♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." lots going on capitol hill today but first a strong stomach and strong regimes are like strong people, they are confident, rational and moderate and can afford to be those things. don't make honest mistakes does not threaten them, why would it? you know when they see them, and

the weakness has the opposite effect. they lie constantly and admit nothing. they will buy for us because they have no choice and have lost the legitimacy. when they begin to lose control, and they inevitably do, they panic. the magnitude of their failure, the retreat into dilution and their behavior becomes irrational with bizarre demands. he barked our orders at his guards as a direct him and into courtyard to be shot. final moments he thought he could make his execution is obey. every collapsing regime is the same and with that in mind we have learned today that in the face of the waning pandemic the biden administration will dramatically increase covert restrictions across country. millions of children will never be required to cover their faces and schools and this is despite the scientifically inspired fact

mask posts a bigger issue than covid does. the administration will force masts on adults including people who have already been vaccinated. consider this. if they took the vaccines they could of their lives back so by the millions they did that. and the biden administration is decided to control who they are and where they talk to. the rational person, there might be something wrong with the vaccines, maybe they don't work very well? the administration assures us that the vaccines work perfectly, they are milling miracle drugs. so why the mass? the biden administration's on baghdad bob responded to him.

>> with the pandemic, why do vaccinated people need to put the mask back on? >> peter, first, go back to this chart. if you are vaccinated it could save your life and i think the clear data shows that this pandemic is killing, it's hospitalizing and making people very sick who are not vaccinated. that still continues to be the case regardless of what the mosque guidance looks like. >> if that's what they do then, why do people who have of the now need to wear masks? >> the leaders our administration have been made the determination to be sure that their loved ones are protected and they are protected given the transmissibility of

the virus. be honest vaccines work, the only people getting sick of the vaccinated but the vaccinated software masks? why is that? public health leaders in our administration of made the determination. in other words, because we said so. that's a medical justification for suffocating her third grader with the picture mask forever. public health officials in the administration of made that determination. so they issue the rule without explaining it and you then obey it, and watching that exchange, you realize that every moment in time is a point on a continuum and that's worth remembering now. it's easy to assume that because all this is happening live at the white house it's a way that things are and will always be but in fact, this cannot last for long. those making the decisions are too discredited, they are apparently unwise. what you're watching is a

decaying system based upon presumed expertise to finally reaching its upper end and the stage. at some point it will be gone because of it has no legitimacy. although it's scary, there is hope of improvement which we should all pray for but the crazy people are running our country. it's insane that leaders would not acknowledge the science which is clear, millions who have recovered from covid don't meet the covert vaccine, they have natural immunity to the virus. nor do people have been vaccinated and have meaningful risk despite the endless hysteria claiming otherwise. a big study this month, so that code vaccines offer a higher level of protection even though the new delta variant of the environments. if you are vaccinated you are protected, and that will look entirely different from the one

the biden administration is embarking on. it would make vaccines available to anyone who wants one and leave the rest of the population alone to live their lives like they used to do in america back when it was a free country. and instead the dead administration has decided to use this virus to cement its control of the country. democrats of road covid victory last november through fear and blame and brand-new methods of voting. they plan to keep power through next year's midterm and the very same way, by dividing americans against one another. vaccinated versus on vaccinated. as a political strategy this makes sense, every moment of television anchors are yelling at rural conservatives for not believing science and others are not talking about how the permits and washington, it's also incredibly ugly.

last week a black man in his 30s died from covid in california. at the media assumes and discovers the men was an avid christian and once question vaccines in the social media post so immediately they gloated over his death. they deserved it. that was a theme in countless newspapers that ran around the world. but wait a second, when do we treat death and disease this way? when someone dies of hepatitis c and then talks about the evils of intravenous drug use, of course not. there's no political advantage in doing that but there's a huge potential political advantage in claiming that only republicans question vaccines in the pandemic is their fault. so that's what they say day and night.

>> this is months and months of antiscience and anti-vaccine aggression coming from our right elements of the republican party. there is nothing more than an effort for power and control and they will be used first -- first it will vaccine a microporous vaccines on us and then take away our bibles and our guns and all of that disinformation, meaning deliberate misinformation, came out of seat back and the conservative news outlets. >> tucker: at front right elements of the republican party. if you wanted americans to believe their physicians and if you care about the country, you would want that, you probably wouldn't put a porky little partisan like that guy on television with an mdf after his name. dr. hotels does not inspire confidence. if he destroys competence because he is lying. he's doing about openly and because he can't control himself he's gratuitously attacking

persons as he does it. rival worried about mandates? it's vaccine mandates and we are not making that up. on thursday the united states will announce at all federal employees will be required to get vaccine regardless of whether or not they have a entire body is to covid. that's not a small development, the federal develop at its largest workplace in the world and employs close to 3 million people so an awful lot of lives will be affected by this policy. what's interesting is back in december which wasn't that long ago joe biden assured us that nothing like this would ever happen. >> i don't think it should be mandatory, i would demand it be mandatory but i will do everything in my power, just like i don't think masks need to be made mandatory nationwide. i'll do everything in my power

as president of the united states to encourage people to do the right thing and, when they do it, demonstrate that it matters. >> tucker: i won't demand mandatory vaccines or masks, biden said. this week he's demanding just that. as a present pandemic become much worse? she would think on the basis of that number that the administration would be celebrating and maybe even taking a victory lap but they are not doing that, hardly. in fact they seem more demanding than ever and were determined to single out americans on the basis of their health status and denounce them. we have long ago left the realm of public health. this is about politics and it's about social control. the biden administration has decided it owns her body and the media agrees with that. if the rest of us allow that drunk grotesque claim to go unchallenged we are in deep trouble going forward, for

generations long after covid receipts and it will at some point. american citizens should never be forced to take medicine they don't want. period. the government should never require people to submit to any medical procedure whether that procedure is sterilization, frontal lobotomy's or code vaccinations. most americans still believe that, that's a foundational belief in this country and, so is defending the people who believe that. no one capitol hill is defending them. no one in the think tank is watching them. instead, professional republicans have decided to ignore this topic entirely, and as usual they have utterly internalize the photos of their enemies. they are not neanderthals are anything like those who vote for them and send them

contributions, we are totally different. we see them saying that all of her television reading pfizer talking points. and that's fine. if you want the vaccine, go ahead and take it. it's entirely up to you. we support that and most do. but what about the americans who don't want to take the vaccine? who is standing up for them? if republicans can't even do that, if they even defend science and fight mandatory injections then why bother to have a republican party? why not spare the rest of us the indignity and signoff your twitter account for good and take a job at quiznos? in america would be much improved if you did that. similar chops could certainly use the help. pedro gonzales joins us tonight. you could be entirely for the vaccines, i'm i have never met anyone who is not for the vaccines. most people think the code vaccine is a good idea.

but why can't you come out in favor of the vaccine and also defend people who choose not to take it? why is that not a principle worth staking everything on and why is that not an essential principle that you should not be forced to take medicine you don't want to? why couldn't republicans stand up and say that? >> right. at the vaccine is so important that we are allowing an unlimited amount of people to enter the country legally and even have the military show for them around. the answer to your question is that it isn't about public safety, it's about control. and including the dnc are pushing cell phone companies to work with them to "spell information about vaccine. the adl and paypal recently announced a partnership, the adl

also includes anti-semitic conspiracies. vaccine criticism could cost you your livelihood. the cdc has announced that everyone vaccinated or not must wear masks indoors including k-12 schools. this is psychotic. children are least susceptible to covid and most susceptible to fearmongering and there's been a suicide attempt spike in children under 13. this won't stop on its own because of so much money involved. this is the same industry who pushes the opioid crisis. and that's seemingly uninterested with its creep at home and that has to change. >> that used to be considered a foundational principle of both

parties that you couldn't force people to undergo involuntary medical procedures. if you have a national policy that affects everybody including your children, you have to justify it. you can't just tell people they have to shut up and obey. use popular deceit ask it the white house briefing, but you can convince me of everything. just tell me why you are doing this in the one will answer. >> but like you said the removal of consent for saying this not on us but our kids, that to me was the line.

this won't stop on its own unless someone or some party takes a stand. the san francisco county has filed a order in other words the state is going behind the backs of parents to push vaccines on kids and if you're a parent who tries to intervene then you have to fight with the state over custody of your kid. this is insane. >> tucker: it shows what frauds professional libertarians are. they should be leading the charge against us but of course their silence. pedro, i appreciate your insight tonight. here's the other thing at that have been to, to january 6 commission convene on capitol hill for its first day of hearings. there are many outstanding mysteries that remain from that day and you probably came away disappointed because i want any answers provided. ashley babbitt, and why she was killed.

and we still don't know how many fbi informants were in the crowd inside the capital and generally sixth or to what extent others were breaking the law. someday we will get the answers, but the hearing today seemed designed to keep those answers from us, so much transparency. the one thing to be did learn and have long suspected but never seemed confirmed is that an awful lot of members of congress are emotionally fragile. some seem unstable really. some to the point where they might qualify for federal disability on those grounds and they certainly cry a lot. as members of congress fired into the house chamber, a servant handed out tissues for the waiting that was certain to ensue and it didn't take long for republican adam kinzinger of illinois to make good use of the kleenex. watch. >> i never expected today to be as quite as emotional for me as it has been. we talk about the impact of that

day that you guys won, you guys held. democracies are not defined by our bad days. we are defined by how we come back from bad days. i would take accountability for that. >> tucker: it was too much for adam kinzinger, he wept just thinking about it. adam kinzinger is a highly sensitive person and he doesn't care who knows it. but what surprised us was adam schiff of california, you think of him as a tough character, and even prudent fighting heroes have their limits.

as adam schiff recalled the horrible image, the nightmare of the q and on shaman wandering around, he broke down and began to cry. >> got help us. we are so driven by bigotry and hate that we attack our fellow citizens, if they were born in our country, if they don't look like us. then got helpless. but i have faith. because of folks like you. adam, i didn't expect this to be quite so emotional but it must be an adam thing today. >> tucker: it's and adam

thing. that adam schiff just complained that others were calling people trade doors? he cried anyway. now how afraid are adam schiff and ken's anger and their friends in congress that the queue and on are coming back? they've allocated themselves more police protection than most american cities get at a time when most american cities are becoming more dangerous and thousands of americans are dying. and it's not an exaggeration. the u.s. capitol police, the bodyguard had a budget and that number is rising. how much money is that? well, the dangerous city of detroit is $380 million. so the u.s. capitol, 535 elected representatives have almost $100 million more per year in

law enforcement money than the entire city of detroit. the police budget is just over $200 million here, less than half of what those 535 members allocate themselves. to be fair no one in detroit has to deal with the shaman so it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. so how do you justify up budget. and how do you need twice the budget that the city of atlanta has in the middle of a crime epidemic? to justify democrats picked for carefully curated police officers to testify as the voice of the law enforcement community. we told you about one of them, a man called harry dunn and we told you he would probably turn out to be a partisan activist and we were right about that. he claims to know that officer brian sick neck of the capitol police died not from a stroke, that's what the washington, d.c., medical examiner in turn, determined

but instead of "injuries sustained in the line of dirty ohmic duty" on generally sixth. >> before i begin i would like to take a moment of time to ask for a moment of silence or my colleague, officer brian sicknick for injuries he sustained in the line of duty defending the capital. >> tucker: nothing wrong with asking for a moment of silence in memory of officer brian sicknick, we welcome that. but you are not supposed to lie in a congressional hearing and he just it. and that's what he said that were true. including eight capital city cop. watch as he compares what happened on generally sixth to the iraq war. >> and we were now letting them

in. they tried to convert, and my time compared to iraq, it's totally different. people who have sworn to protect but yet they are attacking us with the same flag that they are trying to represent. it was bad. >> tucker: so those of us who disapprove of rioting who said what happened on january 6th was wrong, our arrests becoming a little bit cynical and people like that in every virtually member of congress should on both sides intentionally oversee what happened? when they lie and don't stop lying, when they can. the civil war for 9/11, it makes it very cynical.

what we do have is, it doesn't look a lot like iraq, doesn't look like fallujah. and that's exactly what happened on january 6. officers left the rioters into the capital. some of the writers have face paint and create american flags but with u.s. capitol police which is used to checking ids and it was very much like 9/11. and that's why according to d.c. police officer michael finnell and, and that's what i'm looking for. it's an investigation into those actions and activities which may have resulted in the events of january 6. in that is a collaboration

between the members and their staff in these terrorists. >> so you are looking for the real threat from january 6th and that happened after the fact. it's statements like that, claims like that and changes in policies like that, it's the deep politicization of law enforcement that has become normal after january 6th and that just proves it right there. that testimony that you just heard, people like michael flynn known who are sponsored before enforcing the law. they don't make the law but they enforce the law. and yet you just heard him call for some kind of ideological inquisition into people he doesn't agree with in washington and that is unacceptable and it should make you very nervous. watch him fight this psychological trauma he endured as an excuse for ditching our bill of rights. >> i've been left with psychological trauma and emotional and anxiety of having survived such a horrific event.

>> tucker: now not to in any way underplay the crime committed on january 6 and the war crimes committed on generally six but compared to what? what's interesting is michael didn't experience any trauma on the d.c. police force. it was just last summer that writers in washington torched and it took secret service have to take the president to a bunker. and remember that? a blm writer called brendan sermon, and he required surgery to repair his face. what's interesting is what happened next. so when no one called that blm

limits take a dangerous insurrectionist, adam kinzinger didn't cry thinking about him. somebody flying a japanese zero at pearl harbor or to al qaeda on 9/11, and why? because the blm partners support the program. and then he was released from jail on his own recognizance. like so many of the trump voters on generally six, are you noticing the difference here? only congress seems to notice the difference. during today's hearings, when people in charge condone crimes, he said, things tend to fall apart. >> they have marching orders so to say, when people feel emboldened by people in power

they assume they are right. even to this day, they think that they were right. that was the fury of the country. >> when people feel emboldened by people in power they assume they are right and that is absolutely true. but not in the way that they meant it. and no one was ever held responsible for it. and we await a commission on that. brit hume is a fox news senior political analyst, in fact i think the only one. i thought when that january 6 thing happened it was bad, i hate it when people break stuff,

and that's the way the writers were treated compared to the way the writers last summer were treated. that makes me feel like equal application of the law is dead. >> if this recovered the way the rights of last summer recovered it would be described as mostly peaceful. those were people in the capitol building milling around, the guy in the senate chamber with the horns on and so on, and that explains the nightmare experience that the undermanned and overwhelmed capitol police officers who testify today have to go through. some of them obviously had a terrible experience, but there is disparity between the way this event was covered and the way it was responded to politically. the way the more serious writing of last summer with more deaths to show from it have been treated.

and i wonder if there has ever been a greater display. >> i have seen reactions from numbers of congress and former members of congress. they are the ones who are inclined to know that this incidence, and that's why it -- and it was an ugly riot to be sure, and disturbing. but they considered it to be an insurrection. it was an insurrection that failed pretty spectacularly, and that's what we are trying to interfere with which is the formal accounting of the votes for president. they went off later that day, it was delayed but that was all they did. that didn't strike me but it was close to overthrowing the government which is what a lot of people claiming to overthrow these writers and insurrectionist due.

>> tucker: the personal bodyguards of the united states congress has a budget that's more than twice that of the city of atlanta and about $100 million more than the entire city of detroit, one of the most exciting places in the western hemisphere, what is that? >> i grew up in washington and lived there most of my life and it is the most policed city with more different police forces active. you have the d.c. police, capitol police hundreds of very large force when it's deployed with everybody out. you've got the fbi and the uniform services, a division of secret service, you have the aqueduct police and the u.s. mint police, he goes on and on and the total budget has got to be absolutely staggering. it doesn't surprise me that the capitol police budget would be so large but what's surprising is that so few of them were

there already and undermanned and under armed and so forth to deal with that because had they been properly deployed i think we could all agree that these people could not have gotten into the capital and what had happened will not have happened. >> tucker: not a single member of congress was injured. more than a thousand americans have died of murder since then, maybe they should spend more time worrying about the rest of the country. brit hume, thank you. so the administration is bringing back mass mandates but they are still refusing to stop the flow, a massive flow of covid positive foreign nationals illegally across our southern border. they are not getting vaccines, they don't have to. so where are the people who cross the border with covid?

does anyone know or tell anyone care? we have a report on that, next. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: so on the very day that we are told we must wear masks in public, those that haven't been vaccinated must be vaccinated if they want to get a job because covid is that big of a threat in the country. without checking to see that they've been vaccinated against covid. trace gallagher has the update. >> a group of people inside of a

whataburger restaurant were coughing and sneezing and taking zero precautions. the migrants were supposed to quarantine in a local hotel but when police checked out the hotel they found dozens of other migrants also ignoring quarantine guidelines. police immediately issued a public health warning and a county judge faced with quoting that multiple reports of migrants being released and not hidalgo county infected with covid-19, and now kibo 42 already mandates that all migrants be deported during the pandemic and biden administration is made exception for kids and families. remember migrants allowed into the u.s. with covid are on their own. and here is la jolla police just moments ago.

>> we did not know this. no one told the city of la jolla, no one told the police department that these people were here. no one told us that these people were possibly ill. >> nobody told them. consider this, the migrants tested by immigrations and customs of forstmann, 82% tested positive. the lockdowns began and it's notable that axial system reporting that 50,000 migrants have been released into the u.s. without court dates and told to report to various ice offices. so far, 13% of shona. >> tucker: so if you have concerns with the u.s. intel agencies which are vast and very powerful and can listen to anything they want including

pregnant patients, our overcontrol and affecting their own countries. you will be reassured by people in washington that actually the constitution gives them oversight in the form of the congress. that oversees the intel agency and they do it through committee and the house-senate committee and the senate. in the house, eric swalwell, a member of congress in the bay area, we know has had sacks with a chinese spy and yet he remains on the intel committee. does that shake your faith a little bit? it turns out to new reporting of breitbart news that it is a classified report the biden administration won't reveal it.

and that's not just speculation that is known and apparently the u.s. intel agencies know it. now he is supposed to oversee them but they have a classified report on him. >> last night, matt boyle, our washington editor for breitbart news broke what are pretty explosive details about not just the sex life but how are house intelligence committee was compromised. operations were made in the united states with operations in various relationships with opposition, and we don't know the extent to which it was intimate. now we apparently do, and this report as of now compass while well hasn't denied. this is deep penetration inside of this while well operation by the chinese government.

>> we directly asked congressman swalwell to come on and comment on this. it sets up a very uncomfortable and bad dynamic, if i'm your boss but, that's kind of what it looks like here. the intel knows the details of his relationship with the chinese spy but he supposed to be overseeing them? but that's not the way it's supposed to work. >> isn't the russian word for that compromise? remember that from a couple years back. and this is not a joke, this is a deeply compromised individual and you don't know the extent to which he's been compromise or if there are other spies out there. >> were there other members of

the committee or is it only eric swalwell? >> that's how the detail is known, not just by intelligence agencies but who stumbled on the story, and how much information do people know about our congress people? >> the biden administration should declassify this immediately. i appreciate you coming on tonight. thanks for coming out tonight. so if you read twitter you will see some of our pentagon leaders on their expressing those political opinions and if you disagree with them, they will accuse you of working for vladimir putin. so how does that make them any different from msnbc hosts? we will discuss that, next.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: as many times as we say it out loud it's pretty unbelievable that eric swalwell, a member of the house intel committee had sex with the chinese spy called thinking. it's also incredible the general in the u.s. army. he does in promoting a various specific political point of view. harassing political opponents of the biden administration., last week general donahoe was lecturing a student at hillsdale college on the merits of

mandatory vaccines. hey hillsdale, come get your boy. that's where another user asked this. he general, how many wars havee you one? rather than as that question honestly and of course the answer was zero, patrick donahoe answered this way. "don't be a shill for putin." so you have a major general in the u.s. army accusing apparently an american citizen of being a "a shill for patent" because that person criticize joe biden.u are you comfortable with that up with the highly politicized u.s. military that acts t basically s edour armed enforcers the biden administration? he should be comfortable withy it. ned ryan joins us tonight. you think of all the guys whone join the u.s. military because they love america and want to defend the country and were endlessly grateful for theirsl real sacrifice, and they do sacrifice and a big way. then they have leaders like those who spend their days

on twitter to call people prudent shills because they disagree withut biden? why hasn't he resigned? seriously. >> the left has yet again been successful, and yet another institution which is the senior leadership of our military which i don't think so be that surprising. a lot of these senior officers have gotten advanced degrees from indoctrination centers with advanced degrees like harvard or columbia. when i look back in the obama administration where they got advancement not necessarily through merit of how good are you at killing and destroying but how good are you at parroting the left's talking point and even more so it appears this general donahoe thinks that he will win praise and advancement by attacking conservatives and populace. now we got to this point where we have a major general in the military who looked at attacking a private citizen's right to

speech is that with the right thing to do instead of defending the constitutional rights to be able to have freedom of speech and freedom of dissent. i think conservatives need to have adjustment in their thinking and start to look at the world in different filter, in which the doj and the fbi and quite frankly the military which are supposed to defend the rules law, basically and i think it's a very dangerous place for us not only domestically but also on the international level as well because the woke military against the chinese is not a goodod thing. >> i don't understand why the republicans in the congress, mitch mcconnell or adam kinzinger, they say when we sign off in the military budget? patrick donahoe has to leave fort benning and resigned. you can have a politicized military, that's insane, no i did somebody say that?

>> i think republicans have lost sight that they do have oversight but they've lost thet, guts and they do have the t courage to do so in which the chris wray's in the donahoe's of this world who refuse to have oversight and have politicized military and the fbi continue to do these things because they think they can get away with ity and it simply out lack of political courage by republicans in d.c. who would rather posture on tv and send sharply worded letters doing something and have consequences. thank you for coming on, ned ryan. it's been a huge newsday and obviously we will be back in just a moment. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: we tol >> tucker: we told you without lunatic general at fort donahoe was screaming, she found the guide and donahoe was berated, she will be talking to him tonight on her show.

also, a brand-new show of tucker carlson originals out on thursday, we think it's worth watching. you can find it on fox nation nation.com. on that note we head over to our on sean hannity standing by to take over the 19 program. >> sean: hello tucker and thank you. tonight the cdc's credibility is in the toilet and now circling the drain with the american people and what is now yet another policy reversal. the cdc is now recommending that unvaccinated and vaccinated americans wear masks indefinitely and they are also demanding that children of all ages wear masks in schools indefinitely. and biden meanwhile is floating vaccine mandates and a new lockdowns for federal employees. it will explain all this coming