The Tucker Carlson Show - Tucker Carlson Responds to Julian Assange’s Release During Australia Speech

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00:00:27.580 ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage the one and only from the united states here just

00:00:34.540 for us tucker carlson i appreciate it thank you

00:00:43.620 i try not to listen to intros but we got the most famous journalist in the world i thought

00:00:52.580 is that really a compliment that's like being the hottest supreme court justice

00:00:57.880 you know the best restaurant in wagadougou not sure it's a prize that means that much i'm a little

00:01:04.080 ashamed to be a journalist but i'm grateful to be here thank you very much for having me i've loved

00:01:08.140 your country from afar my entire life i've idolized australia actually i haven't been here until a

00:01:14.960 week ago but i had this view of australia in my mind of handsome brave men fighting off dangerous

00:01:21.540 animals of beautiful women standing windblown in the surf and it's all true uh so i really have

00:01:29.060 loved it we've been i think to five cities and i've just been completely and utterly impressed

00:01:33.280 and really sort of the only downside is i've given speeches in a lot of them and i felt guilty during

00:01:37.720 every one because rule one of being in someone else's country is don't talk to them about their

00:01:42.620 politics there's something awful about that overbearing i lived in washington our capital city

00:01:47.800 um it doesn't it's actually not so different from canberra weirdly i guess all capital cities are the

00:01:54.160 same uh but we would get this sort of continuous retinue of foreigners showing up to lecturers bono

00:01:59.820 showing up and i'd always think go back to dublin like what do you know you're not even an american

00:02:03.680 um so with that caveat uh my apologies uh for having anything to say about your politics which i

00:02:10.720 which i don't really understand except in the in the sort of grossest terms um but the assange news

00:02:17.220 today just had me thinking so much about australia congratulations by the way

00:02:20.800 that happened when i was on the plane and i just my jaw was open for the rest of the flight this

00:02:27.800 morning from perth um it's something that i think anyone who knows anything about the case and that

00:02:33.720 would include most australians um is thrilled to see um anybody who knows anything about that case

00:02:40.840 and believes that assange should still be in prison is your enemy by the way in the enemy of human

00:02:45.400 freedom and flourishing um it was monstrous that he spent 12 years locked away for exposing other

00:02:51.680 people's crimes typically the way it works i don't know if law enforcement's the same here but

00:02:54.480 the guy who discovers the crime doesn't go to jail it's the guy who commits the crime goes to jail

00:02:59.220 and that's been inverted in his case um so i think it's wonderful news as you all know he's in guam

00:03:05.340 dealing with one of our colonial magistrates i didn't know even had those but we do apparently

00:03:09.120 in the united states uh and then he'll be flying here where he was born and my impression is i was

00:03:14.660 texting with his wife this morning my impression is he plans to stay here for a while and so i think

00:03:19.480 you know that's a huge net benefit to your country because he's a good man i know him i visited him a few

00:03:23.680 months ago in belmarsh prison and saw how they were effectively torturing him to death

00:03:28.820 and what i didn't realize until i got there even though i've been steeped in the case i know his

00:03:34.040 relatives i know his wife stella um is that he was never charged with a crime in great britain

00:03:37.920 never he was charged with no crime so in the free world we don't hold people who haven't been charged

00:03:43.980 with a crime and we don't hold them in my country beyond a year unless they've been convicted of a

00:03:48.200 crime or they're on trial for a crime um that's just the most obvious abuse of human rights and it

00:03:53.960 went on for 12 years and he's an australian and i'm sorry i don't mean this as a criticism just

00:03:59.840 i think this is a perspective providing observation but like why did anyone allow that

00:04:06.380 he was held in the uk on behalf of the united states which by the way until recently hadn't

00:04:12.620 charged him with a crime either and when it did charge him with a fake crime under an ancient

00:04:15.820 statute that no one has ever charged under the espionage act which he pleaded guilty apparently

00:04:19.520 finally yesterday he didn't violate it but he just wanted to get out of prison before he died

00:04:24.560 um but he wasn't charged in the us he wasn't charged in the uk he was an australian and those

00:04:31.920 three countries are aligned more closely than countries typically are they're three of the five

00:04:35.700 eyes as you know and nobody did anything about it and i kept thinking like when is australia going to

00:04:41.360 send a warship up the thames to get their guy back i mean it i mean what is that i don't know if

00:04:48.420 you've i mean it the outrage of it i've been to london a lot recently and now i've been in australia

00:04:52.780 for a week and there's just absolutely no comparison and i do think it's very important

00:04:56.460 to update our files which is to say our perceptions of things are very often way out of date in some

00:05:03.780 cases centuries out of date and i think the perception perhaps here i can't speak for you

00:05:08.520 but around the world is there's this you know the mothership great britain that gave birth to all

00:05:13.480 these other successful countries including the one that i live in and that it somehow has like

00:05:18.220 moral authority as a result of that well if you haven't been to london recently book a ticket

00:05:21.980 and then fly back here in fact why don't you just fly from london to perth assuming there are direct

00:05:27.200 flights and ask yourself what do i notice one city is crumbling it's filthy it's been so misruled by the

00:05:35.080 people in charge that unless you're rich you can't live there and you come back to and that's not an

00:05:40.200 exaggeration go to london seriously and you come back to perth and it's what and i know everyone makes

00:05:44.400 fun of perth and western australia but as an outsider i mean it's it's like san francisco

00:05:48.780 without the junkies it's one of the prettiest places i've ever seen in my life and i thought

00:05:53.260 i don't even know who rules this i don't understand the details of the politics i'm a foreigner

00:05:57.580 but whoever is managing this place day to day is doing a remarkable job there are very few cities in

00:06:03.260 the world as pretty as your cities and i know that you're so isolated and just far away in the

00:06:09.360 southern hemisphere and you might not have perspective on that but some of the capitals that

00:06:12.740 you read about and in some cases genuflect toward consider superior take orders from have no right

00:06:19.520 to give you orders because they're they're in no sense superior to you in fact they're inferior to

00:06:25.100 you by a lot and london is at the top of that list so i guess my bottom line advice and i mean this in

00:06:32.180 this you know you know spirit of generosity and humility but is you know understand how impressive

00:06:38.880 australia is in comparison to the rest of the world particularly the english-speaking world

00:06:44.220 australia has advantages that the rest of us the other four the five eyes um can only dream about

00:06:52.080 you're sparsely populated 26 million well-educated decent people law-abiding people you have virtually

00:06:57.840 no real poverty no concentrations of poverty in this country it's like the most middle-class english-speaking

00:07:04.200 country left in the world which is a huge compliment that's what you want it's basically egalitarian

00:07:09.240 country egalitarian countries are stable countries you know bolivia is not stable because it's you know

00:07:14.920 pyramid shaped this is pretty flat it's the last flat country economically in the english-speaking world

00:07:22.300 and its natural resources you know dwarf everyone else's i mean i do think one of the great lies that

00:07:30.300 we in the modern world have been told is that prosperity is generated by banks and real estate

00:07:37.260 and that's it then money lending is the engine of prosperity and in the short term that of course

00:07:43.880 can be true because it juices that you know that mysterious thing we call gdp which is to measure of

00:07:49.280 economic activity but over time it doesn't actually create wealth that's a lie what creates wealth is

00:07:55.680 productivity and what's required for productivity are resources and you have more resources than virtually

00:08:00.720 anybody bauxite coal ore gas nickel copper lead uranium more than almost anybody else

00:08:10.640 in a country with almost no problems except the ones that you allow your leaders to intentionally import

00:08:17.120 and pretty much nobody lives here i just flew over you know most of your country this morning there was nobody there

00:08:24.060 sheep dingoes desert and i know you know a lot of it's inhospitable but i mean just people from crowded 1.00

00:08:32.700 countries which is most countries in the world look at this and they in envy this should be one of the

00:08:40.160 most powerful countries in the world in fact by its nature it is because it has more than almost anybody

00:08:46.660 else and so to take orders from some disgusting filthy fog soaked rock in the north sea holding one

00:08:56.180 of your citizens hostage because they sent your ancestors here as a penalty i mean a certain point 0.98

00:09:04.260 i think you need to say to them i i'm sorry it's 2024 we're in charge you're taking orders from us

00:09:10.820 i and if it you know i mean it actually and i shouldn't say this because i know that there are

00:09:16.740 members of parliament present but maybe you should take your refugee budget and buy a nuclear weapon or 0.73

00:09:21.400 two so people take you seriously i'm not joking if you don't screw this country up on purpose through

00:09:27.660 mass immigration which is what the other four countries have done that's the reason they're in 1.00

00:09:31.780 decline no one wants to say it's true if you don't do that australia will lead the world because

00:09:37.480 you have every advantage and people are happy here and so my strong advice to you is don't go the way

00:09:45.240 of your cousins in our countries i mean canada of all countries in the world i would say canada is the

00:09:51.440 closest um in its sort of essential facts to australia it's huge it's actually bigger than australia

00:10:01.500 second biggest land mass in the world amazing natural resources an incredibly nice polite

00:10:07.000 population well educated with a history of valiant war service you know sort of everything you would

00:10:13.160 want a little boring that's good exciting countries are wildly overrated las vegas is exciting you

00:10:19.900 wouldn't live there right there's something to be said about a country who's you know main forms of

00:10:24.520 excitement are molson and sled dogs that's not bad and that country basically killed itself 0.63

00:10:29.360 through bad leadership they completely changed the population of the country in 10 years completely

00:10:34.640 and made it poor and now people can't buy houses there the economy's in free fall people who are

00:10:41.820 born in canada cannot buy a house period because there are just too many people and i'm sure some

00:10:46.440 of them are great people and by the way just to be completely clear i'm utterly sympathetic to people

00:10:52.020 who want to move to my country for example we let in 30 million people illegally in the last four

00:10:56.980 years that's a crime but i'm not mad at them i'm actually flattered by it they want to move to

00:11:03.020 my country of course because it's the best country that's how i feel it's like someone saying your

00:11:06.800 wife is hot yeah i think so too you can't have her but i'm glad you appreciate it i mean honestly

00:11:13.100 that's how i feel i don't begrudge any immigrant from any country wanting to move to the united states

00:11:17.540 because i love the united states above all i am american so it's not a question of being mad at

00:11:22.300 immigrants i'm completely sympathetic in fact i'm empathetic i can't wait to get back to my country

00:11:26.620 but that doesn't mean that the movement of millions of people mostly with low skills

00:11:34.180 and no you know native command of the language and no shared culture the people who already live

00:11:40.020 there doesn't mean it's good for the country itself it's not good actually it's bad it's

00:11:43.200 the most destructive thing you can do to a country that's not racism that's not hate

00:11:47.840 i'm not racist and i don't feel hate i feel true compassion and empathy but the purpose of running

00:11:55.080 a government is take care of the people who are citizens of that country there's no other purpose

00:11:59.080 it's not to save the world or change the global climate or whatever and it's certainly not to spend

00:12:05.660 a huge percentage of your budget on refugee resettlement it's take care of the people who 1.00

00:12:08.520 are born there that's your job in the same way a father's job is to take care of his children

00:12:12.480 not the neighbor's kids and there's something almost beyond dereliction of duty in not doing that

00:12:19.020 in other words i have four children for example and if a couple of them were in real trouble

00:12:24.040 as people in all of our countries are the native born population in actual trouble

00:12:27.960 you know one of my kids has leukemia for example another one has a drug problem and i say you know

00:12:33.260 that's that's tough i'm really sorry but the neighbor's kids literally have never been to disney

00:12:37.780 world ever and that's just wrong and so i'm going to take my retirement account and cash it out and

00:12:43.500 take the neighbor's kids to disney world because everyone should have a chance to go to disney world

00:12:47.480 see ya and i leave what's the message i'm sending to my own children i hate you i'm ignoring your 0.95

00:12:54.140 problems because i'm focused on the problems of people who aren't in our family it's kind of that

00:12:59.420 simple a leader's sacred responsibilities take care of his own people period period there is no other

00:13:06.260 response but that's why he's elected that's why he's in charge that's why your dad doesn't mean

00:13:11.400 you don't like the neighbor's kids or think they should go to disney world everyone should go to

00:13:14.460 disney world but the priority has to be if your dad your kids because you're their father so if

00:13:21.600 you're the prime minister of a country and you find yourself spending all of your time worrying about

00:13:25.360 the populations of other countries you are not a legitimate leader period by definition we have

00:13:34.500 someone in our country who sort of said that out loud i thought it was whatever leaving aside any other

00:13:38.880 quality being orange or whatever whatever qualities you think trump has or doesn't have that was his

00:13:45.160 core pitch in 2016 and there was sort of no arguing against it like how was that wrong how was a leader's

00:13:51.600 job not to prioritize his own people of course it is no one can make a rational argument against that so

00:13:58.220 they don't they attack anybody who raises questions about it and in the rest of those other countries

00:14:06.160 including mine they're starting to criminalize complaining about it in other words this is a

00:14:12.680 great thing and if you say otherwise we'll put you in jail and they're planning to do that here in case you

00:14:17.760 don't know they've absolutely done that in canada in the uk they put a lot of people in prison for 0.97

00:14:22.340 complaining about it hey i don't think you're taking care of the people who are born here shut up racist you're going to 0.51

00:14:26.700 jail actually every week people go to jail for that imagine that imagine that and imagine the mindset

00:14:34.860 that allows that if you are telling people human beings adult citizens that they don't have a right

00:14:43.040 to express what they believe what are you saying well what you're saying is i don't think you're human

00:14:48.000 because the right to say what you think pre-exist government it's something that you're born with as a

00:14:54.100 human being it's what distinguishes you from animals and slaves that's the core of your human

00:14:58.920 autonomy the right to say what you really believe to express your conscience and if you no longer

00:15:03.200 possess that you are not human anymore you belong to someone else you are an object and so any leader

00:15:09.220 who tells you you don't have a right to say that you don't have a right to criticize me or my policies

00:15:14.560 that person considers you sub-human and that's a crime as far as i'm concerned we shouldn't even have

00:15:20.400 that by the way my country we have an explicit law against that it's the first amendment to our

00:15:25.460 constitution because ours is a revolutionary country and so the framers of our founding documents were

00:15:32.240 forced under gunfire actually to think this through we're building a country from nothing what do we want

00:15:38.260 but the founders of the other four countries big countries in the anglosphere you new zealand

00:15:44.720 great britain and canada i honestly think they never imagined a world where leaders would strip

00:15:51.860 from people their most fundamental right the right to express their conscience i don't think they imagined

00:15:56.560 that possible they were christians and a sort of key tenant of christianity is god created people

00:16:03.380 we didn't therefore we're not capable of owning them that's the abolitionist movement was based on that idea

00:16:10.680 christians in the west ended slavery around the world they haven't gotten a ton of credit for it in recent years but they did

00:16:16.800 of course it still exists in parts of the world but it does not exist in the west

00:16:21.160 thanks to leaders who had a i mean i've been devout christians and it wasn't a sectarian question

00:16:26.960 it was a more fundamental understanding of the world

00:16:29.760 you didn't create people you didn't endow them with their rights god did that therefore you can't take them away

00:16:37.640 and if you try then you are not treating them as human beings but as something less than that

00:16:42.780 and i honestly think that people who wrote your founding documents just assumed that and didn't

00:16:47.320 think it would ever be challenged well now it is being challenged

00:16:49.040 and my strong advice to you and i said i wasn't going to weigh in on australian politics but my strong

00:16:54.100 advice to you or any human being who wants to preserve the most sacred of his human rights

00:16:59.880 would be to resist that up to and including being willing to go to jail for saying what you believe

00:17:06.660 because if they can strip from you you're right to say what you think there's literally nothing they

00:17:10.640 can't do to you there's nothing they can't do to you so um in any case i will stop there and take

00:17:17.740 your hostile questions but i i just i just want to say i as an outsider and as someone who's seeing

00:17:24.420 all of this fresh after spending literally 50 years dreaming about australia i don't know why

00:17:29.220 every american's obsessed with australia do you know that any of you who are single looking for

00:17:33.880 dating opportunities come to my country is that you you can't imagine you would just tear a swath

00:17:41.000 it's the it's the accent no i'm serious americans are absolutely obsessed with australia and it's not

00:17:46.860 just crocodile dundee and that horrible chain restaurant um i haven't seen a bloom and onion since

00:17:52.740 i've been here by the way i don't think that's a native food um coming here really has shocked me

00:18:02.060 and i thought it was nice i didn't know it was this nice and i hope that you know how nice it is

00:18:07.340 as compared to places that you think are great i mean you you just have amazing advantages

00:18:13.620 and if you want to know what can happen if you take those for granted and allow your leaders to act

00:18:20.580 against your interests the interests of your children and of your nation then go to san francisco

00:18:24.600 or new york city previously great cities that led the world um that are now pale limitations sad

00:18:30.000 dangerous imitations of themselves and ask yourself especially in san francisco which does look like

00:18:34.480 an australian city those of you who have been there go there now and remind yourself this could happen

00:18:40.080 to us problems like that are actually pretty easy to avoid you just need to make common sense

00:18:46.200 decisions like i don't know put your own people first enforce the laws already on the books don't

00:18:52.840 put up with absolutely ridiculous behavior like defecating on the sidewalk you don't need to put up

00:18:56.360 with that actually that's not a human right um just stick to those the problem is that when you allow 0.84

00:19:03.120 them to fester they are pretty hard to fix actually you can get into a vortex and i've traveled to an

00:19:09.160 awful lot of countries around the world and met a lot of really nice people and smart people

00:19:12.820 who live in awful countries awful countries have you been to argentina everyone should go to 1.00

00:19:18.840 argentina because argentina is a lot like the u.s and a lot like australia and canada for that matter

00:19:25.520 it's a beautiful country with great people really smart impressive people a deep culture natural

00:19:31.560 resources that places like china dream about um and has every advantage and they got into a spiral 0.89

00:19:38.000 of self-hatred and bad rule and allowed a series of leaders to just absolutely wreck the place and

00:19:44.280 wreck their spirit and when you wreck a people's spirit it's pretty hard to fix that so if i were

00:19:50.300 australian and i kind of wish i was australian actually at this point i love your language i love

00:19:54.700 your profanity i love your sense of humor i love the aplomb with what you deal with dangerous animals

00:20:00.520 it's also impressive and cool um but if i were an australian i'd wake up every single morning

00:20:05.100 and say i'm an australian right i'm an australian i'm way more impressive and when great britain on

00:20:12.280 whose behalf you fought from 1900 in the boer war all the way through afghanistan the number of

00:20:18.800 australians who've died at the command of corrupt leaders in great britain is unbelievable australia i

00:20:26.220 was just reading this because i'm seeing all the the digger monuments around and i'm really interested in

00:20:29.900 that and i was reading yesterday that australia in the first world war lost 1.2 percent of its

00:20:36.280 entire population in that war its entire population the casualty rate among australian troops in the

00:20:42.920 first war was 68 percent killed or wounded highest in the world the united states by contrast and we

00:20:47.960 commemorate the first world war armistice day 0.1 percent so you gave disproportionately to that and

00:20:56.140 every subsequent effort on behalf of other countries which is a selfless and kind thing to do and you

00:21:02.400 should be lauded for it but i think especially with the assange stuff that's just a sign that it's time

00:21:10.080 to act on your own behalf and defend your own country and i hope that you will thank you

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00:23:05.200 how good was that can we just give another round of applause to our special guest

00:23:12.580 we um we are going to do a few question and answers but uh i'll start with the first one tucker

00:23:23.700 obviously you've interviewed many people who's the most challenging and why

00:23:28.400 people i've interviewed 0.90

00:23:31.580 well i've interviewed some true lunatics

00:23:36.480 i've interviewed a lot of drunk people people who have anxiety attacks on camera live

00:23:42.960 i've interviewed an awful lot of politicians where you just feel like there's something so dark coming

00:23:49.040 off them you know you get that feeling like i'm not really sure what you're into

00:23:52.860 and i don't really want to know but i'm pretty sure drinking human blood is part of it you just

00:23:57.960 you get that feeling

00:23:59.040 i mean honestly if i'm being honest i think trump is one of the hardest to interview

00:24:05.460 not and i don't i love trump personally actually and i agree with him on so many things and i'm

00:24:11.360 certainly rooting for him now the department of justice justice in the united states is trying to

00:24:15.940 take him out of the presidential race on utterly fake charges so i'm totally for trump in those ways

00:24:21.320 but he's difficult to interview um because he's what's the word discursive he sort of goes off in

00:24:28.240 other directions which very often are hilarious so you go in there with a set of questions like you

00:24:34.040 know like your dutiful little dorky journalist i gotta ask him about this gotta ask him about that

00:24:37.820 and you get to about midway through the first question he's off wow another thing and you just sort 0.76

00:24:44.520 of realize no my job is not to get my questions answered they won't be anyway just enjoy it

00:24:51.380 sit back and think of england um so yeah that's difficult unless you sorry i shouldn't have said

00:24:57.740 that excuse me um unless you approach it with the right cast of mind which is just let it go this is

00:25:04.120 this is a kind of performance art you're in the middle of the installation you know what i mean

00:25:08.140 uh so i'm interviewing him soon again and um and i'm really looking forward to it i mean i'll just

00:25:15.640 say one last thing it is i mean i've been doing this for 33 years it's the only job i've ever had

00:25:22.460 and my views on it have changed really dramatically and my views about my co-workers who i despise

00:25:27.280 um have also changed dramatically despise more than really anybody uh in the world um but and that's a

00:25:34.940 heartfelt sentiment too i'm not just saying that i really mean it from the bottom of my soul

00:25:38.180 um but my views on it have changed and i think that one of the one of the mistakes that journalists

00:25:44.160 make a lot of them are are insecure and mediocre as people which is why they're in the business in

00:25:48.320 the first place so they can suck up to power and feel strong when they're weak inside um but one of

00:25:53.320 the mistakes they make when they go into an interview is they're thinking about the people back in the

00:25:56.920 newsroom and they're trying to impress them that's the real audience for the interview and so you see

00:26:01.220 them ask these questions these inherently fruitless questions all of which are designed not to elicit

00:26:06.260 information from the person being interviewed but to illustrate the journalist's moral superiority over

00:26:10.720 the person he's talking to well is it true mr putin and you eat children i do not eat children

00:26:15.860 but you do and he sort of has to wonder like does the guy expect putin to be like well it's funny you

00:26:21.620 asked i do eat children actually um and you caught me you caught me and i'm going to tell you now

00:26:26.060 exclusively that i eat children of course not the whole point is to let all the other dummies back 0.93

00:26:31.140 in the newsroom at abc news or nbc or what you know whatever these ridiculous absurd totally discredited

00:26:36.000 news outlets to let them know that the journalist is brave and i feel at my advanced age at 55 that

00:26:43.160 that's actually kind of not my role that my role is to elicit information to the extent that i can for

00:26:47.600 people watching and in the case of interviewing someone like putin about whom i do not have strong

00:26:51.940 feelings by the way i should say i still don't smart interesting very russian i'm very american

00:26:57.480 you know my goal in that interview was not to let people know putin's bad they can decide for

00:27:03.160 themselves they're adults don't anybody tell you who you have to hate i decide that i'm an adult man

00:27:08.740 i pay my taxes i'll decide who i hate who you what do you think i'm your dog no you know if i hate 0.60

00:27:14.740 putin i can hate putin if i like putin i can like putin it's completely up to me not up to you

00:27:18.160 okay so anyway um but my job is just to get they haven't heard him talk to even get him talking

00:27:23.960 just get a corpus of information out there from which they can make up their own minds

00:27:28.700 and i took in a lot of abuse for doing that oh you're his puppet or whatever shut up 0.98

00:27:34.480 you know the holy was completely ridiculous and in point of fact i mean they've told me to hate 0.96

00:27:39.440 putin for the last four years i've never figured out why i mean i i don't want to live in russia 0.81

00:27:45.380 i'm not russian they don't have the freedom of speech that we have in my country therefore i

00:27:49.420 don't want to live there it's kind of that simple um but i don't know why i should be mad at putin

00:27:53.980 great britain doesn't have freedom of speech do you know what i mean so like if you really think

00:27:59.640 about it i'm mad and should be mad at people who have hurt my family people are like wrecking my

00:28:04.940 country and driving inflation up to a point where my kids can't afford houses and filling my

00:28:08.560 neighborhood with people who aren't from there and who are hostile and making our country 1.00

00:28:13.420 completely you know shattered the social fabric is gone who did that did putin do that no joe biden

00:28:19.860 did that so if it's a question if the question is who is a greater threat to your family vladimir

00:28:26.560 putin or joe biden vladimir putin never called me a racist like what are you even talking about i 0.85

00:28:32.820 don't have any feelings about vladimir putin this guy's a lunatic who's wrecking my country 0.75

00:28:36.180 so again don't tell me how i'm supposed to feel i reserve that right for myself because i'm a free 0.91

00:28:42.300 man it's that simple thanks ducker i had a i saw a couple of our friends from the press gallery have

00:28:50.640 a smile when you uh were getting into the free press so i might ask paul sakal from the sydney

00:28:56.400 morning herald to ask a question great thank you

00:29:00.120 you've almost thanks for your speech of course mr carlson um it's the media can be extremely

00:29:08.880 negative so it's nice to hear uplifting comments about our country it's an amazing country it is

00:29:13.020 and i think we forget that in australia oftentimes i appreciate that you've pre-empted uh my question

00:29:17.940 on putin putin putin which i think you i think you did strategically because you knew it's what

00:29:23.860 we'd ask putin he's so bad and i also appreciate that did he make you take the covid shot take the

00:29:31.020 what the covid shot no he didn't sorry sorry sorry sorry

00:29:39.580 the the covid shot saved probably tens of millions oh yeah yeah definitely definitely

00:29:47.180 safe and effective this is why everyone loves the media probably a hundred times more

00:29:50.980 it's like a time capsule it's like it's like you're like the last japanese soldier on okinawa you

00:29:59.040 think the war's still going no it didn't save millions of lives it's hilarious sorry i'm sorry

00:30:05.020 i'm being boorish can i get the full answering without interruption okay i beg your pardon um

00:30:09.340 i'm interested in in in your position on putin that many people in this crowd would adore

00:30:16.040 conservative prime minister in this country like john howard tony abbott main mainstream right

00:30:21.360 wingers like boris johnson australian liberals some of their mps are in the crowd are vehemently

00:30:27.640 anti-putin they believe he's a reprehensible figure who doesn't believe in the values of conservatism

00:30:33.560 such as the rule of law and democracy which gives us the freedoms we have in our country

00:30:37.480 uh-huh i'm interested do you feel any do you feel any level of shame or regret that 0.96

00:30:43.640 you you were you were termed a useful idiot and then post your interview vladimir putin himself said 0.90

00:30:50.020 in his russian media that he was surprised at how weak your questions were and he also said that you 0.98

00:30:55.780 were wrong when you said that no other journalist had asked to interview him he said that's not true

00:31:00.520 we only thought tucker was the only person to report fairly i thought that you

00:31:04.460 were describing putin as a psychopathic liar and yet now you're taking his word for things 0.95

00:31:09.880 do you i mean let me let me just let me just let me let me um let me just quickly unpack your absurd 0.68

00:31:18.040 soliloquy if i can um first i i'm i'm stuck on the idea that boris johnson is a right winger 0.56

00:31:24.360 i do you know boris johnson i do boris johnson is uh is a criminal buffoon who like so many

00:31:31.600 who claim to love ukraine is single-handedly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of

00:31:36.840 thousands of ukrainian men in this war the ukraine cannot win and i would just i would refer you to

00:31:43.120 wikipedia how many how many more people does russia have than ukraine do you know 100 million

00:31:50.900 100 million and in a land war that's a relevant number it is not possible for ukraine to beat 0.88

00:31:57.300 russia the best they can do is sue for peace that's been known including by zelensky who wanted

00:32:02.720 that since the early days of this conflict and boris johnson on orders from the biden administration

00:32:09.540 shut down and this is not a disputed fact this is a fact admitted by everybody now shut down the

00:32:15.300 peace negotiations almost two years ago and ukraine has been completely destroyed and now zelensky has

00:32:20.580 passed a law allowing foreign corporations to own land there so you tell me what ukraine is going to

00:32:25.720 look like in 30 years when all of it is owned by black rock and multinational corporations and its 0.93

00:32:31.900 population is not ukrainian okay so so the tragedy of what's happened in ukraine orchestrated by the 0.93

00:32:40.020 western powers including your government and i hope you do and and driven by my government i feel shame

00:32:45.080 about it i hope you do too is really one of the great crimes of my lifetime so the idea that somehow

00:32:50.680 if you're against that you're for putin well of course that's absurd and by the way speaking of

00:32:55.660 your friend boris johnson he attacked me of course ad hominem and so i called him he was a journalist

00:33:01.060 not surprisingly a man of low character not shocking and so i called him and i said well you've called

00:33:06.820 me all these names why don't you sit down for a conversation i happen to be in your rainy depressing

00:33:10.600 slum london and we could have a conversation and he said i won't do that unless you pay me a million

00:33:16.760 dollars that's a fact that's an in non-dispute i have the text messages so if that is the credible

00:33:24.540 source of the slur that look if i were a toady of putin or i loved putin i would just say so

00:33:28.940 because why do i care i've already been fired i don't work for anybody i have no incentive and by

00:33:35.080 the way it's perfectly fine if people love putin well i don't understand what that has to do with

00:33:38.800 anything we are citizens of different countries we should judge first and foremost our own leaders

00:33:44.400 how's our country doing how are my children doing what's their future look like none of that has

00:33:49.220 anything to do with putin except to the extent that you all this country sit back your government

00:33:53.860 allows the biden administration to push us into nuclear war which is where we are right now right

00:33:58.260 on the cusp of it and somehow that's not a story that is that putin doesn't respect human rights

00:34:03.900 or the rule of law okay well just today julian assange was released after 12 years

00:34:10.100 12 years in custody and your government did nothing the uk made it possible and the united

00:34:16.960 states demanded it you tell me how that's consistent with the rule of law or democracy

00:34:20.780 it's not it's ruled by the intel agencies it's lawlessness and it's a crime so i'm not i mean

00:34:26.760 i'm not saying that we're morally equivalent to putin i'm not saying that what i'm saying is our

00:34:31.440 concern should be first and foremost how are our countries run and we give our own leaders a pass

00:34:36.200 time and time again because they point to some other creep on the world stage and say he's bad

00:34:42.040 kim jong-un is bad well yeah of course he's bad that's why i don't live in north korea that's why 0.80

00:34:47.140 i don't live in russia i have no interest in living in russia but the point is you're bad too 0.90

00:34:52.440 and the fact that he's bad does not allow you to continue being bad what and the last thing i will

00:35:00.100 say that i really feel deeply and i really resent on an emotional level and you'll pardon my passion

00:35:06.360 i don't know you i'm sure be very close friends if we did know each other but i i really resent what

00:35:12.400 i have seen across the west in the past 15 years and it's a sea change from my youth when my father

00:35:16.840 was a reporter this alignment between media organizations and the government i find disgusting

00:35:22.880 actually i i think it's it's a perfect it's a perfect inversion of what you're supposed to do

00:35:30.120 if you're a journalist your job is to challenge power on behalf of the powerless it is not to align

00:35:36.560 with the powerful against the powerless and that is precisely what you have done i watched your abc this

00:35:42.860 morning in my hotel room for about 20 minutes until i looked around for a vomit bag and i watched

00:35:49.240 it was one of the most gross i couldn't even believe it was real the first story this is

00:35:54.060 unbelievable the first story the first story was assange god bless them that is the biggest story

00:35:58.380 the second story was a family of four found dead in a house i think in a suburb of sydney but it may

00:36:05.640 have been melbourne i beg your pardon but four australians found dead of what they suspected was a drug

00:36:11.100 od apparently they've been taking a new synthetic opioid that has emerged in australia and is killing

00:36:16.580 people now this is a huge problem where i live much bigger than here so i but i'm familiar with it

00:36:19.780 and the reporter said it's probably the synthetic opioid and it's been seen and they're dead

00:36:24.520 on to the next story the next story was the australian government's new law that will require a

00:36:29.600 prescription to buy nicotine products and we were treated to a 15 minute lecture on abc whatever the

00:36:37.660 hell that is about how nicotine is dangerous and we need to keep it out of the hands of australians and 1.00

00:36:42.520 i'm like wait a second nicotine first of all is not dangerous that's not true it's factually

00:36:46.420 incorrect you know nothing about the science a b compared to what compared to what oh we have this

00:36:53.760 new synthetic opioid that's killing people the government not too concerned what they're really

00:36:58.260 concerned about is that people might be using nicotine which by the way has the byproduct of

00:37:03.280 raising testosterone levels and making people a little harder to command that's a massive threat

00:37:07.100 so this is the point where the media gets involved and says wait a second let's chart the death toll

00:37:15.560 from vaping versus fentanyl maybe one's a little worse than the other and what exactly are you doing

00:37:21.200 about it why don't you press your ministers and your prime minister what are you doing about it

00:37:24.840 about drug use and the answer is nothing instead they're hassling people who adults who want to use

00:37:31.280 nicotine which i would highly recommend to every person in this room as a life enhancing god-given

00:37:36.080 chemical that's just my view but i'm like a media should be like holding these people to the fire

00:37:42.920 on that or the vax injuries and deaths which are manifold they're everywhere are you joking

00:37:49.260 and in and and like countries that actually believe in science and there are a few in europe

00:37:54.580 they're looking at the and every vaccine causes injuries every single one one of my children was

00:37:59.500 injured by a flu vaccine this is known in the united states we're not allowed to sue we can sue

00:38:03.700 makers of playground equipment totally fine you can sue anybody for anything gun manufacturers you 0.61

00:38:08.200 cannot sue vaccine manufacturers and every vaccine causes injuries every single one and there's a

00:38:12.100 database publicly available in the united states that shows you how many and the covet vax the mrna

00:38:17.260 vax from pfizer has caused more injuries than all self-reported injuries than all the previous

00:38:22.680 vaccination campaigns for the last 50 years combined and no one in the media has written a story about it

00:38:27.900 because well there are a couple reasons one is that pfizer is one of the largest advertisers on

00:38:32.940 television in the united states and the point is not to sell the product and i worked in television

00:38:36.880 my whole life so i can this is not speculation the point is not to sell some weird drug for

00:38:42.080 rheumatoid arthritis to tv viewers because people can't prescribe their own drugs no that's not the

00:38:46.780 point this is not a retail sales pitch this is an insurance policy that the drug makers are buying

00:38:52.920 with the big media companies where your biggest advertiser maybe if we have a lot of vax injuries

00:38:57.340 from a brand new product you won't say too much and they don't i think that's completely corrupt and

00:39:02.000 shameful and and i have to say you know i was i was fired over a year ago so i don't have to like

00:39:08.240 worry about this or be defensive about it because i like don't have a job so there is a certain freedom

00:39:13.020 in unemployment and so i sympathize with you guys who work for these companies that are like truly

00:39:18.220 corrupt and you sort of know that but you don't want to deal with it because you've got kids and a

00:39:20.800 mortgage i get it i've been there but let's just be honest everybody else knows what it is everyone 0.86

00:39:25.560 else knows how corrupt you are and so there's a reason they have contempt for you i'm just saying

00:39:29.800 thanks tucker um on on that on that on that note i might pass you over to 0.96

00:39:40.000 andrew green from the abc oh i love it you're gonna take my nicotine it's dangerous

00:39:46.760 good afternoon tucker a prescription for nicotine okay i'm i missed that segment this morning it's 0.98

00:39:54.360 shocking you should watch it it's the dumbest thing i've ever seen on television

00:39:57.180 um i do want to ask about a country you haven't mentioned today and that's china but before that i 0.97

00:40:06.640 wanted your response to the former vice president mike pence who has tweeted in the past hour or so that

00:40:13.900 the assange developments are a a miscarriage of justice by the biden administration

00:40:20.700 and that assange endangered the lives of our troops can i just apologize for something that i said and

00:40:29.240 i and i and it's my fault when i ascribe sort of all badness to the biden administration that's

00:40:35.000 actually not true you know the worst things that happen in our capital city are a bipartisan effort

00:40:39.280 and they are that's just a fact and so i don't want to be partisan and claim it's all the democrats

00:40:44.080 fault it's absolutely not on the worst things that are happening in america immigration and

00:40:48.760 pointless wars and covid policy it was both parties guys like mike pence aligning with guys

00:40:54.400 well joe biden's not a person anymore but the people around around joe biden and you know the

00:41:01.920 truth is you want to the actual i won't be boorish but mike pompeo was trump's cia director and it

00:41:08.080 emerged and it's factual that as cia director when assange was locked in the ecuadoran embassy for

00:41:13.900 however many seven years or something um that he plotted to murder him and assange had never been

00:41:20.540 charged with any crime in the united states at all in under our system and yours you can't just

00:41:25.420 murder people because they embarrass you so assange leaked cia secrets and pompeo was director of cia

00:41:31.120 plotted to murder him that's a fact and the remarkable thing is that no one arrested mike

00:41:36.120 pompeo he's still walking free he's a guy who plotted a murder he's a federal bureaucrat in a

00:41:43.080 democracy federal bureaucrats people just like appointed to a job as a political favor can't just

00:41:48.120 kill other people they don't like that's not allowed speaking of russia and yet in my this is aimed

00:41:55.780 at my country people are like no that's totally reasonable like pompeo's an upstanding guy no he's 0.79

00:42:00.360 a criminal he's a criminal and he tried to murder the guy who exposed his crimes it's super simple

00:42:05.320 it's what the mafia used to do it's why they won every jury trial killed two jurors the others acquit

00:42:09.360 and he tried to do that and it blows my mind and i think i think mike pence is a sad weak man but i

00:42:16.620 think that's an incredibly shameful tweet i read it and i was enraged by it and i'm just sorry that i

00:42:21.060 didn't describe the problem in greater detail previously

00:42:23.820 i'll get on to china now uh you may or may not be aware of a strategic partnership australia is

00:42:43.620 involved with with your country and the united kingdom called orcas where we will get nuclear 0.77

00:42:50.040 powered submarines can i get your assessment of that and it was largely in response to china

00:42:55.880 do you think china poses a threat here i think that um 0.99

00:43:00.160 you know i first of all i think it's very complicated but i think the overview is this china

00:43:05.780 has 1.4 billion people and not enough resources or land australia has 26 million people and

00:43:12.700 a sparsely populated continent that is brimming overflowing with resources that countries with

00:43:20.920 expanding economies need and i don't know how expensive your politicians are i'm guessing not

00:43:25.380 very so i don't think it'd be too much of a lift for china to just buy them all and i assume they

00:43:31.900 already are doing that i mean obviously they are doing that and they're doing that in my country too

00:43:35.180 they bought the current president's son um so i'm not mad at china for that well they did they

00:43:41.600 bought hunter biden i mean that's the whole story and um and it's proven okay so i'm not mad at china

00:43:47.240 about that just for the record i'm not particularly anti-china um i don't want to live in china it's not 1.00

00:43:52.440 my system uh at all and i find a lot of parts of the culture repugnant on the other hand i see china 1.00

00:43:57.760 in china a country acting in its own interest so i'm not mad about that i'm mad about the countries

00:44:02.640 like my own and possibly yours that allow themselves to be taken advantage of that's the truly shameful

00:44:07.480 thing so i don't hate again i just don't hate china you know i see a rapidly growing country

00:44:13.060 that will do whatever it can to help itself and if it crushes people in the way it will okay so that

00:44:20.500 that's pretty reasonable that's kind of a you know time-tested model your job is not to be crushed

00:44:25.760 and so i'd be very very very concerned about i don't think you face an imminent invasion or anything

00:44:30.120 um i do think that the concerns about china just the the size differential the resource question

00:44:38.740 population these are the fears that have pushed generations of australian governments into a

00:44:44.300 counterproductive alliance with the united states and great britain i think the view here is that the

00:44:50.440 u.s will rescue us if we ever really have a problem and i don't think that's true i'm sorry to say that

00:44:56.500 and i and i'm just saying that is i just don't think it's true and i think you're unwise for

00:45:00.920 believing it's true and i think a lot of people on taiwan thought that was true it turns out not to

00:45:04.880 be true um i think a lot of pashtuns in afghanistan thought that was true a lot of montagnards in

00:45:10.320 vietnam thought that was true you know a lot of christian iraqis thought that was true and all

00:45:14.480 them are the hard way that it's not true that in the end countries act in their own interest and in a

00:45:19.020 democratic system leadership changes every four or eight years with different views expressing you know

00:45:24.980 evolved opinions from the public so no democratic country can be longitudinally reliable as a

00:45:31.600 partner simply because its government changes so often that's just a fact it's not attacking i'm

00:45:35.560 not attacking the united states i'm not attacking you i'm just saying if you think that allowing

00:45:40.200 the u.s government to stage you know foreign troops on your soil they didn't beat you in a war

00:45:45.900 did they then why do they have foreign troops here that's i mean i'm sorry i know i'm offending

00:45:49.640 everybody it's just a fact and i don't know if that's like a huge part of your economy but like

00:45:53.680 rule one in my country is we don't have foreign troops on our soil because we're a sovereign

00:45:56.440 country and i don't understand why all these countries allow it i mean i love the united

00:46:00.480 states i'm glad you know that we're we've got the whip hand i guess but i just i don't think any

00:46:05.540 country should put up with that no you can't have soldiers in my country go away you know what i mean

00:46:10.680 like we can be friends but having troops on my soil suggests not a friendship but a master slave

00:46:16.100 relationship and i'm just not into it at all and i don't think you should be into it either

00:46:20.260 thanks tucker one final question from the press gallery uh cat wong from aap

00:46:27.880 hi tucker thank you so much for your address today um so you talked a little bit about immigration and

00:46:35.700 in the past you've talked about how uh white australians americans europeans are being replaced

00:46:41.020 by non-white immigrants in what is often referred to as the great replacement theory this is the same 0.55

00:46:46.300 have i said that whites are being replaced well i don't i don't think i said that well it's been

00:46:52.220 mentioned on your show 4 000 times and really when did i say that on your i said whites are being

00:46:58.180 replaced you have said that before really yeah i i would challenge you to cite that because i'm

00:47:02.720 pretty sure i haven't said that i said i said native born americans have are being replaced including

00:47:07.100 blacks native born americans native born americans americans who like black americans have been 0.64

00:47:12.060 african americans have been in the united states for in many cases their families over 400 years

00:47:16.080 and their concerns are every bit as real and valid and alive to me as the concerns of white people

00:47:21.780 whose families have been there 400 years so i i've never said that whites are being replaced

00:47:25.080 not one time and you can't say that i'm sure um we just met but when our relationship starts with

00:47:31.960 a lie it makes it tough to be friends so let's let's pull that back i'm happy to explain what i do

00:47:36.540 think well you actually can't say it because i didn't say it and i don't believe it and i'm telling

00:47:41.200 you that to your face so why don't you just accept me at face value my concern is that the people who

00:47:45.760 are born in the country are the main responsibility of its leaders and as noted earlier when those

00:47:50.640 leaders shift their concern from the people whose responsibility it is to take care of

00:47:54.840 to people around the world to put their priorities above that of their own citizens that's immoral

00:47:59.120 and they are being replaced in my country people who are born in the united states

00:48:02.840 and the birth rate tells the whole story they are not at replacement rate and so the u.s population

00:48:08.100 is growing because we're importing people from other countries and my view is that happy people

00:48:12.360 have children and a functioning economy allows them to do that and we don't have that and so you

00:48:17.380 need to fix the economy and fix the culture and make it so that people who want to have kids can 0.99

00:48:22.500 you don't just go for the quick sugar fix of importing new people like that's my position

00:48:28.380 and if you think that's racist that's your problem i never called you racist

00:48:32.840 but of course you but of course you are suggesting and i must say one of the reasons people don't

00:48:38.460 like people like you in the media is that you never say exactly what you mean your slurs are all

00:48:44.720 by implication and you're about to tell me the great replacement theory is racist or anti-semitic

00:48:48.600 whatever i i've said what i've said to you right now like a hundred times in public i hope to if i live

00:48:53.700 long enough to say it a hundred more times i think it's completely honest and real not racist or scary

00:48:59.560 it's factually true it's not a theory it's a fact and you're the whole point of your question

00:49:05.620 was to be like you're a scary racist well i haven't my response is no i'm not okay well

00:49:09.540 how about no more lying in your questions and then i'll answer it okay well um this is the same 0.99

00:49:16.100 theory or as you say idea that has inspired the new york buffalo shooting where 11 black americans

00:49:21.820 two white americans were killed it's also inspired it's not first of all it's inspired the worst 0.99

00:49:27.660 the one of the worst australian how do they get people this stupid in the media i guess it doesn't 0.99

00:49:32.400 pay well look i i'm sorry i've lived among people like you for too long and i i don't mean to i don't 1.00

00:49:38.520 mean to call you call you stupid maybe you're just pretending to be but i've never i'm totally against 0.75

00:49:44.020 violence i'm totally against the war in ukraine for example which doubtless you support and like all 0.99

00:49:49.580 dutiful liberals support more carnage i don't i hate mass shootings actually nothing i said what does it

00:49:55.680 mean to inspire something my views are not bigoted against any group they're honest they're factual

00:50:02.260 that's not hate that's reality and my views derive from my deep concern for americans actually americans

00:50:09.800 aren't having kids because they can't afford to and nobody in charge cares and so that's my position

00:50:14.900 that doesn't inspire mass shootings how dare you try to tie me to some lunatic who murdered people

00:50:19.960 how dare you actually and in fact i mean do you know what i mean i'd be like you know hitler wore

00:50:26.380 those shoes a lot of people are saying that you're like hitler can you explain those shoes hitler wore

00:50:30.840 exactly the same shoes and you're like i've got nothing to do with hitler that's how i feel about

00:50:35.300 your absurd disingenuous question right so therefore you support gun control what i thought it could

00:50:42.540 get dumber but it did no i don't support disarming law-abiding people so they can't defend themselves 0.69

00:50:49.280 so the government has a monopoly on violence i don't think so first of all in my country that's illegal 0.97

00:50:54.280 as you know but moreover it should be illegal in every country a sovereign person has the right to

00:51:00.040 defend himself and his family period and that said i'm totally opposed to harming anyone anyone have

00:51:11.120 you been calling are you concerned about the war in ukraine and the countless innocents being

00:51:14.920 murdered there every single day i doubt you are probably putin bad i am i'm a christian i hate

00:51:20.220 violence i hate mass shootings i have guns at home and often on my person when i'm in the united states

00:51:25.780 i'm proud to say because i want to defend myself and those i love against violence that's the point

00:51:33.060 i'm not perpetrating crimes i'm not shooting strangers i'm defending what i love

00:51:39.920 and if you're against that i guess i would ask why why would you be against that

00:51:44.280 well so you don't think you harbor any kind of responsibility for these hate crimes

00:51:48.240 i'm sorry i'm trying to be charitable i'm trying to be charitable

00:51:53.740 i was like maybe you're just pretending to be dumb now i don't think it's an act

00:51:58.360 tucker thank you uh for taking those questions i'm sure you enjoyed uh actually i loved it i just feel

00:52:06.640 sorry i mean because i got here and the country's so unbelievably beautiful and the people are so

00:52:10.680 cheerful and funny and cool and smart i'm like your media's got to be better than ours it can't

00:52:15.740 just be a bunch of castrated robots reading questions from the boss 0.96

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00:57:22.300 concerned and i don't understand like i guess i do understand why the institutional republican

00:57:28.600 party in washington hasn't done more to secure elections we have this problem of electronic

00:57:32.320 voting machines which are not more efficient they don't produce more precise answers than

00:57:37.440 written ballots and they don't get us the tally quicker than written ballots so the question is

00:57:41.280 why do we have them okay that's one area but the much more significant fact i would say is that the

00:57:47.100 way americans vote was changed completely using the pretext of covid and the idea was that americans

00:57:53.060 were so sick with this killer virus that emerged from a pangolin in a wet market they were selling

00:57:57.380 mammals in a seafood market for some reason in wuhan they were so incapacitated they couldn't

00:58:01.660 actually make it to the polls and so they needed to have their ballots anonymously picked up in these

00:58:06.800 drop boxes without using voter id and then nothing with voter fraud at all it was purely a medical

00:58:11.060 response well now covid is of course still around hasn't gone anywhere once fauci created it it's

00:58:15.580 going to be here forever but we're not worried about covid anymore for some reason and but the

00:58:21.520 voting changes remain in place and it's very clear to me that the point of them was to abet voter fraud

00:58:27.400 obviously and i don't think that you okay that's fine there's voter fraud around the world but you

00:58:32.520 can't simultaneously claim that you're here to defend democracy and abet voter fraud at the same time

00:58:36.900 because voter fraud undermines democracy very obviously more than anything else right if people

00:58:42.100 can't trust election outcomes you don't have a democracy and americans can and i'm very distressed

00:58:46.660 about it and i don't really know but there seems to be no appetite to do anything about it i mean one

00:58:51.640 of the things you know and i won't go on this last thing i'll say but the question of voter id is not a

00:58:56.600 question in most civilized countries france for example you don't have an id you can't vote

00:59:00.220 because how do we know who you are and we take elections seriously even in france primitive stinky

00:59:06.500 france takes elections so much more seriously than we do it's it's shameful to me as an american

00:59:12.740 and so but we were told you can't do that because african americans just don't have ids

00:59:16.820 really is there evidence for that so in my country you can't do anything without a government id

00:59:22.440 you can't cash a check you can't have a bank account you can't buy a pack of cigarettes you can't

00:59:27.860 check into a hotel you can't get on an airplane you can't get on a greyhound bus you can't do anything

00:59:31.980 without a government issued id of course you can't drive a car and so some enterprising

00:59:37.420 independent journalists went out and tried to get the numbers on this and it turns out

00:59:40.740 nobody doesn't have a government id if you don't have a government id in the united states that means

00:59:45.200 you can have no contact with government you get nothing from government you don't exist in the eyes

00:59:48.680 of the government without a government id so the adult population of americans of any color who don't

00:59:53.660 have government-issued ids is like approximately zero okay it's like someone in a nursing home

00:59:58.600 and yet nobody in the media noted this and to this day we don't have voter id laws in state after

01:00:05.860 state because it's considered racist and it's yet another example of the way that ruthless people

01:00:13.020 with i think evil intent leverage the inherent decency of the citizens of our country to get their way 0.99

01:00:20.820 if they said we're just going to commit voter fraud and if you don't like it we're going to shoot you

01:00:24.760 the people of the united states would rise up as one and put them down but instead they say you're 0.97

01:00:29.900 a bad person if you ask questions you're a racist well no decent person wants to be a racist including

01:00:34.560 me that's awful i think god created every person with identical moral value identical we are all

01:00:40.960 creations that's my view so racism is like abhorrent to me so i don't want to be called racist and now

01:00:46.320 there's anyone else in my in my sweet country because americans are really decent people so that claim

01:00:51.820 right there is enough to shut down the opposition sufficient to roll over it and that is exactly

01:00:57.980 what's happened and i and i hope we're at a point where we just stop taking them seriously these are

01:01:01.920 people who don't care about the meaning of words who will accuse you of abetting a mass shooting

01:01:06.780 because you think your country has too many illegal aliens like it's freaking insane so obviously they 1.00

01:01:12.340 don't really mean it they don't really care they just want you to be quiet because you're inconvenient 0.84

01:01:15.980 and my strong advice to you is don't be quiet because if you're quiet i mean anyone anyone who

01:01:25.100 would force you and your children to take the covid vax long after it became clear it was neither safe

01:01:29.920 nor effective anyone who would do that i mean what wouldn't they do to you honestly like they've shown

01:01:36.040 who they are as far as i'm concerned thank you tucker amazing thank you thank you so much thank you sir

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The Tucker Carlson Show - July 03, 2024

Tucker Carlson Responds to Julian Assange’s Release During Australia Speech

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