0 capital ? okay, i trust capital allows you to invest in your favorite crypto 24/7 with the tax benefits of an ira. so instead of paying taxes on your crypto gains every year you can defer taxes until you retire using an i trust ira or with an i trust roth ira you can withdraw tax free and retire because you are for the long start investing today and i trust that . good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. happy monday, if you could call it that . you can't like most americans trying toly still digest what has happened over these past four days. profound national trauma is like that . once you face something unimaginably horrible, nothing is ever the same. nothing will ever be the same like prison. it changes a man. this is not an easy time for any of us . we get it. we're literally literally still shaking as we think about how close this country came too losing our democracy last thursday. last thursday was june 16 , a day forever branded in our memory. a data hasas a joined d a panthe tragic turning points in human history. where were you 616? s you'll never forget and neither will wewi. at the time we were preparingow a show on tony fauci and this push for a new corona a shot fok kids. it seemed important then it seemed so trivial nowid as we were speaking on the air at that very moment a team of seven saboteurs had entered the capitol grounds and then proceeded as saboteurs due to breach the capitol itselflo inside those hallowed grounds within the very of democracy, these wreckers begin their hunt for sitting members of congress . that happened, ladies and gentlemen. shocking toocds you,se it gets more harrowing from there.. this iss not some spontaneous outbreak of insurrection, outbreak of insurrection. no, this was a meticulously planned coup from afar. c the group in theon capital was under direct control of an extremist called stephen colbert who was a white man is by definition a white extremist. this white extremist estephen colbert had a fifth column within the capital to help him pulle off his diabolical plan. he had members of congress in his employ, members of congress who believe it or not, helped the insurrectionist enter the capitol, just open t the doors and let them walkhe in . yes, h that can happen. and that fifth column included adam schiff of california, stephanie murphy of florida and a new member called jake auchincloss of massachusetts besmirch his family name. those three members of congress allowed the wrecker's inside the longworth house office building while insideic the insurrectionist tried to gain access to a restricted area. rd buted they were thwarted by brae law enforcement who arrived risking their very lives to remove the insurrectionist from the premises. but it wasn't enough because hours later an aide to congressman auchincloss secretly permitted the insurrection to reenter the capitol complex and then around eight thirty p.m. they caused some kind of disturbance. the details are murky as of tonight , but according to one report they were banging on windows inside the capitol, t trashing the place, committing violencera against our democrac. and for that apparently we are hearing tonight they were put in jail but within hours they were out again. noww the man who controlled this attempted to coup stephen colbert knew exactly what he was doing.ta he knew the stakes. he knewes the crimes. he was committed. we know that because just lasts year this white extremist stephen colbert explained grown men who unlawfully enter the capital to harass sitting members of congress are not pranksters. they're pst protesters. they're domestic terrorists. lord have mercy. >> there are some dark subjects that we talk about on the show occasionally, but i've rarely been as upset as i am tonight . this is the most shocking, most tragic lisa prizing thing i've s ever seen and his followers did what he told them to do behave in a way that's what's the wordt deplorable. one of these domestic terrorists even broke into speaker pelosi's office and put his feet up on her desk. they now live in an alternate universe that is now collapsing in on itself. it's like a black hole of whiteness and this was never some sort of peaceful protest. this was charlottesville come home to roost. >> oh , it's shocking. these are domestic terrorists. >> stephen colbert and what the literary community refers to is foreshadowingmm described his own coup and it stephen colbert somehow still has access too the airwaves and to digital media spreading his hate unfettered convincing future generations of insurrectionist to do what his team of saboteurs did last week that must stop people who plan coups must be silenced ifo recent precedent fordi that and anyone who disagrees should be disconnected from amazon web services immediately, no spreading hate but stopping white extremists stephen colbert from passing hi his message of insurrection . the country won't solveonre what the rest of us are livingke and that's trauma. and like all trauma journalists are affected most profoundly. we're scarred by what we saw. we're all casey hunt tonight . it'll be a long time before weet can revisit the capital building before we s can forget where weho were when democracy shook on its very foundations. ot it's going to take therapies can take a lot of support from our fellow survivorswe before we can recapture the carefree innocence that stephen colbert stole from us before we can feel safe again. we're not aloneweou in despair tonight why some have written thousands of angry people toe capital for one of america's darkest days became one of the darkest days in american political history. the very next day was one of the darkest days in this nation's history nat to one ofic the most dramatic and dark days in american history, one of the darkest days in u.s. history. isis is one of the darkest in american history. what size bottle of bourbon do you drink at night to forget your central role and the darkest day in our capital's history? yeah, yeah. journalists feel this stuff deeply. people say, oh , you're just robots just ornament in nerd erdhardened, calloused to the news. >> you don't feel. but we do we do feel you see something like that . you see an insurrection take place before your very eyesou and it hurts you. it changes you're not the sameon person. how long will it take to heal? i it'smp impossible to know. cnn just interviewed a rolling stone journalist who afterla a year and a half after the last insurrection still hasn't healed what you wrote for poynter in january of last year. youe said sometimes i'm fine, sometimes i want to stop for hours. sometimes i just want to sleep. so that sounds to me like trauma. that sounds like ptsd. do you feel like you still experience that ? i do think so to a certain extent. this morning when i got on the train to come down here and see you, brian, i was looking at the capitol dome. right. lyand you know, my parents recently came down to visit me and we were near it. m and i remember thinking to myself, man, i can't wait untila i can lookt this and not feel sad. now you look something likes that and you're tempted to dismiss it out of hand . oh , , you'reyo having trouble sleeping. you sobbed for nob reason left f because you have a barren personal life, you're celibate, you're only meaningful human contact comes from the sky. you live out your emotional life on netflix. that's your core problem. it couldn't really be ancu insurrection if you saw stuff or disrupted your sleep, but it can for a journalist this stuff jhurts. but if you think it's bad for us in the news media, what do a you think it was like for the lawmakers who are trapped inside thursday in the lastio insurrection even though she was nowhere nears a capitaly problem, get their nails donege' but it didn't matter. sandyt nearly died. >> congresswoman alexandrea cortez has given a harrowing account of her experience on january six harrowing and emotional account of what happened to her during a capital riot. it's one of the most harrowingo accounts so far . congresswoman alexander cortez t tell that harrowing story, ac the harrowing story of how she hid from attackers during the capital riot who disclose a new harrowing details to you do. >> that's what an insurrection looks like. there's no schrade like miami. s they can't ever fully express inside. we're going to deal with that in our quiet alone time ,al possibly wearing upscalee turtleneck. we'll let you know. but k the question is once we've had an active war like this , how does the country respond? how wewe all respond boom, booms boom. sandy would set obviously we need a commission, of course, and a criminal investigate. probably one underway, by the a way. and then a day of remembrance because you can't let the memory die. sowi who's going to leave this ? well, the obvious candidates, liz cheney, adam schiffme and speaking of crying, adam kinzinger, they're the naturals we call them today to see what they're planning. commemorateoingng to this latest insurrection? they haven't gotten back to us yet, probably sleeping org. weeping, but we can assume from past experience that adam kinzinger feels this really deeply, really deeply about wathe impact of that day. you've got to tell in a democracy are not defined by our bad days. yeah, adam kinzinger is right and we've made fun of him in the past like a grown dude crying on tv. we mocked that . c we apologize to adam kinzinger. we can recover. there's only only one path toward recovery. if you talk to any recovery expert, they will tell you the way to recover is to vishu punish the people who hurt your feelings. stepngs that's always step one . so we're going to have to mete out some pretty serious punishment. stevens cole bears team of insurrectionsents have been jaid for one night. that's not what the penalty for insurrection i is death. we're not calling forth that here. this is a moderateisde show. these are our fellow americans. we owe them a second chance. thankfully, there's recent precedent to help guide an appropriate punishment. what is the right punishmentct for insurrection? well, julie kelly for the last year and a half has been following this very closelyly. she's the author of january six . the democrats use the capital protest to launch a war on terror against the political right. she joins us tonight to explain what we do with insurrectionists in this country. and stephen colbert's coup plotters apparently spent the night in one night. isis that adequate basedte on recent precedent in insurrection? itrrec absolutely is not in thet fact that these insurrectionists arehe justr running free around l.a. or wherever they are. i mean, they are terrorists. they really threaten our nationalth security and literally, literally literally shaking, literallyha shaking. i mean, i spent all weekend, tucker , trying to explain my children what the pre june 16 america looked liken w and ty don't they don't even remember it. so. that , you know, that's just going to be our burden trying to make history memorable to future generations. that's how i left my characteruc excuse. that is that is us . but can we just let's just say for the sake just in case we're arguing like, you know, a pre biden america where justice was pretty much meted out equally. what punishment based on very recent precedent would stephen colbert's insurrectionist face? well, first it would be the felony charge that is most commonlymo applied tors january six protesters and that is obstruction of an official proceeding. i mean, these insurrectionist went to the january 6thoc committee hearing. they were prohibited from being there because they had already and denied special press c credentials. of course, they're not media. they're not entertainers,s, tucker . they are democrat party activists. athey are no different than any of the people who were there on january 6th. i mean, stephen colbert isty a democrat party loyalist. e he spent his entire show beating up on trumpp and republicans. they were therest as activists o they they could have actually shut down this committee. and so think about that . a think cohorts, think of liz cheney face if the puppet dog caused her committee to pause. i mean that is it's just beyond the pale. and so they definitely need tod be arrested, charged with obstruction of an officialh proceeding sent to jail pretrial detention sosp that that's just the first step. and then there are several other misdemeanors that should be applied to them and then they can spend a year and a half in solitary confinement pre charge in the dc jail, the worst jail in america. ni i'm trying not to use profanity. the fact that's happening right now, no one's saying anything aboutnddo this . justor unbelievable. you are,e though and we're grateful for that . julie kelly , thank you . thanks, tucker .ke well, speaking of the evaporationn of your rights, u.s. senators in both parties amazingly because that's where you vote republican to eliminate the bill of rightss are working on legislation that would allow the police to seize firearms, people who have not even been charged with anything. now we could have the texasville legislation as soon as tonight. seven republicans including .notably john cornyn of texas who suddenly supports every bad idea are driving so the senate could pass that bill withinks the next couple of weeks. josh, he represents missouri j in the senate. he joins us tonight ton. senator , thanks so much for r coming on . so these red reded flags wh laws which exist in someme states, a guy in maryland who's not been charged with anything s to death by the police last week on a red flag. how likely do you think this iss to get to the united states senate with republican backing ? >> well, unfortunately, ite looks like it's more or more likely, tucker . now wel don't know what's in thi text of this bill because nobody has seen it or at least i haven't seen it. and my fear is we'revo going toa be asked to votes on it maybess as early as this week.o final passage and nobody has t yet seen the text of the thing. but yeah, i mean, i think that there is an increasinglye high likelihood that this will pass. and here's the deal. here's my view, tucker .t' s is that it's time to be honesi with the american people. we're not talkingng here about isolate incidents pinprick at this school or that school we're talking aboutut a crime wave across the entire country of violence. what we ought to be doing is a crime bill that will focus on criminals, not law abiding citizens, criminals, people who commit the crimes, who use guns to commit the crimes.av they ought to be the ones who are prosecuted. they ought to be the ones whose sentences were increasing. they oughthtif to be the onesbi that we're focused on .ll but that's not apparently what this bill is going to do..n instead, it'st going to take away second amendment rights from law-abiding citizens c without any adjudication of a crime. how many republican voters dors you think vote for republican senators in the hopea that they will accelerate the erasure of the bill of rights? i'm voting republican because i want fewer rights. a lot of those who think wello than the state of missouri where i'm from, i'd say approximately zero. so i just know that in my home state what voters expect is no w . one , they expect me to read legislation before we vote on it. yeah. soe that would be the you know, the bottom baseline just to start. and secondly, they also expect us to defend they expect me to defend the second amendment to go after criminals. and in that order, hamen i met senator daschle of missouri. i appreciate coming on to say thank you so much. thank you . soiden joe biden is totally hall bickersons in perfect health. no problem at all set up. it's just this is otherwiseri by the way, this weekend he's riding his bike in great shapedigrel and just fell over o reason. just no reason at all.ll just kind of fell over because standing up is increasingly difficult forg dif. so dr. siegel has beenzi analyzing that case and has seen some conclusionsngas a basd on it. he joins us after the break.. branch, we don't make meeting like everyone else. we make it better. we prioritize quality, not read count the source. the findings 100% organic cotton to make the softest, most luxurious fabric on earth . we're free from talking on the way home should be one branch is made difference. you can sleep better at night. experience the difference at branch .com so you get the memo . we're still hunting for treasure expert the great james