Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin
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Or in moscow, tony, we're here to interview. The presence of russia, of vladimir putin will be doing that soon. There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously.

So we thought about IT carefully over many months. Here's what we're doing IT first because it's our job or in journalism. Our duty is to inform people two 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 six hundred biles away in ukraine. But they should know they're paying for much of IT in ways they might not fully yet perceive. The warm ukraine is a human disaster, is left hundreds of thousands of people dead in entire generation of Young ukrainians.

IT is depopulated the largest country in europe. But the long term effects are even more profound. This war has uteri reshaped the global military and trade lianes, and the sanctions that followed have as well.

And in total, they have up ended the world economy, the postwar war, to economic order. The system that guaranteed prosperity in the west for more than eighty years is coming apart very fast. And along with IT the dominance of U.

S. dollar. These are not small changes. They are history altering developments. They will define the lives of our grandchildren.

Most of the world understands perfectly well they can see IT asked anyone in asia the middle st. What the future looks like. And yet the population of the english speaking county 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 the readers and viewers, and they do that mostly by omission.

For examples, in the day the war ukraine began, american media that was spoken to scores of people from ukraine, and they've done scores of interviews with ukrainian presence and landscape. We ourselves have put a request for interview with silence. Give me hope, he accepts, but the interview is already done in the united states, are not traditional interview.

They are finding pep sessions was evicted, designed to amplify the landscape, demand that the us. And try more deeply into a war in eastern europe and pay for IT. That is not journalism. IT is government propaganda, propaganda of the ugly est kind, the kind that kills people.

At the same time, our politicians in media that have been doing this, promoting a foregone leader like he's a new consumer brand, not a single western journalist is bothered interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict flatter 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 speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to say what we believe that right cannot be taken away no matter is in the White house. But they're trying anyway.

Almost three years ago, the by administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leak the contents to their servants in the news media. They did this, and to stop a put in interview that we were planning last month for, pretty certainly did exactly the same thing once again. But this time we came to moscow anyway, we are not here because we love lattimer putin.

We are here because we would love the united states. We wanted remain prosperous and free. We paid for the trip ourselves. We took no money from any government or group, nor are we charging people to see the interview, which is not behind to pay wall. Anyone can watch the entire thing short life to tape an unedited on our website, tucker corals and doc com.

Elan musk, his great credit, has promised not to suppress or block this interview once he posted 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 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. thanks.