TUCKER CARLSON 3/21/23 VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN

Victor Davis Hansen, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

TUCKER: If the presidential front runner on the Republican side is indicted for a noncrime tomorrow or soon. What will it mean for this country?

HANSON: there's two things that a Republican needs to survive, and one is you, you have to have a judicial system that's not weaponized and you can't criminalize politics. We're doing both. And what's ironic is what we're gonna see tomorrow is something that was Dave Regur. Unfortunately, it's been happening all the time. I can remember when Bill Clinton was facing Monica Lewinsky's testimony, and Vernon Jordan tried to pressure her to take a job for 80,000 something dollars for Revlon.
So she either wouldn't testify against him, or if she did, she would give favorable testimony. And Donald Trump was impeached Tucker the first time on the allegation that he used foreign policy as a mechanism to go after a poten or to help him in the upcoming election. But Barack Obama and so, so South Korea just said in a hot mic that he told the Russian president that he was willing to dismantle, uh, missile defense, which would've been very handy right now in, in the Ukraine war, uh, if Vladimir Putin would give him space while he was up for reelection, and that that was about as quid pro quo as you could get.
And so we look at all, and we have a president right now who, who's probably could face Donald Trump, and we have very asymmetrical treatment about the way the Mar-a-Lago raid was conducted versus the Biden raid. And it just continues that the American people are watching this and they're saying, these people don't even try to hide it. They're so asymmetrical. They're, they're not applying the, uh, law, weak, uh, equally. What are they afraid of? And I think they're afraid of that.
The people, the majority of the people are not gonna vote for them. And they have the institutional support. They own, uh, Hollywood entertainment, the corporate boardroom, academia, K through 12. But even with all that power, institutional power, they're still paranoid of what the people feel and what the people would do. So they have this weaponized criminal justice system and this criminalizing of politics. And I don't know how long it can continue. And you can still have a republic because the cynicism is in, is that pandemic proportions?