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Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci in a new interview Friday dismissed recent criticism from Fox News's Tucker Carlson, but said it could inspire more death threats against him. “I flip around the channels at night, which I probably shouldn’t. And I found this guy — you know this guy, Tucker Carlson? You heard of him?” The Washington Post's Geoff Edgers asked Fauci in an online interview that streamed live. “He’s the guy that really loves me, right?” Fauci replied sarcastically. Edgers went on to list some of the criticism from Carlson, who has called Fauci a "fraud" and a...

Political leaders in America's cities have abandoned the citizens they swore to protect and left them at the mercy of violent actors, Tucker Carlson said Thursday. "American cities collapsed, buildings burned, law enforcement vanished, criminal mobs rampaged unchallenged, stealing things and hurting people," The "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host began. "Drug-addicted vagrants took over the streets, parks and public transportation. Anyone who could leave urban America did. "In New York alone, many hundreds of thousands of people, possibly a million people fled the city. Essentially the entire tax base of America's largest metro area disappeared in just a few months, but...

The Democratic ticket of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is "entirely hollow," Tucker Carlson argued on Tuesday. The "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host believed that he thought Biden would pick former National Security Advisor Susan Rice for the No. 2 spot. "Rice has sincere beliefs whether you like them or not ...," Carlson said. "But Kamala Harris is the opposite of that.

'Dead bodies don't count unless they are politically useful dead bodies' The single biggest U.S. mass shooting of 2020 occurred over the weekend in Washington, but because the story didn't "help the Biden campaign," it went largely unreported on, Tucker Carlson said Monday. "Twenty-one people were shot in this single incident ... more than half of them were women. One was a D.C. Police officer. It was the single biggest mass shooting in America this year and yet you probably heard nothing about it," the "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host said.

Officials have imposed restrictions that 'would've been impossible to imagine ... in January' It's time to reclaim the freedoms and principles upon which the United States was founded before the country becomes completely unrecognizable, Tucker Carlson warned his viewers Thursday. The "Tucker Carlson Tonight," host opened Thursday's show by asking his audience to recall "what a very different country this was on New Year's morning." "Back then, a little over seven months ago, the U.S. felt politically volatile. There was an election coming," Carlson said. "But it [was] still fundamentally American. There was no mistaking this country for any other...

New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against the National Rifle Association (NRA) is an "electorally based attack" meant to distract from New York City's rise in violent crime, City Journal associate editor Seth Barron told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday. "This is a typical diversion attempt to blame the shootings on someone other than the bad ideas of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat Party in the last few months," Barron told host Tucker Carlson. James' lawsuit accused the NRA of having "a culture of self-dealing," taking millions of dollars for personal use and granting...

"The answer to why we haven't seen it is simple, because Keith Ellison, he's the Attorney General in Minnesota, hid the video from the public. He refused to release the footage."

Any day now, Joe Biden will announce his pick for the actual Democratic nominee. That's the person who will run the government if Biden wins in November. We've been telling you about this process for weeks now. We've taken a closer look at three potential candidates, all of them are said to be on Joe Biden's shortlist for the job. They are Stacey Abrams, Karen Bass and Kamala Harris. Now in a normal year, no mainstream candidate would consider any of these people -- all of them would be disqualified without debate.

House Intel Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said a large amount of the FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page has been redacted to cover up the involvement of the Steele dossier and has nothing to do with national security. In an interview with Tucker Carlson Wednesday night he said the public has a right to see the redacted pages and the part the Steele dossier played. TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Well, the Carter Page FISA application has been released in part. Big portions of it, though, were redacted and those portions could help reveal the extent to which the Obama...

Tucker Carlson described former President Obama as "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics" after his eulogy at the funeral of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Thursday night. Carlson, who also described the former president as "a greasy politician" for calling on Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act and to eliminate the filibuster, which Obama described as a relic of the Jim Crow era that disenfranchised Black Americans, in order to do so. "Barack Obama, one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American...

After two months of rioting and political chaos, there are still people who claim it all about the death of George Floyd. They're wrong. Video at link

Tucker Carlson opened Wednesday night's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" by taking a closer look at Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., two lawmakers believed to be on the shortlist to become Joe Biden's running mate. "Joe Biden cannot govern the country. He isn't capable of it," said Carlson, who cited reports the former vice president may only serve one term if elected. "So Biden's running mate will be the most consequential VP pick in American history." Turning first to Harris, Biden's onetime rival for the Democratic nomination, the host paid particular attention to remarks she made...

"While the rest of us were sleeping, or in the case of so many of our Senators taking payoffs from Google, a tiny number of left-wing corporations took virtually complete control of all news and information in this country." Video...

You can tell a lot about a society by what shocks its leaders. For generations, what shocked the people in charge of this country was political violence, hurting your neighbors for having different opinions. They were appalled by that and they were right to be. Political violence isn't simply an assault on individual Americans, it's an attack on America itself. In this country, we govern by consent, not by force. People with guns don't make our laws, voters do. You may have a Glock in your hand, but on Election Day, you have precisely as many votes as the little...

On Monday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his show with a warning about political violence, which he described as short-circuits the American system of governance and undermines democracy. The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host said the ultimate result from this mob rule was there are two sets of standards applied to people based on their political views. Partial transcript as follows:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said during his show on Friday that once-conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge of “The Drudge Report” is “now firmly a man of the progressive Left,” noting that his site has taken on a decidedly anti-President Trump bent in recent months... ...in recent months, Carlson continued, the site “has changed dramatically, 180 degrees. Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive Left.” As such, scores of Drudge’s former conservative readers have now left the site for another rising conservative aggregate, Revolver.News, the Fox News host added. In April, President Trump tweeted that he “gave...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deserves criticism for giving in to Antifa demands that she remove statues and allowing violence to spread throughout her city, Tucker Carlson said Saturday. "Chicago was a beautiful place. There are a lot of reasons it isn't anymore. But near the top of that list is a woman called Lori Lightfoot. She's the mayor," Carlson said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "Like a lot of big city mayors, Lightfoot is incompetent," he continued. "She has no idea what she's doing. You wouldn't let her plan your spring break. She'd send you to Wuhan [China] by accident. But...

Tucker Carlson With A Follow Up To Last Night's Show Discussing NYT Report On The Pentagon's UFO Findings. Click Excerpt Link for Video...

For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings. Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles. Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation’s intelligence agencies for the coming year....

The Pentagon's once secret department that hunts and investigates UFOs has continued to operate over the past decade despite previous claims it was disbanded. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force has been tucked away inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, and is now being called on to reveal at least some of its findings to the public every six months, according to the New York Times. Information on mysterious encounters with unidentified aerial objects has formerly only been discussed in classified briefings, and Pentagon officials are still not at liberty to discuss the program, which deals with classified matters.