♪ >> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT." ONE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES OF OUR TIME IS UNFOLDING TONIGHT OFF THE COAST OF DENMARK. THE NORTHERN STREAM PIPELINES, RUSSIAN OWN CONDUITS TO TRANSFER GASP, HAVE BEEN BREACHED. THEY'RE POURING MILLIONS OF CUBIC METERS OF GAS INTO THE BALTIC SEA. THERE'S A TOXIC BUBBLE FIELD MORE THAN HALF A MILE WIDE. YOU CAN ONLY GUESS HOW MANY MARINE ANIMALS ARE BEING KILLED RIGHT NOW, COUNTLESS. BUT THE LASTING DAMAGE MAY BE TO THE ATMOSPHERE. IT'S 90% METHANE. METHANE, AS BIDEN HAS TOLD US, IS THE KEY DRIVER OF GLOBAL WARMING, WHICH IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY IN PLANET. SO IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO THE PIPELINES IS ITS CLOSE OF THE APOCALYPSE AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT. THE SAME TEN LEAKS WERE DETECTED, THERE WERE TWO UNDERSEA EXPLOSIONS, EACH OF WHICH WAS EQUIVALENT TO HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF TNT. NOTHING ON NATURE CAN ACCOUNT FOR THAT. LEAKS WERE IN THREE SEPARATE PLACES. ONLY ONE EXPLANATION. THIS WAS AN ACT OF INDUSTRIAL TERRORISM. THAT WAS OBVIOUS TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF POLAND AND HE WASTED NO TIME SAYING SO. >> TODAY, WE ARE ALSO DEALING WITH AN ACT OF SABOTAGE. WE DO NOT KNOW THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED YET. BUT WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT IS AN ACT OF SABOTAGE. AN ACT THAT PROBABLY MARKS THE NEXT STAGE IN THE ESCALATION OF THE SITUATION WE ARE DEALING WITH IN UKRAINE. >> Tucker: WE CAN CLEARLY SEE, HE SAID, IT'S AN ACT OF SABOTAGE. WE CAN SEE THAT. WHO DID IT? PRIME SUSPECT IS OBVIOUS, HE STOLE THE 2016 ELECTION FROM HILLARY CLINTON, THAT WOULD BE VLADIMIR PUTIN. GOODEN IS THE NORTH STREAM PIPELINE. HE HAS DECIDED TO USE POLLUTION AS AN ACT OF WAR, IT HAS BEEN SAID. TWITTER ENDORSE THAT POSITION. PUTIN DID IT. THAT MAKES SENSE! POLLUTANT CAN BE EVIL, BUT IS HE STUPID? HE PROBABLY ISN'T STUPID. AND YET, IF YOU'RE VLADIMIR PUTIN, YOU'D HAVE TO BE A SUICIDAL MODE ON TO BLOW UP YOUR OWN ENERGY PIPELINE. THAT'S ONE THING YOU NEVER DO. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF YOUR POWER AND WEALTH AND LEVERAGE. EUROPE NEEDS YOUR ENERGY NO MORE THAN EVER WITH WINTER APPROACHING. IF YOU CAN'T DELIVER THAT ENERGY, THEN COUNTRIES LIKE GERMANY HAVE NO NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU WANT. YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR, AND ALL HANDS ON DECK WORK. SEEN IT ALL THE LEVERAGE YOU CAN GET. THERE IS NO CHANCE HE WOULD BLOW UP NORTH NORTH STREAM ONE OR TWO, NOT NOW, OBVIOUSLY. EFFECTIVE SO OBVIOUS, OUR FEBRUARY DIM SECRETARY OF STATE TONY BLINKEN ACKNOWLEDGED IT. HE SAID IT IS, CLEARLY AND NO ONE'S INTEREST. RIGHT. BUT ONLY HALF RIGHT. BLOWING UP NORTH STREAM DOESN'T HELP PUT IN, HE WOULD NOT DO THAT, WHY WOULD HE? BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN OTHER COUNTRIES WOULD CONSIDER DOING IT. THEY HAD THEY HAVE CONSIDERED IT. WHEN I SAID SO IN PUBLIC. IN EARLY FEBRUARY, BIDEN SUGGESTED ON CAMERA THAT HE MIGHT TAKE OUT THESE PIPELINES. >> IF RUSSIA INVADES, THAT MEANS TANKS OR TROOPS CROSSING THE BORDER OF UKRAINE AGAIN. THEN THERE WILL BE NO LONGER AN NORTH STREAM TO. WE'LL BRING IT INTO. >> BUT HOW WILL YOU DO THAT? CONTROL OF THE PROJECT IS WITHIN GERMANY'S CONTROL. >> I PROMISE YOU, WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT. >> Tucker: NOTICE HOW YOU PHRASE THAT. HE'S THE PRESIDENT. HE DIDN'T SAY, I WILL PAUSE THE DELIVERY OF GAS FROM RUSSIA TO GERMANY. HE SAID THERE WON'T BE A NORTH STREAM TO. WILL PUT AN END TO IT. I WILL I WILL YOU DO THIS MARQUIS WAS ASKED. THEY THOUGHT THIS THROUGH. THOSE WATCHING, INCLUDING US, DIDN'T TAKE BIDEN SERIOUSLY WHEN HE SAID IT. HE DECLARED CLIMATE CHANGE THE MOST PRESSING EMERGENCY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. HE LECTURES YOU ABOUT USING A WOODSTOVE OR DRIVING AN SUV. THIS IS THE GUYS SPENT BILLIONS TRYING TO MITIGATE COW FLATULENCE BECAUSE OF METHANE. WITH THAT GUY BLOW UP A METHANE PIPELINE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BALTIC SEA? THAT IT BE AN UNIMAGINABLY RECKLESS ACT. IF YOU WANT TO START A NUCLEAR WAR, YOU WOULD DO THAT. IT WOULD BE INSANE. BUT THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT IT. BIDEN WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON TO SUGGESTED. NEWLAND AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT, A LIFE ON OR CHEERLEADER, HELPED ENGINEER THE COUP THAT OVERTHREW THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT, CLEARLY SHE'S CAPABLE OF ANYTHING, ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM THOUGH? EVEN PRETORIA NEWLAND, THAT SEEMED TOO MUCH, TOO EXTREME. AND YET HERE SHE IS IN JANUARY. >> WITH A GO TO NORTH STREAM TO, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE A VERY STRONG AND CLEAR CONVERSATIONS WITH HER GERMAN ALLIES, I WANT TO BE CLEAR WITH YOU TODAY. IF RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE, ONE WHERE AROUND THE, NORTHERN STREAM TO WILL NOT MOVE FORWARD >> Tucker: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WILL STOP NORTH STREAM. THOSE WORDS SEEM CHILLING NOW. YOU HAVE TO ASK, COULD THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION REALLY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS? WE CAN SAY FOR SURE, WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. WE CAN TELL YOU THAT CLOSE ALLIES OF THE BIDEN LIGHTHOUSE BELIEVE THEY CERTAINLY DID DO IT. SIKORSKY IS A POLITICIAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENT, HUSBAND OF VAN APPELBAUM OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE. HE'S GOT A PICTURE IF HE AND BIDEN TOGETHER IN THE TWITTER PROFILE. YOU RESPOND IMMEDIATELY. THANK YOU USA. SO ONCE AGAIN, TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION REALLY DO THIS PUSH MARKETS HARD TO BELIEVE. GIVEN THAT IT'S AN ATROCITY, IT IS EFFECTIVELY AN ACT OF TERRORISM, WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE THAT ACCUSATION. BUT WE SHOULD TELL YOU THAT, MAYBE NOT ON COINCIDENTALLY, A PIPELINE WAS ANNOUNCED. THIS IS CALLED THE BALTIC PIPE, INAUGURATED IN POLAND. IT'LL CARRY NATURAL GAS FROM NORWAY TO DENMARK AND POLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES NEARBY. IT HAS LESS COMPETITION AND ALSO DO WELL. MAKING SENSE? WHAT IS THE WHITE HOUSE SAY ABOUT THIS? HOW ARE THEY ACCOUNTED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? THEY'RE NOT EXCESSIVELY IN ENTHUSIASTICALLY DENYING RESPONSIBILITY. THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE UPSIDE. HERE'S THE PUBLICIST NOTING THE DISK DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER PIPELINE IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO BUY AN ELECTRIC CAR. >> AS YOU ALL KNOW, THESE PIPELINES WERE NOT PUMPING INTO EUROPE AT THIS TIME. IT WASN'T OPERATIONAL. NS WANTED TO HAVE NOT BEEN OPERATIONAL BECAUSE POLLUTANT HAS WEAPONIZED ENERGY. THIS JUST DRIVES HOME THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR EFFORTS TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET ALTERNATIVE GAS SUPPLIES TO EUROPE, AND REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCY ON GAS CONSUMPTION AND MOVE TO CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY. >> Tucker: OH. MOVING TO CLEAN ENERGY. SEE THE PEOPLE WHO MAY VERY WELL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LETTING METHANE INTO THE BALTIC SEA AND INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AT A SCALE THAT MOST PEOPLE CAN IMAGINE. THE PEOPLE LECTURING YOU ABOUT YOUR SUV? THEY HAVE BLOWN UP A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE AND CREATED ONE OF THE GREAT CATASTROPHES OF OUR TIME. IN ITS EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT, IF THEY DID THIS, THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE CRAZIEST AND MOST DESTRUCTIVE THINGS ANY AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION IS OVERDONE. BUT IT WOULD BE CONSISTENT. ONE OF THE DO? THEY DESTROY. THEY DON'T BUILD ANYTHING, INSTEAD THEY TEAR DOWN AND DESECRATE, FROM STATUES TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. AND NO ONE IN CONGRESS IS TRYING TO STOP ANY OF IT. THEY'RE JUST PREPARING FOR THE INEVITABLE FALLOUT. THEY JUST ANNOUNCED A SPENDING BILL TO RESPOND TO NUCLEAR INCIDENTS IN UKRAINE. THE SPENDING BILL ALSO BRINGS THE TOTAL U.S. EXPENDITURE ON UKRAINE, THE WAR BUT ALSO FUNDING ITS GOVERNMENT AND ENERGY FOR UKRAINE, TO $67 BILLION ON THE EVE OF WHAT COULD BE A MASSIVE ECONOMIC DISRUPTION, HERE, TO OUR ECONOMY. $67 BILLION. MORE THAN RUSSIA'S ENTIRE MILITARY BUDGET LAST YEAR. CONGRESS IS EXPECTED TO FULLY PASS THE BILL, REPUBLICANS NODDING ALONG WITH THE ZOMBIES THEY ARE. LITTLE BE THE EFFECTIVENESS? EVERY ACTION HAS A REACTION, EQUAL AND OPPOSITE. BLOW UP THE NORTH STREAM PIPELINES? WE'VE ENTERED A NEW PHASE, ONE IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES IS DIRECTLY AT WAR WITH THE LARGEST NUCLEAR POWER IN THE WORLD. IT DOES SUGGEST THERE COULD BE CONSEQUENCES. IF WE BLOW UP THE NORTH STREAM PIPELINE, WHY WOULDN'T RUSSIA SEVER UNDERSEA INTERNET CABLES. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN PUSH MARK WHAT IF EUROPEAN BANKS COULDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH BANKS IN NEW YORK? LET'S JUST SAY THE BANKS COULDN'T COMMUNICATE FOR EACH OTHER FOR ONE DAY. WHAT WOULD BE THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THAT? IT WOULD CASCADE DOWNWARD. WE COULD HAVE AN ACTUAL COLLAPSE. WE COULD BE IN THIRD WORLD CONDITIONS. THOSE OF THE STEAKS. AND THE PEOPLE BEHIN
I remember when conservatives didn’t support Russia….
He just said "climate change is an existential threat to humanity and the planet"
Could this actually be ... a good thing that he made this report if it gets the knuckle draggers to admit that climate change exists?
It's pure partisanship. As long as the Dems hold any power Tucker and his ilk cannot actively support anything the Federal government does. They have to be adversarial at all times about all things or else they'll can't "own the libs".
If I had 1/100th of a cent every time tuc (pad) said maybe, is it possible, could it be that or for all we know. I'd top the list above Elon and Bezos.
Tucker's Russian masters are pulling the strings.
Faux News needs to just be shut down.
Look at world war 2 treason convictions.
Most of them were propagandists.
Back then, law enforcement understood the tremendous power of Propaganda.
Powerful enough propaganda makes people suck deadly viruses and love it.
It was obviously Putin who sabotaged the pipeline. His inner circle is filled with two factions, one faction is hyper-nationalistic and wants Russia to wage the war until it wins, and the other faction wants the war to end for monetary reasons. The "monetary faction" can make the argument that if the war ends, they can just start pumping gas into Europe again with the pipelines that are still intact. If the pipelines were to be destroyed beyond repair, there is no longer a monetary incentive to end the war in Ukraine, thus giving the "monetary faction" a weaker bargaining chip, thus making a coup less likely. So, Putin destroyed the pipeline as a "no turning back" kinda thing.
You gotta think things by a dictatorship playbook.
That’s because Tucker Carlson takes $$$ from the Kremlin.