thanks for watching "fox news prime time." tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." here's a story we completely forgotten about because there are so many. just before last november's presidential election, to former army officers were open letter to the chairman of the joint chief of staff. the letter became public and was published on a left-wing blog and within minutes was all over the internet. it had a direct order and if

donald trump refuses to leave the office, the united states military must remove him by force. that was a little shocking. we began to wonder if that was a really good idea. no matter how orange donald trump might be, military coups and up being unwise. they go on the record is opposing it, too. and what a relief that was. within days, the story kind of receded. another weird footnote to a weird four years. if you pause and thought about it for a second, you had to wonder, where did that idea even come from? did to former u.s. military officers just suggest removing the president of the united states by force of arms? since when do american military officers talk like that or think

like that? we push that consideration from our minds. but we shouldn't have.w now we know that mark milley himself is a sort of person that considers military coup entirely within the realm. the current chairman of the joint chiefs chief of staff is a jointat extremist. in the book millie describes donald trump as a moral equivalent of adolf hitler. thousands of trump supporter's peacefully gathered which is constitutionally protected napolitical rally. millie likened him to the brownshirts which the paramilitary wing of the party. this is a moment, the gospel is

a furor. if you are grandfather joe in u.s. military to go overseas to go and fight the. what do you think of that? mark milley not just wikipedia, and yet this well read man of history is comparing nearly half of our country to adolf hitler and thatng would include a comep by the way, the many hispanics in the rio grande valley who voted for trump. mark milley isn't just your average guy with crackpot views, mark milley has controlled nuclear weapons. are we okay with this? the people on tv are okay with that. >> you read what millie was doing which is obeying the constitution. it standing up to the oath that he and serving members have taken -- that's what a patriot

does. >> general milley and his team the military with the courage to stand up to something that was going horribly off the rails with the president of theor united states. >> thank goodness that g general millie was there. generals all saw this guy's flaws. >> he was going to make sure that those guns were not used. >> and is a student of history and to use the words used like and rice tag say lots. you must be a highbrow gap grad school guy. you know he went to princeton, pretty funny. so the joint chief of staff is on the same intellectual plane as the midday newsreaders on cnn. the problem is he's a lot more

powerful than they are. mark milley is the reason that thousands of american soldiers occupied up our capital this year ahead of joe biden's inauguration. we will put a ring of steel around the city and the aren't getting in. that's what he referred to with american citizens. several hundred senior citizens from orlando. this is a guy by the way who is paid to assess threats realistically. what countries pose a threat to the united states? put them in order. then millie gave a speech straight out of a 1990s bruce willis flick. b "everything is going to be okay. we'll have a peaceful transfer of power, we will land the plane safely. the institutions are bending but it won't break. in the end, no attack ever came. you think that would be an

embarrassment, to have a speech like that and nothing happened. some guy dressed like chewbacca shows upup but no, he was not embarrassed. in fact later he gave a speech testimony to congress and said apparently not referring to himself that he understands white rage better thanan anyone. >> i do think it's important for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and widely read. in the united states military category as aa university and it is important thatve we train and we understand. i want to understand white rage, and i am white. and i want to understand it. so what is it that causes thousands of people to assault this building and to try to overturn the constitution of the united states of america. what caused that? i want to maintain an open mind and i do want to analyze it, it's important that i understand that. because they come from theia american people so it is important that the leaders now

and in the future do understand it. >> tucker: white rage is a casual racial slur. these people have no self-awareness but he tells us he spent many hours reading robin d'angelo and eva mix candy learning about white rage but that white rage never came. soon after the election the post reports "millie began formally planning what other military leaders, strategizing how they will block trump's order to use the military in a way that they deemed dangerous or illegal. let's pause for a moment, as the chairman of the joint chief of g staff, the guy that's inspired by our constitution and our democracy -- he can't make them independently and if he disagrees he could resign. but he can't agree independently because that would be a junta. she wanted to know what the generals had done to help her. she wanted to know that they

were doing things that were illegal, taking control of the military from civilian elective leaders and mark milley didn't blush. in fact, millie told nancy pelosi that i guarantee you we have checks and balances in thee system. they are written into the constitution. according to the post some of those checks and balances he referred to impacted the ability by the cia. so the president reportedly replacing her by a man named cass patel. we now note that milliet pressured the chief of staff not to do that, to keep it going. what is going on here, millie asked trump's chief of staff, what are you guys doing? this is lunacy. the chairman joint chiefs

shouldn't have that conversation and should leave if he can't to himself. that quote right there is a loan grounds for immediate firing from his job. talk about a threat to our system. and yet "the washington post" thinks this is fine because the president was talking about election fraud. scary. we already know that was long before the election took place. on february 20 in the last year the trump administration reached a deal with taliban to end u.s. military involvement in the country after only 20 years. immediately the pentagon led by mark milley conspired to kill the deal which they are not allowed to do under our constitution but they did it anyway. startling swiftness and pentagon officials and military leadership exploited the open-ended terms of the cease-fire to the real

the implementation of the agreement. no one informed person it denies that that happened. the decision would be made not by civilian leaders but by the pentagon. again, threats to democracy anyone? and the taliban that use the same justification that mark milley use later in 2022 overruleon donald trump sortable out of afghanistan filled he told the president was only possible to remove half of the forces there, not all. no one in the media seems concerned by any of this and inp

fact "the washington post" which supports authoritarianism is already publishing op beds explaining that mark milley is a hero. and therefore we need to get rid of theth filibuster. this is what "the washington post" is reporting. it's a question we need to do right now. he reserved his chief of staff, and thanks so much for comingn on. do you believe this reporting is accurate? >> i believe the reporting very unfortunate and tragic that the highest uniformed officer in the country would controvert his responsibility and possibly break the law because the constitution and federal

statutes only allow the chairman to advise the president.he he has no command authority whatsoever. >> tucker: it because he was not elected by anyone, that's how the system works. power vested with people and the public chooses to represent them. so if he's trying to control of the next cia director is preventing you from getting a job as it happened, but so far outside of what we would call, i guess, democratic norms. i wonder why no one has said anything about it? >> you are totally right and i'm glad you're covering it because so few people have. the statutes are clear, he's responsible for advising the president and the secretary of defense on military affairs. if someone else in that role controverted, they would as she was said to be removed probably from that position, or he should resign but he wants to create and has created a joint staff operation that is a pseudo-defense department all on

its own and to execute as he sees fit and that is a contravention of the law. that's a very thing he lobbied against which is one of the biggest political operatives in the united states defense department.ll he's now officially the cracking of the swamp. >> tucker: i don't know where w all the lobbyists but this is actually a greater threat. it's hard to believe they are hysterical or childish but they are also so to the observed threat, and happy that to reports that someone panics under pressure, if you walked across lafayette park,

"the washington post" and some cnn trash marked mark milley to no end. the comments including net nancy pelosi are asking them to break the law and do things that are not within his power during january 6 just so they cano continue the fake narrative about the insurrection in the overreach that the media has put on the political landscape and it's a shame that the chairman of the joint chief of staff it is the most highly politicized figure in the department of defense. >> i mean here he's threatening the core principles. >> tucker: we talk to a number of republicans, we will speak to another one in just a moment. era republican candidate who is

taking aim at the indoctrination of race hate in our schools. that's coming up next.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: so there's an opening in the ohio

congressional delegation, 15th congressional district and a lot of peoplere running the republicanng primary, 11 primars as of august 3rd of this year. the winner will then compete in a special election in november to replace congressman steve stivers. one woman that came to our attention was ruth edmond, of the columbus naacp and also an ordained minister. one of the things she's running on is we need to stop racism in our schools of all kinds. >> i'm a patriot. i love the united states. they are the greatest nation on the face of the earth. it's time to stop judging every white person as a villain and every brown person as the victim. we are one country. one nation, under god, indivisible and liberty with justice for all. >> tucker: ruth edmonds joins us tonight.

i couldn't put it as clearly as you put it, but why did you say that? >> thank you first of all for having me on tonight and i said it because it's the truth. they are not villains and not oppressor's and brown's friend d people are not victims and not oppressed. >> tucker: you can't say that, well, whoa, whoa.es and i'm from the inner city of baltimore, maryland. at the ethics of hard work and perseverance and faith in god, and take advantage of opportunities when they come and not allowing barriers to be excuses. so yes, i can say that brownex skinned people are not victims because they are not.

>> tucker: it sounds to me like your religious faith into, conforms the view of that. >> i make no excuses for having a biblical worldview and i absolutelyly believe this county was founded on a biblical worldview. endowed by our creator with certain inalienable c rights. t absolutely, and i think it is terrible how there is an evil attack to pair up, and we have to stand up and speak outnd against it at every opportunity that we can. we have to defend this great nation. >> if there were more people like you at the naacp, i'd send the money. what will they think of you?

>> that when i join, and it was there. i realize that my values and my principles that i was raised with and those are the values that my grandmother gave to me. it was just natural for me to align with that platform. >> tucker: i appreciate you coming on, thank you very much, it was good to talk to you. >> thank you. >> tucker: it's coming back, indoor mask mandates and with the biggest cities in the country. we should know what's happening here. if you are looking for a caseo

study in how to generate ioconfusion, the l.a. county health department just give us a step-by-step guide. that's above 1,000, and everyone including those fully vaccinated again have to wear a mask and door. cdc director rochelle walensky said most people are safe from the delta variant of the coronavirus and don't have to wear masks indoors. in fact even when the l.a. county health department was issuing the mandate today and was simultaneously making its case and undermining its case, they say hospitalizations are now under 452. and the county goes on to say, to date we have not had a patient admitted to the hospital that has been fully vaccinated with either the jay ended jay, pfizer or moderna vaccine. every patient we've admitted has

not been fully vaccinated.in the question is, if the fully vaccinated are not getting sick, why did they have to wear masks? the answer is businesses have no way to verify who hasn't hasn't been vaccinated so it's one-size-fits-all. finally the county health director is not ruling out the implementation of stricter mandates including more shutdowns. stay tuned, tucker. l.a. county appears to be on a roll. >> tucker: you empower politicians, good luck getting it back. thank you. so as mask mandates and shutdowns make it back, many colleges are forcing students, kids to get the vaccine. even kids who have recovered from covid, and there are millions of them, who have active antibodies. it's not science, and the question is is it legal? he's taking a major step to endg the practice in his state and he joins usaj next. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: in this country, in any free >> tucker: in this country and any free country politicians are not supposed to be allowed to decide what you can see, hear or talk about.th they can't control what you read, period. that's in the first amendment, but they are doingng it in much more aggressive ways than they've ever done before. we learned this year there is an lifelong democratic party fixer called anthony stone who announced facebook action with very accurate reporting on hunter biden. it was kamala harris' former press secretary who announced -- donald trump discussing the fact that covid isn't spread among kids very much. then just weeks ago, tony fauci's email revealed that the biden administration directly, the white house, hadoo reported mike coordinated with facebook to reduce the spread of misinformation. this is ominous. we learned much more about it the crack down on the basic liberties we had came from

straight from joe biden's top flak. it turns out the white house ise not directing facebook to censor specific posts that joe biden's white house doesn't like. >> we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team given as dr. murthy conveyed it, this is a big issue of misinformation specifically on the pandemic.si with increased this information research and tracking within the surgeon general's office and we are flagging problematic posts for facebook to spread the information. >> tucker: perfect. so they are actually controlling the white house. politicians are controlling what you are allowed to read about covid-19, and who knows what else, if you can stop misinformation on vaccines what can't you do? this is the line that they are not supposed to cross, they are not allowed to do this and it's

clearly a violation of the first amendment. the white house isn't a private company, they are politicians. they are the government and they are controlling what you can read, about something that actually matters by the way. how is this allowed to happen, why doesn't anyone do anything about it? we have no power to stop it, only the power to tell you about it. and i hope it does stop soon. many colleges are forcing students to take them on a virus vaccine even if they don't need it, and many don't because they've already had karen and have active antibodies. that was happening inas south carolina even though the state budget prohibits vaccine mandates. that's when the attorney general of south carolina alan wilson stepped in. i he sent a letter to one school that was providing vaccines to the college of carlson. as state law makes clear the decision is a personal decision." you can't do that, it's against the law. when he pointed that out, the

college of charleston backed off and kids had the right to determine what medicine they can take. thank god. alan wilson joins us tonight. mr. attorney general, thanks for coming on the show. first thank you for doing this and second why hasn't every attorney general and every state do this don't up on this? >> first off you start with what does the law say? the law is very clear, any state publicly funded college or university cannot require proof of the covid vaccination and there was a covid protocol put out by one of our colleges and universities that was kind of unclear but basically required incoming students in the fall semester to fill out a form, a covid vaccination form. if it was determined that you were unvaccinated or you declined to fill out the form you would be placed on the list, a mandatory covid testing protocol list and it was very upsetting to many parents in a number of students are reached out to our office.

you can't do indirectly what you are prohibited from doingib directly. i was concerned that if a student refused to comply with the covid testing protocol thati there might be an adverse consequence to them.to the said we need to clarify their covid policy which to their credit, they did, within a day of us sending a letter.ou they replied there would be no adverse consequences and we wanted other colleges in the state of south carolina to know that if you are pursuing covert protocols you need to be very clear that there will be no adverse consequences nor will there be mandates that students have to bel vaccinated. i mean, i can't imagine is a state in the country that allows any institution to force medicine on people who don't want the medicine. it's not even about covid, why can't we force uppity people to take thorazine? like, i don't like your attitude, units and tranquilizers. i don't that's a line that any

institution would be able to cross. >> first of all we don't allow that here and i would hope that other states would follow the rule of law. there are other people that are concerned about the emergency use authorization, it's not a fully vetted drug. it is vetted but there are people choosing to make the personal decision not to get vaccinated. i personally have been vaccinated and i encourage people to get vaccinated, but if people don't wantt to get vaccinated they should be allowed to live their lives freely. we are defending people's personal liberty on the right to not get vaccinated. >> tucker: and if you're worried about that you can get vaccinated. alan wilson, thank you so much. so you seeee kamala harris on television and you ask yourself, what would it be like to work for her? should i apply for her job or send her write my sources fromer inside her office just shared what it was like to work for her. with a little bit like going to

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so msnbc, t >> tucker: so msnbc, the tv network not the scheduled trade from us it was a birthday today, that channel is 25 years old which is hard to believe especially for those of us who remember the day it was born. even at this advanced age there are a lot of misconceptions about msnbc. the first is that all its been accused of a sitting president of murdering a young woman in a congressional office. that's not true, it's a myth. and i like to dispel it all once and for all right now. the second misconception about msnbc is that has always been some left-wing revolutionaryth channel. and that's a merger of business

titans and fundamental it's one big hr department.00 after the 2004 presidential election the geniuses in the programming office decided to pit it and you hired a new prime anchor anyway. you have to be more vigilant in asking questions about the invasion of iraq during the run up to it, like our be certain there are these wmd stockpiles that we are using to justify the stockpiles? even though it had been a little tough on the administration. >> that's pretty compelling television but in the end it was not t enough. the guy you just saw was fired for low ratings and was replaced by an emotionally stunted agoura for eric baseball card collector.of mr. keith overman and it was too

volatile an arrangement toan la. and like puppies, all networks are cute when are little.em the problem is you don't know what they will grow up to become. here's the channel's new lead anchors screaming once again about those diabolical white people. >> so here we are again. there is a cohort of white guys not rooting itself in the idea that even during a pandemic these screaming men and women have their god-given right to get their roots done, order ahe steak at the restaurant at the golf course or the bar. those were conferred upon them

by god, and it will get back on the wheels and return them to their comfortable lives.t >> tucker: broadcasting that crop 24 hours a day. it's pretty ugly, but we are going to rise above it tonight.y you saw the race lady along with jeb bush is former flack the rachel maddow impersonator and wishing rachel maddow herself a very happy birthday and we will do it with maximum cultural imperialism, as the irish say, on occasions like this. may the dreams you hold dear be the ones that come true for me the kindness you spread keep coming back to you. happy birthday, msnbc. so some say kamala harris is w kind of funny because she can't even pronounce her own first

name. but she would like you to know she does have some pretty deep principles. >> but we are united by the fundamental belief that every human being is of infinite worth, deserving of compassion and respect. everyone deserves dignity and respect except for the people who work for kamala harris. and then they were so stressed out that they were making themselves sick. so kamala harris, champion of women actually was marinating in all toxic stew of toxic

masculinity. are you surprised to learn that kamala harris, if that's what she is going by -- >> it's the most predictable thing in the world. everybody watching you has worked for or worked with somebody who just has ambition just dripping all of their pores. those kos types of people will o anything to get ahead and they treat their bosseshe like and ty treat their employees like, that's why she knifed joe biden in the debate was all about race nonsense, there was no need to do that. it's the same reason she cackled like it that hyena every time she's asked in a comfortable question. it's the same reason she started out her political career as willie brown's bratwurst bun. kamala harris will do anything to get ahead. >> tucker: i have to say when i look at her, you can feel the fear and false people are always afraid because they are

terrified you will find out who they are. people who don't pronounce their own first names or they grew up in canada and pretended they didn't. she always seems like she's exposed. of being u >> she doesn't believe in anything and like you said people who don't believe in any grounding, kamala harris is painted as this far left wing there and if kamala harris thought her political ambitions would do better on thedo right, she believes in absolutely nothing. so anypt k staffer, she doesn'tk at them like people or a secretary or an assistant, they are all just stepping-stones that they can stomp on. as soon as they throw poor joe out the back door, she will hate that, too. >> it would be funny to like bribe her pollsters to convince her that the one issue is like an attack on circumcision.

you could watch her get that impassioned speech. >> she was throwing people in prison all day long in california as this absolute ball busting atop throwing people in jail for anything she could possibly think of and now she goes toat the senate and is the most left-wing senator. this woman doesn't believe in anything except for achieving the left wing. there are always terrible people, universal. >> tucker: if you are absolutely right, we shouldn't believe that she is especially unusual. great to see you tonight. so we are just beginning to get a sense of the outlines of the cost of the coronavirus lockdown that dominated this country for a year and a half. and it's really sad, sadder than we even thought. brand-new data from the cdc spelled out how many people died and not justot from covid. it will tell you how, next.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so what was the >> tucker: is so what with the toll of the coronavirus lockdown's? since the coronavirus lockdown's were not just about that but covid-19. it had a cost, a much greater cost than we ever imagined. according to new data a total of 33,000 americans died of drug ods last year when the country was shut down.

how many people is that? well into thousand 1,972,000 people died of drug overdoses, a massive increase. sentinel was involved in 60% of those ods. to assess these numbers, dr. marc siegel joins us. thanks so much for coming on. what's your reaction to this, that's an enormous number. >> i am absolutely astounded except we expected this. you take this back to wuhan, china, and january 2020 where the city was locked down and labs were locked down. but you know what other labser were locked down? offense and all labs down. they were locked down according to associated press and as the city of wuhan opened up, what happened? the fentanyl started to flow. 50-100 times more powerful than heroin, then morphine, that caused drug overdose deaths. you know where that fence and all well dr. narrow full cow,

she said yesterday that this overdose death, the most in this century were caused by what she is calling isolation. our word for isolation is lockdown where people don't have access to their loved ones, where people don't have access to any structure and they can't get any treatment, they can't even get narcan which is the emergency drug that you use for opioids if you are about to stop breathing. where does all this fentanyl come from? why all this? dr. bo cao was right that it's mixed in with methamphetamine and cocaine, you don't even know that you are getting fentanyl. it leaks in through this open border under the biden administration and in el paso, texas, there is 40 pounds of fentanyl over the past year compared to, tucker, 1 pound the year before. 40 pounds more fentanyl leaking into the porous border under the

biden administration.ni but it doesn't start there, it doesn't start in this of them border. how did it get to the southern border? it got there almost always from china, a little city in china primarily known as wuhan.uc >> tucker: that's incredible. we've done so many segments of this that i had no idea that the precursors for fentanyl were made in wuhan. a city in central china had a big effect on the history of the world. so what about, i've always wondered when the governor made these decisions to shut down public gatherings, why were no exceptions made for aaa or support groups for people who are struggling with addiction? and there are millions who are. >> that's an extremely important question and that's because no public health decision over made from a global view. it was always at the virus. and of course you can have an aa meeting on zoom, of course you have to go to your counselor and be counseled and get your

treatment. which you can't get on zoom. all of this caused tremendous damage and should have been considered. collateral damage from the pandemic is way worse i believe then from the virus itself. >> it's starting to seem that way. not to be preachy but i have to say there's an awful lot of addiction in this country and i found sobriety is the key to happiness, i think that's true. we should make it easier and not harder for people to achieve it. dr. siegel, thank you for coming on. we are basically out of time, all this week we showed you horrifying images out of south africa, one of the prettiest countries in thee world. a lot of anarchy and chaos. lots of reasons for this but at the l very heart are bad polici, really bad policies that in some cases were encouraged by our politicians here in the united states. we brought someone all the way from south africa to our studios

here to describe what's happening and more importantly, why and what we can learn from it. an amazing conversation and we will put that up on fox nation tomorrow, on a tucker carlson today interview. we will share a portion of that tomorrow night. i hope you have the best night, we will be back. in the meantime, sean hannity takes over from new york. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." tonight the far left organization known as black lives matter is now speaking stomach sticking up for cuba's dictatorship. the one that imprisoned the scores and citizens there protesting for the cause of freedom. coming up the great one marked marklevine speaking up for this organization.