1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is the most cynical man in America. And 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: you know why he's in Russia, because he's a whore 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: for Vladimir Putin. Tucker Carlson is a useful idiot. That's 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: what Russians call their dupes. And the Russians have always 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: had their dupes in the West. The English speaking countries 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: have produced scores of useful idiots for the Russians over 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: the years, and tonight the American people got to hear 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: from one of them, Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson claims to 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: love his country. It's nonsense. Tucker Carlson was paid tens 10 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars a year to slander his country, 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: to divide his country, and he did it with excellence. 12 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: All of this, of course, is noticed in Russia. Tucker 13 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: Carlson frequently appears on Russia's most virulent propaganda broadcasts. There, 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: he is presented as a dissident American voice, the wise 15 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: loane dissenter who can see the humanity, the vision, the leadership, 16 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: and the wisdom of Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is a 17 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: war criminal who has sent his army west. He has 18 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: waged a war of criminal aggression against Ukraine. Ukraine is 19 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: the largest country in Europe by population and geography, and 20 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of its citizens have been killed murdered 21 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: by Vladimir Putin and his criminal army and his mercenary 22 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: army filled with rapists. That's right. There won't be any 23 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: questions from Tucker Carlson to Vladimir Putin about the systemic 24 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: rape of Ukrainian women, grandmothers, and children by Russian soldiers. 25 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: Nor will there be any questions about the kidnap of 26 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: tens and tens of thousands of Ukrainian children who were 27 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: shipped East, stolen from their parents. None of this will 28 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: be asked by Tucker Carlson of Vladimir Putin. What Vladimir 29 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: Putin sees as a former intelligence officer is an opportunity 30 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: in front of him. He sees the spoiled, rich child 31 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: of privilege who is aggrieved and angry against something, who 32 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: knows what, but has channeled it into a hatred of 33 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: his country. There's a simple truth we don't talk enough 34 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: about in America. You can't love your country when you 35 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: hate half the people in it. And any person who 36 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: goes on television like Tucker Carlson did, and dehumanizes people, 37 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: dehumanizes his fellow citizens by race, creed by religion. Is 38 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: an American. Tucker Carlson poisoned American democracy and in doing 39 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: so he helped the aspirations of Vladimir Putin and President 40 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: g of China. American democracy is fueled by faith and belief, 41 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson undermined that with his lies about an 42 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: election that was stolen but wasn't. And now he'll give 43 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: a platform to Vladimir Putin, and more importantly, Tucker Karlson 44 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: will be used by Vladimir Putin to show his domestic 45 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: Russian audience that in fact, Vladimir Putin is right, the 46 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is good, and that some Americans have the 47 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: wisdom to see it. Tucker Carlson isn't a journalist. Him 48 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: calling himself one is ludicrous. Tucker Carlson is by himself. 49 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: He's not a wee or an hour anything. Despite his 50 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: constant references to the fact that he's some sort of 51 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: movement or team or somehow fighting for you. Trust me, 52 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: if you hear my voice in English and you are 53 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: a citizen of the United States, know this Tucker Carlson 54 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: is not on your side. He's on Vladimir putin side. 55 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: And what Vladimir Putin is doing is risking the peace 56 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: of the world. Tucker Carlson talked about the US led 57 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: liberal global order, the one that emerged in the aftermath 58 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: of World War Two, that was conceived by Franklin Roosevelt, 59 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: the architect, built by Harry Truman, and sustained by every 60 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: president of both parties from Truman through Barack Obama, and 61 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: then torn up by Donald Trump at the moment of 62 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: its creation, when it was just part of Franklin Roosevelt's 63 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: imagination for a better world that would emerge after the war. 64 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,239 Speaker 1: Talking late into the night with the Canadian Prime Minister, 65 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: he said that he hoped this new world that it 66 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: would endure for as long as everybody who was alive 67 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: on the day the war was won was still alive. 68 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: The youngest of those people today are eighty years old. 69 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt turned to Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, 70 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: and he said, nothing lasts forever. A lifetime has passed. 71 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: There are two hundred and fifty thousand living survivors of 72 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: the Holocaust and the war that began with German aggression 73 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty eight could be repeated in a war 74 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: begun by Russian aggression in twenty and twenty. Russia is 75 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: menacing its neighbors. It's threatening war. And there have been 76 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: times in the past when liars like Tucker Carlson told 77 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: the American people that the good guy was the dictator 78 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: across the ocean and that we were safe from what 79 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: happened there. All an American has to do is visit 80 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: any of the tens of thousands of American graves in 81 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: Europe to know how hideous and untrue that is. The 82 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: world is smaller and more connected than ever. Tucker Carlson 83 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: knows that, but he thinks you're a fool and a sucker. 84 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is the most cynical man in America. And 85 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: you know why he's in Russia because he's a whore 86 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: for Vladimir Putin. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. 87 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: If you like what you heard today, please also consider 88 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: subscribing to the Warning Daily newsletter on sub stack. 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