a lack of truck drivers. we will take you on that drive around the country. it's a big deal. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by lawrence jones starts in five seconds. >> lawrence: great show, bret. thank you. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ >> lawrence: thank you for joining me. i'm lawrence jones. and tonight blue states problems are coming to texas. you may have heard that my home state of texas just picked up two congressional seats one from california and one from texas. it's not hard to understand why texas is a great place to raise a family. it's cleaner, plus the school is more prevalent and the cost of living is much more affordable. americans want to be free. they don't like being restricted by government that locked threatt them down, masked them up and taxed them into oblivion. people fleeing to texas from cities like los angeles or new

york might be surprised to find familiar problems waiting for them in the lone star state. i mean, austin. the capital city of austin is facing a crime problem, a drug problem, and a homeless problem. basically all the quality of life issues blue state transplants thought they were leaving behind. residents say they have never seen anything like this. but the city leadership run by democrats, well, except for the lone republican there, they are completely denying it. so i went to austin myself to see it. watch. >> you are down here, you are ready to party. >> it's a busy city. >> we come out to have some fun. >> it's a great time. everybody is safe. >> it's america. it's my home. >> lawrence: this used to be one of the crown jewels of austin. but, as can you see, another tent city. >> never been like this before. >> i'm a democrat but i have learned my lesson. >> i'm just freaked out.

>> something needs to be done. >> lawrence: two years ago, the city council voted to get rid of a city ordinance that banned camping on public land and parks. the result 11% increase in the homeless population. >> you have people that are assaulted, people who are robbed. we have had home invasions. >> one night i was at my neighbor's house and we saw them cleaning their guns. >> you found needles? >> yes. on the floor. i didn't know what it was. i picked it up. >> austin is starting to look like skid row. >> that is the last thing i want to have happen. >> the guy is walking around with a machete threatening people. >> it started with box cutters as a weapon. now we -- sadly we joke that we are the machete capital of texas. >> this may the city residents got their voice back when they voted in a landslide victory to reinstate prop b what is the city leadership doing here in austin? >> the city of austin lets them do whatever they want.

please do your jobs. leave your needles so gets little kids can get. >> we as a people and citizens are led to fend for ourselves. >> lawrence: do you want that to be the image of austin? >> one of the reasons i don't like that image because i don't think it's true. >> a guy is walking around right outside of city hall with a machete. threatening people. that's illegal. that's breaking the law. >> and we're dealing with that with a tough challenge. >> they voted to defund the police last year and reallocate money, and, as such, officers are leaving at very high rates. i think the cause of our illness that is taking over our city is failed leadership. >> i have got to say i talked with the cops. they tell me that they want to be able to enforce the laws but they have been told to stand back. >> my police chief tells me that's not true. >> i know one thing, constant.

we are going to vote them out. we could either escape or run from this problem or face it straight on and we can make a positive change. >> do you have a commitment to go and engage these members of the public to come up with some sort of solution? >> absolutely. it's my practice and i have been doing that. ♪ >> lawrence: don't worry, guys. the great mayor is dealing with it do you see it? our next guest helped lead the effort to reinstate austin's public camping ban. co-founder matt coveiac. thank you for joining the program today. what is the leadership doing to rectify this problem? there are literally tents surrounding city hall. i asked the mayor about it he said they are dealing with it you live there. what's happening. >> no. they are not dealing with it that's a falsehood. there is no other to use to describe it what's amazing, lawrence, and thank you for coming to the city to tell the story. we appreciate it it's been illegal to camp at city hall

even before the ordinance took effect 2019. it was a curfew building. always illegal to camp there. they have been camping there since we had 58% victory on may 1st. 91,000 austinites made their voices heard we don't believe it's good for our city. we apt clean and safe city. this camping disaster has to come to an end. if you look the last three fiscal year the city has spent $161 million. we have gotten very little for that now they are proposing spending $500 million over the next three years to house just 3,000 people. we can do better than that we must do better than that. >> lawrence: forgive me, brother, we are both from texas. we have got a lot of pride. we are not like other states. so, when you have kids picking up needles at the park. when you have trafficking going in these -- the public expects you to do something. matt, these aren't republicans saying this these are democrats. austin is a liberal city and the liberals there are saying enough is enough.

>> yeah. we analyzed our vote through early vote. we haven't analyzed election day yet. early vote more than half of the overall vote on may 1st. 40 democrats supported prop b. effort to 92% of republicans. that's why we have the decisive victory we h you are right. look. every major intersection and city park and neighborhood has been made byst worse by this problem 9 to 2 vote when they passed this camping ordinance. lawrence, it's very simple. a camping ordinance has never succeeded anywhere it's been tried, los angeles, san francisco, portland, honolulu, chicago, washington, new york. did you go down the list. it's never succeeded anywhere it's ever been tried. austin is, i think, one of two major cities that's ever reinstated a camping ban. san diego, i think, was the first. we have done something significant here in a city that only has 1% republicans. we have showed that 60% of the people will stand up and say enough is enough. if they believe their quality of life and their standard of living have been affected by a policy that doesn't work. >> lawrence: you know, i talk to

the leadership there. but i also talk to the cops that are on the ground. they said they are not being able to enforce the law that's there currently. they are told to back off. when the public tries to call them, they can't do their job. you know, they have decided they want to basically defund the police there. how is that contributing to the problem there? >> that's a great question, lawrence. i would say stay tuned. we are going to have an announcement on defund the police effort tomorrow. go to save austin now.com to learn more about that. you are right. defund the police combined with the camping ordinance combined into a toxic cocktail for public safety in our city. that's why our city is facing these consequences. look, take one example. city parks have been an area where you are not allowed to camp even during the ordinance. but the city council directed the police not to enforce the camp camping ban in city parks. so we have had city parks destroyed over the past two years. in fact, after we passed our ordinance on may 1st. they shed said we are going to

move them into city parks. thankfully buckingham and kaprigiloni worked together to ban that last week it will go to the governor's desk as soon as poem, i believe. cooler heads are prevailing. wiser people are stepping forward. you can have compassion to the homeless but recognize that unregulated camp something a disaster. not just for the residents but also for the homeless. we have to do better than this there are better solutions that we can put forward. >> lawrence: i just came back from venice beach in los angeles. i think we have got some footage of this. >> it's awful. >> lawrence: camping all over. crime. they are setting fires everywhere. what do you think about the sentiment that the people that fled this disaster are coming to austin and experiencing the same thing? how does that make you feel as someone that not only lives in austin, but as a texan? >> yeah. i grew up here. i have been here since 1984. 10 years in d.c.

i am staying here and fighting like we did with the alamo. i'm staying in austin and going to fight. democratic activist we are shoulder to shoulder in nonpartisan way standing up for average citizens who want a safe and clean city for families, for children, so people can go to city parks. that's all we are about. so, no, it offends me that austin is trying to replicate failed models of places like los angeles and san francisco. why we would try to do that. in fact, our mayor, went to los angeles and san francisco to see what they were doing after they passed the camping ordinance in june of 2019. it's a ready, fire, aim approach. s it makes no sense and that's why -- >> lawrence: are republicans going to step on this battlefield and fight for austin? because there has to be a competition there of something better for the people of austin. >> look, it's not about partisan politics. in the 10 districts we had you could probably argue three of them could perhaps be represented by a republican. we're a city that's only 21% republican. this is not about partisan

politics. it's about safe neighborhoods, it's about a clean city. it's about a city that cares for our homeless and takes care of them. about a city that stands up and supports and defends our police. those issues cross party lines. that's why we won 40% of the democratic votes in a city when every democratic organization stood against what we were trying to do. we have to have all austin knights rise up enough is enough. the council can keep doing we are going to fix the problems. >> lawrence: the country deserves better. it's happening all across the country right now. i just wish the leaders would stand up and open up their eyes and do what's right for the citizens that are paying their bills their taxes. anyway. thank you so much, sir. >> thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: "new york times" journalists just admitted why the mainstream media was so quick to dismiss the wuhan lab leak theory as a conspiracy. they trusted china more than trump. >> i think that it was, you know, example 1,000 when the

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>> jesse: welcome back remember last january when senator tom cotton said the coronavirus was the result of a lab leak? of course you do. articles like these were everywhere an attempt by the media to discredit his claim. but fast forward a year later and it turns out tom cotton wasn't a conspiracy theorist he was right on track. now the media has some explaining to do. who were they blaming? donald trump. >> president trump and mike pompeo, the secretary of state both suggested they had seen evidence that this was formed in

a lab and they also suggested it was not released on purpose but they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and because of that that made this instantly political, i think it was, you know, are example 1,000 when the trump administration learned that when you have burned your own credibility over and over again people are not immediately going to believe you, especially in an election year. >> lawrence: joining me live is senator tom cotton. senator, they do this every time. they lie, they spin and we never hold them accountable. >> no. lawrence, good to be on with you. the media last year was singing a very different tune. that was because i was pointing out that common senses this virus probably came from those labs. i mean, it originated just a few blocks down the road from them in a city larger than new york, not exactly known for its large bat population. because the media doesn't like my politics and because president trump said the same thing, the media lied and they

spun and they spun the chinese communist party in effect. there needs to be an accounting for all of the reporting last spring that the denied this reality now that almost every mainstream outlet is acknowledging not only is it possible it's probably the case that this came from the laboratory in wuhan. >> lawrence: so, only the public can hold the media accountable. i know watching they covered because they didn't like the information was coming from. meanwhile, china is laughing at us. they are using it as propaganda. what did we use from an investigation standpoint to hold china accountable because that's the real issue? now that we know this, now that we know that we need to investigate even more, what are we going to do about it. >> yeah, lawrence, that's really the bottom line. i mean, the media lies and spins all the time about republicans but what really matters that the american people understand what happened in wuhan. imagine if it turns out that the chinese communist party through

its negligence and its deceitfulness was responsible for unleashing this plague on the world. we need to demand answers. the biden administration needs to in and answers. not continue to participate in the world health organization's white washing of the chinese party's malevolence. we need answers we need a penalty for not giving us those answers. until then, i think most americans are reasonable in using their common sense to presume this virus most likely came from those laboratories. >> lawrence: senator, i want to be careful here because i know a lot -- you are an elected official, you get intelligence. i know that as an american, am i wrong to think that it may be possible that china may have did this intentionally? >> well, i haven't seen evidence of that lawrence. but i think the evidence we have all points to that laboratory. the evidence that we have gained

since last summer point to the laboratory as well it only took a few months to find the original host animal for sarsz likewise original host animal for mers. they haven't discovered anything. you would think it f. they actually believed it came from food market or bats out in the wild they would be producing those animals. they haven't done it again, the chinese communist party silence going all the way back to late 2019 speaks volumes to the american people lawrence so i have got to ask this. the w.h.o. isn't going to get answers for us. so who can get those answers? >> well, it needs to be the biden administration acting in concert with our allies demanding that china finally open up those labs. they provide records of what was going on there be that they provide access to the personnel and if they don't do that i mean, we need to stop all of our cooperation with china on any kind of scientific endeavor. look, we have just learned in the last few weeks that tony

fauci and his agency was indirectly funding very dangerous research in these laboratories to make coronavirus more contagious. dr. fauci needs to answer those questions. more importantly, we need to ask why are american tax dollars going to chinese laboratories? and our ally friends around the world need to ask the same thing. we need to use that leverage and other points of leverage we have in our trading relationship, in our economic relationship with china to demand that they finally provide transparency to the world. >> lawrence: tony fauci refuses to answer questions correctly. he spins, spins, spins. rand paul asked him was there funding going on? he started to split hairs. and that shows you where he stands on this. quite frankly he shouldn't have a job. senator, i hope you guys continue to hold him accountable. thank you. >> thank you, lawrence. >> lawrence: now, this what happens when a virtue signaling over action. take a look at what went down in minneapolis as a reporter was covering the anniversary of

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>> lawrence: sounds like gunshots because it is gunshots. more than two dozen shots fired in broad daylight just feet from the memorial for george floyd. reporters and bystanders caught on camera running for their lives. photo op. conversation brazen gunfire empty gestures in american carnage. the contrast is jarring but emblematic of where we are in america right now. the public virtue signal something more important than taking action. we have a president in the white house who promised to fight for the soul of america and heal the deep wounds across this country. today 143 days since biden took office and a year after george floyd's death, where are we now? let's look at the city of minneapolis. have the democrats made life there any better than a year since george floyd was killed? let's check? they defunded the police and watched crime skyrocket. homicides are up 112%.

rapes up 29%. aggravated assault up 63%. things have gotten so bad that they have to scramble to refund the police just months after defunding it joe biden urged congress to pass the george floyd police reform act by today. so where's the bill? where is the urgency to get this deal done? or did the democrats think that their work was over when they threw on the cloth and took a knee? let's be honest for a minute, if the democrats managed to solve america's policing problem, there would still be major systemic issues facing black america that needs addressing. jobs, education crisis. and faith in leadership. these are issues that the federal government can't begin to solve. they need to be fixed on the local level. they for this. so who is going to step up? i know someone. how about king randle, a 21-year-old founder of x for boys, a marine veteran and he joins me right now.

so, king, what needs to happen to solve this problem? >> i definitely think all of us -- well, all of us should hold our leaders accountable in their different positions where they are in each of think cities. i feel like watching media and looking on social media et cetera is kind of taking us backwards because we are not holding our leaders accountable. we are pointing fingers you know at everyone except our leaders and we won't hold them responsible for what's going on in our communities. >> lawrence: king, i have been so proud of your trajectory because you are out there fighting for the community every single day. you just bought some land. you are helping raise young men up. teaching them about firearms. you are educating them. tell us about what you do every day. >> well, i work with children. i have been working with them for two years now. i actually started taking temporary custody of children in my home. i work with children that have been molested. they have been sexually abused. that have been starved at home, et. these children don't have anywhere to sleep. i take them into my home and i

make things happen. we are in the process of opening a school for these children in the city of albany, we are actually purchasing the school from my local school system and we have been working on a deal for seven months with our local school system but they have been giving us pushback in trying to do things that are blatantly counter republican tia as to what we are trying to do. we are trying to open our own private school in the city of albany yet our school board leadership doesn't want those things to happen. >> lawrence: so the school board leaders, if you are trying to help kids, you have a proven track record. the kids love you, look at them. this is black america right here tell me what they're doing exactly to try to block you from helping these kids? >> absolutely. well, we are actually trying to purchase the school from them that was up for demolition. mind you, i said the school was up for demolition and they gave us a contract back -- excuse me a purchase sale agreement that say they want half a million dollars. over half a million dollars for this school up for demolition.

i wasn't really even too upset about that until i got the contract stipulations. i havener seen a purchase sale agreement where the seller tells a buyer what they can and can't do with a building. they put in the contract and said that the deed of conveyance shall contain a youth restriction that we cannot use the school that we're purchasing to open a private or a charter school unless the county school system is providing educational services. meaning they would get funding for the students come to our schools and we can't teach what we want to teach. we have to let -- paying them to handcuff us to them. i find that absolutely absurd how you are trying to do that to some children and make me sell my children out for a dollar. absolutely not. i believe the taxpayers want this school to be donated to us. and the school superintendent told our community only way they could donate if the school would be public benefit for the community and clearly our school and our track record for the x boys are proving of proven.

we have been running for two years. 86% reading comprehension rate. our superintendent knows we have children in the juvenile system waiting on this school to be open. we have children that are in foster homes and group homes waiting for this school to be open. we have many parents waiting for this school to be open. i have been stalling these parents for seven months they say they are so busy they can't get this deal done. i find it absolutely absurd i have to keep telling these children to wait, to wait, to wait. i decided i was going to cancel those negotiations with them because i have to get three phone calls after we had a meeting with our school superintendent that said allegedly that he said that we were a competition that he didn't want to donate. >> lawrence: there it is right there. king, is that the reason why they are doing this? they don't want any competition. meanwhile the system is failing our kids. >> absolutely. >> there needs to be accountability there. we see it all across the country where you put these kids, give them a choice. they perform in charter schools.

you cannot sell a bag of spoiled goods just because they are poor and because they live in a different neighborhood that they can't be educated. we know that's not true. >> absolutely. and i find it either very disheartening. i have been praising them on different media outlets because i was assuming they were trying to work with us, et cetera. the blatant disregard for our students thinking this is a game. competition is a game to me. children dying and look at competition. we are not trying to get children from their school system children from the judicial system children from the streets and not enrolled in your schools. we made it clear we want to be a partner with the county school system yet they give us a contract that they say was in good faith and a proposal that we sent you that we were trying to open our own school yet to tell us we can't open our own school from a building that we are purchase for half a million dollars that was up for demolition. >> lawrence: king, we are not done with this story this audience will continue to support you. we first introduced you on "fox & friends." and we will continue to support

you because this is what the country needs. you are out there doing the work and we are so proud of you. thank you so much for coming on the program. >> thank you so much. make it happen. >> lawrence: you know it, brother. also here tonight brit hume fox news senior political analyst. brit, there is what the democrats do. the moment we start to push back and fight for ourselves. they put government road blocks in place. >> they certainly seem to have done that in this case. i can't tell you how much i admire what that young man has done and is doing. i serve on the board of a christian youth home out in suburban washington, virginia. i have been there for years. founded by joe gibz when he was coach of the redskins back in the 1980s. it is doing wonders for really troubled youth. the very kind that your previous guest was describing that he is trying to help. these are kids who -- regular school system didn't work for.

and now to see the school authorities who have done so much damage over the past year in the school shutdowns and so on trying to block him from something that needs to be vitally done from all the evidence indicates works is really disheartening. the school systems and the educational authorities are failing and yet what they want to do most of all is avoid competition. avoid anything that would break their monopoly. it's tragic. it fails kids. it's an outrage. >> lawrence: brit, you are someone that i respect because you have been doing this for a long time. have you seen washington at its worst, at it best. have you seen the power of government and how they try to squeeze the american public. what do you think the overall goal of the democratic party because they have done a lot of lip service. we even did an autopsy on these companies. they promised $50 billion doing the marches and all of that it's only been $250 million. so can they continue to get away with this? >> well, it seems they can for

now, at least. you know, it's worth keeping in mind here that a big part of this is the education bureaucracy and the teachers unions. which are closely aligned with the democratic party. you couldn't each make the case are they one of the most important elements within the democratic party. so, when you see something like this happen, as you have seen happen within the school systems across the country, to the point where the teachers unions were even too far left for many, many school boards, so, this is, you know, the connection between the democratic party and the teachers union indeed the education industry itself is pretty much responsible for what we're seeing. i don't think parents over the long term term are going to put up with this. i see in this and so many other areas these days, lawrence, a building backlash. we will see it in the waves of crime. seeing in reaction in the schools in the unions. and against the lockdowns and

the rest of it i think it's coming. i think it will be felt in 2022 and perhaps spill over into 2024. but i think it's coming. no doubt about it. >> lawrence: brit. i think they overplayed their hand. now they are going to pay a heavy price at the ballot box because as you can see a young brother like king is out there doing the work. i think the people of georgia are going to see it and react. thank you so much for joining the program. >> brit: thank you, lawrence. >> lawrence: come up did you see cena speak man darren? [speaking mandarin] >> lawrence: a lot of folks have big problems with what he is saying. kennedy is here on that and more. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> lawrence: oh, baby. bowing to china yet again this time calling taiwan a country.

fast and furious mentioned that taiwan is the first country that can watch the film. then china got mad. john cena apologized in mandarin. [speaking mandarin] >> lawrence: bring in kennedy. host of kennedy on fox business. >> kennedy: that's right. week nights 8:00 p.m. eastern on fox business. >> lawrence: i'm going to be on there tomorrow night. he did this against his image. >> the studio head probably got on the phone and told him to do that because films aren't making any money in the u.s. the theaters have been locked

down for over a year. they are making lots of money in china. and fast and furious 9 made about $165 million over the weekend in the far east. >> lawrence: i think this was a business decision. >> absolutely. the problem is americans, american companies and, you know, big american super stars like lebron james and john cena are bending over backwards appeasing the chinese communist government and allowing them to censor their content. taiwan is a country. taiwan is a country that has democratically elected officials, 23 million people live there. china want it to be part of big china. and, you know, they are going to force the international hand to make sure that everyone acknowledges that. >> lawrence: it's just sad that the athletes have been fighting for justice and they cannot do the same when it comes to china. it's really sad that there is so much hypocrisy and i think what

americans see that, they say, okay, is it really real or is it all about the money? >> kennedy: it is all about the money. that's the only way smart hardworking people could to what's happening to ethnic minorities in china and john pre uyghurs have hesitant to die. raped and forced sterilization. what is happening there is awful. there is no way can you learn about that and still continue doing what you are doing and totally turn a blind eye to it especially for people like lebron james who have so passionate about criminal justice reform in this country. >> lawrence: they need to check themselves. monkeying around while not strictly in the office handbook can still get you fired. the woman seen here feeding monkeys. fired from her law firm. why would you get in there. >> people in day and age,

especially during the pandemic. we like animals more than other people. we love our dogs. we love primates. we don't love human primates. so, we are much more worried about the intestinal track of spider monkeys. >> lawrence: ready. >> kennedy: planning this whole thick. need to go viral, you guys, i'm going to feed them hot cheetos. >> lawrence: those monkeys can attack you though. >> they can take you down. they have free -- they can whip you aside and make your day bad. >> lawrence: i don't understand why black folks die in the movies we don't do crazy. school offering refunds for yearbooks after parents and students complained that the school photo op.ed school book pictures that showed too much

skin kennedy kennedy does the principal wear bubblings on his shoes and pilgrim hats. >> lawrence: if the parents approve. >> this tube top. i see some things my daughter tries to leave in no, absolutely not. passionate emphatic, no. she has one top called a head band. i put the head band on look at me don't i look great? it barely covers my head you are not leaving the house. >> lawrence: is that the goal embarrass them? >> they are trying to shame these girls but i have to tell you what i saw there, not that bad. i was not offended by that i have seen much, much worse. keep on walking in the free world. and don't body shame high school students. leave that to me. thank you. >> lawrence: i love kennedy. thank you so much, kennedy for coming on the show. watch her tonight right after this show and then join me there tomorrow because i'm going to be making an appearance. >> kennedy: there is so much of us you are doing a fantastic job and i applaud your mojo.

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>> ♪ ♪ >> welcome back. the shift from education to indoctrination hasn't only

negatively impacted schools it changed society at large. this author predicted this. he describes how school efforts to protect student's feelings were setting them up and the future of our country for failure. he joins me now. you are a smart guy. i don't like a lot of folks but i like you and i like people that predict things before it happens want when did you suspect that the country was turning this direction? >> i would have rather been wrong on this. i started noticing a shift at the end of 2013 and 2014. it was a weird combination of students demanding new speech codes and said we need this because it would be mentally

harmful if the speaker comes to campus. this is bad for free speech and mental health. we wrote about it in 2015 and it's tanked, mental health that is. >> is this the students leading the charge? it seemed like the professors were doing all of this nonsense. >> i think what is really going on here is k-through-12 it's more idealoggical when we were kids. i have been doing this for 20 years. the administrators say words can harm you, it doesn't work with academic freedom. that's coming from the administrators. i feel bad for students because they are taught defunctional ways of thinking. >> where does that come from? >> the whole book is trying to

figure out where it comes from. we think a lot is over-parenting. a lot of the ideas that words can kill you and we are always under a threat comes from having super-anxious upper class parents. unfortunately parents in trying to protect their kids are making it much worse. >> it's interesting. my parents were the exact opposite. i don't know if it's because we grew up poor. my parents wanted to push me. it seems to me that i don't know if it's the book these parents are reading or the tv shows that are telling them how to parent. there is not that old school approach. my dad said my techniques may have been harsh, but i got results. >> yes. the thing that has made me angry about what happened is last

year, i am president of the foundation for individual rights and educations. we defend professors and students on cases. we saw more cases in 2020. we usually see 1,000. we saw 1500 last year. they are students trying to get professors and fellow students cancelled. my sympathy runs out. >> we can complain all day. what can we do to curve this? >> there is so much to do. introducing basic constitutional ideas in k-through-12 and not compelling speech. getting more people teaching who are not coming from education schools would help. a lot of states have requirements that teachers come from educational schools. they should drop that. they need alternatives. you need alternatives to yale

and harvard. we are working on a new after-word for coddling the american mind and it's a call to action. >> speech, it goes back should people be able to freely express how they feel? it seems like that's the root cause of all of this. do you agree? >> oh, i am a first amendment lawyer and have been defending free speech my whole life. it's a heart breaking couple of years. to see students flip free speech movement on its head believing they have the right to be free from speech, we have to fight it. >> you have to defend the speech even when it's a speech you

disagree with >> absolutely. >> i appreciate the work you are doing. that book inspired me and every young person should read it and the parents as well. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for watching fox news prime-time. i will see you back here tomorrow night. until then tucker carlson. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." just about a decade ago gender dysphoria was a short entry in abnormal psychology textbooks. that's changed. if you have children in school you know how common that disorder has become. a third of girls in a given class identify as a gender other than the one on their birth certificate. five