out what this is.

it's not about black lives matter, we need to protect our police officers. >> tucker: what you described is the collapse of the criminal justice system, when mobs get to tell mayers who gets fired and charged. that's kind of the end of civilization. if we didn't know the race of either the police officer or rayshard brooks that this would've even been a story? >> it would've been, why americans are killed more often by police officers, police officers are 18 and half more likely to be shot by a black man and the other way around. hispanic men are killed more often by police officers. we only hear about it when it's a black man killed by a police officer. in almost virtually any instance, the black man is representing some threat. if the facts don't matter, the feelings do in this circumstance. >> tucker: not good for the country more justice at all. thank you candace, it was great to see you tonight. you keep reading that the

country is getting less religious every year, church attendance down. all of a sudden, you see politicians where it seems like everybody's a fundamentalist baptist all of a sudden. no dancing! no dancing! god doesn't like dancing. several liberals in big cities are laying that out, why? we will assess this anti-dancing craze, next. ♪ ♪

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themselves or their guests in danger. >> mayor, is there any way you would reconsider with masks on end, say, a card that says show fullyvaccinated. >> we are considering opening more activity as our case rates go down and our vaccination rates go up. that's in our hotels, that's in or on other venues. >> tucker: went in with mary bowser become an ayatollah in charge of whether you can dance or not? one of the least progressive per order is stupid and crazy. no, her fellow democrats popped up beard leaders in illinois and michigan who have similar bands to say, she's great. at the governor of new mexico has come out to call her courageous.

>> is there dancing allowed in new mexico? >> all tell you what, if you are socially distanced and wearing a mask and you meet the other requirements with our level of vaccinations, then yes. but i want to give the mayor -- it takes courage to be really clear about what constitutes high risk activities and behaviors. >> tucker: if you're wearing a mask and socially distanced and you are vaccinated, then possibly it will allow you to dance. now, as an epidemiological matter, that's ridiculous. since a deeply mediocre document governor of new mexico, that's courageous. that's all very normal because weddings are needless to say, super-spreader events. [laughs] yesterday some news reader interviewed a woman who would like to get married in washington, d.c., soon, and that woman pleaded with the ayatollah

mayor to reconsider her anti-dancing ordinance. >> let me just challenge you a little bit, you know that weddings have been super-spreader events, what were you planning to do for precautions? >> for sure, and really the safety of all of our guests should be the number one priority. i really think at this point there's a reasonable solution for this. we were planning to all wear masks this entire time during the wedding. if d.c. wants to meet half way and allow standing dancing, mingling, we can even require a negative covid-19 test or show a vaccination card. >> tucker: the most important thing about the wedding is the safety of the guest -- the most important thing about the wedding is the wedding, the marriage between a man into woman. if that's too dangerous, don't come. if your word, get vaccinated. it then you don't have to care

because you are vaccinated, vaccines work, right? oh, no, wear masks bigger to show your vaccine card. it used to be that only religious crazies, the extremists on the radical right were against dancing. if there was a home will be about it back in 1984. >> there was a time for this, not anymore. this is our time to dance. it is our way of celebrating life. >> tucker: yeah, kevin bacon and inspiration to potential brides and grooms all across the district of columbia. if you're as brave as kevin bacon, this could be your wedding. >> i thought this was a party, let's dance! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: people used to make fun of the year 1984, the

haircuts and everything looking back, it wasn't bad. jesse watters is the author of the forthcoming book, "how i save the world which i desperately need saving by jesse watters. it jesse watters, good to see appeared to did you have masks and vaccination cards at your wedding? >> i did not. although, there was a lot of dancing and i think i speak to both of us as white guys with no rhythm, the great excuse for us to not hit the inside. ladies, sorry, it's the law, trying to slow the spread. for the rest of the people in the country, especially middle aged dads, weddings are the only time a year you can bust a move and not be totally humiliated because you're in a safe space with friends and family, you're not at the club with good dancers, so when nelly drops -- nelly is a rapper, you can really let loose and not be ashamed of yourself because

freedom of expression is enshrined in our founding documents. if i want to express myself by doing hostile, the macarena, or dare i say the electric slide come i think that's constitutionally protected. they told us all last summer at these peaceful protests were forms of expression, and they destroyed whole cities. surely, i should be able to destroy a dance floor or two. i don't know, has a democrat ever been to a wedding? they are going to say the bride and the groom, they can't dance. an hour later, they will be consummating the marriage upstairs. from what i know, that has to be a little closer than 6 feet, may be just not sure completely. just be one i don't want to get into this life on tv, but you did just see the vice presidents of the united states kiss her husband as they both wear masks.

it's by no means certain that the consummation will be mask list, is it? >> that is not certain, tucker. i don't know if you understand this, because he probably fly private, but i was on an airplane and the other day, when i was moving into screeching through the aisle, i was making sustained physical contact with a perfect stranger. i don't do that on the dance floor. i was watching the laker game the other day, lebron james backing a guy into the post -- i don't make that kind of contact on the dance floor, it depends on what song that is -- but where's the line? we have kids in cages at the border, if the kids and cages start dancing, is that a crisis then? >> tucker: that's the one offense that can get you deported an ayatollah miriam bowers america. by the way, our viewers will want to view on -- i have a feeling. if there's an opportunity. >> there won't be any fiscal

throne, trust me. >> tucker: thank you very much. so the last year has been completely absorbed by the pandemic. we've been absorbed in it. it doesn't mean this will be the last pandemic or the last major disaster. neil ferguson is one of the great living historians and intellectuals. he's studied this question carefully, written a new book on it. he is joining us, straight ahead.

>> tucker: the coronavirus pandemic has raised a lot of questions about this country, chief among them, how will we respond when there's another major disaster? there inevitably will be, there's no one better to ask the neil ferguson. he is one of the greatest living historians, he's got a brand-new book called "doom, the politics of catastrophe."

he provides perspectives on disasters other generations have lived through and the lessons we can learn from them. we are happy to have you on tonight, congratulations on this book, and thank you for thinking about this question as deeply as you have. you have time for one example, which i think says a lot. it you write about the flu outbreak in the united states of 1957 and 58. what happens and how america responded, if you could explain that, i think our viewers would appreciate it. >> listening to your last item, i was reminded of smith's 1957, heads. people in 1957 took it completely different attitude toward the pandemic. at the asian fluid that year was about as bad as covid in terms of global mortality, not as bad for the west. partly because the u.s. handled it a great deal more smartly. two key points, the federal government response was minimalist, schools weren't

closed, the focus was all on getting the vaccine. they did that faster, and just a few months, then we've been able to do in 2021. second point, i think american society was just better able to withstand that shock of being through world war ii, the korean war, they were still grappling with polio. when you look back at me can't help feeling that the united states was both nimble or in terms of its government response, and also may be smarter in terms of its response as a society. we just haven't come apart in the way, everything's become politicized in our time face masks to vaccines. the america of 1957 i think was a great deal more resilient. i think that's why you don't see any real trace of the pandemic and the economic state, or even in popular memory. who now remembers that? >> tucker: then, as now, a lot of people died. it's hard to assess things from a distance of 65 years, but i think you have in this book describes the attitudes of

americans in the face of watching people die of this virus in 1957? >> a key point, more people died in this pandemic, but disproportionately elderly, 87% over 65. teenagers were very much at risk as well as the very young, the mortality rate of teenagers was up by about one-third -- life years were getting lost because if a teenager dies, that's a lot more life loss at that and if somebody in their 80s dies. you have to realize this was actually one of the biggest shock to society, imagine if our kids had been dying in the numbers that seem the elderly dying. people just accepted this was part of life. as i said, the federal government focused its efforts on getting a vaccine, and we should celebrate the success of american vaccine makers from more settlement back in 1957 to the folks at mentor and who produced really the world

beating vaccine with amazing efficacy. that's how the u.s. came through it. life went on, people were told, you know, if you're not well don't come to school, don't come to work. there was lots of people taking days off, as they had to. i do think it illustrates that was a different approach. not that we could just let the virus rope, i'm not making that argument -- but we can look back and say there's a lot that we did that was overkill. to some of the regulations you've been making fun of, they are still being rolled out today, like the no dancing at weddings role -- these are kind of absurd. i think if anybody from 1957 good hear about some of these regulations, they would realize we've lost as a nation in some ways. a scheme on the most provocative thing you said in that 3 minutes we've been talking is he suggested that the government response to this pandemic may have been medically counterproductive. you're going to have to read the book to find out what you meant by that, but i hope you come back. it's great to have you tonight.

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