have a good night, ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." believe it or not, this is joe biden's third attempt to run for president. history gets lost when you live in the eternal present as we are now, but it's worth remembering some facts. three times. the first time biden ran was in 1988, before most of the people who work on this show were born and he was caught about lying about his biography and speeches and forced to drop out. he suggested to audiences that he had grown up in a coal mining family in wales. that's not true. joe biden is actually from america. his father sold cars in wilmington. biden went to catholic prep school in the suburbs. so it was pretty embarrassing. it took 20 years before biden ran again and when he did, it did not go well. in 2008, joe biden got it total of 1% of the vote in the iowa caucuses and dropped out that night. joe biden, whatever his strengths, turned out to be so bad at running for president that even barack obama, supposedly his right. , repeatedly refused to endorse them. just"h can't win, that

tucker. >> tucker: quite a story. thanks, emily. the federal government tried and spent trillions trying to help ailing small businesses survive the coronavirus shutdown by giving them aid. it turns out planned parenthood who gets close to half a billion in aid from taxpayers took up to 150 million of those funds and is now refusing to return the money. fox business' hillary vaughn has been following the story from the very beginning enjoy this tonight with a report. >> almost every single planned parenthood affiliate in america received taxpayer cash from the paycheck protection program. that's the loan program to benefit small businesses to help them keep workers on their payroll and pay their rent. in 43 different planned parenthood locations raked in as much as $150 combined three different centers each received as much as $10 million in loans, funded from taxpayer dollars. the small business administration sent letters and made to those locations demanding that planned parenthood affiliates return the money. sba claims they wer

"tucker carlson tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," happy friday. if you think about it, it turns out that revolutions cover a multitude of sins. once every conversation in your country turns political, only the politicians benefit from it. in a normal moment, the peopleco in charge will be in deep s trouble right now. the rest of us might be asking the hard questions about why things seem to be falling apart at the most basic level. why our streets are filthy, why violent crime is rising and why nothing seems to work. we pay a lot to keep society functioning, all of us of all parties, and suddenly we are not getting a lot in return for that. it's not a very good deal. but in the age of blm, our leaders don't have to answer for this. they just give speeches about social justice. they are insulated from all criticism. if you persist in bothering them about their incompetence, they will have you arrested for hate crimes. so revolution is the best thing that ever happened to our political class. you see that with perfect clarity

very important, tucker. >> tucker: i think it is. all parts of this 250-year-old culture are important and that certainly one of them. dr. siegel, thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so we have introduced you to the owners of the atilis gym in belmar, new jersey, a couple times on the show. this morning, they were arrested. why? for defying the state's orders. those arrests come after a three-month standoff between the co-owner of the gym, ian smith, and the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, both of whom have been on the show. at one point smith removed the doors from the gym so the state couldn't keep them shut before reopening last may he announced he was going to deal with the consequences of violating state laws. you're openly defying him on television. what do you think is going to happen to you when you do this? >> we are prepared for any and all consequences. our actions on monday are going to be grounded in the ideals of civil disobedience. >> tucker: he should have just set a federal building on fire. scream

have a great night, make it a ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." so much going on right now in the news. new developments from every direction, much of it seems unrelated, a lot of it shocking. here's the way to understand it. in an election year, everything significant that happens is aboutap the election. all of these developments are in fact related and here's the core question in every election. who's up and who's down? as of tonight, the president is down double digits in the polls and there's not much question why that is. americans are miserable, they are stuck at home, they are fearful, millions of them don't have jobs. the percentage of americans who believe our country is heading the right direction has dropped off a cliff since the spring. not incidentally, that's when a strange new virus from china began to spread among our population. the rise of covid-19 in theis united states tracks almost precisely the decline of donald trump'sed approval numbes in the political lesson from this is clear. the more damage the wuhan coronavirus does t

♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we were off last week. good to be back. one thing we learned while gone is that america's national parks are outstanding. they are tremendous. so is the interstate highway system.ioio in the end, the real reason we have a government, the only reason really is so we can live in peace.ig you pay your taxes, a lot of taxes come in order to keep your family safe from chaos. that's the bottom line. you can drive your kids to school without getting carjacked or walked to the supermarket without worrying about being raped. when a violent mob shows up outside your house that threatens to kill you, you know you can call the police and they will come to your defense. that's what you pay for and that's what government is for. the rest of it is extra. for centuries, that's been the deal that we strike with our leaders.s. everyone knows it. suddenly out of nowhere they've changed the rules. when the mob came from mark and patricia mccloskey in st. louis a few weeks ago, they called the police without expectation but cam

tucker carlson right now. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." tom friedman has been a columnist at "the new york times" for 25 years. in that quarter-century, friedman has raised banality and cliche mongering to a kind of art form, like picasso, he wastes nothing. there's not a single piece of my list conventional wisdom floating around washington or new york city the tom friedman hasn't managed to whip into a hasty column at one time or another. naturally our ruling class would love to see him, they read tom friedman on the palatine every morning and feel affirmed. he is as dumb as they are. we refer you to the column this morning because there's no question it's taste of things to come and very soon. in that column, friedman calls for joe biden to skip the fall presidential debate. for cover, friedman adds a couple silly caveats. biden should only consider debating, he writes, if donald trump releases years of his personal tax returns and then agrees to have a panel of journalists set on stage to call him a liar in real-time. otherwise, no deb

tucker. >> tucker: health authority should not lie, that's a baseline i would say. dr. siegel, thank you. have a great weekend. >> you too, tucker. >> tucker: extremists are denouncing the united states as racist and they are being rewarded for it.ni naturally they are getting more aggressive. their latest target? nature. nature. the national parks, our rangers are telling us. that's after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: at a time like this, time of crisis, so many americans are finding refuge in nature. in nature, there are no political parties, no politicala debates or division. if there is no race or racism, there's just god's creation. it's a respite from all the bad things, but not anymore. the national parks are in fact racist. >> the national park service seeing the persistent whiteness of the hort 419 parks is a existential crisis.el david is the first latino to leave the agency. >> do you think the parks are affected by systemic racism? >> i think as a person of color, i think our national parks and what i have found there are places where we can learn more about

available until ♪ >> tucker:'s good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president announced this afternoon that the republican party has canceled its traditional nominating convention in florida next mon month. the reason? coronavirus. >> this afternoon my political team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in jacksonville, florida. it's a place i love. i love that state, but i looked at my team and i said, the timing for this event is not right. it's just not right with what's happened recently, the flareup in florida. to have a big convention, it's not the right time. >> tucker: that news will certainly inconvenience some people, it's without precedent in recent history, but in the end, it's hard to believe that canceling a political convention will affect the outcomeio ultimately of this year's presidential election. yet it is very likely the coronavirus lockdown itself will affect the upcoming -- here's why. the most basic question political polling never changes, is your country on the right track or the wrong track? in a reelecti

tucker carlson tonight right ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." usually by this point in the presidential cycle with got a pretty good idea with the candidates believe and you think that would be especially true this year. joe biden has been in politics for more than half a century. this is his third run for president. since 1969, the year of the moon landing, joe biden has been yammering in public virtually without stopping. until this year. this year, the famously chatty joe biden has had almost nothi nothing. his advisors claimed that's because of covid-19 but nobody believes that. everybody knows why biden won't appear in public. whenc. he does emerge, things td to get strange. his words take on a kind of psychedelic quality. of the sentences seem to be connected get the same time they are strangely disjointed. newspaper taxis appear on the shore, rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. it's mesmerizing to watch. you can almost make out the tangerine trees and marmalade skies. >> we thought in our administration we should lower the tax in t

we're going to talk to someone who knows a lot about it after the break. >> tucker: there's b >> tucker: there's been a lot of talk about public health since march when the wuhan virus arrived from china, they unleashed quite something on us. but the one public health imperative that washingtonn consistently overlooks and undermines his marriage. married men and women are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied with their lives, happy than those who are unmarried, they are also less likely to be infected with the virus, more likely to be survived if they are infected. here to explain the links between marriage and health is the director of the national marriage project, thanks so much for coming on. how is the state of marriage related to survival rates of the coronavirus? >> what the evidence indicates is that counties that have more married people are less likely to be suffering from higher rates of infection. that's what we see in terms of that particular angle but we also see when you look at couples more generally, in the face of emotional traumas that i think all americans are faci

. >> tucker: good evening, happy fourth of july weekend, and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." 2020 has been one of the most remarkable years in living memory. tonight, we want to honor the many americans who stepped up to protect their rights, their businesses, and their way of life against government fanaticism during the coronavirus shut down. one of those was a man from new jersey called ian smith, targeted by state officials were trying to open his gym to willing customers. we will visit that conversation and just a moment the first, here are some of the more arbitrary regulations we had to endure in the past four months. the problem with assessing political candidates as you never know what they are like until they get a hold of power and by then, of course, it is too late. the decent ones wield power with restraint and humility and understand the limits of their own wisdom and also understand the inevitability of unintended consequences, they know they won't be in charge forever and so they tread lightly. but the bad ones go crazy and the more power the

tucker. >> tucker: a lot of decent people in this country. hillary, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thanks.. >> tucker: so the two largest school districts in the country's largest state, california, are defying widespread requests to reopen this fall. on what grounds? does science have anything to do with it? we will tell you after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: around the world schools have reopened in many places, day care facilities have too with none of the restrictions we are seeing, no masks, no separated classrooms and none of these places have we seen an uptick in cases, much less death. cnn claims to be an international news network but they seem unaware of this.at you watch the channel you would think the president ofd united states is trying to murder children by sending them back to school. >> are you confident that students and teachers will go back safely to school in the fall? >> no, i think we heard from the secretary's malfeasance and dereliction of duty. this is appalling. they're messing. the president and need admi

thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you, tucker, for having me. >> tucker: for centuries former american presidents have followed a tradition of maintaining dignified silence once they leave the office. barack obama doesn't bother with those rules and he used congressman john lewis' funeral today to give a nasty partisan political speech. preston reported that but we have tape. plus it's been two months since george floyd died in minneapolis. has minneapolis become a safer, more just city? a report from minneapolis, after the break. save hundreds on your wireless bill without even leaving your house. just keep your phone and switch to xfinity mobile. you can get it by ordering a free sim card online. once you activate, you only have to pay for the data you need, starting at just $15 a month. there are no term contracts, no activation fees, and no credit check on the first two lines. get a $50 prepaid card when you switch. 5g is now included with all new data options. switch and save hundreds. xfinity mobile. >> tucker: as of this week it's been two months since george floyd died

if tucker is up ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." chicago is the third biggest city in the united states, millions of people live there. for 150 years, that was the hub of l the manufacturing economy. if what any one place can claim to have built this country at chicago so we should care what happens there. unfortunately what is happening they are chicago, and thanks to the corruption of local officials, chicago is bankrupt. the city is so deeply in debt, williams and billions, tens of billions of dollars in debt, that no economist believes it can never pay its bills. taxpayers knowt this. they understand they will be punished for the crimes of their leaders. just this week so far, 106 people. there was one drive-by shooting. on the city's southside and two died. it's not just happening in poor neighborhoods in chicago. here's surveillance video of a gunman opening fire downtown. two people hit by bullets and one was killed. among many others murdered in chicago, including many children, this man's first grader for example was shot i

he's a good musical >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president announced this afternoon that the republican party has canceled its traditional nominating convention in florida next month. the reason? coronavirus. >> president trump: this afternoon my political team came to me and laid out our plans for their convention in jacksonville, florida. it's a place i love and all of the state but i looked at my team and i said, the timing for this event is not right, it's just not right with what happened. to have the big convention is to have the right time. >> tucker: that news will inconvenience people, but in the end it's hard to believe that canceling a political convention will affect the outcome ultimately of this year's presidential election. yet it's very likely that the coronavirus lockdown it themselves will affect the outcome. is your country on the right track or the wrong track? in a reelection campaign especially that is always the question and every political consultant in america knows th that. the biting campaign, and the

tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a couple nights ago i talked to a man from st. louis called mark mccloskey. last weekend, mccloskey and his wife sat down for dinner the backyard of their home. suddenly a mob of screaming blm fanatics, hundreds of them, burst to the gate enter into murder the mccloskeys and threaten their dog. here's part of what he told us. >> the gate burst open and people start coming in. then a flood of people start coming in. they are angry and screaming. dam spittle coming out of their mouth they are coming towards the house. i went to my wife and i said oh, my god. we are absolutely alone. no one here to protect us but us. the retired police captain david dorn was murdered. i was afraid it within seconds they would surmount the wall, come into the house, callous, burn the house down, and everything i had worked for and struggled for for the last 32 years. >> tucker: the story didn't end there. after appearing on the show, mark mccloskey and his wife were bombarded with death threats, many of t

we will be back tomorrow and tucker carlson ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we spent an awful lot of time this spring talking about viruses and how they spread. one person infects another person who infects a third who then has contact with a larger group of people and infects 20 more, each of whom, and you know how it works, it's exponential. pretty soon, individuals thousands of miles from the source of the outbreaks are getting sick. what we now know is the craziness spreads very much the same way. a single lunatic can pass case debilitating case to millions of others. hysteria is the most communicable disease known to man. and we are now living through a pandemic of it. on memorial day weekend, a man called george floyd died in police custody in minnesota and that's where this outbreak first began. minneapolis was our wuhan. the first cases appeared a little over a month ago. here is the scene of the pandemic now.he >> it was just before midnight thursday when protesters began dismantling and toppling a statue honoring christopher columbus in civic center

. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two centuries, the at least 60 major pieces ofre legislation. if that makes for delays the passage of the centuries the senate has been controlled by republicans, other times it's been controlled by democrats but that standard, the standard of as the filibuster rule, has never changed, without it since 18061 thomas jefferson was the president. why is that? it's not just because u.s. senators tend to to tradition know that before you make bigte changes to a large majority of your citizens support the principle behind our entire system of whatever better be thoughtful about it, absolutely certain that what you're doing itis wise and won't hurt your grandchildren in ways that you haven't why for 214 years we have required a super majority of senate procedure, it's central to the way would happen if suddenly people control of our system? what if these new people the things they date? what if they didn't if they considered debate and persuasion, winning even immoral and if al

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we sent dr. siegel to washington today. he interviewed the president in the west wing. most of the interview is straight-ahead tonight. there's a preview of it. >> president trump: you know the way it works come from the first one i'll say he's so selfish he wanted to get the vaccine first on the other people would say that's a very brave thing to do, i would absolutely come if they wanted tme to, i would take at first i would take it last. you do know that if i take it first either way i lose on that one, right? if i take it first and if i don't take it they will say he doesn't believe in the program. >> i'll make you a deal, i'll take it and then you. >> we can take it together. >> tucker: much more of that just ahead but first tonight, for the past two months as you well know, a small group of power-hungry professional activists have screamed at the rest of us about saving lives. they're trying to keep people from dying, they tell us. they say that with totalha certainty and of course maximum

tucker, i lived in west st. louis county and in a secure neighborhood 32 years ago we moved into the city and took on a project to restore a house that nobody else wanted. we were urban pioneers in those days, and we've been there ever since working to build and maintain this very historic neighborhood. i saw it all going up in flames in my life destroyed in an instant. i did what i thought i had to do to protect my hearth, my home, and my family. >> tucker: no one was protecting you and they were screaming at you and threatening you and threatening to murder your dog and harm you and your wife. what do you make of the attacks on you for doing what we used to believe every homeowner had an obligation to do? why are they denouncing you a an racist? >> i don't understand. here's the interesting thing. i've spent my career defending people that are defenseless. people that are having a hard time making their miracle happen, for people who don't have a voice. my black clients love us. through the night this happened

tucker. lot, >> tucker: one person at the very center of this debases betsy devos, we are pleased to have her on tonight. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. i don't think there is a lot of debate on the science of it in the present has just -- you're very aware, today and said that we have to reopen schools. what can that department of education do to make certain thatat happens? >> well, like the president said today, there is no excuse for schools not to reopen again and for kids to be able to learn again full-time. the data doesn't suggest anything different, the medical experts and suggesting anythingn different and as you pointed out in her opening statements, this is moree an issue of adults who are more interested in their own issues than they are about serving their students. it's very clear that kids have got to go back to school. >> tucker: i think that seems absolutely right and millions of american parents on both sides or no side, nonpolitical people, want this to happen.

thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we are out of time. we hope you'll join us tomorrow night. 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. the great sean hannity takes over. >> sean: thank you, welcome to "hannity." hundreds shot, dozens killed during a weekend of nothing short catastrophic violence in america's major cities. multiple children as young as seven and 8 years old were murdered this weekend. our communities, our neighborhoods, fellow americans are under attack. many democrats, they seem more interested in tearing down statues and actually protecting innocent men, women, and children in the cities that they govern. on this program, we are absolutely open. you want to debate statues, memorials. we will debate it anytime you want, but know this. democrats have zero credibility, no standing on this issue. for two very extremely relevant and important reasons that dumb people in the media and the mobd and people frankly that are

physical physical >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," i'm brian called me to. tucker dubbed him the creepy lawyer and right no cpl will be. but first, major sacrifices during the coronavirus lock stones. businesses by the way were destroyed, unemployment record high, still had 1.3 million today. and now after months of restrictions, the virus is back and politicians want to do the exact same thing again. >> so the sectors that were closing stay why do, restaurants, wineries, museums and bars to outdoor activities to the extent possible. now with counties on the monitoring list, we have this list. fitness centers, places of worship, offices for noncritical sectors, critical care services including hair salons, barber shops and indoor malls. >> brian: at the news is they have the full screen built already from a month ago. so with so much shutdown fatigue will people actually obey the second wave of shutdown? some business owners like barber shop owner wanda mia's didn't want to debate the first wave. >> i read something where my producer said i don't care if

>> tucker: i hope so. makes you think of the way the chinese treat animals is not only immoral but also dangerous. that's it for our hour tonight, thanks for staying with us. the great sean hannity takes over from new york. >> sean: you know what's amazing? every model, every person, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, everybody was wrong. the one thing that was consistent is that if we protect the older generation, older people, underlying conditions, compromised immune system, that was the one thing that stayed consistent and we should learn from the lessons now so we don't have to shut the country down. great show. welcome to "hannity." tonight, buckle up, we have a ton of breaking news to cover including shocking new video from new york city where again, violence tonight is erupting and the police budget, get this, is getting sla

musical physical >> tucker: good evening and welcome to the "tucker carlson tonight." for more than two centuries, the u.s. senate has required support of at least 60 senators before they passed major pieces of legislation and that makes for a cumbersome system. it requires compromise and patients. it has endured through the centuries. despite leadership of the body, and that standard, of 60 votes often referred to as the filibuster rule, and it's a democracy, and so when people note, you had better be certain that a large majority of your citizens support what you are doing as a principle behind the system of government. whatever you do as a lawmaker, you better be thoughtful about it. whatever you are doing is wise and won't hurt her grandchildren in ways that you hadn't bothered to think through and that's why for 214 years we required a super majority in the senate. it's not just an arcane piece of senate procedure, i wonder if people with different attitudes took control of people in our system. what if these new people didn't care about the wisdom, what if they d

wherever he is, i think he will be watching, that's how much tucker likes tucker. ♪ >> brian: hi. get ready for must-see television. tucker calls this one of the most bizarre interviews he's ever done. 2017, january, trump's inauguration was around the corner and a grassroots group was supposedly offering cash payments to people who would disrupt trump's inauguration. or at least they said that's what they were doing. here's tucker. >> friday's inauguration looks like it could be a protest event for the ages with thousands of anti-donald trump agitators descending on the city and why wouldn't they? more than 20 cities have been recruiting paid protesters to come here to d.c. to help disrupt the inauguration. of the group demands protest which describes itself as one of the largest grassroots support organizations in the united states says it will pay professional protesters $50 an hour in addition to a $2,500 monthly retainer support their efforts. we are joined now by the director of operations in los angeles for demand protest, things are joining us tonight. >> no problem, tucke

brian in for tucker. a fox news alert, major development on multiple fronts come after an extremely successful trial. max, moderna's rotavirus vaccine is now ready to enter the final stage of testing. we have other vaccines also on the horizon. this is remarkable, maybe by the fall, record-breaking p

it's very important for the well-being and the student and the parents >> tucker: so kids should go to school, that's the new position. you may have thought this was a debate that you settled conclusively in the 19th century when we banned 8-year-olds working. if they want their kids back in the classroom in september and every poll shows that. most kids and most teachers probably feel the same way so who is opposed to opening schools? take a guess. teachers unions. they would like less work and no accountability and much more pay. at least one chapter of the american federation of teachers is plenty to go on strike if they have to work this fall so many administrations and school districts have no choice. in miami-dade county in florida is one of the country's biggest school systems. the superintendent has warned that his schools may have to stay closed and the fall. >> i will not reopen our school session august 24th if the conditions are what they are today. if the plan contemplates a phase to reality. we are still in phase one, phase one which has degraded over the last few weeks.

have we heard from tucker? >> tucker carlson on friday night after the story came out, he went on air and condemned cancel culture. he had a whole segment of his show against cancel culture. he didn't directly address this, but he alluded to it. he attacked cnn and said particularly cnn as a force of cancel culture and made the argument it's bad for society. while he's going to address this later, fox news executives say, he really did address it before. i think the later comment is really going to be more of what is fox news compelling going to say in the face of this controversy? >> what about the murdock's. it's ultimately about the owners of fox corporation. we very rarely hear from lockland or rupert. >> we know in the past that they've actually supported tucker carlson as he's endured some of the backlash for his anti-immigrant comments. so i wouldn't expect them to grow the courage to condemn what he was saying, but who knows. >> let's turn to two other stories that relate to tucker. highest rated guy on

they will consider a collateral damage they know it's the whole point of the exercise fox news host tucker carlson warns on air that the new york times is about to doc's him reveal his home address to terrorize his family the times denies it and says tucker knows it's not true scotty no use in line oh we'll discuss churches in christian statues are under attack here in the u.s. and again media silence how is this possible. touches sweet reports and the president of the camp the glee bill donahue will be here to discuss and if you think you know al sharpton think again who is this m s n b c host the media turns to for his input on civil rights issues and who presidential candidates run to for a seal of approval you may be surprised i'm steve malzberg let's see the press. releases. by. well you probably don't know this because the media won't tell it to you but this week america and the world in fact received more indisputable evidence that while the new york times and the washington post were plastering page one with stories of trump campaigns russian collusion the f.b.i. knew all along tha

anything tucker carlson would say, and d up in a tweet of president trump. >> tucker carlson is now one of the most powerful media figures in america, , and that is becaue president trump is part of his audience. trump watches a ton of fox news. he frequently y live-tweets thte segmentsts he takes a shine to. he also gets advice from fox hosts directly. more often than not, recently, that is been tucker carlson. from strtrikes against iran tote coronavirus s to more recently s attacks s on black lives matter and protesests. , terryr carlson's shaving the presidents events happening around us. amy: i want to thank you for being with us, macros, now tucker carlson says he is gone trout fishing. matt gertz is senior fellow at media matters. we will link to your latest piece. i' - [tamar] i was completely blown away by the power of hihis physicali. it was energetic and cool, special in the way that no one walks like that. - [narrator] gregg mozgala walks like that because he has cerebral palsy. - [gregg] it's a lot of work to being in this body. - [narrator] choreographer tamar rogoff still

and they promised tucker would address this story tonight. tucker did. but like i said, he was angrier about the reporting than he was about the racism. watch. >> what blake wrote anonymously was wrong. we don't endorse those words. they have no connection to the show. it is wrong to attack people for qualities they cannot control. in this country we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born. but we should also point out to the ghouls now beating their chests in triumph at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs. we're all human. when we pretend we are holy, we are lying. when we pose as blameless in order to hurt other people, we are committing the gravest sin of all, a punished for it. there's no question. >> so that was tucker's commentary, briefly addressing this matter. i think he was trying to address it because fox wanted him to address it, maybe to smookt things over with corporate sponsors. it's a little bit unclear exactly yes was put out there to say anything at all because he did not say what

so tell us what you have learned about this ex-tucker carlson lead writer. >> tucker carlson's top writer we found had been posting on a message board under a pseudo name racist comments, sexist comments, frankly, comments that are too horrific to read on air to you largely. they used very vulgar language. and it's just shocking to read. i think if viewers go and check it out on cnn.com, they'll be pretty stunned. let's zoom back. what we're looking at here is the person that was helping to write the monologues of tucker carlson which are seen by millions of people each night. he has a top rate showed on cable news, the top rated show in cable history in the last quarter. the person helping tucker carlson shape those monologues has been posting for years vulgar, racist horrific comments on a message board. we don't know for sure if this writer in the monologues that the president has shared. but trump does share a lot of tucker carlson's monologues. and according to this writer, he had recently told his alumni magazine that he writes everything that is in tucker carlson's teleprompter. >>

like you said, don, tucker has been in trouble. and he's gotten in hot water over the past few years for some -- some comments. i think we actually have some of these comments where he's called white supremacy a hoax, among other things. >> this may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through. but it is definitely not about black lives. and remember that, when they come for you. and at this rate, they will. >> if you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns, problems, this country faces. where would white supremacy be on the list? right up there with russia, probably. it's actually not a real problem in america. white supremacy. this is a hoax just like the russia hoax. >> in the year 2000, hazelton's population was -- just two years later, majority hispanic. how would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood? >> you know, there have been too many comments, don, like that. you'd have to play hours of the comments where tucker carlson's ignited controversy for his discussions on race. but those comments maybe

tucker carlson. ♪ >> brian: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am brian kilmeade. i will be filling in for tucker. in a few minutes, tucker will be joining us here on his very own show. you can add at least three new names to the roster people recently forced out by the social justice mob. this afternoon, andrew sullivan, a writer at "new york magazine," longtime critic of the canceled culture announced that he was leaving his job. last night san francisco's museum of modern art canceled one of its top curators after he suggested that the museum i continue to feature works by white artists. i know. hold on to somebody. this are partisan republicans at all. together they join an ever-expanding list of toppled statues, defaced manuals, canceled careers. you will be assured more people lose their jobs. today some of the people canceled are starting to fight back. consider bari weiss. she announced her resignation and the skating mother that accuses that the times of being controlled by the mob. "twitter is not on the master to ignore ties but twit