The Tucker Carlson Show - February 07, 2024


Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

169.33572

Word Count

786

Sentence Count

72

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Vladimir Putin is the most powerful man in the world, and yet he's not getting the attention he deserves. In this episode, Alex and Vanessa discuss why they think it's a good idea for him to be interviewed, and why the West should do the same. They also discuss the risks of doing so, and how they plan to handle the inevitable censorship of the interview if it's ever leaked to the public by the White House or other governments. This episode was produced and edited by Alex Blumberg and Vanessa Grigoreva. It was shot live to tape and unedited. It is not behind a paywall, and anyone can watch the entire thing shot live, unedited, on our website, where you can watch it for free. Elon Musk, his great credit, has promised not to suppress or block this interview once it's posted on his platform, X, and we're grateful for that. But you have no reason to agree with what Putin may say in this interview. And then, like a free citizen, you can decide whether you want to be free, not a slave, and then, decide for yourself, decide whether to decide to be a slave. -- you can be free and be a citizen, or a free-citizen, or free-thinker, or decide to decide yourself. Thanks for choosing yourself, yourself, not as much as you can choose. -Tucker and Vanessa, and Alex, and the rest of the crew at Tuckercarlson in Moscow, Russia. Thank you so much for coming to Moscow to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and thank you for being brave enough to let us do so. Thank you for listening, and for letting us do our job, not just a little bit, and not just one, but a whole lot more, and letting us know that we can do our jobs well enough, and enough of a job well done, thank you, and a lot of work, and thanks for being kind enough to do it, and good enough to give us a chance to do our best, and so much more, too much to be kinder, and keep us the chance to watch the interview, and let us all the time we can see it, too. . - Thank you, Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What do you think of it? 2:30 - What are your thoughts on the interview? 3:15 - What would you like to hear from Putin?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We're in Moscow tonight. We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. We'll
00:00:15.240 be doing that soon. There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously, so we've
00:00:21.060 thought about it carefully over many months. Here's why we're doing it. First, because it's
00:00:26.220 our job. We're in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that's
00:00:32.620 reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed. They have no real idea what's
00:00:38.480 happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine. But they should
00:00:44.140 know. They're paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive. The war
00:00:50.060 in Ukraine is a human disaster. It's left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation
00:00:56.080 of young Ukrainians, and has depopulated the largest country in Europe. But the long-term
00:01:02.260 effects are even more profound. This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade
00:01:08.520 alliances, and the sanctions that followed have as well. And in total, they have upended
00:01:14.120 the world economy. The post-World War II economic order, a system that guaranteed prosperity in
00:01:20.240 the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it, the dominance
00:01:25.060 of the U.S. dollar. These are not small changes. They are history-altering developments. They
00:01:31.460 will define the lives of our grandchildren. Most of the world understands this perfectly well.
00:01:36.020 They can see it. Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like. And yet
00:01:41.820 the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware. They think that nothing has
00:01:47.080 really changed. And they think that because no one has told them the truth. Their media outlets
00:01:53.120 are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers. And they do that mostly by omission.
00:01:59.560 For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoken to scores
00:02:04.660 of people from Ukraine, and they have done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
00:02:10.900 We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelensky, and we hope he accepts.
00:02:14.520 But the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews.
00:02:19.220 They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky's demand that the U.S.
00:02:24.820 enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it. That is not journalism. It is
00:02:31.240 government propaganda. Propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people. At the same time,
00:02:37.780 our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he's a new
00:02:42.560 consumer brand. Not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the
00:02:47.160 other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin. Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded
00:02:53.840 Ukraine or what his goals are now. They've never heard his voice. That's wrong. Americans have a
00:03:00.160 right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in, and we have the right to tell them
00:03:04.600 about it because we are Americans too. Freedom of speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to
00:03:10.980 say what we believe. That right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House. But they're
00:03:17.100 trying anyway. Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages
00:03:22.980 and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media. They did this in order to stop a Putin
00:03:27.560 interview that we were planning. Last month, we're pretty certain they did exactly the same thing
00:03:32.360 once again. But this time, we came to Moscow anyway. We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.
00:03:39.800 We are here because we love the United States. We wanted to remain prosperous and free. We paid for
00:03:46.700 this trip ourselves. We took no money from any government or group. Nor are we charging people
00:03:51.240 to see the interview. It is not behind a paywall. Anyone can watch the entire thing shot live to tape
00:03:57.140 and unedited on our website, tuckercarlson.com. Elon Musk, his great credit, has promised not to
00:04:03.620 suppress or block this interview once we post it on his platform, X, and we're grateful for that.
00:04:09.980 Western governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video
00:04:13.880 on other, less principled platforms because that's what they do. They are afraid of information
00:04:19.620 they can't control. But you have no reason to be afraid of it. We are not encouraging you to agree
00:04:25.940 with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it. You should know as much
00:04:31.860 as you can. And then, like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself. Thanks.