0 i understand it's impossible not to think the worst. i want you to know that we will get your baby back . come on , let's go , go , go , go . the world series premiere january 8th on fox. >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight, the frustrating thing about the news media, no matter how horrible they are, is that you need them. you can't understand the world except through the news media. >> that's for all of our information comes from. >> can't really change that at this point, but we can go into it with open eyes. and so you should know that the thing about reading the news is even when it's not intentionally dishonest, and often it is , no matter what the intent of it, the first draft of the story that you read is always wrong, not sometimes wrong, always wrong. occasionally in small ways, sometimes in big and utterly distorting ways. dewey defeats truman. iraq has nukes. russia bombed its own pipeline . >> stories like this are laughably untrue. they are inversion of the truth, which inevitably emerges later. and at times it's unintentional. they just made a mistake. they got it wrong. but more often on the big stories, the ones that change policy, they are lying on purpose. so how do you know whether they're lying on purpose or whether they just got it wrong by accident? well, when the story trends on social media, you know that means that somewhere there's a tech executive who's decided to crank up the propaganda in order to manipulate you. it's really not so different from what the north korean state news agency does when there's a famine. they start promoting stories about record rice harvests. >> so you wouldn't notice. so with that in mind, it would have been worth pausing for a moment in skepticism when you saw that phone, that story in your phone yesterday about how russia had bombed poland. >> poland is a member of nato , the north american treaty organization, so are we. that means if russia were to attack nato , then we could very easily be obligated to attack russia back . russia is the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. so that would be inevitably, by definition, world war three . hundreds of people might die. so this was not a small story. it was archduke ferdinand in sarajevo stuff. this story came, as it so often does from the associated press ,citing again, as usual, a quote, unnamed senior us intel official. so according to this unnamed intel official, russia had launched an entirely unprovoked first strike against poland. the russian military had lobbed missiles into polish territory, thereby killing two poles at a farm. so by definition, it was time for europe and the us to invoke article five , the collective defense principle, and begin a total war on vladimir putin. >> president zelenskyy of ukraine agreed with this. >> the u.s. must declare war on russia in the wake of this story. >> watch his reaction when you started then. >> what we warned about a long time ago happened today. we've been saying this terror is not limited to our national borders. it's already spread to the territory of moldova and today ,russian missiles hit poland, the territory of friendly countries, to fire missiles at nato territory. this is a russian missile attack on collective security. this is a very significant escalation. >> we must have. >> this is a russian missile attack on collective security. it's not simply in poland, on ukraine, but on the united states is an attack on the us by russia, end quote. >> we must act. so this a man with some moral authority. this is the only head of state in the world to receive a vogue photo spread this year. >> this is a personal friend of sean penn and ben stiller's. >> and here he was commanding the u.s. to lead the third world war immediately. >> so as we said, this was not a minor ap story. >> the only problem was it was completely and utterly wrong. zelenskyy, the unnamed american intel officer and the associated press had all been trafficking in dangerous misinformation that became clear within a few hours when pictures of the exploded missile surfaced on social media. people know a lot about military hardware started asking questions about this stuff. so they looked at a picture of a fragment of the motor from this destroyed missile and they noticed the ordinance was about three hundred system. now, the three hundred system is only being used by the ukrainian military, not the russians. so it could not have been a russian military attack somehow. ukraine had bombed poland and killed people. that's true. and within a day, the pentagon ,nato and even the government of poland all were forced to admit that that's what happened. >> ukraine did it. but here's the interesting thing. the thing that is relevant to us, ukraine never admitted that zelenskyy kept lying on television. so when you were in a country where the free press has been banned, as it has been in ukraine, you may not realize that the rest of the world is not required to believe you. you can't throw them in jail. so he kept telling you what you knew is not true. quote, i have no doubt that this is not our missile. he said today. >> i believe that this was a russian missile based on military reports. >> again, that's not only untrue, it's a lie that could get millions of americans killed. >> so you have to ask yourself ,is it time to stop backing this guy? could the risk be too high? he's lying on purpose to get us into a war. maybe he's not worth supporting in the first place. maybe he's just other corrupt eastern european strongmen in a tracksuit getting as rich as he can from american handouts. that might be the lesson, but that is not at all the lesson the biden administration is drawing from what just happened. watch former raytheon board member lloyd austin explain that even if the missile attack was from ukraine, it's still russia's fault. >> this explosion was most likely the result of a ukrainian air defense missile that unfortunately landed in poland. and whatever the final conclusions may be , the world knows that russia bears ultimate response. >> the ability for this incident. >> so this is not what we would refer to as evidence based reasoning. what you're hearing from the secretary of defense is that ukraine lobbed a missile into poland and killed poles. but you need to continue to send billions to ukraine to fight russia. so now you're starting to see why the unnamed intel official leaked this story to the associated press in the first place. this manufactured story. and the point, of course, was to manipulate the united states congress as so often happen. unnamed american intel official leaks something to the "new york times", washington post, ap members of congress read this and do what the intel agencies and the administration want them to do. >> and we can all but prove that in this case, because shortly after this fake news of this fake russian missile attack, appeared in the ap wire, the white house demanded another thirty seven billion dollars in funding for ukraine so that raises the question, where does that put us ? what's the total that we've sent to ukraine? so far ? well, in just nine months, the biden administration has committed a total of ninety one billion dollars to ukraine at a time when our borders still open and our economy is degrading fast. >> so how much is that? well, as glenn greenwald pointed out today, ninety one billion dollars is twice the average annual us expenditure during our own war in afghanistan, 91 billion dollars is thirty three percent more than the entire annual military budget of the entire country of russia. but not enough. today, mark milley informed us that ninety one billion dollars is just the beginning. >> the united states are determined to continue to support ukraine with the means to defend themselves for as long as it takes. we will continue to support ukraine for as long as it takes, and we will continue to support them as long as it takes. and until then, we will continue to support all the way for as long as it takes . >> we will be there for as long as it takes. so there you have the obedient little general reading the talking points again. but still doesn't answer the question why? >> as long as it takes okay, some things are worth that commitment. but why this one ? what is the point of this exactly? we can't say we're defending democracy in ukraine, which is not a democratic country. we can't explain clearly or even at all where our national security interest lies in this conflict between two eastern european countries. >> so why would we bankrupt ourselves to fund it? could it be that this entire effort is a choreographed scam? to enrich the democratic party and its allies and achieve left wing ideological goals that have nothing to do with the core interests of the united states ? >> could it be this this whole thing is blm, eastern european edition ? >> well, it's possible because that is how washington actually works. and the brewing scandal kind of exposes that you may have read about. this is the cryptocurrency exchange that just blew up in one of the single biggest one day losses in world history, possibly the biggest ever. now, what was fdx? it wasn't a conventional business. no, in fact, it was the finance. and back scratching the snake eating its tail is on full display in this story. so democrats invited fauci ceos embankment bank been freed to the white house to discuss, discuss crypto regulation. so the people are supposed to be keeping this business within. the lines were actually colluding with the business and doing nothing to keep it from defrauding its investors. and then in congress, is also supposed to be overseeing the finance sector. maxine. waters, who chairs the financial services committee, was palling around with sam banks and she took the picture with him. you're seeing on your screen now that picture was taken after the first ever hearing on crypto regulations. so that's a pretty good deal . you're running a scam and the regulators are on your side. how do you keep them on your side? well, if you're bank been freed , you donate nearly 40 billion dollars to democrats in the midterm, which he did. and that total puts him number two on the donor list right below george soros. now, that's so obviously illegal. and wrong and corrupt that you'd probably want to make sure nobody wrote about it. and that's why i say i'm bank, been freed , also bought off the media. he handed millions to places like vox, the intercept semiformal, propublica and probably many others. >> so with tens of billions of dollars evaporating into thin air and sam bank and freed, not even within the borders of the united states tonight, the question is where investors left. there are a lot of big retirement funds were invested in this thing in this country and in canada. will they get any of their money back ? what about the money? that same bank and freed gave to the democratic party? will the democrats have to give it back to the people who are defrauded? will the media companies that took it semaphore, for example, have to give it back to the people whose money was effectively stolen? well, maxine waters was a beneficiary of this, and she was asked today whether she's returning any of these donations. fox is hilary vaughn just caught up with waters and she made it very clear , of course, she's keeping the money. do you think some lawmakers that got donations from fauci founder should give that money back ? oh, well, i don't want to get into that as a matter of fact, both democrats and republicans have received donations. >> thank you. yeah. yeah, everyone did. actually , everyone didn't do it. this was the finance arm of the democratic party, one of the biggest stories of the year. maybe the last ten years. we're going have a lot more on it tomorrow and in the weeks to come. but why are we talking about it tonight? we're telling you about it because you should know that fauci x was also in partnership with the government of ukraine. because all threads returned to the same school. >> it'd be interesting to know how much money, if any, ukraine funneled back to fauci, which then wound up in the hands of democrats running for congress in this last cycle. we don't know the answer. >> an audit might tell us there has been no audit today in the house. marjorie taylor greene has been demanding an audit, but to no avail so far . >> and that means that tens of billions of your tax dollars the biden administration has shoveled to the government of ukraine remain, as of tonight, completely unaccounted for. we don't know what happened to the money. and still the ukrainians are demanding more and trying to get us into a world war that would benefit us in no way a republican supporting this could any republican possibly support this more money for ukraine with no audit. any republican who does deserves at the very least, a lifetime of scorn. one who doesn't is thomas massie. who represents the commonwealth of kentucky in the congress. he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks so much for coming on . so it seems pretty clear that this story was planted, the u.s. intel agencies on the ap wire to convince you in the congress to send another tranche of thirty seven billion dollars to the government of ukraine. that feels like manipulation by our intel agencies to me. >> yeah. and if i may respond to one other thing in your monologue there, there's a myth about the nato treaty that article five is somehow short circuiting congress's responsibility to decide when and if we go to war. article 11 , which almost nobody has read , says that all of the member states have to carry out the other articles in compliance with their own constitutions. our constitution requires not just the senate to confirm a treaty, but for the house and the senate, both to agree to commit an act of war or to commit our soldiers to war. so that if any of my if any of my colleagues here in the house or the senate are listening, please go read the rest of the nato treaty. as far as the money, tucker, they're doing something very despicable here with these last tranches of money. we had a clear cut vote on about 40 billion dollars and we had fifty seven republicans. those are your true conservatives who voted against that 40 billion. but recently, the last tranche, they tied it to hurricane relief in florida. so think about this. if you wanted to help hurricane victims in florida with your vote in washington, d.c., you had to increase the chance that we would have victims of nuclear war. it's despicable and it's wrong. and they're going to try to do that with the next tranche of money. they're going to tie it to more disaster relief and other government funding. >> this is so obvious a scam. i mean, it's an ideological. it's a holy war being waged by some on the left against russia for their own creepy ideological reasons. but it's also a moneymaking opportunity for war profiteers ,including one prominent democrat is trying to an arms deal in ukraine right now. we'll tell you about that tomorrow. but i don't understand how congress can appropriate a single more dollar without an audit that tells us what happened to the other tens of billions you've already sent. >> that's right. we should absolutely refuse to send another single penny there until we get an audit and an inspector general, senator rand paul , tried to make this stand in the senate, only got 11 of his colleagues there to agree that we need an inspector general. look, in afghanistan, we were spending about 50 billion dollars a year. we're spending it on course to spend about twice of that in ukraine. and we had an inspector general in afghanistan. we absolutely need one here. we found all sorts of waste, fraud and abuse from inspector general john sopko. so we need one here in the ukraine immediately. >> and we shouldn't be sending any more money. and there's one other thing we should demand. you know, the guy that you quoted there said we'll do it for as long as it takes. the thing we never had in afghanistan and we don't have in ukraine is what is your definition of victory? are you going to retake crimea? what's your definition of victory? the american voters deserve to know all regime change in moscow, of course, is is the goal of this. so republican is now officially, as of an hour ago, control the house of represent republican control of one chamber. the congress can stop this. we can absolutely stop this. now, it might unfortunately, the democrats are going to pass a spending bill here in the lame duck and some senators are probably going to go along with that. and the republicans, unfortunately, which will tie our spending hands until september 30th. of 2020 three . but there's going to be two types of bills for your viewers. i want them to know this. there's going to be two types of bills that pass the republican congress, imaginary pretend messaging bills that are going to be full of great policy. we're going nowhere in the senate. the second type of bill , spending bills and on the spending bills. we need to demand that we defund these things. all of the executive orders need to be defunded. and we certainly shouldn't be sending another penny to ukraine. >> it's it's just crazy how many republicans are hoodwinked by this scam. it really is the foreign policy version of blm and they're still going along with it. and it blows my mind. i appreciate your clarity. >> congressman thomas massie of kentucky, thank you. thank you, tucker. this is a fox news alert as we just told you, the associated press has made a call, is projecting the republicans will , in fact, take control very narrowly of the house of representatives. joe biden has issued this statement, quote, i congratulate leader mccarthy on republicans winning the house majority. i am ready to work with house republicans to deliver results for working families, none of which he means as of now, republicans are projected to control at least 218 218 seats in the house and maybe a few more in the senate. democrats will retain the majority. they have 50 seats. that gives them control of the chamber because, of course, the vice president cast the tie breaking vote . there is a runoff in georgia in december. donald trump announced last night, as you know, that he's running for president once again in 2020 four. but he continues to remain censored on social media. so whatever you think of trump, how can this be happening in a democracy? how can a presidential candidate be prevented from speaking in public? >> where the defenders of democracy tonight? more on that in a minute. on do we have operational control? >> yes. or yes, we do. >> joe biden says there's nothing wrong on our southern border, but there is . the mexican cartels have the majority of operational control. >> now, there's nothing humane about handing our nation's 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