 Tucker Carlson is in Moscow. He's been filmed in Moscow, you know, he was filmed flying in, he's been filmed, I guess, walking around and he was filmed entering the Kremlin and exiting the Kremlin and everybody is pretty convinced, even though he has not actually stated this, convinced that he has interviewed Vladimir Putin for his ex-show and he's gonna be publishing that on X or Twitter at some point. Basically the world is, at least on Twitter, going apoplectic around us. You know, some people are calling Tucker Carlson for his arrest when he arrives back in the United States. That would be interesting because I'm not sure on what basis he would be arrested. I mean, we still have an embassy in Moscow. We still have ambassadors there. You can still go and you can still come back and you can still do business, partially business. We have sanctions that are limited. We still buy, I believe the United States still buys uranium from Russia. So the whole thing is just blown out of proportion. And just ludicrous, the idea of arresting him, I think that was proposed on Twitter. But there is an issue. There was a question here. Should somebody like Tucker Carlson, should a US journalist be interviewing Vladimir Putin? My argument would be no, we shouldn't. But you know, at the end of the day, this is something that's pretty common for American journalists. So I don't think Tucker should be treated any differently than the journalists who have over the decades, whether it's journalists who interviewed Hitler in the late 1930s, maybe into the beginning of World War II even, but certainly just before the breakout of World War II, to the journalists who interviewed Muammar Gaddafi or interviewed the the Iranian president or American journalists who interviewed all kinds of authoritarian dictators who were threats and threatening or American journalists who went in and interviewed Osama bin Laden. You remember, you remember, there was a journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden post 9-11. You know, journalists do this now granted Tucker Carlson's not exactly a journalist. He's a propagandist. But American journalists have interviewed some of our biggest enemies. And the reality is, and this is a failure of foreign policy, not a failure of Tucker Carlson's, that Vladimir Putin is, has not been declared an enemy of the United States. We again, we still have an embassy there. We still to some extent trade. We still have not, you know, embargoed Russia Russia is and and for that matter, we are now as a government, as a US government, refusing to aid Ukraine in its battle in its war against Russia. So overall, you know, we have, I think, at least a certain percentage of the American public and a certain part of the American government, the Republicans basically have basically said that Vladimir Putin is no threat to the United States. And as such, you know, why wouldn't Tucker Carlson go and interview him? Now, I think it's pretty horrible, right? You know, if, if, if Skylist says Wallace interviewed Khomeini, yeah, I know. And it's horrible. And it's immoral. And it's wrong. I think it's wrong for Tucker Carlson to interview. I don't think it should be legal. I don't think it should be rested. But it's morally offensive to go because I think Vladimir Putin is indeed an enemy of the United States. But given that our politicians have declared such, given that we don't behave as if he's an enemy, given that we haven't really done anything serious about the fact that he's an enemy, I don't think legally you can do anything to Tucker. What you can do is condemn him morally. And I think he should be morally condemned. I don't think that as a as a public figure, you should give a platform to a brutal dictators. I don't think you should give a platform for genocidal maniacs. I don't think you should give a platform for people who don't respect an ounce of individual rights on their in their own country. And then launch wars of aggression against others, you know, to violate their rights. You know, Putin is the aggressor. Putin is somebody who has launched the largest, the most substantial war in Europe since World War two, since the Nazis and Stalin invaded Poland in 1939. People forget that Stalin invaded Poland at the same time as Hitler did. You know, the Russia and Germany invaded Poland at the same time in a coordinated effort. Yeah, Russia and Nazi Germany were allies at the beginning of World War two. People forget that. But so there hasn't been a ground invasion as big as since World War two. And I don't think you should give a platform for lying authoritarian. What what are you going to learn from it? Who's going to benefit from it? Well, I mean, Tucker Carlson's readings will benefit enormously from it. So I can understand why he's doing it. Tucker Carlson will fawn over Putin, just like he fawned over Orban and just like he fawns over any right wing authoritarian. You know, this is this is this will just breed more support for right wing authoritarianism of the kind that Orban and Putin represents among the right in the United States. And and it's it's it's disgusting. It's morally offensive, morally disgusting job as human beings, but certainly as objectivists of responsibility and a job. And Iran talks a lot about this is the judge, judge, judge, morally judge, morally judge people. By the way, I was wrong. There's a sentence you don't often hear. But I was indeed wrong about the statement about Iran and out of the New Testament. I said that it was the one about a judge will be ready to be judged with some of the was something that was the New Testament that Iran liked. And it's God that is wrong. The New Testament says don't judge. The New Testament says don't judge and Iran took it lest you be judged something like that, right? Don't judge list you be judged. And Iran flipped that. So I ran completely contradict Christianity and upends Christianity by saying Oh, no, no, no, no, that is the wrong. That is the wrong advice. Judge not lest you be judged is exactly the opposite of what is morally necessary. Rand says no, judge and and and be willing to be judged is the right moral approach. And I am you know, for what it's worth, I guess, for what it's worth, I am judging Tucker Carlson to be, you know, an immoral, you know, right wing, you know, click, click, desiring, horrible human being that he is. And of course, this is not my first encounter with Tucker. So Tucker Carlson has been in that particular place in Iran broke hell for a while for a while. But this is the Republican Party, they're going to cheer this, they're going to get excited by it. The modern Republican Party is a Republican Party that admires Putin and Obama and right wing authoritarians and wants to emulate them.