Julie Kelly - Journalist Julie Kelly joins Tucker Carlson to react to January 6 events

Journalist Julie Kelly joins Tucker Carlson to react to the blockbuster release of Patriot Purge

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Tucker Carlson: Welcome to Tucker Carlson today. For months now, you have heard from members of the Democratic Party and useful idiots in the Republican Party who really need to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol. And on this one narrow issue, we have to say we strongly agree. We should know, the country has a right to know what exactly happened that day and why. And so for the past several months, we've been looking into that. We've created a three part documentary called Patriot Purge, part of Tucker Carlson Originals that begins this week. Accompanying the release of that documentary, we thought we would sit down at length with the one journalist who has been on this story doggedly without ceasing for months. She has broken more news about what actually happened on January 6th than anyone else. It's a journalist you may not have heard of before this all started. How did she wind up covering this so well? Where's The New York Times? Those are other questions we may not address today. But we want to talk today to Julie Kelly, who has reported on this, as we said from the very beginning about what we now know. Julie. Kelly, thanks so much for coming on.

Julie: Thank you.

Tucker: And I'm just going to ask you at the outset, like, how did this fall to you?

Julie Kelly: I don't know. That's a great question. We were kind of regrouping at American Greatness, how we were going to cover the Biden presidency. And I was like, Oh, maybe I'll just go back to climate change and see what's going to happen in the administration with that kind of thinking things were going to simmer down after the Trump presidency was over and then this just happened. And I think my take from the very beginning about what happened that day was different than what was being spun out.

Tucker: Did you go to Columbia Journalism School?

Julie: I did not. I went to Eastern Illinois University. Go Panthers.

Tucker: It's just so interesting because your reporting hasn't simply been ideological, which is to say, I don't like it only because I agree with it, though I happen to. But I like it because it's filled with new information that nobody else has. Like you've done actual reporting on this from the very beginning. And do you ever think to yourself as a graduate of Eastern Illinois University, why am I doing this?

Julie: I do sometimes wonder. It definitely was one of those things that even a lot of journalists on the right did not want to touch at all. But I think seeing right out of the box what these judges were saying and ordering people like Corey Griffin, the cowboys for Trump guy, who didn't even go in the building, that was really my first article on it and sentencing him to pretrial detention. He wasn't even charged with a violent crime. And you have judges lecturing him about his beliefs about the 2020 election, using that as justification to keep him behind bars before trial. And I thought, this can't be real. I'm reading these articles thinking, this can't be real. And that was just the beginning. That was early February.

Tucker: That really says it all, holding a man in prison because you disagree with his opinions on the election.

Julie: And that is legitimately what's been happening, Tucker. So that was the first case that I studied. I opened up a pacer account. I'm not a lawyer, and so I'm sort of addicted to it now. But that's where you can get all the court documents and you can find out when the hearings are. And because all the hearings are virtual now, I could call in and listen to what was what was being said in court. And it was just mind blowing, not just what the prosecutors were saying, but what the judges were saying. We're talking about judges, Trump judges, Obama judges, Reagan judges, who were telling these people this was a horrible stain on our country and condemning them for doubting the legitimacy of the 2020 election and what the prosecutors were calling them terrorists and rioters insurrectionists. And so that's really it, it was professional, b ut now it's sort of it's taken on almost a personal crusade on behalf of the people whose lives are being destroyed by this preoccupation.

Tucker: So, what you're describing is journalism, to look at what you're doing, but one of them, the hopeful way to look at it is, the traditional media collapse and refuse to just do basic reporting, like listen to the hearings.

Julie: Right.

Tucker: And the gap is filled by people like you and you're doing a better job than they did. So anyway, I'm just saying I'm grateful for what you've done. You just brought a lot of information to light that people who don't even agree with you, can just assess and make up their own mind. And so thank you. So I want to take an overview, I want to begin with an overview of what we're seeing in the aftermath of January 6, which is what you've been covering. And it really feels like a war on terror, but the domestic version. So here's a here's a portion from the documentary we just did, and I want to get your reaction to it.

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Clip speaker: And the left is hunting the right, hunting the right, hunting them across the country. Dragging them to D.C. in the middle of night, sticking them in the gulag, sticking them in Guantanamo Bay for American citizens, leaving them there to rot. [Bush quote] Today we take an essential step in defeating terrorism, while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans, It's now the law of the land that the military can arrest American citizens, hold them indefinitely without charges or trial. The Patriot Act was a decision made in fear. Now that surveillance apparatus, the NSA, the FBI, DOJ is turning inside, the inside of the United States, [2ndCommentator] Our presidents can now order assassinations, including American citizens. [Crying woman} It's a split second where you don't remember your child is dead and you sort of have to relive it every single day.

Tucker: So the image that this last year has evoked, this last nine months has evoked in my mind is the aftermath of 9-11, which of course you remember well, where the country's whole law enforcement and military apparatus was sort of harnessed in one direction against this enemy called Al Qaida. This this looks like the mirror image of that where that same apparatus is being harnessed but against American citizens. Do you think that's an overstatement?

Julie: No, it is absolutely true, and I'm glad that you mentioned that in the documentary, because people really have to understand that this is a war on terror, terror that the Democrats, the Biden regime, is turning against Americans on the political right. I mean, when you have Chris Wray on March 2nd, go to Capitol Hill and call January 6th an act of domestic terror, that opens up all sorts of opportunities for every federal agency to run with that, which is exactly what they've done.

Tucker: Can I ask you to pause there? So when Chris Wray, the head of the FBI, yes, uses the phrase terror .

Julie: Yes.

Tucker: That has bureaucratic implications. That's not just, I mean, that's not something he said accidentally.

Julie: Correct. That's right. He said it by design because then it gives his imprimatur to what the prosecutors are doing. So we now have more than six hundred and fifty Americans who have been charged with the Capitol Breach Probe, as they call it. And so it's OK then for prosecutors, which have called some of these people terrorists in court. They want to add terrorist enhancements to their sentencing, even for people charged with nonviolent crimes and so it's not an exaggeration to call this a war on terror against Americans. That's exactly what it is.