0 hike. we eat healthy. we exercise. t i noticed i wasn't as sharp as i used to be. my wife introduced me to premature as i sit down i'llgh try. i noticed that i felt sharper. i felt like that i was able to respond to things quicker and it works for. me a healthier brand, better life. >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. since the day that donald trump became president, democrats in washington have toldsi you have a patriotic duty too hate vladimir putin. it's not a suggestion. it's a mandate. anything less than hatred for putin is treason n . many americans have obeyed this directive. they now dutifully hate vladimir putin. maybe you're one of them. hating putin has become the central purpose of america's foreign policy. it's the main thing that weci talk about entire cable channels now devoted to it very soon that hatred of vladimir putin could bring the united states into a conflictf in eastern europe. before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself since it is getting pretty serious. what is this really about?bo why do i hate putin so much? has putin never called me a racist? has he threatened to get meik fired for disagreeing with him t as he shipped every middleri class job in my town to russia? did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? isis he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? is he making qunol? isis trying to out christianity? does he eat dogs these are fairy questions and the answer to all of them is no. vladimir putin didn't do any of that . so why does permanent washington hate him so . much? ifif you've been watching the news, you know that putin is having a border dispute with a nation called ukraine. now the main thing to know about ukraine for our purposes is that its leaders once sent millions of dollars to joe biden's family, notn' surprisingly, ukraine is now one of biden's favorite countries. biden has pledged to defendid ukraine's borders even as he opens our borders to the worlden . that'sbo how it works. invading america is called equity invading ukraine is a war crime. so with every day we moveov closer to some kind of conflict with russia, a conflict that could easily spin out off control given toon the people running this have no fine motor skills. the administration assuresg this has nothing at all to do with repaying joe biden's personal debts. ukrainian oligarchs? all.rc it's completely and totally unrelated. the point here is to defend democracy, not the ukraine is a democracy. itit is not a democracy. ukraine's president hasra arrested his mainresiit political opponent. he has shutic down newspapers and television stations that have dared to criticize him. soso in american terms, you wouo call ukraine a tyranny.ey but. joe biden likes ukraine. soli putin bad war good. how will this conflict affect you will affect you quite a bit. actually , energy prices in thea united states are about to go way up and that means that everything you buy will t become much more expensiveo frm the food you eat to the car you drive to tickets. you need to take your family vacation this summer assuming you can still afford vacation by then you're about to become measurably poorer. it's not a gas joe biden has admitted this . on the other hand , you'ree going to win an important moral victory against dastardly old vladimir putin who was much, much worse than justin trudeau. mu can feel tnow, you good about that because because come to think of it, why would you feel good about that ? it seems like a pretty terrible deal foror you and for the unitu states. hunter biden gets a million dollars a year from ukraine, but you can no a longer afford o go out to dinner. that's not a bargain. what are we missing here? what we're missing is the big picture and that's why joe biden has dispatched kamala harris to explain that picture to us . kamala harris, his old job iso to open america's border. shee did that . d her new job is to keep ukrainess borders closed. kamala harris c was in europe the other day to explain the whole thing. shee began with a history lesson letting the european peoples know h about their recent past,w which she assumes they've forgotten since so few of them speak a english. >> she opens a traditional salutation. listen, guys,e so s because thas the way real historians and states people talk watch, don't educate. >> i mean, listen, guys, we're talking about the potential for war in europe. op i mean,e let's really take a moment to understandly the significance of what we're talking about. it'sutut seventy years and throh those seventy years, as i mentioned yesterday, there has been peace and security. we are talking about the real r possibility of war in europe. listen, guys, you may beis europeans who livete in europe, but you don't fully understand the ramifications of war in europe. that's your problem. the thing about europe, you've had peace and securityio for m more than 70 years. >> come on . harris just told the europeans that, by the way, is true . if you don't count the breakup of yugoslavia which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the 1990s or the soviet occupation of half of the landmass which amounted to the enslavement of hundreds of wmillions. but apart from that , mrs. lincoln, it's all been peace and security in europe until now. the soviets were fine. vladimir putin isnt bad. what do we do about that ? kamala harris, explain that to watch. and the allied relationship ish such that we have agreed that the deterrence effect of sanctions is still a meaningful one , especially because remember also o we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of out of this moment and within the context of the fact that window is still open, although open, although it is absolutely narrowing. but within the context oft a diplomatic path still being open, the deterrence effect wect believe has merit. got that .ke take a breath and let it sink in . here it is again.. a quote we b have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one , especially because remember also we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of this moment within the context then of the fact that the windowdi is still open and stil open, although it is absolutely narrowing. but within the contextststing, n the diplomatic path still being open, the deterrence effect we believe has merit. well, of course it has merit.er the only question is t what the hell are you talkingng about? and the answer is kamala harris has no real idea what she's talking about. she can even point to the direction of what she's talking about s. her mouth opensta and pre-digested chunks of language come tumbling out in nolk m particular order. it's soothing to listen to until you try to understander what it means. as kamala harris w told us just last month, quote, it is time for us to do what we havee been doing and that time is everyda day to which we respond. that's right. mr. vice president. personon today is the first day of the rest off your life. learn it, love it, live it. and while you're at, it, eat, pray, love. you can just imagine vladimir putin's reaction to all of this when an aide drops a translated transcript ofip harris's remarks on his desk.tar the slavic mind is a hall of mirrors. it's his traps at every intersection. clearly kamala harris must bela setting some sort of trap for hm the russians here. her words don't make sense, but she can't possibly be dim and childish. americasi is a superpower. it would never put a senile man and an imbecile in charge ofn the country on the other hand , maybe so.be and by the way, it's not just our country. a few weeks ago the russianee foreign minister sergei lavrov met with his britishs counterpart liz truss. lavrov asked frost if her country recognized russian sovereignty over rostov and verona's, both of which are actually parts of russia.of so it was a trick question. but a liz truss, who used to wok in sales, had no idea. n soo she applied to great britain, would never recognize these regions as russianhe despite the fact they already are russian. so truss has no idea what she's talking about either. but here's the thingas. wasn't embarrassed about that . none of them are embarrassed about that . johnhiab bolton knows a lot. on the other hand , he spentow decades weakening americade with terrible foreign policy ideas and getting a lot of decent people killed for no good reason at all. foso you think at this point if justice were real, john bolton would be living in isolation and shame somewhere, spending his days in atonement? that's what you would do. butthis that's not what he's dog now here's john bolton, msnbc demanding w yet another war , this one with the nuclear armedj power watch. dodo you think that us forces should actually go in to defendd ukraine? well, i think it's probably too? late for that now. but i would say this the red line between being a treaty ally of the united states l not being one is significant. but the issue as innit b all iss like this is would a russian invasion and takeover of ukraine adversely affect american national security and out of its nato allies? the answer that's absolutely yes. we did not act appropriately early. i think we should have had more american forces in ukraine not to fight the russians but to train with the ukrainians and to show those russian generals looking acrosse the border and seeing american flags. i wonder what that means. took that off the table saying there would be no american forces involved and he got nothing for it. so the only problem, joe biden's ukraine policy says john bolton is that is too weak. your kidsidic aren't fighting te right now. hunkered down in february, shooting at putin aer. let's try a winter war inle russia. no one's done it before, but we have high hopes. alexander vindman is in fact demanding it unlike the british foreign secretary alexander vindman knows quite a bit about ukraine. in fact,eign he was born there. alexander vindman believes you have a moral obligationwa to defend his homeland and if youhe don't, you're a murderer. watch him once again on msnbc. >> i think these folks, these right wing pundits and the gop that support him really frankly have blood on their hands qu they're encouraging and enticing this kind of opportunismec from putin. and it's not whether it's not just kind of plain rhetoric like you can say something without consequences butou too often happens in here in the united states. this has real consequences r and people are going to dieea because of this . >> they're goingil to die.uc so your job is to take up arms in defense of alexander vindman home country or else you're evil. you have of blood on your hands and that's effectively our policy. , you'veexander vindman got a compelling argument we'rea in what's is going to costil us to defend the country you were born it well, in fact, joe biden addressednt that question today. defending freedom will have j cost for us here at home. bidenoeon said we need to be hoe about it really. biden went on to outlinest what he called the pain off our sanctions. watch reimplement for blocking sanctions on two large russian financial institutions, vehbi and our military backed implementing comprehensive sanctions on russia'sta soverein debt. that means we've cut off russia's government from western finance. it can no longer raise w money from the west and cannot trade in its new debt on our markets or european markets starting tomorrow and continuing in the days ahead. we'll also impose sanctions on russian elites and their family members. they sharelead in the corrupt ge of the kremlin policies and should share the pain as well because of russia's actions, we work w with germanya to ensure nord stream two willen not, as i promised, will not move forward. so let's put aside the question of why you would ever want toio shut down any energy pipelineip anywhere ever. especially now crude oil is near nearing $100 a barrel. it's the highest price since 2014. that's not a small thing because you need energy to live. it's not negotiable. so how does having less energy help the united states? joe biden didn't even hint at an answer to that . he didn't answer any questions. he ran away the second he hadn' finished reading the script back in real life, every person knows nothing will tank our economy faster than cutting off supply n of fossil fuels becausg despite what you may have heard from noted energy experts like sandy quintez, a country ofro three hundred and forty million peoplem can't run on windmills and solar panels. and even if we had enough of those which we don't we don'tin have the transmission lines to your housewer too and we won't for a long time. so that's all a lie. butbu don't worry, says kamala harris. the administration has ways of, fixing the spike in energy prices. they've got it under control because it turns out kamala harris is secretly in charge ofm global energy markets. no, just kidding.l harris has no idea what a barrel of oil cost. she doesn't know how natural gas is measured. what she knows about his diversity and that's pretty much it though shehe does i sent that everything is about to get a lot more expensive for you. and so to warn yououlo, she mentioned it today. the president has already said americans will be facing some f economic fallout or some hardships. can you explain to americans what exactly will they face if this happened? sure. as the presidentat talked about in his speech, we are aware that again, when america stands for principles and all ofpl the things that we hold dear, it requires sometimes for for us to put ourselves out there in a way that maybe we will incur some cost m and then this situation that may relate to energy costs for example. so what are the principles for defending? we're defending a regime that has a rest, their mainth rival and shut downat opposition mediair. wh what principles atat stake heree apart from rewarding the biden family's patriarch? but at least she's honest enough to say what's happeninghe in eastern europe quote may relate to energy costs. that's a euphemismitur for good luck filling your truck l this august. does that bother kamala harris?s maybe it does. in the short term, voters aren't going to like ita in november. their party will be punished, but they're doing it anyway. they're shutting downmber domesy energy pipelines here. they're picking a fight with europe's biggest gas supplier. so maybe there's something bigger at work here. maybe they're thinking long termhi. maybe they're not against rising oil and gas pricesth may be there for them. maybe expensive energy would bep good for the many renewable deals their friends and donors are invested in . wes th don'tor know the answer. we do know that all of us are about to suffer. so we hope that hating vladimir putin was worth it. tulsi w gabbard is one of the fb people in the democratic party who sawar f this coming and was excoriated for it. she's a former congresswoman from hawaii. she joins us tonight. congressman, thanks so much j fr coming on . thinkseust trying to i think it's a fair question ise an american what's in thisst for me and my neighbors and the rest of us ? and allin i'm getting is a thate can feel morally satisfied because we hate putin. >> is there something that i'm missing? no, t i don't think you're n missing anything. the reality iso, that these sanctions don't work whether they were put in before or nowiy or later, these sanctions don't work. what we do know is that they will increase suffering and hardship for the american people and this is a whole problem with the biden administration. they are so focused on how do we punish putin that they don't care and are not focused on what is actually in the best interests of the american people. p so when biden stands there and looks directly into the camerade and says, you know, defending freedom will cost d us what really should be saying is looking directly into the american people's eyes and sayingtly this will cost you because these sanctions are not going to costs him or kamala harris or the power elite in this country, even the power elite in russia. itit is the people who will suffer, the american people, the russian people, people here at home working hard every single day facing those drastically increasing prices at the gas pump, facing increasing costs at the supermarket, impacting our supply chain. the hardships that people areims dealing with every p day now with biden, sanctions plans are only going to see that continuing to get worse and it doesn't end there.ha tucker , this is the problem is you think russia's not going to respond. you think putin's not going to respond. he will respondnd and it's likey he'll retaliate using cyber attacks on our financial systems, our communication systems, on our basic infrastructure. biden will then be forced to respond. putin will then be forced response. we endndwi up in this endless tit for tat that leads us where to to this looming threat and likelihood of this thing going nuclear. and again, this is the reality that we all need to understand is true is that whether it ised intentional or unintentionalnt when you have two great nuclear armed countries at this point of escalation and then if there is a nuclear attack, the power elite, these people are going to go hide in their bunkers, they'll have their shelter, they'll have their food and water and everythingng they need you and i and the american people, we will be a left out to deal with the consequences, to suffer and deal with that destruction and deathonuf that will come asa result. and yet we're doing this for principle. the people in charge who don't care at all about oururinin foug documents who violate their spirit and letter every day are telling us that in central american principles u as to do yous have any idea what that principle might be that therein lies the hypocrisy . wh thatucker is there saying wee doing this in a defense of freedom, in the defense ofr, democracyy. t but these are the very same people who are working to undermineng our own freedoms and our own democracy right here at home haveee a harddo ti seeing how they actually say these things with a straight face to the american people when they clearly don't care about these principles right here at home . i don't care about defending c them. they don't care about t the well-being of the american people t. i think that's all very clear. and i appreciate your saying as clearly as you did. tulsi gabbard joining us . thank you very much. it's interesting when people tell you who you're required to be mad at, you've got a right to think for yourself. be mad at the people who are making your life worse, who are preventing you from sayingyo what you think is true . who are you calling you a racist for no justification only to hurt you who are destroying your children's education, who are allowing. your country to become pollutedc and overrun and filled with drugs and the homelessom maybe should be mad at them. well, to canada now we go. speaking of democracy, justin trudeau's supporters have just voted to extend martial law in canada. some of his supporters arear comparing the trucker hornes to slogans honk the horn. you're not said the mayor of new orleans is just caught without a mask after reimposek a massive mandate across the city. one hundred and fifteen stories like this we brought to but we can't get enough. we'll be right back . it's dark with a click. my opinions are popping up. the dark side of social media is hiding in plain sight begining searching for how are they popping up. any unsuspecting adult or child can get stuck in on the web with these horrible harmful and once you're in they make it impossible. get out some time with deadly results just single out there and open that screen and have that sent to our kids. you believe she was led to these sites? 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