The Tucker Carlson Show - Steve Baker

00:00:00.000 among the many thousands of americans who came to the capitol building on january 6 2021 were an

00:00:15.940 awful lot of journalists working journalists and they were there because among other things it was

00:00:20.140 a news story in progress so they went to what we call cover the story and the overwhelming majority

00:00:26.160 of them worked for various organs of state media the associated press reuters the new york times

00:00:33.060 the washington post nbc news and their job was to bolster whatever the people in charge claim is true

00:00:40.160 but there were also some independent journalists there that day one of them was called steve baker

00:00:44.900 he now works for the blaze and he was there for the same reason everyone else is there to watch the

00:00:51.200 protest play out and to cover it and like so many reporters that day he eventually moved with the

00:00:56.640 crowd inside the capitol building and he did so peacefully to cover the story we're not guessing

00:01:02.840 about this he did not show up to break windows or poke anyone with a flagpole he was there to cover

00:01:07.640 it as a journalist so we have footage of it of baker in the capitol we're going to put it up now you can

00:01:12.980 see he's not rioting or attacking police he's standing there watching what's happening around him covering

00:01:18.340 the story but because steve baker wasn't wise enough to get a job with the washington post or

00:01:24.180 the new york times or any other news outlet that works for the biden administration the fbi singled

00:01:28.320 him out not as a reporter which he is but as an insurrectionist and then they charged him with crimes

00:01:34.160 for being there the charges include disruptive conduct and restricted building parading demonstrating

00:01:40.480 or picketing in the capitol building and they meant it they weren't joking by the way no one defended

00:01:47.060 steve baker none of the free press organizations that exist to defend working journalists stood up

00:01:53.340 for him or said a word when baker was arrested at the fbi office in dallas here's video of baker

00:02:00.900 turning himself in as you can see he was humiliated they cuffed him behind his back not because he posed a

00:02:08.380 threat to anyone but because they wanted to make the message crystal clear to everyone else only regime 0.53

00:02:14.680 media will be treated as legitimate others will be crushed steve baker joins us now to recount his

00:02:22.740 experiences with the so-called justice system steve baker thank you so much for coming on hey um so

00:02:28.980 thanks for having me of course when last we spoke about a year ago um there were hints this was coming

00:02:35.260 i'll just speak for myself as a middle-aged american man i didn't really believe that they could

00:02:41.380 arrest a journalist for covering a story they did ultimately as we just showed arrest you

00:02:47.320 were you as shocked as i was probably not as shocked because i had been dealing with this for

00:02:54.580 about two and a half years i initially had a threat of prosecution going all the way back to november of 21

00:03:01.080 when my attorney received a email from an assistant u.s attorney out of philadelphia in which she said

00:03:08.040 your client meaning me with is going to be arrested or is going to be charged within the week

00:03:13.720 and so after we did a bit of a uh a bit of a media pushback kind of an offensive against that threat

00:03:21.240 then we didn't hear from them again for 20 months now after 20 months i was starting to feel pretty

00:03:26.460 good about it during that interim time i actually spoke with you and then uh in august of last year

00:03:32.400 uh we received a grand jury subpoena my attorney calls me back says all right we've got a grand

00:03:38.220 jury subpoena for your work your actual videos that you took on january 6th we complied uh yet again

00:03:45.360 and uh then we didn't hear from them for another four months well during this time i'm now working for

00:03:51.340 the blaze and so i was actually in dc as a matter of fact i was sitting in uh representative thomas

00:03:57.240 massey's office on december 14th just this past uh december and i i get a text from my attorney

00:04:05.060 which is never a welcome thing an unsolicited text from your attorney which he said i think this is

00:04:10.120 the one the big one so i stepped out into the hallway there at the rayburn building and called

00:04:14.860 my attorney and he said they want you to self-surrender next week in my hometown of raleigh north carolina

00:04:20.260 so uh the blaze went into high gear we did another media offensive had millions of views of this

00:04:28.220 uh the story that we were telling about me having to self-surrender and they backed off yet again

00:04:33.740 they we got another call the next day from the fbi saying that they were going to put that off until

00:04:38.420 sometime after christmas once again we didn't hear from them for two months until two weeks ago we got

00:04:46.020 the notice that i was going to have to self-surrender this time and this time it was for real they

00:04:51.020 actually said that it was only going to be for misdemeanor charges the four basic misdemeanors

00:04:55.720 that all the low level january 6 offenders get uh and because i'm happen to be working here in dallas

00:05:02.420 right now where blaze is headquarters we decided to go ahead and do my self-surrender here at the fbi

00:05:09.300 field office so they didn't raid me they didn't come out to my hotel or to the blaze studios

00:05:14.880 uh we went down to the fbi field office and submitted myself uh the interesting thing tucker

00:05:21.580 is that in the notice from the assistant u.s attorney to my my lead attorney is that they

00:05:28.760 wanted me to show up at the field office and i quote wearing shorts t-shirt and flip-flops

00:05:38.560 and i knew what that meant that meant that they were probably going to change me into the orange

00:05:45.000 jumpsuit and that i would then be leg shackled because the plan was for the fbi to process me

00:05:52.420 there at the the field office put me in a car take me downtown to the courthouse where they would hand

00:06:00.520 me over to the u.s marshals and then i would wait in a cell until i was marched before the magistrate in

00:06:07.020 front of the um uh the in front of the whole court and so what ended up taking place is that

00:06:14.480 my attorney negotiated with the two fbi agents in advance of me surrendering i did not have to get

00:06:20.480 into an orange jumpsuit i showed up with a jacket tie slacks dress shoes they made me take off my

00:06:26.820 shoelaces my belt my tie and then hand my jacket over to my attorney uh then they took me they allowed

00:06:32.260 me to wear my own shirt my own trousers uh they handcuffed me fingerprinted me marched me out to

00:06:37.180 the car which has been seen on camera took me to took me to the courthouse handed me over to the u.s

00:06:43.160 marshals and that's where they put the leg chains the belt chain belted my wrist uh chained my wrist to my

00:06:50.160 stomach and then sat me in a jail cell with a meth dealer

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00:08:35.440 it's hard to believe any of that's real a couple of questions one what's the name of the assistant

00:08:43.220 u.s attorney who did this adam dreher out of dc yeah adam dreher i hope becomes famous it's not a

00:08:52.040 threat but i think we deserve to know who is doing this i mean the state of texas has more than a

00:08:58.800 million uh illegal invaders in it right now um there are also an awful lot of murders in the state

00:09:04.500 of texas and so this is what they're spending their time doing i have to ask did any of the fbi agents we

00:09:10.300 always hear that you know the line agents are good guys any of the u.s marshals say to you you know

00:09:14.720 i'm embarrassed that i'm chaining you uh to you know chaining you to your own stomach on a misdemeanor 0.84

00:09:22.280 charge for something that isn't actually a crime did anyone betray any acknowledgement that this is

00:09:28.460 like all a farce the the two agents that processed me did not do that i have received messages from

00:09:35.440 retired whistleblowing uh agents all over the country apologizing to me for the behavior of the

00:09:42.140 uh the once the agency they were once proud of i will tell you that while they were patting me down

00:09:48.980 and going through the process uh i did chat with them and i asked them point blank i said so how often

00:09:54.840 do you do this to misdemeanor defendants uh the first time there was a little bit of mumbling

00:09:59.400 and then i kind of reiterated i said is this is it is it normal or do you get you do in process

00:10:05.920 misdemeanor defendants on a regular basis as they're patting me down uh they went they were

00:10:11.720 dead silent and of course that's because we know the answer tucker yeah how about how about speak up

00:10:17.000 son i pay your salary like how dare you treat me this way as an american citizen seriously they didn't

00:10:22.940 answer your question yeah in the hundred year yeah in the hundred year history of that agency

00:10:28.560 hundred plus year history of that they never processed misdemeanor defendants of any kind

00:10:34.440 particularly non-violent misdemeanor defendants uh it's that's not what they do i mean every single

00:10:42.420 fbi agent will tell you that when they joined the the uh the agency they were told that they were

00:10:48.020 they were on this uh planet and in this country to go after the whales not the tiny little minnows

00:10:55.160 but why don't they quit that's what i don't understand i mean i i've always respected law

00:10:59.720 enforcement on principle and fbi agents i guess on principle but if you're participating in a system

00:11:05.600 that's just political tyranny which is what it is it's not a it's not there's nothing justice related

00:11:10.320 about any of this it's joe biden putting his critics behind bars how can you live with yourself

00:11:16.000 like isn't at a certain point at their responsibility too i've been analyzing that the answer to that

00:11:23.420 question for quite some time now and the only answer i have is that we're now into a generation

00:11:30.260 of special agents and even special agents in charge that came in after the patriot act that came in during

00:11:40.160 the obama administration that came in after the politicization was overwhelming at the top in

00:11:47.980 the leadership and in fact now the you know in most of the field offices those in charge are are political

00:11:54.340 operatives by by and large tucker and so that's the answer now we'll tell you this when i got to the

00:12:00.720 courthouse one of the uh u.s marshals processing me down there he actually looked at my paperwork and he 0.69

00:12:08.780 said point blank this is bullshit yeah and he's right he's right and good for him yeah and i said 0.97

00:12:15.320 yeah and then he said and he said i will tell you what else is bullshit he said we process a lot of 0.99

00:12:21.260 these he said you guys you know you j6ers and he said i think that uh former president trump should be 0.92

00:12:27.420 paying for every one of your legal fees i agree with that too i i do agree with that yeah and i think

00:12:32.880 it's yeah i strongly agree with that um so yeah i mean i think you should be afraid to behave like

00:12:39.300 this if you're an fbi agent um i think you should be afraid of it you can't act like that toward your

00:12:43.420 fellow citizens and you can't be the instrument of political tyranny and get away with it um so did

00:12:49.040 anyone is there anyone to appeal to so you you work with glenn beck who is really taken up and good

00:12:57.220 for him he's a good man your your cause but did anyone with official power step in to try and help

00:13:03.580 you uh no one with official power i mean we've had quite a few people speak out on my behalf uh we've

00:13:10.080 had some congressmen speak out on my behalf we've had uh current presidential uh uh nominee or uh nominee

00:13:17.360 apparent as well as those a couple of others that were running ramaswamy uh desantis and then in

00:13:24.760 addition to that we've had a host of other friendly media but as you can probably surmise

00:13:31.920 and as you obviously stated earlier nobody from the mainstream media has come forward yet and said

00:13:37.320 hey you know we probably better stick up for this guy even though he's not necessarily one of us

00:13:43.460 because pendulum swing right and more important more importantly tucker pen whether the pendulum

00:13:49.260 swings or not if it continues to swing far into the tyrannical left they purge themselves eventually

00:13:57.760 if you've read a history book they will take out the factions of the factions first yes well but such

00:14:04.100 a thing as principle exists i mean some things are just wrong because they're wrong racial discrimination

00:14:08.340 putting people in prison because you don't like their political views these are just wrong it doesn't

00:14:12.340 matter who they're happening to they're just they're just wrong uh on their own terms um did it ever

00:14:17.600 did part of you think well maybe i just won't participate you know i've spent my whole life in

00:14:22.500 this country paid taxes believed in the system this is not justice this is not the justice system

00:14:27.660 this is a tool of political repression and maybe you just say come and get me i'm not i'm not well

00:14:33.840 playing along well for for two and a half years yeah for two and a half years i didn't have to set my

00:14:40.040 alarm clock because every morning at six o'clock i would wake up because i've been following these cases

00:14:44.980 i've been following these trials i've followed hundreds of these cases there's over thirteen

00:14:49.620 hundred and fifty of these arrests so far uh all manner of defendants for uh january 6 most of them

00:14:56.260 of course are non-violent and i've been following these cases and believe it or not many i mean far far

00:15:03.320 too many to even uh recount of the simple misdemeanor uh defendants including other independent

00:15:10.900 journalists have been swat raided at their home some of them have been imprisoned and did nothing

00:15:18.660 more than walk around in the capital with a big camera rig no painting parading no picketing no

00:15:25.140 chanting usa usa or anything else of the nature and um they they did their job professionally and when

00:15:32.420 they got back home they were swat raided by 20 agents with the red dots on their chest and on their

00:15:38.940 wife and on their children and then hauled off uh convicted sent to prison for months independent

00:15:45.940 journalists it's beyond it's so what happens next in your case uh i have uh in two days i have a dc

00:15:53.940 hearing it's uh it's one that i can do by zoom uh it's simply not much more than a repeat of what we

00:15:59.640 did in dallas because this was an out of district hearing so now i've got to do it before a dc

00:16:03.940 magistrate so it's a magistrate so it's just basically the same thing without the leg change this time

00:16:07.720 and then we start the process of our strategy uh with my with my legal team to determine how we're

00:16:14.600 going to proceed and part of that process was learning who our judge was and that's pretty

00:16:19.500 interesting i'm revealing that to you for the first time uh judge christopher cooper is also the exact

00:16:25.280 same judge who held uh katherine harridge in contempt two weeks ago yeah i'm very aware of that it's

00:16:32.580 unbelievable steve baker i appreciate your taking the time to update us on what has happened to you

00:16:38.280 again it's tyranny i know you know that but it's shocking to see it good luck

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The Tucker Carlson Show - March 20, 2024

Steve Baker

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