>> mark: i apologize for the vicious stories because you are the nicest person on this network. you will be right back tomorrow on fox and friends. we will see you then. i will be back here tomorrow night and as you already know, if you are on the nsa list, hering's tucker. -- here's tucker. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this show specializes in the obvious. that's what we do. tonight we would like to begin with the most obvious observation of ail. -- of all. force works. if you make people do something, if you demand they do it and punish them in they don't, they will comply. they don't have a choice. if you tell them they have to take a dose of experimental medicine or they can't have a job and their kids can't be

educated. most will take it and most have. according to the cdc data 67% of all american adults have received the covid vaccine. that's a huge number. think of anything else that is 67% of all adults have done. only 24% of the country population voted for joe biden and that made him the president of the united states. so the administration has done something amazing: get the vaccine or else. that was their message from day 1. most people did but not everyone did. there are hold out. these are not people who have not heard of the vaccine or can't find a dose. it's free and it's everywhere and the media never stopped talking about it. every news hour is a pfizer commercial. these are people who don't want to take it. many have recovered from covid and have active antibodies and

don't need the vaccine. others may have religious objection. that was a valid reason when our leaders acknowledged god is more powerful than themselves and others noticed the vaccine was developed very quickly and hasn't received fda approval. maybe there are other reasons including the high death rate on the vaccine database with young reports of young people developing cardiac emergency in a response to the shot. it doesn't matter anyway. the biden administration is not accepting excuses. on cnn this morning the secretary of health and human services, not a doctor, a politician, announced he plans to make every last american take this drug. if you don't take it, you will wind up on a government list. watch. >> can you answer that

criticism? this is none of the government's business knowing who has been vaccinated? >> the federal government spent trillion dollars to keep americans alive during this pandemic. it is absolutely the government's business and the taxpayer's business. we want to give people the sense they have the freedom to choose. but we hope they choose to live. >> tucker: no more freedom for you. the biden administration is no longer pro-choice. it's odd to say now. this pandemic is waning. few people are dying from the virus. but javier is arguing that the government spent so much money on the coronavirus that the biden administration has a right to go door-to-door and intimidate you into taking the vaccine and keep track of you so

you don't. the government paid so they have that right. it's hard not to think we have reached a major new precedent, something new is happening. the federal government spends huge amounts of tax dollars fighting all kinds of diseases not just covid, cancer, aids, heart disease and diabetes. each illness kills people, sometimes far more than covid has. did the biden administration have the right to know your hiv status? can hhs force you to take antibiotics for tb? or zannac for anxiety? why are we letting defective

people reproduce? why not sterilize? sound crazy? it happened before on a huge scale. in response do this the atrocities that were commited in previous generations, medical privacy, the right to control the medicines take, these are the pillars of medical ethics officially. tony fauci declared them merely a political statement. >> it's easy to get. it's free and it's readyly available. what is the problem? get over it! get over this political statement -- just get over it. >> tucker: get over. you don't have a right to disagree. you must take this medicine. this is a well trod road and a scary one. we saw this a century ago. in the early 1900 officials in

boston made example of a swedish born pastor who refused to take the government mandated smallpox vaccine. he had already taken it in sweden and nearly died from it. he took his case to the supreme court. in the end the supreme court ruled against him. that was a brand new precedent as now. it didn't take long for the government to use that new authority to force other medical procedures on the american population. after the decision virginia passed a law authorizing the sterilization for people who were deemed undesirable. a supreme court justice ruled that the same legal framework that justified mandatory vaccinations permitted the

government to sterilize people against their will. here's the quote: the principle that sustains vaccinations is broad enough to cover conduct a fallopian tube." dozens of american states were forcing women to go involuntary sterilization. that happened and we should not be surprised by it. things like that tend to happen when a distracted population allows the government to dictate what medical procedures to get. this is a horrifying chapter in american history. you would think the news media might point this out. just the opposite. a clip from yesterday in which the saddest of the cnn anchors begs this administration to make vaccines mandatory. >> the former secretary at hhs talks about the idea that maybe

the administration should abandon the idea of encouraging businesses and public places to require them. she said i am trying to restrain myself. we are going to tip toe around mandates. i am over that. i want to make sure people don't have it so i don't transmit it to my grand-daughter. why not encourage governments to mandate and businesses to require it? >> tucker: the media demanding forced vacuations. -- vaccinations. that should not surprise you. this gives them swaths. that's why they have the jobs they do. they love their new power. what is interesting is that no other organized groups of sensible people are not saying

anything either. veterans groups remained silent as the pentagon floats the idea of mandatory vaccinations for all soldiers. there is zero evidence this could be necessary for any health related reason but they are pushing forward. they had a briefing on tuesday. the top spokesman said mandatory vaccinations for soldiers could be coming soon. >> should the fda approve we will look at our options going forward including making it mandatory. >> tucker: have you seen this motive before. those of us older than 22 remember it all. -- movie. it rapid in iraq. they had to take the anthrax

vaccine. the effects were not obvious at first. but a cnn military analyst ignores that and they are begging the pentagon to force another unimproved drug on soldiers. that they don't comply they should be arrested. >> the president has the power to make those vaccines mandatory. he said in the past he would leave that to the military. as much as i respect president biden i think he made a mistake punting this. he should show the leadership and make that mandatory. then those who decide they won't take it are in violation of a lawful order. they can face the consequences under the military justice. >> tucker: you can go to prison for not taking the vaccine. you invite someone like that on

your show and he says that outloud and you don't say, choose me, that's lunacy or fascist. court martials for anyone who refuses to take an experimental vaccine for a pandemic that already ended. at the moment the risk of young people of dying of the coronavirus hit zero, they are telling us soldiers should be arrested if they subhit to the vaccine and you will wind up in a database if you don't comply. what is happening? what is this about? a sincere question. this is a best selling author -- what is this? at the moment you think they would be pulling back.

67% of americans have taken it, they can't stand that 33% haven't. why? >> well, tucker, i push back on the 67% number, you look at adults of working age. it's about 50-50. 18 to 65. it seems clear that they thought -- >> tucker: that went over my head. what does that mean? >> most people -- the vast majority of people over 65 have taken the vaccine. that makes sense because of their risk. >> tucker: i agree. >> if you look at the working age adults it's only about 50% have taken the vaccine. the idea that these guys were depending on corporate pressure. they didn't want to have a federal mandate. they thought they could convince companies -- airlines won't carry people or they would make their flight attendants take the vaccine. in a labor market that is tight,

half of adults of working age companies are backing down. you are seeing that. i am a small-mind thinker and you are a big-mind thinker. this is crazy in that the risk-benefit ratio of the vaccine is getting worse by the week right now. we are seeing vaccine failure on a large scale in israeli and the u k and scotland there. is myocarditis here and everywhere else these vaccines are given and it looks like the pandemic is winding down. but in the u.k. cases are way up as the vaccines apparently begin to fail. why push it now? that's a good question. whether it's vindictiveness or something else i don't know. the fanatic is the person who

redoubles his effort when he lost his aim. it seems like these people lost their aim and are pushing harder and harder. they are talking about booster shots. a third dose or more doses. i spoke to somebody today which is on my website, i interviewed somebody who said i signed up for the trial and got 2 doses and i signed up for the booster dose and got a third dose. it was much worse. i dropped out when they asked me if i wanted a 4th dose? i can't imagine what hesitancy will look like when they push that. >> tucker: leaving aside the science which you have written about honestly, their behavior is scaring the hell out of people. this is so crazy it is shaking the faith that most americans

have in vaccines. why are they acting like this? this is nuts. >> it is nuts. i don't have a good answer for that. i tend not to believe in conspiracy. i believe -- there is somebody in a room in hhs saying we have to get to 70%. we are not there. what are we going to do? with every day that goes by and they lie about the myocarditis data and a potential third booster being needed, it becomes harder to think these are mistakes. i don't know what the answer is, tucker. >> tucker: i don't either. great to see you. thank you. so the nsa was reading our email. we told you that a number of times. only recourse is it violate the freedom of information act to explain why they were doing that. they did not respond.

they did respond to the journalists who made requests on our requests. that doesn't take long. we will tell you what happened next.

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spied by the biden administration. not a lot you can do about it. you can seem outraged but you don't have a lot of recourse. you learn about your democracy when that happens. can you file a freedom of information act seeking any calls or text messages they got from you. we did that. we have not heard back from the nsa. they promptly responded to some stooge on a website. he wrote on twitter this: it crystallizes the degradation. they are covering it up and

cheering it on. what will you find in our request, find out what the nsa is doing. that might occupy your time. it doesn't occur. they support it. justin is a law professor at george washington university and knows a lot about this subject. thanks for coming on. i realize the request from the intercept is easier. it doesn't explain why they filed. why not get to the bottom of what the nsa is doing? has that occurred to anyone? >> not from the people you expect to raise questions. i just testified in the house judiciary committee on the surveillance of reporters. it was one of the few times in

recent memory that there was bipartisan agreement with all of us who testified as exports. all of the members in the room agreed we needed to investigate when journalists were intercepted. that hasn't been the response to this story. there are a couple of ways your email would have been intercepted that were lawful. you could be corresponding with someone subject to an nsa surveillance. but it doesn't explain the more troubling questions of how that information was circulated and also how your name was not masked. you can unmask people in surveillance documents of that kind. but it requires someone to ask for unmasking. there would be no legitimate reason to do so here. if reporters were given that information, it would be even

more serious. even if your email itself was know classified. the intercept is. the nsa and foa material is highly classified. takes years for me to get access to an nsa surveillance document. the mere fact that they engaged in surveillance is classified. it would be a serious federal crime. >> tucker: well, yeah. they intimidate people. everyone is afraid of the nsa. the last administration was really afraid of them. that's true. i know firsthand. a lot of people now are afraid of them. do you want to live in a country with people are afraid of your intel agencys? why are we accepting this? >> one of the interesting aspects of this is people are saying this would be ridiculous.

it's not ridiculous. i testified just about a week ago in the judiciary. there is almost regularity to this. journalists investigated in the bush administration and the obama administration and the trump administration and the biden administration. after every one of those scandals, there is the requisite apologies and promises of reform and everyone goes away and then the cycle continues. >> tucker: how about prison time? they tried to send roger stone away for his life for inconsistent testimony, but these people get msnbc contract. somebody needs to fix this one. appreciate your efforts on this. you have been right on this for many, many years. it's been more than 6 months since january 6th. the 9-11 of our time. the pearl harbor.

we still don't know with certainty who shot ashli babbitt. in america under joe biden you can kill unarmed women and don't have to admit who did it. we are hearing reports that officer has been identify. we can't confirm it so we won't give that officer's name. anyone whos and the question who shot an unarmed veteran woman out loud, you must be a russian agent. >> well you mentioned vladimir putin -- one of the more outrageous things he said during president biden's european summit was this accusation about ashli babbitt being assassinationinated. it's a claim that tucker carlson picked up.

the twice impeached disgraced ex-president said who killed ashli babbitt? the circle is complete from putin to carlson to trump. >> tucker: let's put dumb middle aged people on tv. not a good idea. the irony is if vladimir putin had a security force execute unarmed women who are protecting his regime, we would call that a terrible abuse of human rights. who did it? that's a fair question to ask. but ask of the biden administration and you are a putin lackey! why don't we know basic facts about january 6th. julie pressed the government to answer those questions. she is with american greatness and with us tonight. you have done this before. i can't get enough of it. what don't we know about january

6th that the government knows? what are they hiding from us? what should we know now? >> well, the identity of the federal officer. the u.s. capitol police department is a federal agency. we don't know the name of the officer who shot and killed an american in the u.s. capitalism. we are not privy to 14,000 hours of surveillance video that the u.s. capitol police refuses to make public to the american people. maybe liz cheney or nancy pelosi can ask that in their truth commission trying to find out what happened on january 6th. those are just a few of the questions. also, why did u.s. capitol police let people in the door? why did they talk to jacob who is now in solitary confinement

in jail for 6 months and denied release again this week. >> tucker: he was dressed with the horns. is he charged with violence? does vladimir putin keep hundreds of non-violent protestors in solititary? >> just completed the circle again. it's putin. makes so much sense. no, he hasn't committed any violent crime. the judges are torturing this man. why were police officers attacking peaceful protestors outside of the capitol. dowsing them with tear gas. these are a few questions out of

dozens we need to ask. liz cheney pretends to be our side can pose those questions as part of nancy pelosi's commission. >> tucker: yes. if you are holding people for non-violent crimes they become political prisoners. i try not to use that phrase. at what point is it a political prosecution? why aren't republican leaders asking that. mitch mcconnell is busy but he could ask that question. an update on a leading democratic presidential candidate from the last cycle want the man who was going to change this country and rid it of trumpism. creepy porn lawyer. what happened to his career? it's been put on pause for 2.5 years with good behavior. he got bad news in federal court. that's next.

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>> tucker: ever notice how heroes emerge? they are not born, they just appear out of nowhere. that happened in this country. that hero went by many names. we called him the creepy porn lawyer because he was. over at cnn they called him something different. they called him a future president. >> if they decide a value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate michael avenatti. >> to end the threat of the trump presidency welcome attorney michael avenatti. >> no one has talked tougher directly to donald trump on tv than michael avenatti. donald trump is afraid to mention his name. >> michael avenatti is a beast. >> that's true. >> he is a beast. >> he keeps popping donald trump in the mouth. he is a beast. john meacham said he is the favorite of the public.

>> i owe michael avenatti an apology. i said i have seen you everywhere. i was wrong. >> tucker: that was iq test and everybody on that tape failed miserable. don't issue them driver's license. they fell for it hard. in a single week in march of 2018, msnbc and cnn and abc and cbs and nbc news interviewed the creepy porn lawyer a total of 147 times! we have to get in on that. we have to interview the creepy porn lawyer. we had only one opportunity to talk to him in studio. here's part of it. you profited from stormy daniels and she is working in strip clubs. you are exploiting her. >> sir, this absurd.

>> tucker: why are you rich and your client is working in a seedy strip club? >> do you know how much money i work. >> tucker: you pose as a feminist hero and the are the chance let you get away with. you are an exploiter of a woman and you should be ashamed. it was not the warmest interview ever and it got more unpleasant off air. where is he now? today the creepy porn lawyer met the fate so many knew was coming to him. sentenceed to 30 months in prison for trying to extort the shoe company nike. he is facing several separate trials including one about defraudsing stormy daniels. what does this mean for creepy porn lawyer's presidential'sam bittions?

--am bittions. francie thanks for coming on. i never gloat over a man going to prison. it's sad. i mean that. however, if there was of a guy who had a rendezvous with a cell it was this guy. was that obvious? >> yes, he had that defense attorney bluster and arrogance that drove me crazy with they were performing for an audience of 1, their own client. never for the jury or judge. today in court he was sobbing with regret. that's one of the things that drove me the most crazy as a prosecutor. watching the defendant cry and sob.

where was that regret when they were victimizing their victims? it's not like i feel sorry for the shoe company. but he has an extortion shim. now he is going to prison. i am not surprised he had such a rise and such a fall. >> tucker: what about the dignity question. there are figures in history who mount the gallows to their death without crime. aren't you supposed to man up and keep tears inside? what happened to that standard? >> well, where was the beast. they all talked about how he was a beast and president trump was afraid of him. he goes into court and almost every other criminal cries when he has to face the music for what he's done. >> tucker: yes. there say connection

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>> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: for you huge part of last year you were required to pretend that blm was about stopping racism! the group that told you that all lives didn't matter was racism. if you worked for a company you have to say that or you were fired for questioning that. you could not say blm hates america and were bent on destroying it.

now you can because blm is saying it. in a public post on the 4th of july a chapter of blm described the american flag as a symbol of hatred. "we know the person flying it is a racist." a total lie on every level. cnn anchors are admitting they hate america too. >> one of the more recent images that we might think of, of the american flag being very visible was people on january 6th who were storming the capitol beating police officers with it. >> tucker: you can't put emotionally unstable people on tv. that's the rule cnn. victor davis hanson is one of the wisest people we know and a master from the big picture

and joins us tonight. from my perspective what we are looking at is people with the most power in our country, supposed to be running the country hate the country. what is going on? >> yes. they never give us data. it's all vague. racist this and that. we have metrics to adjudicate racism. a minority that makes up 12% didn't elect the president of the united states, a racist society would not allow kamala harris to be vice-president. you would not a race in north carolina where the republican and democrat candidates are black. if you have anti-asian hate crimes it would be white people doing that and not black people in a racist society. they don't give us alternatives.

we needs details. what model is superior to this? there is a class element. this is not the generation that came out of the civil rights movement. martinin luther king. they experienced terrible racism and came out of impoverished circumstances. we are listening to lebron james and oprah winfrey and mr. kennedy or west. they grew up in the upper middle class families. they had equal opportunity and were very successful. this is like the french revolutionary who were upper middle-class or lenin or the marxists or the founder of blm who owns 4 homes.

i don't think you should take the idea they are being exploited suffering in a racist country carefully? this is dangerous. historically we are not the norm. this is a multi-racial democracy and they don't work. when you look at the world around us whether it's iraq or yugoslavia or the problems they are having in brazil or india, we are doing well. these people are uninformed. they are taking us on a trajectory where we know where it ends up and it's not bret. -- pretty. especially if you have a war of everybody against everybody, it doesn't work. >> tucker: the country is so racist they gave a free ride to

princeton to michelle obama. >> and she ventures out of our $14 million estate and tells us your daughter is in danger walking on the street when we have 400 people killed over the 4th of july. 100 shot in chicago and we were told if we just had african-american mayors or the attorney general or chief of police. that doesn't seem to help. we have problems that need to be addressed. michelle obama is blaming society for endangering her daughters. she won't move back to her chicago mansion given the state of safety in chicago. nobody talks about these problems. this race is an abstraction among the elite. it's not the concern of the poor

and marginalized people in the inner cities. >> tucker: nor of the dying middle-class. victor davis hanson, appreciate your coming on. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so, we are seeing now in a lot of places government refusing to enforce the law, defunding the police, crime goes up. you are forced protect yourself and your family and property. we have seen this before in recent history. 1992 koreans in los angeles were attacked because of their race during the l.a. riots. they defended themselves. what did they learn from that experience? we will show you after the break. [2.

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>> tucker: police department across america are being defunded as violent crime is hitting record levels. what do you do in response? we made a documentary on this question on tucker carlson originals and looked at how people survived when the government refused to protect them. in l.a. we talked to koreans who defended their property during the 1992 race riots when they were targeted. here is a clip from that.

>> we heard a gunshot. >> david was in korea town when the riots broke down. >> it was april 29, 1992. i would stay in my store. >> the korean community was hard hit by the rioting. many inner city stores are korean owned. >> we are on our own. no option we have to defend our store. >> tucker: that's what store owners did. >> i only have one thing in my mind. protect our korean people. >> [gunfire]. >> tucker: those guys were really tough and really brave and an inspiration to all of us. the documentary is called

surviving disorder. it's on fox news nation.com. that's terror for us. -- that's it for us. friday we have an interview with the one man silicone valley doesn't want you to hear from. back tomorrow night. the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. sean hannity takes over the 9 p.m. right now. >> sean: yes, we will be watching tomorrow. thank you. and welcome to "hannity." tonight all is not well at the white house. inflation record levels. businesses can't find employees. more lockdowns are imminent even supported by the administration. a southern border is a disaster. violent crime is rising in every major city in this country. russia is hacking critical supply lines every month. china is openly threatening the united states, our military and ou