Candace Owens and Chris Cuomo clash over Biden’s cognitive decline, with Owens comparing his State of the Union gaffes to Putin’s historical precision, dismissed by Cuomo as irrelevant propaganda. Cuomo warns of Putin’s authoritarianism, while Owens counters with U.S. repression post-January 6th and questions Ukraine aid, citing a disputed claim about Gonzalo Lira’s death. Their debate highlights tensions between Cold War narratives and modern political accountability, leaving viewers to weigh truth against ideological framing. [Automatically generated summary]
Chris Cuomo, formerly of CNN, you know, he eventually left CNN.
Things got very tricky for him when his brother, the then-governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, got MeToo'd, as I would say.
People were coming out saying that he was sexually harassing him.
And there were a lot of changes happening at CNN.
He eventually left.
And what tends to happen after you leave CNN or MSNBC, People become a lot more rational, right?
So my perspective, and we talked about this on stage, is that Chris Cuomo was being a larger part, existed pretty much as a larger part of a chorus of leftism, right?
And if the network says this is what we're selling, then if you are a journalist on that network, you must sell it.
It was much more normal in person.
By the way, I want to say, he's also a lot taller in person.
He is very tall.
That was the first thing I noticed.
I said, you're very tall, Chris.
I actually thought you were much shorter.
I know that everyone thinks that we're shorter on TV screens, but he's very tall.
I would put him at about 6'3", which I think is quite shocking.
Anyways, we sat down, and Chris could not help being Chris.
I want to give him credit for showing up and sitting down next to me, which most people would not even do if they were on the left.
But we got to the topic of Vladimir Putin, and I'm the person that brought him up because
what we were doing was breaking down the State of the Union, and we were saying, how do you
think Americans took this?
How will Americans respond to the State of the Union address?
And the point that I was making was that, listen, the American people have now just
watched Vladimir Putin unpack the history of Russia from the 8th century.
So we are very aware of the fact that our alleged leader is not the person that's in charge.
He can barely remember what he ate for breakfast.
And Chris Cuomo did not like this.
He kind of hit the button.
Putin bad.
Orange man bad.
Putin orange man always bad.
Take a listen.
You also have to recognize that Tucker just went over and interviewed Vladimir Putin.
And this is significant because then you saw what it looks like when somebody not only has the mental faculty, I mean, irrespective of what you thought about the interview, you cannot, you are forced to acknowledge that he's an incredibly smart person.
I mean, he started in the eighth century.
I mean, I don't even think Tucker thought he was being trolled, right?
It's just, well, an eighth century and he's going through the entire history of Russia, starting from the eighth century, right?
And truly, Biden couldn't have started from yesterday at 8pm and recounted what he had done.
He is smart, so why would you not acknowledge someone smart?
What does that do?
Does that make me a Putin supporter?
You're clearly smart if you can sit down and unpack Russian history from the 8th century What do you mean?
What's the point?
The point is to say that the entire world can now see this contrast of a man who can't remember what happened two hours ago, who still thinks that his son is alive, sadly, and often brings up his son as if he's still alive.
There's no reason, it doesn't make you anything to acknowledge the fact that any person that can, for an hour straight, unpack the history of their country, starting from the 8th century, Has their mental faculties about them.
That is the only thing I've made, and I said that that contrast is now playing out in the American people's mind of, wow, okay, I don't care what I think about Vladimir Putin or Russia, right?
But the fact that they have a leader who can speak in this manner, right?
Who is able to remember these things and to communicate in this manner makes us aware of how much we are not getting out of our own leaders.
You're relying on a belief that Americans are economically so unintelligible that they're going to believe that the threat that we are facing today is Russia trying to reestablish... This is like Cold War propaganda.
Nobody here, everyone is listening to what I said, and I'm gonna not just double down, I'm gonna triple down, quadruple down on the fact that it's very obvious to the American people Agreed.
Our leaders are extremely lackluster and that has been made even more abundantly clear
after having watched Tucker Carlson sit across from Vladimir Putin, which was heroic on his part,
because we are tired of being propagandized. We are tired of people pretending,
if you live in Russia, there's going to be so much propaganda.
There's so much propaganda here.
I agree.
recovering from the exact same thing that you accused Vladimir Putin of doing.