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Why We're Here
00:02:04
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| 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, a 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've 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. | ||
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Why Media Omits Truth
00:02:22
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| 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 wanted 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. | ||