>> So years of talk about expanding NATO into Ukraine, we've watched those happen in public,
that had nothing whatsoever to do with Russia invading Ukraine. Nothing at all,
that's what they tell us. Putin invaded Ukraine because he's bad, end of conversation. And anyone
who says otherwise, anyone who suggests there might be a way out of this disaster short of
total war, anyone who says that is immediately denounced as a tool of Russian propaganda.
>> How anybody in this country which loves freedom consigned with Vladimir Putin, which
is an oppressor, a dictator, he kills people, he imprisons his political opponents. He has been an
adversary of America at every chance he's had. It's unthinkable to be. It's almost treasonous.
>> Ooh almost treasonous, siding with Putin, who's siding Putin?
I haven't seen anybody do that. >> That is a great question,
Tucker Carlson, I'm glad you asked that. Who would side with,
I've never seen anybody say they would side side. Who's siding with Putin or with Russia?
Well, how quickly we forget the positions we stupidly take Tucker, take a look at this mash up.
>> We have republicans who are rooting for Russia and that makes it very hard for president,
Biden to get the whole country to go along when Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo and Tucker Carlson are
rooting for Russians. And that's being replayed on Russia tv to rally Russians for this cause.
>> It's such an awful thing to say we hesitated even to play that is very
common you hear it every day. The question is why are they saying that it doesn't make sense.
>> Flashback. >> But is there another reason
we should side with Ukraine over Russia. Russia is a much more significant country by every measure.
Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine? They're both
foreign countries that don't care anything about the United States,
which is the actual threat. Why would we take Ukraine side? Why wouldn't we had Russia's side?
I'm totally confused so much has Putin ever called me a racist?
Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him as he shipped every
middle class job in my town to Russia. >> And he should say for the record,
I'm totally opposed to these sanctions and I don't think that we should be at
war with Russia. And I think we should probably take the side
of Russia if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine, that is my view.
But t I'm serious. >> And why shouldn't I
root for Russia, Which I am, which I am. >> Which I am, which I, let that echo
through your mind. I'm not even talking to the audience right
now I'm talking to tucker. You're the one who said that by the way.
And as you can probably tell that is not just what he's been saying recently. This
is his commentary for a couple of years some of those videos are a couple of years old.
He has regularly four years said if there is a conflict military or economic
between Russia and Ukraine first of all, why would you side with Ukraine?
But he goes beyond that and says no, I would side with Russia. So he has repeatedly told
his audience that it makes more sense to side with Russia. He is siding with Putin.
Now he looks around in a country that is reacting with horror at the invasion,
that they're seeing this terrible, unprecedented invasion of Ukraine
and he's suddenly wishing that maybe he had communicated a little bit differently about that.
I get that, I would be horrified if I had said the things that Tucker Carlson did.
Thankfully I try to ground by my political commentary and actual values and compassion.
He floats with the wind and sometimes the wind stinks. Anyway, we have a little bit more just
in case you think that he's really changing his position, not so much as you'll see.
>> In a single day last month, we watch for example, our entire professional class
dutifully changed their twitter avatars from mask up to the now mandatory Ukrainian flag.
There was no debate about doing this, no reflection,
there was not even a real conversation, they just did it. Millions of people simply
assumed reflexively a partisan position in a highly complicated foreign crisis.
The next crisis. And as they did it, they moved in perfect lockstep.
They were guided by their masters of the social media companies who were themselves
taking direction from the White House. >> Yeah, so the first video we showed
you before that was from two nights ago. Well, how dare you say that I would side
with Putin or with Russia and we've shown that that's not true, he very much did.
The last video we just showed you that was last night, right back to it.
Why would you be siding with Ukraine? Don't accuse me of siding with Russia.
Now, here are all the reasons why you showing any solidarity
with a country that is experiencing an absolutely barbaric invasion shock full of war crimes.
You're being ridiculous if you're doing that. And I think that for once he's kind of being honest,
the idea that we would have a problem with this,
he would look and see that this war is not popular. He doesn't like that at all. He
chafes sit it. Now he grounds it in the these insane claims of everyone doing in lockstep.
It's not that they're actually expressing their political values, they're just being partisan or
whatever. He's claiming that any of his concerns or questions you're not allowed to ask when
as we've shown in these clips, he feels perfectly comfortable night
after night after night after night asking these sorts of questions.
What he doesn't seem to get and he certainly doesn't like to the extent that he recognizes that
is that people do not agree with him on this. They are not
buying the Russian talking points. They are opposed to this war. Get used to it Tucker.