Tucker Carlson on X : « Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin »
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00:00 We're in Moscow tonight.
00:01 We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
00:04 We'll be doing that soon.
00:06 There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously.
00:10 So we've thought about it carefully over many months.
00:13 Here's why we're doing it.
00:14 First, because it's our job.
00:16 We're in journalism.
00:18 Our duty is to inform people.
00:20 Two years into a war that's reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.
00:26 They have no real idea what's happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away
00:31 in Ukraine.
00:33 But they should know.
00:34 They're paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive.
00:39 The war in Ukraine is a human disaster.
00:42 It's left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation of young Ukrainians,
00:47 and it's depopulated the largest country in Europe.
00:51 But the long-term effects are even more profound.
00:54 This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances.
00:59 And the sanctions that followed have as well.
01:02 And in total, they have upended the world economy.
01:05 The post-World War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West
01:10 for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it, the dominance of
01:15 the U.S. dollar.
01:16 These are not small changes.
01:18 They are history-altering developments.
01:21 They will define the lives of our grandchildren.
01:24 Most of the world understands this perfectly well.
01:25 They can see it.
01:26 Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like.
01:31 And yet the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware.
01:35 They think that as nothing has really changed.
01:37 And they think that because no one has told them the truth.
01:42 Their media outlets are corrupt.
01:44 They lie to their readers and viewers.
01:46 And they do that mostly by omission.
01:49 For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoken
01:53 to scores of people from Ukraine, and they have done scores of interviews with Ukrainian
01:59 President Zelensky.
02:00 We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelensky, and we hope he accepts.
02:05 But the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews.
02:09 They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky's demand that
02:14 the U.S. enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it.
02:19 That is not journalism.
02:20 It is government propaganda.
02:23 Propaganda of the ugliest kind.
02:24 The kind that kills people.
02:26 At the same time our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a
02:31 foreign leader like he's a new consumer brand, not a single Western journalist has bothered
02:35 to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin.
02:41 Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, or what his goals are now.
02:45 They've never heard his voice.
02:47 That's wrong.
02:49 Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in.
02:53 And we have the right to tell them about it, because we are Americans too.
02:57 Freedom of speech is our birthright.
02:59 We were born with the right to say what we believe.
03:02 That right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House.
03:06 But they're trying anyway.
03:08 Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then
03:12 leaked the contents to their servants in the news media.
03:15 They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning.
03:19 Last month we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again.
03:23 But this time we came to Moscow anyway.
03:26 We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.
03:29 We are here because we love the United States.
03:32 We want it to remain prosperous and free.
03:36 We paid for this trip ourselves.
03:37 We took no money from any government or group.
03:39 Nor are we charging people to see the interview.
03:41 It is not behind a paywall.
03:44 Anyone can watch the entire thing, shot live to tape and unedited, on our website, tuckercarlson.com.
03:51 Elon Musk, to his great credit, has promised not to suppress or block this interview once
03:55 we post it on his platform, X.
03:57 And we're grateful for that.
03:59 Western governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video on other
04:04 less principled platforms because that's what they do.
04:08 They are afraid of information they can't control.
04:11 But you have no reason to be afraid of it.
04:13 We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview.
04:18 But we are urging you to watch it.
04:20 You should know as much as you can.
04:22 And then, like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself.
04:27 Thanks.