Other big, somewhat political thing: Tucker Carlson why am interviewing Vladimir Putin Now I've watched this and I've also read quite a bit of what people have to say about it. I'm confused. that might not Shock you at all you might be like, but Matt that's literally how you like live your life and you're right most of the time I'm in some at least low level of confusion right here. like Tucker Carlson that's treason.

They're using the Big T word and that's where I got confused I Need someone who is is the most left leaning blueheart liberal in here to explain to me how is this treason? He's a journalist. What do we think journalists do? They do journalism. You go talk to people with stories so to somehow say it's anti-American to to do your job and then maybe the argument is that it's not a story, but I don't know. Maybe you guys like Miss A little bit of the thing that happened in Ukraine with Russia feels like it's an impactful story.

We should hear the story, the full story and not just what the US government is shoving down our throat and telling us this truth. I I Just don't get it. but the amount of people like this is treason. I I don't get it and I need someone who's like particularly believes this to be treason to explain to me how because I was bashing my head off a wall all last night and I still could not come to the answer.

But anyway, here's what Tucker had to say about it. and then we're going to talk about this community. Note: We're in Moscow Tonight we're here to interview the President of Russia Vladimir Putin will be doing that soon. There risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously, so we thought about it carefully over many months.

Here's why we're doing it first, because it's our job. We're in journalism. Our duty is to inform people 2 years into a war that's reshaping the entire world. Most Americans are not informed.

They have no real idea what's happening in this region here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine. but they should know they're paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive. Fair Point: We are paying for the war in Ukraine is a human disaster. It's left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation of young Ukrainians, and it's depopulated the largest country in Europe.

But the long-term effects are even more profound. This war has utterly reshaped the global Military and trade alliances and the sanctions that followed have as well. And in total, they have upended the world. Econ Eom, the Postor War II Economic Order.

The 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 US dollar, these are not small changes, they are history altering developments. They will Define the lives of our grandchildren. Most of the world understands this perfectly well.

They can see it. Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like and yet the populations of the English-speaking country seem mostly unaware. They think that is nothing has really changed. and they think that because no one has told them the truth.

Their media Outlets are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers and they do that mostly by Omission. For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American Media Outlets have spoken to scores of people from Ukraine and they've done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zinski. We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zinski and we hope he accepts.

but the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews. They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelinsky's demand that the US enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it. That is not journalism. it is government propaganda propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people.

At the same time, our politicians and media Outlets have been doing this promoting a foreign leader like he's a new consumer brand. Not a single Western journalist has bothered interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict. Vladimir Putin Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are. Now they've never heard his voice.

That's wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in and we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans too. Freedom of Speech is our Birthright. We were born with the right to say what.

We believe that right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House Yeah, but they're trying anyway. Almost 3 years ago, the Biden Administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leak the contents to their servants in the news media. They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning last month. We pretty certainly did exactly the same thing once again, but this time we came to Moscow Anyway, we are not here because we love Vladimir Putin.

We are here because we love the United States and we want it to remain prosperous and free. We paid for this trip ourselves. We took no money from any government or group nor are we charging people to see the interview. It is not behind to pay wall.

Anyone can watch the entire thing shot live to tape and unedited on our website Tuckercarlson.com Elon Musk His great credit has promised not to suppress or block this interview once we post it on his platform. X and we're grateful for that. Western Governments, by contrast, will certainly do their best to censor this video on other less principal platforms because that's what they do. They are afraid of information they can't control, but you have no reason to be afraid of it.

We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it. You should know as much as you can and then like a free Citizen and not a slave you can decide for yourself. Tucker said that and then Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Pesov commented on Carlson's claim of not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview Putin Mr Carlson is not correct. In fact, there's no way he could know this.

We received numerous requests for interviews with the President, so he said that. but anyway, the Big hubbub about it is that it's going down in general. so a little bit of a community note, but whatever this in a similar sense like I kind of get where he's coming from. So I had the opportunity a year and a half ago to interview Martin Scy and I was like hey this is a guy who like is somewhat involved in the world of Finance it's a crazy story.

For those of you who don't know he's the arm bro and I thought hey I'll shoot my shot, see if I can interview him, get his story and then as soon as you interview him I mean all those like AMC douchebags are like that must mean he's best friends with girl. It's called an interview folks. It's called literally just talking to someone and getting their side of the story. That doesn't mean you agree with them.

That doesn't even necessarily mean they're telling the truth. It's it's called an interview. Like what the is going on in this world. Ah, I just I Don't know if we've always been like this or if technology is like making it a bit worse, but dude some people are either way too soft or I guess just a little bit too stupid to be in this world.