. >> one of those people is chris barber. trucker for 28 years and he's an organizer of the freedom convoy. tonight he was arrested in downtown ottawa while walking with friends. he did not seem surprised. in fact, he told his friends to call his wife and deposed his arrest on social media. here's the thing. we don't know why he was arrested. he's in jail. there are hundreds of other protesters in downtown ottawa that are still free. even police have not said what chris barber is wanted for. here he is on "tucker" two weeks ago. >> we were like the front-line workers, medical workers and law enforcement. we worked right from the start of the pandemic at all the way through it. we were heroes back then and now we are zeros. so we've decided it's time to put our foot down. >> updates on his arrest as they come in. meantime the canadian government is not only using powers it has never used. it's expanding those powers. for the first time ever, canadian p.m. justin trudeau implemented the emergencies act, giving him control over

and one ofse those people, tucker , a is chris barber. he has been a trucker for twenty eight years and is an organizer of the freedom convoy tonight he was arrested in downtown ottawa while walking with friends. he did not seem surprised. is we in fact, he told his friends to call his wife and to postarrest his arrest o on social media. here's the thing. we don't know why he was arrested. he is in jail, but there are hundreds of other protesters in downtown ottawa that are still free. even police have notthat f saide what chris barber is wantedrhe for, but here he isre h on tucku twock weeks ago watch. wewe were the ones like the frontline workers, like the medical workers, like law enforcement. ofwork right from the start this pandemic and all the way through it we were we were heroes back then and now we're w zero. so we've decideded it's time to put our foot down updates on his arrest as they come in . >> meantime,an the canadian government is not only using powers it has neveras used, it's expanding those powers for the first time ev

one was protest leader chris barber, who was also before being placed inside a police vehicle. the interim ought to a police chief earlier insisted that the protesters were not peaceful and that a cracked time was imminent. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days, we be communicating directly with the unlawful protestors. we've told them they must leave, and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we will never stop trying to get people to leave our street. that's exactly what we want them to do. just know that there's a deliberate plan. there's commitment, and there's the resourcing that we now have in place to actually finally end this of emergencies act. that is now in force, does allow the government there to ban the rallies and suspend protests as bank accounts for up to 30 days. it is supposed to be invoked only if there is a national crisis. the authorities are also cracking down to on descent within their own ranks with an ontario government aid losi

chris barber, the leader of the freedom convoy, protest is coughed to and taken away here, you can see the moment officers arrest him while around the protest zone. other sporadic arrests were taking place earlier. the interim ottawa police chief insisted protesters were not peaceful. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans, and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days, we were communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. we've told them they must leave, and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we saw for 4 boxes are load all the, all the blue. we saw 6 boxes. why not get ready? over a $150.00 plus lead guard prisoners transport wagon. there's fixed up and getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful operate and unlawful order. because this is not an emergency actor. you know, there's not a place to do more levels of parliament. they cannot act on that. they are acting lawfully, and they're acting under a lawful order. the newly enacted emergencies act allows the canadian government t

one this protest leader chris barber. he was also search before everything placed inside the killing him. all the 3 most were police chief earlier insisted that the protesters were not peaceful, and that cracked and was imminent. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans and preparing to take action. the action is in imminent. in the past few days, we've been communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. we've told them they must leave, and we've warn them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we will never stop trying to get people to leave our streets. that's exactly what we want them to do. just know that there's a deliberate plan. there's commitment, and there's the resourcing that we now have in place to actually finally end this. well, the emergencies act that is now enforced as an ad, the government to ban the rallies and suspend protests as bank accounts for up to 30 days. it is supposed to be invoked only though, if there is a national crisis and the authorities are also cracking do

now here you can see the moment protest leader chris barber was taken away. officers cuffing and searching him before he was placed inside their vehicle. earlier the interim audra police chief insisted that the protesters were not peaceful and that a crackdown was imminent. we've been bolstering our resources, developing clear plans and preparing to take action. the action is an imminent. in the past few days, we've been communicating directly with the unlawful protesters. we've told them they must leave, and we have warned them the consequences of disobeying these rules. we saw for 4 boxes were hard load all the, all the blue. we saw 6 buses line up, get ready over 150 watts, lead guard prisoner transport wagon. there's 6 boxes getting ready to load guys up, build up symbolizes unlawful operate and unlawful order. because this is not an emergency actor. you know, there's not a place that up to do more levels of parliament. they cannot act on that. they are acting unlawfully, and they're acting under the law or the newly enacted emergencies act allows the canadian government to ban the ral

last hour as please moved into action in downtown ottawa, freedom convoy. protests organizer, chris barber was cofton lead away. meanwhile, other sporadic rests were taking place around the protest zone. grounds for barbers of rest are currently on the canadian police. had earlier handed out leaflets in downtown ottawa ordering protesters to disperse, stating that anyone obstructing the street is committing a criminal offense, could be arrested and charged. trudeau has accused protesters of threats, violence and hatred and waving races, flags, and the media has mostly followed the official line with a few exceptions. one of them being kid carson, a radio hosting, vancouver who has quit his job after expressing support for the truckers, he thinks the racism claims are the fabrication. came that dividing the moment for the 1st time, canadian people are afraid to speak the truth because we will be labeled as someone who supports hate. so if you attend a peaceful protest with thousands of people, you go home, you watch the news, and then you see there were hundreds of protesters harassing peop

chris barber is with us. harold, good to have you back. what do you make of the crackdown? threatening to take your rigs, threatening to find you 100 grand, threatening to ruin your livelihood. i would assume that's probably a little concerning to all of you. >> yeah, it is. if he freezes any supporters or truck drivers bank accounts, he will be attacking canadian families across canada and from every nationality. my wife, my 13 children, my dog, cat, and 15 children's will not be able to pay the heat bills and won't be able to get groceries. he's not going after the truck drivers, but he's going after canadian families. and that is pretty concerning that nobody else is calling him out on this. and the media here in canada is quiet. this is something that needs to be done. it's very concerning. >> there's a lot of american supporting the efforts. chris, let's get your take on it. >> we are putting the call and for all canadians to run for ottawa. we need help here, we need bodies per this government is out of control. going after the funds now and any financing is just plai

chris barber is a canadian trucker and joyce house right now. thanks for coming on.s 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. w

. >> to go where the leaders on the convoy arrested in ottawa chris barber and charged with mischief,truction and here is leach a day prior to her arrest. >> somewhere tomorrow, three square meals a day and that is okay. i am okay with that. and i want you to know i'm not afraid. it is breaking my heart. you guys, i just want you to stay strong. spayed to protest to take precautions as well but emotional shop owner said she was forced to close down after getting threats for supporting the truckers, listen to this. >> never in my 56 years have i ever experienced a country so divided and so full of hatred towards friends and neighbors, someone draped a large bed sheet over our sign -- i'm sorry, it's been a tough come a few days and the sign came he supports terrorist. >> carley: meanwhile congressman ilhan omar taking backlash from fellow progressives for condemning docking those who funded the convoy. she tweeted for reporters to do better. and to take a page out of the north book and bring anti-mandate fight to president biden, truckers are expected to start in ohio, california next

. >> ashley: two of the most visible leaders of the trucker convoy, chris barber and tameron leech. here is leech a day prior to her arrest. >> i will probably be going somewhere tomorrow, getting three square meals a day and that is okay. i am okay with that. i want you to know that i'm not afraid. it is breaking my heart. you guys i just want you to stay strong. >> ashley: this as emotional shop owner says she was forced to close down after getting threats for supporting truckers. listen to this. >> never in my 56 years have i ever experienced a country so divided, so full of hatred toward friends and neighbors, someone draped a large bed sheet over our sign. i'm sorry, it's been a tough few days and the sign read tammy supports terrorists. >> ashley: congresswoman ilhan omar facing backlash for condemning docking those two support the convoy. eddie scarry reacted to the backlash. >> i don't recall a single time that ilhan omar stood up for a small business in america when all of them were set ablaze in our biggest cities. >> ashley: the u.s. freedom convoy plans to take a page ou

the middle of nowhere, but he's very muchinof in control of ottawa, at least for the moment.mome chris barber is a canadiannt. trucker who joined the convoy and joins us right now. chris , thanks so much for coming on . how does it feel to have y your concerns described as extremist, racistra and anti-democratic? of because a lot of things this week i guess are fringe groups or movement. there were white supremacists earlier. it's gettingsuacists a little tg knowing our our prime minister is using such rhetoric against his own people. >> right.eople. so the pictures that we've seenu was disgusting. that's that's my evaluation. absolutely.st my evaluation. totally disgusting actually. attacking your totally disgusting actually attacking your own people. but from our the pictures that we've got here in the united states, these seem cheerful people. they seem likey very patriotic people. everywhereian flags . >> c be as honest as you can.an. is this a bigoted crowd? no, absolutely no. i walk through this crowd for the last two days. i spoke with multiple law enforcement agents, asked every one o

just moments ago truckers are now being arrested as promised, including organizers tamara and chris barber and this disgusting crackdown appears to be intensifying as trudeau is unleashing tactics across ottawa. so much for free speech that he once praised. and just like clockwork, clockwork, the mob and the media, they're ramping up their efforts to harass the truckers and their supporters because using hacked data, the washington post, reuters, others, they're now targeting freedom convoy donors who are supporting this peaceful protest. even congresswoman omar agrees with me and that's slamming the media's behavior, tweeting i fail to see why any journalist felt the need to report on a shop owner making such an insignificant donation rather to get them harassed. it's unconscionable. journalists need to do better. that's the least of it and get the state department's viral iran embassy now using kamala harris as quote on twitter yesterday quoting the vps jan remarks when she said here's the truth racism exists in america's phobia exists in america. antisemitism islamaphobia, homophobia, t

>> chris barber has been arrest and put on bail and i guess he has to go home.s a lot. still trying to stay strong, their mission was to come here and get rid of the mandates. griff: chris, you have been defeated after having been in this week's long, how has this impacted you specifically? >> well, they froze my accounts. i'm okay with that. i knew this was going to be a long, long road. i have 7 children. they have gotten to my home and fed them and it's been a wonderful ride. it's been so much love, peace and joy that i feel that god is behind us and my heart is doing very well. griff: well, chris, you haven't been getting love from canada's prime minister justin trudeau who compared the trucker protestors so essentially nazis, not once but on multiple occasions. what is your reaction to the way the prime minister has handled things? >> well, i really feel sorry for him. i'm praying for him and that he will repent of what he's doing to all of the canadians. he's turned into canadian to a criminal that has donate today this peaceful rally and i pray that his h

organizers tamara lich and chris barber were arrested. both are scheduled to appear in court today. here is tamara lich anticipating her arrest online. >> i'll probably be going somewhere tomorrow where i will be eating three square meals a day and that's okay. i'm okay with that. i want you to know that i'm not afraid. it is breaking my heart. you guys, i just want you to stay strong. >> police say they have established a secure area here outside of parliament hill. we've watched as large fence has gone up around this area. there are checkpoints to get in here and we'll keep you updated throughout the day. it seems like the crackdown is apparently finally happening and we may see these trucks be forcibly removed at some point soon. send it back to you guys. >> bill: how many truckers are left there and how many vehicles are still there? can you give us a sense of that? >> we walked around this area all day yesterday. back out here this morning. we've seen dozens of trucks. maybe even hundreds. they are scattered throughout different areas. in this immediate vicinity at least a doze

chris barber will be in court where he's going to face criminal charges. stuart: criminal?riminal charges here. now, another organizer, and i'd argue she's very much become the face of the freedom convoy is tara lynch. she had her bank account frozen, and she had recently resigned to the fate of arrest. >> i'll probably be going somewhere tomorrow where i'll be getting three square meals a da- [laughter] and that's okay. if -- i'm okay with that, and i want you to know that i'm not awe grade. lauren lauren let's show a video of her, no resistance whatsoever. the cop who did it didn't even look like he wanted to do it and what's happening today is the house of commons will debate trudeau's emergency powers. then on monday they'll vote on their continued use. a lot of people are saying he looks absolutely ridiculous on the world stage. he's dealing with that organizer who went like this so peacefully when she was arrested who sounds like that. he's a acting like a dictator instead of just sitting down and talking with them ask using these crazy powers to stop a peaceful prote

two of the most visible leaders of the canadian freedom convoy arrested in ottawa, chris barber and tamarh counseling to commit mischief, obstruction and counseling to commit obstruction, this comes as the u.s. freedom convoy takes a page out of the north's book, bringing the anti-mandate fight to president biden. truckers are expected to start their convoy in the u.s. in ohio and california and end in washington on march 6th. meanwhile, twice failed president anil candidate hillary clinton -- presidential candidate hillary clinton addressing the new york state democratic party convention yesterday, her speech has some thinking she might gear up for another run in 2024. watch this. >> it should be clear to all of thaws the struggle for june phid democracy is far from over. republicans are he defending coup plotters, they're curbing voting rights as precisely the moment when democracy needs champions. democrats are fighting for the rule of law and for judges who follow it. maria: wow, coup plotters, what a word. an op-ed in the new york post says that clinton fails to realize insanity is d

business waiting i'm getting arrested and she was right and so did another organizer by the name of chris barbere expected to be charged criminally. >> ainsley: oh my gosh, can you imagine the feeling of that when you are just protesting peacefully because you don't like the vaccine mandates that the government is imposing on you? they froze her bank account. they are threatening to take all these trucks, seizing all the trucks, defending insurance, freezing bank accounts. police are working with child welfare agencies to remove the children that are out there protesting so that if they arrest the parents, the children have a place to go. i mean, it is unbelievable what's happening there. 400 trucks that are around the perimeter of the parliament building. and look at these images. >> lawrence: it's crazy. >> moms, dads, hardworking canadians that are being arrested and thrown in jail because they are protesting a vaccine mandate. >> steve: peacefully. it's not just that, if you decide to contribute to the cause they are going after you as well. check out tammy giuliani. she is the owner of gela

heard saying yes, there were a couple of nos, later a couple members, henry barber from michigan, a close confidant of chris christie in new jersey said they voted no but there were not many no votes. the resolution had been supported by ronna mcdaniel and dave bossy, a top trump ally who had worked on it behind the scenes. it was a fate a come complete by the time the hearing began or media began on friday. >> let's be clear about what this vote was about. when you look at liz cheney and adam kinzinger and their voting records they both get high marks for voting in line with former president trump's position as well as the majority position of the republican party. they were not censured for not being conservative enough or republican enough. >> right. >> they were censured for not being, frankly trumpy enough, josh. >> right. yeah, i did an interview last night with mcdaniel and bossy and both of them said exactly that was why, their work on the january 6th commission and what they were doing, you know, as part of that commission and both of them made very clear that that's what it was about. you know, li

barber joins us at a checkpoint where thousands of refugees have been fleeing. ellison, we can see some of the activity behind you. tell us what you've been seeing on the ground there? >> hey, chrisr the last ten hours or so, when we arrived here last night, coming back again this morning, we have watched as fans filled with ukrainians, mostly women and children, have crossed the border to try and get to safety. remember, men who are considered fighting age, between the ages of 18 and 60, they are being told not to leave the country. so, we are seeing their families, children coming without their fathers, without their brothers. this line of cars right here, a lot of these cars have been here for days. waiting to pick people up who are making up across the border. and speaking with one woman who said she's been here the last two days, in her car, this by the way, just a little bit of the cars. there's a police checkpoint further down the road. and more cars, more people waiting in that direction. a lot of the people you see standing over here, some of them are people who have crossed the border themselves. but a lot of them are polish people waiting to pick people up. people they