merchandise. will cain will be here. tucker carlson is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there's stunning new video just out. shot by the u.s. navy off the coast of san diego. it shows an unidentified flying object descending from the theol and disappearing into pacific ocean. if you dismissed ufos as ridiculous, you'll want to see this tape. we'll show it to you in just a moment. first, as you have likely heard,

the centers for disease control and prevention have just issued new guidance on who must wear masks and when. turns out, government scientists took a second to check the science and realized oh, wait, everything we've been telling you is wrong. actually, people that have been vaccinated don't need to wear masks most of the time because they're vaccinated. that means they're safe. right. so for the 151 million americans that have already received the covid vaccine, this would be goodli news. they can breathe freely for the first time in a year. they don't need to be ashamed to show their faces in public. people like that are celebrating. but for others, people whose main interest is not public health whose main interest is power, this new guidance is, as we say in the news business, a troubling development. for people like that, letting the vaccinated live without wearing masks raises all kinds of distressing questions. beginning with if people are permitted to dress anyway they

want to dress, how can we control them? more to the point, if nobody has to wear a mask, how are we going to know who the republicans are? how can we be certain toma scoth at? who to feel morally superior to? news organizations are struggling with them as we speak. you've seen the tapes of the super spreaders. you don't know the lady's name but you know who she voted for, the orange man. she's a crazy. has to be. no mask. except now in the wake of this new guidance, you can't know. that's the problem. when everybody was told to wear masks, you, can identify party faithful on site. they were the ones obeying the rules. but now that the rules have changed, what do we do? we could act like it never happened.

pretend like the cdc guidance has not changed at all. that's david hog's plan. he has the crabbiness of an older woman. david has been fully vaccinated, of course. he announced this morning he will continue to wear his mask when he's outside. masking up is inconvenient hog conceded but it's more than worth it to have people not think i'm a conservative. good point, david hog. when you wore a surgical mask after the doctors told you not to, everybody will know your politics not to mentioned your position in society. you're in the ruling class. that's why you can afford to ignore the science. and adopt a public health precaution as a fashion accessory, it's like ancient chinese foot binding that way. it's a mark of social distinction. when you're that powerful, you don't need to walk or breathe. if you hate the idea of a society anddon' people like davd hogue, they allow everybody to go maskless together. that's bad. you can't complain about that

out loud, this is a pandemic. you have to keep your game face on. gand talk about public health. instead, you hear people fret that allowing the vaccinated to go bare face could be dangerous. definitely on a women's position, before this job, wen was the president of planned parenthood, an organization that causes more death in america every year than all forms of cancer combined. say what you know about leona wen.io she's distressed by this guidance. >> i worry. we're going to stores and other settings where they could be exposed. so ifth you're taking your kidso the grocery store or somewhere else, try to go at a time when there's not a lot of people around. if there's a lot of maskless people around, you suspect they could be unvaccinated, leave and come back later. >> tucker: okay. there's the problem there. people lie.

it's human nature. not everyone not wearing a mask has actually been vaccinated. you just can't tell. unvaccinated people are like russian spies. they circulate stealthily among the rest of us pretending to be something they're not committina medical treason. undermining this nation from within. if you think about it. wait a second. why would someone who has been vaccinated worry about encounters an unvaccinated person masked or not? isn't the vaccinated person safe from covid infection? isn't that the point of getting the vaccine in the first place? honestly that is a fair question. unfortunately we're not in a position to answer it. we are not physicians, and we're not msnbc anchors. we don't have the data. take a look at thisis well-adjusted couple on a cable morning news show. they've been fully vaccinatedis but they plan to keep wearing their masks anyway. why? because it's just common sense.

>> if you're on airplanes, buses or public transportation, wear the mask. you still are expected to wear the mask and for your own health you should still wear the mask. i have to say in the future -- i haven't gotten the flu in a year. why will i stop wearing a mask on planes? it makes good common sense. >> it's a good idea. >> tucker: it's just common sense. because masks protect you not just from covid-19 but from everything including from the flu. they're like magic that way. we have to wear them forever. so you're headed over to amazon to throw 10,000 surgical masks in the shopping court. before we do that, do we know that is true? we should check. somebody has to have the numbers on masks. somebody must have checked. in fact, someone has checked. last year the peer review journal of the british medical association took a look at the effectiveness of clothe masks. those are the kind that msnbc

anchors water. -- where on airplanes and the ones that you see at whole foods. surprisingly through was not a lot of data. the authors could find a single study of the subject. the results of the study are worth knowingrs about. it turns out that people that wear cloth masks are at higher risk of viral infection than people that don't wear cloth masks. the masks turned out to be completely ineffective. in testing cloth masks allowed 97% of vapor droplets. they weren't just useless, they turned out to be dangerous. they were literally vectors for disease. "cloth may become damp and contaminated posing an infection and self-contamination risk." oh! so it turns out people that wore the masks that msnbc anchors plan to wear on airplanes, those people were more likely to get

the flu to get infected than people that weren't wearing the masks.la that is amazing. why haven't we heard about that study before? you know, because it was a study with math and stuff. old school science where you test your hypotheses and don't lie aboutat them. the results of the test. in other words, it was racism. we can't have that. if we beat the pandemic, we need fewer studies. watch this public health expert on msnbc explain. >> for all the companies in america that say they want a better society and they say it all the time, the one thing that they could do which they have been unwilling to do thus far is to actually mandate vaccination. it baffles me to this day given the trillions of dollars that was pumped out to businesses to help them during the pandemic, that the one thing that they've been unwilling to do thus far is to help themselves and help society by mandating the vaccine.il

>> tucker: well yeah! it's simple. don't make the case, don't convince people. they're not citizens. they're peasants. force them. why aren't big companies mandating vaccines? punishing people that won't get the shot? it's a fair question. while we're on the topic, why aren't the nih and the cdc doing the same thing? a report tonight suggests that up to half of nih and cdc employees have refused to get the vaccine so far. whoa! who knew there were so many qanon science deniers in science. it's baffling. jeb bush's former flak is not the problem. you have too many rights, buddy. >> why is it controversial -- i understand, you know, a right to privacy and a right to freedom. i don't have a right to go to my workplace unvaccinated. i don't have a right to send my kidy to school without testing them.

to make sure he doesn't become a vector for disease. just the debate gone too far? sure you can do what you want but you can't go on with your prepandemic life if you're not willing to carry your burden in society? >> tucker: why is it controversial? well, exactly, you do it because you're a good person. you need to get vaccinated. if you don't get vaccinated, you might infect people that have been vaccinated. how unfair would that be? it's not like abortion. you just don't have the right to do that.ld some are claiming that if this new standard is confusing -- and it's not. it's a conspiracy theory -- shut up. nothing could be clearer. joe biden said hurry up and get the shots. while we're at it, vaccinate any family member including any child hover the age of five months. your kids may be more likely to be killed by cheetahs than covid. but it is still incredibly dangerous not to vaccinate them

by right away. by the way, they can't get an education or have friends or go to summer camp if they don't have the shot. so do it. once yououme have all but thoroy vaccinated, you must living a those you haven't been vaccinated because although the vaccine is 100% effective and essential, itin doesn't work at all. it's saline solution with little side effects. -- fatal side effects. so take the vaccine but do not trust the vaccine. damn the cdc guidance. the next time you're out with your spouse to prove you're hahn the y same page, your spouse, kp in mind, the person that you're legally married to, the person that you sleep with, the next time you're outdoors with that person, be wear to wear one mask before you kiss her. in the driest, possible way possible. otherwise, if you fail to take these obvious common sense health precautions, millions will die and you'll be helping the cause of white supremacy.io vice president d kamala harris demonstrated this guidance recently. it applies to all of us. you may kiss the bride. sure i will but with the mask on. that doesn't mean these rules

are set in stone. they must be observed but can be expanded. as with mosaic law, pirates will want to build from this. father fauci says to wear a mask. that's fair. it's your duty. especially good people might want to upgrade from there from a mere mask to a plastic bag. same civic-minded spirit behind the project but more of it. plastic is far less permeable than cotton so it's safer. we dare a covid germ to sneak through plastic. go ahead and try it, covid, you can't. for some out there, even conventional plastic might not be good enough. would you trust your wife to a sandwich baggy p or a dry cleang bag? probably not. the truly pious will want to go further than that. they'll want to go with hefty garden bags or the demolition crews use tightly secured with

cords and electrician's tape. it's about safety and sensible common sense precautions. for responsible people that follow those precautions, with the contractor bags, life can finally return to normal. people like that can roast all the hot doings that they please july four. people like that are patriots. they're not doing this for themselves. they're not suffocating for themselves alone. they're doing it for all of us. they're storming the beaches of covid so the rest of us can live as intended'r in fully obedient country. call them heros or martyrs. they earned it. cnn will celebrate these people in a prime time special. these are the brave americans that believed in science. anderson cooper presents the ultimate sacrifice for public health. it's coming. so several states including new york and hawaii are still in the face of this cdc guidance refusing to relax their mask mandates. nancy pelosi is on board with

that. she's refusing to relax the mandates in the house of representatives. she can do that. yesterday floridaat congressman brian mass defied the order. >> madam speaker, for the representative of florida, brian mass, giving the updated cdc guidance, we take off these stupid masks. >> so brian mass standing on science spoke the truth. for that, he was threatened with a fine for being maskless on the house floor. we reached out to nancy pelosi's office and you won't be surprised that they blew us off. congressman mass is on and happy to have him right now. before i ask you why every republican didn't follow suit, let me ask you why you did what you did? >> i'm not go doing to play her stupid game that falls between dog and pony show, smoke and

mirrors an manipulation.that's why. >> so you've been vaccinated. science as communicated by the cdc this week, current state of it is you don't need to wear a mask because you're not going to get covid because that's why you got the mask. what is her position and her argument? g why is she threatening to fine you for not following cdc guidance? >> because they want control. they want control of everybody. let's put the perspective on this. the person third in line to the presidency is saying this in the house of representatives. if you don't wear a mask even though the cdc said you don't need one, annce supports that, you should be fined $500 for the first offense and $1,000 every time after. probably the reason people don't follow suit is because they don't want to be fined 500 and $1,000 respectively. >> tucker: so how many republicans will follow your lead in the face of

tyrannical -- stupid, and honestly deranged we cry environments like this one. -- requirements like this one. >> come monday, they'll toss their masks and hats in the air and say they're not going to follow the rule here of nancy pelosi. >> tucker: i have to ask you, we talked a lot about addressing mental health crises that is clearly hurting america. we're watching a mental health crisis here. i'm wondering how many of the people were still wearing masks after having been vaccinated and reading the cdc guidance telling them not to wear masks. how many, sincere question, how many are suffering from mental illness? >> you have to ask yourself, are you going to use science as just a tool too support your beyond -- whatever your agenda is or are you going to take it for

what it is? are you going to use it when it supports or doesn't support your hypothesis. so if you're not going to use it, you're not being honest. you're not being true or just and that's clearly a problem foi anybody especially somebody part of representative government. i'd make one more point. that's to say that let's see if they use the same fervor when it comes to us physically protecting ourselves with our firearms or things like that. i don't think it will apply in the same situations. >> tucker: one last quick question. the science suggests that people that recovered from covid and have levels of anti-bodies are safer than people that have taken the vaccine. there's 100 million of those people in this country. why are they wearing masks? >> because they're forced to. when you go to the grocery store, they force you to or sedon't let you in. when you go to the airport, they forced you or they don't let you in. that's the place that they want to get to. to force you to disclose your health information or else you'll be fined or not allowed in to somewhere.

if your health information doesn't show that youu have the vaccines that they want you to get and who knows what other vaccines, you won't with able to get in and that is the control. >> thanks, congressman. >> all the best. >> tucker: major footage this afternoon of an identified flying object, literally unidentified.. captured by a u.s. naval vessel. these images were off the coast. of san diego. the pentagon has confirmed that this is real. we'll show it to you and try to understand what it says straight ahead. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: we've interviewed a number of >> tucker: we've interviewed a number of experts on the show. people familiar with footage in the possession of the u.s. military that said there's tape of unidentified flying objects descending from the sky and disappearing to the ocean. today that video emerged. the pentagon just confirmed that footage is real.

you're seeing it now on your screen. it was taken by the combat information center aboard the u.s.s. omaha on july 15, 2015 off the coast of san diego. as far as we know, the ufo in question was never recovered. there was no material indicating a crash. tom rogan is well-versed in the subject. he joins us tonight. what do you think we're lookingg at here? >> well, i think we may well be looking at a true unknown, which is to say intelligently controlled machinery that is not understood to be in the possession of the united states, china or russia, which are the three most advanced countries ia terms of military aviation. the video in itself is limiting what it can tell us, but speaks to as the pentagon admitted, this admitting trend of

unexplained things coming into the public consciousness more than they have before. >> tucker: if you listen to this with the sound up, you can hear the guys monitoring it gasp when it disappears. takes the weather balloon off the table or some meteorological phenomenon off the table. clearly we're looking at something that is intelligently controlled and going underneath the ocean and disappearing. is we're sure this could not be a foreign nation. that is the -- yes. that's why you see people like senator rubio leaning in to the subject, the military office of naval intelligence, which leads the military effort, researching this.

there isn't anything that we have, top secret information about what china or russia have or what we have at area 51 that can do what these things do in terms of variable performance. relevant to this video, in the coming months and years, an area that we will learn more about is the interaction of u.s. navy submarines, nuclear ballistic missile submarines and attack submarines picking up sonar contact of things moving under the water. there's an undersea dimension to this that the navy has pushed to the side as the pilots talk more about their experiences president there's more to come out is the best way to put it. >> tucker: hundreds of knots under water. i think all of us can imagine objects moving at incredible speeds in the air, maybe approaching the speed of light potentially. hundreds of knots under water, i don't think people can deject that. that's been reported? >> thatt is what i have heard

from sources. the navy has the data. one of the big things as we move towards this director of national intelligence report and i do know that the various agencies are taking that more seriously than people might expect as is dni, one of the things that we'll find is over a period of decades, a lot of the data, a lot of the measurement of these things has been put off as technical aberration or essentially a data malfunction. they didn't want to really admit something very serious and special is going on. >> i mean, some of this behavior challenges our understanding of physics this will change a lot of perception. tom, appreciate it. hope to see you soon. >> thanks,e tucker. >> tucker: so you've been hearing for well over four months now that what happened on january 6 at the capitol was a white supremacist insurrection.

now we learned that the department of justice has been hiding from public view a lot of video footage from that day. what has been hidden from the otpublic. we'll tell you next. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: so one of the ways you know that people in charge are lying is when they say something that is clearly not true and then they keep saying it at increasing volume over time and demanding that you repeat it or else they're going to hurt you. you have seen that a lot since january 6, which was they'll remind you lately a dangerous white supremacist insurrection. today don lemon described january 6 as a war with hand-to-hand combat. >> i spoke with a republican lawmaker last night. he told me in the commercial break, he said i fought in the war. i went to war. he said the difference was that i didn't have people denying the realities of war or denying my experience. what happened at the capitol is nothing less than war, hand-to-hand combat.t.ap >> tucker: they bring this drama, these people. it's unbelievable. if they beat you over the head with the same story line, you think it's fair to ask, what are

the details? who shot ashley babbott and where is the rest of the footage of this insurrection? they're not sharing the footage. that's strange. the capitol hill police department is arguing in court that releasing more footage will show that those wish to capitol again. right. the doj is making the same arguments. why are they withholding the footage? julie kelly is a senior contribute tore american greatness. thanks for coming on. do we have any idea how much of this footage they're hiding and what it will show? >> so according to the general counsel for the capitol police, there's 14,000 of surveillance video from january 6 just between noon and 8:00 that day. the capitol police captured 14,000.

that would show what happened before, during and of course after the insurrection. they're refusing to release it saying this will cause the insurrectionists to plot another attack on our democracy and federal prosecutors, joe biden's justin department and federal judges are going along with this. so what are they trying to hide? if this was war, if this was g like pearl harbor and 9-11, don't you think they would want to show the american people of these horrible human beings attacking our democracy? it raises a lot of questions. too your point, tucker, the hyperbolic rhetoric about this should give people pause and make them consider the narrative that we've been told from the beginning about what january 6 was all about.

>> tucker: you know, it's one of many huge lies and of course because, you know, everything is displacement. very quickly, are we any closer to knowing who shot ashley babbott and why? maybe there was a good reason. we give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement. we're not allowed to shoot people in the neck and say on what basis. do we know any answers to the questions? >> we don't, tucker. her family has filed lawsuits against the capitol police and the justice department is trying to get answers. it's important to note that the only person that had a firearm in the capitol that day was the unidentified police officer that shot and killed and unarmed veteran, ashley babbott. the justice department closedic their investigation. we don't know the identity of the police officer. her family is digging around, trying to find out who it is, what happened. the video that we would see might give us more information about that, too.

>> tucker: yeah. you can't just shoot people and not explain whyeo you did it. by the way, if ashley babbott were a blm activist, i'd say the same thing. you can't let people get shot and not get an explanation. we should not allow that. julie kelly, thanks. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: so we haven't seen gas shortages like many of the ones that people are living through right now in more than a decade. why is it happening now? should it tell us somethingno about what lies ahead? victor davis hansen has more perspective on this as a historian. he will bring it ahead.

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>> bill de blasio of new york is living in the 70s. as it was 50 years ago is one of the most dangerous places to be. more than a dozen people have been shoved on the tracks this

year. the homeless are to blame. this year they're going to exceed that number. this morning the violence progressed from shoving to indiscriminate stabbing. according to the nypd, five subway riders were attacked in 35 minutes today all on the same subway line. began around 4:25 a.m. one of the victims was a 40-year-old man. he said someone woke him up and punched him in the face. then a 44-year-old man was stabbed in the right eye. police have arrested four people in those stabbings. new york city's metropolitan transit authority issued a statement blaming the mayor's negligence on this issue. all stabbings could have been prevented by a uniformed presence but that would be insensitive to the vagrants now ruling public transportation in

ninew york. speaking of the 70s, the gas shortages we're seeing across the eastern seaboard and the rising gas prices will reminde people of what it was like to live under jimmy carter. we haven't seen anything like this since 2012 when barack obama was the president. now joe biden is in the white house and all of a sudden, gas prices have shot up in cities like atlanta are basically out of gas. what is going on here exactly? there's a historical context for it and no one can construct that context more ably than victor davis hanson from the hoover institute. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming in. so you looked at this tapestry of events unfolding in the u.s. what does it remind you of?

what is the context for it? >> the perfect storm, tucker. the back story is that we're running 7 to 12% per annum hi inflation this year. we printed $2 trillion in deficits and owe $29 trillion in the national debt. paying some workers more money to stay home than get out. we have this orwellian job shortage but high unemployment. when we need demand, the cure for all of this, we're telling the producing class your taxes are going up, regulations will be more severe and we think you made too much money during the recession. we suppress demands. i would applies to the gas and oil industry, the first thing this separations did was cancel keystone. the second thing they did wasl ban all new exploration of gas and oil on federal lands. the third thing they do, warned it unleashed john kerry to warn everybody that gas and oil would be out of business in 20 years. so this producing class says you know what? we didn't do well during the recession when there was no demand. do we really want to risk and get our rigs pumping and refining gas when we tonight know what the

restrictions or the tax code or what they think of us? so we're not producing oil or gas.e finally, it's a very dangerous thing to provoke vladimir putin unless you deter him. so these hackers know that. they're not afraid of attacking the united states. they're brilliant. they have an insight into the americanst progressive line. they said we're not after charities. we're not going after hospitals. we're going to hack into a pipeline. i think this subtext was, you cancelled pipelines. what is the big deal? if gas goes up, the last administration, $10 a gallon was good. that will suppress fossil fuel. that is a dangerous thing as it is to print money and discourage production. so to provoke the russians and not get tough. joe biden needs to get on tv quick and said we're in an inflationary cycle and i'm

calling on you producers of lumber, oil, food and let's produce and you're going to have a steady regulatory tax climate and we want you to help us out. that's not the message we're t getting. it's going to be like -- ie grew up 40 years ago and saw this happen with jimmy carter. >> tucker: you cripple a country's energy simply, you cripple the country. energy is civilization. thanks for the context. when you put it together like that it's scarier than it was before. thanks, victor. >> thank you. >> tucker: so gas prices are going up. we don't mean to bombard you with the bad news. gun confiscation is too. all of the country, officials are seizing privately owned firearms without any kind of trial. where is this happening? what can you do about it? we'll tell you next.

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>> tucker: >> tucker: red flag laws are unconstitutional. they deny american citizens due process. they are expanding across the country and no one is noticing. they allow courts to seize firearms from people's home even they are not convicted of anything. all the court needs is evidence ofm a potential mental health risk. that could be an estranged spouse saying that. you don't need evidence. last month a vietnam veteran said red flag laws are necessary to save lives. >> red flag laws, we know they save lives. they are practical and proven tools that allow law enforcement under some statutes to keep guns out of the hands of individuals

who possess and pose a danger to themselves or others. >> tucker: individuals who pose a danger to themselves or others. these are the same people telling you what happened on january 6th was insurrection to overthrow the government. theyey are liars. you would not think this would be widespread because it's unconstitutional. we were surprised to learn how widespread it is. in california alone officials revealed that a record 1,285 gun violence restraining orders were issued by judges in the last year under the state's red flag law. what does this mean for you as someone who cares about civil liberties and the country. jessie is a radio show host. this is clearly unconstitutional. will this save hives?

-- lives in the words of richard blumenthal? >> sure in the minds of the communist, it will save their lives. that's all this is. the red flag law. a jury. there are whacked out judges. think about the last 4 years of them calling you a nazi and a white supremacy and your social media account. do people think you are crazy? if the answer is yes, they will knock on your door. i won't live in that kind of country. i would rather send my kids to an internshipdo with hamas. >>y. tucker: if they can disarm why can't they throw you in prison to save lives? >> well, they can and they willt

that's the point of these end around things they do. it's so they don't have to use the law. they are unconstitutional. but this is a bitter pill for the right to swallow. we for a post-constitutional era. when you control that much of the justice system and have radical d.a.'s that won't prosecute anybody in black lives matter but low the black at anybody who walked into the capitol building. that's where we are. that's why people are buying so many guns. i know something is wrong. theyhi can feel it out there. >> tucker: it sounds like it's a huge mistake to explanations at face value. >> it is a mistake right now. i hate saying this because i wish it wasn't this way. it's a mistake your picking anything you see on the news on face value. i tell my kids this:

everything you see is probably a lie. you process it and look into yourself. everything is a lie. that's why they are buying guns. they know something is wrong. these people want to hurt them. >> tucker: watch what people do and not what they say. i think that is really wise, wise advice. jesse kelly, thank you. i appreciate it. >> you bet. we got a bunch of messages from viewers about our documentary series tucker carlson originals on fox nation. the latest episode just dropped. you can find it on foxnation.com. it's an honest look at the most popular rifle in america. the ar-15. people don't know what it is. here's part of the latest episode. >> i got my weapon. >> drop it.

>> i came out the door. >> coming out the other side. >> [gunfire]. >> i wanted to protect my wife and keep her safe. that's why i did that i did. >> tucker: you hear the phrase cats have 9 lives. why? we are about to show you on video. this clip shows a building on fire in the city of chicago. people waited for firemen to arrive but one cat did not. it jumped out of the fifth floor. people screamed. the cat didn't mind. he didn't hesitate. this cat did not wait around for instructions. he just jumped. there is a lesson there. that cat landed on its paws and scurried paw away just fine. go cat. that's it for us tonight.

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