>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT."
YESTERDAY MORNING, JOE BIDEN
SECRETARY OF STATE, MAINE CALLED
TONY BLINKEN, WENT ON TO THE
SUNDAY SHOW OVER IT "CBS NEWS" T
ANNOUNCE HIS NEW POLICY TOWARD
RUSSIA.
GOING FORWARD THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WILL USE
POLAND AS A CUT OUT TO SEND
FIGHTER JETS TO THE GOVERNMENT
OF UKRAINE.
THE JETS WILL BE USED TO FIGHT
THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.
LINCOLN ANNOUNCES IN A CALM,
EVEN TONE, BUSINESS AS USUAL.
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
BUT IN FACT, IT IS NOT
DIFFICULT.
THEY COULD BE A PIVOT POINT IN
HISTORY.
AND FOR THAT REASON, WE WANT TO
SHOW YOU THE ENTIRE EXCHANGE.
HERE IT IS.
>> FOR INSTANCE THE POLISH
GOVERNMENT, NATO MEMBER, WANTS
TO SEND FIGHTER JETS, DOES THAT
GET A GREEN LIGHT FROM THE U.S.
OR YOU ARE YOU AFRAID THAT WILL
ESCALATE TENSIONS?
>> NO, THAT GETS A GREEN LIGHT.
IN FACT, WE ARE TALKING WITH OUR
POLISH FRIENDS RIGHT NOW ABOUT
WHAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO IF, IN
FACT, THEY CHOOSE TO PROVIDE
THESE FIGHTER JETS TO THE
UKRAINIANS.
WHAT WE DO, HOW WE CAN HELP TO
MAKE SURE THEY GET SOMETHING TO
BACKFILL THE PLANES THEY ARE
HANDING OVER TO THE UKRAINIANS.
>> Tucker: ARE YOU AFRAID THAT
WILL ESCALATE TENSION, ASK THE
SCRIP READER BECAUSE EVEN A
"CBS NEWS" ANCHOR KNOWS THAT
SENDING FIGHTER JETS TO A WAR
USUALLY DOES THAT.
NO, REPLIES TONY BLINKEN.
THAT GETS A GREEN LIGHT.
IT’S A REMARKABLE EXCHANGE.
WHAT ARE WE WATCHING HERE APART
FROM A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO
INCREDIBLY SHALLOW PEOPLE?
WHERE WE ARE WATCHING IS THE
BEGINNING OF A WAR BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.
BUT THAT SOUNDS DRAWING.
WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU CALL A
QUESTION MARK YOU MAY SUPPORT
EVERYTHING THAT TONY BLINKEN
JUST HAD.
MAYBE YOU DO SUPPORT.
BUT LET’S NOT LIE ABOUT WHAT HAS
HAPPENED, LET’S BE AS HONEST AS
CLEAR AS WE CAN BE BECAUSE IT
MATTERS.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION JUST
INSERTED ITSELF WITH FORCE INTO
THE MIDDLE OF A HOT WAR BETWEEN
TWO FOREIGN POWERS.
THAT MEANS THE UNITED STATES IS
NOW AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN A
WAR.
WE ARE AT WAR WITH RUSSIA.
WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAR HAS BEEN
OFFICIALLY DECLARED, WHETHER OR
NOT CONGRESS HAS AUTHORIZED THAT
WAR, ALL OF THAT IS IRRELEVANT.
THAT WAR IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
AS WE WATCH.
WHY IS NO ONE IN WASHINGTON
SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?
BECAUSE THEY SUPPORTED.
THEY ALWAYS HAVE.
ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, WAY BACK
IN 2017, CONGRESSMAN ERIC
SWALWELL OF CALIFORNIA CAME ON
THE SHOW FOR THE RUSSIA GATE
DEBATE, WHEN OF MANY.
HE CAME TO LET US KNOW HOW
VLADIMIR PUTIN HAD GOTTEN
DONALD TRUMP ELECTED PRESIDENT.
IT WAS ALL AS STUPID AS HE
REMEMBERED UNTIL THE END OF THE
INTERVIEW IN WHICH ERIC SWALWELL
SAID SOMETHING ODD AND
INTERESTING.
HE EXPLAINED THAT BECAUSE PUTIN
HAD STALLED DONALD TRUMP
SECRETLY IN THE WENDELL TAOS WHI
SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO
EXPAND NATO’S ROLE.
LET UKRAINE JOIN NATO.
THAT IS ODD.
WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT?
WHY WOULD A -- NATO, UKRAINE,
WHAT?
WHY WOULD THAT BE A PRIORITY FOR
SOME FORGETTABLE CONGRESSMAN
FROM THE EAST BAY?
IT’S SIMPLE.
BECAUSE GETTING UKRAINE INTO
NATO WAS THE KEY TO INCITING WAR
WITH RUSSIA.
WE CAN GET AT THE TIME.
IT’S OBVIOUS APPEARED PUTIN
INVADED UKRAINE BECAUSE HE
DIDN’T WANT UKRAINE TO JOIN
NATO.
OTHER MOTIVES AS WELL.
PEOPLE DO HAVE MULTIPLE MOTIVES.
BUT THAT IS THE MAIN REASON
RUSSIA INVADED.
THE RUSSIANS DON’T WANT AMERICAN
MISSILES ON THEIR BORDER.
THEY DON’T WANT A HOSTILE
GOVERNMENT NEXT DOOR.
THAT IS TRUE WHETHER ARE YOU
ALLOWED TO SAY AND PUBLIC RIGHT
NOW OR NOT, IT HAS BEEN TRUE FOR
A LONG TIME.
A LOT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT
THIS OVER MANY YEARS.
NO ONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING AND
HONEST WILL TELL YOU PUTIN
INVADED UKRAINE SIMPLY BECAUSE
HE IS EVIL.
PUTIN MAY BE EVIL.
HE CERTAINLY SEEMS TO BE BUT HE
ALSO HAS STRATEGIC MOTIVES IN
DOING THAT WHETHER OR NOT YOU
AGREE WITH THOSE MOTIVES.
THAT’S IRRELEVANT.
THOSE ARE FACTS.
WITH THOSE FACTS IN MIND, THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S BEHAVIOR
IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE UKRAINE
INVASION TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT
WHAT MOTIVATED THEM.
WITH HESSIAN TROOPS MASSED BY
THE THOUSANDS ON THE UKRAINIAN
BORDER, JOE BIDEN SENT
KAMALA HARRIS, THE LEAST CAPABLE
DIPLOMAT IN WASHINGTON TO
EXPLAIN AMERICA’S POLICY
TO THE STATES.
AT A PUBLIC PRESS EVENT WITH THE
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE,
KAMALA HARRIS ENCOURAGED UKRAINE
BECOME A MEMBER OF NATO.
"I APPRECIATE AND ADMIRE
PRESIDENT’S BECAUSE DESIRE TO
JOIN NATO.
"MESSAGE?
UP YOURS, VLADIMIR PUTIN.
GO AHEAD AND INVADE UKRAINE.
AND OF COURSE HE DID THAT JUST
DAYS LATER.
SO THE INVASION WAS NO SURPRISE
TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
THEY KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE
EXERCISE.
WE WATCHED ALL THIS HAPPEN.
WE MISSED IT.
HOW?
HONESTLY BECAUSE IT WAS INSANE.
AND THEREFORE VERY HARD TO TAKE
SERIOUSLY.
WHY IN THE WORLD WITH THE
UNITED STATES INTENTIONALLY SEEK
WAR WITH RUSSIA?
HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY BENEFIT
FROM THAT WAR?
WE STILL DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER
TO THAT QUESTION.
BUT IT IS OBVIOUS THAT
WASHINGTON HAS BEEN FIXATED ON
WAR WITH RUSSIA FOR A VERY LONG
TIME.
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO YOU MAY
REMEMBER WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT
YOU IMPEACHED A SITTING
PRESIDENT.
WHY?
FOR THREATENING TO WITHHOLD
MILITARY AID TO
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE.
FAILING TO BACK A PROXY WAR IN
UKRAINE WAS THE ONE THING
DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT ALLOWED TO
DO AS PRESIDENT.
AGAIN, THEY IMPEACHED HIM FOR
IT.
AND NO ONE SAID MUCH ABOUT IT.
EVEN IN HIS OWN PARTY BECAUSE OF
COURSE IS SUPPORTED WAR WITH
RUSSIA TOO.
MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THE
DEMOCRATS DID.
AS FAR BACK AS 2016, LINDSEY
GRAHAM OF SOUTH CAROLINA, WAS
JUMPING AROUND AND ACTING OUT
HIS WORK AND IF HE’S IN UKRAINE.
WE DON’T REMEMBER SEEING IT BACK
IN 2016 UKRAINE SEEMED LIKE A
FARAWAY PLACE.
WE SHOULD’VE PAID MORE
ATTENTION.
HEAR THIS.
>> YOUR FIGHT IS OUR FATE.
[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE]
>> 2017 WILL BE THE YEAR OF
OFFENSE.>> [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH
LANGUAGE]
>> ALL OF US WILL GO BACK TO
WASHINGTON AND WE WILL PUSH THE
CASE AGAINST RUSSIA.>> [SPEAKING
LANGUAGE]
>> ENOUGH OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO PAY A
HEAVIER PRICE.
>> Tucker: YOUR FIGHT IS OUR
FIGHT?
THAT IS A VERY STRANGE THING FOR
AN AMERICAN LAWMAKER TO SAY TO A
FOREIGN MILITARY.
WHY WOULD THE UKRAINIAN
GOVERNMENT’S FIGHT IN 2016
POSSIBLY BE OUR FIGHT?
ON WHAT GROUNDS WAS THAT OUR
FIGHT?
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?
WE DON’T KNOW.
NOW IT IS DEMONSTRABLY TRUE.
UKRAINE’S FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT OR
UKRAINE’S WAR IS OUR WAR.
IT IS HERE BUT MOST AMERICANS
DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.
YET WASHINGTON CERTAINLY DID.
PERMANENT WASHINGTON UNDERSTOOD
THE SECOND VLADIMIR PUTIN’S
FORCES ROLLED ACROSS THE BORDER
INTO UKRAINE WE WOULD INEVITABLY
BE ON A COURSE WORK WITH RUSSIA.
THEY KNEW.
HERE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
AGUSTA COUNCIL ON FOREIGN
RELATIONS ON THE DAY OF THE
INVASION.
>> WHAT WE NEED NOW IS A
RESPONSIVE NECESSITY TO HIS WAR
OF CHOICE AND WITH THERE HAS TO
BE -- TO RAISE THE MILITARY
CAUGHT AT HOME, THE MILITARY
COST ON THE GROUND.
THE MOST THING PUTIN IS
VULNERABLE TO HIS DEAD RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE
UKRAINE HAS THE MEANS TO RESIST.
SPEAK>> Tucker: DEAD RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS.
RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE.
MAYBE THERE IS SOME WAY TO TO
ESCALATE THIS, INVASION IS
TERRIBLE BUT ISN’T AMERICA’S
ROLE AS STEWARD OF THE WEST TO
MAKE THINGS BETTER?
WOULDN’T A PROMPT RUSSIAN
WITHDRAWAL FROM UKRAINE BE THE
WISEST COURSE FOR EVERYONE,
INCLUDING, AND ESPECIALLY THE
UKRAINIANS ON WHOSE BEHALF WE
CLAIM -- YOU WOULD THINK SO BUT
THAT IS NOT ONE ANYONE IN
WASHINGTON WANTED.
THEY WANT TO WAR AND NOW THEY
HAVE ONE.
SO WHERE IS THIS GOING?
THAT’S A QUESTION THE REST OF US
WANT TO KNOW.
IT’S WORRISOME.
SHOULD KEEP IN MIND THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT IS CURRENTLY RUN BY
THE SAME PEOPLE WHO PLAN TO THE
AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL, THE ONES
WHO TANKED THE U.S. DOLLAR.
THE PEOPLE WHO RUN BALTIMORE.
THE ONE WHO TRIED TO SEND CRACK
BIKES TO JUNKIES.
THIS IS OUR PEOPLE WITH A LONG
HISTORY OF DESTROYING THINGS
INTO HISTORY ALL AT ALL OF THE
BUILDING THINGS.
THEY TELL OF VLADIMIR PUTIN’S
IMBALANCE.
WE WILL TAKE THAT AT FACE VALUE.
WE KNOW THAT PUTIN HAS THOUSANDS
OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
HE IS SAID IF HE IS PUSHED HE
WILL EUNICE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
IT COULD BE WISE TO BELIEVE HIM.
HE DOES BELIEVE HIM.
HE IS A FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST
IN WASHINGTON.
LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN HIS
BUSINESS, HE REGULARLY
PARTICIPATES IN
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED WAR GAMES.
THESE ARE DESIGNED TO MAP OUT
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF VARIOUS
COUNTRIES FELL INTO CONFLICT
WITH ONE ANOTHER.
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, HE
PARTICIPATED IN A WAR GAME
PREDICATED ON A WAR WITH RUSSIA.
HE READ ABOUT THIS THE OTHER DAY
IN THE FEDERALIST.
IN THE COURSE OF WHAT WE CALL
THE NATO RUSSIA WAR OF 2019, WE
ESTIMATED 1 BILLION PEOPLE DIE.
1 BILLION.
IF WE AREN’T CAREFUL, WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE SIMULATION COULD
HAPPEN IF EIGHT NATO-RUSSIA WAR
ERUPTS OVER UKRAINE.
THAT WAR HAS JUST ERUPTED.
THE FACT THAT NO ONE IN CHARGE
SEEMS TO BE WORRIED ABOUT WHERE
THIS COULD GO SHE COULD TURN YOU
QUITE A BIT.
NUCLEAR WAR IS NOT THE ONLY
WORRY.
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF
THIS WAR ARE ALREADY PROFOUND.
HISTORY CHANGING, ACTUALLY.
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IT, CHECK
OUT COMMODITY PRICES.
THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL.
NEARLY 60% OVER LAST YEAR.
HIGHEST EVER FOR WHEAT IF YOU
PLAN TO EAT AND IT WON’T GET
BETTER.
RUSSIA IS ONE OF THE LARGEST
FERTILIZERFERTILIZER PRODUCERS I
WORLD.
BECAUSE AMERICAN FARMERS $265
PER TON LAST JANUARY NOW GOES
FOR $846 THIS YEAR.
AND THANKS TO SANCTIONS, THAT
NUMBER WILL GET MUCH HIGHER.
NO ONE WHO FARMS HAS EVER SEEN
ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
YOU PROBABLY DON’T FARM.
BUT IF YOU BUY GROCERIES IT WILL
BE OBVIOUS TO YOU SOON.
THANKS TO BIDEN’S FOREIGN
POLICY, EVERYTHING YOU BUY IS
SHOOTING UP IN PRICE AND
SHOCKINGLY FAST.
GASOLINE IS NOW HIGHER THAN IT
HAS EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF
GASOLINE.
IN LOS ANGELES, IT IS SELLING
FOR $7.29 PER GALLON.
SO IF YOU MAKE UNDER 100 GRAND
PER YEAR, AND MOST PEOPLE IN
THIS COUNTRY DO, THOUGHT
QUALIFIES AS A CRISIS FOR YOU.
OVER THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE, IT IS
NOT HIGH ENOUGH.
THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT
WORSE.
THEIR LATEST IDEA A LOT OF
PEOPLE SEEM TO BE BUYING IS THAT
WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION
SOMEHOW TO STOP BUYING RUSSIAN
OIL.
IT IS TAINTED.
OKAY.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE DID
THAT?
NEEDLESS TO SAY OIL PRICES WOULD
JUMP, LIKELY OVER HUNDRED $50
PER BARREL AND EVEN HIGHER
PRICES FOR YOU.
BUT THEN AS THAT BOYCOTT SPREADS
AND MORAL BOYCOTTS TEND TO, AND
YOUR JOINTED, BUCKLE YOUR
SEAT BELT.
WE TALK IS WHEN AN ENERGY
BUSINESS THIS MORNING AND THEY
GIVE US PERSPECTIVE.
HE SAID A TOTAL BOYCOTT OF
RUSSIAN ENERGY WOULD CAUSE "AN
ABSOLUTE GLOBAL DISASTER."
RECESSION, DEPRESSION, ECONOMIC
DEVASTATION TO US AND OUR ALLIES
ALLIES.
AND AT THAT POINT, IN FACT WE
ARE ALREADY THERE, WOULD BE
FORCED TO MAKE SOMETHING
DIFFERENT BY GETTING OIL FROM
OTHER COUNTRIES BECAUSE WE NEED
ENERGY.
BATTERIES AREN’T GOING TO SUPPLY
IT.
SO WHAT WITH THOSE COUNTRIES BE?
THEY WOULD BE SAUDI ARABIA,
IRAN, VENEZUELA.
TO REPEAT.
IN ORDER TO WAGE A MORAL
BOYCOTT, WE BECOME MORE
DEPENDENT ON SAUDI ARABIA
GOVERNED BY SHARIA LAW.
IRAN, A ROGUE STATE, AND
MADURA’S VENEZUELA.
BECAUSE AS A MORAL STATEMENT WE
ARE MAKING.
SO FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT AS YOU GO
BANKRUPT.
THAT’S THE SHORT TERM PICTURE
FOR THE LONG-TERM PICTURE OF WAR
WITH RUSSIA IS EVEN SCARIER THAN
THAT.
THANKS TO BIDEN’S POLICIES,
RUSSIA AND CHINA NOW FORM A
BLOCK AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
THIS WAS THE NAME SCENARIO.
NOW IT IS REAL.
JUST TODAY THE CHINESE FOREIGN
MINISTER DESCRIBED
VLADIMIR PUTIN AS CHINA’S "MOST
IMPORTANT STRATEGIC PARTNER."
SO ARE WE GOING TO SEE A BOYCOTT
OF CHINESE GOODS IN THE
UNITED STATES?
DON’T BET ON IT.
THAT WOULD BE RACIST.
BUT WE SHOULD PREPARE TO LOSE
HER POSITION AS HOLDER OF THE
WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY.
THAT IS HAPPENING IN SLOW
MOTION.
IT IS UNMISTAKABLE.
THE BIDEN PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE NO
IDEA THIS IS GOING ON MAYBE THEY
WANTED TO HAPPEN.
JOE BIDEN WAS UP THERE AT THE
TATE OF THE UNION BRAGGING ABOUT
HOW WE TOOK OFF 30 POINTS IN THE
RUSSIAN RUBLE IN A SINGLE DAY.
HOORAY.
GOOD FOR US.
BUT ONCE YOU START CELEBRATING
OUR WON, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
RUSSIAN ECONOMY, THEY DESERVE TO
COME AFTER WINTER IS ARE A TO
THIS?
COULD IT BE A FURY VICTORY?
LET’S EAT. THESE
POLICIES HAVE DRIVEN THEM TO
ACCELERATE THEIR FLIGHT FROM THE
U.S. DOLLAR.
TO BE CLEAR, THAT IS THE
MAJORITY OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
THIS MAY BE THE MOST RECKLESS
AND DESTRUCTIVE THING ANY
AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS EVER DONE
TO UNITED STATES.
THETHE ONE UKRAINE ENDED TOMORRO
WE WOULD LIVE WITH THE
CONSEQUENCES OF THAT LOSS OF THE
U.S. DOLLAR IS A WORLD RESERVE
CURRENCY FOR THE REST OF OUR
LIVES.
NO ONE IN WASHINGTON IS EVEN
ACKNOWLEDGING THIS IS HAPPENING.
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR MORE MORAL
VICTORIES TO WIN.
AND THE COMPANY’S LOVE AFFAIR
THAT WOKE COMPANIES.
APPLE, MASTERCARD, LOTS OF OTHER
AMERICAN COMPANIES ARE TAKING
VICTORY LAPS FOR THEIR ROLE IN
PUNISHING RUSSIA.
RIGHT.
PUNISH RUSSIA.
WE ARE NOT AGAINST THAT.
BUT YOU HAVE TO WONDER.
YOU’VE JUST JUST SEEN A HANDFUL
OF WOKE CORPORATIONS CRASH A
COUNTRY AND IMPOVERISHED AND
CITIZENS INDISCRIMINATELY APPEAR
THAT COUNTRY IS RUSSIA SO MOST
OF US AREN’T EVEN THINKING ABOUT
THE PRECEDENT IT SETS.
IT’S FINE.
IT’S RUSSIA.
WHO CARES?
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE THE SAME
TECHNIQUES MIGHT BE YOU SOMEDAY
AGAINST SOMEPLACE OR SOMEBODY
THAT YOU CARE ABOUT?
WHAT IF ONE MORNING YOU WOKE UP
AND THEY DECIDED THAT YOU ARE
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND YOU MUST BE
ERASED.
COULD THAT HAPPEN?
YOU PROBABLY AREN’T ABLE TO
THINK ABOUT IT IF YOU TRIED
BECAUSE THERE IS A MORAL PANIC
AND PROGRESS.
FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS THE
THIRD MORAL PANIC WE’VE HAD IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND
LESS THAN TWO YEARS.
YOU DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A
COUNTRY IN WHICH MORAL PANICS
BREAKOUT REGULARLY.
MORAL PANIC HAS DIMINISHED THE
PEOPLE ENGAGED IN THEM AND HURT
THE PEOPLE WHO DON’T.
THEY ARE DEGRADING, THEY ARE
CRAZY, THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF
WHAT YOU WANT.
YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY
WHERE WISDOM AND RESTRAINT AND
RATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND INDECENCY
DETERMINE THE OUTCOMES.
NOT SCREAMING.
WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY OF MORAL
PANIC.
THE FIRST ONE BEGIN MAY OF 2020
WITH THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD
IN MINNEAPOLIS.
THE SECOND MORAL PANIC WAS
COVID.
WE HAVE LIVED THROUGH THAT.
SO FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS, THAT
SHOUTING HAS NOT ENDED.
HISTORY IS NOW THE OFFICIAL
LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN
THE UNITED STATES.
THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR ANYONE
EXCEPT THOSE BENEFITING FROM IT. WHO IS BENEFITING?
WHO IS BENEFITING?
ANYONE WHO LIVES FOR A LIVING.
HOW MUCH OF WHAT YOU FIRST HEARD
ABOUT BLM AND ABOUT THE
CORONAVIRUS TURNED OUT IN THE
END TO BE TRUE.
MANY OF THE FIRST STORIES WERE
TRUE?
NOT MANY.
IT WAS ALMOST ALL LAWS.
BUT YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT AT THE
TIME BECAUSE YOU ARE BUSY BEING
YELLED AT.
IF YOU DO TO POINT OUT THAT
ACTUALLY, ALL LIVES MATTER,
THEY’D ANNOUNCED IT WAS RACES.
HE EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT
VACCINE MANDATES OF COURSE THEY
CALLED EVENT ANTI-VAXXER.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
THE PATTERN NEVER CHANGES.
MAYBE WITH WHARTON’S RUSSIA IS
NOT A GOOD IDEA FOR THE
UNITED STATES.
SAY THAT OUT LOUD SOMETIME.
NOT IN EXTREME POSITIONS.
TO MOST AMERICANS WOULD AGREE
WITH YOU BUT YOU WILL
IMMEDIATELY BE ANNOUNCED AS A
TOOL OF PUTIN.
WHAT IS THIS?
IT IS NAME CALLING AS A MEANS OF
SOCIAL CONTROL.
THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE AND DECIDED
THE PRIMARY JOB IS TO DECIDE WHO
YOU SHOULD HATE.
AND IN AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE THIS,
EVERY FEELS LIKE PROPAGANDA AND
THAT IS BECAUSE MUCH OF IT IS.
ON THURSDAY WE TOLD YOU THAT
RUSSIAN FORCES HAD BOMBED A
NUCLEAR REACTOR IN UKRAINE.
THAT SEEMED TO BE TRUE.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OF UKRAINE
SAID IT REPEATEDLY.
BUT IT IS NOT TRUE.
THE REACTORS WERE HEADED.
AN UNNAMED UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL
CLAIMED THAT RADIATION LEVELS IN
THE AREA HAD RISEN PIER THAT
TURNED OUT TO BE UNTRUE.
AN ENTRY ANALYST, I’M AFRAID TO
SAY THIS LOOKS LIKE A
COORDINATED EFFORT TO INDUCE
PANIC.
OF COURSE.
IT’S WHAT WE CALLED THIS
INFORMATION AND AND A BIT DESIGN
TO GET YOU TO SUPPORT A WAR
AGAINST RUSSIA.
MAYBE YOU SUPPORT A WAR AGAINST
RUSSIA ANYWAY BUT YOU SHOULD AT
LEAST KNOW YOU’RE BEING LIED TO
AND MANIPULATED WHICH YOU ARE.
WATCHED A SEGMENT FROM
"GOOD MORNING AMERICA."
>> UKRAINE’S MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS,
TEACHERS, POLITICIANS, BEAUTY
QUEENS NOW ON THE FRONT LINES
DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY UNDER
SIEGE.
AND A FORMER MISS GRAND UKRAINE.
PHOTOS OF HER ON INSTAGRAM AND
FATIGUE, RIFLE IN HAND.
UNDERNEATH, PATRIOTIC HASHTAGS.
>> Tucker: MISS UKRAINE WITH A
RIFLE.
DEFENDING HER HOMELAND.
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE INSPIRING
THAN THAT?
IT BEING MORE INSPIRING IF IT’S
REAL.
IT WASN’T.
IT WAS FAKE.
SHE WAS NOT DEFENDING HER
HOMELAND.
THAT WAS NOT A RIFLE.
IT WAS AN AIRSOFT GUN.
THE WHOLE THING WAS NOT A NEW
STORY THOUGH YOU READ AS SUCH.
IT WAS A PROPAGANDA SHOOT.
IT WAS MEANT TO MAKE YOU WANT
WORK WITH RUSSIA.
SO BESIDES ONE SIDE OF THE
OTHER.
IT WORKS.
AS WHY THEY DO IT.
AS FOR THE TEN COMPANIES HAVE
CENSORED SO MANY NEW SITES
RECENTLY, INCLUDING FROM RUSSIA
BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FROM RUSSIA.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE THIS AS
A VICTORY OVER PUTIN OR
SOMETHING.
BUT A VICTORY FOR WHAT?
LESS INFORMATION?
FEWER PERSPECTIVES?
IF GETTING TO THE TRUTH WAS THE
POINT OF THE EXERCISE, WE AS
AMERICAN CITIZENS SHOULD BE ABLE
TO READ WHATEVER WE WANTED TO
READ.
THERE WAS A ROLE FOR CENTURIES
IN THIS COUNTRY.
I NO LONGER IS BECAUSE TRUTH IS
NO LONGER THE POINT.
INSTEAD, TWITTER AND FACEBOOK
PROUDLY CENSOR ANY INFORMATION
THAT MIGHT "UNDERMINE TRUST IN
THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT."
REALLY?
SINCE WHEN ARE REQUIRED TO TRUST
THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT OR ANY
GOVERNMENT?
DON’T ASK.
BY THE WAY, OVER THE WEEKEND,
BECAUSE EVERY THING IN AMERICA
IS UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS,
"NEW YORK TIMES" ATTACKED
VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR CENSORSHIP.
TRY TO CONTROL WHAT IS PEOPLE
CAN READ.
LOST IN THE FOCUS ON UKRAINE IS
ANY PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE WORLD
WHICH ALWAYS LACKS IN D.C. BUT
NEVER SOME FOUL MORE SO THAN NOW
FOR THE FIGHTING THE TERRIBLE.
WE ARE SEEING IT HAPPEN.
NO DECENT PERSON FEEL FOUL CAN
FEEL TO BE MOVED BY THE IMAGES.
IT’S NOT THE ONLY WAR IN RECENT
MEMORY OR IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW.
MANY THOUSANDS DIED IN THE 2020
WAR BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND
ROMANIA.
I DIDN’T LESS THAN A YEAR AND A
HALF AGO.
NO COVERAGE.
THERE’S BENNETT GRISSOM WERE UNDERWAY IN
ETHIOPIA
TENS OF THOUSANDS -- MANY
INTENTIONALLY AFFECTED WITH
AIDS.
CAN IT GET WORSE THAN THAT
BECAUSE MARK COUNTY PEOPLE HAVE
DIED IN THE WAR IN ETHIOPIA.
WE DON’T REALLY KNOW.
BECAUSE NO ONE IN OUR MEDIA
CARES ENOUGH TO KEEP TRACK.
WE DO KNOW THE HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, MOSTLY
CIVILIANS HAVE DIED IN YEMEN.
A WAR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
HAS CONTINUED TO FUND.
IT DOESN’T GET A LOT OF
ATTENTION.
IT’S JUST YEMEN.
WHO CARES?
ALL HUMAN LIFE IS EQUAL.
ALL OF US ARE EQUAL IN THE EYES
OF GOD.
THE DEATH OF SOMEONE IN UKRAINE
IS EXACTLY EQUIVALENT TO THE
DEATH OF SOMEONE IN YEMEN.
AND IT’S IMPORTANT, PERIOD.
THE HARDEST OF ALL TO IGNORE HER
MOTHER WERE MEDIA HAVE PULLED
OFF AND IGNORED IT, IS A
CIVIL WAR THAT IS UNDERWAY
100 YARDS IN EL PASO, TEXAS,
RIGHT NOW.
THE MEXICAN DRUG WAR.
THAT’S WHAT WE CALL APPEARED
LIKELY KILLED MORE THAN 100,000
PEOPLE.
IN 2019 ALONE, CLOSE TO 10,000
MEXICAN CITIZENS DISAPPEARED,
MOSTLY YOUNG MEN.
MORE JOURNALISTS ARE MURDERED IN
MEXICO EVERY YEAR THAN ANY OTHER
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
WE SEE IN PICTURES UNDER SCREEN
RIGHT NOW OF THAT WAR.
THEY ARE HORRIFYING.
KEEPING THE BAD ONES OFF THE
SCREEN.
TRUST US PEER THEY ARE AWFUL.
BUT IT’S NOT A CRISIS.
IT IS TOTALLY NORMAL.
OPEN THE SOUTHERN BORDER.
THE BORDER WE CARE ABOUT IS
UKRAINE.
THE REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON TO
THE ETERNAL SHAME HAVE NO
PROBLEM WITH ANY OF THOSE.
MANY ARE MORE FOR WERTH IN
RUSSIA THAN JOE BIDEN SEEMS TO
BE.
THAT IS A DISGRACE.
IT WILL HURT THEM IN THE
MIDTERMS.
IT WILL HURT THEM ON SOME DEEPER
LEVEL BECAUSE IT DOES NOT SERVE
THE INTERESTS OF THIS COUNTRY.
A WAR FOUGHT ON BEHALF OF
DEMOCRACY THAT IGNORES THE WILL
OF THE COUNTRY FIGHTING IT.
AT SOME POINT, SOMEONE WILL
EXPLAIN WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.
WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR TONIGHT
BUT IT’S ENOUGH TO KNOW
REPUBLICANS ARE NOT REPRESENTING
THEIR VOTERS WHEN THEY MOVED TO
A POSITION THAT IS WAY MORE
WARLIKE THAN JOE BIDEN’S WHERE
THEY EMBRACE THE LUNACY THAT CAN
REALLY HURT THIS COUNTRY.
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
REPRESENTING PEOPLE LIKE BRYCE
MITCHELL.
HE SEEMS LIKE A REPUBLICAN
VOTER.
IT’S 27-YEAR-OLD MIXED MARTIAL
ARTS FIGHTER.
FROM ARKANSAS.
SOMEONE ASKED HIM AT A PRESS
EVENT.
HERE IS WHAT HE SAID.
>> WANTED TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS
ON THE WHOLE RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
SITUATION.
>> HERE IS MY FIRST THOUGHT.
I’M NOT GOING NOWHERE TO FIGHT.
NONE OF THESE WARS FOR THESE
POLITICIANS.
I’M STAYING AT HOME AND WHEN THE
WAR COMES TO ARKANSAS I WILL DIG
MY BOOTS IN THE GROUND AND I
WILL DIE FOR EVERYTHING I LOVE
AND I WILL NOT RETREAT.
THIS COUNTRY IS INVADED AND
EVERYBODY IS SAYING WE GOT
EVACUATE AND LEAVE, I WILL NOT.
I WILL DIG MY BOOTS INTO
ARKANSAS SOIL AND I WILL FIGHT
FOR THE PEOPLE THAT I LOVE LOVE
FOR THE LENGTH OF IT ALL UP, AND
THE WAY OF LIFE I LOVE.
BUT I’M NOT GOING OVER TO FIGHT.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON,
TO BE HONEST.
I REALLY DON’T.
THERE IS SO MUCH STUFF.
AND I DON’T THINK NOBODY KNOWS
WHAT IS GOING ON.
THERE IS BEEN SO MUCH POLITICAL
CORRUPTION IN THAT AREA.
YOU HAVE BIDEN AND HAS SIGNED
MAKING A [BLEEP] TON OF MONEY
OFF OF -- USING OUR TAX DOLLARS
TO BRIBE THEIR PEOPLE.
THAT’S TREASONOUS IN MY OPINION.
CITY OF HUNTER BIDEN AND HIS SON
USING OUR TAX DOLLARS.
IF YOU DON’T DO THIS WE ARE
TAKING YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
HE SHOULDN’T BE GIVING OUR TAX
DOLLARS OF THAT ANYWAYS.
WE VETERANS ADHERES TO THE FOUL
SLEEPING ON THE STREET AND YOU
GIVE OUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE
UKRAINIANS.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON
OVER THERE BUT I’M NOT GOING
OVER THERE AND FIGHTING.
>> Tucker: TELL US HOW HE IS A
PUTIN STOOGE, LINDSEY GRAHAM AND
-- TELL US HOW HE IS A MORE
MOBILE.
WHEN THE WORK COMES TO ARKANSAS,
HE SAID, I WILL DIG MY BOOTS
INTO THE GROUND AND I WILL DIE
FOR EVERYTHING I LOVE.
THAT’S THE AMERICAN POSITION.
FIGHT TO THE DEATH TO DEFEND
WHAT YOU LOVE.
YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR
COUNTRY.
TO DEFEND IT.
THAT’S WHAT WE CALL IT THE
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.
NOT CALL THE DEPARTMENT OF
NATION BUILDING.
OR THE BUREAU OF TRANS
EVANGELISM.
BRYCE MITCHELL MAY NOT HAVE GOOD
GRAMMAR BUT HE UNDERSTANDS