they will do what they have done for decades. the greatest theft of intellectual property. that's what is going on with the communist party. >> thanks for watching fox news prime time. i will be back here tomorrow. tucker carlson is next. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for more than a year the united states has been held in solitary confinement. the entire country was told it's immoral to touch a friend to shake hands or show our faces in public. americans have lived in shame. the authorities claim it was worth it. this saved countless lives from covid. they are lying. that hasn't been proved.

we do know these unprecedented mask mandates have driven many americans to the brink of sanity. some beyond of it. we will have more on mask related mental illness, but first what has this isolation done to children? until now we have to guess. tonight we are hearing from a 10-year-old named john who lives in florida. he spoke at a school board meeting to describe what being forced to wear a mask has done to his life. >> i love my school and all. my teachers seamstressed. a teacher yell us at us when we have our mask down to have a drink of water -- she had her

mask down when she was yelling at us. this happens a lot. it seems unfair for teachers to take their masks off while they yell at us kids that we need to keep ours up. mine makes it hard to breathe. i can't catch my breath. that makes me feel anxious. it's stressful. i had a hard time focussing with the mask on. a few years ago i ran into my teacher outside of school and she didn't recognize me because she has never seen my face before. i know my teacher as asthma and i understand where it's hard for her to wear a mask. she should have that choice, but i should too. i feel anxious with my face covered. i am not allowed to go maskless like her.

it's unfair and doesn't make sense! i miss seeing people's face. i am scared we will never go back to normal. >> tucker: we don't put a lot of children on this show, any actually but john is an extraordinary 10-year-old. we are joined by him and his father mike. thanks for coming on. you are brave to do it. john, you said that wearing a mask makes you feel anxious. tell us what you did feel like when you have to wear it at school. >> when i have to wear it at school, it build up stress in me. what do i do? i don't recognize anybody. >> tucker: you said later in

your talk and we didn't play it, but it was the most poignant part. you saw a teacher outside of school and she did not recognize you? >> yes. exactly. because we are stuck in a classroom wearing a mask 7 hours a day. so she hasener seen me or any of my classmates faces before. when i bumped into her at school, i said hi. she is like, oh, wait, that's you? oh, yeah. that is me. she is like hi, john. i don't see your face. all i see is just your eyes. >> tucker: that's so unnatural. why do you think they are making you wear a mask? did they tell you? >> to allegedly keep us safe.

i don't see any science behind it. i don't see the science that masks work. >> tucker: do they ever explain the science to you? >> no, they simply tell us wear it. >> tucker: do they yell at a? >> yes, sometimes. >> tucker: what do they say? >> they say put your mask on because you are being disrespectful to all of us teachers who have to work really hard. we are always working hard too. it's almost 100 degrees outside. we for cloth masks and you expect us not to be hot? and complain. it's insanity.

>> tucker: nicely put! and narcissistic. mike, has the school communicated to you why they are doing this? the chance of a 10-year-old dying of covid is much lower. >> no, i asked a basic question at my wife. at what point do we get to mask optional? i asked the principal and ran up the chain to the school board. there was no answer. there was no objective evidence. they haven't looked at this for over 7 months from when they did the school reopening plan. it became apparent to me no one was looking at this. this should be the most important thing. we are talking about the health and well being physically and psychologically of our children. no one was paying attention to it and managing the situation in terms of when do we get to mask optional? when does that happen?

>> tucker: did the principal and the teachers and school board welcome your questions as a father? >> we get 3 minutes in a public meeting to comment. there is no dialogue. there is no transparency. they quote they are following the science but they have not provided what that science is they are relying on to keep the kids mandated in masks. everyone else in the state of florida -- we have a great governor -- saying let's get life back to normal. why is the school exempted from this? why can they make their own rules counter to everything? now we are hearing from the cdc finally and our governor and commissioner of education. our school board is making this decision on their own without any transparency or rationale for doing this.

>> tucker: my producer said we have video of you today or yesterday at the school board meeting. it shows the reception you got. there it is. it looks like you are being asked to leave. >> i was. [laughing]. i was trying to wrap up my comments. they asked me to leave here and told me i was trespassing, which i think i will be banned from speaking at future school board meetings. they have don't like the message. they don't like it when someones and questions to hold them accountable for the safety and well being of 18,000 students and 2000 staff members. our school district has a positiveivity rate of less than 2%. do we have to get to zero -- when does this insanity end. >> tucker: are the father. you have a right to ask about

your child. >> absolutely. what is more important than their health and safety? >> tucker: nothing. one last question, john. you said in your talk to the school board, which i am grateful that you delivered, you were confused because you were why would at for pulling your mask down to drink water but your teachers as they were yelling at you had pulled their mask down. what does that make you think? >> i was like, hmmm. is this the school policy? they are allowed to take their masks off when we take our mask down to get a drink of water? is that the new policy? no, i don't think so. a lot was going through my head. what do you mean? you have your mask down when we have our mask down to drink water and you are yelling at us

to put it up when yours is not up. there is no logic. >> what is that called? >> hypocrisy. >> tucker: they don't like it when a lot goes through your head. you are a skeptical young citizen. i hope there are millions more like you. thanks for coming --. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: to stand back for a minute, the science shows us clearly for young americans the risk of dying from coronavirus is minuscule. a 22-year-old in new york has a 0.6% chance out of millions dieing from this virus. our odds of drowning in a bath tub or being hit by lightning are higher. the great unmasking is upon us but not everyone is happy.

in neighborhood littered with signs about blm and climate change we have a mental health crisis on our hands. many americans don't want to stop wearing masks. they want to hide behind paper. why? there is no science. it's a neurosis that is spreading fast. this last thursday an anchor on good morning america admitted he is suffering from anxiety at the thought of showing her face in public. >> dr. fauci, help us with the mask situation. i live in new york. walking down the street, i stopped a random lady and said have you been vaccinated? she said yes. why are we wearing our masks? she said i don't know. [laughing]. i said me too, ma'am. i think we feel guilty or it's

not time. it's monkey see, monkey do. do you think it's okay? >> tucker: that's not isolated. cnn published a piece by a psychologist who said his patients have anxious nightmares over going maskless. some feel compulsive about mask wearing and this won't abate because of the cdc announcing they don'ted have to do this. -- children are also suffering from this condition. some of our youngest kids may not remember a time when we were not wearing masks and staying far apart. is there anything sadder than that. other outlets notice this. the "new york times" ran a piece on people refusing to get rid of

their masks. it focussed on joe glickman who wears a mask on his face with another cloth mask and wears goggles. he has been vaccinated and always had the vaccine. our hearts go out to him. the problem is there are a lot of people like him in the country. what do we do about it. brit hume joins us now. we are talking about people who have been vaccinated or recovered from coronavirus and have levels of antibodies that protect them from reinfection. yet they are still wearing masks. what do you make of this? >> you are right, tucker, this is a nurosis. -- neurosis.

one thing that contributed to this is the early messaging and the coverage by the media. there is an old saying that no news is good news and good news is dull news and bad news makes marvelous copy. bad news about the coronavirus dominated the coverage to the exclusion of things we have known from the beginning that little kids like john are largely invulnable to theodies. -- disease. nor are they likely to spread it. the school is closed because they believed they would spread it to the teachers and they will die. kids may not get sick but they will kill other people. there is no study that shows

that. the kids were out of school. now forcing them to continue to wear masks even in florida which is an open state. it's a form of collective madness that is passing from many people who wised up. too many people have not gotten over it. >> tucker: why would you want to terrify your population to the point where they exhibit symptoms of mental illness? that seems cruel. >> it's been a failure to trust the public. people thought in the beginning, people like dr. fauci who at first said something was a moment of candor from him. a years ago or longer when he said, i don't think everybody needs to go around wearing a mask. it might catch a couple of drop lets but it won't give you the protection you want. i think he was right the front

time. i don't think these masks do much good. he later brought into it and advocated wearing a mask. i think what happened after that was, when the thing began to spread, they were afraid that people could not handle the truth. they told them to wear masks. after having told them not to. that was a nobel lie because you would cause the ppe and masks to be in short supply and nurses and doctors would not get them. the message from the cdc up to and including the most recent announcement which should have been a relief to everybody. cdc poisoned the well of trust in itself, people don't know what to believe. i don't blame them. >> tucker: i agree.

they act if there is no cost to hiding your face from the fellowman. it's a huge cost. >> and you think of that little kid and the girl in the track meet who collapsed because she ran a race wearing a mask outdoors. that was insane. we have known that from the beginning. here we are. >> tucker: brit hume, thank you. >> you bet. >> tucker: for a long time people who thought well maybe ufos were real were embarrassed to say that out loud. you are into conspiracy theories. it turns out that ufos are real. the military has known this for a long time. the u.s. navy has been encountering them every day over years in restricted air space. it's beyond belief.

there are more ufos. more after the break. >> ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: for a couple of years we have done regular segmentes on ufo's. there is evidence there is something to this thing. in the last month or two, we have been drowned on evidence. on sunday we learned that ufo's have been flying into restricted air space off the coast of virginia ever had for years.

we learned on "60 minutes" a commander said he witnessed a ufo flying in the pacific ocean in november 2004. >> we saw this little white object. moving above the right water. >> he went in for a closer look. >> it goes like this and mimics me. >> it was about the size of his f-18 with no wings or exhaust plumes. >> i see how close i can get. it gets right in front of me and disappears. >> tucker: we talked to david last night. he told us something we didn't know. he sees a ufo clearly flying a military jet in 2004 but the

military doesn't save the tape of the incident. why wouldn't you? it's clearly a security risk? but you ignore it. how many ufo's have been ignored by the u.s. military and how many hidden? leslie keen might know the answer. he joins us tonight. it's baffling on a bunch of different levels. this has happened a lot. not just a few times but according to "60 minutes"er day for years. what is the military's response? >> i didn't know until last night some of the data has been conif i -- confiscated or we

don't know where it is. we have a ways to go. we have a report coming up. i think we are moving forward in a good way right now. >> tucker: any idea why after 70 years of lying about it, the military is putting out details like this? is this a pr-strategy? >> i don't think it's an orchestrated move. i think the circumstances happened to precipitate this. luis resigned from his job and revealed the fact he headed up a program there for 10 years with the happen of harry reid. nobody knew there was a program within the department of defense studying ufo's until that moment. that was a huge revelation.

three videos were released. the military has been forced to acknowledge things they would not admit before that. >> tucker: leaking got them moving. we will have more tomorrow night. do you have any idea why generations of military officials felt the need to cover this up? >> it's such a big and complex question. it began in the '40s and 50s and '60s during the cold war. there were concerns dealing with russians. they didn't want things to get mixed up with the russian aircraft. there is a concern what to tell people. it shows advanced technology.

what do you tell people when you can't stop it or explain it? there is a stigma that you are aware of. it's been considered for decades to be something ridiculous. people don't want to talk about something that might damage their careers. there are so many factors that kept this under wraps. we are at an important time. i am happy to see it changing after all of these years. >> tucker: i am too. it's important to tell the truth no matter what people think. >> thanks you for your coverage of it. >> tucker: it's fascinating. it's hard to think of a bigger story. great to see you. it turns out you are required to believe that kamala harris the vice-president is [inaudible]. if not you are on the list. who else is on that list?

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california for his living arrangement. when politicians do something right we want to say something. kevin mccarthy won't support a commission to investigate the insurrection of january 6th. people dressed up to over throw our democracy. steve scalise is also against the commission. why? because it's a farce. it's a complete farce. it's partisan as hell am it's fakes. don't play along with the fraud. -- >> the police are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully. gather for america they will gather peacefully to discuss

waneeds to be done for the sake of our country. >> [shouting]. >> we are going to be heard. >> everybody, this must be peaceful. >> we have the right to peacefully assemble. >> tucker: that's one view of the insurrection. we give you more. the federal government is hiding apparently thousands of hours of video from inside the capitol from that day. we don't need a 9-11 style commission to see it and they could tell us who shot ashli babbitt, the only person killed that day. but the people you saw in the video, some thanks to joe biden's justice department have been charged with crimes. not sedition.

if they are murderers, charge them with murder. no they were charged with trespassing. dozens have been kept in solitary confinement in the d.c. jail. that's not enough. now they need a 9-11 commission to investigate because that was our 9-11. house speaker nancy pelosi said this commission is about finding the truth, but she is the same person who supports blm and the antifa riots over the summer. we are not guessing about that. she defended antifa when they destroyed portland. >> these are the remnants of the

riots in portland. there were agitators blocking traffic and setting fires and throwing things over the fence. >> [loud blasts]. >> tucker: in a civilized country you punish people equally. that's the opposite of now. the last administration sent federal agents to stop antifa nancy pelosi said it was a violation of their rights. chuck schumer called it despicable. maybe that's why nancy pelosi is

keeping them out of the 9-11 commission. nancy pelosi defends her own voters at all cost. republicans should never defend violence or rioting. a lot on january 6th and they haven't. but they should defend people being kept in solitary confinement for trespassing. they are not pushing for answers to questions. people like congress john of new york, the top republican on the house homeland security committee, is pushing for this 9-11 style commission. anywhere from between 30 to 50 republicans might join him in voting for this farce. they are voting to give nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and joe biden more power, power they did not win in november.

republican voters deserve to know the name of every congressional republican that votes for this farce. they should know which representative is playing along with this poisonous hoax. we hope they will learn soon. kamala harris may not seem that impressive to you reading through her bio. kamala harris wants you to know she is deeply impressive. she is a civil rights iowa con, and has been since she was a toddler. >> i was in a stroller. my mother told a funny story. i was fussing. she said kamala harris, what do you want? i said freedom! [laughing]. >> tucker: that's fake.

kamala harris didn't grow up in this country. went to high school in canada. whatever! here speeches are part of her lived experience. they are false but you are not allowed to say so. anyone who doesn't go along with these experiences winds up on an enemy list. in a piece in a magazine harris tracks reporters who don't appreciate her life experience. she doesn't like the word cautious and aides look out for synonyms. whatever they hate to be called they deserved to be called. that's the rule. vince, don't call her cautious or you wind up on a list? >> from now on i will use that. and every sinanymore i can find.

-- every night before going to bed she googles herself and is obsesses with the results and how people are referring to her. it's depressing and pathettic. it's par for the course for her career because she spent so much managing nothing else other than her own image. she believes in nothing and yet stands for everything to enable her politically. as a prosecutor in california, how many black people she imprisoned and now he is against

systemic racism. she accused joe biden of being racist and accused him of sexually assaulting women. she no longer says that. she is his vice-president. she was assigned the border crisis. how many times has she been there? zero times. she just wants to spend time reading google results. >> tucker: she kisses her own husband with a mask on after both have been vaccinated. that's weird and creepy. >> it's either super neurotic or she thinks it's good messaging. one thing that stands out in the

atlanta piece which she is by herself and the kamala harris are off her favorite subject: herself. >> tucker: vince, great to see you. thank you. mark, you will remember him from last summer. a homeowner in st. st. louis. blm showed up on his own property and he brannished a fire arm and he was arrested for it. he is making a major announcement after the break.

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>> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: late last june a mob of ibm lunatics chased a gate on the mcclosekey's lawn. they didn't know anyone. they were the wrong color. they went inside and got

firearms to defend themselves. you can't defend yourself in your own home with a mob shows up, it's not worth living in the country. we had mark on the show 2 days later. he was a democrat. it didn't matter. prosecutors filed criminal charges against the couple a few weeks later. their lives changed and a lot of their opinions changed. now mark is running for the u.s. senate as a republican in the state of missouri. here's part of his announcement. >> when the angry mob came to destroy my house and kill my family. i took a stand against them. i am asking for the privilege to take that stand for all of us. when the fascist mob came to my door it woke me upiment saw the future of america if we don't

all stand up and defend our rights. i will defend the people of missouri. you have my word. i will never back down! >> tucker: mark joins us now. boy, that moment changed everything for you it seems like. >> it really did, tucker. i will have to correct one thing. i have never been a democrat. that was the worst fake news slur hurled at me. i have always been a republican but never been a politician. god came knocking my door disguised as an angry mob. it woke me up. as i com -- campaigned for the president, i learned the people are sick and tired ever cancel culture and the poison of

political race theory and the lie of systemic racism. people don't want any more posers going to d.c. all we hear is talk. nothing every changes. it seemed to me that people have to stand up. every one of united states needs to stands up and say we are a free people. we will pull the power back to the people. the people that need to go into politics at every level from the local school board like your guest john earlier today. to local city council and the mayorses and state senators and united states senators, you have to send people to d.c. that are willing to tell the truth and fight for our freedom regardless what have it costs you personally, economically, socially. if we don't stand up now and take this country back, it's going away. we used to talk about the erosion of our civil liberties. since this administration took

over there has been a slaughter of our civil liberties and institution of what can't be called anything but socialism. people paid with our money to stay home and not work. our president says, gee, i don't think that's taking place. everything is nonsense. everything is upside down. it's time to straighten things back up. >> tucker: i forgot this one fact. watching the video of that day june 28th of last year, you were denounced by the "washington post" as a racist for defending your house but a lot of mob were pampered white kids. i don't know how i forgot that. congratulations. >> if everybody out there can help out, 5 or 10 dollars. i appreciate it. the left will come down on us like a ton of bricks. we need all of the help we can

get. >> tucker: thank you, mark. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: more news next.

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the numbers will be hidden and you can decline to be weighed. >> tucker: amazing. trace gallagher, thank you. that's it for us tonight. kirstie allie on tucker carlson tomorrow on fox nation. now sean hannity. >> sean: we are tracking majors stories including the a bombshell report on the corrupt biden family going beyond ukraine and china and everything we knew. we have new emails that show zero experience hunter biden was making plans to get his own father a piece of the pie and joe had to know. also tonight we will have the low lights from biden's big trip to michigan. at one point, a irritable joe