down. who is smacking down who? jim, boonville kentucky, jesse, you need to grow a mustache? how would i look and a mustache? [laughs] all right, i'm thinking about it. tucker sell "tucker carlson tonight" is up next and remember, i am watters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." joe rogan may be the most popular broadcaster in the english-speaking world right now. every episode of his podcast, "the joe rogan experience" reaches about 11 million people and some episodes get an audience many times that. how many is that? it's a lot. for perspective last night, cnn's highest rated show had a little under 700,000 viewers total. so joe rogan is big, and unlike

cnn he is not especially political. his show covers pretty much everything. comedy, science, nutrition, the paranormal, recreational drug use, exercise, mixed martial arts, music, hollywood and a huge range of other topics, often with guest steve never heard of. rogan is not a reactionary unlike most people in the media, he's genuinely curious of you so helets his guest speak. his longest interview lasted over five hours. when he does talk about politics it's clear he's not an ideologue. he uses everybody, liberals, conservatives and a lot of people like mike tyson who could be either one, and he doesn't most of the time with self-respect and self-deprecation. he's not an expert on politics or pretending to be one. he just asks questions and he knows the obvious. it's this last quality that makes the people in charge hate and fear joe rogan. if you are trying to sell an absurd, obviously -- idea it is possible joe rogan is going to

call you on it. topic that because he is a partisan, he's not but because you can't help but notice and that is a secret. he watched the pressing tali about the fd's approval process for pfizer's vaccine. watch. >> jen psaki is talking about miss information online and combating misinformation. she distributed misinformation because she said it is approved by the fda and their gold standard. >> tucker: yeah, that is true. joe rogan is pretty literal actually, that is why people trust him. he was right in this case, jen psaki was lying to the country and it wasn't an especially clever lie. anyone with a with internet access could of identified that, from the podium too but when rogan points this out it really stings. a lot of people listening to him believe him and the white house took notice. so what happened next? here is jen psaki yesterday calling on joe rogan's employee to censor him. watch. speak of this disclaimer.

-- information but ultimately, it's a good, positive step but there is more that could be done. >> tucker: there is more that could be done? hey, you little fascist, that is a threat. that is exactly what it is. politicians and their spokes checks were not allowed to talk this way because the first amendment explicitly prohibits it. you're not allowed he's government power to shut down broadcasters who criticize you, period. and now that is exactly what they are trying to do. so far joe rogan the employer's spot employer spotify hasn't caved to the pressure. rogan still has a job but the company is pending. deleted more than 20,000 covid related podcast made by other spotify hosts. spotify claim they "cause harm." how exactly can a podcast cause harm? spotify didn't explain because

of course they couldn't explain. podcasts don't cause harm, weapons cause harm. anyone who knows anything about american business right now understood what is actually going on. in a moment like this it is virtually impossible to run a public company, no matter how hard you try. not just in podcasting or spotify it is any company with shareholders from breakfast cereal manufacturers to tennis your retailers. the political pressure is coming at these companies from all sides. from investors, from the media, from their own employees. every day is a brand-new crisis. imagine the emails between the ceo and the p.r. department, and they never stop. and under those circumstances, it is impossible to think clearly, stand on principle or even consider your own best interest long term. that is what is going on with spotify. they probably don't want to censor anybody. they are being pushed to beard in their case the pressure to censor joe rogan over this news is coming from other content providers on the site. the other day that annoying fake duchess from l.a. and her

brain-dead husband threatened to walk if spotify refused to muzzle joe rogan. "hundreds of millions of people were affected by the serious harms of rampant myths and disinformation every day." they yelped through a publicist. of course they don't mean it, they're not going anywhere. these two grifters have a $25 million podcast deal with spotify for essentially no work. so far we believe they produced just over 30 minutes of content. that means these two intake about a million dollars for each minute of talking they've done. that is a good gig. it is too good to leave. but their performance does raise the question, what exactly about joe rogan's podcast has caused "serious harm?" we are literal too so we scoured his archives to find out. it turns out as usual the opposite is true. joe rogan is actually a force for safety in this world. watch this clip in which he warns the public about the dangers of approaching gorillas in the wild.

it turns out sneaking up on a gorilla as joe rogan pointed out could lead to actual serious harm. >> we are so soft we think it's okay to look at a wild animal in its eyes. that is so stupid we are. hi, hey, we are cool, man, we are from national geographic society, we just come to make sure your baby is okay. [bleep] crazy 800-pound silver, in the trees, right in your face. he's got sayings and the fans are only designed to [bleep] you up. you can imagine what an 800-pound gorilla strength is like because you would think a bit like an a hundred pound man but it would really be more like a 3,000-pound man. >> tucker: he's interested in animals, by the way. that is part of the allure. people in the media are paid to be curious, to ask questions and wonder about other people. none of them do, they just want to lecture you. this guy is actually interested. but no one who is criticizing him seems to know that. doesn't seem like they've listen to his show.

neil young probably never has. he's an elderly folk singer from the nation of canada. young has pulled his music from spotify in protest of joe rogan's open mindedness. does he own his own music? we don't know but we know the gesture received the wide spread applause from the usual who reveal themselves to be dumber than you thought they were. "variety" magazine which still exists informed us that neil young's stand against joe rogan makes him a hero to the younger generation. right, because if there is one person kids of today revere, worship like a god, it is 76-year-old neil young. they would pick neil young over joe rogan every day because they are anxious to demand the firing of any podcast or who interviews anyone kamala harris disagrees with. it's hilarious! but at cnn they've convinced themselves it is all totally true because joe rogan is peddling this information therefore he must be stopped! >> you think about major

newsrooms like cnn that have health departments and desks and operations that work hard on verifying information and then you have talk show stars like joe rogan who just wing it, who make it up as they go along. and because figures like rogan are trusted by people who don't trust real newsrooms, we have a tension, problem that is much bigger than spot if i am bigger any platform. >> tucker: people are trusting joe rogan! can you imagine? damn the people, they should be watching cnn! cnn has departments and desks and attire operations designed to verify information filter out miss information and that is why they denied iver iver maxton -- inthe same standards allowed them to think of customer jet must have been sucked into a black hole. >> if it was pilot error but

what if it was something we don't fully understand? a lot of people have been asking about that, black holes and on and on and on. they are also referencing "the twilight zone" which is a very similar plots. a lot of people think that is preposterous but is that preposterous you think? >> tucker: we can't get enough. yes that clip was from eight years ago but we watch it every single morning along with our pilates and sauna just to get ready for the day. if you want to watch a lot more like that you can subscribe to cnn plus and don lemmon will be on their constantly. that is their answer to joe rogan, more nonsense with the lowest rated dummies in the entire tv business. joe rogan consistently turns out consistent and informative programming just by being curiog obvious questions, that is all that it takes. care about what people are saying, what's the world around you and take an interest in something beyond yourself.

and when he does that, they don't like it. watch this exchange with dr. robert malone who was one of the inventors of mrna technology. >> how does a third of the population basically being hypnotized and totally wrapped up in whatever tony fauci and the mainstream media, whatever cnn tells them it's true. the answer is mass formation psychosis. when you have a society that is become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand it. then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point, just like hypnosis. they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere. >> tucker: that was the interview that pushed cnn completely over the edge, not because it was false but because it was entirely credible. hypnotizing the public? that's our job, they said.

mass formation psychosis? yeah, that's us. of course they immediately set about encouraging the tech platforms to band that interview. dr. malone, again, one of the inventors of mrna technology being used in over a billion doses of vaccine, currently in people's bodies, that is the man who was talking. credible? yeah, no one more credible than that, and that is exactly why they hated it. that's exactly why they said you couldn't hear it. that same month, this past december, rogan spoke to a doctor about ivermectin. >> son jacob to end the cnn correspondent there was no fair balance there. he parroted a talking point that the national institute of technology. parroted. they said there was no data for ivermectin. they said it was a horse

dewormer. either they knew where they should have known the 63 supportive studies and the over 30 randomized trials. >> tucker: so those are facts and if you think they are wrong, tell us how they are wrong. but why shouldn't people here that? why shouldn't they be allowed to? because dr. peter mccullough, he certainly has the credentials to do it, criticized the people in charge. he mocks cnn for ignoring dozens of clinical trials, making fun of a drug that could have helped a lot of people, possibly saved lives. what do you think of that? that is immoral of course. but notice what joe rogan didn't do in the face of that information. he didn't call for cnn to be censored because they spread disinformation. you've got to pull cnn off the air, they are killing people. because he is not for censorship. you know who is for censorship? weak people or for censorship. i can't handle what you are throwing at me, shut up or else. strong people don't behave that way. only the week. everybody knows that. they can smell it. and the reason joe rogan a

successful? because he's not weak. that is the truth. tulsi gabbard knows this very well, she's a former member of congress from hawaii. she has broken very well and we thought it would be interesting to hear her take on all of this. tulsi gabbard, thank you very much for joining us tonight. you're watching -- i should've added this to the script but we don't know where this is going. it's hard to imagine they are going to pull joe rogan off the air, but you don't know once the ball starts rolling. what do you make of the attempts to censor joe rogan? >> it is he at the latest indicator about the real danger we are facing as a society right now in this country, is that this fundamental freedom guarantees every one of us as americans this freedom of speech is being threatened. people are being intimidated, their financial security is being threatened. they are being censored or being intimidated into censoring themselves. this freedom is the fabric of our constitution, and the fact that this is what we are facing,

the powers that be decide if we don't like the things that you are saying then we will find a way to silence you and censor you. this is something that every single american should be afraid of because we need to have the confidence in america that we can express ourselves, that we have the freedom to speak without the threat of punishment looming over us. that rate there is literally the difference between living in a democracy or living in a dictatorship. >> tucker: and i think that is exactly right and for the white house press secretary to call for censorship from the podium in the white house briefing room is -- i've never seen anything like that ever and i'm 52. i think this is revealing and i think that is why it was with talking about, joe rogan is not a right-winger. it's not like they could say he is a scary qanon character. he's pretty apolitical and centrist. they simply hate him because he asked obvious questions. >> you are not missing something. he is somebody who is curious,

he encourages dialogue. of course he's got his own opinions, but he can't be put in a box or controlled? again, he is one example -- unfortunately he's not the only example, there are many others who have experienced the brunt of this punishment who are either attempting to silence or sensor or have been. and this is what we are facing with the prospect of a supreme court vacancy. the qualification of a supreme court justice, the foremost importance is someone who is committed to upholding the freedoms guaranteed in that constitution, freedom of speech, liberty and so on, not being chosen based on their gender, their sex, their race or even their politics. we need to be looking for a supreme court justice who is committed and has a track record of upholding our constitution.

that's it. >> tucker: i always laugh when you say things because i am like, why do they hate tulsi gabbard so much? because like joe rogan your threat because you defend the essential, the ancient american values that the country was based on. you do it in a very reasonable way that is nonpartisan and that is the threat. i appreciate your doing that once again on our show. thank you, tulsi gabbard. >> thanks. >> tucker: pretty amazing story, an american skier, someone who was born and raised in this country and thought by many people to be representing the united states, her home country in the upcoming winter olympics is representing china. what is that about? we will tell you straight ahead. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: you probably heard zucker got fired this morning. he said he was dating a collie, didn't disclose it and when his boss found out he had to leave. that is not true. everyone in the tv business already knew about zucker's relationship with the head of the marketing department and everyone in television knew better for years, it was not a secret. so zucker did not get canned for his sex life. they wanted him out for many other reasons including bad ratings. the relationship is just a

pretext for what you saw but as usual was seen and you've got to wade through a lot of lies to get what actually happened. so what happened next is cnn? first is to get rid of the unique and his weird pop by accomplice, they've made it clear they want to destroy free speech. no news organization temporary employee people like that it is disgraceful. as for who replaces ogre, we hope it is somewhat better. with him gone it is at least theoretically possible that it will happen. we didn't like zucker, we attacked his programming decisions and we called him names and we meant every word of it. still on this day when we should be celebrating jeff zucker's departure we are not celebrating, why is that? because we see a pattern here. there are an awful lot of contemptible leaders in corporate america, maybe most of them. but only a certain kind of ceo ever gets fired. it's not the week one, the guys who do what they are told, issue

the cringing statements and let the hr department run everything. those people tend to keep their jobs until they retire. people like that just want to get it over with and cash out. they don't take risks or dare to build anything, they are just caretakers. if their dignity is the price of job security they are happy to pay it. more than any time in our history america is run by people like that. it's only the strong who are punished. strong leaders tend to be abrasive, arrogant, what we now call abusive, they ignore convention, they say outrageous things in public and private, they don't blend in with the group. often they alienate the more sensitive types around them. they don't have maternal instinct. a lot of modern people are put off by strong leaders, but you've got to have them. creative masculine energy is the essential quality in any civilization, it is how we got civilization in the first place. but increasingly, boisterous masculinity is systematically suppressed to make way for a timid caretaker class, for

people who think the whole point of society is to get 20 covert infections or eliminate all traffic deaths. this may sound like a virtual's in fact they are signifiers of decline. not dying can never be the whole point. if it is, you are already dead. our current leaders are fearful because they are old but the opposite is also true, they kept powers into their 80s because they put safety first. over creativity, over courage, over leadership. nancy pelosi never built anything. neither has joe biden or mitch mcconnell beer they are not capable of building anything. at the very best they can preserve what others have felt not that they have even tried to do that. so jeff zucker, whatever we have said about him and meant, jeff zucker tried to do something new. we hated what he did, we did not share his vision, we found it repugnant and instructive but at least jeff zucker had a vision. too if you still do.

i lean goo is 18 years old, she was born in san francisco, she is a favoritd medals but she's not going to be competing in the country of her birth or citizenship. instead she's going to be on china's olympic team. she has one parent who was born in china and she switched sides despite the fact that she is american. what does this tell us about the moment we are living in and about our future? the cohost of "fox & friends" weekend, he joins us now, thank you for coming on. this seemed like a significant story, do you think that it is? >> i think it is, think it is a significant story if we consider that it is about something much bigger than eileen. eileen gu, the only word we can arrive at is ungrateful for her to betray, turn her back on the country that not just raised her

but turned her into a world-class athlete only in the united states can provide. for her to turn her back on that in exchange for money is shameful. i'm grateful like a child who says i'm out of here, i'm moving somewhere else after being raised in a warm home. that is what she is and she will soon, i suspect, come to regret it. take a look at the chinese tennis player who dared to speak out about sexual harassment and then mysteriously disappeared. eileen gu has had to sacrifice her american passport so welcome to china. hope the stardom in the riches you have earned through portraying america are all worth it because you have definitely sold out. >> tucker: that is exactly it. this girl is 18, you make dumb decisions, you get stupid tattoos, you renounce your citizenship to go to china, whatever. young people do dumb things. but there should be collective revulsion as we watch this. we shouldn't make it easy for people to betray their own country, should we? >> we shouldn't and this gets to the point we alluded to a moment

ago, this is much bigger than eileen gu. she is supported by, sponsored by victoria's secret, louis vuitton. chinese companies like ultra which uses chinese forced layers to bring in cotton to make the issues and athletic apparel that these athletes make money off of. and these corporate ceos, somewhat tied to the point you were making a little bit earlier about the inherent weakness in american corporations, and i would add to that the inherent immorality of capitalism deployed from a moral, principled grounding, is what we are looking at here. because there is not an american company come honestly very few american companies that wouldn't and haven't already done the same thing is eileen gu. they've already turned their back on the united states of america in exchange for chinese riches. that is why she is a symbol. you want to look at something really upset about, it is nothing a grateful child of america, it is the corrupt and weak corporations of america. >> tucker: totally right. i honestly think the shareholder system and the public company model that we have can't

continue. it doesn't actually work. i mean, companies aren't going to thrive if they can't think long term and think clearly. but what do i know? seems that way. will cain, i appreciate your analysis, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: scientists at johns hopkins ad down and take a very close look at the lockdowns. if they work, that save lives? answer is no, they didn't save lives. we know that now. we will tell you the numbers. ♪ ♪

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they were the first to be verified by usp, an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. >> tucker: how many infants have died of covid? it doesn't matter if you get the vax. >> backwards and unprecedented. the fda required pfizer submit data so children could be improved more quickly. normally it is the companies that want the fda to fast-track these vaccines and it is all concerning because pfizer is acknowledging the test results

were disappointing. the studies show that for kids between 2 and 5 come of the two dose regimen did not provide the needed protection against symptomatic covid-19. so while the fda is likely to approve two shots for young children beginning as early as march, the ceo of pfizer has already said a third shot will be necessary and now the fda is saying come according here we want to set the record straight on the reason pfizer covid-19 vaccine for children six months to four years. nothing has changed about a process for evaluating covid-19 vaccines and we are not changing our rigorous scientific standards, except maybe it is why cnn's medical analyst and former planned parenthood doctor is now hesitant. watch. >> i am ambivalent right now which is not something i ever thought i would say about vaccines for under 5-year-olds. i am the mom of two little kids

under 5 and i can't wait until they are vaccinated but i want to wait until we find the vaccines are safe and effective and i'm not sure we can say that at the moment because we just don't have the data. >> and the data we do have ain't great. tucker? >> tucker: amazing. trace gallagher, science-based, appreciate it. >> yet. >> tucker: two years and we are starting to get some real numbers not just about to covid but about our leaders' response to it. a new analysis by the decidedly nonright wing johns hopkins university has concluded that covid lockdowns in 2020 didn't work. this is a direct quote from johns hopkins. at this meta-analysis that lockdowns had little to no public health effects. they imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. in consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument. sorry for the raised voice. rex people's lives, millions of

people's lives, but tony fauci said they were absolutely necessary to save people, remember? >> the fact that we shut down when we did and the rest of the world did hasn't saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives. >> tucker: and he is still in charge. he should be in charge but he is not, head of public health for johns hopkins, doctor, thank you very much for coming on. it is so frustrating to read this, this topline analysis from this study, that i'm just going to stop talking and ask you what you make of it. >> it's interesting. there's really only been one narrative on this entire topic and it's probably one of the biggest interventions in the history of public health in this study which came out today from my institution looked at 34 different studies that ask this question and they concluded that the lockdowns had no significant reduction in mortality and aggregated reduction of two

tenths of 1%. compare that number which turns out to be about 1800 individuals, to the number of noncovid deaths, what we call the excess noncovid mortality in the united states, 124 excess deaths in year one, so over two years it was a court of a million people who died, many, many scientists have not begun to peel back this number and understand why were more people dying than the normal death rate in the united states for reasons not related to covid? we are now understanding that 60 to 70,000 died of substance reviews dell maccabees, deferred cancer care, that statistic takes years to accrue. we know about the self-harm and suicide numbers. and there are hundreds of kids in baltimore alone that the teachers describe never logged on to their virtual learning modules ever and they were lost to follow-up forever in the school system. so we are now starting to recognize the collateral damage

and by the time we finally get the research that catches up with public opinion, people may already have their own narrative written. johns hopkins itself has not even put out a press release about the study and if you look at the media coverage it is one of the biggest stories in the world today and yet certain media outlets have not even cover it. >> tucker: you hear people say the architects of these policies should be brought up on felony charges in prisons and whatever, let's just start with telling the truth. don't you think it would be good for everyone if they would just admit that they were wrong? why is that so hard? >> i've done that for myself, i called for the lockdowns when we saw what was happening in china, it was scary. >> tucker: i remember. >> and pretty quickly we started to get the data from northern italy that showed us that not only was it not equally distributed in the population, but the harm was so profoundly skewed towards older people and people with comorbidities.

even in the early days we got data that was largely ignored. that 80% of the deaths were people over 65 and half of them roughly were in nursing homes and yet we continue to treat this as if everybody was at equal risk and we continue to do that today in schools where children bear the biggest burden of the restrictions in this country. so i think the public's hunger for honesty and basic humility from public health officials, because you've got to evolve your position as the data comes in. >> tucker: that's right, i thought saddam had weapons of mass destruction and i am sorry about it it's okay to admit it. thank you so much, marty makary, appreciate it. joe biden is sending thousands of troops to eastern europe. why are we doing this? there is actually a reason. senator josh hawley of missouri is one of the only people in washington state tell mike to state clearly what that reason is. he joined us next.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so there is a reason that we are speeding toward war in eastern europe and pretty much alone in the senate, senator josh hawley of missouri is naming the reason. he's calling on the biden administration to drop support for ukraine joining the nato alliance, trying to push nato on ukraine. josh hawley wrote to secretary of state tony blinken saying ukraine joining nato does not help americans advance our interests and we should focus instead on china. in response to this the weepy illinois congressperson adam kinzinger wrote this rant on twitter, "i hate to be so personal but josh hawley is one of the worst human being and self-aggrandizing, mill spelled, they key is josh hawley of working for vladimir putin!

watch. >> you are digesting russian misinformation and talking points. you are not aligned with long-standing bipartisan american values, which is to stand up for the sovereignty of countries like ukraine and others, their right to stand against very clearly the effort or potential attempts of any country to take another country. that applies to senator hawley but others who may be parroting the talking points of russian propagandist leaders. >> tucker: this is obviously very ignorant because she is very ignorant. go back to oberlin college, honey. it is so unpatriotic that people who affirmatively dislike the country, we think it's history began in 1619 who accuse america of being systemically racist, who don't like america, or whipping around and attacking anybody who has honest questions come unpatriotic.

it is outrageous, actually. they have no right to do that. meanwhile biden is announcing sending thousands of american troops to eastern europe. many republican support that. lindsey graham does but josh hawley does not support. he represents missouri in the senate and thank you so much for coming on. you are a russian agent. let's not even engage on that because it is so outrageous, that someone who doesn't like america is accusing you of being unpatriotic but get to the heart of this, if you would. pushing nato to join -- rather, ukraine to join nato. here against that, why? >> i'm against it because it would mean more american troops in europe because we need to be focusing on our marriage major securitythreats elsewhere. if we expand nato it means united states will be providing additional security guarantees and we will be more embroiled in conflicts. this isn't the time for that, the united states can't do

everything. we need to focus on the safety of the american people in the number one threat abroad right now is china in addition to our problems on the southern border. >> tucker: you are a sitting member of the united states senate, only 100 of you there. you are a top lawmaker, the heart of the democracy. has anyone ever explained in clear terms what the point is 30 years after the fall of the soviet union? >> i think there is a lot of legacy thinking about nato where it just sort of runs on its own speed. here's the point, we need to say we are nato allies and they need to do more in their defense and ukraine is a perfect example. i think we should help ukraine defend themselves. i'm not in favor of russia taking over ukraine, far from it, in this administration has coddled russia with the north stream 2 pipeline and all sorts of other things. if you want to look at someone responsible for what is going on with russia and ukraine just look at joe biden. we need to be saying to europeans you've got to do more in your own defense. we've got to focus on china in

the present security threat there. the united states can't do everything, that is what a partnership is and that is what we should be saying. >> tucker: i am personally not that interested in anything 100,000 americans are dying every year of opioids but i have to say, your republican colleagues have been jumped up to defend you from the charge that you are working for a foreign government, that you are disloyal and effectively committing treason. is there a reason they have? >> first of all those charges are so ridiculous and outrageous from an administration that has coddled the russians and coddled putin. but i think a lot of folks just haven't thought about what nato should be doing in the 21st century and haven't thought about the fact that we need to make tough choices and right now we've got to put american security interests first and that means we've got to focus on china and we've got to focus on our own borders. we need to ask our european allies to do more. >> tucker: i think the border is more -- than the texas

portable that is is just me because i am a patriotic american. thank you for joining us, so frustrating and crazy. we spoke recently with someone who is not crazy at all, jason whitlock came on "tucker carlson today" and explained why the nba and nfl have become tools to indoctrinate people. in the conversation went on. it was so interesting, such a legitimately interesting -- we split it into two parts, he told us what he sees is the biggest threat to american society faces. here is part of it. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: we know that toxic masculinity is most poisonous. flush it out a little bit. >> responsible maxell entity, there is no toxic masculinity. masculinity is a good thing. that is how we became number one, that is how america became great and that is why a look at the covid fear and i am like, man, people in the 1900s would

look at us like we've got to be the biggest cowards in the world, we are afraid of everything. >> tucker: we are. >> tucker: well, pardon me, you can watch the full conversation with jason whitlock on fox nation, get it for free on tuckercarlson.com. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: lastly we dared to tell you about the ongoing tragedy of the city of baltimore, one of the great american cities. a city filled with people in total misery, a city people being murdered and children who can't read. we told you about one baltimore high school where a majority of students are reading in an elementary level. here's a report from the local news. >> in reading, 628 pattison high school students took the test. 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level. that includes 71 high school students who were reading at a kindergarten level, and 88 students reading at a first grade level. another 45 were reading at a second grade level.

just 12 students tested at pattison high school were reading at grade level. that comes out to less than 2%. >> tucker: the kids can't read, more people are being murdered in baltimore than ever in its history, people have allowed this to happen. they didn't like it when we called them out for it. trace gallagher has been tracking the response. >> did not like it at all and what they are saying it's a didn't do their homework but you were saying last night as the test scores have dropped dramatically in the baltimore schools came back with this, saying that test scores don't to final students but they failed to explain what does defined students considering test scores are a widely used barometer of students' ability. they went on to say you criticize them for being limiting or stopping of arresting students who commit crimes and their response to

that was they arrested students who commit crimes when it's appropriate but again, and they didn't find what exactly is appropriate. they also said this, watch a movie talk on the other side. >> tucker: here is one of the biggest black majority cities in the united states. tens of thousands of black people who live in baltimore are in misery because their kids keep getting murdered. last year baltimore's murder rate was higher than it is in salvador and honduras. those are countries the state department tells us to avoid due to crime. so it's fair to say things are incredibly violent in baltimore. they have been for a long time. >> not only did the schools respond but the baltimore mayor has responded, quoting, we don't have any room for racist vitriol in our city or time for comments that don't contribute to building a better baltimore. i remain focused on reversing the deep-rooted systemic inequities that have plagued their communities for longer than tucker carlson has been

alive. there is more on this we can get into as the week progresses but so far no definition of exactly why they are angry at the report you did last night. >> tucker: they are angry because we told the truth. it is a disgrace letting black people die and calling me racist if i pointed out. that is not going to work anymore, pal. thank you for the report tonight, good to see you. we are out of time. we will be back tomorrow. sean hannity right now. >> it is so wrong that these kids are not being taught to read, to do science, math and computers, it is a tragedy. we are failing on a spectacular level as you pointed out. how about saving these kids' lives so they have a good future in a good job down the line. thank you. welcome to "hannity." tonight the tide is officially turning. the freedom movement is growing. farmers are joining, this is an amazing scene unfolding, with truckers in canada and the