♪ >> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT.
THE MAIN THING WE LEARNED ON
FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THE PREVIOUSLY
UNDISCLOSED DOCUMENTS ON TWIT
SERVICE CONNECTED NOT THAT
SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES CENSOR
CONSERVATIVES, WE KNEW THAT BUT
NO ONE WAS SURPRISED TO CONFIRM
OR DENY IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
WE LEARNED ON FRIDAY BIG TECH
WORKS AGGRESSIVELY AND IN SECRET
WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO
SUBVERT THE OUTCOME WITH THE
REST OF US ASSUMING FREE AND
FAIR ELECTIONS.
THE FBI COMMITTING CENSORSHIP ON
BEHALF OF ONE CANDIDATE AND
HURTING THE OTHER.
HARD TO IMAGINE A MORE BRAZEN
ATTACK ON THE DEMOCRACY THAN
THIS.
THIS IS NOT HOW THE SYSTEM IS
SUPPOSED TO WORK AND IT IS IN
FACT ILLEGAL.
TWITTER VIOLATED THE FIRST
AMENDMENT AND A ESTABLISHED
CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW AND NEVER
DECLARED THEM TO THE BIDEN
CAMPAIGN.
THAT’S A CRIME.
THANKS TO THE REPORTING OF MATT
TIABBI, WE KNOW THIS HATCHED.
IT’S NOT A -- HAPPENED.
IT’S NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY,
IT’S A FACT.
IN THE DAYS SINCE TAIBBI’S JAW
DROPPING SCOOPS, NONE OF THEM
FOLLOWED UP ON THE STORY AND
DISMISSED THEM AS ENTIRELY
NORMAL.
OF COURSE THE FBI WAS WORKING
SECRETLY WITH TWITTER AND THE
BIDEN CAMPAIGN TO CONTROL YOUR
BRAIN BY LIMITING YOUR ACCESS TO
FACTITIAL INFORMATION.
THAT’S HOW ELECTIONS WORK.
OR THEY’RE ATTACKING MATT FIBROMYALGIA PERSONALLY FOR
DARING TO WRITE THE STORY.
AS OF TONIGHT YOU’LL BE HAPPY TO
KNOW SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IS IN THE
BAHAMAS STILL NOT INDICTED AND
THE GUY UNCOVERING ILLEGAL
CENSORSHIP DURING A PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN.
HARD TO BELIEVE THEY’RE SAYING
THAT, OH, BUT THEY ARE.
HERE’S A SELECTION.
>> ELON MUSK RE-TWEETED THE
"TWITTER FILES" A COLLECTION OF
DOCUMENTS THAT DETAIL HOW THE
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM SUPPOSEDLY
BURIED A STORY ABOUT A UKRAINIAN
ENERGY COMPANY PAYING MONEY TO
THE PRESIDENT’S SON, HUNTER
BIDEN.
FIRST OF ALL, I JUST HAVE TO SAY
THAT THIS WHOLE THING IS JUST
RIDICULOUS AND IT’S NOT TRUE.
>> IT WAS AMAZING TO ME THAT ALL
OF THESE SORT OF FOX NEWS OR
WHOEVER ELSE JUMPED ON THIS
WITHOUT EVER FULLY UNDERSTANDING
THAT IT WAS BASICALLY
MEANINGLESS WHAT HAPPENED AND
TURNED OUT TO BE A GOOD THING.
>> MUSK SEEMS FIXATED ON A
TWO-YEAR-OLD STORY ABOUT HUNTER
BIDEN’S LAPTOP.
>> THAT’S WHAT WE IN THE CABLE
BUSINESS CALL A HOT TAKE AND
REVEAL’S ELON MUSK AS PRO FOUND
IGNORANCE OF THE FIRST
AMENDMENT.
>> IT WAS A HELPFUL THING OF THE
TWITTER FILES BECAUSE WE GOT TO
SEE HOW CONTENT MODERATION WORKS
AND HOW WHEN A GROUP OF PEOPLE
WITH DIFFERING POLITICAL IDEAS
AND IDEOLOGIES AND VIEWS GETS
TOGETHER IN THE SPIRIT OF MAKING
A PLATFORM SAFE AND HEALTHY.
>> Tucker: THERE’S SO MUCH
THERE.
AL SHARPTON TEAMING UP WITH THE
FORMER GEORGE W. BUSH AID
TELLING YOU CENSORSHIP IS GOOD
AND FIRST LADY SAYING THIS
UKRAINIAN COMPANY ALLEGEDLY PAID
HUNTER BIDEN WHEN THERE’S NO
ALLEGEDLY ABOUT IT BECAUSE
EVERYONE INVOLVED ADMIT IT HAD
AND ALLIE SAYING WE IN THE CABLE
BUSINESS BUT HAS NEVER BEEN IN
THE NEWS BUSINESS AND PEOPLE IN THE NEWS BUSINESS COVER THE NEWS
AND PROP PROPAGANDA PEOPLE CENSO
DISTORT THE NEWS.
IT’S CRUDE AND UNEFFECTIVE AND
SO UNBELIEVABLY NOT BELIEVABLE.
CENSORSHIP EXPLAINS BRANDY LIKE
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER AND CALLED
CONTENT MODERATION.
WHEN WE HIDE FACTS THAT YOU NEED
IN ORDER TO CAST AN INFORMED
VOTE IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,
THAT’S "SAFE AND HEALTHY". HIDING FACTS FROM YOU IS SAFE
AND HEALTHY.
NOT MANY BELIEVE THAT BUT
THEY’RE SAYING IT ANYWAY.
THE FORMER RNC CHAIRMAN BY THE
WAY LETTING YOU KNOW THAT
ACTUALLY REVEALING THE MECHANICS
OF CENSORSHIP IS ITSELF AN
ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH.
>> PUTTING THOSE BACK ON THE
PLATFORM JUST WITH THE POSITION
OF THE ARGUMENT THAT HE’S ALL
ABOUT FREE SPEECH, REALLY
UNDERMINES SOME OF THE CENTRAL TENANTS OF FREE SPEECH IS THAT
IT IS ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF YOU.
YOU REALLY CLAIM THE PLATFORM IS SUPPOSED TO B. >> Tucker: ANY
DAY YOU GET TO SEE MICHAEL
STEELE MISUSE THE WORDS
JUSTIFICATION AND IT WAS THE
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
THE ESSENTIAL TENANT OF FREE
SPEECH AND THE ESSENTIAL TENANT
AND THEY’RE NEVER GOING TO SAY
THINGS THEY OBJECT IT.
OKAY, MICHAEL STEELE.
IF YOU GET A CHANCE, LET US KNOW
WHAT CONSTITUTION YOU’VE BEEN
READING AND THE ONE WE HAVE HERE
IN THE U.S., IN THE UNITED
STATES, YOU GET TO SAY AS AN
AMERICAN CITIZEN WHAT YOU
BELIEVE, PERIOD.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY THE
GOVERNMENT INFRINGE ON THAT
RIGHT, PERIOD.
THAT’S THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
THANKS TO TWITTER FILES WE KNOW
THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED
MORE PROFOUNDLY THAN ANY TIME IN
OUR LINES.
MIRANDA DEVINE OF THE NEW YORK
POST REPORTED THAT THE FBI MET
"WEEKLY" WITH TWITTER EXECUTIVES
BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION AND THE
FBI WARNED ABOUT HACK AND LEAK
OPERATIONS BY STATE ACTORS THAT
WOULD INVOLVE HUNTER BIDEN AND
"LIKELY COME OUT IN OCTOBER".
WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE IT APPEARED
IN THE SWORN DEPOSITION FROM
QUITTER’S FORMER CHIEF --
TWITTER’S FORMER CHIEF CENSORRER
AND IT WAS ALSO FACEBOOK.
THE FBI WAS HOLDING MEETINGS
WITH FACEBOOK WHICH ALSO NOT
SURPRISINGLY AND AS A DIRECT
RESULT OF THESE MEETINGS
CENSORED THE HUNTER BIDEN
STORIES.
WATCH.
>> THERE WAS A LOT OF ATTENTION
ON TWITTER DURING THE ELECTION
BECAUSE OF THE HUNTER BIDEN
LAPTOP STORY.
>> WE GOAT THAT TOO.
>> YOU GUYS CENSORED THAT AS
WELL?
>> WE TOOK A DIFFERENT PATH THAN
TWITTER.
BASICALLY THE BACKGROUND IS THE
FBI BASICALLY CAME TO US, SOME
FOLKS ON OUR TEAM AND WAS LIKE,
HEY, JUST SO YOU KNOW, YOU
SHOULD BE ON HIGH ALERT WE
THOUGHT THERE WAS A LOT OF
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA IN THE 2016
ELECTION, WE HAVE IT ON NOTICE
THAT BASICALLY THERE’S ABOUT TO
BE SOME KIND OF DUMP OF --
THAT’S SIMILAR TO THAT SO BE
VIGILANT.
>> Tucker: SO THIS IS A STOP
THE PRESS’ STORY.
THE FBI IS THE LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL DOMESTIC LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN THE WORLD.
IT CAN’T BECOME A SECRET POLICE
FORCE AND IF IT DOES, IT’S NO
BETTER THAN SAY RUSSIA UNDER
PUTIN AND IT IS A AUTHORITARIAN
STATE BY DEFINITION IF THE
LARGEST DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY STARTS TO PLAY IN
DOMESTIC POLITICS.
BUT THEY ARE AND WE KNOW THAT
AND NO ONE IS SAYING ANYTHING
ABOUT IT AND THAT’S VERY
STRANGE.
THE TWITTER EXECUTIVE WAS ROTH.
YOLE ROTH HAD NO TECHNICAL
EXPERTISE OF ANY KIND KIND AND
DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT HACKING AND
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND RUSSIA AND
RECEIVED A PHD IN THE BACKGROUND
OF GRINDER AND GOT A APP FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
REPORTEDLY AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL
YOU SHOULD BE IMPRESSED BY AND
GRINDER APPEARS 300 TIMES IN HIS
RESEARCH AND UPENN GAVE ME A PHD
FOR THAT.
WHATEVER YOU THINK, HOW DID THAT
GET YOLE ROTH INTO THE POSITION
THAT HE OCCUPIED AT TWITTER
WHERE HE WAS IN CHARGE OF WHAT
YOU WERE ALLOWED TO SAY AND
THINK?
WELL, THE ONE QUALIFICATION WE
KNOW YOEL ROTH DID HAVE IS HE
DOES NOT BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH,
PERIOD.
HE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR IN AN
INTERVIEW LAST WEEK.
>> BABALON IS THE ONE THAT GOT
HIM TO BUY THE THING, WHICH WAS NOT PARTICULARLY FUNNY.
THE BABALONB MAN OF THE YEAR IS
RACHEL.
>> THE TARGETTIZATION OF
ASSISTANCE GENDER ON TWITTER IS
REAL AND THIEF -- TRANSGENDER ON
TWITTER IS VERY REAL AND LIFE
THREATENING AND EXTRAORDINARY.
WE’VE SEEN FROM TIKTOKS THAT
THERE’S ORCHESTRATED CAMPAIGNS
THAT PARTICULARLY ARE SINGLING
OUT A GROUP THAT IS ALREADY
PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE WITHIN
SOCIETY.
TWITTER’S WRITTEN POLICIES
PROHIBIT MISS GENDERING, FULL STOP.
>> Tucker: IT’S SO GREAT.
IT’S LIFE THREATENING TO TELL
JOKES.
THE LIFE COACHES THAT JOEL ROTH
UPHELD HIS LIFE TO PROTECTING
AND NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY CHANGE
OR WHAT GROUNDS AND THEY CHANGE
AND USUALLY CAUGHT IN THE CROSS
FIRE AND YOU’RE BUSTED FOR
SAYING SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T KNOW
YOU WEREN’T ALLOWED TO SAY.
PROBABLY THE GREATEST EXAMPLE IS
THAT YOEL ROTH HIMSELF ONCE
ATTACKED TRANS PEOPLE ON TWITTER
AND CALLED THEM TRANNIES.
WHOA.
THEREBY THREATENING THEIR LIVES.
"IT WOULDN’T BE A TRIP TO NEW
YORK WITHOUT ONE BIG SCARY
TRANNY".
THAT’S AN ACTUAL TWEET FROM YOEL
ROTH AND THE KIND OF TWEET THAT
IF YOU WROTE IT HE’D CALL THE
FBI AND NOW HAS TO PRETEND TO BE
OFFENDED BY ALL THIS BECAUSE HIS
PROPORTED OFFENSE, THE TERROR HE
FEELS GIVES HIM A PRETEXT TO
CENSOR YOU ON BEHALF OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
>> Tucker: THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION APPOINTED THE
PERSON WHO EFFECTIVELY ALLOWED
JOE BIDEN TO GET ELECTED
PRESIDENT BY CENSORING CHRIS
SCHISM OF HIS BUSINESS DEAL --
CRITICISM OF HIS BUSINESS DEALS
IN WHICH HE TOOK MONEY FROM
CHINA AND REWARDED BY GETTING AN
ADVISORY ROLE ON CISA,
CYBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
ADMINISTRATION.
IT’S THE CENSORSHIP ARM OF THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
HOW CAN THIS EXIST?
OUR FIRST AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY
PROHIBITS THAT AND WHY IS THERE
NO COURT CASE ON THIS?
WHY ARE PEOPLE STANDING BY AND
PUTTING UP WITH IT?
ITS REACH IS EXTENSE AND I HAVE
THE NEW DOCUMENT IN THE ON GOING
DOCUMENT AND BIG TECH REVEALS
HOW AGGRESSIVE THE CENSORSHIP
CIFA PRACTICE IS.
THEY’RE A HOT LINE THAT ALLOWS
THE GOVERNMENT TO PRESSURE THE BIG TECH COMPANIES TO CENSOR
POLITICAL OPPOSITION.
I WANTED TO FLAG TWO TWEETS
ABOUT POSSIBLE MISINFORMATION
ABOUT THE ELECTION.
IT’S A NEW WORD BEEN AROUND IN
THE INTEL WORLD FOR A LONG TIME
AND NEVER BEEN USED IN COMMON
CONVERSATION TILL RECENTLY AND
THE MISINFORMATION AND LYING IS THAT MISINFORMATION CAN BE TRUE.
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE UNTRUE TO
SAY IT.
NOT ANYMORE.
WITH MIS-AND DISINFORMATION IF I
DON’T LIKE IT, IF I’M IN POWER, I CAN CENSOR YOU.
ONE OF THE OFFENDING TWEETS THAT
THE 2020 GUBERNATORIAL AND READW
IGNORED AND AWARDED THE
DEMOCRATS.
BALLOTS CAN APPEAR WHENEVER FROM
WHOMEVER.
NOW YOU CAN AGREE OR DISAGREE
WITH THE TWEETS, IT’S TRUE.
BUT IT’S THEIR OPINIONS.
AND YOU SEE TWEETS LIKE THAT ALL
THE TIME ON TWITTER AND THIS IS
A FREE COUNTRY OR WAS.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS
SHOCKING.
IT’S AMAZING THAT ANYONE WOULD
DEFEND IT.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN
THOSE OPINIONS WITHIN MINUTES
CISA FLAGGED THE TWEETS TO
SEVERAL DHS ACCOUNTS.
PEOPLE WITH GUNS AND CISA SENT
THE REPORT TO TWITTER.
PLEASE SEE THE REPORT BELOW FROM
WASHINGTON AND THE TWEETS WERE
CENSORED AND THEY GOT A RANDOM
PERSON WITH A SMALL TWITTER
FOLLOWING SHUT DOWN BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T LIKE HIS OR HER VIEWS ON
THE ELECTION IN THE STATE.
DIHA GOT GUY WITHS GUNS TO TAKE
IT DOWN.
KENTUCKY’S SECRETARY OF STATE
DID THIS ALL THE TIME AND
COLORADO’S ALSO.
COLORADO REPORTED SEVERAL
POLITICAL PARODY ACCOUNTS TO DHS
THAT THEN ALERTED TWITTER AND
ALL WERE PULLED OFF.
THEY WERE ALL PARODIES BY THE
WAY.
EVEN IF THEY WEREN’T PARODIES,
DOESN’T MATTER AND THEY WERE IN
FACT JOKES. YOU’RE SEEING ONE OF THEM ON
YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
SMOKE WEED EVERY DAY IS WHAT IT
READS.
TWITTER TOOK THE DHS COMPLAINT
SERIOUSLY, WHY WOULDN’T THEY,
AND CENSORED THE ACCOUNTS.
WE’LL ESCALATE TWITTER WROTE AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE ELECTION
CYCLE IN 2021, STAFFERS FOR
SECRETARY OF STATER IN ARIZONA
WARNED BY GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATE AND KATIE HOBBS
DIRECTED CENSORSHIP.
I’M FLAGGING THIS ACT FOR YOUR
REVIEW WROTE HOBBS FOR CENTER OF
INTERNET SECURITY.
CISA WAS LATER CC’D ON THE
E-MAIL AND THE TWEETS WERE AN
ATTEMPT TO FURRED UNDERSTOOD
MINE CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTION
INSTITUTION IN ARIZONA.
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE
CONFIDENCE IN ELECTIONS, REALLY?
THIS IS THE STATE WHERE THE
BIGGEST COUNTY TOOK MORE THAN A
WEEK TO COUNT THE BALLOTS AND
THE PRINTERS DIDN’T WORK ON
ELECTION DAY AND WORKED BEFORE.
YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TOTAL
CONFIDENCE AND IN FACT YOU’RE
COMMANDED TO AND IF YOU DON’T
HAVE CONFIDENCE, YOU’LL BE
PUNISHED.
"THANK YOU FOR YOUR
CONSIDERATION IN REVIEWING THIS
MATTER FOR ACTION".X TWITTER
THEN CENSORED THEM.
TWITTER REPLIED WE’LL ESCALATE.
FOR THE FIFTH TIME THIS, ISN’T
JUST OFFENSIVE, THIS IS ILLEGAL.
THIS IS A CRIME.
A CRIME IS BEING -- A VERY
SERIOUS CRIME.
A CRIME AGAINST OUR DEMOCRACY,
NOT PRESSOPASSING IN THE CAPITOL
OR -- TRESPASSING IN THE CAPITOL
OR GAZING UPON NANCY PELOSI’S
DESK.
OUTCOME OF ELECTIONS.
IT’S BEYOND BELIEF.
IT’S ALSO VERY COMMON.
MUCH MORE COMMON THAN ANYONE
THOUGHT.
THIS WEEKEND ELON MUSK SUGGESTED
THAT TWITTER INTERFERED ABROAD
TOO. THEY DO IT HERE, WHY NOT IN
OTHER COUNTRYIES.
MUCKS SAID "I’M SEEING A LOT OF
RECENT TWEETS ABOUT THE BRAZIL
ELECTION".
IT’S POSSIBLE TWITTER GAVE
PREFERENCE TO LEFT WING
CANDIDATES.
OKAY.
I MEAN, IT’S POSSIBLE.
IF THAT HAPPENED, CAN YOU
IMAGINE?
THE PEOPLE LECTURING YOU ABOUT
DEMOCRACY AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES
IN BRAZIL PROBABLY IN HUNGARY
AND EL SALVADOR AND ANY REGIME
THEY DON’T LIKE NOT BECAUSE THE
REGIMES POSE A THREAT TO THE
UNITED STATES BUT DON’T LIKE THE
CUT OF THEIR JIB?
WHAT WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT STATE
INTERFERENCE IN DEMOCRATIC
ELECTIONS ALSO OVER THE WORLD
HAS LONG BEEN SUSPECTED AND NOW