punches you in the face. it was bizarre. the whole speech was like that. it had a hallucinogenic quality, like it wasn't quite real. but then joe biden himself isn't quite real. maybe that's the reason he talks that way.oe biden has been living in utter seclusion for more than a year. he hasn't spoken to anyone but his own lackeys. he hasn't driven a car or sat on the grass and looked at the sky, or been anywhere or done anything except in the most controlled possible environment. what an incredibly weird life that is. joe biden must imagine that everyone in america is terrified of corona as he is, and is living in the same kind of bunker. joe biden is totally cut off. alex berenson described last night's speech as late soviet. the more we thought about it, the more perfect that seemed. here's a clip of russia's own joe biden, the late leonid brezhnev. like biden, he was very -- also like biden, despite his frailty, he never lost the enthusiasm for d pointless wars. he is the one who ordered the soviet invasion of afghanistan in 1979. in late december of that year, he addressed the soviet youth id a televised speech. as you watch this, see if you can spot the similarities to what you saw last night, and keep in mind, when this was shot, he was a full five years younger than joe biden was today.ul >> tucker: they are tried to tell him how the teleprompter works. brezhnev remains the countries figurehead but it was the ideologues behind the scenes who ran the show. brezhnev had his own susan rice and barack obama to make the horeal decisions. the similarities, as we said, are pretty amazing. over at cnn, however, they didn't see it, or maybe they did see it and they didn't care. cnn always did love brezhnev. in any case, the usual chorus of toadies strained for a high note last night. watch themhe tell you how wonderful speech was as if you do not have a tv and did not see it for yourself. >> how refreshing. how human. how compassionate. how american. >> biden tried to lift our spirits with a medicinal message about recovering our sense of collective cause. certainly, it was healing. he didn't say "you need me." "i need you." "i need you." i mean, my god, didn't that hit? >> people always talk about the feeling of the relief they have hearing biden, but what he is doing now was above that. >> the president is saying help isis on the way. we are all in this together. i i need youris help. we are all americans. >> woo!! hallelujah. >> tucker: hallelujah! can i get an amen? brother biden is preaching the word, preach, brother biden, preach. speak. what was it about joe biden's shaky monotone last night that inspired them. most people found it depressing. maybe we are being too literal. it probably does not matter what joe biden said. he could have called for the bombing of toronto, and cnn's panel of trained seals would enthusiastically applaud it. it is their job to enthusiastic applaud what joe biden says. our job is to figure out what joe biden's speech meant for the country. so, let's look at it for a minute. the lockdowns have been tough, biden conceded. god knows how we got them, butkn we did. those restrictions will be lifted as soon as we can lift them. we will return to some version of the country we now only dimly remember. we love to do that. we mean it, we love it.on but in order to go forward and take the boot off your neck, we are going to need every american to listen carefully and obey our orders. do what we tell you to do. that won't be easy, but if you do it, there is a payoff for good behavior. if you are obedient, there is a chance, not a guarantee, of course, but a distinct possibility, god willing, that you may be able to see some of the people you love around july 4th. that could actually happen, sladies and gentlemen. listen to this. >> if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there is a good chance you, your families, and friends, will be able to get together in your backyard in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate independence day.ve that doesn't mean large events with lotsnd of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. >> tucker: did you hear that, america? there's a good chance -- not a sure thing, but what is a sure thing these days? but a good chance that you might be allowed to have a modest cookout four months from now. that is, as long as you will be regulations, weather permitting, and assuming current federal projections unfold according to plan. that is your price! this offer does not apply to full-time memberss of the radio station otheris families, but with luck, that could be your reward after a year and a half of lockdowns. a fourth of july cookout in your veryou own backyard, assuming yu have one. don't ever tell us that joe biden isn't a compassionate, generous man. he if he is offering you, with some medically necessary caveats outlined by dr. anthony fauci, the right to the cook your own hot dogs, with the provision, obviously, but you do it in a small, masked group seated far apart at a prescribed distance from one another. don't get crazy and hug or celebrate or talk too loud orce anything like that.. moderation is the key here. but still, a socially distanced barbecue! what other wonders does president biden have in store for us? well, you are going to have to get vaccinated to find out. sorry, that is the other requirement, should have mentioned it. everyone needs a shot, period. that is what biden said. and that is a lot of shots. the good news, now that we are on what joe biden describes as a "war footing" with this virus, vaccinated people against it is a counterterrorism operation. what we did to isis, we are going to do to covid. biden did not mention drones, but we will need soldiers, and that is why joe biden is building a vaccination corps that will include active duty members of the military, an army of vaccinators. watch. >> two months ago, this country did not have nearly enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all or near all of the american public. but soon, we will. now, because all the work we've done, we will have enough vaccine supply for all adults in america by the end of may. that is months ahead of schedule. and we aree mobilizing thousands of vaccinators to put the vaccine in one's arm. >> tucker: thousands of vaccinators to vaccinate everyone. that sounds amazing. but it does raise at least one question. what if you don't want to get vaccinated? not everyone does. some have religious objections. others have concerns about this specific medicine. others simply don't want it. do you need a reason to turn down the vaccine? and what happens if you do turn it down? will you be allowed to fly on airplanes or go to work, or enter the front doors of madison square garden? joe biden didn't specify, but it's pretty hard to believe he would support any kind of vaccine coercion. as he has told us so often over so many years,d it is your body, it's your choice. >> i support a woman's right to choose under that constitutionally guaranteed provision, and quite frankly, i always will. folks, you know, i'm going to fight to protect a woman's right to make our own personal decisions when it comes to their health care. >> tucker: quite frankly, you've got the absolute right to make your own personal decisions about your own personal health a care. period. that's in the constitution. joe biden would never violate that right, he has been defending thatut right since before you were born. it isha your body, it is your choice. period. of course, as with everything, there are caveats. if you don't take the shot that joe biden wants you to take, if you persist in making your own personal decisions about your own personal health care, then joe biden is going to have to shut the country down again. no socially distanced barbecue is for you, buddy. you're going to have to eat your hot dogs alone inside. >> if we don't stay vigilant, and the conditions change, and we may have to reinstate restrictions to get back on track. >> tucker: to which cnn might say "hallelujah!" that we are not cnn. we are left wondering, could there be any civil liberties implications to any of this? we don't know, the answer, and that is why we are happy to turn to attorney and journalist, glenn greenwald, who joins us tonight. glenn, thanks so much for coming on. i don't think this is snecessarily debate about vaccines or this vaccine or medicine, even. there is a civil liberties component to all of this that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. how do you see it? >> there's been a civil liberties component to the covid debate from the very beginning. obviously, there have been about freeates speech. now, you are not permitted to question the efficacy of masks, whereas a year ago, if you had gone online and said that you should wear masks, you probably would have been banned because the consensus of the time was thatus you shouldn't. but there was a very consistent message for the first 4-5 months, which was anyone who doesn't stay-at-home, stay-at-home, is essentially killing grandma, sociopathically, risking the lives of older citizens, and then suddenly, in may, when george floyd was killed by the minneapolis police and there was this b huge protest movement all over america, suddenly the exact opposite message rained down, which is now it o was not only your obligation not to stay at home anymore, it is your obligation to go out onto the street, huge numbers of people, densely packed, one on top ofto the other. from the very beginning, health advice andn lockdown laws and just social -- of the social ethos surrounding what we are required to do has been completely politicized by people pretending to only follow the science, and we see the mass draconian limitations on our freedom of movement, on our freedom of association, on our ability to live, businesses closed all over the united states, and no right even to question the efficacy or the wisdom of those policies. >> tucker: so, on the question of vaccines, and again, this is not a debate about this vaccine or whether he should get vaccinated, but there are some people who don't want the vaccine, for whatever reason. it seems very likely, at this point, that they will be restricted from doing a number of things that americans have taken for granted that they can do, like go to work or fly on airplanes. is there a civil liberties implication there? is that a violation of their rights? >> of course. i personally intend to take the vaccine when it becomes available, that is just the assessment personally that it have made, but other people, as you said, for scientific reasons, for political reasons, for religious reasons, or whatever other reasons, don't wantic to take the vaccine. in fact, large numbers of the population, not just in the united states but countries around the world, are adamant about not takingng it. the question then becomes, why should they be restricted? if all of us who want to take the vaccine and who are able to take it are now protected from getting a virus or from having the virus harm the organism when we do get it, that's the point of the vaccine, why are people who don't take the vaccine a threat to anyone but themselves? which is, essentially, the whole foundation of individual liberty is that you always have the right to do t whatever you want without the government requiring you, as long as you are not hurting anybody else, but they are already talking about things like faxing passports, where you only can have the rights of citizenry ifsp you submit to a vaccine that you don't actually want to have, and i can't even think of, maybe since the internment of japanese americans during world war ii, a civil liberties restriction as her calling and disturbing as that. >> tucker: i haven't heard it as crisply and intelligently summarized as that. there is no question as to why they are trying to shut you up. glenn greenwald. t thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, it was quite an experience yesterday being the very first target in the pentagon's new operation silence the talk show host. friends called us in concern. "are you guys all right?" and for a minute, we will concede we were almost rattled. if the woke generals treat us like they treat the taliban, we will be fine. 20 years later, the taliban are still here. maybe if we promise the pentagon we will change gender on our show. they send us billions and hundred dollar bills, they have done that before, that might kick-start our struggling opium poppy business. something to think about. anyway, we are fine. so thank you for the concern. well, on january 6th, the capitol police officer shot and killed an unarmed woman called ashli babbitt. why did he do that? perhaps it was the right thing to do, perhaps it wasn't. we still haven't seen the results of the investigation. tonight, the attorney representing ashli babbitt's t family has been looking into it because no one else seems to care. he is with us next with what he found.o ♪ ♪ for nearly a decade, comcast has been helping students get ready. we've connected 4 million low-income students to low- cost, high-speed xfinity internet. we're working with hundreds of school districts across the country to sponsor free internet and laptops. and parents are seeing an impact. and now we're turning 1,000 community centers into lift zones - wifi enabled safe spaces to study. so more students can be ready for anything. i'm trying to do some homework here. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: don't call it a violent white supremacist insurrection, but last night in portland, oregon, a group of angry white people attacked a federal courthouse and set it on fire. of course, they were from antifa, so it doesn't count. either way, there were still people inside the building when they set it on fire. >> tucker: so, how did this start? as if they need a reason to break things and set buildings on fire, but in this case, it was portland's mayor, the profoundly beta ted wheeler, announcing he is seeking to who million dollars for police funding. radio host jason rantz oversees the pacific northwest and the lunacy there for us. jason, thanks for coming on. why were they so mad? >> in part because of what you just said, the mayor of portland decided to get more funding for the police department. they got rid of the gun reduction violence -- gun violence reduction team, and since then, there has been a rash of deadly shootings. they are on pace to have another historic year. on top of that, on monday night, the federal government took down the boards and fencing around the federal courthouse, which meant antifa now had a reason to go ahead and attack it again. they quickly tried to put up those boards before the antifa violence. the antifa members showed up, took them down, burned them, and caused the traditional amount of chaos that they do. of course, in portland, like so many other cities where this happens, the media for the most part are calling riots "demonstrations" and calling domestic terrorists simply "protesters." >> tucker: did hundreds of federal agents swoop in, grab everyone's cell phones, as they try to burn a courthouse? >> no, there was one arrest, which actually tells you, rather instructive a number, only one person gets arrested, because in portland, like in seattle and other places, police officers aren't able to do their jobs. >> tucker: jason rantz, thanks for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, we have learned the new secretary of defense, took a munch of money from raytheon, overruled the national guard and ordered that troops remain in washington. according to the pentagon, the troops are necessary to protect us from insurrectionists. so, who are the insurrectionists? was named ashli babbitt, a veteran from san diego. you probably did not hear the media remember her on international women's day because she has the wrong social class. she is dead. she was killed by a capitol hill police officer. what happened at the riot at the capitol building on january 6th. you would think a police officer shooting an unarmed woman would prompt some calls for transparency. whether you agree with her politics are not. but hasn't. we still don't know the name of the police officer, and more critically, we have no idea why precisely he felt the need to shoot ashli babbitt. there was an investigation. apparently. we haven't seen it. terrell roberts is the attorney representing the family of ashli babbitt, we're happy to have him on tonight. mr. roberts, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be here. >> tucker: so we have been wondering for more than a month why exactly ashli babbitt was shot. what have you learned, can you tell us? >> well, we don't know why she was shot. there is no good reason why she was shot. this is not a case for deadly force should have been used. all the officer had to do was step forward, establish his presence, give her verbal warnings, and she didn't comply, and he had grounds to arrest her, arrest her, could have arrested this 5'2", 110-pound woman easily. but instead, he shot her. you don't use deadly force unless you are confronted with a threat to your life or a threat on somebody else's life. and there was no immediate threat to the officer or to anyone else. that corridor was clear of congressmen. there was not a congressman close to ashli babbitt. she was not a threat, and it's baffling, why he would go ahead and shoot her first, rather than take the other steps of just merely arresting her. >> tucker: you said there was no warning. the officer never warned ashli babbitt. i think it is pretty conventional to warn someone before you shoot her to death. are you sure there was no warning? do we know that? >> i can tell you this. the video, the people taking video on ashli's side of the door, there were several people, you cannot hear a warning. now, if he is behind -- it looks like he has concealed himself in a room. he is wearing a mask. she has all the way on the other side of the room. there is lots of noise on her side. it should be understood by the officer that someone is not going to hear him. the warning has to be audible, has to be heard, so what you do is you come out, as she is going through that window, you come out, you take a place in the middle of the corridor, you eyes with her, and you give her the warning there. this is something that is standard in all police training. it is feasible, you give a warning before you shoot somebody. >> tucker: so, this is the only gun violence that they have the capital. despite the lying, not a single gun was confiscated from a single rioter. this is the one instance of gun violence. why don't we have a statement from the capitol police, the result of the investigation that presumably they did into the shooting, why don't we have that? >> there is no explanation. we are two months down the road. they've been doing an investigation. we should have some statement explaining why they needed to shoot this lady. >> tucker: i agree with that. and it has nothing to do with politics, it's just decency, and the minimum which would require of our government, i should say. thank you so much for joining us. >> sure thing. >> tucker: mr. roberts, thank you. we were told for years that the government of syria was diabolical, we were ordered to hate them, and we were told that they used chemical weapons in 2018 on their own people. was there evidence of that? tonight, there is evidence they were lying about that. we will tell you what it is after the break. ♪ ♪ type 2 diabetes can have a big impact on your life. but how can it be prevented? well, the first step is knowing if you something called prediabetes. take the 1-minute risk test today at doihaveprediabetes.org >> tucker: in april of 2018, there was one of those rare moments of total bipartisan consens