is not at war with russia. with ruthis is ukraine s war to figh. uk the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that wa thar. rave ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil. and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. ir victo in the end, their victory i is inevitable. now, you re very familiar with these points because you heary day since ever last february. you ve heard them repeated by every power centem repeated , the united states , the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both partie s in congress, ceos and celebrities, and most insistently of all, m from you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet lyy along the entire spectrum ol our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine and both of them are lies. k we know that they re lies because late last week, leakedea intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media briefing slides prepare
pronouncement nancy pelosi made over the last year from her compound in napa. hshe does have an effect on your life. what about lying? this was the year of lying. the people in charge tell an awful lot of lies. that s what we learned. we know this for sure, because while they re avid and committed liars, they re not good at it. they re pathetic, obvious and sad. don t take a leak on my boots and tell me it s raining. don t tell me something that isn t true and expect me to believe it. you insult my dignity, diminish me, treat me like a child. if you are your going to tell me a lie, put some effort into, try something clever. don t pull the dusty alibi over the shelf like expired spaghetti sauce and expect me to fall for it again. don t worry. everything is totally fine. we re doing a great job. they ve been trying that for, well, 21 years now with the still somehow secret 9/11 files. for nearly 60 years with the jfk assassination. at this point no living american still believ
an act of evil. there s a lot of it. but this is particularly shocking example. what did you do? how did yoculau responrly ng. hod? u well, i saw an opening whilea phil was grappling with the attacker and kind of instinctively it used that opening to tackle the attacker to the ground and managed to get phil off of him and rush away to safety and i would say it was really more instinct.i i didn t really have timdidne t scared in that moment,ab buto i m just grateful i was able to get him away from that. o yo. yeah, well, now you knowat s a who you are and it s a good thing. were there other people around? did they help? very busy. like i said, it was a saturday afternoon in broad daylight. on a very busy street in d.c.e e so there were hundreds of people out tha het i think likeo most people in a situation like that, they were shocke td to see what was happening. and it all happened so quicklyla that really people didn tthey react. they just kind of stood there. and looked and when
likening it to the 1984 model, and it seems like that way from start to finish. it s a surreal experience. tucker: it s evil, an act of evil, arresting somebody for praying is evil. it breaks your heart to think of the prime minister and people on down standing by allowing this to happen. i m so glad you did this, that you will continue to do it. that s a human right and they can t take it away from you. thank you. tucker: sam bankman-fried, of course, is a scam artist. looks like he pulled off the biggest financial fraud in history. he s already out of jail, though, on $250 million bond, which actually turned out be fake. he didn t have to pay a cent. his parents put up their relatively modest $4 million house as collateral, and that somehow covered the
suffered such a tragedy today. 26 people who were killed in a mass shooting inside a small texas church. people here are gathered to support each other. many of these people coming from surrounding communities as well. we just heard from some people who knew one of the victims. the 14-year-old daughter of the pastor of the church where this all took place. and these people, she said, are here to lift up each other, to remember the victims of this horrible tragedy and to show that they are there to bring love, not hate. meantime, president trump is also monitoring the investigation. he, too, extending best wishes. his prayers from afar. he says this mass shooting in texas is, an act of evil. the president speaking out publicly for the first time since the gunman dressed in all black opened fire at today s small town baptist church service in texas. 26 people, again, are dead. the youngest victim just 5 years old. right now the president is in