The Tucker Carlson Show - Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin

Tuckercarlson: We're in Moscow tonight to interview Vladimir Putin . He says the war in Ukraine is a human disaster, but the long-term effects are even more profound . The post-World War II economic order, a system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it, the dominance of the U.S. dollar .

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 0.99

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, 0.99

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 0.72

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show - February 07, 2024

Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin

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