Tucker Carlson Interviews Putin [Unbiased Fact Check].

on Thursday evening Tucker Carlson broke

the internet in this video we are going

to break down 10 fact checks on the

Tucker Carlson Vladimir Putin interview

and we're going to talk where we stand

what's next for Russia Ukraine what's an

analysis that we could take away after

Tucker Carlson's interview we're going

to do that right now first I want to

just thank you on Thursday evening we

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be as neutral as possible and even if I

don't get everything right the first

time I try my best to fix it later on

the goal here is to be neutral so let's

get into it fact check number one or

maybe Point number one because I don't

think anybody disputes this one the

media the mainstream media absolutely

hated Tucker Carlson's interview with

Vladimir Putin almost every single media

outlet that discussed the interview was

very upset at Tucker and we'll talk

about why in just a moment but listen to

some of these quotes Politico said

Tucker all himself with the Enemy that

Carlson lied that the Western media had

not even bothered to try to speak with

Putin and that he's just a useful idiot

Al jazer says Carlson didn't pressure

Putin the way he used to sandbag on Pro

Democratic guests on Fox News he didn't

even try to refute Putin's outlandish

and ungrounded claims Tucker goddamned

Carlson served a very well microphon

stand for the crazy maniac who for 2

hours rambled about how he loved to kill

ukrainians me just take a quick pause

there I didn't hear that from Putin

neither did I really align with any of

these quotes I've seen so far because I

I didn't so far hear any kind of real

reputation of what Tucker or Putin said

there's been a lot of this backlash

without actual real anal in commentary I

mean consider this Chris Wallace claims

that Carlson did not interview Putin

Carlson just sat there as an eager

puppet he cashed in on a Putin and asked

nothing about invading a sovereign

country the innocent lives lost war

crimes or anything calling him a useful

idiot is an insult to useful

idiots the New York Times says Carlson's

interview with Putin is a 2-hour

marathon of delusion

and fakes and also almost no

factchecking at least that I could

easily find frankly as an

interviewer myself uh since I interview

folks like whether it's uh Peter Schiff

or Kevin o or bar Corin from Shark Tank

or my interview with Patrick M David you

name it as an interviewer myself there

is a real risk of offending the person

you're interviewing to a substantial

degree to where they kick you out they

cancel your interview they take your

tapes they ruin the potential of you

ever interviewing anybody else they

prevent the basically in such a case you

would really prevent your interview from

being heard by consumers at all and so

in other words if in an interview you're

way too aggressive you're basically

saying hey nobody like this person

should ever come on the channel again

and the free flow of ideas stops see

usually what I like to do when I

interview somebody is interview somebody

and then analyze afterwards what do we

think think do we agree with this do we

disagree with this let's have commentary

on things afterwards but to debate and

prevent the free flow of opinions in an

interview when it's an interview and not

a debate usually doesn't go very well

consider for example when a BBC reporter

famously interviewed Elon Musk while

trying to confront Elon Musk and turning

it into a debate Elon Musk turned around

and suggested that the reporter was

simply a liar and none of the other

parts of the interview you ever became

memorable I then I I say so that you

don't know what you're talking about

really yes because you can't me a single

example of hateful content not even one

tweet and yet you claimed that the

hateful content was high well that's a

false no what I claim Li what no no what

I claim was uh there are many uh

organizations that say that that kind of

information is on the rise now whether

whether it has on my or not I mean right

something like the the Strategic

dialogue Institute in the in the UK so

there is a real risk to actually

alienating your audience when you're

trying to let somebody your interview

share their flu free flow of ideas by

debating somebody solely in an interview

what you're basically doing is you're

robbing your audience of the ability to

make their own decision and see this is

why I like factchecking things

afterwards let them talk let them have

their free flow thought and fact check

afterwards for example I looked at Boris

Johnson's fact check because he wrote a

fact check in the daily mail and I'll

tell you most of it revolved around

Tucker Carlson's interview was a tissue

of Lies he betrayed his viewers and

listeners around the world Tucker was

just a sewer for Putin's

message why not a point BYO breakdown of

where things were right and where things

are wrong we didn't really get that from

Boris Johnson around the world people

are watching that ludicrous interview

with Vladimir Putin conducted by Tucker

Carlson and we must not fall to this

tissue of Lies above for the notion that

Putin is somehow fated to succeed in

Ukraine on the contrary he is doomed to

fail read about it in the daily Man All

We Got Is Well what Putin said Is A Lie

okay well why is it a lie where's the

evidence that it's a lie remember Putin

specifically called out Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson was implicated by Putin as

being the person who killed the deal

Ukraine and Russia were going to sign as

a negotiated settlement in Istanbul

Boris Johnson's response was he

lied barefaced about his intention to

invade Ukraine he lied about the ending

of the settlement and that's really it

we didn't really actually get evidence

you could read the piece yourself it's

in the Daily Mail it's literally written

by Boris Johnson John Kirby says well

look this is from the White House right

one of the communications directors

there's bipartisan support for Ukraine

don't take at face value what Putin says

why Senate leaders keep in mind uh

Senate leaders did just fail to lock in

another $7.9 billion Amendment for

Ukraine so that's per punch bow as of

today so I'm not sure if there actually

is bipartisan support right now but okay

uh and uh I did think it was very

interesting that in

2019 you had Donald Trump encourage

zalinski to work things out with Putin

this is on video I posted the links to a

lot of This research and that video with

Trump on ec.com and I really hope that

Russia because I really believe that

President Putin would like to do

something I really hope that you and

President Putin get together and can

solve your problem that would be a

tremendous achievement and I know you're

trying to do

that look it's possible that I failed

maybe I missed where the mainstream

media really wanted to break down this

interview fact by fact but the reality

is I spent about 6 hours just this

morning all solely looking at media fact

checks and the vast majority of clips

and quotes were simply Putin's a

[Applause]

liar why here's a second fact check

where Politico is arguing Tucker Carlson

is a liar Tucker Carlson is a liar

Politico says because Tucker says it's

not that America was going to launch a

surprise attack on Russia I didn't say

that and then politicals like well

Tucker you're a liar because Putin says

America was going to do that okay so

what does Putin say well Putin says

quote we know who the main adversary for

the US and NATO is it's Russia and

Ukraine will serve as the advanced

foothold for such an attack okay but

wait a second let's parse this Ukraine

being a foothold does not necessarily

mean the United States is going to

conduct a surprise attack there can be

something known as a preemptive strike

which is okay let's say Russia starts

moving tanks to the Border where America

is and they conduct a preemptive strike

but nobody suggesting that America was

going to surprise attack Russia now keep

this in mind for a moment okay where

we're going with this so Putin's not

saying that Putin's not saying that

America was going to surprise attack

Russia Putin's not saying that uh or or

Tucker Carlson's not saying that

America's going to surprise attack

Russia and political is like you guys

said America was going to surprise

attack them that's not true I'm like

that's not what they

said so I wanted to clarify that number

three the NATO expansion okay this one

is really disputed this is a tough one

NATO expansion oh boy this one gets very

heated so let's just try to keep this as

neutral as possible according to France

24 they did a French piece on this it's

translated from French in 1990 I've got

these all linked at ec.com so you can

see all my evidence US Secretary of

State James Baker made to former Soviet

leader

gorbachov during a meeting on February

9th 1990 an agreement that NATO would

not expand past the territory of East

Germany a promise that was then repeated

by NATO's General Secretary on a speech

May 17th 1990 that same year in Brussels

okay so we have this this argument that

gorbatov was made a deal that NATO would

not expand East and that was echoed by

NATO's general secretary in a speech on

May 17th 1990 it's a long time ago this

is like 34 years ago 1991 NATO Secretary

General Reen

stoltenberg was asked by desel about

NATO expansion and if they promis not to

expand Eastward so about a year later

and what does the NATO General Secretary

say that simply isn't true such a

promise was never made there was never

such a back room deal it's simply wrong

hm what happened after that well in 1990

NATO accepted the Czech Republic Hungary

Poland in 2004 Bulgaria Estonia latva

Lithuania

Romania Slovakia Slovenia in 2009

Albania Croatia in 2017 Montenegro and

in 2020 North Macedonia so as you can

see we've certainly moved

Eastward now you have folks on both

sides of the aisle who say well we never

made a deal because look at yens saying

we never made a deal and then you have

other people quoting 1990 saying wait

but you guys did make a deal so

basically people on both sides are using

different parts of his history and

clearly whether a deal was made it was

pretty much unmade very quickly This is

highly disputed NATO claims it never

promised it would not expand East NATO

actually quotes gorbatov the same person

that France 24

said was in agreement with no Eastward

expansion but in 2014 so 14 years later

gorbash says in an interview the topic

of NATO expansion was not discussed at

all and it wasn't brought up in any of

those years I say that with full

responsibility not a single Eastern

European country raised the issue not

even after the warsa pack ceased to

exist in 1991 Western leaders didn't

bring it up

either so on both sides you have this

giant potential misunderstanding that

unfortunately has been going on forever

now I will give NATO uh a a an argument

here when people say nato is trying to

encircle Russia NATO has a really good

point when they say hey this is how much

of Russia we've encircled the little

orange line at the top left and the tiny

little bit at the top right that's it I

I'll remove myself at the

bottom that's that's a pretty pretty

solid counterargument it's still

potentially NATO well it is NATO right

on Russia's border which obviously

unsettles Russia and Putin but it's

worth knowing that detail uh next the m

agreements okay these are really

disputed as well so remember that these

are a series of agreements that started

in 2014 m 1 2014 and then a little later

in 2014 we had m 2 these were ceasefire

and monitoring agreements some people

suggest that the M agreement were never

meant to be followed by Ukraine anyway

that they were just a tooled by time so

basically Ukraine wants to buy time so

they commit to the mixed agreements and

Russia's kind of like hey Ukraine and

Putin just said this in interview

Ukraine you're not implementing the Mi

ofs why why not and Ukraine's like well

we're not implementing them because

you're not implementing them and then

you have merkel's phone call which just

added fuel to this fire Merkel in a call

with pranksters where somebody pretended

to be a president and and Merkel fell

for it uh said that the MST agreement

bought Ukraine valuable time H this just

adds complexity because now you have

folks on one side of the aisle who say

oh so Ukraine never actually wanted to

fulfill the deal and then you have

people on the other side who say no it's

true a ceasefire buys a country time to

rebuild but then you have people who

counter that and go rebuild for what

rebuild your Weaponry rebuild your de

your your defenses and

fortify so you can see how money this

gets really quickly so this one is very

clearly disputed and that's a lot of the

problem of what's going on here is the

issue between Russia and Ukraine it's

not clearcut if it was clearcut probably

be a lot easier to solve but it's a very

disputed and both sides never actually

made things Crystal Clear whether on

purpose because they never had the true

intention of following through with them

on both sides right or that's just the

way things played out who knows now

there was a claim that it was disgusting

for Putin to claim that polls

collaborated with Nazis that would never

be

true well actually it is possible that

both could be true that poles did not

collaborate with Nazis and that poles

did present and collaborate with Nazis

see Poland currently presents itself as

a noble victim during World War II and

Poland did suffer in fact half of all

Jews who died during World War II died

on polish

land polls resisted Nazi occupation some

polls helped hide their Jewish Neighbors

the collaboration point of view comes

from the fact

that eventually you get individuals in

Poland who recognize the Nazis have

taken over and you could either

collaborate or die in other words

somebody comes to your house with a gun

and says where are the Jews hiding you

get caught hiding you're dead your

family's dead your wife is dead your

husband's dead your children are dead

or people do this during war they're

over there this is horrible it's

horrible right that would be a form of

collaboration to so to speak save

yourself so the reality is probably both

are true there are probably people who

did collaborate with the Nazis there are

probably people who would rather die

than collaborate with the Nazis so the

odds are both are probably true Poland

today makes it a crime to say that

anyone in Poland collaborated with Nazis

so it's clearly very

touchy

now another fact check this one comes

down to semantics so political argued

that there was a decree Banning

negotiations with Putin Politico says

the president of Ukraine has legislated

a ban on negotiating with Russia Putin

or or rather political calls this a lie

because the be the ban is actually on

negotiating with Putin not with Russia

okay so basically they're saying Putin

is is lying because there's a ban on

negotiating with Russia but the ban

isn't actually with Russia it's with

Putin point of this is this is semantics

Putin is the President of Russia if

someone said negotiations are banned

with Biden like Biden or not

negotiations with the US would probably

be dead as well so this is semantics and

I thought this was a really weak like

argument to try to get out there and

fact check Putin on Putin saying oh yeah

you know they banned people from

negotiating with us collectively for the

purpose of this conflict Putin is

Russia number seven fact check a lot of

people got upset about Putin's claim to

be the largest European economy on the

basis of PPP purchase power parody

Putin's actually right here now PPP is

really complicated to understand I'm

going to try to make it as simple as

possible that's what I try to do on the

channel I try to keep things simple and

explain them as simply as possible all

right purchasing power parody basically

how much does it cost to buy a TV remote

control I'm making this totally up as an

example and a cup of coffee in uh

America versus China versus Europe let's

say okay and and and you know what a

rental car so let's do a rental car a

remote control and a cup of coffee okay

let's say in America it costs

$400 and that's going to be our Baseline

let's say it cost $500 in Europe and

let's say it cost $200 $ in China well

in China it cost half as much as the US

in Europe it costs 25% more so now what

you could do is you can divide a

country's GDP by a waiting Factor so in

other words if China's GDP is $13

trillion on a PPP basis because

everything's half as expensive you

actually divide their GDP by 0.5 which

makes their GDP look twice as big

whereas in Europe you divide by 1.25

it's a waiting Factor you're trying to

put everything at the dollars to wait it

all the same which actually makes let's

say Germany's economy for example look

smaller and Russia's look larger so is

it true yes on a PPP basis not you know

the paycheck Protection Program on a

purchasing power parody basis yes Europe

is the largest economy in well sorry

Russia is the largest economy in Europe

however remember it can be very very

inaccurate because it's not that easy to

calculate the cost of a basket of goods

in all these different countries and

then adjust them uh it is also complex

because usually these adjustments don't

account for uh the costs of actually

trying to buy these things the tariffs

the taxes supply and demand factors so

there's so much adjusting to do it's

it's not a good measure and so we could

agree that purchasing power parody is

probably a little bit of a bad

comparison but if we are going to use it

Putin is

correct number eight why did the USSR

collapse so political says that the USSR

collapsed because of Economic and

internal political struggles and they

complained that Putin said the collapse

was initiated by Russian

leadership again I feel like we're

trying to like grasp at straws to call

Putin a liar here both can be true it

can be true that Russian leadership was

actually the reason there were internal

political struggles and economic

issues political counter claims of

Putin's argument that the US controls

the world's media political argues media

are privately owned yes most media are

privately owned in America though let's

be real the Twitter files have made it

or at least created substantial doubt in

the independence of the mainstream media

this does not make all journalists bad

this does not make all media companies

bad however

Putin hits on American doubts he's

twisting the knife in a wound of

Suspicion and Americans have the right

to be suspicious in fact everybody

around the world has the right to be

suspicious of what they're being told

this is why it's nice to hear the

opposite point of view everybody has

their own prop propaganda but at least

if you are provided both sets of

propaganda at least you have a little

bit more ammunition to to see where the

differences truly lay now Russell Brand

goes on a rant that's I shouldn't maybe

call it a rant but let's just say he has

a a somewhat simplistic approach of the

US just wants more money for the

military industrial complex that's why

we're going to keep this going which

Putin hit on as well and Russell Brand

is probably correct the military

industrial complex is very very powerful

and many people in America are

frustrated that we keep spending money

for bombs and weapons for other

countries look at the amount of money

we've given Israel and now folks are

scratching their head going wait wait

wait wait we're asking you not to invade

Rafa city Egypt is putting their

military on high alert on the border of

Rafa City because that's right on the

border with Egypt and now y'all want to

invade Rafa City where you've got a

bunch of refugees essentially and

Israel's like well we got to fully

eliminate Hamas

so at some point you wonder like if you

keep supporting the supplying of weapons

are you financing people's other Wars to

where maybe their their ability to make

decisions could be skewed by the fact

that you don't actually have to open

your wallet you know if somebody's like

cart blanch you know here's as much

money as you need for bombs and weapons

it's probably a lot easier to make the

decision to invade somewhere or not

whereas if you actually have to cut the

check yourself you actually have to

start weighing things like okay do we

invade here or do we invade there right

you you have to pick you can't pick

everything but if somebody else is

paying for everything it's easier to

just go I'll just keep going right so

again this this isn't like an argument

for against Israel it's just

saying yes this is this is a fair

argument from Russell Brand yes and

people are very frustrated in America

about the military-industrial complex

the funding of Wars around the world cuz

could we instead use that money to focus

on our own needs now of course we have

to balance this because other people say

hey well you know it's the reason uh

America is deemed to be as safe as it is

you know the reason for it is because of

the military-industrial complex they're

keeping us safe you know this is

obviously where debates could be had

about the military-industrial complex

take a shot every time I just said that

phrase so anyway want to give a little

bit of that uh it is uh it is something

that has been the core of many videos

most mostly because I think it's it that

that is a pain point for a lot of

Americans if you go to Americans and

you're like should we keep funding you

know bombs in other countries it's very

popular for people say hell no spend the

money here in America and there are a

lot of problems America needs help with

ir ran for governor in California to try

to work to solve

those zelinsky's father point 10 zin's

father it Putin was wrong about this

Putin suggested that zelinsky's father

fought in World War II it was actually

his grandfather zinski father was born

in

1947 so that's after the war however

zelinsky's grandfather did fight in

World War II however he was an awarded

comrade he fought for the Soviet Union

not the

Nazis so something to keep in

mind uh some other things that really

aren't up for dispute uh it is true that

the Soviet Union did try to join NATO

before the Warsaw PCT between you know

the Russian side and and various

countries was signed before the Warsaw

PCT collapsed and then those a lot of

those countries ended up joining NATO

NATO rejected Russia citing a lack of

democratic and defensive AIMS in Russia

so yes that that did happen uh some

folks are are picking up on uh Putin

claiming that ukrainians and Russians

are one this is probably false you're

probably not going to see a clear Unity

between the two populations anymore and

you could go all the way back to 2001

where Ur conducted a a poll we know

polls can be misleading as well but uh

67.5% of Ukraine's population declared

themselves as Ukrainian and uh chose

Ukrainian as their native language 29.6%

declared it Russian most of the time

you're seeing their primary language uh

being Russian on on the Eastern flanks

which makes sense uh and as far as like

nationality or ethnic origin overall

77.8% of Ukraine's population

self-identified ethnically as Ukrainian

with 17.3% identifying ethnically as

Russian

something else and and again take these

for what they are at this point I think

things are so different between Ukraine

and Russia you're probably not going to

fully assimilate assimilate but yeah you

do need to come up with some kind of

resolution because the constant war is

just

ridiculous yeah something else that we

got out of this is frankly Putin's

Health Putin's the fact that Putin is

dead is clearly not true that he has

these massive ailments and is incapable

of leading probably aren't true so it's

nice to kind of put some of those

conspiracies to rest I mean I suppose he

could still have cancer you can't really

tell but anyway uh Canadian uh or Justin

Trudeau responded to the Nazi argument

that's the argument that why did you

invite a shff officer to Parliament and

give him a standing ovation this was a

big Scandal a big faux paw in Canada and

Justin Trudeau basically said the

invasion of Ukraine was

unjust no response at all to the

question so punted the question this is

what why I get frustrated about the lack

of like fact checking like if the the

mainstream media is supposed to be so so

good where where are the real fact

checks why can't somebody go thanks for

giving us the perspective I know so

where do we stand now well in my opinion

Ukraine will likely rely on IMF loans

and budget cuts to fund its defense as

progress to fund Ukraine is stalled in

Congress and probably will be until at

least January of 2025 and that would be

the end of January 2025 anyway the

interview will Spotlight uh you know

well I I think the interview spotlights

uh talk of resolutions for Russia

Ukraine and uh this is good we want

people talking about negotiating this

and ending this war in fact Putin

invited for negotiation the problem is

what Putin said in terms of negotiation

was blurry there's some folks who

listened to the speech from Putin or the

interview from Putin it was somewhat a

speech given that most of it was Putin

talking some people listen to the direct

Russian translation and said that our

translation wasn't as good as what Putin

actually said

see our translation is what's there to

work out if you want to stop fighting

stop supplying weapons then it'll be

over in a few weeks then we can

negotiate which is basically saying

let's mop up Ukraine when they don't get

supplied weapons and then we can

negotiate that's the way it came through

in English however people who listen to

it in Russian say that's not exactly

what Putin meant suggesting that Putin

is actually much more open to compromise

because obviously the English

translation is not very negotiable

so the reality though is both sides have

dug in Putin has dug in Biden's dug in

Putin's doing the well they can call me

it's their fault and Biden's doing he

can call us it's his fault it's like

it's like fifth graders fighting it's

frankly ridiculous it's a stalemate of

stubbornness people need to wake up and

get their leaders to actually get on the

phone stop being little weenie babies

and start actually negotiating in nnest

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