Tucker Carlson: “The president said, clamped down on free speech most…”

“I mean, there does seem to be a connection between war footing and a clampdown on civil liberties in the country that's on war footing. Right. So The president said, clamped down on free speech most aggressively in our history. Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, Woodrow Wilson during the First World War, FDR for his entire term and Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam who sent the FBI after his critics and CIA to do all kinds of things that are shocking. So that's, I guess my concern if like all of a sudden you become permanently at war, your own population in some ways becomes the government's enemy. I've noticed.” (1:00:27–1:00:48)

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