Get a cup of espresso. The Putin interview is over 2 hours, though 1.25X is a high quality listening pace.
I simply began it myself and can add feedback. There’s a transcript however you need to subscribe to Tucker’s enterprise to entry it, so it’s not correct to hoist it, however I count on to put up some snippets.
As Tucker factors out on the high, Putin begins with an extended historical past of the Russia and the Ukraine area. When you’ve learn his speeches, even ones earlier than the Maidan coup, you’ll see he likes this framing. Like Tucker, I discover this an odd selection, notably the size of the recap.
Replace: As I’m partway by means of this speak, stylistically it appears similar to Putin’s home press briefings, the place he likes reciting particulars for the sake of completeness but additionally to show his command of the subject material. However “press briefing” is just not the identical as a traditional Western one-on-one interview, despite the fact that Putin takes and even appears to take pleasure in robust questions from Russian and overseas reporters. Word this speak differs markedly from the Oliver Stone 4 hour interview collection, broadcast in 2017. Despite the fact that a lot of Putin’s responses then have been prolonged, the speak felt like extra of an trade. Did Putin have extra confidence in Stone’s understanding of the background than he did with Tucker?
Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview pic.twitter.com/67YuZRkfLL
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Word that Putin exhibiting his stamina and famed reminiscence comes the identical day because the Particular Counsel on the Biden “categorized paperwork subsequent to his Corvette” scandal concluded with the Particular Counsel deciding to not prosecute regardless of discovering Biden did willfully mishandle categorized materials, mainly as a result of Biden is simply too doddering to carry as much as cross examination. From NBC:
Particular counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of a person who couldn’t bear in mind when he served as Barack Obama’s vp, or the 12 months when his beloved son Beau died, dealt a blow to Biden’s argument that he’s nonetheless sharp and match sufficient to serve one other four-year time period.
In deciding to not cost Biden with any crimes, the particular counsel wrote that in a possible trial, “Mr. Biden would seemingly current himself to a jury, as he did throughout our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence.”….
“That is past devastating,” stated one other Democratic operative, talking on situation of anonymity to speak candidly about Biden’s shortcomings. “It confirms each doubt and concern that voters have. If the one motive they didn’t cost him is as a result of he’s too outdated to be charged, then how can he be president of america?”
