about. >> jesse: it's called miracle morning. it changed my life. trust me, my life needed changing. that's all for tonight. tucker carlson is up next. remember one thing. i am watters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: a good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." do you ever notice how almost all the leaders of all the countries in the western world, particularly in the english speaking western world, seemed kind of the same? they are what we call neoliberal. they are all weak and fearful. if you think about it. yet if you listen to them talk, you'd think they were omnipotent. we are going to reverse global climate change. we are going to vaccinate the world. we are going to end all human

prejudice and replace it with equity. we are going to spread democracy to the untutored nations with guns, they are going to love us for it. we can do all these things because we are all powerful. we are like gods. you should have no gods before us. mostly they are puny people but when they speak, they sound like caesar. standing in purple robes in the forum commanding the known world. joe biden very often sounds like this. so does that squeaky little woman with the weird teeth that runs new zealand. they all sound like this. they are on believably grandiose. it's by design. they'd rather talk about redeeming humanity that bother to figure -- fix your kids to school or place a stop sign. so you've got to wonder why debate talk this way? the answer of course is because they are terrified. they claim to be powerful because they know they're not. it's a bluff. they know exactly how weak they are. they understand how little popular support they actually have. they can feel their grasp slipping. if you wonder if that's true,

notice how they overreact to the slightest challenge to their power. remember a year ago and the qanon shaman skipped through congress on his mescaline trip giggling and spreading good vibes question market was kind of amusing but democrats in washington were panicked, so panicked they called in the u.s. army and sent that provided present. it's weird how touchy they get when you suggest they stole the presidential election. wonder why. but this is not the behavior of secure leaders. this is how desperate act when they fear they are about to be overthrown. there is no more fearful desperate in the world and justin trudeau of canada. over the span of a few years trudeau has turned a nation long famous for molson and sled dogs and niceness into a rest realistic punitive state. people have whisper that justin trudeau is the biological son of fidel castro. you could laugh it off but now it's becoming pretty easy to believe. trudeau has used systematically covid to short-circuit democracy in canada and to end organized

christianity there parikh canadians can no longer travel freely within their own country. they can no longer return to their own country in certain parts. pastors have been in prison for holding church services. the unvaccinated can be sent to jail for buying certain products in stores. family members were arrested for celebrating new year's eve in their own home. every large institution in canada pretends like all of this is perfectly normal. it's always been this way. canadian media which are largely controlled by the government support these policies and trudeau uncritically. in nova scotia protests against justin trudeau's vaccine mandates are now banned by law. rarely has a nation changed this quickly or more uncritically for the worse. last week thousands of canadian truckers reached their limit. a convoy of truckers converged on the capital city, ottawa, did demand peacefully cheerfully but persistently and end to justin trudeau's tyranny.

justin trudeau's response to this display of democracy, he fled the city. trudeau evacuated his official residence and head in an undisclosed location. he is still cowering there tonight. will he come back? has he abdicated? will canada be ruled by a junta of truckers? not at this point. he emerged by videoconference from his lawyer to declare that canadian citizens who disagree with him are in fact attacking democracy. watch. >> there's a right to protest. there is a right to make your voice is heard and clearly. there is not a right to shut down our democracy, democratic processes. there is not a right to abuse, intimidate, and harass your fellow citizens. >> tucker: expressing your views is an attack on democracy. by the way, how dare you express your views as if you are free people. that's tyranny. democracy is when you obey like serfs. trudeau has effectively said that and then because he has no

self-awareness whatsoever, trudeau announced his contract covid which is perfect. in other words, take the shot or else, as you can see for the fact that i am not sick, it works perfectly. if canada weren't a country, it would be a remarkable dark comedy. so you may be wondering about these hordes of visigoths who is descended on ottawa, the ones who drove justin trudeau out of the city. what do they look like? here they are. [horns honking] [cheering] >> i love you too. ♪ ♪ [horns honking]

[cheering] >> freedom! >> tucker: freedom, love, patriotic displays, waving canadian flags. terrifying. if you look closely at those pictures, you can see the real problem. these were working-class people. they are the guys who deliver your amazon boxes. justin trudeau is repulsed by them. these people have stepped way outside. they are like, leave the package on the porch and get the hell out of here. but they haven't gotten the hell out of there, they are still in ottawa and justin trudeau won't meet with them because he never meets with people like this even though -- because they disagree with him. as a reminder, that's what democracy is. democracy is lecturing people who nod a lot in response. watch him explain. >> i have attended protests and

rallies in the past when i agreed with the goals, when i supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues. black lives matter is an excellent example of that. >> tucker: [laughs] i will meet with people at a rally as long as i agree with their goals, as long as they agree with me, it's totally fine. like black lives matter. you get the sense even someone as dim as justin trudeau realizes this is not a winning argument. he needed his friends and state media to help. they trotted out some attack lines against truckers, lines they borrow directly from cnn and nbc news here in the states. here is canada state broadcaster inventing a claim out of nothing that vladimir putin himself may be responsible for this turgor convoy. watch. >> given canada's support of ukraine in this current crisis with russia, i don't know if it's far-fetched to ask but there is concern that russian

actors could be continuing to fuel things, as the protest grows. perhaps even instigating it from the outset. >> tucker: [laughs] russia! [laughs] you've got to love canada. let's be honest. they always steal our ideas and produce a slightly shot a copy of them. wheel walmart. russia! of course putin did it. there's no evidence of that, no sources, they just been reading american twitter. the state media anchor is deeply concerned. who is going to buy this? no one. it is prima facie absurd. they kept going. here is justin trudeau from his anchor offering yet another reason to distrust the junta running the newly formed nation of truck-istan. >> we won't given to those who fly racist flags. we won't cave to those engaged in vandalism or dishonor the

memory of our veterans. >> tucker: [laughs] dishonor the memory. too many canadian flags! [laughs] there's three bad people in the crowd so ignore them all, ladies and gentlemen. thankfully by contrast no one in the blm rally torched a courthouse or shot anybody or burned out a building with these truckers up early there was a racist flag, so pay no attention. in the united states we probably wouldn't fall for this at this late date. we are a little jaded because we have seen it so many times. they had a confederate flag. never mind, we can ignore their concerns. the election totally fine. so again, we have seen it before. in canada they probably haven't seen it. they are a few years behind us. so you know, they are in kind of impressed by it. claims like this happened here a few months ago, as you may

remember when democratic operatives carried around tiki torches to smear glenn youngkin as a white supremacist. again, trudeau had reason to think canadians haven't seen that and he might be able to get away with it. trudeau has been holding this line of argument for months now. last september you may remember he accused people who oppose mandatory vaccination getting a shot the government requires that. being racist. watch. >> [speaking french] >> tucker: pour canadians. they are good people. they don't have a lot of new sources. they have been exposed nonstop for two years to this kind of propaganda. if you don't believe in mandatory injection with an extra mental medicine you are a racist? apparently some believe it. at least one counter protester this weekend believed at. watch this. one of the most humiliating scenes ever caught on tape. >> wanted it say?

so it says ask your white nationalist agenda? >> this is nothing to do about white. nothing to do with truckers. it's about freedom for all of canadians. brown, black, white, blue, whatever color you want to be. it's about freedom. trudeau has no right. [indistinct] it's a terrible thing to do. >> tucker: thank god for rebel news. you think fox is an anomaly in the united states. how would you like to be rebel news? the only people in all of canada playing it straight. there they are trying to tell you some guy from the subcontinent is a white nationalist. they are trying hard. now i have evidence brought to you by cnn working in tandem with the cbc. apparently, brace yourselves, there was a trump sign in the crowd of truckers. >> given the potential rift,

justin trudeau and his family, he has three kids, they been moved somewhere. we don't know where, an undisclosed location. >> out of an abundance of caution. i was a former president trump certainly supporting this group. i've been out there and i've seen trump supporter science. this leads to a larger question. they are still in the downtown core door. police said we need the trucks to leave. we need people to leave. the city has to start functioning again. the issue is how to leave. the people who've organized it say they will stay out there months if needed. >> we know that you'll stay on top of it. alarming situation in ottawa. thank you very much. >> tucker: [laughs] we don't know who that woman is but she should be completely ashamed of herself. she's a journalist and yet she just told you that the ruling party of canada wants the people who are protesting their policies to leave. and then she nods gravely. they need to leave. things need to get back to

normal. they need to run the city, doing the important things canadians do in ottawa. cnn is signing openly with the trudeau government. you can't challenge power. that's what we do in the media, to remind you. obey, accept your fate, rich people have spoken, get in line. we have got a trump flank to prove it. it gets worse. there were more racist flags this week and, one of them imported conspicuously from this country. we have evidence. there was a racist in the crowd. watch. [indistinct] >> now he's going. now he's gone. we called him out. he knows. he's going to hold his head in shame now. >> tucker: oh, it's so great. you'll notice in the shot there's only one person who has his face completely covered, and

he happens to be carrying a confederate flag. the crowd looks at him and says oh, wait a second, we know who you are. you are ray epps. sorry. we don't trust you in exactly the way the crowd in washington the night before, january 6 of last year, center right apps, get out of here, fed. at the people on the scene didn't believe that guy was anything but provocateur. we don't know exactly who he was. we'll let you make your own conclusions from that. but we are supposed to believe that this one guy with a full face mask in the confederate flag proves the entire protest is racist. justin trudeau has every reason to run away terrified. and we can ignore the concerns of people in the conflict. who was that guy holding the flag. and where is justin trudeau right now. is not clear where he was broadcasting from this weekend but what is clear is that

unlike saddam or muammar qaddafi we are never going to be able to find out. you think to yourself and it democracy you should know where the head of state is. don't you have a right? don't canadians have a right to know where he is? doesn't matter because justin trudeau can hide anywhere. he's a master of disguise. any place in the world justin trudeau could blend in and you never know it was him. to prove it we are going show you a series of photographs right now all in -- all are real and all defeat the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. here he is looking very much not like a french-canadian. looking pretty dark, actually. in arabian nights themed gathering when he was a high school teacher. he has got black face on. interesting. curious lending and convincingly as a ball he would star in india. hands grasped together in reverence and prayer. here he is flanked by his new countrymen. they have no idea they are the

president presence of a canadian politician. that's how convincing justin trudeau is. they think he's one of them. i love samosas, justin said. we do too. when he's not fooling people in india he is fooling native americans and there is a difference, bigot, not all indians at are the same. here is justin trudeau wearing the traditional address of one of canada's many indigenous times. justin trudeau will rip your heart out, ladies. is that clark kent? it's justin trudeau. he can impersonate fictional characters. here he is looking like a stranded pilot in the desert from a "star wars" movie. he can be hiding on a soundstage in hollywood as we speak. he could be in a ranch. look at that hat. unbelievable. as long as no one hands him a gun or asks where food comes from.

so yes, justin trudeau can change far more than his skin color. if you see this man in his various disguises, do not approach him. he might be hiding in the middle of nowhere but he's in the control of ottawa at least for the moment. chris barber is a canadian trucker and joyce house right now. thanks for coming on. how does it feel to have your concerns described as extremist, racist, and antidemocratic? >> i've been called a lot of things this week. fringe group. white supremacists apparently. it's getting a little tiring knowing that our prime minister is using such rhetoric against his own people. >> tucker: the pictures that we've seen, it's disgusting. that's my evaluation. totally disgusting actually. attacking your own people. from the pictures that we have got here in the united states, these seem like cheerful people. they seem like very patriotic people. i see canadian flags everywhere.

be as honest as you can. is in a bigoted ground question mexico no. i have walked through this crowd the last two days, i've spoken with multiple law enforcement agents if there's been any trouble. there is not been any trouble. there has been a few -- we are calling them radicals i guess, dressed up like us, trying to blend in like us and make us look bad. my guys are all peaceful. we are doing our job here. we are doing what we need to do to get the job done for the canadian people. >> tucker: so it sounds like you're creepy and cowardly prime minister owes you an apology. you think you'll get one? >> visit few people in politics that owe us an apology. high-ranking members of each party that it said some things that were complete the uncalled for. we were the ones, like the frontline workers, medical workers, law enforcement, we worked from the start of the pandemic and all the way through it. we were heroes back then and now we are zeros. so we decided it's time to put our foot down and we are going

to do this. with that, canadians came out in huge droves to support us. really reunited a complete country. regardless of the outcome of this, we have already won. canada is united right now. i've never seen so many smiles. i lost my voice from the excitement here or in the last few days. >> tucker: man, i hope you keep your foot down, as you put it. >> we are. we are not going anywhere. thanks, tucker. >> tucker: thank you. here you have justin trudeau ignoring an actual debate about his policies and instead trying to make canadians hate each other. has a very familiar tactic that you see a lot in this country. stephen lynch drew served as the president of the canadian liberal party which trudeau leads. appreciate your coming out tonight. tell us why you think the prime minister is in hiding. he presumably has police, bodyguards, the military. why is he hiding from these people? >> well, i mean, he does as you

say have rcmp body guards. heavily armed. he didn't want to be in the same city as the truckers. as you put it and as chris said, they are average canadians, middle-class canadians. they are fed up with the trudeau government not just on vaccines. a culmination of a lot of frustration. produce prices, high gas prices and it country that has unlimited gas and oil. people are very, very frustrated. trudeau did not give the most votes in the last election but because of parliamentary anomalies he still the prime minister. pent-up frustration. so as you pointed out earlier, the mainstream media has been pointing to the one confederate flag or the one nazi flag in a group of over 100,000 protesters saying they are obviously a bunch of racists. trudeau was afraid of the middle class. if it had been a few students which last summer there were a number of student groups which

toppled statues of prime ministers, defaced public buildings. nothing would have happened. but with a group of middle-class canadians but he's afraid of, he had to leave because he didn't want to be accused of not meeting with them. by the way, to echo what chris said, the ottawa police said there was not one arrest, not for bad behavior, not for drunkenness, not for anything, not one arrest out of 100,000 protesters all weekend. >> tucker: do you think it's possible these protests could topple the trudeau government? i say that peripherally. >> no, it couldn't. they are not ready. they are not ready to take over the government. it's not going to get toppled. i think that protest was very successful. i think mainstream media, as you pointed out in canada, has been playing up a few negative people in there. i think they've made their point. and as chris said, he said

canadians from coast to coast to coast are agreeing with them. i think they should probably disband and let the opposition politicians in ottawa do their job. clearly there are no guns, no arrests, nobody is taking over the government or setting fire to buildings or anything like that. >> tucker: we have seen something like this. appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you. most republican voters don't believe, whatever their sympathies, that ukraine is worth going to war over but unfortunately there are quite a few zombie republican senators who haven't received that memo yet. lindsey graham says he wants to throw all the participants from january 6th into prison. whose side is he on? we'll be right back.

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eastern european country most americans know nothing about someone become our most important ally in the world? yes, joe biden's son did take huge amounts of money from ukrainian oligarchs but is there another reason we should side with ukraine over russia? russia is much more significant country by every measure. certainly don't want russia forming an alliance with the chinese government. that would be a disaster for the united states. so why are our leaders pushing russia towards china? it all seemed crazy to us until yesterday when we saw senator jim risch of idaho explain it on cnn. watch. speak of the people who are saying that we shouldn't be engaged in this at all are going to be singing a very different tune when they go to fill up their car with gas if indeed there is an invasion by russia because as bob pointed out, there going to be sanctions that are crippling to russia. it's going to cripple their oil production and as we all know, russia is simply a gas station

that is masquerading, thinly disguised and masquerading as a country. >> tucker: russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. that's a good line. here's another version of it. jim risch is a masquerading as a u.s. senator. how else could you explain what you just heard. he promises to throw more sanctions on rush i would try to make your gas prices go up here in this country but somehow that's your fault because you're not patriotic enough to defend ukraine. got it? how do people like us get elected in republican primaries? here's one clue. we checked in among jim risch's top donors are lockheed martin, raytheon, northrop grumman, the war lobby. maybe it's not entirely surprising that jim risch wants more. risch cannot admit it in public so when cnn use the line you so often hear from washington firm or enthusiast trying to hide their real motives. ukraine is a democracy. we side always with countries that are democracies. pretty familiar stuff.

but we wondered. cannot really be true? is all of this really about democracy for jim risch? so we checked that. it turns out this very same jim risch, the archenemy of nondemocracies everywhere, has heaped praise on the corrupt theocratic petro monarchies of bahrain, qatar, and saudi arabia. senator risch calls them partners and says we ought to send them more weapon systems even though those countries do not allow voting. but wait a second, jim risch of idaho, you pompous neocon buffoon. those places aren't democracies. they are the opposite of democracies. what's going on here? we call senator risch and asked him to come on the show and explain and he refused. we sincerely hope you will reconsider. well a lot of january 6th defendants have been languishing in pretrial detention for months. they were denied bail. they have not been convicted of

any crimes. some of them have been accused of nonviolent crimes. that is not supposed to happen in this country. it violates our constitution. but it's happening anyway. this weekend lindsey graham of south carolina announced he applauds it. >> i don't want to reinforce the defiling the @shannonbream was okay. i don't want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future. those who did it, i hope they go to jail and hit the book thrown at them because they deserve it. >> tucker: i hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them, that's okay, we are for prosecuting crimes. if you don't prosecute them equally, then you don't really have a justice system. you have arbitrary politically driven punishment. with that in mind because of course everyone in america knows that's exactly what's going on right now, we will tell you this. we have uncovered the justice department asked for a lenient sentence for a riot or who killed man after burning down a minneapolis pawnshop in 2020.

the doj asked for a sentence of only 12 years. that's about half the sentencing guidelines. why didn't they want to send a murderer to prison? the biden administration lawyer noted that the defendant "credibly states that he was in the streets to protest unlawful police violence." oh, he was a blm protester. he wasn't upset about biden stealing the election. therefore half the sentence. for murder. julie kelly has followed the story, the january 6th story, more carefully may be any other journalist. she is the author of "january 6." julie kelly joins us. thanks so much for coming on. we are going to give lindsey graham the benefit of the doubt. turquoise markham i will say. assuming he has no idea what he is saying when he applauds the treatment of january 6th defendants. give us a sense of what lindsey graham is supporting. >> apparently he is in support of the more than 70 men who were

under pretrial detention orders. about 40 of them in a political prison in d.c. in the shadow of the u.s. capitol building where lindsey graham works. they have been denied bail repeatedly, as their trials continue to be delayed into the middle or even end of this year. important underscore these defendants have not been convicted of any crime. some of them, tucker, maybe lindsey graham will be happy to hear this, have been in jail for over a year now. awaiting these trials. they can't even see their evidence against them. hopefully that makes lindsey graham feel good. at 730 americans have been arrested and charged for mostly misdemeanor offenses related to january 6th. so hopefully this will make his deal much better. i don't know where he's getting his information from. but what's happening, i talked to the wife of a detainee

tonight and when i hear people say to me repeatedly as they can't believe this is happening in the united states of america. these things should not be happening. the lindsey graham, instead of defending the constitution, the rule of law, the presumption of innocence, everything is being trashed by this doj, he actually is playing along once again with the democrats. really shameful. >> tucker: selling out his own voters. the only relationships in lindsey graham's life that he cares about, significant ones, his relationship with the national news media. he will never do anything to earn their displeasure and it's on display. what is this customer julie kelly, great to see you. thank you. >> you too. thanks. >> tucker: the disney corporation has just pledged to remove dwarves from their upcoming adaptation of snow snow white after actor peter dinklage criticized the movie. the dwarf acting communities not on board. several dwarf actors could lose their jobs because of this. we have details next.

>> tucker: "game of thrones" actor peter dinklage went on a podcast the other day and declared that it was "offensive and backward" the disney was planning to hire real life dwarves, little people, for a remake of the film snow white and the seven dwarves. listen. >> i was a little taken aback. they were very proud to cast a latino actress as snow white. but you are still telling the story of snow white and the seven dwarves. take a step back and look at what you're doing. it makes no sense to me. you are progressive in one way but you are still making that [bleep] backward story of the seven dwarves living in a cave. what the [bleep] are you doing, man? >> tucker: so in response to that podcast, podcast have real power and outcome of the disney company said it was "rethinking

its use of dwarves in the snow white and the seven norms remake." now some dwarf actors are asking, who put peter dinklage in charge? slaying in the wwe for ten years. he joins us now. people hear this podcast and they think here's a guy who's got the authority to speak on this and that's his view and no one questions it. tell us what your reaction to it was. >> my biggest thing is he wants to be progressive and it's all about progression. i support that completely. but the issue is him being progressive is eliminating seven potential dream jobs from the dwarf acting community. the issue here, he is saying that he wants to move forward and do good for the community. these are dream jobs.

i got hired by wwe. wwe was my dream job since i was 4 years old. since i was 4 years old all i wanted to be was a wwe superstar. in any other circumstance, i wouldn't of been able to be done. i'm not 6-foot, not 250 pounds. but they were looking for a person like me, little person, to fill this role. they hired me and i got to live my dream for ten years so that others dwarf actors out there, their dream is to star in a film, especially a disney film. as we know, disney doesn't do remakes or any of their movies at a small scale. they were going to blow this movie up obviously. these are seven roles that are few and far between for dwarves anyways. that were made for us. that's what's ridiculous to me about the whole situation. it's not being progressive. you're hurting the community. but what you're doing. >> tucker: you make a really good point.

the film is called seven -- snow white and the seven dorms. if there ever was a place. [laughs] >> it's not snow white and the seven normal-sized humans. i get there we have to be progressive and move forward but your changing one of the most known fairy tales in one of the most known as the adaptations of all time. why? also i hate to say it. the king dwarf thing, i said, i mean it. who put this guy in charge and why is he this single voice? for a whole community. for a whole community of people. i can argue, i was on tv for ten years. i was in film not of the scale he was, but why? because he throws the red flag is everything stopped? that's what upsets me. >> tucker: one guy has an opinion on a podcast and he gets to take control of your career going forward. that's a little strange.

have you met with -- you make a fair point. have you met with disney? >> i am not and i would absolutely love to and i would love to give my opinion. i have a people from the dorms community reach out to me saying how this is crazy. to recast or to make it a normal size -- i use that term. normal humans are normal-sized humans for these rules. it's insane to me and it doesn't make any sense. i say it all the time. disney, i know six dwarf actors with myself that would love these rules. i will play sleep you're grumpy or whoever or i will be a stunt double for all i care. these are dream roles, literally made for our community and i just think it's crazy to recast it. >> tucker: you make such a good point. it's a metaphor. small number of unhappy people. i hope you get the role you want and i hope you reach disney.

thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you very much for your time. >> tucker: you often see jason would look on this show. we are honored to have him. he began as a sports reporter at a newspaper. he learned a lot. we sat down with him for over an hour. interesting conversation. we'll show you part of it next.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: if you watch professional sports on television, football or basketball, you know the broadcasts are highly political. highly left-wing. mostly propaganda and they are relentless compounding you in the forehead with this. why are they doing it exactly? jason whitlock has covered sports all his life. almost 35 years. a recent episode of "tucker carlson today," we asked, what are we watching? he is the one man who can tell us. he said sports are the one way ideologues on one side of the political scale can reach everybody. it's an interesting explanation. listen to this. ♪ ♪

>> sports are basically the only way to reach a massive audience live television. it used to be the tv show "dallas" or "hill street blues." they can all reach pretty substantial audiences. because of dvr and people watch tv when they want, they fast-forward through commercials, the only way for advertisers to reach a large amount of viewers and have been captured is through live sports. so once that became the reality, sports became more of a target of the left in terms of, if you want to reach a large segment of americans and move them politically or whatever message you want to get out, it really has to be done in sports. you have to have an alliance with the nfl, the nba, major league baseball. so sports became a target.

people on the left realized that sports had been pretty conservative endeavor, messaging, the values of sports align with conservatives them. sports tied to religion, coaches prayed before and after the games. i think the left figured out that we have to move and change sports for going to get our message out to in a way. so it started before this but i said early on in 2016 when kaepernick started kneeling, i was like, he's the trojan horse. he's going to empower the left to basically take over the sports world, and they've done that. he change the entire discussion around sports by kneeling. created the opportunity for the sports media to come in behind

him. and support what he's doing and making this really polarizing issue that if you don't support kaepernick, you're a racist. and to the next thing you know, roger goodell and the nfl, they start to fold. they don't want to be criticized by the left, by "the new york times," by social media. so they started incorporating all the black lives matter sloganeering and messaging into their endeavors. now when you look at the nba or the nfl, the commercial breaks, the slogans on the back of helmets and on the field, it's all the blm, marxist stuff, all the leftists stop fake right into the game. we're using sports to move people politically and to redefine american patriotism. so sports used to be this great

celebration of the best values of america on and now they have turned into a platform for the very wealthy athlete to wake thr finger at america and say, you know, you screwed over black people and people of color. you screwed over the gay community. you screwed over everybody. it's been pretty brilliant the way sports have been manipulated. >> tucker: amazing conversation with jason whitlock. my personal favorite. him describing how he became jason whitlock growing up in indianapolis. great conversation. you get it free at tuckercarlson.com. we'll be right back.

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>> tucker: man. the bragging promo. sorry. we had a great time tonight. we'll be back tomorrow. hope you'll join us and for a brand-new episode featuring jason whitlock, his life story. worth watching. of course will be back at every night 8:00 p.m., the show that's a sworn enemy of line capacity smugness and groupthink. ladies and gentlemen, the great sean hannity. >> sean: it's not bragging. it's telling your story. just being honest. i'm cool with that. you don't need to apologize. that's awesome. anyway, tucker, thank you. welcome to "hannity." without a doubt there's a lot of bad news out there but tonight were going to begin with something good. the spirit of free will of the american people still very much alive and well. look at this scene from kansas city. fans, they took over the national anthem. a bit of a mic technical malfunction. some difficulties.