♪ ♪ speak a good, welcome to tucker carlson tonight. i'm jesse watters and for tucker. last night just before midnight, walking through morningside park. right next to columbia's campus. that is when out of nowhere, a man knifed him in the stomach. gary collapsed and died a short time later.

then garry's killer knifed at 27-year-old italian tourist who'd arrived in new york days earlier. according to reports, the witness asked, why, help me put the witness said the suspect was howling with glee as he repeatedly plunged the knife in his unsuspecting victim. a few minutes later, the kill or threaten another man with a knife before cops finally arrested him. authorities identified the he was out on parole at the time of last night stabbing spree. he has 11 arrests dating back nearly a decade. in 2015, convicted of gang assault repeatedly slashing a man in the face. none of it was enough behind bars. last night he headed to morningside park, the same park where exactly almost two years ago, three threads ambushed and murdered a first-year barnard

college student as she was looking down at her cell phone. after a year and a half of defunding the police and building monuments to george floyd, morningside park hasn't got any safer. think about the implications of that. authorities can't secure a park a few steps away from one of the most well known universities in the world. if it's dangerous there, it's dangerous everywhere. the new ark of the early 1990s is back. and it's not just new york. many of the country's biggest cities are going backwards the same way. the city of philadelphia come up my hometown, set a new all-time record for murders. 513 murders in philadelphia this year makes the previous record of 500 which was set in 1990. just days ago, a 14-year-old boy was shot 18 times. >> a 14 year old high school freshman was waiting for the bus near wyoming in fenton police

say two people got out of the car and chased him, firing off about 35 rounds per jefferson was hit 18 times and ran a block before collapsing. >> jesse: this is happening all over the country. louisville, kentucky, tucson, arizona, columbus, ohio, have set new murder records this year. with just under two months left in 2021, indianapolis broke its cook county which include chicago surpassed 80,000 homicides for the first time since 1994. >> and never is seen >> on the report released by the office with some very alarming statistics. 1,009 homicides to date which is the highest in 27 years.

156 children or teenage victims, 40% increase in homicides since 2019. >> jesse: several of the homicides cut down students at the university of chicago which was a hotbed for the defund the police movement. an increasing number of these crimes are committed by juveniles. they are usually not charged as adults. remember the two teenage girls in washington, d.c., who hijacked and killed and over eats driver in broad daylight? they are getting just a handful of years in prison for murdering somebody. gangs recognize this and encouraging more kids to get involved in the criminal activity. in chicago, authorities just arrested a preteen for carjacking. >> the vehicular driving task force arrested an 11 year old on november 26 for felony aggravated navicular hijacking.

let me say that again. that shocks the conscience. our task force arrested an 11-year-old. >> in st. louis, shots rang out as the mayor was talking about gun prevention. >> wonderful. my son and i fall asleep to gunshots because i'm the first mayor born and raised in st. louis. i didn't flinch. i guess... it's a part of my life now. >> jesse: what's the common thread linking all the cities? look at who is funding the prosecutors. kim gardner 'his campaign took a $2 billion -- open about her desire to stop prosecution. two years ago, declared "we have to tear down the system. the system is going to do what

it's going to do. that is to cause harm. the system is cause harm by what's called mass incarceration." followed through on the promise. data from 2019, warrants issued with 23% brought by the st. louis police. soros funded george gascon in lap there are no campaign finance on these local elections, so soros is free to spend millions on them. he is not the only one doing it. san francisco, some of the richest people in the country got received a million bucks from the likes of dustin moskowitz who cofounded facebook. this "real justice pac" want to ignore the laws on the books.

campaign also directly received tens and thousands of dollars from caitlin kreger, the wife of instagram's cofounder. as a result, san francisco looks like this. >> the sound and sides of union square are not as pretty today as they usually are. windows are boarded up at louis vuitton. cruise replacing an entire door at this year of saint laurent -- wooden boards also covered the window at hermes. witnesses capture the moment people try to break in. >> it's really around 100 people. after i passed them, they just started to get into hermes and started cracking the glass. >> often the target of organized retail theft. >> jesse: if you are wondering how to stop all this and get crime under control, and helps

to notice where we've been before. take a look at the charts, shows how they've changed since 1994, the last time crime without a control this country. those budgets have gone up. 46% the last two decades. look at the effect on homicide rates. they dropped 32% per capita. increasing police budgets helped. that's proven. it's not the full solution. cops can only do so much. you also need prosecutors to punish criminals. one researcher at the university of texas found that about 25% of the 1990s crime drop can be linked to the increasing incarceration, which only happens when prosecutors get convictions. that's not happening nearly as much as it should be. how can we fix this problem and save our cities? rodney starbucks a congressional candidate in tennessee, out with a new op-ed on this topic.

he joins us now. seems like the left, they don't have to change the law, they can donate to crazy d.a.s who do not enforce the laws. >> exactly right. they realize that you just need to become the law. the real criminal element beyond -- we know the left is going to do these things but our own sight has been stagnant and the establishment needs to answer for why for decades they've allowed this to fester and lead to the point that we are in now appear the truth is that we need people to fight. we need to fight for our people and for safe streets, and we need to fight for our police so we have safety again. we will not have that until the establishment realizes they need to get to work and if they are not willing to do it, they need to step aside because there is a wave ready to step in and do what they need to. they spend untold millions at think tanks. we get white papers, we need action oriented people to take

control and to actually strategize to stop this plan from soros and his other billionaire friends to take over our country and become the law, which means that we have no law anymore. >> jesse: i will tell you that strategy right now, a free tip. the deep-pocketed republican donors out there, they are probably -- they don't want to donate to a republican d.a. in the big city because they are going to get wiped out. they are going to have to start donating to normal democrat district attorney democrats, not the crazy left-wing kooks that soros runs up and get one guy in the middle who doesn't want to empty all the jails. just a normal democrat so you can have law and order on the streets. does that sound like it might work? >> some of these places like san francisco, no way a republican could get elected but you could have an independent or somebody who is an old-school classical liberal who says, hey, we may disagree on the few things, but here's the deal, we

need safety on our streets. feels like there needs to be investment from sane people -- or is there even any one saint on the left to find the stuff? i don't know if there actually is and it may take people coming on the sidelines in the business world and say to protect our own assets in these cities, we need to get d.a.s elected who are going to do the job to protect families. i talked people all the time you are terrified to go down the street with their kids because of the type of violent crime happening on their streets every day and they know these people are not being arrested and charged and put in jail. they are out on the street the next day. >> jesse: exactly. there is a big bank here in manhattan who told their employees to not dress nicely when you leave the office but don't wear your wedding rings, engagement rings, don't have a nice rolex, you're likely to get jacked. we are starting to see it. we are starting to see the crime wave creep higher and higher up into society. people and stories you wouldn't think would be under assault

like this are becoming under siege. it shouldn't have to be like that, obviously. shouldn't take higher profile people, high-profile stores to get ransacked for the politicians to wake up. unfortunately it's going to take a very vicious high-profile crime for some of these d.a.s committed some of these mayors, some of these members of congress to wake up. robbie, thank you so much and good luck in tennessee. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> jesse: tucker and his team went to hungary earlier this year to learn more about george soros and how he's been funding far left politicians all over the world. their investigation is going to be part of an upcoming new episode in this show's documentary series, "tucker carlson originals" coming soon on fox nation print life in america getting much more expensive under joe biden. the democratic party knows that's a problem for them politically. so now they are trying to cover it up with bogus data. fox's bill melugin has a story.

bill. >> everybody out there right now is feeling the pain at the pump. gas prices are up well over a dollar a gallon ever since president biden took office. one democrat organization says we should all be thankful that the price recently dropped by about two sense. look at this ridiculous graph right here, put out by the democrat congressional committee where they praised joe biden. it shows a steep drop in the price of gas over one week in late november. take a closer look at the left side of the graph right here. they will show exactly what they did here. they stretched out the y-axis to show fractions of a cent in tiny little increments bid that declined you see in reality is just a drop less than two pennies. it went from $3.3295 per per gan to $3.38 per gallon. you imagine, ridiculed immediately for this right her.

"the washington post" chief fact-checker, what i'll combine with the $0.16 i saved on my fourth of july barbecue and put a down payment on a pack of gum. says the strategies are working when it comes to bringing down the price of gas. take a listen. >> i use every tool available to suggest price increases and is beginning to work. take gasoline and gas prices. last week i announced largest ever in the united states strategic petroleum reserves to increase the supply of oil and help bring down prices. >> "the washington post" said that the tweet you saw from the dccc might be "the worst offense of the biden administration yet" coming on a pole that rising inflation is causing hardship for nearly half of u.s.

households. i'm not sure that a 2-penny change is going to work for a whole lot of people out there. send it back to you. >> when they come off the sidelines and tell the democrats are done -- scolded a reporter from calling out the vaccine mandate. that's all next.

>> jesse: yesterday's white house press briefing, jen psaki claimed there are potentially thousands of new covid cases in south africa. therefore a travel ban against both countries in southern africa will remain in effect. a reporter from africa in the room wasn't buying it. >> have to wrap this up in a minute. go ahead. >> south africans have thousands of cases -- >> simon... >> south africans only -- >> let's let -- it's not effective to scream over your colleagues in here.

>> jesse: the simon, the man you just saw in that clip from the he joins us now. do you think you are being disrespected by the biden white house? >> thank you for having me, jessie. i'm so glad to be here. i thought fox news are full of racists, hate black overhead africans, but you have made someone who was born in africa at the white house for today news africa. i think the travel ban was based on this lie. the president on november 26 band eight african countries. only two of those countries have any case of the omicron variance. seems the other countries had zero cases of the variant. let me give you an example, one of the countries that were placed in the ban, 2.5 million

people in two years had only 400 cases of covid-19 in the entire country and they have zero case, zero case of the omicron variant. yet the president banned them. right now this kills because people cannot travel to namibia, cannot travel to zimbabwe, cannot travel to mozambique, if they've had zero cases. i was the one who wasn't disrespected. i think africa was disrespected by banning countries based on a lie. >> jesse: so the biden people say that scientists told biden to slap the travel ban on these southern african countries and he's just doing what the scientists want him to do. are you buying that? or do you think there is something more? >> it's a total lie.

the way they see it in africa, i spoke to the w.h.o. before coming here and attended other press briefings in the past two years and i have more questions and any other reporter in the world for the w.h.o. believe that the travel ban do not prevent variant, told me the travel ban don't prevent variant from spreading. africa cdc told me that travel ban don't prevent variant from spreading. i believe it was a way that any scientist who says you should ban countries that have zero variant and allow countries to have variant to come to the u.s.? i believe it's -- it's bad advice and i think it's discriminatory because all those

countries are black african countries. can you imagine if the former president donald trump, and i'm not his fan, i disagree with him 150%. can you imagine if he had band eight african countries and six of those countries have zero cases, zero case of the variant? there would've been an uprising. they would run him as a racist, someone who hates black and hates africa. yet we are seeing it in this administration. i believe that africans are being disrespected and i believe the travel ban do not really make sense. has had zero case and had 400 cases of covid-19 in two years, and not ban the u.k. that had 22 cases in the hundreds of thousands of people died the

past two years. that cannot be good science. >> jesse: the theoretical situation you just mentioned, if donald trump had done that, he'd be scorched as a racist show that you, simon, know more about how this country works, then a lot of the people in this country do. thanks for coming on fox news. always welcome. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> jesse: several new jersey republican state members defied a state mandate vax requirement by refusing to leave the assembly floor. denied entry into the chamber for not showing a vax card or negative covid test. that's what you're seeing on your screen right now. state police were positioned outside the door to try to block the assemblymen from entering. then a democratic party speaker used a security sweep to get them off the floor once they did enter. new jersey republican that some of jay weber joins us to tell us more about what happened.

you are saying the democrats used police to prevent republicans from working? usually the democrats like it when people don't work. i'm confused. explain what happened here. >> they are going to pay is now too, jesse. they set the police up at the doors to stop us. they told us we couldn't come in, and they bluffed. they push the state police out to the door to bluff, to intimidate us and send us away. when we very politely say, are you going to restrain me if i go to my seat to my they said no we won't come a serpent we walk in the chambers and we sat down. >> jesse: if you are a democrat in the assembly, you don't have to go within 6 feet of a republican. you don't have nothing to worry about. was this just a power play in your opinion? >> it's pure raw political

power. that's with the left, that's what they do. we are tired of watching her neighbors and constituents being disk related against for not taking medicine they don't need or want for no good reason. you know as well as anyone that people who have the vaccine can still get sick and can so pass it along to other people. the policy the democrats try to put in the state house make no sense. discriminate against people who wanted to come watch their government and participate in government and happened not to be vaccinated. >> jesse: the new jersey state appellate court actually thought it was you guys. they are going to freeze the mandates. that was technically in the legal protest which what you did. makes no sense because nancy pelosi doesn't have a vax mandate in the u.s. house of a presented lives, but the new jersey state house is going to go harder on mandates than

nancy pelosi? >> harder left. they've gotten far left. the real problem is when they start using state police to intimidate or dissuade republican members to come do their job and vote on behalf of other people. that's the real problem. to state police credit, they stood down. they were told to bluff and that's not right. >> jesse: goes to the authoritarian inclinations you have. i'm glad you called their bluff, let the courts figure it out. i think we know where the courts will head to. jay weber, thank you for coming on. >> thanks. >> jesse: roger stone says secret service agents tried to escort him to the capital on january 6th, right as the building was being broken into. tucker is here to ask him about it straight ahead. you can now go shopping on

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>> jesse: there still a lot we don't know about the federal government's involvement in the events of january 6th. .com here's a part of that conversation. >> do you think if they made it into the capital they would've prosecuted you? >> i think i was being set up. here's the amazing thing, i watch to the president speech in my hotel room and there was a call on the house phone and two agents from the secret service wanted to escort me to the

capitol. i have known the secret service for a long time. i would've gotten there had i left at that moment the exact time that these folks broke into the capital dell makes for 25. i know my friends, alex jones and ali alexander are approached and asked if they want an escort to the capitol at the same time. had alex jones not stop for a bathroom break, they would've gotten there just as the building was being penetrated. you can see it, jones jumps on a chair and says, no, don't go in the building, this is a peaceful demonstration. he tried to stop it. that's a fact. >> trump secret service was involved? >> i don't know why they would escort me to the capitol periods big why didn't you go? >> i don't know.

i had an intuition. i didn't want to go. i think god was giving me a signal. i didn't go. they'll make fun of that too, but that's the fact. >> that's amazing. i had no idea. they are still on your case, the federal government? >> i just got a subpoena which is very interesting. let me be as clear as i possibly can. any claim, assertion that i either knew about or was involved in any way illegal activities with the capitol january 6th is impossible. if you read their subpoena, we are investigating the events that led to the illegal events of january 6th. i think that means your seed, not lead to. in other words they are trying to say that my remarks at two legally permitted rallies the day before are the cause of the break-in. cnn actually aired a part of this page where it said that i

had an apocalyptic view of politics with the struggle of the country is facing. yes, i think it's a struggle between dark and light, good and evil, between the godly and the godless. that was the inciting violence -- no, that's a statement of my beliefs. it's first amendment constitutionally permitted free speech. "we urge people to come to washington" -- yes, they have a right to assemble. it's in the constitution. >> not to support trump. >> clearly not. there is no they are there. classic case of guilt by association and nobody has been worse than abc news. here's a picture of roger stone with a member of the proud boys. a picture of roger stone with members of the oath keepers. you know how many pictures i have it people that i don't even know the last few years? i'm an american political icon whether i like it or not. the idea that i'm responsible for anything that person has done past, present, future, when i don't even know their name, is

an absurdity. >> abc news done that? >> they are the absolute worst. we have groundbreaking video of stone standing in front of his hotel. if you watch the video all you're going to find out is how much people love roger stone and how i accommodate those who ask for a selfie, picture, headship, or whatever. in the background you can see members of the proud boys. what does that prove? that proves nothing. >> who and abc is leading this? >> i've been disappointed on ellie dukakis. this is just flat out guilt by association. it's outrageous, really. there is nothing to tell the committee. i know nothing whatsoever about this. let's look at it from another point of view. one thing i am not is politically stupid. breaking into the capitol did not politically benefit donald trump in any way whatsoever.

in fact it was counterproductive. >> jesse: you can watch tucker carlson's full interview with roger stone. while you are there, you can also watch tucker's three-part document area on january 6th, called the patriot purge. we have new information to the case of an airline passenger breastfeeding a cat. there were at least two similar incidentses last year. it is breastfeeding a cat on a plane legal? that's next. >> there are a lot of newsmakers and topics that we don't have time to cover in any depth on the nighttime show. >> many people are upset with

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>> jesse: we told you about the delta airlines passenger on a flight from new york to atlanta who was breastfeeding her cat mid flight. it was a chaotic scene as our own trace gallagher reported. >> this woman had one of those, like, hairless cat swallowed up in a blanket so it looked like a baby bit her shirt was up and she was trying to get the cat to latch and she wouldn't put the cat back in the carrier and the cat was screaming for its life, as would i. no word on what happened when the plane landed but just for the record, this happened on november 13th in seat 13 a on flight 1360. that's not the exact cat, but it's close. >> trace gallagher, thank you so much for that.

>> jesse: that story blew up after our broadcast know we are learning of at least two similar but unrelated incidents and the last year. is this illegal? is it unethical? abby hornacek, emotional support human, cat enthusiasts entry lighter, she joins us. makes sense. has this ever ever happened before? >> first of all, jesse, i've been working this entire career to earn the title of cat analyst. thanks to you and the tucker team for giving me this opportunity. >> jesse: you deserve it. >> it has happened before, believe it or not. someone who reported back in 2020 who was a flight attendant had witnessed this on two separate occasions. apparently this is nothing new. in this instance, jesse, i thought that being a hairless cat was punishment enough and have to go through this horrific experience. the poor cat got dealt a bad

hand and so to the person in 13b. what do you do if you're sitting next to i don't know. too many questions, not enough answers. >> jesse: at least you have to record it and send it to "tucker carlson tonight." everyone wants to know if it's legal to do this. is it a beast reality play beast >> i hope we draw a line.i didn, jesse. what i read online, there's nothing that suggests this is illegal. back in 2018, breastfeeding to a human baby became legal in all 50 states. if you are going by that standard, i think it's okay. is it ethical? i think that might be a different conversation. >> jesse: what does peta say

about the ethics of breastfeeding a hairless cat? >> i've a statement. i can read it for you if you want. they say, we at peta aren't often speechless but this is one of the rare instances where we can all say that this is obviously so awful. i have to agree with them, jesse. it's very unethical because a human woman in the pottery's milk is different from a cat's milk. different vitamins and stuff in there. >> jesse: vitamins and stuff. >> vitamins and stuff! that's what they say, that's the proper term. again, you cannot feed a cat human milk. it's bad. >> jesse: do we know if the cat was a male cat or female cat? that could make a difference into how people interpret what was going on. >> unfortunately i don't have that answer for you, jesse. i wish i did. >> jesse: was the cat factsed? if the cat is under faxed

>> you can't have an unmasked, unvacced on a delta flight. this looks like a southwest situation to me. >> if you book a delta flight, delta is my favorite. >> jesse: mine too. >> if you had 13, you might want to switch your seed. >> jesse: abby hornacek, tucker team emotional support human and cat analyst. >> not a lawyer unfortunately. i'm working on it. >> jesse: stacey abrams spent years calling herself the real governor of georgia even though she lost the election. now that she's actually running, she's denying she ever challenge the results. that's next.

>> one true governor o >> jesse: the one true governor of georgia stacey abrams is running for reelection. she now says she never challenge the previous election results when she ran the last time. >> the night on the 16th of november when i acknowledged that i would not become the governor, he had one make the election, i did not challenge the outcome of the election unlike some recent folks data. leaders challenge the systems. leaders say we can do better. that's what i declared. >> one problem is stacey abrams is on video saying the last election was stolen from her, watch. >> is he the legitimate governor-elect of georgia? >> he is the person who won inadequate number of votes. >> with all due respect in that respect we are coming from and i respect the issue you are raising, you aren't answering the question. >> you said this as recently as last tuesday from a crowd in las vegas that you won. why continue to use that

language? >> winning an election is not simply about a candidate getting across the finish line to get the job. >> i say it was stolen from georgia voters because under the previous secretary of state brian kemp, millions of voters were purged from the role, thousands were denied the right to vote. >> jesse: chadwick moore is the editor in chief of outspoken and chief editor at "the specter." we have so many instances of that. we just would've run out of time. >> she is wonderful! the gift that keeps on giving. the governor of georgia running for reelection. but does she actually think she's going to win? her behavior seems to think that she knows it's number one a very bad year to be a democrat, especially controversial one like her. secondly, look at her behavior in how she's been spending the last year.

plans to release the romance novels that she wrote under her pen pen name selena montgomery, and she doesn't seem like the behavior of someone who is anticipating winning or think she's going to be governor. i do not think she wants to be governor. i think she wants to be a daniel danielle steel. >> jesse: have you read any of these publications and how titillating are they? >> they are very difficult to get a hold of. i'll certainly let you know, they are on my stocking stopper mix. >> jesse: will have you back for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at her steamy romance novels. i just want to know the one question that i think everybody wants to know is does she support breastfeeding hairless cats on an airplane?

because i think the flight was bound for atlanta if i'm not mistaken. >> may be it was her! we don't know. >> jesse: it's a family show, chadwick. you can put that in people's thoughts. it will be interesting to see her launch this candidacy of quite many election challenges so to speak, allegations of fraud and rigging on many sides. i think we on the what we are talking about. it does kind of kneecap her, i guess way of saying that this thing is on the up and up. >> it is kind of a pickle, isn't it? they say she didn't challenge it, i'm not talking about challenging it, no basis to do

that. you didn't legally challenge the election because one about no case, no interest in it. going to be very interesting to watch. imagine how embarrassing it is to lose his thing twice but she doesn't care, she's going to be a hero when she loses the second time. thankfully she'll be still a living meme, can't wait for the numbers to come out of the election. >> a useful loser for the democrats to speak about voter suppression and racism. she could've been joe's numbered two. she turned that down. now we have our dear kamala in the white house. what could have been, chadwick! >> what could have been... life would be such a better place. >> jesse: appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> jesse: that's it for us

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