0 said and this that i'm doing it my way. meet plenty. naturally an fda d cleared clinically proven weight management aide proven weight management aide for adults with a bmi of twenty five to forty when combined with diet and exercise plan. it's made from naturally derived building blocks. derived building blocks. you'll learn and eat less. it is a prescription only treatment and if not for pregnant women or people allergic to the coffee or doctor or victim, i plan to be back home to learn more . >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. elon musk bought twitter andke yesterdayr with the promise to restore free speech to america and a lot of people were thrilled by that news. to them it felt like liberation finally h, they can say what the think out loud.beration. they can participate in the life offha their own country. o they can be full citizens again. that's how they felt. butan the same time a lot ofme other far more powerful people were not thrilled, by this newi they were highlys upset that twitter will be lifting its speech restriction. the aclu warned that this was just way s too much free speech and the naacp strongly agreed with that. the washington post concurred, of course, but it took a different angle. it is terrifying, explained jeff bezos, his personal newspaper. when billionaire start buyingil media outlets, msnbcli and cnn did not laugh at that claim, they amplified it and added some . it turns out that elon musk is a white supremacist who knew technically elon musk is an h african-american. 2020 two has been like that . you're always being surprised. so how do you make sense of all of this watching from home here you have a one news story but to diametrically opposed interpretations of the same story. so how do you determine who's right, who are the good guys and who are the villains? we've been brooding about this all day. we havee devisedare t a simple t to answer that question. we're about to show you twowo images. both of them are famous. you've seen both of them before many times they're both from the nineteen eighties. here's the first one to get a pen and paper and recordr your reaction to it. and remember, there are no right or wrong answers. >> watch overnight the wall went up and overnight familyt members were cut offfa from each other. a city and a country divided. >> it was a scramble to get out people jumping from buildings even as their windowsle were being ripped up over the years there were numerous escape attempts by the checkpoints through tunnels even in hot air balloons. threee decades later, communism began to crumble across the soviet unionec. the cracks appeared and eventually the wall came tumbling down. so so the last pictures, as you know, were from berlin in then fall of nineteen eighty nine. ask yourself t what you see. did you witness the triumph of the irrepressible human spirit over forces of totalitarian control orhe did you find yourself annoyed by the senseless vandalism of government infrastructure? who didgo youve sympathize withs you watch that video? tc was it the protesters breaking down that hated wall or did you find yourself feeling forou the prison guards in the background are going to have a lot more trouble keeping track of people once the sensible barrier is removedn . be honest. write down your answers. now we're on to the second. re it's this one is from beijing, china. same year a few months earlier . so what do you see here? there's a man standing alone in front of a tank. is that man a hero risking his life for human rights or ise he a hooligan mp eating the progress of a government vehicle? who do you sympathize with ? the man or the tank? or the tan? these may seem like easy questions, but that's only because those images are more thanques 30 years old . everyone today supports the fall of the berlin wall andr the freedom fighters in tiananmen square. but back in nineteen eighty nine it was a mixed bag. actually a lot of highly respected people m thought the berlin wall should stay up.. that would include margaret thatcher and the president of france and a lot of others.e now that may sound shocking to you, but really it's not sot different from what we're witnessing now. different today we're witnessins a lot of well respected people who are arguing with a straight faceay, that twitter, one of ouc main avenues for solving political differences should . main censoredd they're tellingng you again with a straight face that you can't have a democracy y where everyone is allowed to participate in the conversation. no, in order to represento the public, the public must be forced to shut up. that's what they're saying. so whose side are you on , the man or the tank? keep in mind if you chose the tank, you were by definition a stalinist. we're not judging. we thought you should knowho that . the good news is you've got a lot of companyow new. >> here's msnbc. there's studies that have been shown that this power can be used to tilt elections if someone were to want to use it that way. it's not enough to use rig law and policy. you want to rig the discourse. you want to make sure you control the terms if you own all of twitter or facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself. you don't even have to be transparent. you could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else. hi the restng of us might not even find out about it till after the election n or if a billionaire controlled twitter you could rig the discourse. it's a fair point. the di the thing about owning a social media company is you could quote secretly ban one party's candidate. we're even scarier than that . you can quote secretly turn down the reach of their stuff or turn up the reach ofst something else. and the rest ofuf us mightls not find out about it until after the election. yeah, that's a terrifying prospect. democracy could notth withstand that . let's hope it never happenst i what is it about cable television that completely eliminates people's self awareness? maybe nih should do a study on that. it seemsly like a legitimate health crisis. we're being slightly unfair in that analysis. we do not mean certainly to suggest that it's only democrats who favorlysi censorsp for political ends. republican leaders supported to in a phone call reported today by the new york times, for example, congressman n kevin mccarthy of california told his close friend liz cheneyewexam that he hoped the l media companies would censor more conservative republicans in congress. donald trump, the sitting president, had already been silenced by those companies. but mccarthy wanted the tech oligarchs to do more to force disobedient lawmakers offer the internet quote quote can'ts they take their twitter accounts away too? those are the tape recorded words of congressmanre kevin mccarthy, a man who in private turns out sounds like an msnbc contributor. and yet unless conservatives get their act together right away, kevin mccarthy or one of his highly h liberal allies like elise stefanik is very likely to be speaker of the house in january. t that would mean we will haven a republican congress led by a puppet of the democratic party . so you wouldn't know any of this unless it was leaked and you can startrt to see why the people in charge oppose transparency and fervently support censorship on both sides. why? because the moreanency and fly you know aboutbo them, the less satisfied you're likely to become with their leadership. here's a unique general of cnn's pretorian guard warningno the peasants cannot have too much liberty ift you get invite> to something where there are no rules, where there is total w freedom for everybody.everybodyy do you actually want to go toth that party orat you can decide o stay home? >> oh , you're going to stay h home actually , if you let people choose, you never knowha what they're going to do.t for example, cnn just spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars on af streaming service that in the end attracted 10,000 viewers. right. p because people had a choice a and that's not what they chose . so if you're part of a companye that made a decision like that , you'd be very much in favor of squelching the competitionav with censorshp because if yoump didn't have a monopoly, you would wither d and die. people would start asking questions like why is equity so important again? why do we care what tv personalities look like? shouldn't we care you c abouty what they do, what they believe about their characters? over on the view, host sunny hostin is desperately hopingg she will never be allowed too ask that question on twitter. it is predominantly straight white men. so when elon musk says wow,so this is about free speech, it seems to mere that it's about free speech of straight a white men. elonh musk,of str who lives ind in which the only kind of free speech is white men feeling f free toee say whatever the hell they want. oh , now we can rebut those points that these people are obviously racist and nobody says anything about it for some reason. nything but that's not really the big point. the big point we're going to i restate because it's the wholese point is this anyone who was angered by the prospect of american citizens expressing their opinions b is a stalinist and should be feared. wewe no longer need to guess who those people are. thav have conveniently self-identified. it's a clarifying moment, but it's also a little scary because at this point there is no goingat back once the kidnapr shows you his face, he can't release you. god y knows what happens next .h the biden administration has jumped with all for pause into the signaling it's going to use the weight of the federal government to crush elon musk because he wants you to speakak freely. the day that musk announced his intentionly to buy twitter, the feds opened a probe intohe tesla that would be his , ectric car company o the source of the wealth that made it possible for him t to buy twitter and at the samett time buy administration's allies in the media. are you trying to t defame elon musk and destroy him as a manst because that's what they do. he's a racistro and they're abot to do that to us again. the new york times editorial board just published a stirring defense of censorship in a newspaper on twitter, the times complained muscovy free to quote body shame people. you can also quote sound a health regulations and shout down critics that can't be loud . thou shall not body shameow tony fauci tony fauci is a very tall manto by the way. the vaccines worky flawlessly, not very subtle. cnbc was even less subtle by the way. that's character assassination. that channel granted anonymity to a source identified as quote close to some of the democratic party's biggest silicon valley mega donors. what did the source come over to cnbc to say, quote, musk is? a great engineer and businessman, but i would not trust him with my daughter. oh , she's a now.. no evidence whatsoever. but she should be afraid for your daughters because elon musk wants free speech and nbc nightly news in between health segments strongly agreess s that watch them tell youtr t that free speech endangers women wayhe more than abortionth clinics. >> tiktok and teen voguean watch and some critics are concerned that musk's pursuit of free speech will collide with growing safety problems on twitter, especially for women and minoritiess. do you trust elon musk to make twitter better for women? no, i .en i don't? trust elon musk to mak, twitter better for women at all. >> no, it's bad for women but oh the title have a voice. okay, but of course everyone will have a voice and that's what they're mad about. what theyha don't want is the coming of diversity the oneg thing they say they love. there's no diversity at twitter as it stands 99% of recent political donations from twitter employees have gone to democratss. 99% ninety eight point seven to be precise. now how much is that for perspective? kim jong un got a much smaller level of support from workersel at the central pyongyang steel plant recently. c so 99% of anything is a bad sign. it's a terrifying level of suggests brain death, but brain death is what they're demanding and that tells you everything . as elon musk himself wrote today, quote, the extreme from thoseaction who fear free speech says itee all and it certainly does s. jason whitlock is here to say more is the host of fearless and we're always happy to come on this show. jason , thanks so much for coming on tonight. so you've watched all of k you for this writing about it. what's a your reaction first on this one to lou to hats off s one of your best monologues and that's sayingalal a lot. lo i hope that i can meett. your standard, tucker . pei want to analogize this to the movie. don't look up leonardo dicaprio's last movien' on netflix. it was an analogy about climate change, about a meteor coming to hit a comet coming to hit earth and destroy everything. it was a spoof h on climate change. we're looking at political climate change and the left is losing its mindt . they ignored the warnings from the tea party . they ignored warnings from the maga hat movement. they ignored the warnings delivereddrning fromom in a bigl way on january the 6th and now they have to deal withhe the ramifications ofy that .s o. people like elon musk hats off to him, man. the money is fed up with their censorship and their tactics and the whole climate around media, the world media, cnn plus collabs. merachel maddow running away frn her tv show netflix collapsing losing subscribers. we're in the middle of the climate change that america needs and the left of is losing its mind. don't look up. they're all scared. ll so this i love that analogy. we're tuc not overstating it. this really is the beginning of actual change. >> listen, the media will be here come november.r. these midterm elections, they're allem like, oh my god, we've lost control of public discourse with twitter. for comment that'ss coming us in these midterm elections could be even worse t now that e don't control public discourse through twitter now we don't have our hit man to assassinate the character of anybody that challenges our authority. i'm just very hopeful that elon musk stays the course. i'm prayerful that elon musk isa protectedt because what he has h done again with this climate change changing the climate of twitter is incredibly threatening to this democratic authoritarian styledibl governm, this move of marxism and tryings to mimic the behaviors ofhe china. he has disrupted everythingr i don't know in my career in thirty years in journalism. thirty five maybe. i don't think i've seen i anything this disruptive is what he's s pulled off here ands just delight in the fear that it's i called and the panic that it's caused among the left that he's over the target. this is incredible.erer this is an incredible time to live and the witnesses they've ignored all the warnings, the warning signs that this was coming that people were eventually going tope rise up and say you can't see me like forever. you can you can intimidate me and send out your people thugsnd and black lives matter thugs terrorize our cities and get away with it forever. thugs and the storm is coming.t forever. i'm just happypy to be a witness to it. rooting for the tank over the man and the rest of us .s jason whitlock iskn so great too see. sothank you . so here's one potential vulnerability for elon muskk to this company, tesla and spacex s have close relationships with the federal government. tesla is dependent on chinese factories. that's where the batteries come from. now he's promising to take twitter into an uncensored social media platform. so that is a huge threat to the governments of both . e u.s. and china t what does that mean? glenn greenwald has been following this story. nd knows a he knows a lot of the players in it has been fighting foror free speech for a long time. weim spoke to greenwald a couple of hours ago for an episode tucker carlson say coming up tomorrow morning at fox station seven. >> and here's part of it really interesting. >> watch. what do you make of elon musk? do you think he's sincere? you know, elon musk is somebody who has grown up in incredible privilege. so he was part of an extremely wealthy family from south africa. his father was a very pn rich entrepreneur. he came to the united states and he took that wealthto and made it into you into a different universe. i mean, i you know, there are some kids born into wealth j and they just kind of liveus on their father's accomplishments. he obviously is not somebodyom who did that . he's created, you know,eb companies that are extremely successful. . but he also has hadt a relationship with the pentagon and with the security state, with tesla and with spacex and so he's never really exhibited kind of a dissident mentality unless the chinese government to. yeah.y oh , yeah. tucker: a i mean he, hend has a very good relationship with chinese government because that's an important market for h his companies. so if you say to me, do you see on musk is a sort of rebel who's going to lead a revolution against the hegemonic liberal order? i'm going to be very skeptical given that up until this momente we haven't really seen that .pt we've seen some kind by trolling behavior, you know, some kind of personality. he's not bill gates, right? personality -- he's he comported himself is just like constantly closed. you know, we have fun as a billionaire, but it's more like tweaking. it's never been like a systemic critiqueiteaki. n now suddenly he's waving the banner of free speech and saying that it's gotten so repressive on the internet. i don't know whether he's authentic or not, but here's what i know. he's the only one of that billionaire class who'so saying that and doing something about it at the same time not just saying complaining but doing something about itt th and either one of these things is going to happen. either he's sincere and he's going to do it, in which caseini i think one of the most important and positive developments perhaps in decades to restore free speech to one of the most importantta public squares digitally that we have. it'll be anally extraordinary w reversal of this trend towardil tyranny. that's one possibility. the other possibility is that he either isn't't sincere r he is sincere and will try i not will fail because ofse the backlash and the force of the masses against him, which will be extremely significant. in which case for me we'll just have the status quo, the status quofica. his billionaire censoring the internet won't be valid. we'll have billionaires censoring the internet. nothing will have been more so for. me. i only see upside if he, he t he takes over twitter with all of this fanfare and all of this talk and threat about bringing back free speechhr and then fails to do so, he's going to look like a fraud and a failure. so i'm not so worried that he won't that is that he doesn't really harbor that intention is just pretending to what i question is whether he's goingn to be able to because youou can be the richest person on the planet. but if you're trying to take peo awayn a weapon from the most powerful institutions on the planet w, which is what he's doing, he's trying to remove and take out of the hands of the pentagon, t the u.s. government democratic party, wall street , all of these nato, all of these institutions of powerat, an extremely powerful one of the probably the most powerful weapon to censorse the internet and therefore propagandize huge populations. he's threatening to taketh that away from them to allow the center for us to deal to be challenged. you think they're going to just let waltz in and take that f