Stay Free - Russel Brand - Here’s the News: Legacy Media Fumes as Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin

Tucker Carlson went to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. The legacy media are outraged, and are calling him a traitor. Why not have a conversation with a world leader like Putin, and see what he has to say about the situation in Ukraine, and the crisis in Ukraine? Is it really so hard for a journalist to have a meaningful conversation with the world's most powerful man? Or is it just a convenient excuse to keep us in the dark about what's going on in the world, and how we should all be trying to make sense of it? Or are we really at the tipping point of independent media, where we're at a tipping point where the entire establishment media is no longer telling us the truth, and we're being told the lies they should be telling us about the events happening around us? And why is it so important that a journalist like Tucker Carlson have a seat at the table and have a chance to speak to the man in power, the man who's making all the decisions about the world? Putin? Is he a traitor? Or is he just not interested in talking to the truth about what s going on around him? or is he not even interested in the truth? in a world that s on the brink of war, and is only interested in making sense of what s happening in the news? of course, he s going to talk about it anyway? Stay tuned in to this episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand! Stay free, and remember there s an episode every single day to educate and elevate our consciousness together. Stay Free, to elevate consciousness. - stay free, stay free! - Russell Brand and . . . Thank you for listening to Stay Free. - Your host, Russell Brand. . - Thank you, You Awakening Wonderings - - The Root :) - Your Hosted Hosted by: Russell Brand: Stay Free With Russell Brand - Thank You, You're a Friend of Truth and Freedom? - by: , Gabor Maté: , Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, , , Sam Harris: & more! , Vaynerchuk Jr., & many more. , and Bill Kristol Kristol: . , ? -- ...and many more? ... and many more... Thanks for joining me on my voyage to truth and freedom.

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00:00:42.000 No, here's the fucking news! 0.99

00:00:51.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. 0.99

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00:01:16.000 Consider this.

00:01:17.000 If Tucker Carlson can interview Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk Two years into a war that's reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.

00:01:25.000 They have no real idea what's happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine.

00:01:28.000 events that the establishment would rather we wouldn't have.

00:01:32.000 Two years into a war that's reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.

00:01:37.000 They have no real idea what's happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine.

00:01:44.000 Now I'm not a Putin apologist. I'm sure living in Russia under the yoke of Putin's tyranny could be terrible.

00:01:51.000 But what seems to be pretty clear is that the legacy media are outraged that Tucker has dared to go to Russia to speak to Putin.

00:01:59.000 And he's apparently been spending the last few days in Moscow for some reason.

00:02:02.000 Who knows?

00:02:03.000 We don't know why.

00:02:03.000 He has to stay relevant somehow, so I guess we'll learn in the coming days.

00:02:07.000 And perhaps that's because there's a narrative that Putin is a madman and an expansionist. 0.80

00:02:11.000 That Putin started this war without provocation. 0.89

00:02:14.000 That Putin has rejected all overtures towards peace.

00:02:17.000 And it seems that at least there is a viable counter-narrative that that's not true.

00:02:21.000 That NATO breached former Soviet Union territory.

00:02:24.000 That Putin doesn't want Ukraine in NATO on his doorstep.

00:02:28.000 And you could say Ukraine's an independent nation and they should be able to join NATO.

00:02:32.000 But then you're in a conversation about what is the value of NATO?

00:02:34.000 How's NATO benefiting you?

00:02:35.000 I'm not saying I know the answer to these questions.

00:02:37.000 I'm saying we're entitled to have a conversation.

00:02:39.000 And I would like to hear what Vladimir Putin's got to say about NATO.

00:02:44.000 About the disputed region of the Donbass.

00:02:47.000 About Crimea.

00:02:48.000 About what his terms for peace would be. 0.98

00:02:50.000 Because we're continually told that Putin is a lunatic, can't be appeased, he's a contemporary Hitler. 0.76

00:02:56.000 Wouldn't you like to see him answer some of those questions? 0.88

00:02:59.000 Wouldn't you like to see a journalist and Vladimir Putin having a conversation before you just automatically assume that everything you're being told by CNN and the American government and the corporate establishment is irrefutably true?

00:03:11.000 Isn't it interesting that Russia today has been cleansed from the internet, whereas apparently in Russia Tucker is a recognizable superstar, so whatever's going on in Russia, they're not banning all American media.

00:03:22.000 So isn't it valuable to have a conversation while we're on the precipice of war?

00:03:27.000 And are those people that are calling Tucker Carlson a traitor those that are most guilty of treason?

00:03:32.000 Because they seem to want to cut us out of the conversation when it comes to extremely significant global events.

00:03:38.000 This is what RFK tweeted, The legacy media is in shambles cause we've caught on to

00:03:43.000 their lies and propaganda.

00:03:44.000 Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Putin.

00:03:47.000 We need more transparency instead of less.

00:03:49.000 It used to be understood that journalists would interview world leaders,

00:03:53.000 even those with whom we're at war.

00:03:54.000 Meanwhile, Bill Kristol, former chief of staff, posted, Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker

00:04:01.000 Carlson re-entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what's

00:04:06.000 going on.

00:04:06.000 What seems more extreme there?

00:04:08.000 What we're asking you today is, are we literally at the tipping point of independent media?

00:04:13.000 Where in the figures of Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk, we have an axis that could literally disrupt the entire establishment.

00:04:21.000 Tucker Carlson can have a conversation with a world leader with a competing narrative.

00:04:25.000 And Elon Musk can publish it through X. That means that all of us will gain access.

00:04:30.000 We'll be able to watch with our own eyes and listen with our own ears to what Putin's saying. 0.88

00:04:33.000 I'm not saying it's not possible that Putin is a liar, a lunatic, an expansionist, a former KGB operative that's possibly had a hand in countless murders that Russia have their own agenda.

00:04:42.000 If we can hear Putin literally saying, I would accept a peace deal if Ukraine don't join NATO, if we keep Crimea, and if there's a degree of autonomy in Donbass, we, the population of the Western world that are currently funding for our tax dollars and pounds, the perpetuation of this war, might be able to go, hmm, what is the value of NATO?

00:05:00.000 Wait a minute, are the military-industrial complex benefiting from this war?

00:05:04.000 What state is Ukrainian democracy in anyway?

00:05:07.000 Do we want conscription in the UK and Sweden and in Australia, which is currently being discussed by the way, presumably to provide human fodder for these wars?

00:05:16.000 What this conversation represents is nothing less than the establishment being confronted with the new power of independent media to oppose their narrative, to oppose their agenda.

00:05:27.000 Whatever you think of Tucker, whatever you think of Putin, Whatever you think of Elon Musk and even whatever you think about Russia, the panic that the legacy media and establishment are going into now suggests that they've got something more than our well-being in mind.

00:05:41.000 Let's have a look.

00:05:42.000 The world reset.

00:05:44.000 A massive shakeup in Kiev coming as Putin is trying to court the MAGA GOP in the United States.

00:05:50.000 That's heavy editorialization already.

00:05:53.000 Putin is trying to court one of the MAGA leaders.

00:05:57.000 Tucker Carlson is not a MAGA leader.

00:05:59.000 Anyone who watches or listens to Tucker Carlson will know that he's sort of sometimes got a circumspect on Trump.

00:06:04.000 I like Trump here, I've got questions about Trump there.

00:06:06.000 MAGA is a very particular aspect of American political life, make America great again, and it seems that there's a legacy media attempt to frame it as extreme rather than populist.

00:06:17.000 to frame it as sort of violent and somehow unacceptable rather than a kind of response to the failure of neoliberalism.

00:06:24.000 You don't get MAGA without Barack Obama waving away the debts generated by the financial crisis, for example.

00:06:31.000 That's not about Barack Obama's race.

00:06:34.000 That's about Barack Obama's affinity with globalist financial interests.

00:06:39.000 This is brilliant framing designed to stop us even questioning the legitimacy of Tucker going to Russia to have a conversation In fact, one of the leaders of the MAGA GOP is in Moscow tonight.

00:06:52.000 It's the man you see here.

00:06:53.000 The man you see here criminalizing it as if Tucker Carlson's being observed from a hedge for a binoculars.

00:07:00.000 There he is, look, at a public event.

00:07:02.000 With the MAGA leader Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson.

00:07:05.000 Possibly there in Moscow to interview Putin.

00:07:08.000 How dare a journalist speak to a political leader?

00:07:11.000 Everyone knows the job of journalist is to tell everyone that Ivan Mekhin is a horse paste!

00:07:16.000 Definitely there as a Putin-supporting celebrity.

00:07:18.000 He's not a Putin-supporting celebrity.

00:07:21.000 Putin is a leader on the world stage.

00:07:23.000 I'm sure you could scrutinise Putin's record in power and go, oh my god, this looks a bit corrupt.

00:07:28.000 The way that a new oligarchy was formed when state institutions were carved up and distributed, all of their former communist assets were private.

00:07:35.000 There's loads of things you could ask about.

00:07:37.000 I'm sure there's weird assassinations and murders, but like Trump himself said, do you think we don't have people killed? 1.00

00:07:41.000 Putin's a killer. 1.00

00:07:43.000 A lot of killers. 1.00

00:07:43.000 We've got a lot of killers. 1.00

00:07:45.000 Why do you think our country's so innocent?

00:07:47.000 You think our country's so innocent?

00:07:49.000 What it is is the assumption that Russia don't have their own right to a perspective, that Putin don't have his right to the institutions of a nation.

00:07:57.000 If what Putin's doing is wrong in Russia, what America's doing all over the Middle East is wrong.

00:08:03.000 That's the conversation they're not capable of having.

00:08:05.000 I'll tell you who is capable of having that conversation, Tucker Carlson.

00:08:08.000 I'll tell you who would ask questions like that to Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson.

00:08:11.000 This isn't about whether you personally like someone, although I do personally like Tucker Carlson, as a matter of fact.

00:08:15.000 This is about what the function of media is.

00:08:18.000 Just listen to how Russian state media is breathlessly celebrating his visit.

00:08:24.000 Even when I watch Russian media and Russian news, I think that is not a country you want to have a war with, if there's any way around it.

00:08:31.000 If there's any way around it.

00:08:32.000 If that's their news, imagine what their army's like! 0.99

00:08:35.000 Hello, welcome to news, I kill you!

00:08:38.000 Independent journalist Tucker Carlson has flown to Russia from the US. 0.99

00:08:41.000 Sit up straight, here is news, I kill you! 0.98

00:08:44.000 Via Turkey to Vnukovo Airport. 0.94

00:08:48.000 He saw Spartacus ballet at the Bolshoi Theater.

00:08:51.000 Ballet, but only about Spartacus, about a radical slave leader who turned against Tommy.

00:08:56.000 Had lunch in a nice restaurant, went for a ride around town, rode the subway.

00:09:04.000 He charged his smartphone via USB port and connected to a fast and free Wi-Fi internet.

00:09:11.000 Needless bit of propaganda there.

00:09:12.000 Remember I was saying that Russia doesn't have their own propaganda?

00:09:15.000 Of course they do.

00:09:16.000 But the declaration of the legacy media that propaganda is a one-way street, that state imperatives is a one-way street, their globalist agenda is a one-way street.

00:09:24.000 Remember, Tucker is being reported on in Russia Russia Today, which includes people like Slavoj Žižek, the philosopher, Chris Hedges, like Pulitzer-prizing former New York Times journalist, had all their Russia Today stuff just scrapped.

00:09:37.000 What we're saying is, is that the legacy media and establishment isn't interested in protecting you, it's interested in controlling you.

00:09:42.000 Once you have that analytic, then everything kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

00:09:46.000 Look at them talking about him like a celebrity.

00:09:48.000 Everything he does on camera, breathlessly repeated.

00:09:51.000 Now, it is unclear if an interview between Putin and Carlson will take place, but if it does, it gives Putin a chance to sit down with a big supporter.

00:09:59.000 Also, what's wrong with that?

00:10:00.000 Again, the assumption that we're not capable of watching Tucker Carlson speak to Putin and go, hmm, okay, right, well maybe Putin's got his own agenda.

00:10:08.000 Can you incorporate that into your understanding that that's a world leader in charge of a massive country with an incredible history with his own agenda and nuclear weapons and literature What I resent is the assumption that all information should be given to me pre-chewed, with a pre-determined outcome already offered to us.

00:10:23.000 Why they are terrified is because we might watch this and go, hey, I'm not sure it's worth perpetuating this war and funding this war and having this bill for billions of dollars go through, the majority of which, by the way, is going to Ukraine, not going to the border.

00:10:36.000 A small amount is going to the border.

00:10:38.000 We might be able to decide for ourselves that we want to take our own nations in a different direction, that our own media is unreliable, that our own political class is in need of radical revision.

00:10:49.000 Here is Tucker Carlson when he was still on Fox, which if you ask me he was booted off of because he was anti-war, that's just my opinion, talking about Vladimir Putin.

00:10:57.000 Have a listen to this and see if it makes sense to you.

00:10:59.000 It might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about?

00:11:03.000 Why do I hate Putin so much?

00:11:06.000 Has Putin ever called me a racist?

00:11:08.000 Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?

00:11:10.000 How is that different than when Muhammad Ali said, I ain't got no beef with the Viet Cong? 0.98

00:11:15.000 How can I shoot them poor people? 1.00

00:11:16.000 Just take me to jail. 0.99

00:11:18.000 When he said, I don't want to be conscripted into the U.S.

00:11:20.000 Army to go fight other brown people around the world on behalf of an American agenda. 0.99

00:11:25.000 Do you think America's really changed since then?

00:11:26.000 Oh, that was America of the 1960s when it was governed by the military-industrial complex.

00:11:31.000 Very different America since then.

00:11:32.000 Why?

00:11:33.000 Everything's changed since Wolfowitz and Cheney and Barack Obama and Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and reneging on a deal with Gorbachev to not impede on Russian territory or former Soviet territory and getting involved in the coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the Ukrainian biolabs and Victoria Nuland admitting their successive administrations have had involvement in Ukraine and supporting the Azov battalion that are literally Nazi.

00:11:57.000 There are questions to be Does he eat dogs?

00:11:59.000 These are fair questions.

00:12:00.000 It's not a fair question to ask if he eats dogs.

00:12:02.000 There's no reason to ask that.

00:12:02.000 And the answer to all of them is no.

00:12:04.000 Thankfully, independent media I mean now.

00:12:06.000 But the idea that having someone like Tucker Carlson have a conversation with Vladimir Putin is treason is 0.99

00:12:11.000 bullshit. 0.97

00:12:12.000 What it is, is an opportunity to get a perspective that is going to be detrimental to their agenda. 1.00

00:12:16.000 And that's why they're flapping and panicking.

00:12:18.000 Does he eat dogs?

00:12:19.000 These are fair questions.

00:12:21.000 It's not a fair question to ask if he eats dogs.

00:12:23.000 There's no reason to ask that.

00:12:24.000 And the answer to all of them is no.

00:12:26.000 Vladimir Putin didn't do any of that.

00:12:28.000 I'll actually always remember watching that clip.

00:12:31.000 I was standing in Ukraine 48 hours before the war began there.

00:12:35.000 Doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing.

00:12:38.000 Being in Ukraine.

00:12:39.000 Not asking why all other media outlets have been shut down and why all of the political parties have been shut down.

00:12:45.000 I was in Ukraine not asking why Gonzalo Lira, an American journalist, was in jail.

00:12:49.000 I was in Ukraine believing that there's just Good and bad. 0.75

00:12:52.000 And that's it.

00:12:53.000 Ignoring the quote by Solzhenitsyn, because he's Russian, the good and evil doesn't run between nations, races, creeds, genders, or individuals, but through every human heart.

00:13:01.000 Because we ain't got time for that, because we're offering you propaganda while accusing other people of being propagandists.

00:13:07.000 That's literal irony.

00:13:08.000 Well, Carlson then stood by Putin consistently all the way through.

00:13:11.000 And that is why he can go to Moscow now without any fear of being summarily imprisoned.

00:13:17.000 People shouldn't fear being summarily imprisoned anyway.

00:13:20.000 Again, remember Gonzalo Lira, American journalist, died in a Ukrainian jail.

00:13:25.000 No one talked about that.

00:13:25.000 Why?

00:13:26.000 Because he was like, I'm not sure about Ukrainian democracy.

00:13:28.000 Of course, Ukrainian people shouldn't be killed. 0.99

00:13:29.000 That's ridiculous. 0.95

00:13:30.000 And of course, this is a war crime, the invasion of Russia into Ukraine. 0.79

00:13:34.000 And of course, we can't really talk about that because if we started using that metric, we'd have to acknowledge all of the war crimes the United States have committed over the last 50 years because all of their invasions have been criminal.

00:13:43.000 Many of them have not involved the consultation of Congress.

00:13:45.000 They're all criminal wars. 0.99

00:13:46.000 Hypocrisy. 1.00

00:13:47.000 Hypocrisy, hypocrisy. 1.00

00:13:48.000 He's a hero. 0.99

00:13:49.000 This was Putin's mouthpiece in the United States.

00:13:51.000 They're using the same narrative that they used for Trump, huh?

00:13:54.000 This is Putin's mouthpiece.

00:13:56.000 Oh, he's been peed on, I suppose, has he?

00:13:58.000 Somebody who had turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Putin because they were happening far away.

00:14:04.000 Once vibrant towns turned to ruins, mass graves with dozens of bodies in the Kiev suburbs, Yeah, so should we look for a diplomatic, immediate solution to this war?

00:14:13.000 Or should we continue to fund it?

00:14:15.000 When you look at the mass graves, when you look at the death, do you think that Russia is going to be defeated in a military confrontation by Ukraine at any point?

00:14:22.000 Do you think that there's not going to be a bit where they go, well, we've got nuclear arsenal.

00:14:25.000 Why are we talking about conscription of troops in the United Kingdom and Australia and Sweden?

00:14:28.000 Because they recognize that this conflict can continue to escalate.

00:14:31.000 A theater full of innocent women and children sheltering.

00:14:34.000 Bombed, despite the giant world's children written on the roof.

00:14:38.000 More than 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed or injured.

00:14:42.000 Also absent from this narrativization is the fact there was a peace deal on the table, apparently ready to be signed by both sides.

00:14:47.000 And then Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of our country, the UK, went to Kiev and dissuaded Zelensky from signing it.

00:14:53.000 We've seen Jan Stoltenberg, the head of NATO, say that Putin said, if Ukraine joins NATO, that's war.

00:15:00.000 Presumably that means if Ukraine don't join NATO, that's not war.

00:15:11.000 So have you personally got strong views on Ukraine joining NATO?

00:15:15.000 I don't think Ukraine should be invaded.

00:15:16.000 I don't think Ukrainian people should be attacked.

00:15:17.000 I don't think Ukrainian people should be conscripted and killed.

00:15:20.000 But I would like to see what Russia, and in particular Vladimir Putin, have got to say.

00:15:24.000 And then I'll I've now determined for myself, perhaps based on a conversation with you lot, whether or not we trust Putin.

00:15:28.000 Putin said that he's not got an interest in invading other NATO countries like we're continually told he's going to.

00:15:34.000 Oh, he invaded Ukraine and next was Finland, Sweden. 0.92

00:15:36.000 We've been told to think of this as a kind of Hitler part two.

00:15:39.000 But in fact, what this is, is it seems to me, a globalist attempt to continue to perpetuate a very profitable war and extracting complex information that we're entitled to hear, i.e.

00:15:49.000 Tucker Carlson should interview Putin.

00:15:51.000 And tonight, Putin is trying to seize on the fact that Zelensky's military appears to be in turmoil, capitalizing on a moment of intense American political dysfunction and intensifying strikes.

00:16:03.000 Here's presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy offering some elucidation on his opinion that yes, Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Putin and that Putin and the Russian people have Every right to their own trajectory.

00:16:14.000 Again, I don't think Ukraine should be bombed.

00:16:16.000 I don't think there should be a war between Ukraine and Russia.

00:16:17.000 But I would like to understand why it's happening and how it would be most expediently stopped immediately.

00:16:23.000 You know, Putin every day says, I want to settle the war.

00:16:26.000 Let's negotiate.

00:16:27.000 And Zelensky has said, we're not going to negotiate.

00:16:29.000 But in 92, the wall came down in the Soviet Union.

00:16:33.000 Gorbachev said, I'm going to allow you to reunify Germany.

00:16:37.000 But I want your commitment after that.

00:16:40.000 You will not move NATO one inch to the east and we solemnly swore we wouldn't do it.

00:16:45.000 Someone should have written that down really, shouldn't they?

00:16:48.000 It's a pretty important commitment that was made between Reagan and Gorbachev there and one that appears to have been reneged upon due to the agenda of Actually, Western expansionism and imperialism.

00:16:59.000 Why is it that you can have China surrounded by US military bases and then when China does something and it negatively impacts a warship in the South Pacific, China are the aggressors? 0.94

00:17:09.000 We have to, I think, train ourselves to have a broader perspective, not be called traitors for doing that.

00:17:14.000 Well then in 97, we're gonna move NATO Do you hear how complex that is and reasoned and geopolitical

00:17:43.000 and geographical and cultural?

00:17:45.000 It's not. 1.00

00:17:45.000 Putin is a baddie and he's a bad madman and he's got numerous doubles and plus he has cancer and he dribbles and he's insane. 1.00

00:17:52.000 That is propaganda. 0.99

00:17:53.000 What we're listening to there is a set of reasons that led to the escalation of this conflict.

00:17:59.000 Whenever you hear the critiques of Russia and Putin It sounds like propaganda.

00:18:03.000 When you hear the counter-narrative, for which everyone from Tucker to us to Greyzone are called Putin apologists for recounting, it's like, well, isn't the 2014 coup relevant?

00:18:12.000 Isn't the expansion of NATO relevant?

00:18:14.000 Isn't the disputed region of the Donbass relevant?

00:18:16.000 These things are legitimate questions that you will see Putin respond to when Tucker does that interview, and that's what terrifies them.

00:18:24.000 What terrifies them is hundreds of millions of people, let's say, watching that and going, Huh.

00:18:28.000 Do I want my children or my family conscripted into the military to fight that war?

00:18:32.000 Do I want my tax dollars endlessly spent on that conflict, knowing what I know about Afghanistan, that it cost two trillion dollars and how did we benefit?

00:18:40.000 It ended in a botched evacuation and disaster.

00:18:43.000 Once we have that information, they no longer have power over us.

00:18:46.000 Isn't it more likely that's their concern rather than what is the other reason?

00:18:50.000 Oh, well, this is bad for them, going over there to speak to Putin. 0.98

00:18:53.000 He's a baddie. 0.86

00:18:54.000 What's the other reason?

00:18:55.000 And they know the new government that we just installed is going to invite the US Navy into their port.

00:19:01.000 So then the Russians go in, they only send 40,000 people.

00:19:04.000 It's a nation of 44 million people.

00:19:06.000 They clearly do not intend to conquer Ukraine.

00:19:09.000 But they want us back at the negotiating table.

00:19:12.000 The Russians just want a guarantee that Ukraine won't join NATO. 0.79

00:19:16.000 Zelensky signs the treaty.

00:19:18.000 Putin's people sign the treaty.

00:19:20.000 And Putin starts withdrawing the Russian troops.

00:19:22.000 In good faith.

00:19:23.000 And what happens?

00:19:25.000 Joe Biden sends Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, over to Ukraine in April.

00:19:33.000 So that is why the Tucker Carlson Putin interview matters.

00:19:39.000 That is why Tucker Carlson's relationship with Elon Musk is important.

00:19:43.000 You might find a hundred things you disagree with Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk or indeed Vladimir Putin on, but what you do have the right to is their perspective.

00:19:50.000 And the reason that the legacy media and the establishment are flapping and panicking and

00:19:54.000 trying to shut this down isn't to protect you, but because they want to control you.

00:19:58.000 When you hear Bobby Kennedy explain an alternative history of this escalating conflict, as well

00:20:03.000 as pointing out some of the obvious consequences for Ukrainian people, for Russian people,

00:20:07.000 potentially for your family coming up, for your tax dollars already, doesn't it seem

00:20:11.000 like hearing directly from Vladimir Putin might be valuable?

00:20:14.000 Doesn't it seem like a peaceful solution might be favourable?

00:20:17.000 Doesn't it seem like we might be at the very point where independent media could topple the chokehold that the legacy media and their establishment affiliates have over the minds of our populations?

00:20:27.000 And isn't that what terrifies them?

00:20:29.000 And isn't that what they're trying to shut down?

00:20:31.000 Whether it's Joe Rogan horse paste, stuff about me, or stuff about Tucker.

00:20:35.000 Why don't you decide for yourselves if you're allowed to continue to watch this kind of content?

00:20:40.000 Right now, there are censorship laws being passed all around the world with the aim, apparently, of protecting you further.

00:20:45.000 Or is it controlling you further?

00:20:47.000 But that's just what I think!

00:20:48.000 More important than any of that.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - February 13, 2024

Here’s the News: Legacy Media Fumes as Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin

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