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what we still don't know about what actually took place that day.'t 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 despite thee 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 brokee into the capital committed crimes while inside and encouraged 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 were at least in part 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 ursocial 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. will 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. 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 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 mayor 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. will watch. >> denisee mathis, rantanya

rogers, blake lee, and shermetria williams, all killed in chicago's latest mass shooting. the shooting happened at about 5:45 tuesday morning inside the home on the 6200 block of south morgan street in morganswood. of the eight people who were shot, four died. the other four victims are in the hospital and two of them are 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 6 chicago accumulate, the people who run the citybu barely notice. in fact, they made it possible. four days before christmas, a 28-year-old named marvin flanigan murderedd a man duringa 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 then he promptly 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 on 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 cannotde tackle this problem on its own. we just cannot. in 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. the gun problem, it's a national one. is it really? chicago has long had some of the strictest gun control in the nation. the state of montana has virtually no gun control.n who's got a higher murder rate? this kindd of conversation is nonsense. lori lightfoot has no idea what she's talking about and in fact, as you can probably tell,s she's not very interested. as long as her own security detail shows up on time, lori lightfoot doesn't think a about crime. what she thinks about is radical social change and this week, she got an assist from the united states congress. starting this saturday our country's getting a a new independence day, supplanting

the old one, which people like lori lightfoot complained was racist.th 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 passed the senate, signed a supposedly conservative senator from texas. lori lightfoot is thrilled by this, unlike john cornyn, lori lightfoot understands the power of symbols. theyey are immensely important, that is why we have them. for flag day on monday, a holiday designed to honor 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 and the juneteenth flag. watch. >> we must also recognize that freedom has been illusory for farr too many american resident. 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 iss 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 and berating her staff. thanks to an open records request from the "chicago tribune" we got some of lori lightfoot's emails and it turns out she's every bit the person you imagined 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 foror their sake. lightfoot ended 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. [foreboding music] >> whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. you're distracting me, and it will then take me time to get back to where i was. understand? >> yeah. [scary 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 policm for memos that arrive 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 float over lake michigan and fall into grand rapids." in an email to her staff, w lori lightfoot attached a picture of ripped up documents for evidence. lori lightfoot, human shreddingc machine.

and yet somehow, this person remains the mayor of america's third-largest city. how long can that continue? joining us now is the man who has had the privilege of having obscenities n screamed at him by lori lightfoot. we are joined tonight by raymond lopez alderman, 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 served out their terms, i don't like removing people, i don't like impeachment. 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 risee our mayor not only become more and more inept at addressing problemss but downright unhinged, as these emails have shown up yet sadly in the city of chicago, there is no state law for 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 negativelyue 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, driving them to literal exhaustion. in my belief, to force them into making a mistake that she can use to continueha her rhetoric d 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 iss 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. t 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 chicagoec should expect betr 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 understandst that symbols do matter. she is the host of "candace." she joins us tonight withds a reaction to all of this.ca thanks for coming on, chicago is really kindre of a case study on 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 glance at her, this is a woman who was an avowed racist.di you mightf say this is obvious because she says she doesn't wantnt to speak to any white reporters and only black reporters, but i think actually, lori lightfootak is abundantly racist towards black americans. she pretends -- don't pay attention to what she's saying, pay attention to what she's

doing.at she is pretending that she represents black people when she says "i only want to speak to black journalists" but that is a distraction. look at her track record. who has her policies led to 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, a do you recall a few months ago when i said to you that thehe 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 seein federal policing happening on the grounds of these inner cities. i believe that has been the long game the democrats have been playing.

this isde why they've been undermining local police at 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, reallyat 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 you said that, i remember thinking, boy,, i hope that's nt 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,l, but i think you're absolutely right. so 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 lsaid, you see them calling themselves socialists, they are hitting the ground and demanding socialism. 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. they're taking this away from locals. the democrats put this plan into place and now it's speeding up. she's not helpless, she's saying we need help from the federal government, we need help from the federal government. eventually people are going to say please, 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 chaos, 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. candaces 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. 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 documentaryua 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. nithere 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 notot 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, a vaccine, in her son's case, he did not need. he joins us next to explain what happened. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: the last two nights we've reported on the destruction ofas one of the prettiest neighborhoodss in america, buckhead in atlanta. we hope that the city's mayor keisha lance bottoms would noticet 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 i her big achievement, e just signed an administrative order, designated more than 100 city-owned bathrooms 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 isid 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 tradeoff is worth it but there is always a downside.p so we feel honor bound to tell you what it is because it is your choice whether to take it or not, period.at way back in january, just as the vaccines had come out, a physician called gregory michael diedva of a brain hemorrhage afr taking pfizer's covid vaccine. since then, they have been finding a link between the vaccine and blood clotting. the biden administration's own numbers suggested more than 5,000 people have died from takingdm 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 a 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 saysie members of her family experienced bloodsh clotting afr taking the covid vaccine and we are happy to be joined by her tonight. thanks so much for coming on tonight. >> 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 encouragedre your family -- it is not a question of whether vaccines are good or bad. it's not a question because most people, including me, think they are good. but in the caseac of this vacci, 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 usy, 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, 1syou were pressured into gettig the vaccine then. >> definitely, definitely. it isn't something we were worried about. i didn't think there wass 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. 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 continued to develop 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, i think it is a pulled neck muscle. eight days later my son was in

the pediatric icu with three t blood clots. two in his brain and one in his thneck. 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 appreciateng your coming on tonight. thank you so much and godspeed to your family. >> thank you. >> tucker: so julian assange is in prison in the u.k. why is he there? across the west we are letting people out of prison people who have committed violent crimes. but he is still there, what did he do? he humiliated people in power. 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 now accused julian assange oft violating the espionage act. this has been going on for a

long time, and it took us a very long time, years to ask thee 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 people's computers, was he stealing secrets from the u.s. government? no, hewa was a journalist, he ws an editor, that is literally true. do you throw editors in jail because they embarrass you? probably shouldn't, not a good precedent 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 manyy 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. 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. he's just offended some people inin 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 belmarsh 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 h and a coue days later he was refused bail. since january, he's been sittine 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 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 encouragege americans to stad 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 your sentence, an espionage act, prosecution for him printing things the government didn'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 you 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. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: like herpes, the hunter biden story keeps going. you can treated symptoms but you can't really make it go away. 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 a 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'sen work would start aroud $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 paints with a straw. tucker. >> tucker: paints with a straw. the straw.

[laughs] trace gallagher, nice to see you.aw the country has never been more racially divided. that is a tragedy. n 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 utscientist in america. he's the author of the new book "facing reality: two truths about race in america." 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 ashehe i got started, tucki 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 thee first paragraphs of the declaration. all men are created equal, they are born w 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 w 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 dissidence, yeah, that just happened to the leader of canada's conservative party. he joins us next.

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let's get back to talking smack with a side of mac and cheese. before we can safely come together, we need the facts on covid-19 vaccines. to get the facts, visit getvaccineanswers.org so you can make an informed decision when vaccines are available to you. >> tucker: want to know how fast a democracy can become authoritarian? one of the most prominent figures in canada went to a protest against lockdowns outdoors and was arrested by the regime for doing it. >> you're under arrest right now. >> you're under arrest under the

provincial health orders. can you put your hands behind your back. is there anyone in here? >> your other hand. >> do you have any weapons or anything on you, sir? >> no, no weapon. >> sorry? >> anything on you that will hurt me or anything like that? >> no, only my words. only what i believe in. >> tucker: only what i believe in. he's the leader of the people's party of canada. thanks so much for coming on. from an american perspective it's remarkable that the trudeau government would arrest its political opponent for complaining about its policies. from our perspective. what's your view? >> our absolutely right, tucker. i'm doing a tour across the

country to speak against these lockdowns and stay at home orders. i'm the only political leader in canada who is speaking against that. on that tour i had planned to be in manitoba, and just before coming, the premier of that province tweeted me. he said in a press conference the day before i arrived there that i was not welcomed, and if i'm coming to manitoba, he said that he would empty my wallet. so he doesn't want to have any discussion about his policies. actually, you're right. i was urged there by my supporters, and speaking about my values and just after that, they arrested me saying that 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's like in china. i was in jail for eight hours. they put me in jail, handcuffed me, for a noncrime, and it was politicalization. >> tucker: from our perspective, if this can happen in canada we should be afraid. very quickly, is anyone else in canada afraid of what's happen? do people see this as scary? >> i was not the only one to be put in scale for my belief. actually, a person from my party was put in jail in nova scotia because he was doing a freedom rally. it's scary that in canada right now, in 2021, you're like you're in china.

actually, i'll always fight for what i believe and like i said to the policeman, my weapon is my words and i'll always use my words to fight for more freedom and a smaller government in canada. i will be back in manitoba. >> tucker: we're out of time, maxime, we're rooting for you, come to america. thank you. >> sean: by the way, tucker, i agree with you. welcome to "hannity." we begin with this fox news alert. the 45th president of the united states, donald trump will join us for an exclusive interview. first, a recap of joe biden's sippy cup pathetic incoherent, at times angry and unhinged performance in geneva, on top of his disastrous g-7 meetings. let's be clear. the so-called summit will vladimir putin did absolutely nothing