Tucker: Maybe this isn't a crazy idea

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight happy monday here's something we just saw which we brought to you earlier vladimir zielinski the president of ukraine of course gave an interview recently that didn't get enough attention in this country zelinski needless to say is currently engaged in a desperate fight for his country his government his life and he has been since the russian military invaded ukraine nearly three weeks ago so you can assume there's not a lot zelensky thinks about at this point apart from getting the russians off of ukrainian soil so last week zielinski floated the idea of accepting so-called ukrainian neutrality agreeing not to join nato in exchange for that he would get a russian withdrawal from ukraine there's nothing inherently controversial about zielinski's idea ukraine was not on the cusp of joining nato anyway nato officials have long said they don't want ukraine to join it's not clear whose interest would be served by ukraine joining nato so if accepting the status quo going with the way things already were and were always going to be if doing that convinces putin to stop killing ukrainians and spares ukraine from total and complete destruction maybe it's not a crazy idea maybe zelensky is on to something he certainly thought about it a lot maybe we ought to congratulate zielinski for acting wisely on behalf of the country he leads this could be a win for him and for the entire world probably not a lot of american media outlets will describe it that way however indeed by mentioning nato a topic that is completely off limits in american media zelinski may have gone too far daily in every possible venue we are told that nato is paradoxically both of its central importance to the united states and at the same time irrelevant to what happens in eastern europe so years of talk about expanding nato into ukraine and we've watched those happen in public that had nothing whatsoever to do with russia invading ukraine nothing at all that's what they tell us putin invaded ukraine because he's bad end of conversation and anyone who says otherwise anyone who suggests there might be a way out of this disaster short of total war anyone who says that is immediately denounced as a tool of russian propaganda so what does that mean it means that by acknowledging that nato expansion is what putin seems to care about most zielenski is by definition at least in this country repeating russian talking points that would make the president of ukraine a putin collaborator sound insane well then you can still think clearly but that's the state of play how do we know this let's just say we've lived it we've made the point repeatedly that forcing ukraine into nato will in no way serve the interests of the united states and in fact could hurt us here in ways from which we will never recover and by the way talking about it doesn't seem to have helped ukraine either for saying that and that's all we've said here's the reaction we've received and this is just a small selection we could do a full hour on it but here's a clip what seems to be almost the putin wing of the republican party uh which which to be fair is not highly not prevalent much on capitol hill but we've seen tucker carlson uh you know the basically repeat russian propaganda night after night what the hell is going on well first of all before they fell in love with putin they fell in love with orban and hungary make america great again man let's make america more like hungary and the most popular republican broadcaster in america tucker carlson are both unabashed fans of putin and there are very few republicans out there like mitt romney or liz cheney who have the courage to call them out this is a disgrace how anybody in this country which loves freedom can side with vladimir putin which is an oppressor a dictator he kills people he he imprisons his political opponents uh he has been an adversary of america at every chance he's had it's unthinkable to be it's it's almost treasonous oh almost treasonous siding with putin who's signing putin i haven't seen anybody do that i've seen a few people try to side with the united states and that says mitt romney a man who got four deferments to keep himself out of the vietnam war that is almost treasonous what's so interesting we don't want to pick on mitt romney here it's too easy but it does seem like if you take a step back the very same people who spent the last say two years telling us that this country our country is inherently sinful and racist and disgusting and born in iniquity those same people the ones who lecture you about how there's something inherently wrong with you if you live here were born here those same people have been the very quickest the very first to whip around and accuse anyone who wants to save the united states from yet another pointless war a war that they would never fight in and or their children accuse those people of being unpatriotic you don't love america enough says the man who thinks america is racist how does that work exactly we're not sure but in case you've forgotten here's the very same mitt romney marching with the very same people who told us that this is a white supremacist hell hole and by the way we've got to do away with the nuclear family that's never done anybody any good here he is a way to end violence and brutality and to make sure that people understand that black lives matter so okay it's just mitt romney never a genius obviously deep in the grip of some late life crisis licking his wounds for being beaten by obama in 2012 okay but it's not just mitt romney imagine how you would feel if you were a business owner in kenosha or minneapolis or atlanta or louisville if you were someone who i don't know used to go to saint john's church in washington dc or someone who works in the federal courthouse in portland oregon before blm torched all of it you're long accustomed to knowing that your leaders don't really care about you but when they reveal that they actively hate you that's hard to take so of course mitt romney is debasing himself degrading himself in order to be liked in washington yeah we've seen that of course but it's deeper than that needless to say the people mitt romney wants to like him his new masters were not satisfied with him marching with blm or denouncing his critics as almost treasonous they want more they won't be satisfied until every republican in the u.s senate is wholly indistinguishable from chris hayes and they're getting pretty close on sunday yesterday mitt romney edged a little closer here's what he wrote to tulsi gabbard now tulsi gabbard is a former member of congress who currently serves as lieutenant colonel in the u.s army reserve and unlike mitt romney has been deployed quote tulsi gabbard is parroting false russian propaganda her treasonous lies may well cost lives treasonous lies have cost lives potentially so you're betraying your country and committing murder so what exactly did tulsi gabbard do did she call for a violent overthrow of the united states government did she come out and pledge allegiance to putin did she get a cyrillic tattoo on her neck no she didn't what she said is we have a problem here's how we know she cited publicly available information and said we should probably deal with that problem but in case here we have mitt romney who was a consultant for god's sakes accusing someone who's been in the army for nearly two decades of treason people didn't use to talk that way treason is a death penalty offense it's absurd on its face but if you watch the video that got mitt romney to call a fellow american treasonous and suggest she was committing murder it really makes your head spin here's what tulsi gabbard actually said that made mitt romney accuse her of betraying her own country watch here are the undeniable facts there are 25 to 30 u.s funded bio labs in ukraine according to the u.s government these bio labs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens ukraine is in an active war zone with widespread bombing artillery and shelling and these facilities even in the best of circumstances could easily be compromised and release these deadly pathogens yeah she hates our country because she's worried that a pathogen might escape from a biolab and hurt people there's no recent precedent for that so she's clearly listening to alex jones too much and she's treason us actually everything that tulsi gabbard said as you know is true it's not a republican issue it's not a democrat issue it's a factual issue and even in war truth is a defense in fact it's the only defense is it true and in a free country you can speak the truth that right can never be taken away or else it's not a free country but by the way since we're speaking of facts the director of the u.s cooperative threat reduction program a man who would know a man called robert pope has confirmed that scientists are keeping soviet-era pathogens for research purposes in ukraine they told us they were destroying them they should have destroyed them but they haven't what could go wrong in an active war zone and they knew that those pathogens existed and were being experimented upon researched and they didn't secure them before the russians invaded though they knew the russian invasion was coming because they told us and then tori newland the under secretary of state who oversees this disaster testified under oath that yes russian forces might seize those bio labs in ukraine and we should all be very worried about that possibility over the weekend cbs news reported that pentagon officials have confirmed that these biolabs in ukraine are in fact conducting research on anthrax and other quote deadly pathogens pentagon official i talked to you this morning said there is no movement of chemical weapons into ukraine at least they're not seeing the signs of it the concern is that the russians will seize one of these biomedical research facilities that ukraine has where they do research on deadly pathogens like botulism and anthrax seize one of those facilities weaponize the pathogen and then blame it on ukraine and the us because the u.s has been providing support for some of the research being done in those facilities okay so we're a little confused about what all the hyperventilating is about now you just heard cbs say and you've heard many say that russia may seize these biological agents in ukraine and use them against the ukrainians and who knows who else now you would pause and think well wait a second if these are soviet aero weapons then presumably the soviets now called the russian government probably have their own so why would they want to see stuff they already have it doesn't actually make a lot of sense but whatever you'll notice that the reporter you just saw at the beginning of the clip admits that these pathogens are in ukraine they're doing research on botulism and anthrax so any reasonable person would be concerned by that because there's a war going on and by the way why were they funding this in ukraine in the first place but that's really a secondary question maybe we can get to the bottom of that when the war's over but tulsi gabbard addressed and only addressed the danger that innocent people could die because these weapons apparently these pathogens these agents exist in ukraine she didn't blame it on russia she didn't blame anybody she just said this is a thing unsecured bio weapons in a war zone are a bad idea that's not reasonable now that's treason reason isn't part of the way people are thinking now everybody in leadership has completely lost the ability to think beyond the next tweet who is thinking about tomorrow or next month or 20 years from now not one person and anyone who tries is an agent of putin now to a story of russian disinformation that has been quickly embraced and amplified by some in america's right-wing media when state department under secretary victoria newland confirmed this week that there was bio research going on in ukraine critics say that tucker carlson of fox news took those remarks out of context uh now you see the chinese government kind of openly repeating russian propaganda for example about the supposed american bio labs in ukraine this russian misinformation about bio labs in ukraine people on the trump right who are actually parroting russian propaganda every day and every night these supposed bio labs well the us government says they have bio labs and told us under oath that they're worried about the contents of these bio labs which they failed to secure might get into the wrong hands but it's right-wing putinite propaganda we're taking newlin's remarks out of context okay what what's the right context we asked no one told us robert pope's remarks were they take out of context too this is insane there's a problem before we even assign blame to the problem it might be worth thinking through how to fix the problem but no anyone who mentions it should shut up and not just shut up be shut up by force if necessary with jail time now we're going to do something we almost never do we're going to play you a clip from the view which is now calling for department of justice investigation into this show and chelsea gabbard watch what tucker carlson parrots evernight on fox news what tulsi gabbard is spreading is actually helping putin get away with criminal acts against innocent ukrainian civilians and i think doj in the same way that it is uh setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs should look into people who are russian propagandists and shilling for putin that's being if you are a foreign asset to a dictator it should be investigated in fact i remember when tulsi gabbard and i even hate that we're discussing it because i think to myself who is this woman how do you not call out something that is repeating false russian propaganda that has been brought down they used to arrest people for doing stuff like this really they used to arrest people for saying stuff like this hmm when did they arrest people for saying stuff like this and who is they exactly well the former karen elaine johnson didn't tell us she kept it vague because that way it's a lot more threatening and maybe you will shut up and again we hesitate to show clips from that show it's an iq killer but we're making an exception tonight because the view is not alone a lot of people sound like this and it's one of these processes where it sounds insanely for sure i can't believe they said that and then over time what sounded crazy the first time you heard it sounds a little more normal and then three weeks into the war it sounds like probably pretty necessary keith oberman is always at the cutting edge of things like this he was watching the view today doesn't have a lot else to do and he responded to that segment by writing this on twitter they us are russian assets and there is a war there's a case for detaining them militarily trials are a sign of good faith and patience on the part of democracy so we're at war with russia we must send you to the gulag because freedom because a democracy the one thing democracies have patience for is dissenting views from its own citizens particularly citizens who sincerely hope and pray for the best for their own country those people must be imprisoned militarily that's what he's saying and no one's disagreeing all of permanent washington every orifice of the national media all fully aligned to push a single message what was the last time that happened ought to make you nervous senator rob portman of ohio who's leaving thankfully he said the other day that the current moment is the most united this country has been since 9 11. well he's right in one way it's certainly united the united states congress as of this afternoon nine out of the last 10 tweets that rob portman sent have been about ukraine oh not a single tweet about the fact you're getting poorer by the day try to fill up your car on amazon last night a single jar of organic peanut butter cost 15 bucks that's just one product on retailer renowned for offering the cheapest possible 15 bucks for a jar of peanut butter spread that across the entire grocery store and that's what you're looking at is that gonna help with the fentanyl killings that are going on right now hundred thousand people die last year no rob portman doesn't care what he cares about is ukraine and he shares that concern with lindsey graham and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and of course liz cheney so they are unified but what's so interesting if this is such a unifying moment then why was their first instinct to denounce fellow americans as traitors and call for them to be imprisoned really unifying they don't care about ukraine a lot of these people any more than they cared about george floyd they used tragedy george floyd's death the tragic invasion of ukraine for domestic political purposes this is unleashed something really dark in the united states in order to make wise decisions you have to be rational thoughtful forward thinking and calm and they're the opposite of all of those things hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 18min 20sec (1100 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 14 2022

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Yep. Can’t have dissenting views about Ukraine & we definitely can’t talk about inflation that’s destroying any earnings. Putin baaad!