raymond arroyo, very catchy and original himself. have a great weekend. >> you can catch more of raymond on the ingram angle at 10:00 eastern. thanks for watching. fox news primetime, you can watch me on waters world, 8:00 p.m. steven miller, chris christie, ben shapiro, and dana lash. tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker carlson: welcome. tonight, a significant day in the recent history of the country. we'll have an hour of details for you. but before we jump into them, a little bit of context. here's how the story started just so we all remember. 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse wound up on the street in kenosha in the fist place with a gun for one reason, he was there because in the summer of 2020, the leadership of the democratic

party endorsed mob violence for political ends. that's why there were riots in kenosha that night, because people like kamala harris supported the riots. more than a year later as rittenhouse stood trial for murder, the same people implied there would be more violence if he was acquitted. so imagine being a juror on that case. imagine the pressure and the fear? it would take enormous moral courage for any juror to ignore the threats and take the evidence to the logical conclusion. so much courage at times we thought it would be impossible in a country politicized as ours now is. we learned today, it is still possible, thank god. this afternoon, the jury acquitted rittenhouse on all charges, the jury affirmed what was obvious from the beginning, he acted in self-defense. it was a wonderful moment. anyone who believes in impartial justice was vindicated. this is what the moment looked like. >> we the jury find the

defendant kyle h. rittenhouse not guilty. as to the second count of the information, richard mcguinness, we, the jury, find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse, not guilty. as to the third count of the information, unknown male, we, the jury, find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse, not guilty. the fourth count of the information, anthony huber, we the jury find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse, not guilty. as to the fifth count of the information gabe grosskreutz, we the jury find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse, not guilty. >> tucker carlson: remarkable. months of lying from the media in this case in the end had no effect whatsoever from the jury. propaganda doesn't always win. today it was soundly defeated. thank god. our documentary team was in kenosha when it happened, they've been putting together a

tucker carlson originals series on this case. and they captured his first moments outside of the court today after being acquitted. >> it's the stuff that keeps you up at night. like, once you finally do get to sleep, your dreams are about what happened and you're breaking up in a dark, cold sweat. >> you had dreams about what happened? >> every single night. it's quite scary, actually, because the dreams still feel real and they're not the same at all. they're all different. there's a difference in narratives that run through your head in the day like what could have happened, like, i'm alive, but what could have happened? what if i wasn't alive. or what if i did -- so those types of dreams. it's bad, but almost every outcome is either me getting seriously injured or hurt or dead, those are just the dreams

i have on a daily basis. >> the defendant will rise, face the jury, and wait for the verdict. >> state of wisconsin versus kyle rittenhouse. the first count, joseph rosenbaum. we, the jury, find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse, not guilty. as to the second count of the information, richard mcguiness, we, the jury, find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse -- >> the jury reached the correct verdict, self-defense is not illegal. and i believe they came to the correct verdict and i'm glad everything went well. it's been a rough journey, but we made it through it. we made it through the hard part. >> tucker carlson: you watch that clip, you're reminded maybe the one person in america who hasn't weighed in on the trial

is kyle rittenhouse himself. so for months, cnn, kamala harris, and others have been able to define him. that ends this monday when we'll have him on the show monday night. we hope you will. as a legal matter, this is over. kyle rittenhouse is innocent in a court of law. he's free to resume his life. for the authoritarians among us, this is a disaster, they can't let it go. why? because they understand the rittenhouse case is a referendum on the most basic right of all, the ancient right of self-defense. if kyle rittenhouse can save his own life from the mob, then you can too. that drives them insane -- so insane that the chairman of the house judiciary committee today, jerry nadler of new york implied kyle rittenhouse may face federal charges. this verdict, in aedler wrote, justifies federal review by the doj. so joe biden's justice department indict kyle rittenhouse now he's been acquitted by a jury in

wisconsin, it's hard to believe. you have to be deranged to consider that. what would be the effect on the country. you never know with these people. at the least, the case will be used to justify taking your guns away. bet on it. but, if it does go to the feds, if kyle rittenhouse is prosecuted by the doj, the case will be handled by kristen clark, the black nationalist that runs the civil rights division of the justice department, the division that does not protect your civil rights, in fact, trying to take it away. last year, she weighed in on the case and zeroed in on rittenhouse's color, like his race was some kind of crime. she described him as a, quote, armed white man, killing innocent protesters at, quote, point blank range. what does his race have to do with anything? what does it have to do with anything, of course, but it's been a fixation of the democratic party from the first moment. they've tried to racialize. she's not the only member of the democratic party trying to do that. just hours after the verdict, a

congressman released this statement, quote, it is disgusting and disturbing that someone was able to carry a loaded assault rifle into a protest against the unjust killing of jacob blake, an unarmed black man. end quote. savor that. that's the head of the democrat kraltic congressional campaign arm. everything about it is wrong, not just a lie, but -- jacob blake was not killed. he was also not unarmed. he was carrying a knife, you know? because he said he was carrying a knife. he was trying to kidnap a child. that's when the police showed up. when he grabbed a knife, they shot him. that's not in dispute. he's still alive. it doesn't matter. because to these people, facts don't matter, clearly. sean patrick maloney has no interest in what happened. kamala harris said she was proud of jacob blake last year, the democratic party are sticking with that too. they are trying and they have been from the beginning to make this case into a racial divide, to further divide the country.

kamala harris today said that the outcome of this case, the jury's verdict, was proof that our judicial system is not, quote, equitable, whatever that means. needs to be changed. the attorney general in the state of new york said it needs to be completely torn down and rebuilt, our justice system, that we've had for 250 years, the best thing in our country. the idea that you are tried on the basis of the facts, not on the basis of what you look like. they'd like to change that. abc news reported the same thing. they told us, abc news, a news corporation just told us that, in fact, jacob blake was killed in kenosha. watch this. >> well, it's very significant, first for the community of kenosha, this city was traumatized by the police killing of a black man, jacob blake. >> the police killing of a black man who is, in fact, still alive. so, what are they doing when they tell lies like this? lies that you can check very easily or if you have a memory that extends to last year, you

recall very well. well, they're insiting people, of course. they're trying to whip people into a frenzy on the basis of claims that are totally provably untrue. what kind of a frenzy? well consider this. this is from a senior advisor at the d triple c, the democratic campaign arm. his name is dajuan issuing a call for riots. no justice, no peace, he wrote in the wake of the verdict. who is he? he spent a decade in prison after he shot two people. now he works for the democratic party, in case you're interested in whose side they're on. but you knew that. a spokesperson for congressman val democratings, another democrat, offered this assessment, the core of the far right movement is they should be able to kill you if they want to. that's the official line of the democratic party tonight. keep in mind, if you watch the trial, you know this, kyle rittenhouse was walking down the street when he was charged by a convicted child rapist and

charged by a number of other people. he sought no conflict. there was never any evidence he was the aggressor in any case. he was aggressed against. so, joe biden also weighed in on this. he gave two versions of his views on it. first he said we're going to respect the jury's verdict. then when his advisors took over and wrote a new press statement, he told us how upset he was by the verdict. and that's what aired on msnbc all day. >> the next time there's a -- a protest of some sort, and it may get politicized, that gun owners, with a certain ideology may feel incentiveized now, may feel even emboldened. >> what some may take from this verdict is vigilante justice prevailed. >> knowing the history of vigilante justice in this country all the way back to times of enslavement, when people would be deputized to go

down and enslave persons who ran away, to lynching mobs, this is 2021. >> the current and future kyle rittenhouses of the world that they can engage in white vigilanteism and be let off for it, be defended and protected for perpetuating white supremacy. >> white vigilanteism, white supremacy, white, white. all over media all day long, explicit racial attacks. what does that have to do with this case? and in what kind of country is that allowed when the most powerful people in the country level explicit racial attacks against one of their countrymen? most of us didn't grow up in a country where people talk like this. this is a reminder in case you're tuning in for the first time in a year, everyone involve in this case is the same color. the people counsel on american-islamic relations offered this take, which was very common today on the left.

quote, it is difficult to imagine a black or muslim defendant engage in the same conduct being found not guilty. really? were you here for the o.j. trial? it's ridiculous. msnbc, the network banned from the courthouse for following jurors around broadcast this from the relative of jacob blake. >> you tell us why he got a free ride. the bail money was raised by the proud boys, the ku klux klan, the nazis, the skin heads. are they up in this courtroom? do we know the history of this judge? tell these people in kenosha for many years. >> tucker carlson: it's really, really dark. the rest of us should not allow them to get away with racializing this, allowing them to get away of attacking people on the basis of their skin color. that is always gone, we would never engage in that, never have, no one should do that. it divides the country. it's immoral, flat out. but somehow to the crazy logic

that governing their positions and deeds, they wind up defending child rapists and domestic abusers, elevating them to some sort of hero status. the former mayor of new york billdy blas you wrote, anthony huber and joseph rosenbaum were victims, they should be alive today. maybe we'll get a small statue of rosenbaum. the aclu, which you would think would be in favor of self-defense suggested crossing state lines is a crime. stay in your own state. despite his conscious decision to travel across state lines and injure one person, take the lives of two people protesting the shooting of jacob blake by police, he was not held responsible for his action. insanity. the continuous references to crossing state lines are not insignificant. they're meaningless. you have a right to cross state lines if you're an american because it's your country. you can go to all 50 states. why do they bring that to every

analysis of the case? crossing state lines. they want to use it to change gun laws. that's right. you watch. if you want to know what the worst people are saying, tune in to jeb bush's former flak on msnbc. she told us anyone who crosses state lines is a domestic terrorist. >> the kyle rittenhouse acquittal not guilty on all counts did not happen in a cultural vacuum. there's alarming context to this moment we're considering and talking about. last week, the department of homeland security released the latest bulletin warning americans, again, of the ongoing threat posed by domestic violent extremists. we should point out conservative media for many, many months have been priming its audience for this moment, framing rittenhouse as a hero. >> tucker carlson: so, why are we inflicting tape like that on you on a day when all of us should be celebrating. we'll tell you why. because none of that made any difference to the jury. and if you're totally absorbed in american media, you get the

impression that american media are in charge of our country. and it turns out, they're not. most people don't watch that crap. they don't care what people like that say. they don't care at all. there are a lot of rational, decent, thoughtful people on all sides of all races in this country who are still willing to think clearly about what is right, what is wrong, what is factual, what is false, what is just, and what is not. and today, they did. so, that's the real lesson here. in the face of all of that propaganda, a group of jurors in kenosha, wisconsin, were brave enough to reach the right and obvious conclusion anyway. amen. yea for america. candace owens is the host of candace. she joins us. thanks so much for coming on. sorry to play all that stuff. one night we should have probably pulled back. but it seems like they're barking into the wind, like in the end, the jurors didn't care what jeb bush's former flak had to say about it. >> i think you're right to show

this, because i said all day, this win does feel bittersweet. it's bittersweet -- we're happy that an innocent person was found to be innocent. we shouldn't be happy with the fact that this was a nail biter, we were sitting on the edge of our seats despite the overwhelming evidence he was innocent. is mob justice going to prevail. when b you showed the tweet referring to joseph rosenbaum as an innocent man, i want to be clear who he was talking about. people should go independently and look into joseph rosenbaum. i cannot express -- 11 charges against him for raping children. the boys he raped, there were five, sexual assaults, five of them, including rape that were between the ages of 9 and 11 years old. the idea that any person in the position of power would use the word "innocent" and joseph rosenbaum in the same tweet should sicken you and should tell you where we are right now. they're so hungry to maintain their narrative, they're willing to justify and paint as innocent a person who raped young boys.

it's despicable. you are correct, the main stream media is so come police it in this. i no longer delineate between the legacy media groups like msnbc who sends people to follow the juror bus, right? i no longer delineate between them and the boots on the ground, the ante fa and black lives matter of the world. it gives them the constant feed of of lies. big tech is also come police it. there are a lot of people who need to pay for what kyle rittenhouse lived through. i hope he stands up and sues a lot of people for defamation, including president joe biden. >> tucker carlson: and go fund me, which tried to prevent him for paying for a lawful legal defense, i hope they go out of business. i mean it. disgusting. candace owens, thank you. >> thanks. >> tucker carlson: julio rosas has ably covered the story from the beginning since the night it happened. he's standing by at kenosha. the author of the book "fiery

but mostly peaceful, the 2020 gaslighting of america." i think we've been talking to you since the first day of this story. now that it's ended, this portion ended, what are your thoughts? >> all i can say, i said it from the beginning, the video speaks for itself. as someone there that night, it was evident that kyle rittenhouse shot in self-defense. there are no riots here in kenosha right now. but we have to think about why there were the threats of riots. still, even right now as we speak, there's a large portion of the american population that believe in the false media narrative perpetuated since the night it began. as you were playing earlier, people were calling it a win for white supremacy, when the only evidence we have is somebody being racist is rosenbaum, slinging the n word around like he's a want to be sound cloud rapper? i filmed him doing that telling other people to shoot him.

at the end of the day, you have to be careful what you wish for. >> tucker carlson: its interesting, you filmed st. joe joe rosenbaum, as he's been declared. it must be shocking to you to see how that night is described, considering you saw it with your own eyes. >> it -- yeah. i mean, it's not just me. we have democratic politicians. i remember waking up the next day and seeing congresswoman pressley's tweet calling him a white supremacist. we had no idea who kyle rittenhouse was at the time. and the only thing we did know was that three people were shot. and, so again, it's frustrating, really frustrating. but, you know, justice prevailed today. >> tucker carlson: thank you for telling the truth from the beginning. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker carlson: so, msnbc, there's no depths to which they will not sink, ran this banner on the screen today. it called the events in kenosha last year a, quote, blm rally. so, that's a blm rally.

all right. looked like a riot. like where they burn the city down. cost $50 million of property damage to kenosha. by the way, why are the infrastructure bills not rebuilding the cities that biden voters destroyed? good question. but msnbc was offering propaganda like this all day. they aired an interview with a rutgers professor called britney cooper, watch this. >> today we're asked to say that it is legal and to respect the rule of law because a white boy deputized himself and went out and terrorized people who were actually, you know, using their constitutional right to protest. this is also white america's reckoning with which version of whiteness is it going to choose? there have always been white victims of white supremacy. >> tucker carlson: how long can you attack an entire race of people before you really screw up the country for good? there will be all kinds of consequences that none of us

want to live with if people keep talking like that. all day long it was like that. white people are terrible. say things like that on tv, what do you think is going to happen if you do that. stop that, now. no one does it more than the race lady at msnbc. her reaction moments ago. >> watching the criminal justice system at work, it was designed to do exactly what it did today. gun laws help to enhance the design to allow this verdict to happen today. this country was built on the idea of -- of white men had a particular kind of freedom and a particular kind of citizenship that only they have. it gives, you know, from the slave catchers on, the right to inflict violence in the name of protecting property. >> tucker carlson: man, you really think, again, over time, there are massive consequences for people saying stuff like that on television, racializing everything. the country has enough racial

division, why are they pushing for more? green green wald is an independent journalist. you can find his work on sub stack. we hope you will. thanks for coming on. yours is the only twitter feed i read. maybe i misunderstand this. i thought you read today media organizations in brazil where you live were sincerely under the impression that people shot in kenosha were black and they took that from the american media, did i misread that? >> no, you did not. not just one, the three biggest news outlets in brazil, not a year ago, but this week, in covering the trial, explicitly stated that the people kyle rittenhouse shot were black. and they had to retract it. it wasn't just them. the independent in the uk did the same thing. one of the leading dutch papers did the same thing. obviously, they're watching the american media that deliberately cultivated this false narrative from the start that he was a white supremacist and so therefore they assumed that he went there and shot black people, which is what you would do if you're a white

supremacist. the media misled not just the american public, but the entire world. >> tucker carlson: why -- this is a longer conversation i hope we can have. but it's so obvious with this story specifically, you know, four white people are -- they're the main players in it. and they're telling us it's a race crime? why are they doing that? it seems like an intentional effort to divide to mein l. >> it really is the case that the liberal left in the united states has completely lost the capacity to understand any significant event in the world without seeing things through a prism of race. everything is racist. everything is white nationalist. everything is white supremacist. everyone with whom they disagree is guilty of all of those things. so even in a case where on it's face, race has nothing to do with it, it's a white person who shot three white people, all of whom did some form of aggression against him, they still end up imposing it because it's the only way they can understand the world. by doing that, they gain a lot of power.

they get people to think they're on the right side of history by always agreeing with them. >> tucker carlson: yeah, they get a lot of power. yeah, that's the obvious conclusion. i should have figured that out yourself. i appreciate you explaining it. great to see you tonight as it always is. . >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: so the prosecutors in the rittenhouse trial tried to portray last year's riots in kenosha as peaceful. of course they were, they were peaceful. don't mind the fires. drew was there. an independent journalist, a key witness in the trial, in fact, because he was on the ground covering those riots. he joins us now. drew, thank you so much for coming on. so you're another eyewitness to this night whose mind must be completely blown. you must be deeply frustrate bid the way you hear it characterized. >> tucker, this is what they do. they're liars. the woke mob, all they can do is lie. there was nothing peaceful from kenosha from night one, from the beginning. when i showed up, they were lighting dumpster trucks on fire. the reason i went to kenosha is because the rioters took a brick

to a police officer's head. there was nothing peaceful about kenosha from the beginning. it was a riot from the beginning. it was a crime scene from the beginning. kyle rittenhouse didn't show up to commit violent acts, the rioters did. two days before he showed up with the rifle and the rioters are the ones -- you can fact check me. everyone look on my twitter right now, drew h. live and support me, the rioters are the ones that showed up in kenosha on night one with the rifles. they showed up to commit violent acts, not kyle rittenhouse. that's why he was acquitted, tucker. >> tucker carlson: so, the governor of wisconsin then and now is a former college professor and a dishonest person called tony everies. he said how sad he was that joseph rosenbaum was killed. he never apologized for refusing federal officers to be allowed in kenosha to protect the city. he's responsible for that violence. when is he going to admit that and call him out on that. >> i don't think he will. he seems to be bending the knee

to the woke mob because they're the ones that control things or they control things when people allow them to. this is why this case is important, tucker. we're sick of it. we're done. the american people are done with bending the knee. we're not going to bend the knee any longer. we're going to stand up to the woke mob because we will not bend the knee in fear and we will stand for justice, truth, and righteousness. god is on our side and we will prevail. >> tucker carlson: i hope you're right. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker carlson: so, if anyone has a libel action or two, it would be kyle rittenhouse. keep in mind, in the last campaign for president, the democratic candidate, joe biden, accused kyle rittenhouse in public of being a white supremacist. there's no evidence of that at all. absolute slander. he and many other people. so, does kyle rittenhouse has his own case against these liars? fran sei headache t -- francine haik is a former federal prosecutor. thank you for coming on.

seems like kyle rittenhouse has a lot of action against people who told damaging lies against him. >> it does. defamation is a pretty broad category. it includes libel and slander both spoken and written. and the president, before he became the president, certainly slandered kyle rittenhouse when he posted a tweet that showed him under a caption of white supremacy. and condemned white supremacist as if kyle rittenhouse was one. and even today, you have people calling, still calling kyle rittenhouse a racist and an assassin and a white supremacist and perfectly illustrative of some kind of white privilege. all of those people in the media, there was a congresswoman today who called him a murderer. all of those people can be held accountable in civil court. and i think that rittenhouse should sue. he has two years after the cause of action starts to file those complaints and charges against people who were saying these

things against him. i hope he does. nicholas sandman sued and he got a lot of money from cnn. this is far more serious. the character assassination that has gone on against kyle rittenhouse is far more serious than that was. and i hope he pursues it. >> tucker carlson: it's totally reckless. they were saying things they knew weren't true. it's not like they had ugly opinions about the kid. it was like there was never evidence he was a white supremacist, whatever that is. it was ridiculous. they did it anyway. i hope you're right. great to see you. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: a lot more for you tonight. our friend, jason whitlock will join us next to explain what it means. when jason whitlock comes to the show, we don't even ask him a question, we say jason whitlock and let him go. it's always worth hearing what he has to say. we'll be right back.

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>> tucker carlson: what is kyle rittenhouse's life going to look

like now. for starters, he will have to move to a new city. >> anonymity will come back to it eventually. i don't think heel continue to live in this area. i think it's too dangerous. he's had 24-hour security since this happened. >> tucker carlson: the co-host of fox & friends weekend and a friend of the show. glad to have him with us. a lawyer -- something he never admits, but he is. but, i want to ask you a legal question, will. just a broader more sociological one, what kind of country is it where you get acquitted but you still can't live in your hometown because it's too dangerous? like why do we accept that as normal? >> because our political leaders are the ones that put his life in danger, tucker. there is, as the old saying goes, no place to go to get your reputation back after you go through something like this. i like what you had to say at the beginning of the program where there's hope to be taken from today that 12 rational americans managed to set aside

the propaganda and see an obvious truth. there's hope in that message. but that violence, potential violence, the threat was stoked by our americans. 12 rational americans set that aside, we saw the prosecutor's office, the da i was in wisconsin that brought this case to trial by bending to the social media mob. that's injustice in itself that never should have seen the light of day in the courtroom. what more we saw today, the president of the united states issued a statement, tucker, saying, well, i respect the outcome of the jury. and one hour later, social media began the outrage towards the democratic president of the united states, he switched, flipped the position, and issued a written statement saying what a tragedy, the outcome of this trial. the point i'm getting at is leaders are weak, vacuous, and spineless. but the american people are still strong. and they're going to need to be there to protect kyle rittenhouse in his life going forward. >> tucker carlson: that's right. i don't know if you can see a no justice, no peace process in

brooklyn, new york tonight. thank you for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: for the record, this show would have the same position on kyle rittenhouse if he was a bernie sanders voter. we don't know if he is. he probably hasn't voted for anyone, he's too young. this is not partisan. the right to self-defense is the most basic right any human being has. you're born with it, it's innate. if they try to take that away, we're all in trouble. as we said at the end of the last block, we want to talk to jason whitlock. we never ask a question. we throw it to him and he surprises us in a good way. he joins us now. he's the host of "fearless," what do you make of this? >> tucker, i think that what we did see from those 12 jurors is courage that we needed. it's inspirational to all of us. as men and women. it took courage to do this. i want to add this take.

if i can say one thing while i'm here, you've been having this conversation, why is everything being couched as race? this is a calculated strategy. >> tucker carlson: yeah. >> to disarm america to go after the guns and eventually rewrite the constitution. they're trying to define america as a failure and it's number one failure is along the lines of race. and if they can convince enough of the american public that this country isser redeemably racist, they now have a justification to rewrite the constitution, start this thing all over, and make us more like china. that's the end game. this is not an accident that from joe biden on down who says that white supremacy is the biggest threat to america, all the way down to racial maddow, aka joy reid, constantly talking race, race, race, race. this is a strategy that has been

quite effective. it hides the agenda. they've convinced black people that planned parenthood and aborting your babies is the greatest thing you can do. and anybody who tells you different is a racist when we know that planned parenthood and margaret sanger, they're the racists, and that the destruction of black babies in the womb, that is the racist activity. everything -- it's like -- they -- the bigger the lie they tell, it's like the more we believe. we need to recognize they're lying to us intentionally with a defined goal of rewriting the constitution and taking guns away and sovereignty away from the american people. >> tucker carlson: god, that's so smart. and the bigger the lie, the more likely people are to believe it. but they're putting abortion clinics in your neighborhood, they don't love you. sorry. obviously. thank you for saying that. jason whitlock, glad to have you on tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker carlson: so, some of

them are dumb enough to kind of let the plan out in public. the new governor -- the new unelected governor of new york, kathy hoeckel, if i can announce it correctly, proof we need tighter gun laws. by the way, the old governor of new york, cuomo, immediately acted in total outrage today on twitter. apparently he figured out -- kyle rittenhouse shot a tex -- sex offender. wow, that's a threat. the new governor is telling us that kyle rittenhouse's self-defense is proof we need to take guns away from the law abiders, why? that's next.

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>> tucker carlson: almost immediately after kyle rittenhouse defended his own life in kenosha at the blm rally, the tech giants said he was not due a legal defense. he didn't qualify to defend himself in court and he didn't qualify to defend his life on the street. so gofundme took down a fundraiser for the rittenhouse

defense fund. a lot of censorship surrounding this case, none of which defenseble and all in retrospect is appalling. thank you so much for coming on. what do you -- i mean, it does seem like in retrospect -- go fund me took down his legal defense site? how is this even allowed? >> yeah, it's crazy, tucker. and also it's not just gofundme, a lot of the silicon valley companies matched the employer donations to the rioters burning kenosha down, but wouldn't allow kyle rittenhouse to crowd fund his legal defense denying him the constitutional right to defend himself. trump said the fake news was the enemy of the people. i think of these silicon valley technology companies as the enemies of western civilization. they're willing to burn down our entire constitutional republic so long as their share price goes up a nickel. if we take anything away, it should be we

have a choice between the constitutional liberties, the rights our forefathers fought for, or the bottom line of the silicon valley tech monopolists. it's time to break them up, destroy them, tax them, whatever is necessary so we can continue to have a good life in this country that all of us love. >> tucker carlson: yeah, to save our democracy from oligarchs taking it away. amen. imagine having a voice like that in the united states senate. that might make a difference to the rest of us. we're rooting for you, j.d. vance. thank you for coming on. >> working on it, thanks, tucker. >> tucker carlson: man, they must hate you. the governor of new york, as we told you, is trying to use the rittenhouse case to take away the right to defend yourself. she tweeted, kyle rittenhouse used an assault weapon to kill two people. any question why we need gun safety laws, here's your answer. she's defended your second amendment for the long time as well. a syndicated radio host. she joins us as well.

thank you for coming on. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker carlson: it was inevitable that this trial was going to be used to take away your right to defend yourself, rittenhouse's wife affirmed, but we're going to lose our rights to do that? are you surprised? >> no, i'm not surprised. we've seen this tactic every single time anything remotely close to this situation that we saw in kenosha takes place. it always comes up. whether you have a business owner protecting their property with a firearm. i mean, this has come up. and if people question whether or not these people can be out there with rifles, yes, you can be. i've seen so many things misstated about this purposefully to try to set up this case, to go after second amendment rights. the first, tucker, is kind of what this unelected governor is talking about, oh, kyle rittenhouse crossed state lines. he was armed and crossed state lines. he crossed state lines -- these are people who don't care about the border but suddenly they care about state lines. it was 20 minutes away.

his dad lives in kenosha. he was legally within his right to carry a rifle in kenosha. he didn't bring it from illinois. still in those instances, he was legally in his right to do so. so, that's what this is all about. trying to establish this as a way to go after second amendment rights and disarm us so we can't defend ourselves. >> tucker carlson: we have a federal right to carry fire arms. it's guaranteed in the bill of rights, a federal document. the states can't keep you from exercising your basic constitutional rights, can they? i mean, just because you're like the unelected governor of a crumbling state. you don't get to take my gun rights away just because i live in another state can you? >> states will -- this is why people need to be active in their locality. states can try to get -- do an end run around your second amendment rights. and they can make you, for instance, here in texas, in order to exercise constitutional carry, open carry, you have to get your concealed carry

license, which doesn't make sense at all. you deal with the cards you're dealt. but states can require certain things. but they cannot just essentially go out and regulate you to being disarmed. and, so, i always hear the popular saying, the second amendment has limitations. your gun control has limitations. your ability to regulate fire arms out of private ownership from the citizenry, that also has limitations. and this is one important point on this, when jerry nadler talks about bringing the doj in and the phrase over and over again, crossing state lines, being armed. that's so they can go after it federally. there's no case. they don't have jurisdiction. >> tucker carlson: it seems like the whole case is an argument for gun rights. some crazed child rapist on drugs tried to kill this kid and he saves his own life and you look at that and say, he should haven't been allowed to. what are you saying? it's dark. dana lash, great to see you. >> i agree. thank you, tucker, great to see you. >> tucker carlson: we don't know

how the verdict in the kyle rittenhouse trial will affect kenosha as well. other towns across the country, will there be more riots? gosh, we hope not. we have a report on that straight ahead.

>> tucker: all day on the internet there were threats of violence in independence to the verdict in the kyle rittenhouse trial. none yet but a large number of black lives matter protestors marching from brooklyn, new york. on social media they chant every city and every town, burn the precinct to the ground. it's unclear if traditional be riots in kenosha, wisconsin. this is a columnist with the "new york post." thanks for coming on. burn every precinct to the ground. will that be on the front page of the "new york times" tomorrow, i wonder? >> i wonder. new york has so many

irresponsible politicians who issued irresponsible statements. our current governor and current mayor and the next mayor had a ridiculous line about seeing swift and righteous action. i don't know how you do that with a trial that went to a jury and dismissed the charges. irresponsible people are making sure this happens and our law enforcement is at risk here. i feel scared for them. i hope they know there are new yorkers who are with them. >> tucker: irresponsible is the word. thanks for using that term. one thing he learned today a lot of people hate our justice system when they don't reach the conclusions they demand. masters running for senate in arizona and there is a twitter feed on how to improve this

country. sum it up. what do you make of all of this? >> well, tucker, the right result was absolutely achieved. kyle was obviously innocent. but this wasn't an episode of perfect justice. it was unjust that he was on trial in the first place. the evidence was so clear. it was unjust that facebook and go fund me decided that kyle should not have the right to fund raise and defend himself. it was unjust that the prosecution their whole case was built on lies and doctoring evidence and destroying evidence and withholding it. it wasn't just to ask the jury to it deliberate when they could hear the mob threatening the jury: convict this kid or else. they had a tough choice. do you stand up for the truth

and take personal risk from the mob? >> tucker: is jury believes in equality under the law the essence of life in america. the ruling class believes in equity and as the vice-president herself said this was not equitable. he doesn't look the right way so he must be guilty. that's what they are fighting against. >> that's right. our ruling class in this country, they have this sick pathological obsession with race. many people learned for the first time that three deranged lunatics kyle shot were white. and a child rapist attacks you you have the right to defend yourself. this it -- has nothing to do with race. >> tucker: there is something

wrong with them. appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: on the screen you can see a first look of the upcoming episode we are making on kyle rittenhouse for our documentary series a tucker carlson original. our team has spent time with rittenhouse and his lawyers and family. we will show you that next month. monday night we will have the first sit down with kyle rittenhouse since his acquittal. we hope to learn a lot. a really, really interesting case. one thing we have not heard anything about is kyle rittenhouse's view. he hasn't talked so he is. no matter how you feel about him or who you voted for in the last election or will vote for in the next election, this is not a partisan story. it's not a racial story. it has nothing to do with politics. it has to do the fundamental

right to protect your own life and the life of your team. -- family. he was affirmed and that's a huge win for humanity itself. sean hannity is next. taking over right now. >> ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." we begin with a fox news alert. we are monitoring the situation in kenosha, wisconsin. in new york city, chicago and portland as protests gather across the country. coming up the attorney for kyle rittenhouse will join us exclusively and all nicholas sand man knows a thing or 2 about media smears and no due process and no presumption of innocence. it was a huge day for the right of