Nonstop on cable news. Not just on cable news. We are hearing the very same thing from elected officials including some republican elected officials. We are hearing it from the leaders of federal Law Enforcement agencies and of the intelligence agencies. We are hearing it from the pentagon. Just this week the new Secretary Of Defense ordered the entire u. S. Military to, quote, stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists. And of course we are hearing it from the Business Establishment from wall street from the Tech Monopolies from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of american life. All of them are now on the hunt for political extremists. And at one level that does not sound bad. Because no sane person is for political extremism, especially violent extremism. We are against it. Were for moderation. We are for incremental change. We are for the consent of the governed. We said that every day for four years and we m
press conference from yesterday explaining what happened next. the suspected take responsibility for the shootings. early on we began interviews with him. he claims it s early, but he claims it was not racially motivated. he has an issue with what he considers and sees the locations as something that allows him to go to these places and it s a temptation that he wanted to eliminate. tucker: so, the police took a long and detailed statement from robert long. here s what they phone. if you mutely confess to the crimes but while he admitted to committing multiple murders which is the death penalty offense in the city of georgia, he denied having any racial motivation. instead he told police he had addiction an issue with porn. so, robert long was fixated on and pornography. that s why he said he committed the murder. next day, it seemed to confirm his story. if a man called tyler bayliss said that he shared a room with robert long in a georgia rehab facility last year and
but i did know i was attacked and i defended myself. tucker: what do you think would have happened to you if there hadn t been the amount of video that there is? i can t even imagine. i don t think we would be sitting here right now having this talk, tucker. tucker: that s for sure. you would never get out. rittenhouse knows perfectly well the only reason he s free is that he can prove what actually happened thanks to those videos but it didn t prevent him from going to jail anyway. he did for a longer period than most people understand. during that time he picked up a couple of attorneys who said would help him. in his view they badly abused him and his family and their trust. we ll tell you a lot about that in just a minute and about the prosecutors. also, a brief programming note, we had cameras behind the scenes throughout much of this case. our tucker carlson original documentary called the trial of kyle premiers in december. - [announcer] love the delicious taste of fried f
of the mob mentality. and they were like, oh, yes, we re just going to arrest him even though there were videos already out showing me being attacked and having to defends myself. tucker: so when was it that you were arrested? i was arrested on august 25 at around 6:00 a.m. i was formally arrested without a criminal complaint being drafted. they didn t know what they were charging me with yet. they just arrested me. tucker: at home? at the antioch police department. tucker: what did your parents say when you called them and told them what happened? i didn t call my mom after i saw her. she was in shock. she was like, she wanted to go into hiding. i said no, right thing to do would be to turn myself in. i didn t do anything wrong. tucker: so you knew that from the very beginning? i knew that. allot of people were like, oh, kyle had time to meet with his attorneys to come up with this amazing defense, self-defense, no, that s not the case. this has been a hundred percent
here s that part of the interview. tucker: what do you think your life will be like after this? i m hoping i can live a quiet stress-free life, and be free of any intimidation or harassment and just go on with my life as a normal 18-year-old kid attending coll tucker: you re going to go to college? i am in cleaning. i m student at arizona state university. tucker: i mean, are you going to go to campus and i think i am. i want to. it s a lot of things we have to look into so i don t know for sure yet. but i do intend on going to campus. . pursuing a career in nursing. i may go into law, i haven t decided yet but i want to be a nurse so i ve been doing the prerequisites for that. tucker: interesting. do you think you can have that, that you can live peacefully in