>> brian: we are going to watch her show at 11:00. >> and it meant that we are going to party down. >> brian: we are going to watch shannon bream! >> evil shannon bream. >> brian: she's one of the nicest people. according to reports, tucker carlson is next. when tucker is ready is when the snare drum starts. thank you. speak it is this the happy chatter you do? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last night, we opened the show with new information about what happened at the capital on january 6th. no day, it's fair to say, in recent american history has received more media attention or been used for greater political effect bipartisan actors. because of january 6th, our attorney general told us this week, we have got to change our country forever. and yet, given all the talking, the endless talking about

january 6th, it is remarkable what we still don't know about what actually took place that day. until this monday night, for example, when it was reported by revolver news, we had no idea that at least 20 organizers and participants in the event at the capital have not been indicted e nationwide -- for people who were there. this is interesting, the government knows exactly who these people are but has refused to charge them with crimes. why is that? because it seems they may have had some connection with the government. some of the people who broke into the capital committed crimes while inside and encourage others to do the same, appear to have been in contact with the fbi before the event. let that sink in for a moment. the events of january 6th that you keep hearing about endlessly, events that democrats in congress described as an act of war carried out by white supremacists, as dangerous and historically significant as pearl harbor and 9/11. those events apparently, or at least in part were organized and

carried out in secret by people connected to federal law enforcement. it's hard to think of a bigger potential scandal than this one. now it's clear why the government won't release more than 14,000 hours of surveillance footage shot at the capitol that day, people they know are on the tape. last night, clips from our show began to circulate on social media. the tech monopolies which help to get joe biden like to continue to work closely with the administration to control the news and information that you are allowed to see. because it's america, right? well, this piece of news, the one on our show last night was a problem for them so they tried to make it go away. twitter appended the following note to our club last night. "federal law does not permit cooperating witnesses or informants to be charged with conspiracy, despite a baseless suggestion by tucker carlson that some coconspirators on the january 6th attack were not charged because they were undercover fbi agents."

let's think about this. leave aside for a second the most obvious question that arises from the statement which is, how would twitter, which is a media company, not as far as we know, a law enforcement agency, be able to confirm our reporting last night was "baseless." how would they know that? does twitter somehow have access to the fbi's personnel files customer and we don't know, we hope someone finds out. but consider the statement more broadly. twitter is saying that people who are secretly working with the fbi cannot be charged for encouraging others to commit crimes. well, yes. exactly. that's the very point we made on this show last night. that's why they haven't been charged, because they were secretly working with the fbi. in an effort to shut us down, twitter just confirms what we suggest it true! thanks, twitter! they are morons! it's pretty funny. less funny, though, is the justice department's role in january 6th. federal law enforcement appear to have played a role in what

happened that day. we'd tell you more about it, we would love to, but we don't have subpoena power. we are just a cable news show pure congress does have subpoena power and let's hope they use it immediately appeared in the meantime, we want to start tonight with an actual insurrection, a real one, and insurrection against the will of law, against civilization itself. it's been going on for more than a year in the city of chicago. since the death of george ford, last week chicago's mary lori lightfoot has embraced every part of the equity and inclusion agenda. her d.a. refuses to prosecute many crimes. the results? nearly 200 more people have been murdered this year than last. many more dead people, hundreds. yesterday, there was another mass killing in chicago. watch. >> denise mathis, tonya rogers and dash williams, all killed in chicago's latest mass shooting for the shooting happened at about 5:45 tuesday morning inside the home on the 6200

block of south morgan street in morgan's would be at of the eight people who were shot, four died. the other four victims are in the hospital and two of them reported in critical condition. the attack is the third mass shooting in chicago and a little more than a week. >> tucker: did you hear that? that was the third mass shooting in chicago in just over a week. each one of them was a far greater human tragedy than anything that happened at the capitol on january 6th. but as the bodies in chicago accumulate, the people who run the city barely noticed. in fact, they made it possible. for two days before christmas, a 28-year-old named marvin flanigan murdered a man during a home invasion. flanigan should have been in jail at the time. he was a five-time felon with convictions for armed robbery. but officials let him out and he probably committed murder. this is now common in the city of chicago. marvin flanigan is one of dozens of criminals who have been let out of chicago jail recently only to go want to shoot or

murder someone else. lori lightfoot did this. but she accepts no responsibility for doing it. instead, she blames firearms and demands more money from the federal government. >> cities individually cannot tackle this problem on its own. we just cannot. chicago, we have done absolutely everything possible. and we need help from the federal government, because this is a national problem. >> tucker: it's a national problem for the gun problem, it's a national one. is it really? chicago has long had some of the strictest gun control in the nation for the state of montana has virtually no gun control. who's got a higher murder rate? this kind of conversation is nonsense. lori lightfoot has no idea what she's talking about and in fact as you can probably tell she's not very interested. as long as her own security detail shows up on time lori lightfoot doesn't take about crime. what she think about as radical social change and this week she got an assist from the united states congress. starting this saturday our country's getting a new

independence day, supplanting the old one, which people like lori lightfoot complaint was racist. not a single member of either party in the senate opposed it. republicans in fact cosponsored the resolution, happy that my bill to recognize juneteenth as a national holiday just past the senate, signed a supposedly conservative senator from texas. lori lightfoot is thrilled by this, unlike john cornyn, jory lightfoot understands the power of symbols. they are immensely important, that is why we have them. for flag day on monday, holiday designed to under the american flag, speaking of symbols, lori lightfoot is flying something instead called the pan african flag. you are seeing a shot of it right now, it is up in city hall. that indeed juneteenth flag. watch. >> we must also recognize that freedom has been illusory for far too many american residents. including black people. so we must embrace all american history, and today, on

juneteenth, we will be raising another flag, the juneteenth flag. >> tucker: freedom has been illusory. really? what is she saying? she is saying that your old independence day and the nation that it's celebrated, was all a lie. this is the kind of thing that lori lightfoot spends her time doing. that amber rating her staff. thanks to an open records request from the "chicago tribune" we got from dell macro some of lori lightfoot's emails and it turns out she's every bit the person she imagine she was. in january, lori lightfoot told her staff "i need office time every day! "she wrote that very same line 16 times in a row. i need office time every day, i need office time every day, i need office time every day, and so on, 13 more times! demented. and then for clarity, not just once a week or some days, every day! and then lightfoot wrote that exact same line ten more times in a row.

she needs help. not as much help as her staff needs. someone ought to stage a hostage extraction for their sake. lightfoot entered her email with this, "if this doesn't immediately i will start unilaterally canceling things every day. have i made myself clear?" [laughs] as the bodies piled up, hundreds more under her tenure as mayor, you've got to wonder how much time did lori lightfoot take to write all of that. was she shaking and spitting and screaming, as she did? of course she was. you can picture the scene. ♪ ♪ >> whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. your distracting me and it will then take me time to get back to where i was. understand? >> yeah. ♪ ♪

["the shining" music] >> how do you like it? >> tucker: here's lori! it's terrifying. but apparently did not work. it was not enough, things did not improve the mayor's office despite those messages. lightfoot announced a new policy for memos that arrived late. late memos will not just be rejected, they will be torn by rage filled fingers and cast into the wind like chaff. given the right weather conditions, they might fall over lake michigan and fall into grand rapids. in an email to her staff, lori lightfoot attached a picture ripped up documents for evidence. lori lightfoot, human shredding

machine. and yet somehow, this person remains the mayor of america's third-largest city. how long can i continue customer joining us now is the man who has had the privilege of having obscenities screamed at him by lori lightfoot. we are joined tonight by raymond lopez, who by the way, is a democrat. mr. lopez alderman, great to see you tonight. >> good evening. >> tucker: i believe in democracy, i believe people elected by the public should serve out their terms, i don't like removing people, i don't like impeachment appeared on the other hand, if hundreds of more people are dying every year because of the decisions of one leader i have to ask, is there a way to remove lori lightfoot before the end of her current term? >> that question has come up numerous times, especially as we see our mayor not only become more and more inept at addressing problems but downright unhinged, as these emails have shown up yet sadly in the city of chicago, there is no state law for a recall or removal. the citizens are stuck with their choice until the end of her term which is for another two more years.

>> tucker: so what do you do in the face of this? crime is a complicated thing. it arises from many causes, of course, but in the case of lori lightfoot you can see exactly the result of policies that she has endorsed and put into place and people are dying as a result so how do you respond to that? what do you do? >> we have seen a number of my colleagues, a number of them, napolitano and others who continue the drum beat against lori lightfoot's bad policing policies, and those policies that negatively impacts the overall safety of our residents. and we will continue to see more and more -- stepping up to the plate, considering the fact that now her main policing policy is to overwork our officers, 12, 17 hours a day with no days off, dl exhaustion. in my belief, to force them into making a mistake that she can use to continue her rhetoric and continue the politics of police bashing. >> tucker: it's a measure of

how central safety is to people's lives that it absolutely transcends politics. i want to say again you are a democrat, you are probably liberal and a lot of things i'm not liberal on. it doesn't matter. what matters is not being killed on your way to the grocery store. do you think there are other democrats there who can see that this is not working? >> we have 50 alderman and any of them privately can see that this is not working. on a national scale, democrats need to learn that you do not have to contribute to the error of -- i am a democrat, i represent african-americans and latinos and i have won five elections in a row by speaking to the truth that people want to be safe, they want their children to be safe, they want their husbands, wives, brothers and sisters to all be safe. when you have 80-year-olds being shot watering the grass or just like in my own neighborhood last week where a 20-year-old was picked up by her boyfriend to go celebrate the end of covid in the state of illinois and was gunned down by gang bangers who didn't recognize her at the

other end of the block, we are truly failing and we can do better. and chicago should expect better from its mayor and from its city council. >> tucker: should expect better, that is exactly right, we are all american citizens, we have a right to live in safe, clean places, i think. alderman, i appreciate you coming on. we hope the next mayor. candace owens has been watching all of this. she understands that symbols do matter. she is the host of "candace." she joins us tonight with a reaction to all of this. in chicago. thanks for coming on, chicago is really kind of a case study and what happens when you apply bad policy. >> that is absolutely right and lori lightfoot, she is a disaster. first and foremost, if you take a glass at her, this is a woman who was an avowed racist. you might say this is obvious because she says she doesn't want to speak to any white reporters and only black reporters but i think actually, lori lightfoot is abundantly racist towards black americans. she pretends, don't pay attention to what she's saying,

pay attention to what she's doing. she is pretending that she represents black people when she says i only want to speak to black journalist but that is a distraction. look at her track record. who has her policies led to the mass homicide? black people. black people are dying on the streets of chicago, black people are suffering when you know in the first quarter of this year 34% homicide rate increased. it is black on black crime and she has seen this through. the more important thing though when you showed a clip of her earlier and she started talking about we need help, we need help, do you recall a few months ago when i said to you that the entire defund the police movement, the entire purpose behind the democrats, they don't do anything about purpose, they are always taking part and parcel of a machiavellian scheme. i said to you that they are going to start requesting, the streets get bad enough until they can say, we now need federal help. at that moment you're going to see them start talking about a federal police. they're going to want to see federal policing happening on the grounds of these inner cities. i believe that it's been the long game the democrats have been playing. this is why they've been undermining local police in

every second, because they are looking to give more power to the federal government. this is what is happening in biden's america and i believe this is just really what we are seeing, really just a faster spread towards america shifting towards a federalized police in this country. >> tucker: i think that's really smart. i hate to believe, i remember when he said that, i remember thinking boy, i hope that's not true because it's just so awful. that you would create chaos, allow hundreds of thousands of people to die just so you become more powerful, but i think you're absolutely right. in other words, none of this was accidental. they knew defunding the police would get a lot of people killed, how could you not know that? >> of course they knew that. and you look around, you have to study history and that is why i said, you see them calling themselves socialists, they are hitting the ground and demanding socialism here let's take a look at what socialism has been around the year, has been around the world, pardon. socialism has led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people around the world. when you look at communist,

socialist regimes in the past, this is what you see. the federal government needs more and more power and they need to make sure they take it away from local. if they're taking this away from locals. the democrats put this plan into pace and now it's speeding up your she's not helpless, she saying we need help from the federal government, we need help from the federal government. eventually people are going to say please come anybody help us and you're going to start to see real crimes from the federal government when they put their boots on the ground and say okay, now we have complete and utter control. it is not chaos. from cows, dictatorship arises. that is the lesson of human history. >> tucker: you are amazing, i'm completely sold. chris wray, we need to expand the fbi so they can keep order in chicago. candace owens. >> also tucker, i need office time every day. >> tucker: every day! tell me that 14 more times and i will believe you. with an exclamation point dear candace owens, great to see you. we are not overstating in any way the severity of the situation in chicago, which is a core american city.

no offense. it's not some other cities. it's a real city, it is one of the cities that built this country, it's a beautiful city with great people in it. and it's actually falling apart. we did a documentary for fox nation, tucker carlson original where we got hundreds and hundreds of never before seen hours of surveillance footage of the streets of chicago. some of it is too graphic to play. fox nation is just one place where there is no censorship at all. so we recommend if you're interested in what is happening in chicago, taking a look at our documentary. there is a lot there, by the way, on fox nation. well, we are just starting to learn some of the side effects that may be caused by the coronavirus vaccine. you're not allowed to mention them for some reason. but they are real. one woman says her husband and her son nearly died and were gravely injured after taking the vaccine, vaccine, in her son's case, he did not need. he joins us and asked to explain

what happened.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: the last two nights we've reported on the destruction of one of the prettiest neighborhoods in america, buckhead in atlanta. we hope that the city's mayor keisha lance bottoms would notice her city is falling apart, people being murdered, and then do something about it. instead, keisha lance bottoms is focused on access to gender-neutral bathrooms. that is her big achievement, she just signed an administrative order, designated more than 100 city owned restaurants as all gender." so you can still get shot when you are out jogging in buckhead but at least you can use the ladies room if you like. so there is enormous social pressure, and in fact,

institutional pressure from the corporate media, not to mention any potential downsides of vaccines. while most people agree, they show certainly does, that vaccines are a good thing, nothing is all good. nothing in this temporal world comes without a downside and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar, period. that is always true. sometimes the trade up is worth it but there is always a downside. so we feel honor bound to tell you what it is because it is your choice whether to take it or not, period. way back in january, just as the vaccines had come out, a physician called gregory michael died of a brain hemorrhage after taking pfizer's vaccine. since then, they have been fighting a link between the vaccine and blood clotting here the by administration zone numbers suggested more than 5,000 people have died from taking the vaccine. you can argue about whether or not that is true but you cannot argue without following up on it, and it has not been by anybody. meanwhile, the astrazeneca

vaccine has not been administered in many countries including in the u.s. in part because scientists believe it can cause fatal bleeding. so the question is, how widespread are these problems? no one is reporting on this. again, we are not saying vaccines are bad. we believe vaccines are good and some people should take vaccines, but we believe in telling the truth, period. sherry romney has first-hand evidence of the harm they can do. she says members of her family experienced blood clotting after taking the covid vaccine and we are happy to be joined by her tonight. thanks so much for coming on tonight. speak up thank you for having me. >> tucker: i know from reading your preinterview that you are in favor of vaccines, you've taken vaccines, you have obviously encouraged her family -- it is not a question of whether vaccines are good or bad. it's a question because most people, including me, think they are good. but in the case of this vaccine, would you believe the effects on your husband and your son has been? >> there's no other explanation for what happened to my son and my husband. we are pretty certain that it was a direct result of the

vaccine. my son and my husband formed blood clots. my son formed three blood clots. two in his brain. and by husband formed over 100 in his lungs. >> tucker: first of all, i am sorry, that's awful and it's devastating and of course it is life-threatening. but tell us the circumstances under which they took the vaccines in the first place. how old is your son? was he at risk? did he have pre-existing health problems? >> no. my son is 17 years old, he was an athlete, he was an elite athlete, he was a varsity basketball player on his basketball team. we went in to get the vaccines. my husband, myself and i, because he travels a lot and because there is a lot of talk about these vaccine cards, things like that. so we felt a lot of pressure to go get the vaccine. we thought, let's hurry and go get that done before the summer season of basketball starts. he is not in any risk category whatsoever. so on the 21st --

>> tucker: just to be clear, you are pressured into getting the vaccine then. >> definitely. definitely. it isn't something we were worried about. i didn't think there was a chance my son or my husband or myself really were going to experience some significant side effects from covid myself. especially my son and my husband because they are really healthy and my son being an athlete and only 17 years old wasn't in a high risk category but we did feel pressured to administer the vaccine to them because of that travel and because of those tournaments, because of the talking in these different states about needing to have vaccines or you can't participate in some of these things, so we did feel that pressure appeared on the 21st of april we went in and the three of us got our first covid vaccines. i want to make that clear, that was the first vaccine. that night, my son began to complain of swelling in his neck. the swelling developed and by the morning of the fifth day he could not move his head or his neck without assistance from his hands. i took them to the pediatrician in the pediatrician says it has nothing to do with the shot, it really doesn't come i think it

is a pulled neck muscle. eight days later my son was in the pediatric icu with three blood clots. two in his brain and one in his neck. and the very weekend after he was released from the hospital, my husband was admitted to the hospital with over 100 blood clots in his lungs. >> tucker: i am really sorry and i hope they recover, i know that they are still in trouble and i just -- i can't overstate, americans should never be forced to take medicine they don't want or need, period, under any circumstances. >> and if i can say, my son, it actually turns out my son, we found out on the eighth day he was in the hospital, my son had nuclear capsid antibodies. he had had a recent infection unbeknownst to myself, my husband nor my son. and he had recovered from covid. he had natural antibodies. so we gave him a vaccine that was not medically necessary, and put him in harm's way.

a simple blood test would have shown that he didn't need that vaccine. >> tucker: so many american families are going through this right now. colleges are forcing this on kids who have been infected and recovered, it is a scandal and i appreciate your coming on tonight. thank you so much and godspeed to your family. >> thank you. >> tucker: julianna sanchez is in prison in the u.k. why is he there? across the west we are letting people out of prison for people who have committed violent crimes. but he is still there, what did he do? he humiliated people in power. it julian assange is here.

>> tucker: julian assange has been in jail for an awfully long time. he's now in jail in the u.k. he was under house arrest in a foreign embassy in london. the u.s. has no accused julian

assange of violating the espionage act. this has been going on for a long time, and it took us a very long time coming years to ask the obvious question. what exactly did julian assange do wrong? all good people hate julian assange. what was his crime exactly? was he hacking into other peoples computers, was he stealing secrets from the u.s. government? no, he was a journalist, he was an editor, that is literally true. do you throw editors in jail because they embarrass you? probably shouldn't, not a good president to set even if you don't like the person's politics, you should be against that. why a group of people are against him, we recently spoke to pamela anderson who is trying to get a pardon for assange. >> this is one of those moments in history and in his lifetime is also where we need to make the right decision. it was all up to president trump, he really can't a huge following at a huge sigh of relief and gratefulness for so many people on the planet. >> tucker: we spoke to roger

waters of pink floyd about it. tonight we will speak to julian assange's father and brother. john is his father, gabriel is his brother, we are happy to have them on the show tonight for thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: this is a sincere question, what did your son to wrong exactly? what is his specific crime? >> well, no specific crime at all, tucker. it's just offended some people in certain sections of washington and consequently has faced 12 years now of persecution and harassment. julian, as you know, is not an american citizen. yet he's been tried under the 1917 espionage act to bring julian to the united states under the threat of 175 years in jail. nothing at all, just embarrassed

a few people. >> tucker: for those of us in the business of embarrassing and offending people in washington, this is a bad precedent, let's be honest, which is one of the reasons i'm interested in this case. gabriel, tell us the conditions your brother is in right now. can you go see him if you want? >> he's in belmont prison. i visited him in october last year and since then, he has been in total lockdown due to covid so he has had no visitors from any family or his lawyers, so he is in a maximum security prison, so all the most dangerous prisoners from around the u.k., the most violent prisoners, and he has been there up on three years now. he won his extradition case on january 4th and the u.s. government appealed and a couple days later he was refused bail. since january, he's been sitting

in prison, and then ascend man, not able to see his family or lawyers, and we just don't know when the appeal will happen or when this will end. >> tucker: not only in a cent, i don't even think the charges make any sense against him. in this country, you are constitutionally allowed, it is the first part of our bill of rights, the first amendment, you are allowed to print things the government doesn't like, which is what he did. let me ask you, is any american elected official, i know there are activist types and cable news hosts, but as any elected official taking your side on this? >> not since biden's inauguration, not since president biden's inauguration, 25th of january, we haven't had -- it's been silent from people in congress and the senate, which is part of the reason why we are doing this, is to encourage americans to stand up for their first amendment

rights. and speak to their congresspeople and tell them that an espionage act, prosecution -- >> go on? >> tucker: i think we are having some audio problems but let me finish her sentence, an espionage act, prosecution for him printing things the government doesn't want him to print. it's going to come back and bite us in the butt and we should not allow it. i appreciate taking the time to come on tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you tucker. >> thank you. >> tucker: so hunter biden, i'm not attacking him or anything but a lot of americans are out of work. hunter biden seems richer than ever. where's all the money coming from? simon & schuster made him a lot of money for a book that didn't sell but not enough to support his lifestyle. he's got another source of income. we'll tell you what it is after the break. and you need it here.

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fox's trace gallagher has the latest. >> turns out he is now an artist, this is hunter biden's first go with the art world. he has no formal training at he paints with a straw, yet his work has been picked up by a new york art dealer who plans to sell the paintings for up to $5,000 each. it seems like a lot when you can buy and andy warhol piece for $750,000 and andy warhol has been dead for 34 years. another art dealer said that without name recognition, hunter biden's work would start around $25,000, which have some wondering whether he is selling our door access. peter wrote a book about how politicians hide corruption to enrich their family, he says he thinks this is clearly paid to play. we should note, the sale of biden's paintings will be confidential. we should also note his art dealer maintains the hunter biden's work is "authentic," meaning he pains with a straw. tucker. >> tucker: pains with a straw.

the straw. [laughs] trace gallagher, nice to see you. at the country has never been more racially divided. that is a tragedy. certainly not in our lifetimes. and it's intentional. it's being driven on purpose by people with power using lies. who knows why peer charles murray has watched it happen he has taken an honest look at what is driving those lies peer charles murray is perhaps the most famous leading social scientist in america. he's the author of the new book "facing reality." we sat down with charles murray on the latest episode of "tucker carlson today." here's part of it. ♪ ♪ >> it's the product of last summer. last summer, i listened to the narrative after the riots and the protests and so forth and when they were talking about the police and terrible policing in the inner-city i said to myself, aren't they even mentioning the environments the police were

again in the inner-city is vastly more dangerous than the environment in suburban neighborhood? when they were talking about, we don't have enough managers in senior positions at microsoft and places like that, i'm saying, don't they even mention how few blacks there are who can qualify under the current -- for those kinds of positions? i didn't want them to use that information to discount the problems in policing or discount the problems of racism in the job market. i wanted them to acknowledge the fact there are group differences that go a long way toward explaining some of these other inequities that are at the center of attention. so finally i got mad enough, i set i've got to write a book. then as i got started, tucker, i began to realize that what's going on with critical race theory and identity politics is a repudiation of the american creed. it's saying the founding ideals

are wrong. and i had to fight back against that. >> tucker: was the beginning, what of the founding ideals they are repudiating? >> you're not old enough, the american creed used to be a phrase in common use. it was based on the first paragraphs of the declaration. all men are created equal, they are born with inalienable rights, and what it boiled down to was, in america, you can go as far as hard work tell it will take you, you are the equal of everybody else, you are the in terms of the law, and you are equal in innate human dignity. you know, individually. you've got to treat people as individuals, you can't treat them as members of groups. identity politics says you must treat people as members of groups. the power of the state must be used to foster social goals that bring another group up preferentially to meet another group. well, okay, i understand that

they think this is wonderful idealism. it in fact repudiates what has made america america. when i say, i want us to repudiate identity politics and return to a set of ideals in which all americans are equal under the law and all have equal, innate human dignity, that is a huge majority of the american population of every ethnicity. >> tucker: i agree with that. >> i'm absolutely confident. if that's the case, we've got to tell each other that. we've got to say out loud that we believe this stuff, and we've got to stop letting the people who say that colorblindness is hate speech, we've got to stop letting them dominate the conversation. and we've got to identify this overwhelming american majority which still loves what made this

country special. >> tucker: great conversation. well worth watching. you can find it on "tucker carlson today." it's on foxnation.com along with a lot of other conversations like it. we are americans who don't cover a lot of things that happen in canada because it's canada. but when things go completely crazy in canada, we pay attention. when they start rounding up and arresting people who oppose the regime, political dissidents, yeah, that just happened to the leader of canada's conservative party. he joined us next.

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>> tucker: want to know how fast a democracy can become authoritarian? well, one of the most prominent political figures in canada, a man called maxime garnier, went to a protest against lockdowns outdoors and was arrested by the regime for doing it. >> afternoon, sir. >> step out of the vehicle. you are under arrest.

if you can put your hands behind your back, faced with the vehicle. the other hand. do you have weapons or anything on you, sir? anything on you that is going to hurt anybody? >> nothing that would hurt you. only my words, only my philosophy, only what i believe in. >> tucker: "only what i believe in." maxine garnier is a former cabinet secretary of the canadian government. thank you for coming on. from an american perspective, it is remarkable that the government, the justin trudeau government, would arrest its political opponent for complaining about its policies. that is what it seems like from our perspective. what is your view? >> you are absolutely right, tucker, and yes, i am doing a tour across the country to speak

against these authoritarian lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, and i am the only political leader in canada who is speaking against that, and in that tour, i had plans to be in manitoba, and just before coming to manitoba, the premier of that province threatened me. he said in a press conference the day before i arrived there that i was not -- coming to manitoba, he said he will empty my wallet. so, he does not want to have any discussion about his policies, and actually, you are right, i was out there with my supporters and speaking to be ready for the next election, speaking about my values, and just after that, they arrested me, saying i was not respecting the covid regulations, but it was not about that.

it was about political repression. and in canada, you cannot speak against the regime. it is like in china. i was in jail for eight hours. day, you know, handcuffed me, put me in jail, and for a noncrime, for just after gathering with my supporters, and it was a political repression. >> tucker: i mean, from our perspective, if this can happen in canada, we should be afraid. very quickly, is anyone else in canada afraid of what is happening? do people see this as scary? >> i was not the only one to be put in jail for my belief. actually, another candidate from my party was put in jail also in nova scotia because he was doing a freedom rally, so it is scary that in canada right now, in 2021, you are like in china.

actually, i will always fight for what i believe, and like i said to the police man, my weapon is my words, and i will always use my words to fight for more freedom and a smaller government in canada. i will be back united states out of trouble just for exclusive interview. first from a quick recap of, well, joe biden's sippy cups, at times angry and unhinge performance in geneva today on top of his disastrous g7 meetings. let's speak clear. the so-called summit with vladimir putin did absolutely nothing to