TOMORROW.

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>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND

WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON

TONIGHT."

FOR THE PAST WEEK, ALL OF US

HAVE SEEN CHAOS ENGULF OUR

BELOVED COUNTRY.

THE VIOLENCE AT THE DESTRUCTION

HAS BEEN SO OVERWHELMING,

SHOCKING, AND AWFUL, AND VIVID

THAT IT HAS BEEN HARD TO THINK

CLEARLY ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON. H

STEP BACK FAR ENOUGH TO ASK EVEN

THE OBVIOUS QUESTION.

THE MOST OBVIOUS OF COURSE IS

WHAT IS THIS REALLY ABOUT?

WHAT DO THE MOBS WANT?

THEY CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION,

THEY HAVE NO IDEA, THEY JUST

WANT FREE iPADS.

BUT WHAT ABOUT APPLE ITSELF AND

THE REST OF CORPORATE AMERICA

WHICH IS ENTHUSIASTICALLY

SUPPORTING THE RIOTS?

WHAT ABOUT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,

THE MEDIA FIGURES, THE CELEBRITY

CELEBRITY, WHAT DO THEY WANT OUT

OF IT?

THAT'S THE CENTRAL MYSTERY.

NOW SUDDENLY, IT IS OBVIOUS.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS THE

FIRST DAY.

THIS IS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP.

OF COURSE IT IS.

WE JUST COULDN'T SEE IT.

FOR NORMAL PEOPLE, DONALD TRUMP

IS A PRESIDENT.

YOU MAY LIKE HIM, YOU MAY NOT

LIKE HIM, BUT EITHER WAY, THEY

WILL BE ANOTHER PRESIDENT AT

SOME POINT AND WE WILL MOVE ON

AS WE ALWAYS HAVE.

FOR DONALD TRUMP'S ENEMIES,

THERE IS NOTHING ELSE.

EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TRUMP,

EVERYTHING.

DONALD TRUMP DEFINES HER

FRIENDSHIPS, THEIR CAREERS,

THEIR MARRIAGES.

DONALD TRUMP AFFECTS HOW THEY

RAISE THEIR CHILDREN.

DONALD TRUMP OCCUPIES THE VERY

CENTER OF THEIR LIVES.

AS LONG AS HE REMAINS IN THE

WHITE HOUSE, THEY FEEL POWERLESS

AND DIMINISHED AND PANICKED THEY

CANNOT BE HAPPY.

AND EVERYTHING THEY DO, THEIR

OVERRIDING GOAL IS TO REMOVE

DONALD TRUMP FROM OFFICE.

AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE

TRYING TO DO NOW.

THAT'S WHAT THESE RIOTS ARE

ABOUT.

THE MOST PRIVILEGED IN OUR

SOCIETY ARE USING THE MOST

DESPERATE IN OUR SOCIETY TO

SEIZE POWER FROM EVERYONE ELSE.

GOT THAT?

THAT'S THE SOME OF IT.

THE MOST PRIVILEGED ARE USING

THE MOST DESPERATE TO SEIZE

POWER FROM THE REST OF US.

THEY ARE NOT SEEKING RACIAL

JUSTICE.

THEY WERE SEEKING RACIAL

JUSTICE, THEY WOULDN'T BE

DENOUNCING THEIR FELLOW

AMERICANS.

WHAT THEY ARE SEEKING IS TOTAL

CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY.

AND IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT

NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO

WITH GEORGE FLOYD.

SHAME ON THOSE WHO PRETEND THAT

IT DID, THOSE WHO FELL FOR THE

LIE, AND THOSE WHO KNEW BETTER

BUT PLAYED ALONG BECAUSE THEY

ARE COWARDS.

THERE WERE MANY OF THOSE.

YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND

SOMEDAY, WE WILL LOOK BACK AT

ALL OF THEM WITH CONTEMPT.

MEANWHILE, THE MANY PROMOTERS OF

THIS CHAOS REMAIN CLEAR.

THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING

ON, AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY HOPE

TO ACHIEVE BY IT.

WITH EVERY NIGHT OF RIOTING,

THEY GROW BOLDER.

NOW THEY ARE OPENLY DEFENDING

VIOLENCE ON TELEVISION.

>> PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT THE

PROTESTERS AND THE LOOTERS, AND

IS JUST PEOPLE WHO WERE

FRUSTRATED.

>> THEY ARE FRUSTRATED AND THEY

ARE ANGRY AND THEY ARE OUT THERE

AND THEY ARE UPSET.

SHOULDN'T BE TAKING TELEVISIONS,

BUT I CAN'T TELL PEOPLE HOW TO

REACT TO THIS.

>> I'M PROUD OF THE PROTESTS AND

I THINK IT'S PART OF THE

TRADITION OF NEW YORK.

THE VIOLENCE IS BAD,

REPREHENSIBLE, BUT IT IS NOT THE

OVERWHELMING PICTURE IN

NEW YORK.

>> DESTROYING PROPERTY WHICH CAN

BE REPLACED IS NOT VIOLENCE.

>> MANY SEE THE PROTESTS AS THE

PROBLEM.

PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE IT SAYS

PROTESTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE

POLITE AND PEACEFUL.

>> Tucker: YOU ARE CRUSHED BY

THIS, YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S

HAPPENING TO YOUR COUNTRY, BUT

FOR THE PEOPLE YOU JUST SAW, THE

REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THE RIOTING

IN SOME RARE PLACES IS BEING

STOPPED BY POLICE, AND THEIR AIM

IS TO FIX THAT.

THEY WOULD LIKE TO ELIMINATE ALL

LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR GOOD.

TODAY, DEMOCRATS IN DALLAS TOOK

DOWN THE STATUE OF A TEXAS

RANGER FROM THE TERMINAL AND

STOOD IN THE AIRPORT FOR MORE

THAN 50 YEARS.

THE TEXAS RANGERS ARE COPS AND

COPS MUST BE REMOVED EVEN WHEN

THEY ARE MADE OF BRONZE.

MEANWHILE, THE LEGO TOY COMPANY

HAS SEIZED MARKETING SETS THAT

CONTAIN PLASTIC POLICE OFFICERS.

APPARENTLY TOO DANGEROUS FOR OUR

CHILDREN.

SO MUCH OF THIS GOING ON RIGHT

NOW.

IT ALL SEEMS LIKE ANOTHER

EPISODE OF THIS HYSTERIA THAT

GROUPS OUR CULTURE OUT OF

NOWHERE, YOU SHOULD KNOW IT IS

NOT THAT.

THIS IS ENTIRELY REAL, IT IS

BEING PUSHED BY SERIOUS PEOPLE,

AND THEY ARE DEADLY SERIOUS

ABOUT IT.

LAST NIGHT, THE PRESS SECRETARY

OF THE HILLARY CLINTON FOR

PRESIDENT CAMPAIGN IN THE LAST

ELECTION CYCLE THAT WE DID

"DEFUND THE POLICE."

CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA TLAIB

AGREES EXPECTING MORE SOON.

IN SOME PLACES, THEY ARE NOT

TALKING OR ACTING.

STEVE FLETCHER REPRESENTS THE

THIRD WARD IN MINNEAPOLIS.

BY THIS WEEK, HIS CITY HAD BEEN

COMPLETELY SCORCHED BY RIOTS, AT

LEAST 66 BUSINESSES WERE UTTERLY

DESTROYED BY FIRE.

AT THREE MORE VANDALIZED OR

DILUTED.

DOESN'T EVEN MENTION THAT.

INSTEAD, HE ATTACKED THE CITY'S

POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR TRYING TO

CONTAIN THE VIOLENCE.

"SEVERAL OF US ON THE COUNSELOR

WORKING OUT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE

TO DISBAND THE MINNEAPOLIS

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

YOU THINK PEOPLE IN THE CITY

WOULD BE SHOCKED BY THAT BUT

EVERYONE ELSE NODDED THEIR

APPROVAL.

WE DID THIS YESTERDAY, "THE

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT IS

NOT REFORM A REFORM A BOWL.

COMING.

ACCORDING TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AND FLETCHER, ALL NINE MEMBERS

OF THE CITY COUNCIL ARE NOW

CONSIDERING GETTING RID OF THE

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT NOT JUST

THERE.

IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES,

MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI LOOKS OUT

ACROSS THE WORST RIOTING IN THE

NATION'S SECOND LARGEST CITY IN

A GENERATION, AND ALMOST 30

YEARS AND HIS CONCLUSION?

WE NEED FAR FEWER POLICE.

COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF THEY

HADN'T BEEN THERE.

HE HAS ANNOUNCED HE'S GOING TO

CUT FUNDING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.

>> I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE WILL

NOT BE INCREASING OUR POLICE

BUDGET.

HOW CAN WE AT THIS MOMENT?

OUR CITY THROUGH OUR CITY

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

IDENTIFIED $250 MILLION IN CUTS

SO WE COULD INVEST IN JOBS AND

HEALTH AND EDUCATION AND

HEALING.

FOUND THAT THOSE DOLLARS NEED TO

BE FOCUSED ON OUR BLACK

COMMUNITY HERE IN LOS ANGELES.

AS WELL AS COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

AND WOMEN AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE

BEEN LEFT BEHIND FOR TOO LONG.

WILL THIS INVOLVE CUTS?

YES, OF COURSE, TO EVERY

DEPARTMENT INCLUDING THE POLICE

DEPARTMENT.

>> Tucker: WHEN DEMOCRATS

ACROSS THE COUNTRY START SAYING

THE SAME THING AT THE SAME TIME,

YOU CAN BE CERTAIN THERE'S A

REASON FOR IT.

IN THIS CASE, THEY CLEARLY MEAN

IT.

ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT OF

THE L.A. POLICE COMMISSION, CITY

OFFICIALS MAKE UP $150 MILLION

FROM THE L.A.P.D.

MORE THAN 10% OF THE ENTIRE

POLICE BUDGET IN THE WAKE OF

RIOTING.

IN NEW YORK, 48 SEPARATE

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES SIGNED A

LETTER DEMANDING A $1 BILLION

CUT TO THE BUDGET OF THE NYPD.

WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS?

THERE ARE REASONS, NOT THE ONES

THEY TELL YOU.

THEY TELL YOU IT'S ABOUT RACISM

AND THAT COPS ARE RACIST AND

MUST BE REINED IN.

MOST AMERICANS DON'T AGREE WITH

THAT.

THAT'S NOT THE EXPERIENCE THEY

HAVE.

IN FACT, POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE

ONE OF THE MOST TRUSTED

INSTITUTIONS IN THE COUNTRY.

ACCORDING TO GALLUP POLLING LAST

YEAR, 53% OF AMERICANS SAID THEY

HAD QUITE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE IN

THE POLICE.

THAT WAS FAR MORE CONFIDENCE

THAN THEY HAD IN ALMOST ANY

OTHER INSTITUTION.

THANKS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, THE

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, TELEVISION

NEWS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CORPORATE

AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, NAME ONE.

HOW MANY AMERICANS TRUSTED

CONGRESS?

11%.

AND IN FACT, MOST

AFRICAN-AMERICANS STILL SUPPORT

THE POLICE.

THE 2016 FOR FOUND THAT 15% OF

AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAD CONFIDENCE

IN THE POLICE WITHIN THEIR OWN

COMMUNITIES.

IN OTHER WORDS, COPS THEY KNEW

AND DEALT WITH.

A STUDY BY THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE

STATISTICS IN 2011 FOUND THAT

AMONG THOSE WHO CALLED THE

POLICE FOR HELP, MORE THAN 90%

OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS FELT THE

POLICE BEHAVED PROPERLY.

SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE GOT

RID OF THE POLICE?

HOW WOULD AMERICANS FEEL IF THEY

ACTUALLY DEFUNDED THE POLICE?

TERRIFIED, MOSTLY.

THAT'S HOW WE WOULD FEEL.

THINGS WOULD FALL APART

INSTANTLY.

WOULD TAKE HOURS?