You know, the mainstream media, the commentariat, the people who are supposed to tell you what to think while not allowing you to hear conversations are freaking out because Tucker has just interviewed Vladimir Putin.
They're freaking out so much because obviously they have control of this narrative about Ukraine.
But in your gut, you're sensing that what we've been told isn't true.
Looking around you and you're saying, man, we've been in a lot of foreign wars and they're always telling us the same narrative, that we're fighting for freedom.
Really?
We're fighting for freedom in Ukraine?
What do you even know about Ukraine?
What do you even know about President Zelensky?
What do we even know about what we did to install President Zelensky?
The color revolution, 2014.
They want to censor all of this information from you and just keep telling you that what we're fighting for is freedom.
And of course, we don't trust you to hear from Vladimir Putin because we don't know what's going to be said.
And the EU took the extraordinary effort to say that they are contemplating sanctioning Tucker Carlson over an interview That they haven't heard yet.
That is stunning.
It's basically an admission that everything that they have told us about what's happening in Ukraine is a lie.
Otherwise, why would you preemptively talk about sanctioning a journalist for having a conversation?
What you're trying to actually sanction and stop are the people from hearing the conversation, because it might change their mind.
It might shift their viewpoints.
It might make them go, why is everything around us seem to be disintegrating in real time?
We don't have secure borders, but you're insisting that what we're doing overseas, nonstop funding overseas of bombs being dropped, is perfectly to make our country greater when all the evidence is our country has not become greater since 9-11.
Our country, we don't even have paved roads anymore.
And then we're called selfish for asking the questions of why can't we, for once, focus on American issues?
We're called racist and ephobic.
You know, we don't understand foreign policy.
Well, we'd like to understand it.
And we're only going to understand it if we hear conversations.
And so I want to allow you to hear Tucker Carlson in his entirety regarding why he is over in Russia speaking to Vladimir Putin.
Take a listen.
We're in Moscow tonight.
We're here to interview the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
We'll be doing that soon.
There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously, so we've thought about it carefully over many months.
Here's why we're doing it.
First, because it's our job.
We're in journalism.
Our duty is to inform people.
Two years into a war that's reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.
They have no real idea what's happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine.
But they should know.
They're paying for much of it, in ways they might not fully yet perceive.
The war in Ukraine is a human disaster.
It's left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation of young Ukrainians.
And it's depopulated the largest country in Europe.
But the long-term effects are even more profound.
This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances.
And the sanctions that followed have as well.
And in total, they have upended the world economy.
The post-World War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it the dominance of the U.S.
dollar.
These are not small changes.
They are history-altering developments.
They will define the lives of our grandchildren.
Most of the world understands this perfectly well.
They can see it.
Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like.
And yet the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware.
They think that as nothing has really changed.
And they think that because no one has told them the truth.
Their media outlets are corrupt.
They lie to their readers and viewers.
And they do that mostly by omission.
For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoken to scores of people from Ukraine and they have done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelensky and we hope he accepts.
But the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews.
They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky's demand that the U.S.
enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it.
That is not journalism.
It is government propaganda.
Propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people.
At the same time our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he's a new consumer brand, not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin.
Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, or what his goals are now.
They've never heard his voice.
That's wrong.
Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in.
And we have the right to tell them about it, because we are Americans, too.
Freedom of speech is our birthright.
We were born with the right to say what we believe.
That right cannot be taken away, no matter who is in the White House.
But they're trying anyway.
Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.
They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning.
Last month, we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again.
But this time, we came to Moscow anyway.
We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.
We are here because we love the United States, and we want it to remain prosperous and free.
We paid for this trip ourselves.
We took no money from any government or group.
Nor are we charging people to see the interview.
It is not behind a paywall.
Anyone can watch the entire thing, shot live to tape and unedited, on our website, TuckerCarlson.com.
Elon Musk, to his great credit, has promised not to suppress or block this interview once we post it on his platform, X, and we're grateful for that.
Western governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video on other less principled platforms because that's what they do.
They are afraid of information they can't control.
But you have no reason to be afraid of it.
We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview.
But we are urging you to watch it.
You should know as much as you can.
And then, like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself.
Thanks.
I just want to reiterate his point that Western propaganda is real.
Western propaganda does not want you to hear this interview whatsoever because they don't believe in you.
They want to control you.
Tucker Carlson is an American hero.
Emphasis on the American part because it is a radical concept.
If you really subscribe to the identity of what it means to be an American, it means to believe in the people over the governments.
It means to understand that governments become corrupt, that governments become controlling, and that governments seek to really just create another system of slavery.
People to rule over, people to go to work every single day and tell them that they don't have a right to ask questions or to know any more about why it is that they can't afford their grocery bills.
why they can't afford to fill up their tanks, and yet we have to fund to the tune of billions
of dollars a bunch of foreign wars.
So here is what I want to say to all of the people that are watching this show, that are
watching what's happening in America, to people in Singapore, Portugal, Malaysia, Belgium,
Croatia, Brazil, Ghana, Denmark.
First and foremost, thank you for watching the show, but also know that as an American, I believe in you.