The Tucker Carlson Show - Cenk Uygur: Epstein, JFK, 9-11, Israel’s Terrorism and the Consequences of Opposing It

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Most Americans just want to live in a sovereign country that cares about them. That’s not a partisan position. It’s a baseline demand. Cenk Uygur explains. (00:00) Why Cenk Said Yes to This Con...versation (02:37) Israel, The Gaza Genocide and Media Gaslighting (16:18) The Israeli Lobby (1:09:16) The Death of Free Speech (1:16:17) The Consequences of Opposing Israel Paid partnerships with: Masa Chips: Get 25% off with code TUCKER at https://masachips.com/tucker Amazon MGM Studios: Tickets for Melania are now available. Exclusively in theaters January 30: http://melaniamovie.com Liberty Safe: Shop for premium American made safes at https://LibertySafe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Good to see you, Jank. Good to see you, Tucker. I haven't seen you since we had a debate years ago, I think, at Politicon, totally different world. But I was singing this morning as I was driving in, I'm like, hmm, of all the things you could do to infuriate your audience, this is probably at the top of the list. Like, you don't need to do this. Why are you doing this? Yeah. So there's a couple of reasons why.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Number one, I want to take yes for an answer. You're anti-war. We've been anti-war for 20 years. I have not been. So bless you for that. Thank you, brother. Welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here. And so that's amazing. That's important. And I also want to break down the barriers of Republicans versus Democrats, right wing versus left wing. I think that it's kind of used to divide us. And I think that the powerful already have an incredible elite team. They're very, very organized. And they do it through donations to the politicians, et cetera. But the American people are not organized. We have built two teams. teams, but those two teams, the Republicans and the Democrats, have been trained to fight each other
Starting point is 00:01:08 instead of fighting up, right? Exactly. And so when you split the population that way, you take away all of their energy because you have them use their energy against one another rather than against you. It's actually brilliant. It's how the British ruled India. Exactly, right? Yes. And it's done on a meta level in every way. Also, by the way, on a global level, Christians versus Muslims. Two billion here, two billion there. Make sure you guys are fighting one another. And hey, look at that. We've used up all your energy fighting one another and not looking up. I've noticed, yeah. Okay. So, and then of course, the third issue is Israel. And so that's what I want to talk to a lot about today, I hope. And I think that that's an
Starting point is 00:01:52 animating issue for a number of reasons, not because it's the end-all, be-all, but because it is deeply symbolic. And so whether it's big pharma or big oil or APEC, they are buying our politicians. And so you're a rare person saying that. I'm a person saying that. And they mainstream media works against us. And they try to shut us up and say, don't tell anybody about money in politics. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:17 No, no. These politicians are honest and honorable people having debates. They're not having any debates. They're cashing checks. And so I want all of America to know that. And at the end of the day, Tucker, if we don't unite as Americans, the powerful are going to rule us forever. I think that's exactly. That is absolutely true. So let's just start with motive. I hate going to motive because we don't even know our own motives a lot of the time, right? Motive is very hard to determine.
Starting point is 00:02:43 But when this topic comes up, people go immediately to motive. You're taking money from somebody, a foreign power. Okay. You've got some secret of religious affiliation. you're filled with hate. It's all about why you have these views rather than addressing the views themselves. I've just noticed this, having lived it. And so I just want to ask you about Israel specifically, how did you come to this and what are your motives? Yeah. So it's a difficult one for me because I have, I grew up in a town that was about 50% Jewish. So I have tons of Jewish friends. I have Jewish family. I have a nephew, a niece who are Jewish. And so I don't want to want to make people uncomfortable and I don't want this to be about the Jews. That's crazy. And what
Starting point is 00:03:31 I tell people all the time is, hey, listen, I like my friend Dave, my friend Jack, Mossad never called him an aspiration. Right. Netanyahu was never like, hey, should we take 53% of guys? What do you think, Dave? Right. So that's not how it works. So if you're, so I, anyone who's got that intent, I'm not interested in. Okay. You're not going to have me as an ally. It's not going to work out. I have Jewish family. I have Jewish friends. I'll never sell them out. Okay. So and the other thing about Jewish Americans is they're Americans and we're, I believe, in a united America. Okay. So you're for America. I love you and I protect you. I'll give you one last example. I'll give you thousands, right? But Dave Smith. Dave Smith is an amazing ally of ours.
Starting point is 00:04:16 A wonderful man. Yeah. I agree. So if you come for Dave, you come for all of us. He's one of us. Yes. We protect our own Americans. Right. Okay. So now, why do I have an issue with Israel then? Even though I would actually naturally want to ally with Israel, yes, into all the Jewish friends and family that I have, right? And I didn't know a lot of Palestinians growing up. I only knew one Palestinian. We had one in our high school, we had hundreds of Jewish folks who loved Israel, et cetera, right? The problem with Israel isn't just the genocide that they just committed, but that would be enough. That is a horrific injustice. In Gaza. In Gaza. I mean, you've got it well overreesome.
Starting point is 00:04:54 70,000 dead. You've got, God knows how many thousands buried in the rubble, and they're adding to the count every day. You've got 10% of the entire population that was either killed or injured, which is a stunning number. That's why almost all every genocide scholar says it's obviously a genocide, right? 10% of the entire population? Yes, either killed or injured. Okay. So that be over 200,000. Yes, that's right, because the amount injured are well over 130,000. Okay. But just to be clear on that, like, that's a number that we should know, I think, since we paid for it. And I think it's so important to know what death tolls and the injury count is because you did this and you have to know what the consequences are. I think it's totally fair. We don't know in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Starting point is 00:05:39 We have no idea. And we have no idea in Gaza. And so I just want to say that. There are estimates that it's over half a million. I don't know if that's true or not. But that's the point. We should know that. We have a right to know that. So, Tucker, that's going to go to points two and three. Sorry, I could just erupted with him. Sorry, not at all, not at all. But I want to come back to that because two and three are super important because it's symbolic of the power that all the donor class has, not just Israel. But also, with Israel, you have gas lighting that is extreme, where you don't have that in any other.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Can you explain what that is? So you'll say, hey, I don't think we should give Israel another $30 billion. or another $100 billion. I want to get into all these numbers in a second, right? And they'll say anti-Semite. Now, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Like, we could mad-lib this, right? You take any Israeli talking point and put in a different country, and it sounds absurd, right?
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah. Like, you owe Thailand $300 billion. People would be like, no, we don't. Anti-Tai racist, right? You're like, what? I don't even know any Thai people. What are you talking about? You're an anti-Taiist, right?
Starting point is 00:06:50 I'm not, right? Why do you hate Thailand? Exactly, but that's, see, but you're obsessed with Thailand. That's my favorite. You're obsessed with Thailand. Okay. Well, by the way, I would be obsessed with Thailand if Thailand took $300 billion off of us, right? And if Thailand was like, you have to attack everyone else in Southeast Asia.
Starting point is 00:07:10 You know, we have a Thai Christian heritage. Yeah. And imagine if India did that. And they're like, we have a Hindu Christian heritage. And that's why you need to attack Pakistan. Yeah, and by the way, if you're not for attacking Pakistan, you're clearly being paid by Bhutan. Yeah, yeah, of course. People who are working for a foreign government accusing you, who just want to stay out of it, of working for a foreign government.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Is that what gaslighting is? Yeah, gaslighting is when the media says, takes something very reasonable you're saying, and makes it stand like, it's crazy. Like, so we say we gave them $21.7 billion in the middle of a genocide, okay? So that's on top of the $300 billion, right? And that's, by the way, $10 to $12 billion, we spent bombing Iran, Yemen, and almost all their enemies in the same period of time. We just gave them another $8.6 billion and another $3.3 billion. That happened in the last two weeks. So when you say, let's just take one sliver of that, hey, I didn't want to pay for a genocide.
Starting point is 00:08:07 I didn't want to do that, right? Whether it was the Thai, the Bulgarians, the Israelis. I just don't want to kill 20,000 children. I don't want you to spend my money killing $20,000. children. I don't care what race or religion they are. Why are you so hateful? Exactly. And that's literally what they say. I'm against killing kids. They didn't do anything
Starting point is 00:08:26 actually. Yeah. And they say, so you hate Jews. That's gaslighting, right? Right? Right. So wait. Oh, I live in that country. Yeah, I know what that is. Yeah. So I'm the one trying to stop the killing. I'm for nonviolence. In fact, I'm
Starting point is 00:08:39 religiously for nonviolence. If I have any religion at all, it's nonviolence. My hero is Martin Luther King and Gandhi and Mandela. And so I say, do not do any violence to anyone. It would be, in fact, if someone is doing violence, they're against us, right? And I say, and don't, and you just heard me say it. I say it a thousand times, I love Jewish people.
Starting point is 00:08:58 This is not about the Jews. So, but this country wants us to pay for a genocide. I just don't want to pay for a genocide. They listen to all that and they go, now everybody understand that Jank Hewer is an anti-Semite who hates Jews and is like an immoral person. And if you're not pro-genocide, you're anti-Jewish. No, no, no, don't say that. Don't say that because you're actually going to get my Jewish friends.
Starting point is 00:09:17 hurt. When you say you're anti-genocide means you're anti-Jewish, that equates Judaism with genocide. Don't! Don't! I don't know anything that drives up anti-Semitism more than that. But back to the original injustice, and then we'll get back to more and more gaslighting because the gaslighting is another perfect symbol of what mainstream media does, an establishment media does, right? Yes. They gaslight on almost every issue. So real quick, one more, like big pharma. We can't negotiate drug prices. They're like, that's pro-free markets. No negotiation.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Wait, that's capitalism. Not being able to negotiate prices is the exact opposite of the free markets. Everything on television is a lie. It's all an illusion. That's very funny. I've never really thought about it like that, but that is so true. I mean, why are we not rebelling against the biggest socialist or communist program in American history that we're not allowed to negotiate drug prices? What kind of absurdity is that?
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Starting point is 00:13:11 drug prices, you will kill pharma innovation in the United States, and we lead the world in innovation. I'm like, okay, I guess. I didn't realize that a lot of pharma is just poison anyway. This is before the sacklers killed a lot of people in Appalachia. And I was like, okay, but then you watch pharma offshore.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Like they offshored. Like New Jersey, you grew up in New Jersey was a farmer stronghold. You know, basking rates, that whole areas filled with pharma companies. They are not anymore. We don't make antibiotics. We don't make vitamin C. We don't make all these drugs because they offshored them. So we protected them from fair competition by eliminating negotiation, and they left anyway. So like what?
Starting point is 00:13:49 What's the upside here? I gave me a thousand examples. We gave the semiconductor industry $50-someodd billion under Biden. That was the Chips Act. And all the Democrats are like, he's FDR 2.0. I'm like, guys, that's a $50 billion corporate subsidy. Okay. And did we put any guardrails in?
Starting point is 00:14:07 So did we say, hey, Intel, here's... at least eight of the $50 billion going straight to you. I think it might have been 12 in that ballpark. So now, as conditioned to that, you're supposed to build here in America so you can't fire any Americans. Of course. If you fire any Americans, then obviously we're not going to give you the money because the ostensible reason for us giving you the money is to build a semiconductor industry
Starting point is 00:14:28 here in America. Exactly. Right? Intel fired 8,000 people right after the bill passed because there's no card rails. Because why? 8,000 Americans? 8,000 Americans. Of course, immediately.
Starting point is 00:14:39 They fired them immediately. It's a joke. The whole thing's a joke. None of the politicians mean it and the people that allow them to get away with all of this. So all that is the robbery, right? Mainstream media is the getaway car. Okay. So they come in and they make excuses. Oh, FDR 2.0. It's brilliant to give away your money to the semiconductor industry. It's brilliant to give it away to big forma and to Israel. And if anybody objects their conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites, et cetera, their job is not to cover the news. It's to cover up the news. So, I mean, again, And look at big. That is literally true. Yeah. So Obama ran a campaign call a campaign ad called Billy back in 2008. And it was about the deal to not negotiate drug prices. It was outrageous. Everyone hated it. A Democrat named Billy Tausen had negotiated it in Congress. That's why the ad was called Billy. And Obama was saying, I'm not going to be like those Democrats, right? Yeah. He got in. He said, we're not negotiating drug prices. Trump said we're going to negotiate drug prices. Not going to negotiate drug prices. So I knew Billy Tozan really well, uh, for, wonderful guy from Shack Bay, Louisiana. Just a really charming guy used to hunt with him a lot. And I always loved him, still do. But he went from Congress to what, do you know what his next job was? Lobbyists.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Head of Big Pharma. Exactly. He was the head formal lobbyist. And that's my point, Tucker. Not attacking him, but that happened. I was there. Yeah. Like, what?
Starting point is 00:16:02 So, mainstream media looks at that and goes, no, I don't see it. I don't see it. I don't see it. Big Pharma gives more like four times more than the Israeli lobby does. And they're like, no, I don't see it. I'm like, isn't the adage follow the money? Like, so here is an industry giving billions of dollars to politicians. That's a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Oh, yeah. 5,000 at a time, right? And then just super PACs, et cetera. They seem like they're bribing almost all of Congress. Nope, nope. Conspiracy theory. I had a... Because they're bribing all the media, too, with drug attacks.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Of course. That's their number one advertisers or drug companies. Number two advertisers, by the way, are politicians. Why do they always say that politicians are honest and they're having real debates? Because politicians are actually their top clients. So when you spend $17 billion in money in politics, where does it go? It goes almost all to establishment media, to buy ads. So the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the best clients that CNN, New York Times have.
Starting point is 00:17:01 So they are always talking about how great the Republican and Democratic parties are, how terrible primaries are. primaries use up that money. We didn't get all those bribes to spend it in a primary. We got it to have a fake fight in the general election where you have the lesser of two evils. We got you. So that's the Rosetta Stone, money in politics. Once you see that, you see how politics works and you also see how media works. Which then leads us back to Israel.
Starting point is 00:17:30 So we say, guys, they have contributed, guardian did a piece on this. The Israeli lobby has contributed. contributed to 94% of Congress. Okay, first, do you think they did that for their health, for the general welfare, or do you think that every group they have is named after Israel because the whole point is to support Israel, right? That's not a complicated question. It's the American-Israeli political action committee.
Starting point is 00:17:55 It's got Israel. One of the groups is called Democratic Majority for Israel. They ran $4 million worth of ads against Nina Turner, which is one of Bernie Sanders campaign chairs to make sure that she was defeated by Chantelle Brown. Chantel Brown was one of 11 people running against Nina Turner had almost no ratings at all. Nina had a 35 point lead. She was running against the Lilliputians. Chantel Brown puts a statement on her website saying how much she loves Israel.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Boom, $4 million appears. All in favor of Chantel Brown, all against Nina Turner. That's her raising her hand and saying, I will work for Israel. And what happened in the end? They erased a 35 point lead. They bought every ad in Cleveland. And most importantly, they got mainstream media to say, now remember, Nina Turner hates Joe Biden. So she loves Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Now, that's Cleveland voters. They don't want that, right? Now, is that true? No, she has said a statement that voting for Biden is like eating a half bowl of shit. But, okay, but she said, but voting for Trump is like eating a full bowl of shit. So what am I going to do? I'll eat the half, right? they never ever put the second half of the statement in.
Starting point is 00:19:07 They just said in every news story, whether it's on TV or in the newspapers, Nina Turner says voting for Biden is eating a half bull of shit. She's so Trump favorite. But how could she be pro-Trump? The rest of the sentence says he's twice as bad. So people in mainstream media are giant liars. They've lied about me all the time. They lie about Republicans Democrats,
Starting point is 00:19:28 but mainly they lie to protect the donor class. So then again, back to Israel, and because it's such a perfect symbol, 94% of Congress. It's not 34%. You had 34%. You can say, yeah, they have a lot of control. That's a lot of money that they're giving to a third of our Congress. That's 64% you'd say, come on, they have enormous power, if not control. And 94% it's clearly control.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Further part of that Guardian story is 82% of Congress votes basically with Israel every single time. that 82% on average gets 100, just in that last election, just let alone all the other ones, $125,000 per member of Congress. Now, establishing media says that's not a bribe. They're just talking to one another. Oh, hey, how you doing? Here's $125,000 so you'll vote for Israel. But it's not so you'll vote for Israel.
Starting point is 00:20:22 It's so you can have a better debate or whatever. And they're like, of course, that's not a bribe. And they don't control those members. Well, how come they vote with Israel every single time? Why don't you follow the money? I thought the old adage of journalism was follow the money. And every time we asked you to follow the money, you call us an anti-Semite. That's really, really weird.
Starting point is 00:20:43 That's a super weird thing to do. Again, Madlip, fill in any other country. Imagine that Bulgaria was giving to 94% of Congress. Or Great Britain or Sweden. Any country. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. And you said, well, it seems like the Bulgaria.
Starting point is 00:20:59 sir, have 94% of our Congress locked up. How dare you anti-Bulgarian racist? You bulgarist? It would be absurd. It would be absurd. So of course you have to point this out. And what have they gotten in return for the hundreds of millions that APAC and other Israeli lobby organizations have put into Congress?
Starting point is 00:21:20 At this point, they've probably put in over a billion dollars collectively over all those years. So, well, what they've gotten back is over $300 billion. in funding through the lifetime of Israel adjusted for inflation. That's before October 7th. October 7th, we add that 21.7, you could argue 10 or 12 billion more for the wars we're fighting for them. Those are not free.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Every time we drop a bomb on Iran or Yemen or Nigeria, it costs us money. Or Iraq. That's why we did that. Yeah. But look, if you get into that, the global war on terror, which is, if we're being honest, the global war against Israel's enemies, costs us $8 trillion. Right. So Israel's lucky if we don't count that $8 trillion.
Starting point is 00:22:03 It's why we're bankrupt. Yeah. I mean, here we are $38 trillion. And Tucker, that's the other amazing part. So now in the last two weeks, they give, Trump gave another $8.6 billion, totally unaccounted. Where's that $8.6 billion coming from? Did anybody ever vote for that $8.6 billion? And then, unabated, he gave another $3.3 billion.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Where is this money coming from? Is anybody voting on this? What is going on? Well, it's yet. These are IOUs to countries that are buying our treasuries. Exactly. So that's the next layer of it. So you're telling us, we have to borrow money from China and Japan so we can give money for free to Israel.
Starting point is 00:22:44 And then we pay the interest for the rest of our lives. And they don't pay any interest. Well, why don't they borrowed from China and Japan? Exactly. Why are we borrowing it and give it to them? We're excited to tell you about a new project. from Amazon MGM called Melania. For years, the people in charge have tried to tell you who she is, but they didn't show you who she is. Now you can see for yourself. Every protocol, every precaution,
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Starting point is 00:24:35 Why don't people who support Israel or any foreign cause, he for the cause themselves? Like there are a lot of very rich people. I know some. I like some who are, you know, profoundly pro-Israel and really think about it a lot, care about it a lot, have friends and family, they're great. Why don't they, and some of these people are worth billions and billions and billions. why do taxpayers have to pay for this? Why don't they just donate the money to Israel?
Starting point is 00:24:59 I never have understood that, and no one will answer that question. Because of leverage and economies of scale. So let's say Larry Ellison as an example. So to be fair to Larry Ellison, who the founder of Oracle, he actually did the thing that you say. He gave $16 million to the IDF in the middle of the genocide as a donation. How about $5 billion?
Starting point is 00:25:19 I mean, that's $16 million for, it's not much, actually. Yeah, so I'm going to get back to that. So he's like, hey, genocide well done. Keep genociding. Here's 16 million more. It's a really, it's an outrageous thing to do. But okay, you love Israel. You love that they're committing a genocide against Palestinians.
Starting point is 00:25:35 You despise Palestinians. You're deeply racist and you're bigot against Muslims. That's your business, Larry Ellis. Okay. So, but now he thinks, wait a minute. What if I give to American politicians? And then instead of me giving the $5 billion or the $50 billion, we get the sucker American taxpayers to give it, right?
Starting point is 00:25:53 So now how can I do that? It's actually simple. It's so dishonorable that I can I can't really even fit that in my head. To folks. I don't force other people to pay for charities I support. I mean, I support them because I support them. I mean, that's what integrity is. I can't imagine sticking a gun in someone's face and see you have to donate to my charity. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:13 So, and in this case, it's not a charity. It said, never. But a cause that you believe in. Yeah. Yeah. So then DropSight News has done some terrific reporting and they found emails of who'd Barack to form Prime Minister of Israel and others. Can I say it? Dropside News has done some amazing reporting.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Yeah, fantastic. It's unbelievable. And in fact, the way that Establishment Media is not covering their stories shows you what a joke it is. Dropside News breaks more story. I mean, I didn't really wasn't really sure what it was until recently. They're breaking more stories than the New York Times, Washington Post put together by far. Yeah, it's not an accident. That's because they're trying to break stories.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Yes, they are. It's trying to do the opposite. And Epstein's stories are amazing. and we should get back to that. They're unbelievable. I'm sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to say that. No, no, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:26:57 So drop site news found the emails of Larry Ellison talking to the Israeli ambassador. And he says, this is back in 2016, 2015, 2016, that campaign. And he says, I'm going to go vet Marco Rubio for Israel. Now, remember, Larry Ellis is ostensibly an American, okay? But he doesn't say, he's talking to the Israeli ambassador and says, I'm going to make sure Marco Rubio is on Israel's side. then he goes and talks to him at a party. He comes back and then reports back to the Israeli ambassador.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Don't worry, he's on our side. I'm giving him $5 million for his super PAC. By the way, at that time, that's against Donald Trump. Okay. So that's Larry Ellison saying, I'm basically buying Marco Rubio on behalf of Israel. So that doesn't even go to Marco Rubio's A PAC tracker. On an A PAC tracker, he's over a million dollars from the Israeli lobby.
Starting point is 00:27:49 But they've got all this secret money and their super PACs and all other things that they're all the other things that they're, they have. And in that case, he's caught because we have his emails. So don't tell me he's not working for the Israelis when we have emails showing he works for the Israelis. And then what is the consequence of that? Hey, look at that, Marco Rubio's Secretary of State. And now we're going to war against Iran, maybe Venezuela, we're doing everything that Israel wants. And so that's a nice break they caught. What are coincidence? And by the way, this is not a partisan issue. You had Obama's former speechwriter go out the other day and say, we probably, we probably
Starting point is 00:28:23 overtought the Holocaust to our kids. Okay, this woman, I think Sarah Hurwitz, but if I've got the name wrong. I think that's right. Yeah. So that's off the top of my head of who she is. But she, Obama speechwriter, and she says, we taught them the Nazis were strong and oppressed the week,
Starting point is 00:28:41 but now Israel is strong and targeting the week. So we shouldn't teach that anymore. I'm like, do you hear yourself? Do you hear what you're saying? And then at free press, somebody wrote an article about, oh, our kids, they're against genocide now. What did we do wrong? You didn't do anything wrong. You told him a wonderful thing.
Starting point is 00:28:59 You taught him Jewish culture. Never again stick up for the underdog, question authority. You can't murder innocence. I mean, that's like a baseline. You can't murder people who didn't do anything wrong because it is murder. There's no justification for killing innocent people ever. So if you think about it, let's just take the Marco Rubio example. And I'm not putting it all on Rubio.
Starting point is 00:29:19 It's a giant institution and infrastructure. And like I said, it's 94% of Congress, right? But you put in $5 million to Marco Rubio. A decade later, he's Secretary of State. And in the middle of your genocide, you got $21.7 billion. Now, if you're Larry Ellison, do you want to put in the $21 billion yourself? Or do you want to put in $5 million to a politician? And then you get the $21 billion for free.
Starting point is 00:29:42 The problem is that it treats the people who are giving the money against their will. There's never been a vote on this. it would if there was a national referendum on should we be sending tens of billions of dollars to a country not our own of course it would fail immediately but it treats those people um very badly as kind of subhuman like who cares what they think we're just going to take their money in debt their children into the generations and it's just the contempt that that displays for americans is unsettling to me so i have a proposal on that uh ducker so why don't we do a poll and i challenge Santa, New York Times Gallup, anyone to do this poll. And if none of them accept a challenge,
Starting point is 00:30:22 then we'll do the poll. We'll commission the poll. And then we'll see. And then they could verify it if they like. And the poll is, does America owe Israel any more money? Because every pundit on television say, we owe Israel. They never explain why, right? You don't really say that? All the time. They say, okay, what do you mean, $300 billion? You owed Israel. Of course you should pay them $300 billion. Why do I pay them $21? Why? or 31 billion in the middle of a genocide, you owe Israel. Why do I owe Israel? No one ever explains.
Starting point is 00:30:53 No one ever explains. They actually, I've never heard that. They actually say that out loud. We owe them? Of course. Of course. For what? Where's the debt from?
Starting point is 00:31:00 Yeah. And when I press, I press on every one of these talking points. That's part of why they despise me, right? And I say, okay, help me understand that. Why would we owe Israel? Well, they suffered a Holocaust. The Jewish people. Well, first of all, the Jewish people did not Israel, right?
Starting point is 00:31:16 That's different. Okay, but wait, we rescued them from the Holocaust. And all those Americans died, a lot of hundreds of thousands of Americans died fighting that war. If we rescued them from the Holocaust, why do we owe them money? It's like none of these talking points make any sense. If you only do is, you know, just prick the bubble and people instantly go, oh, wait a minute, lift the curtain.
Starting point is 00:31:39 So here, we rescue. But they'll actually say that? Yeah. So the Bosnians, right, for example, right? We rescued them from a genocide from the search. Right? And I'm proud of that. I think we did, you know, we saved tons and tons of lives. And you can say maybe we shouldn't have interfered. Maybe we should be more isolationist. It's a good debate, but at least we did something demonstrably good there, okay?
Starting point is 00:32:01 Did the Bosnians after we rescue them from the genocide come and to say to us, you owe us? No, they said thank you. By the way, you won't find anyone on this planet who loves America's more than Bosnians. Okay. And so they love America. They appreciate America. Poland lost four. million people in the Holocaust. 1.8 million non-Jews, 3 million Jews. So after the Holocaust, Poland could have said, you owe us. No, we saved Poland. Russia saved Poland.
Starting point is 00:32:30 We saved Jews. Russia saved Jews. By the way, did Russia ever get a thank you after losing, what, 20 million or so people in the war, right? Instead, now Israel's constantly attacking Russia. I got no love for Russia. I think Putin is wrong. I don't think he should have invaded Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:32:46 But wait a minute. does anybody owe Israel for anything? It doesn't make any sense at all. No, it doesn't. Okay. So now they want a new memorandum of understanding. They were going to try to make it 20 years and partly because of you and us and all the people that are going, wait, why? That a memorandum of understanding is a president saying, we owe you for the next 10 years, 20 years, etc. And that's a, that's an agreement between the United States and Israel. Yes. So for example, Obama signed a 10-year memorandum of understanding saying, we owe Israel 3.8 billion every year for 10 years. So no votes on it during that period?
Starting point is 00:33:23 The only votes you get is it gets put automatically into the budget every year. And once it gets put in, you have to actively take it out. But if you go to take it out, they'll call you an anti-Semite and try to ruin your career. I have amazing stories about that. Marie Newman, a U.S. congresswoman, voted against one of the appropriations that Israel got. four Democratic colleagues come on the floor of the House and say, how dare you? You, how dare you vote against Israel? We're going to take away all your money.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Actually? Yes, you could ask Marie. No, but not about it. She said it on the Young Turks. This happened just a couple of years ago. Okay, she was in Congress from Illinois. They said, we're going to take away all your money and we're going to spend a ton of money against you. Her own party?
Starting point is 00:34:08 Yeah, her own party. And that's what happened. They spent about $4 million against her, eliminated. No way. Andy Levin, a Jewish American congressman from Michigan, kind of a legendary Jewish family in Michigan. Yeah. Carl Levin was a senator. Yeah, Sandra Levin, yeah. Yeah. Andy Levin says, two-state solution. He says, I love Israel. I'm a Zionist. Okay. But obviously, we should have a free and independent Israel and a free independent Palestine. Four million against Andy Levin, eliminated. No way. Eliminated.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Jamal Bowman, you think it was about the fire alarm? Hey, you might be upset about the fire alarm or whatever else. Jamal Bowman did. They spent, the Israeli lobby spent 19 million eliminating Jamal Bowman. Corey Bush eliminated. Okay. Anyone who opposes Israel is eliminated. This year marks the 250th anniversary of our country and it's a great time to think about what makes America strong. Companies that make their products here play a major role in our national strength. American workers working with American Steel. That is the source of pride. And Liberty Safe is one of those companies. doing it. Liberty has been building gun and home safes in the U.S. for decades, no imports and no shortcuts. Just authentic American craftsmanship designed to protect families, their firearms,
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Starting point is 00:36:41 a wrestler to face a robot, that will have to happen. So whatever you think is going to happen in the future, you can invest in it at WealthSimple. Start now at WealthSimple.com. Can I ask you a question? I mean, this is shocking. And I'll confess, I don't follow the details of Democratic politics closely enough to have heard of any of this. I knew about Jamal Bowman, but the rest I didn't. So I wonder about that strategy, which they're now employing on the right and trying to tarp, you know, slandering people.
Starting point is 00:37:11 Nazis or trying to get them killed, which they're doing. But I wonder, like, as a strategy, obviously it's immoral, but does it actually work? Isn't it better to say, as you would in any negotiation, like, here are the things I actually care about. Let's see if we can come to terms, like allow a little bit of flexibility. There's no flexibility allowed. Well, Tucker, congrats. You have forced Israel into some flexibility almost single-handedly. I don't feel that at all. I feel that because I've been. I've never been against Israel, and I'm not against Israel now. I'm not against any person, actually.
Starting point is 00:37:45 And I'm certainly, as a Christian, totally opposed to hating a group based on its blood. That would include whites, blacks, Hispanics, Turks, and Jews. And I mean that. So whatever, I've really tried to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's settle this down. It doesn't work. And I just wonder, that doesn't seem like a good strategy. I guess that's what I'm saying. Like, just as a negotiating position, it's like you have to have some willingness to move.
Starting point is 00:38:10 you can't be that rigid or you're not going to win in the end. Yeah, so the reason I said that is because, look, first, let's distinguish. There's mainstream media purposely blends all these things together, partly because Israel wants to use Jewish Americans as human shields. They want to say, if you're attacking us, you're attacking Jewish Americans. And so you're not allowed to. You're not allowed to, right? But in reality, there's Jews as people slash Jewish Americans.
Starting point is 00:38:38 then there's how you feel about Israel. Then there's how you feel about the Israeli government. Right. We are talking about the current Israeli government. And they say, no, you're talking about Jews because they want to hide behind that, right? When we keep saying, no, not the Jews, and they're like, no, the Jews, the Jews, like, stop saying the Jews. It's not the Jews. Moreover, I get to define what I think and what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:39:00 And let me repeat myself, I think anti-Semitism is immoral and I won't engage in it ever, period. So I get to decide because I'm a sovereign man what I think, and I can try to express it as well as I can. No one has a right to tell you what you think. Yeah, it's really obnoxious to the end. Well, it's Orwellian. It's like, are you in charge of my soul? Yeah. I don't think you are.
Starting point is 00:39:21 So, for example, I'm an atheist. So what does that mean? That means I think all humans are pretty much the same genetically, right? That's stone cold. So if you told me a Jewish, a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu is different. I'm philosophically opposed to that. I'm ideologically opposed to that. I'm scientifically opposed to that.
Starting point is 00:39:39 I just think it's wrong. It's incorrect, factually incorrect. So that is a distraction and they've now weaponized the term anti-semitism, which also does a lot of damage. Because when real anti-Semitism comes, people will think, oh, those are the heroes fighting against the genocide, right? That's what I was told. But it also scares people.
Starting point is 00:39:59 I mean, I've experienced this a lot in my personal life where people I know and love have been convinced that I'm, you know, Nazi or Nazi adjacent or hate Jews or whatever and that I'm trying to hurt people, which is literally the opposite of what I would ever do, want to do. I don't agree with that at all. And I say that constantly, but they've whipped people into a frenzy praying upon their deepest fears. And there are many victims of that kind of evil, but one of the victims is the people who are being terrified. 100%. People are terrified. I think actually the number one target of Israeli propaganda is Jewish Americans. Oh, of course. They say, oh, if it's not for Israel, the whole world hates you and you're all
Starting point is 00:40:45 going to die. You're all going to die. Everyone hates you. And it's a reasonable hate. It's a hate that can't be even reasoned with or discussed. You don't have to know anything about why. People disagree, it's hate, it's fundamentally irrational and it will never end and until they kill you or you kill them. It's like, whoa, that is a very heavy thing. First of all, it's untrue. Second, you're inspiring violence by talking like that. I mean, the only end point of that kind of thinking is violence. It can only be solved by violence, but kill or be killed. That's what they're saying. Yeah. And so again, Madlib it say, okay, let's say that you oppose something the Turkish government did, which I hope you do because they've done plenty of bad things.
Starting point is 00:41:28 I oppose a bunch of things that the Turkish government has done. If after you... I just don't like Turks. That's my problem. But I mean, that's the point, right? If you said, hey, you know, I don't think the Turks should have gone into northern Syria. And I say, anti-Turkish racist, you'd be like, what? What kind of lunatic are you, right?
Starting point is 00:41:45 That's not a thing. Just because you disagree with the actions of a government at this time doesn't mean that you hate Turks in perpetuity forever. and ever. You hated them before. You hate them afterwards. No, I just don't agree. Look, I didn't agree with the Iraq war. Does that mean I hate Americans? No, it means I don't agree with that government action taken at that time. And all of that is very logical until you get to Israel, and then they flip it on its head. But can you see how irrational and fear-based the conversation is becoming and the cost to American society, not even having anything to with Israel, but just That way of thinking is a scary way of thinking.
Starting point is 00:42:24 First of all, its identity politics and its purest form. You know, this group versus that group. This group has special rights. This group has fewer rights. I mean, this is everything that I hate and I disagree with as a Christian. But can you see the cost to the whole society because of this? It's an enormous cost. So, you know.
Starting point is 00:42:42 Making people hate each other. Yeah. Look, I'll go back to the stats on how awful the genocide was and all of that. But to me, at least as bad. is the control over this country. Okay. And I came here to be free. And I came here for American sovereignty.
Starting point is 00:42:58 How old were you when you came? Eight years old. My family came here because my dad is an enormous believer in America. Like, you won't find a family who loves America more than we do, right? Yes. And by the way, he had that belief in faith and it was met. We came here. And that faith was true.
Starting point is 00:43:17 That hope was delivered. And we have lived amazing lives in the world. this country because of the opportunity and the hope that this country provided. And by the way, our answer to that is thank you. Amen. I feel that way. I feel grateful. Yeah, I'm enormously grateful to America. And by the way, when America helps you, the correct answer is thank you, not you owe me. Okay. Give me more. That's not the correct answer. Right. And it's not taken as a correct answer from any other country. But when it comes to Israel and they say, no, give me more, right? We're supposed to say, oh, thank you, sir. No, I don't want to say thank you. You have children. How would you respond to your
Starting point is 00:43:50 children if they said that to you. Oh, that would be a mistake for them. Yes. Oh, you can't. And there would be consequences. Yeah, you can't put up with that. Not for one second. You degrade yourself. You hurt the person you're dealing with because you inspire more of that behavior, which is totally bad behavior. Yeah, it's so unhelp. I mean, how could we get, how do we get into this? Yeah, let me give you two examples about how they are taking our freedom away. Okay. So a friend of mine runs a company in L.A. He gets an email from what looks like probably a bot, but it could be an Israeli troll, whatever it is. But somebody writing in saying, we found out that one of your American workers is an anti-Semite and you should fire her. He's like, really? Oh, I didn't know that. What did she do?
Starting point is 00:44:38 Did she attack someone? Did she say something outrageous? And he finds out that she had put up a Palestinian flag during the genocide and supportive like, hey, I'm against the genocide. These people are poor people on our Facebook account. That's it. Nothing against is true. You're allowed to have that view. You can support the Palestinians. You can support Hamas. You can support whatever you want as an American. But she's not supporting Hamas. She's not... I get it. But like, let's just remind ourselves that we have a full range
Starting point is 00:45:03 of intellectual freedom because of the First Amendment. And because God gave us those rights. Not any administration. So like, you cannot allow infringement on those rights. She doesn't even say anything against Israel, let alone Jews. She just says, you know, just has the Palestinian fly. They're like, that's just an average American. It's not Tucker Carlson. It's not Jane Hugar when she doesn't have a show.
Starting point is 00:45:23 She's a random American. Now all of a sudden, the Israelis are emailing your boss and saying, if they dare even support the Palestinians, treat them as humans, they're anti-Semites and they should be fired. No, no, that's oppression. That's oppression. And it's against the average American. I can't stand it.
Starting point is 00:45:41 Okay. So you and I get attacked. Certainly is oppression. Yeah, nonstop. But I get it. We're in the media. We're in wars, right? These information wars.
Starting point is 00:45:48 media wars, et cetera. But leave average Americans out of it. Of course. And they won't tolerate it. They won't tolerate any dissent, any dissent at all. What is that? Because, so you know why Tucker? It's worked for them.
Starting point is 00:46:01 So now that leads to the second example, Barry Weiss, right? So Barry Weiss claims she's like, remember when she was at the New York Times, she's fighting against cancel culture. Our college campus had been taken over by cancel culture. She promoted cancel culture when she was on the campus of her college, Columbia, when she pushed for anyone who was against Israel to be silenced. I mean, she's always been for cancel culture. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:46:27 So she actually started her career as a student who went around saying, I'm proudly Zionist and I'm going to try to take out Arab and Muslim professors who don't tow the line for Israel. So she got famous doing cancel culture on college campus. Oh, I remember very well. Then she pretends in the middle of her career that she's a, against cancel culture, specifically on college campuses. I mean, the lie is so brazen, right?
Starting point is 00:46:53 And then she goes to free press and then starts cancel culture again on college campuses. They spoke out against Israel. They should be fired. They should be arrested. Oh, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm a dangerous Nazi. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:09 You're talking about arresting Americans for disagreeing with another government, with another country. I mean, if you're not bothered by that, then you have a servant mindset, right? Yes. These folks obviously have 94% of Congress. They obviously, pro-Israel factions have almost all of established from media. We can come back to why. And I'm okay with it. I will serve them.
Starting point is 00:47:36 Well, I'm not okay with it. I don't want to bow. I love that America is free. We came for that freedom and that freedom is delivered for us. But I don't want to give it away. I don't want to give it away to anyone. If I wanted to give away my freedom, I would have stayed in the Middle East. Okay?
Starting point is 00:47:50 I came here for the promise of America. Our family did. So, and, and you know, among Muslim Americans, there is no group. I was born Muslim. I'm atheist now. Okay. So at 22, I went through the religions. It wasn't for me.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Okay. But am I going to defend my family and my background? Sure I am, of course, right? But ideologically, I'm atheist. So, um, I had this country had room for me and this country didn't ask
Starting point is 00:48:20 are you Muslim are you atheist are you this or you that it just gave me the same rights as anyone else and I love that
Starting point is 00:48:26 and I'm pretty sure I mean Erdogan's taking away democracy in Turkey in my opinion and he's done some good foreign policy but his domestic policy I'm against okay if I stayed in Turkey I would almost certainly be in prison
Starting point is 00:48:38 at this point right and here I'm not in prison no and if you turn America into an occupied nation, that's not what we came for. That's not what, I mean, that is against the core of what America is. And if they're paying 94% of Congress, we're occupied. Yes.
Starting point is 00:48:55 We are. And it's not just Israel. We're occupied by big pharma and big oil and the defense contractors. But all those politicians represent those people and not us. I would love that my driving goal is regain American sovereignty. And when I go to talk to Muslim groups, A, they say, look, Now all of a sudden they're very open to the right wing. Why are they open in the right wing?
Starting point is 00:49:18 Because you, Candace, Megan, and others are saying, hey, maybe we got fed a lot of propaganda to hate Muslims because they happen to be Israel's enemies. Well, of course. And so maybe all that media about how they're, oh, they're terrorists, terrorists. And you look at it and go, and we were taught by books that Robert Maxwell bought that Israel was attacked in 1948.
Starting point is 00:49:43 Israel was attacked in 1967. Israel's always the victim, victim, victim. And then you look, you go, wait a minute, in 1967, Israel attacked. I was lied to. No, Israel attacked all of its neighbors and destroyed their military, their air forces before they even got up off the ground, right? And they called that a preemptive strike. So that became the new self-defense is offense.
Starting point is 00:50:05 And what did we do in Iraq? Preemptive strike. We went into Iraq, and they could have weapons of mass destruction, By the way, where did we get that false intelligence? Israel. At the time, Ariel Sharon was saying Iraq is Israel's number one enemy. Iraq at the time, by the way, hated al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda attacked us.
Starting point is 00:50:27 Of course, it was a Baathist government. It was secular. They had tons of Christians in the government. Yeah, not only that, al-Qaeda constantly attacked the local rulers. So if Saddam ever caught al-Qaeda, he executed him on the spot, right? So in a sense he's an ally of sorts in that case against al-Qaeda. And it counterbalance to Iran. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:47 She had held our hostages for over a year in 1979. So it's like that was in no sense consistent with her interests. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 at all, despite the many, many lies. I knew people who told those lies. Really, really, Steve Hayes wrote a whole book about it. It was a lie. No one's ever apologized. But those lies all served one imperative.
Starting point is 00:51:09 which is fight Israel's enemies. I was there. So I know that that's true and everyone knows that that's true and you're now required to lie about it. It was just a mistake. It was not a mistake at all. It was totally intentional.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Yeah. And so when I give speeches to those Muslim groups and I talk about American sovereignty, that's when I get the biggest applause. Because who is the victim of another government meddling in the American government
Starting point is 00:51:33 the most? Muslim Americans are. Because, I mean, there's no equivalent. I mean, for any money that the Gulf countries or anything else puts into America, it doesn't get any power at all. Okay, so, but the Turks, this is interesting because you were born in Turkey. You came here at your co-host on your show or someone on your show,
Starting point is 00:51:54 Anna Kasparian is just a wonderful person, I think, but is Armenian. So one of the most famous feuds in history, one of the most famous genocides was the Armenian genocide right after the, during the First World War. And here you are good friends and work together every day. And that, to me, is a huge part of the promise of America. You can leave your tribal wars in the countries of origin and come here and interact as equals under the American flag as citizens. Like, that is truly the vision. I think everyone, you know, we imported tons of Irish in the 1840s into an Anglo country.
Starting point is 00:52:27 They didn't need each other. Those countries had been hated each other for centuries, but they all came here and pretty much got along, sort of. watching the Israelis import, which they are doing, and there are many proxies in the U.S., importing their ancient tribal conflicts into my country, telling me that is an Anglo, multi-century American, my family, that I have to hate Muslims or so. It's like, first of all, I'll decide who I hate. Not you. It's not up to you who I hate. You're not in charge of me. And second, like, that's your battle.
Starting point is 00:52:59 Why don't you keep it in the Levant? Like, I don't want anything to do with that. Right? But now it completely dominates you. I hate Muslims. It's like, first of all, I believe in Jesus. I'm not a Muslim. But I like a lot of Muslims. And I'm never going to say I don't. And it's that funny that they're like, if you don't agree to everything the Israeli government does, then you hate Jews. But if you don't hate Jews and I don't hate Muslims. And I don't want any part of their fight. I mean, what I? But wait, Tucker. Then they go on to the second part of the sentence. So like if you disagree with Israel, you're a bigot. Then they say, you have to hate Muslims. But wait a minute. I thought you were. against bigotry. So you're not against bigotry. So how is hate all Muslims any different from hate all Jews? Well, it's not. It's not. It's not. Right. It's the same. And but these, you know, you have people who don't believe in universal principles. And that's kind of the core problem. It's like only certain types of hate are bad. Only certain kinds of bigotry bad. No, no, no. If bigotry is bad, it's always bad because all people are created by God and they're inherently
Starting point is 00:53:58 equal. They may have different abilities. They do have different abilities, but they have equal value. And if you don't believe that, which Barry Weiss doesn't, then you can with a straight face say, anti-Semitism is wrong. I agree with you, Barry Weiss. Hating Muslims is right. No. I don't agree with you. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:54:16 By the way, don't bring that into my country. Go away. Yes. Laura Lumer, Mark Levin, say all the time you should hate Muslims. Muslims are the problem. Well, then you've lost your moral high ground. Well, they don't believe in a universal principle. It's just identity politics.
Starting point is 00:54:32 It's no better than any other. form of identity politics, and it's all disgusting and immoral. Exactly. So, whereas to your point, Anna and I do a show together, and that's an Armenian and a Turk doing a show together. Literally, and a show called The Young Turks, I was like, well, I first thought it was years ago, I was like, holy smokes. People may not know what the Young Turks were, but whatever. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that a beautiful thing about America? The promise of America, leave your tribal, your ancient tribal conflicts and your countries of origin and come here and exist as equal citizens under the law. That is that is to me, that's the most American sentiment I can imagine.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Yeah. And so, and by the way, when you do that, that doesn't mean that you leave your entire culture behind. Don't bring your food. Don't bring your language. Don't bring this. I agree. No, no. We've had, the Italians brought pizza.
Starting point is 00:55:19 The Jews bought bagel and lux and pastrami and the Chinese brought Chinese. It's great and wonderful. Love it. Love it. But you have to agree that America is your top identity. Of course. Or else you're going to have who to. and Tutsis murdering each other in your cities.
Starting point is 00:55:36 Yeah. Like, no. How about no? You have to be an American. It means something to be an American. It means you put ancient tribal hatred aside. I mean, so when you look at the young Turks, our audiences, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Muslims, Christians, everyone, everyone. And in the old world, that wouldn't have happened. That's why we came here.
Starting point is 00:55:55 Because we don't want the old world. We want this world. This world of freedom and equality. Amen. Amen. Right. I just could not agree with what you said. more strongly. I just really feel it. Yeah. So back to the memorandum of understanding why.
Starting point is 00:56:08 Sorry. I'm a digressor. Jank. I'm doing the same thing. So they say 20 year, the new one we want is a 20 year memorandum of us. So we have to give you a 20 year contract. And they say the $4 billion that we're giving them currently per year on top of everything else is not enough. And they started talking about $5 billion. So wait a minute. Now $5 billion, 20 years. We're talking about another $100 billion we're going to borrow from China. to give to Israel and then pay interest the rest of our lives. And this is exclusive of this does not include military obligations. So if there's another war, of course, we'll backstop it with missile defense or whatever, carriers in the region. Right?
Starting point is 00:56:47 So it doesn't even include that. Yeah. So, but because they got so much pushback, this is the first time I've ever seen the Israelis give an inch. All of a sudden, Netanyahu comes down and goes, maybe 10 years. Maybe we taper it off, right? It's total bullshit. Maybe go away and never come back.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Yeah. How about that? So, look, I started a site, not another dollar.com. Okay? Not another dollar. Is that a hate site? They will call it that. So what we're saying is, look, two things.
Starting point is 00:57:18 One is, number one, if a congressperson takes money from Israel, vote against them. Okay. Now, why? Because we want our representatives to be our representatives. It's not an outrageous ass. It's a bare man. minimum mask, right? And I'm happy to apply to any country, okay? But right now, Israel is the one giving to 94% of Congress. So there has to be some consequences. I agree. So since we're peaceful
Starting point is 00:57:45 and nonviolent, and by the way, again, violence destroys any movement. That is why a lot of times counterinsurgencies start the violence. Of course. Right? Always. They could destroy. So if anyone's There's nothing more real than false flags. Yes. Just just a fact. It's been a feature of warfare, hot and cold, from the beginning of history. So do, if anyone proposes violence, they're on the other side, okay? Reject them, turn them in, turn them into the authorities, okay? Zero violence so they cannot destroy the movement, okay? And because it's the right thing to do it, it's the moral position, right?
Starting point is 00:58:18 So what we're saying is I also have Operation Consequences.com. It goes to the same thing. So what are the consequences? Not violent, not hatred, not anything. Just if you vote with Israel to give them another dollar, we're going to vote against you. And you know what? You don't have to cross party lines. That's what primaries are for.
Starting point is 00:58:38 Yeah. So if you're a Republican, you never have to vote for a Democrat. If you're a Democrat, you never have to vote for a Republican. Go into the primaries. And we're going to make two lists. One is, are you taking money from Israel? Okay. And that list already exists.
Starting point is 00:58:49 You know, you have APEC, track, or et cetera. We'll put it up on the site so you can see, oh, these guys are taking money and these guys aren't. So when you see Tom Massey and he takes no money from AAC or any of the Israeli lobbies, you go, I might agree or disagree with Tom Massey. But at least I know he's honest. And he represents us and not a different government. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:08 And the second thing we're saying is, did you give money to Israel? Did you take money from Israel? And did you give money to Israel? So forget the past because they all gave money in the past. Okay. We're fair, clean slate. But going forward, you vote one more time for another dollar to Israel. And you're never going to get our vote.
Starting point is 00:59:27 Ever. It's a solemn pledge. Okay. Now you could sign the pledges on not another dot com. or OperationConsequist.com, but it doesn't matter. Create your own website. Create your own pledge. Create your own movement or join the movement.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Say, hey, you know what? I don't want to go to those sites. I want to do it on my show. Great. I want to do it in the right wingway. Great. I love it. Left wing way.
Starting point is 00:59:47 Great. I love it. Okay. But you've got to get the representatives some consequences. It sounds like democracy? Exactly. That's all it is. That's all it is.
Starting point is 00:59:56 So just inject the views of the people who own the government into the conversation of what the government should do? Yeah. So if you, for example, if you do that poll, does America owe Israel any more money, my guess is an overwhelming majority are going to say no. How would you get that poll? How would you get, I mean, do you think you could get CNN to take that poll? Well, if they say that no, we're not going to ask Americans that, then they obviously have an agenda. They claim to be objective, right?
Starting point is 01:00:27 CNN claims to objective? They still pretend to that. I worked there for many years, not objective. Right. New York Times very much pretends to be objective. All right, then ask the question, do does America owe Israel any more money? Okay. Now, if you say, maybe we're wrong, Tucker, right?
Starting point is 01:00:45 Maybe the America's come in and go, 80% of Americans say, yes, we owe Israel more money. Then we'll stand corrected. And we'll go, our bad. Americas can't wait to give more money to Israel, no matter what the circumstances are. But wait, if it turns out 68%, 82%, some significant majority, some significant majority, of Americans say, no, we don't owe them any more money. Now, does the voice of the American people matter or does it not matter? And you know what the answer is, and that's why they won't do the poll. And that's why we'll do it for them. That's okay, right? Look right now, 92% of Democrats
Starting point is 01:01:21 say that what Israel did in Gaza was wrong. And that was before the election. And both Joe Biden, Kamala Harris said, I don't care about my voters. I don't care about 90, 2% of my voters. They couldn't have been any clearer. I'm going to serve Israel instead. Now, number one donor lifetime to Joe Biden is APEC. A PAC gave Kama Hek. Is that true? Yes. Over $11 million throughout his career. The Israeli lobby totally financed. Now, it's... 11 million to just to Joe Biden? Just to Joe Biden. Okay. And that again... I would have thought it was Citibank or the credit card companies.
Starting point is 01:01:58 So he was known as the senator from MBNA, which is... credit card company in Delaware. So he was literally known for corruption. Now, did you hear that in mainstream media from Objective CNN? They gave his son a house. Right. I mean, it was pretty open. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:12 I mean, Joe Biden's trademark thing in Washington was do whatever the donors tell you. That's why the one promise he kept was to the donors. Remember, he said to them, nothing will fundamentally change. Because if you're at the top, you don't want anything to change. Right. Because then you might slip from the top. you, if you're at the top, you love the status quo. So you want a politician coming and telling you, nothing will fundamentally.
Starting point is 01:02:39 So here's one question that I have that. I don't have the answer to. So I understand that that's all consistent with the darker parts of human nature. I'm winning. I don't want anything to change. I get it. I don't even judge it. But the rest of the country is withering and dying.
Starting point is 01:02:52 And that's measurable in life expectancy, for example. You know, there's no way to argue that this is helping normal people. and they're not staying the same, they're going down by every measure. They're down to their personal health. Why are the people who run the country are ruling class? It's not enough that they profit. It does feel like they're trying to hurt the people they rule. That's the, I mean, I've reached that conclusion.
Starting point is 01:03:18 What is that? So I'm most angry at our politicians, and I'm going to give you an analogy about that in a second. So Israel, Pharma, they're going to logically try to rob us. Of course, I get it. Right, I get it. The king takes most for himself. But he also, like, wants to make his people, like, not die earlier, but they do want us to die earlier. What is that?
Starting point is 01:03:41 But it's, yeah, so it's largely our representatives. So I talked about Biden. Kamala took $5 million from APEC, talked about that. Let's talk about Trump. So Trump in the first election in 2016 takes $100 million from Sheldon Edelson. Okay. So does Sheldon get something in return? Of course he does, right?
Starting point is 01:03:59 So he got a great number of things, corruption charge and largely went away with a small fine. The state tax was dropped right in the nick of time before he passed away, saved them billions of dollars. You know where the Aetlesons make most of their money? Gambling. In China. Yeah. Okay. Macau.
Starting point is 01:04:18 So they're mainly a Chinese company. And they had to bring their money back from China to America. So they got a tax holiday. We don't get tax holidays, but they get tax holidays. and so the repatriation tax was brought down to about 8%. So instead of paying 35%, they paid 8%, which saved them billions of dollars. So then they take that money from China, bring it back to America. They give 100 to Trump.
Starting point is 01:04:43 He runs again. They give another 100. He runs again. This time, it's Miriam Adelson. Sheldon's passed away, his wife, Miriam, gives 137 to Trump. So now collectively, they've given $337 million to Donald Trump's reelection campus. So now one of the things they wanted was taxes and other interests and defeat the unions and their casinos and all the things they're wishless. But the main thing they wanted was for Israel.
Starting point is 01:05:09 And Trump says it all the time. He doesn't hide it at all. He says, he said, in the Knesset. Yeah. He said, look, you guys give me money. And Sheldon wanted me to move our embassy from, you know, Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So I moved it for him. Like, you're not supposed to say that.
Starting point is 01:05:24 Okay. That's what I love about Trump. I love it when he just says it. Yeah. So he's like, and then so they. wanted this and I gave him the goal on heights. I said, go ahead, take it. Right. And whatever is for Alaska. And she said, Sheldon came in here in my first term more than any other person. And he said, to be fair, he gave the most, right? So if you give that much money, you get access and you get
Starting point is 01:05:45 American policy. So now Miriam's up there going, maybe you should run for a third term and I'll give him $250 million. She said that on air next to Trump. So that is them rubbing it in our face. So that's the part I don't understand. Like every country has a ruling class that drives the most benefit from whatever system is they're running. But it's the pretty undisguised hatred for Americans. Like why the humiliation rituals? Why say that in public? Why basically give the entire country the finger?
Starting point is 01:06:17 You have no control. If you step out a line, we'll send the police to your door. You don't need to behave that way. Yeah, this is relatively new. There's hatred in there. That's how you behave toward people you really want to. hurt. Before I, they were more subtle about it. Yeah, that's why I never said anything. I wasn't fully aware of it, but also it's like it's working. I don't want to get involved in this. But all of a sudden,
Starting point is 01:06:39 it's like, you know, you're not allowed to live in the country that you were born in because you disagree with a foreign country. It's like you don't need, why are you talking to me like that? Who do you think you are? Why do you, why, what are you doing? So since they're starting to lose control, Now, back to the American people. Overall, this was about six months ago, the numbers are probably starker now. But 60% of Americans said we don't want to support what Israel is doing with financing anymore. 60%? 60% for Gaza, okay?
Starting point is 01:07:11 Wow. They said, we are not backing what Israel is doing. And only 32% said yes. So 2 to 1. Very, very, very clear, the American people, 2 to 1, don't give Israel any more money to kill more people in Gaza. Don't do it. And all of our politicians, Democrats and Republicans are like, no, we're going to give them more money. We don't care.
Starting point is 01:07:28 Shut up American people. So why are they switching to this new harsher tactic? Because I think they're going for intimidation. They've already lost the people. They've lost the propaganda wars. So they're just going for bullying. Well, they don't intimidate me. And I'm totally happy to pay any price not to go along with this, not because I hate Jews.
Starting point is 01:07:48 I certainly don't hate Jews, but because I love my country. and we have the right to act in our own interest and to say what we truly believe. And I will never bow to any other system voluntarily. And I feel like a lot of Americans, clearly you feel that way. 100%. America was not made for bowing. Okay. So.
Starting point is 01:08:07 Not to things that hurt my family. I'm happy to bow before God. I'm not too arrogant to bow, but I'm not going to bow to something that hurts my children. Like, I'm not going to do that. No, they're not going to take our freedom away. So back to your point about the, the humiliation rituals. Then,
Starting point is 01:08:24 why do that? It gets way worse. In case you don't know this for the folks at home, the Edelson's then lobbied Trump to get Jonathan Pollard back to Israel.
Starting point is 01:08:36 Okay, so Jonathan Pollard's a traitor. I mean, as big a traitor as we have ever had in this country. And a true hater of America says it out loud all the time. Yeah. And he goes further. He endangers Jewish people
Starting point is 01:08:47 by saying, if you're a Jew in America, you should work for Israel. like I did and betray America. He says that, okay? So now this is as despicable anti-American character as you will find on planet Earth. So not only do they lobby to get him back to Israel,
Starting point is 01:09:02 first of all, he should never been let out of jail, ever, ever, ever. What do the Israelis do with the National Security with the Navy secrets that he gave them? Do you know? They gave them to the Soviet Union. They gave them to the Soviet Union in exchange for refusenics. I remember this. I know people were involved in it. And yeah, our top ally gave our national security secrets.
Starting point is 01:09:25 This is in the middle of the Cold War. It's not a joke. These countries have nuclear weapons pointed at each other. And Israel gave those secrets to the Soviets. So that's just a fact. Oh, you're lying. I'm not lying. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:39 And in this case, yeah, in this case, not only, so they've been lobbying Democrats and Republicans get John Ler than Pollard out of jail because he delivered for his. Israel. And so they got Obama to pardon him and not pardon him, but like say, okay, he can get out of jail. Then they got Trump to say he can leave the country. Okay, so this is all already disastrous, but just to rub it in a little bit more. He was flown back to Israel on a private jet owned by Sheldon Aedelson. That's the Aedelson saying, F you, we work for Israel, not for America. we're going to take the worst traitor you've ever had and celebrate him. We're going to give him a hero's welcome.
Starting point is 01:10:23 I don't understand that. That is not in my personal range of emotions. That's like you won, got it. Okay, great. You know, you're getting what you want. Okay. But that's like if you're playing tennis with someone and you crush them in tennis, rather than going up and shake hands, you know, good, good game.
Starting point is 01:10:38 That's what I was forced to do as a child. You leap across that and, like, beat him to death with the racket. I don't, like, what is that? that impulse. I think it's the scariest thing I've ever seen. They're going for full intimidation. Right. But why? Because they lost the American people. We're gone. So look, I mean, look, Tucker, you're arguably the biggest show in the right wing, right? And you certainly were on Fox and you have the numbers to back it up now, right? We're arguably the biggest show on the left. This is the, you know, you could argue that it's the heads of the families getting together on behalf of the American
Starting point is 01:11:14 people saying the right and the left. And then by the way, we can bring in any independence. You can bring in Tim Dillon, anyone else. And they will say the same thing. Enough. Enough. We have no hatred in our hearts, okay? I don't. But enough. So not another dollar.
Starting point is 01:11:29 And we're done with you guys. And hey, good luck. Good luck with Iran. Right. But I don't have to spend a trillion dollars fighting your war for you in Iran. I don't. And what if, look, and you know what they're doing, guys. Pull back. Like this is so unhealthy, this relationship. Pull back. We both regain our sovereignty.
Starting point is 01:11:46 Israel doesn't have sovereignty exactly either. I mean, I don't know. You could debate what sovereignty means, but they're totally dependent on the United States. That's not good. That's that good for Israel. And so, like, let's just become normal countries again and then be friends. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:57 That seems like a good outcome to me. Yeah, by the way, it's a terrific outcome for Israel, right? So now when you total it all together, probably around $350 billion that they've taken from us. And they've, we, and $8 trillion in wars we did for them. Take the win and go. Like, it's time to take the winnings off the table. I feel that. Right.
Starting point is 01:12:14 So if you say no, I want another $300 billion, I want another $100 billion, I want you to pay for another war, and I'm going to take more of Gaza. And you can't have the First Amendment anymore because you're not allowed to criticize me. Yeah. Okay. That's when I say, I'm not participating in this, totally happy to go to jail for it. I don't care. I'm never going to participate in any effort by a foreign power or own government to limit my birth rate. So, Tucker, let's talk about that because there's so many things that Israel does that I'm not sure people are aware of.
Starting point is 01:12:44 And why are they not aware of it? Because establishment media not only doesn't report on it, but actively covers it up, right? And if you dare report on it, they'll call your names and try to ruin your career. Okay. So what have they done? First of all, the First Amendment is sacrosanct. So, no, there is no exception to the First Amendment for Israel. And by the way, if you say there should be, you're trying to destroy our Constitution.
Starting point is 01:13:06 Okay. So, no, we're not going to let you destroy our Constitution. So, no, nobody should be arrested on a college campus for writing an officer. Appa Ed against Israel, an editorial saying that they should be sanctioned. That's all. That's what that Turkish PhD student wrote. And they're like, that's it, arrest her. What do you mean arrest her for her speech? What does that mean? And now, as I said, they're targeting American workers trying to get them fired. The lady who put both of us on a list for, oh, anti-Semite or the year, whatever, she went and gave a speech about, and by the way, everyone could look up every fact
Starting point is 01:13:40 I'm saying. They can go find the videos from themselves. And they should. And they should spread all over the internet. And she's on there going, we're going to find any American that opposes us and we're going to try to ruin their lives. She said it. She's like, we're going to make sure they never get a job, they never get a wife, a husband, we're going to go after their families. I'm like, you're saying it out loud. You're saying it out loud, right? You don't believe in blood guilt in this country, period. I mean, that's why your family was able to move from Turkey and you wound up close friends with an Armenian. because you're not responsible for what your ancestors did. That is a core American value.
Starting point is 01:14:18 Exactly. So then there's 31 states, I believe. Again, look it up. Maybe it's 30, maybe it's 29. God bless. But about that area that have passed laws saying you're not allowed to boycott or divest or sanction Israel. And if you're an American company that does that, we're going to take away your contracts from the state governments. You will be punished severely, financially, your family, your business, et cetera. If you dare to disagree with Israel. What the fuck kind of law is that? And by the way, that's a lot of Democratic governors and a lot of Republican governors. If your governor is saying you must serve Israel, and if you dare to defy Israel, I'm going to take away your living. And I'm going to take away American government contracts from you. You should be livid about that. Is there any law in the United States
Starting point is 01:15:07 that you've heard of that says if you criticize the U.S. government, our constitution, desecrate or flag? I don't think there's any penalty ever for attacking the United States that I'm not saying there should be, of course. But then how can there be penalties for disagreeing with a foreign country? You can say whatever you want about America, whatever you want, and people do it. I'm glad you can't. But the second, you're critical of Benjamin Netanyahu, you get punished by the U.S. government. That's insane.
Starting point is 01:15:36 But that's the state of play. I don't think it's an exaggeration, is it? Yeah, no, it's not. And again, Madlibid put in any other country. But even your own country. It's totally fine. Yeah, you can criticize America all day long. Oh, my gosh, yes.
Starting point is 01:15:48 You can call for sanctions of America. You can call for boycotting America. You want to go after the Portuguese, okay? Imagine if they said you're allowed to criticize every country on earth, including your own, except Portugal. Why? Why except Portugal, right? But if you say why accept Israel, anti-Semite?
Starting point is 01:16:09 Yeah. And why do they say anti-Semite? It's to eliminate every voice of opposition to Israel in American conversation. Are you ready for the consequences of this, though? I mean, you're a business owner, you're a father. I'm not being melodramatic. I never talk about this stuff. I'm not going to now, but I'm just, you know, let's be real.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Like the reason people don't say obvious non-hateful things like you shouldn't be prevented from criticizing a foreign country in your own country. The reason they don't even say that. is because they know what the consequences, the real consequence, not a joke consequences. These are not people who are kidding. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:45 Are you comfortable with that? Like, why did you decide to do this? You don't need to do this. Yeah. So we've already dealt with a lot of consequences, right? Yeah. And so, first of all, you know, they tell folks don't do business with the young Turks, you know, or our...
Starting point is 01:17:04 You know that? Yeah. Oh, I definitely know that. I know that for a fact. Yeah. And our network is called, TYT, you know, we got a 24-hour channel and all these places, everywhere by cable. And they say, don't do, don't do sales, don't do investments, don't do anything because
Starting point is 01:17:21 they're anti-Semites, okay? So, you know, take away their money and make sure that they don't survive. And then they do propaganda to the audience. That's less effective. But for a while it was effective. You know, oh, they're hateful people. They say they're on the left. they, you know, they're bigots and they're this and they're that.
Starting point is 01:17:43 And then every kind of attack against me. But the establishment media always hated me. Why? Because I'm populist left and they despise populism. I certainly do. Yeah. Why do they despise populism, do you think? Because it's against the status quo.
Starting point is 01:17:59 It's for change. Yeah. And if you're at the top, you don't want anything to change. They don't want to rock the boat because it's their boat. That's why they murdered Huey Long. but populism has a pretty long and very violent history in the United States reaction to it. Yeah. You just get killed.
Starting point is 01:18:16 So do we get death threats all the time, right? Do we get threats of different sorts all the time? And if you, like, if let's say that the Iranian government was threatening to kill me or their supporters were threatening to kill me or my family and they were doing all these attacks against our business, people would be, I think, outraged, right? And Jake. I would be. And Jake Tapper would love to talk about. There are Iranians interfering with an American company and threatening America's. We should do something about Iran, right?
Starting point is 01:18:47 Israel does it. Shut up, you anti-Semite. Jake Tapper hasn't defended you? Jake Tapper's going to write a book one day. It turns out we were the problem. No one could have seen it coming. No, we see it now, Jake. You're the problem.
Starting point is 01:19:02 Okay. And so this whole defense of Israel, over-the-top defense of Israel, is absurd. It's insane while pretending to be objective. And they actively covering up the news. Here, let's do more. But why get involved? Because I can't help it. I can't help but be free.
Starting point is 01:19:21 And that's why I love this country. That's why it's kind of made for me. Uniquely, wonderful country for me and my personality. And I can't bow. I just can't do it. I was on an airplane probably 25 years ago with James Carville, who was my co-host at CNN. And, you know, a great guy in some ways, a great guy, but very smart. And I said something about Israel, some humiliation, they were shooting into the church of the
Starting point is 01:19:47 nativity, murdering a bell ringer. I was like, oh, I don't want to fight about Israel. I never have wanted to. But I said, that is just too much. I mean, whatever it was at the moment. And he goes, I'll never forget this. He goes, watch kids get into college. I was like, I guess.
Starting point is 01:20:03 I had little kids, a lot of them. And he goes, then you'll shut up. I was like, you think that would affect my kids' ability to get into college? I'd never even thought of that before. Of course. Then you'll shut up, quote, that's a verbatim quote. You want your kids to get into college, you'll shut up. And to my shame, I guess, I did kind of shut up for like 20 years.
Starting point is 01:20:24 I don't want to deal with this at all. I've got all kinds of things I'm interested and I'm not that interested in Israel. I love Jerusalem, but like I don't want to get involved. So I'm not trying to be melodramatic, but that's real. and did you ever have a moment and you're like, you know, maybe I don't, maybe I just ignore it.
Starting point is 01:20:41 Let it slide. Yeah. No. And so, Tucker, it happened to me. So there's a school, private school in L.A. It actually happened to Anna two in two different ways. So,
Starting point is 01:20:56 and we applied for my son to get into that private school. And one of my nephews happens to work as a volunteer. in that school. And someone in admission told him his, that my son's application was going to be hurt because of
Starting point is 01:21:14 his dad's positions on Israel. Actually? They actually said that out loud. It's why the Israelis have been happy to murder tens of thousands of children in Gaza because they believe in blood guilt. That's just, that's just a, that's the truth. They say it out loud, Amalek. We believe in blood guilt. Like, the children are responsible for the sins
Starting point is 01:21:30 of their parents. So we're going to kill them. We're not let them into the school. or and we face this a lot in my family so yeah yeah so that's a ramification for us personally and as you know anna's husband uh is a coach at another private school and uh they try to get him fired and they demanded like some sort of Maoist apology where he denounces his own wife and calls her an anti-semit publicly and he's like no i'm not going to do it his own wife yeah they're like you must denounce your own wife otherwise we don't feel safe Okay, what is that? What is that?
Starting point is 01:22:04 And so... We don't feel safe? You're threatening to wreck my family, but you're the one that doesn't feel safe? Because it's always projection. They're always the victims. So, like, why do I say Jake Tapper? Like, Jake is just representative of the mainstream media overall. Israel keeps taking more and more land.
Starting point is 01:22:20 You could see it on a map. They just took 53% of Gaza. And Jake and the rest go self-defense. But wait a minute, brother. I can see the map. Israel is growing. They say they will. want greater Israel. They're doing greater Israel. They're the ones that killed the Palestinians and then
Starting point is 01:22:36 took their land. And Jake goes, no, no, don't believe you're lying eyes. Don't believe you're lying ears. Israel is the victim. They're always the victim. They're going to fire you. Who does Jake work for? Like, why would you, that's absurd? Why would you say something like that? Who, like, where, what is your mission? Okay. And I challenge Jake. I challenge all of cable news anchors. So why don't you talk about, for example, one of hundreds of things that we've mentioned here, but another one is nine Americans killed in Israel over the last three years. Nine Americans killed not accidentally, but by Israeli settlers or the IDF. Murder. Actually. Actually. You know how much. I didn't know that. Yeah. So sorry. Do you know how many consequences there's been? Zero.
Starting point is 01:23:22 Our government does not ask for them to be arrested. What do you mean? An American citizen is killed. What about Mike Huckabee? He's the American ambassador who just met with Jonathan Pollard, the traitor in the U.S. Embassy without telling the CIA or Donald Trump. Mike Huckabee's not our ambassador. He's their ambassador. I know. Okay. It's sad to see a man so degraded. Yeah. So where's our justice for the nine Americans killed? Are we going to even ask for justice? Or is Israel literally above the law? They can kill Americans and totally. get away with it. Our government won't even ask for redress, right? Well, I think we know that's true already. But it's a fact. It's not disputable. And then you got Tom Alexanderovich. So he's the guy who is an Israeli cybersecurity official, goes to Vegas and looks to rape an American girl, right? So he's like, oh, there's a great opportunity for basically pedophile tourism. I'll go to America. And I know as
Starting point is 01:24:23 an Israeli, I won't, I won't be held accountable. So he gets caught in a sting operation. Got him. Okay, good. Gets caught with eight other Americans who were also involved in that operation. The eight Americans are in jail right now in Nevada. Alexander Rich back to Israel, free ride. How? But wait, you can't say that the Americans who did something terrible should be in prison. Great, wonderful, totally agree.
Starting point is 01:24:46 But the Israeli is allowed to do it. And he can rape any American girl he wants here and he gets a free ride back to Israel. No, no. So right now he's technically under arrest. but our government isn't doing anything to try to get him back. No, we want him extradited. But what about Mike Huckabee? Is he going, is he brokering an extradition?
Starting point is 01:25:06 Because he tried to rape an American girl, you say. That's a fact. No, Mike Huckabee is not doing anything. So the Americans killed, no consequence. Americans. Did Mike Huckabee complain about the nine Americans? You said nine Americans have been killed? Yes.
Starting point is 01:25:22 Did Huckabee say anything about it? Not to my knowledge. If he said anything, it's been incredibly quiet. Okay. And hey, Mike Huckabee, if you want to prove me wrong, get out there and fight for it. So, God damn me, they killed nine Americas and don't fight like hell. Forget tomorrow, forget yesterday. You'll focus on tomorrow. Go get him, Ambassador Huckabee. Let's see what you got. The demand that they extradite Alexandrovich back to Nevada, where he faces consequences like the other people who were caught. Where are you? Where are you?
Starting point is 01:25:50 I mean, this happens over and over again through the since Israel has been formed. Robert Maxwell stole our nuclear secrets. The worst possible thing you could do. We didn't even arrest them. And when I looked into, why didn't we arrest Robert Maxwell? Because it would have caused an international incident that embarrassed Israel. Well, they should be embarrassed. They stole our nuclear secrets when they were pretending to be our allies.
Starting point is 01:26:15 They should be deeply, deeply embarrassed. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. not only was Robert Maxwell not arrested, he was allowed to buy textbooks in America for that go into our kids' schools. We're letting a traitor like that, a guy, he wasn't American, but he was a British citizen, he was a, you know, and he lived here, he lived there, and we're letting him buy the textbooks that go into our kids' schools after, after he stole our nuclear secrets and eventually got a state funeral. Again, heroes welcome in Israel. Congratulations. Are we ever going to stand up for this country? So how about the spies we caught after 9-11?
Starting point is 01:26:57 Okay, put aside whether they knew, didn't know what their activity was, but we rounded up dozens and dozens of Israeli spies. Okay, great, great job, FBI, CIA, whoever did it? Fantastic, really proud of you. And then we let them go back to Israel. Is that a thing we do? If we cash a Russian spy or an Iranian spy or a Dutch spy, do we go, oh, you're free to go.
Starting point is 01:27:20 Aren't we supposed to arrest them and keep them in prison? But when it comes to Israel, there are no laws, there are no rules, they're allowed to do anything you want. And if you object, Jake Tapper comes out and calls you an anti-Semite. So a year ago this week, the new president right after inauguration issued an executive order declaring that all files related to the Kennedy assassination MLK and Bobby Kennedy's assassination had to be released. And they haven't all been, unfortunately. but in tranches of documents that have been released in the last 12 months, we've seen again and again references to Israel have been, and there are a lot of references to Israel in the files around the Kennedy assassination,
Starting point is 01:27:57 interestingly, have all been redacted, all been redacted for 62 years, 63 years. It's like, what? I don't understand. Like, why would that be? Why are there two monuments to Jim Angleton in Israel, you know, the number two at CIA? I think it's all very, very odd. And you hear people complain about conspiracy theories, and I'm definitely against conspiratorial thinking because it drives you crazy.
Starting point is 01:28:23 On the other hand, in the absence of transparency, that stuff grows like algae. I mean, what do you think? If you don't tell people the truth, like, what are they supposed to think? They're going to come up with all kinds of theories. Why can't, why would you redact references to Israel in the Kennedy files for six decades? Like, what is that? That's almost an admission. So, like, I didn't know.
Starting point is 01:28:44 It's very odd. I'll say that. So I didn't know that until recently. And again, my establishment media never talks about these things. And again, it's not just about Israel. So, for example, on 9-11, we're redacting references to the Saudis. Oh, I know. Why? Why?
Starting point is 01:28:59 So they say, well, they are allies. Well, if there are allies, then maybe they shouldn't have had an hand at 9-11, right? They didn't have a hand in 9-11. Okay, great. Then show me the redacted part. No, I won't show you the redacted part. Okay, now this is weird. Now this is our government working for other.
Starting point is 01:29:14 governments. And what happened after 9-11? We rounded up all the bin Laden's. Yes, there were bin Laden in America. And we rounded up all the Israeli spies. And yes, there was tons and tons of Israeli spies in America. Following the 19 hijackers around the country. Yeah. And what do we do? We round them up. Oh, great. We got them. And we released them back to Saudi Arabia in Israel. Yeah. No, that's our government. And then we invade Iraq. Yeah. It had nothing to do with that. And increased domestic police powers to the point where the country is not recognizable from what it was on September 10th, 2001. That's our government working for other governments. Oh, I'm aware. And I can't stand it. So which leads us to Epstein. Okay. So here's another one. Drop site news has proven definitively that,
Starting point is 01:29:56 in my opinion, and we'll talk about the evidence, that Epstein worked for an intelligence agency. And almost certainly Mossad. Yeah. Okay. And almost certainly the CIA knew it. Of course. Okay. So now what's the evidence? It's so. Now, what's the evidence? It's overwhelming. First of all, in all the emails, he is looking to help one country. No, it's not Finland and no, it's not America. It's Israel. So how do we get cyber weapons to Israel? How do we get America to bomb Syria? How do we get America to bomb Iran? Okay. Hey, Ahud Barat, former Prime Minister of Israel, I can set up a meeting with you with Putin. Wait, Epstein is so powerful. He can set up meetings of the former Prime Minister of Israel can. He can call Putin. He can't. He can call
Starting point is 01:30:39 Putin any time and get someone a meeting. Then we find out that he was in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. He was the one switching the planes out. How many civilians were involved in the Iran-Contra affair? Easy answer. Zero. There are no civilians involved in Iran-Contra. Everyone was intelligence. So this guy switching out planes in the middle of Iran-Contra is obviously intelligence, and that's Jeffrey Epstein. Okay. So Jeffrey Epstein was much more powerful than we realized. He could set up a meeting with almost any war leader. He could get almost anyone into the White House. Again, Ahud Barak has trouble getting into the White House. Epstein makes a call. Boom, he's in the White House. Israeli spy stays over at Epstein's house. There's just no question about it. He is definitely
Starting point is 01:31:25 intelligence. And in every turn, he's looking to help one country and it's Israel. American media says, shut up. No. Jeffrey Epstein, New York Times says a story about, he's like a Forrest Gump. He just tripped over the money. And all, Oh, God, golly, gee, he just happened to be a savvy investor. And nothing to see here. Now, DropSight News already showed it. Why wouldn't you try to build on that? Why wouldn't you cover that?
Starting point is 01:31:52 Is that not an interesting story? I think it qualifies. I don't understand. I'm not pretending to understand it, but it's certainly interesting. It's certainly interesting. Yeah. I mean, and by the way. And it seems significant, too.
Starting point is 01:32:03 Yeah. If you're the New York Times or you, J. Tapper, your Senate, disprove it. I don't want to believe something that's wrong. So show me. Oh, no, DropSight. No, who's got it wrong? Those emails are wrong. It turns out he was working for Sweet.
Starting point is 01:32:16 Okay, or no one. Fine. But they don't do that. They don't disprove it. They don't prove it. They don't report on it. They never, ever talk about it. That is super weird.
Starting point is 01:32:29 Super weird. Well, speaking of an admission of guilt. Yeah. Yeah. Because that is the most interesting story in a long, long time. Obviously, American people are captivated by it. Yes. Is the New York Times and CNN claiming that they're not captivated by it?
Starting point is 01:32:43 No, they obviously are, right? And they report about it as it affects Trump all the time. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, right? I'm not saying that Trump didn't know I've seen he did. I'm not saying they weren't great friends they were, right? It's a bigger story. I think we can say it's a bigger story. It's just Trump.
Starting point is 01:33:00 Yes, I think it is. Right. But whenever it comes to Trump, they're like, yes, it was Trump. It was Trump. Why? Magic. You don't want to have people look here. This is where the real action.
Starting point is 01:33:09 is. So get him to look here. Get them to look here. Yes, it's three card Monty. Yes, it's all an illusion. So it's unconscionable not to talk about Epstein's connections to intelligence, including Mossad, and including the CIA. For sure, and British intelligence and French. And what was this? I mean, you get the sense that it reveals the, you know, the superstructure beneath,
Starting point is 01:33:31 you know, it gives you a glimpse into how power is exercised globally because it is global, right? And I, you know, there's so much that I know a lot about the obscene story and I'm still totally ignorant about what that was. I really don't understand it. But it's obvious. There's a third rail for a reason. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:52 So that's why right now there's a bit of a revolution going on. Do you think there is? There is. Yeah. And so, again, another reason why they hate you so much. Because the left wing was already gone, you know, 92% disapproving of the action. of Israel in Gaza, and our politicians already gave us the middle finger and said, no, we'll lose this election rather than defy Israel. We'll lose Michigan. We'll lose swing states. We don't care.
Starting point is 01:34:20 We serve Israel loyally. Now, there's a bunch of Democrats that are against that, Rokana being the leading guy saying, no, I want to see the Epstein files. No, I think Palestine should exist. I don't know why. Everybody talks about Israel should be allowed to exist. Good news. They do. right and they have nukes and they have iron dome that nobody has they're about as safer countries you could find on planet earth no one else has iron dome only a handful of countries have nukes they have a better military than the rest of the middle east combined they're perfectly safe then you say okay you're good you exist we're all in favor of that now Palestine should exist they're like how dare you you're anti-samite no no no no no no no no no you're the bigot
Starting point is 01:34:58 you're the bigot saying that another people should not have freedom they should you they've kept those people enslaved five and a half million Palestinians for 58 years. And then they brag, oh, Israel's the best democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East. Well, it's a democracy within Israel. It's a dictatorship within the occupied territories. What is happening in the occupied territories? There's a bit of a dictatorship now in mainland Israel for Israeli Jews, too. I mean, you're not welcome to, well, first of all, they try to keep people from leaving the country of restricted freedom of movement. And there, I mean, you get the cops at your door for saying certain things in that country. It's in many countries.
Starting point is 01:35:35 That's true. But it's also true there. So like, come on now. Yeah. Stop lying to me. Yeah. And so the media, they're an enormous part of the problem. So you see our politicians, both under Democratic and Republican presidents and
Starting point is 01:35:50 administration say, no, we're not going to release the Epstein files. No, we're going to give Epstein a sweetheart deal back in 2008. And then we're going to take Alex Acosta and make him the labor system. secretary under Trump, right? That was the funniest thing that's ever happened. Didn't work very well. Yeah. And by the way, oh, Galane Maxwell, that sounds familiar.
Starting point is 01:36:09 Oh, she's a daughter of Robert Maxwell, legendary Israeli spy who stole our nuclear secrets. By the way, I don't know that that's ever been mentioned on cable news, ever. Isn't that a super interesting fact that the main co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein that her dad was the biggest spy Israel has ever had? Now, you can say, hey, the sins of the father are not passed on to the daughter, so that doesn't prove anything. But it's at least an interesting fact. And it's not even the most interesting. In my opinion, the most interesting fact is Attorney General Barr covered up Epstein's murder because he was murdered.
Starting point is 01:36:45 And he covered it up as the Attorney General of the United States and said, we have to let people know this was a suicide. Like, number one rule is don't let them think it was a murder. He said that before they'd done an investigation into it. So, like, that's a cover up by definition. You don't even know the facts, but you're reaching. a conclusion and commanding everyone else reach the same conclusion, you're covering it up. And then it turns out his father, Donald Barr, got Jeff Epstein his first job teaching math at the Dalton school. He didn't even have a college degree, okay? And then got him a job at Bear Stearns.
Starting point is 01:37:17 The attorney general's father is the one who started Jeffrey Epstein's career and set him up with his friends in finance. And then his son becomes attorney general and covers up his murder. I mean, what are the chances, Jenk? Like, what are the odds on that, do you think? Then you combine that with the odds on the Maxwell's. Then you combine that with the odds of Israeli spies and prime ministers staying at his house. And then you combine that with all the emails he's saying, I can't wait to get America to do what Israel wants. Unlikely things happen.
Starting point is 01:37:47 We've all seen crazy things happen. It's like, oh, happenstance. And, like, you know, sometimes it, you know, rolls up and you get the jackpot. I get it. That is part of life. But if it keeps happening and you keep yelling at me for noticing, I think you think I'm dumb, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:38:03 And so, Tucker, what I think happened is... Come on now. Yeah. They're insulting our intelligence. You think? Yeah. 100%. And so what, but there's something great happening at the same time.
Starting point is 01:38:14 Okay. So politicians, terrible, but now we got a little bit of rebellion on the Democratic side with the Kana and a couple of guys. A little bit of rebellion on the Republican side with Tom Massey, a little bit of anti-war with Rand Paul. Marjorie Taylor Green was great. I wanted her to stay. By the way, the one person, we had Marjorie Taylor Green on the show a couple of times.
Starting point is 01:38:33 People start yelling at me. How dare you? What are you doing? She's the enemy and stuff. And I'm like, guys, they want you to think that the other side is the enemy. You had Marjorie on your show? Yeah. Oh, bless you, good.
Starting point is 01:38:45 So they want you to attack, use all of your energy and all of your fight against other Americans. Of course. And so Marjorie Taylor Green comes on. And I said, well, I had her on. because she's agreeing with us. She's anti-war. We're anti-war. Like, I'm taking yes for an answer, right?
Starting point is 01:39:05 Amen. Did she ever do anything substantive to stand up to Israel? Yeah, actually, she did. She almost single-handedly killed a boycott divestment and sanction bill in the house. She said, no, this is taking away Americans' freedom of speech. I'm against it. And when she made a big deal out of it, it embarrassed the other Republicans because, yeah, It's against our freedom of speech.
Starting point is 01:39:28 Exactly. Right. And so she did do something great, right? More than almost anyone. Yeah. And so I still disagree with Marjorie and you on other issues, right? But why would people get? That's so interesting that the people would be mad at you for having her on when she's one of the only members of Congress, literally the only members who's doing the things that you have said that you believed in for a long, long time.
Starting point is 01:39:53 100%. It's so strange. because it's because we've been taught by who, by the media, to hate each other and to have a tribal brain, partisan brain. That's totally true. Right. So because if the left and the right, the Republicans and Democrats realize that the people rigging the rules are the ones with all the wealth and power up top, that is the only force that is mighty enough to take on the ruling class, the donor class. So that is why they have to get us fighting at all times. You must hate each other.
Starting point is 01:40:26 Don't look up. Whatever you do, don't look up. Hate each other. Use all your energy this way. So unfortunately, our side got taught this too. So Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, that's it. You can't ever talk to them. They're the bad guys, right?
Starting point is 01:40:40 I'm like, are they still the bad guys if they agree with them? Let's get back. Let's define bad guy for a second. And, and do. Wait, do I have to change my position if Tucker agrees with me? Do I have to become pro-war? All right, let's bomb Iran now. This is too much.
Starting point is 01:41:04 I can't deal with it. Some podcaster agrees with me. I'm changing my mind. Yeah. So now, Roe did something really smart. And this gets back to Marjorie in a sec. Roe took an executive order that Trump had about lowering drug prices, most favorite nation status, right? if France, Germany, Japan are paying this much, we should pay that much.
Starting point is 01:41:24 Why are we financing the whole world? And that's what's happening. We're paying so much more, not than Ethiopia, but than other developed nations like Germany. Of course, to subsidize drugs that aren't even made in this country. Yeah. It's so bonkers. By the way, we subsidize them in a hundred different ways. We also, we pay for their research that goes to the universities, right?
Starting point is 01:41:46 Of course. And then we give them the patent. What? No, no, no, that patent is worth billions, maybe trillions of dollars. An American taxpayer paid for that research. Should we not get equity? That is how capitalism works. When we bailed out the banks, should we have not gotten equity?
Starting point is 01:42:03 If a private company bailed out the banks, they would have owned the banks. Okay? That's how capitalism works. If you don't pay your mortgage, they own your house. Exactly. Right. It's called collateral. Yes.
Starting point is 01:42:17 But for the donor class, in that case, case the pharmaceutical companies. Nope, nope, just have it for free. Right. You outsource the risk, you privatize a reward. It's the oldest system. There is, and also the most immoral. Yeah. And so the reason why the tappers of the world hate left-wing populace is because we've been pointing this out for 20 years. So when Roe does this and he goes, okay, look, the executive order, it'll get knocked down by the courts. But good news, if we turn it into a bill, it can't get knocked down by the courts. So he took the executive order verbatim, didn't change a word, okay, and said, now let's pass it as a bill. And he got two or three Republican co-sponsors.
Starting point is 01:42:56 I went to the Democrats, the couple of Democrats that I know in Congress. I was like, guys, this is beautiful. It's a layup. This is core Democratic policy. We got super lucky. Trump did an executive order doing our policies. So let's jump on Rose Bill. Nope. The only person I could convince to join Rose Bill was Marjorie Taylor Green. No way. Yes. And did Jake Tapper weigh in on this? So, no, here's my beef, old school beef with Jake.
Starting point is 01:43:26 So other than his nonstop defense of Israel. So, and I'm sure he'll object to that. I've slightly tweaked them from time to time. What do you mean? Okay. I'm like 12% 11, 9, 7% against a genocide. But it's not a genocide, you anti-Semite. Okay.
Starting point is 01:43:44 So I feel like Jake Tapper. was looking down his nose at us every time he talks on TV. He's like, and I will tell you this, Israel had nothing new. And none of the donors had anything to do with anything, right? I feel like he, I don't, I know Jake, well, but I feel like he's the one who's suffering. I feel like it hasn't worked. It's the prizes that he wanted. He weren't worth having.
Starting point is 01:44:05 And he doesn't seem happy at all to me. But, you know, maybe I'm just. So God bless his heart. I wish him nothing but happy. Yeah, yeah, me too. But so how did it come about? So when I ran for Congress, the media lied about me in hilarious ways. Okay.
Starting point is 01:44:21 So, and Jake joined in on that. So they would take out of context clips and then Jake would retweet it and without even checking. What? I thought you were a journalist. So the New York Times said that I had a history of being anti-Muslim and never mentioned that I was born Muslim and my family's Muslim and my background's Muslim. Never mentioned it. The New York Times described me in such a vicious way that if I was a voter in that district
Starting point is 01:44:44 that I was running in, I would have voted against me. me, right? Because I don't want to vote for an anti-Muslim, anti-Semite, anti-everything. They painted me as like some, like, vicious, racist, right-winger when I was the biggest supporter of Bernie Sanders in the primaries, right? In 2016, 2020, et cetera. So, and then they said, oh, he had an interview with David Duke, where I lit into David Duke, because David Duke was saying outwardly anti-Semitic things. Yeah. And I called him an anti-Semite, a bigot, all these things. You know, me, And also a federal informant just to add to the list. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:45:19 And an idiot, et cetera. So I said all those things in the interview. I hold no holds bar to Young Turks, right? New York Times said that I agreed with David Duke that he was not a racist. And other outlets said that I brought David Duke on to share his anti-Semitic views. No way. Yeah. And so other journalists watched the interview.
Starting point is 01:45:42 Well, they want to see how terribly anti-Semitic and racist jank was. pretending to be a left winger and all this. And I'm like, holy shit, you guys are totally lying. The exact opposite happened in the interview. So New York Times had to do a rare correction on that one. They're like, okay, fine. All right, he was being sarcastic. Fine.
Starting point is 01:46:00 Okay. But we, by the way, I had a PR person because it was a congressional run. And they're really well connected to all these folks. They called the New York Times. They called the editor. And the editor, this is amazing. The editor told them. And I don't know why they say these things.
Starting point is 01:46:12 I'm stunned that they say them out loud. But the editor told them. look you're right i watched the david duke interview we got to retract it and you're right about the muslims thing you're right about the bestiality thing which we'll get back to which is hilarious that's that's my favorite hold that so he says but i look i went around and i asked and everyone here hates jank and they don't want to do a correction the best i could do was get a correction on the david duke one because that one's so over the top everyone here hates jank that's amazing. That's amazing.
Starting point is 01:46:49 Yeah. I don't know how many people he asked. I don't know if he has. Three people, 13 people. It was probably a small group that was working on that group. So, but the fact that he would say that to our PR guy is unbelievable, right? So now the bestiality. Okay, so I do a segment on the Young Turks, like over a decade ago. And I say we had this guy, Rodell, that he was having sex with horses in Tennessee. And we thought, what a bizarre, crazy story. He gave the horse an STD. we're like Rodel what are you doing what are you doing we're making fun of this guy then I really dryly I go you know what if the horse is receiving it you know I don't know that the horse is
Starting point is 01:47:28 objecting right they cut the tape and they goes that's it jenks for me's chalice okay now if you keep rolling the tape what I say next is is the horse going to object nay and then everybody in this is pretty funny actually yeah and everybody laughs but they cut that part out right So New York Times made it seem like it was part of my legislative agenda. For sex? Yes. I mean, isn't that like an old Lyndon Johnson quote? It's very much like a very fan.
Starting point is 01:47:59 I can't say it's too vulgar. But yes. And the idea was to accuse your opponent of, well, bestiality, not because it's true, because then he'll have to deny it and repeat it. Yeah. And here I am denying and repeating it. When the conversation is about beastiality, you're not winning. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:48:16 So that's why they do tricks like that. And Tapper's like, retweet. Love it. Who cares? Oh, I wonder what he said next. Is not a thought he had in his mind, apparently, right? That's amazing. So that's how they do character assassinations.
Starting point is 01:48:30 Okay. But you said at the outset that they're losing. And I do think that's like the real lesson here. So like I was at CNN with Jake, you know, 25 years ago. And that was like a big to us. It was a, you know, in your 20s. It's like a big thing. We're at CNN.
Starting point is 01:48:46 it's so great. And he stayed. And you get to 2026. It's like, who would want a job at CNN? Like, I don't think, again, the prize is worth winning. Like, you don't actually want that, not just because it's liberal or whatever, dishonest, because like nobody cares. Yeah. Like, it doesn't mean anything anymore. Or maybe I'm just too out of it. And I think that, do you think it still means something? No, it means very little. But in their world, and that's still high status for them. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, of course. So, look, Tucker, look at our careers and how much things have changed in the last 10, 15 years. Yeah. And so when I was a host on MSNBC at 6 o'clock back in 2011, that was highly celebrated.
Starting point is 01:49:35 I mean, I instantly started winning awards and getting speeches, paid speeches, and all these amazing things that I never got online. We're the first YouTube partner channel ever. I'm the original YouTuber. Really? Yeah. The Young Turks is? I didn't know that. What year did you start it?
Starting point is 01:49:54 So we started the show back in 2002, so we've been around 23 years. We were the original talk show for Sirius Satellite Radio. So we're the first show there. Then we went to Air America. You remember the Liber Radio. Very well, yeah. And we were there morning drive. And then we went, so as part of that, we were all over radio markets throughout the country on XM.
Starting point is 01:50:18 And we did great. Our ratings were terrific in different places. Then we started online video in 2005 and we're the oldest running show in Internet history. We're the longest running show there is online. That's amazing. So that's pretty neat. We feel good about it. But there wasn't a ton of prestige attached to that for the first 10 years, right?
Starting point is 01:50:39 Oh my God, I was mocked. You're on the internet. Yeah. I mean, I was on television, so I know that I looked down on the internet, some internet show. Yeah. Internet. People told us, it told us, like, why would you leave serious satellite radio to go do YouTube? Like, what do you?
Starting point is 01:50:57 On there with the cats playing piano? 100%. Fat kid falls off bike. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so I keep turning down money. It's serious.
Starting point is 01:51:06 They offered us a quarter of a million to not do online video. And I was like, no, no, online video is the future. I'm going to do online video by hook or by crook. I believe it in a thousand percent. I wrote my friends an email in 1998 saying online video was going to be TV, that it was only a matter of time. Okay. So that's why we're the first YouTube partner because I was positive,
Starting point is 01:51:27 not only that online video was going to win, but YouTube was going to win. And so the entire time, mainstream media is mocking us, et cetera. But then in 2011, I did a campaign to get on MSNBC and our audience. this is amazing, best audience in the world. They sent thousands of emails to MSNBC until I finally got a meeting. My agent originally fired me. I declared my candidacy for the open position at MSNBC.
Starting point is 01:51:53 And the guy who worked for us at CIA at the time was like, this is embarrassing. You're not going to get the job. And so don't do that. It'll be very public. And I was like, brother, I got news for you. I wasn't going to get the job anyway. Fair, fair. Right?
Starting point is 01:52:05 And so, and I'm a risk taker. And I'm a natural born rebel. So I'm going to go for it. And I believe in my audience. And they did. They got me the job there. Great news. That's wild.
Starting point is 01:52:16 It was amazing. And then they kept watching and watching. We're like doubling the ratings of the regular host. It's unseen, unheard of. Like if a guest host fills in and gets about 75% of the audience, that's a pretty good job. Definitely. Yeah. That's a nice job.
Starting point is 01:52:31 I mean, a 125, 150 on some super rare occasions. It's got 200%. So doubling the audience. But 125, 150 percent of the audience. the regular hosts on a consistent basis to the point where a supervising producer came in, closed the door on a day we had great ratings, and Jank, you got to bring it down. I said, why? Stop rating so high. He said, because the other hosts won't want you to fill in from it. Well, that is a real thing. That's a real thing. Oh, I know. And so.
Starting point is 01:53:00 I never felt that way. I'm not competitive. But there were a lot of people would not have you sit in. I mean, that actually happened to me. A very famous host stopped having me because I did, I did, I did, in numbers. They don't want that. I get it. But good news. The ratings are so good, I got the job anyway. I'm on there for six months. And then at the, but in the middle, I kept criticizing the Democrats.
Starting point is 01:53:21 And I kept criticizing Obama from the left, not from the right, but from the left. They're like, remember who the home team is. Yeah. Remember who the home team is. Right. And I'm like, yeah, the home team is the audience. That's why I have higher ratings than you've ever had at 6 o'clock. Yeah. And
Starting point is 01:53:37 and they made me an offer. that they thought I couldn't refuse, which was, you know what, we're going to move you down to the weekends, even though you have the best ratings we've had. By the way, I beat Fox in 18 to 34. I was the only MSNBC show to beat Fox in any demographic, okay? And we're moving you down on the weekends. Why, they won't say it, but Phil did say it earlier on he had pulled me into his office. This is Phil Griffin, the president. Yeah, of MSNBC.
Starting point is 01:54:05 And he said, I was in Washington and they're not happy with your tone. Washington's not happy. Yeah. What? It's like a movie. It is. But it's a B-rate movie. I know. I'm like, why are you? I work for Phil Griffin, so I know, who I will always like, but he's not a genius at all.
Starting point is 01:54:26 And so he says true things out loud because he doesn't sort of know. I mean, I can literally picture him saying, Jenka, Washington's not happy. Yeah. No, he went further. He said, outsiders are. cool and they wear leather jackets and ride motorcycles. Okay, but we're NBC. We're not outsiders. We're insiders. I'm like, Phil, this is a dumb speech. Like, I'm thinking this is a dumb speech. And I'm the very
Starting point is 01:54:51 last guy on Earth you should be giving this speech to, right? So that's why he offered to double my salary when he said move to the weekends. Because the only way you stay on cable news is if you play ball. Of course. Right. And at some point, apparently you were, they were not happy with you. Apparently. That was the message I received, yes. Yeah. No one ever explained it, but I didn't care. Now, when I said no to MSNBC and when you came off of Fox, in their minds, we were gone. We were dead. We didn't exist anymore. But yet here we are. No, I think that I'm thankful to God all the time for that. But no, I totally agree. And part of it's the technology and I just wasn't far-sighted or broad-minded enough to see it early at all.
Starting point is 01:55:37 I mean, I was busy scrambling up the greasy pole of television and I just didn't, I don't know, I didn't see it, you know, I made fun of Rogan. I've told Rogan this, I made fun of Rogan. Oh, a podcast, oh, I'm sure a lot of people listen to that or the internet. I was like, the internet, please. So you saw it, I wish I had seen it, and I didn't. But I also think it's not just technology. It's a way of thinking and it's super obvious.
Starting point is 01:56:01 I wrote a part of a book on this once that your opening line is the truest thing. Some of this is real. A lot of it is fake. Go fight amongst yourselves while we loot the place. Like that is true. Yeah. So what they do is they eventually remove anyone who objects to the system. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:56:22 Right. So another good example is Dylan Radigan. So Dylan Radigan was always admired Dylan Radigan. Yeah. He was a CNBC started their two most successful shows. biggest, most successful anchor they've ever had. But after 2008 crash, he said it was the banks because it was the banks. How was that controversial?
Starting point is 01:56:42 And CNBC had to take him off the air. Well, who else was it? Who else was it? The borrowers? It's the borrower's fault? That was literally. Who wrote the loans of the banks? So that's how the ecosystem works.
Starting point is 01:56:54 Those banks pay the politicians. By the way, number one donor to hope and change Obama in 2008. or the banks. Okay. So then they get a giant bailout and their bonuses are paid. And with some of those winnings, they funnel the money back to the politicians. And then how they control media? Well, the banks are also huge advertisers.
Starting point is 01:57:16 Wait, but are you, is that true? I mean, okay, so 08 happens. The global financial crisis totally changed the world forever. And there's not a single human being, honest person who could say it wasn't the banks. I mean, what else would it be if it wasn't the banks? It was only the banks. It was the banks, by definition. And he actually got taken off the air for saying that.
Starting point is 01:57:37 Because if you can't say that, then you can't acknowledge, like, daylight or gravity. Yeah. But that's true. That's really what happened. That's definitely what happened. Yes. That's pretty wild. They said it was the borrowers.
Starting point is 01:57:50 They did. It was their fault. They were being irresponsible. They shouldn't have borrowed so much. They wrote their own loans. Is that the allegation? I mean, why did it? housekeeper and Clark County, Nevada was writing bad loans to herself. And golly gee, we couldn't tell
Starting point is 01:58:06 because we didn't do any due diligence on that loan. Well, why didn't you do any due diligence on that loan, right? Because they didn't care. And because they were using it for collateralized debt obligations and leveraging it up 100 to 1 and gambling with our money. They weren't actually mortgages. They were financial instruments. And we thought we were taking bank loans. They were loaning that money out at interest and then we're getting the, you know, equity in the house or whatever. It was not what it was. And Dylan talks about how in the beginning we used to do wealth creation, right? Now mainly it's wealth extraction.
Starting point is 01:58:39 Yeah, I've noticed. And so those donors, having bought Congress and the media, are sitting there and extracting as much from us as humanly possible. The oil companies are very successful, some of the top companies in the world. Yes. Very, very profitable. We give them $35 billion in subsidies. Every year. Why?
Starting point is 01:58:59 I don't know. Why is the average person working their ass off in Kansas, barely making, you know, the rent or the mortgage, have to give money to these incredibly profitable companies to incentivize oil drilling we're here? Do they need further incentive? I thought capitalism was the incentive. I thought profit was the incentive. Why do I have to further incentivize oil companies to do their jobs? That's a good point. Since it's determined by the market price of oil, the per barrel. price of oil, which has set on international markets. No individual controls that. And so when it's profitable to drill for oil or gas, they do. And when it's not, they don't. Like, that's called the market, right? Yeah. And so, and here's another thing that's never corrected on cable news, even though it would be against Trump. So they have every reason to, to publicize this. So when
Starting point is 01:59:45 we invade Venezuela, or we attack Venezuela, and now we're getting their oil, right? But wait, who is we? The American people don't get the oil of Venezuela. It has nothing to do with American people. No, ExxonMobil gets a contract. Chevron gets a contract with Venezuela. They get the oil. They get the profits. They sell it on the world market, not just American market at all. They have no obligation. If they want, they don't have to sell Americans a single ounce of that oil because it is their oil, not our oil. And why does that even matter? Because ExxonMobil, otherwise, would have had to pay a higher price to get Venezuelan oil. It's not like they couldn't. They could just make a deal with Venezuela, but they chose not to because they thought it would be too expensive.
Starting point is 02:00:30 So instead, we have to start a war. We have to pay for that war. And then we pay subsidies on top for the oil companies. And they get to oil. They settle on to world markets. It doesn't lower our prices at all. And so what did we get out of this? Well, so the plan on this and who knows how to work out, I don't know.
Starting point is 02:00:50 But the plan is for the administration to negotiate. the oil contracts and for the money to go to the administration and then to be doled out to the treasury and then the companies. That's the stated plan. I happened to be there the other day when they were talking about it. So is the plan to take a percentage of the Venezuelan oil and just give it to America? Yes. That is unprecedented. That's the stated plan. I'm not an expert. I'm not, you know, an energy person. I'm interested, but I'm not an expert. I don't speak Spanish. Like, there's alive, a lot of ignorance. And of course, I can't see the future.
Starting point is 02:01:27 But yes, that's the state of plan. That's what Trump said to, I was having lunch with Trump. And he's like, oh, come to the oil meeting. I'm like, I don't, you know, it's not my world. So I was like, okay. So I go up there and all these heads of the big oil companies, including Exxon. They didn't seem too enthusiastic about it, but we'll see. And I just happened to be sitting in the room totally by accident.
Starting point is 02:01:47 I mean, literally by accident, because he's asked me to come. And he's like, he's telling him. He's like, no, no, no. this is for our country and you'll get a cut that I will decide. You know, I can just tell you what I saw. So that's A, that's not how it should work, right? Because when you say to a different country, we're going to come and we're going to take your natural resources and we're just going to take a certain amount for us, period. Sad day for you.
Starting point is 02:02:14 What will happen is an insurgency. People will be mad about that. Well, that's the concern. I mean, and the other point that he made again, I don't know where this is going. I am literally praying for stability in Venezuela and around the world. I hate the chaos. I hate the chaos. And Israel unleashes so much.
Starting point is 02:02:30 We unleash so much. It's just the worst thing that we do. But the idea is that they have big time cash shortages. You have to pay the military. You have to pay the government workers. You have to make sure inflation doesn't add control. The currency doesn't collapse, et cetera, et cetera. And that oil profits will go to Venezuela.
Starting point is 02:02:49 This is the stated aim to keep the country from. falling apart and to prevent insurgencies, which they're afraid of? Because then, like, how was that a win? Yeah. So to say that I'm enormously skeptical of it. Yeah, I get it. I get it. I get it. And so, you know, in Iraq, we didn't get any of the oil companies got it and it didn't help us at all. Trump's been mad about it ever since. We called a lot of the Latin American countries, Banana Republic's why we did coups on behalf of Banana Company. It's not their fault. It's our fault. Our banana. Did we get the bananas? No. Dole got the bananas. Exactly. They sold them at a, the, they the same exact price. They just had a higher profit margin. We literally attack countries for Halliburton's profit, for doled companies' profits. So who is we? Who is the American people, right? And when do we ever get represented? I could not, you know, I vehemently agree. And the space between intent and reality is often very wide. So you don't, you know, you don't
Starting point is 02:03:46 know what's going to happen. But it's, the only thing that I learned, and I was, didn't go to Washington to talk about Venezuela, but I just happen to see this. The main thing that I learned is what's being described is a brand new, brand new system. And whether that'll happen, you know, a lot of powerful forces don't want it to happen. But that's what is being described is a totally new arrangement. We'll see. Yeah. So look, my sense of it is when you go and you attack other countries, our military is amazing, best of the world, best that's ever been created, right? Yeah. So that was an amazing mission. that they did in Venezuela and an amazing one they did in Iran. But you do three or four of those
Starting point is 02:04:27 and you're going to get burned because it's just a matter of chances. I think that's, I think that's right. And yeah, it's just rolling, it's just rolling nice. No, I agree with everything that you said. And just in general, it's good to know your limits. I think humility is important. I think you can really get hurt. I've gotten hurt in my life because I imagined that powers I didn't have. Like, I think it's a very male thing. I could do that. Yeah. And so guys, I just wanted to audience that, No, once we lose some men, right? Like, I don't know where it's going to happen. I don't know if it's in Venezuela, Iran or somewhere else.
Starting point is 02:04:59 Right. But somebody's going to get shot down. We're going to lose 12, 13 guys, whatever's going to happen, right? Let's, you know, don't panic. Don't let them sheep herd you into saying, well, that means we got to put more troops in. I agree with that. Now we got to get revenge. So then, oh, my, now we lost 100 guys.
Starting point is 02:05:19 Now we've got to dig in even more and more and more. I saw that, you know, whether it's ExxonMobil or Israel or whoever's profiting off of it. I could not agree more because you open yourself up to manipulation on false flags and we've seen many, many false flags. I would say there are a bunch of things about the Reagan record. I would not defend. I don't think anyone should defend. But in October of 83, we have this horrible barracks bombing. The Marine barracks killed over 200 men Marines, truly horrible bombing.
Starting point is 02:05:47 And Reagan did not invade Lebanon. You know, it happened in Beirut. He did not invade. I mean, that, and people were really on him. Like, you're going to let those murders go un avenged. And he said, I don't think it's wise. He wasn't always wise. But in this case, I think he was wise.
Starting point is 02:06:05 He didn't invade Beirut. We could have. You know, I voted the last, I used to be Republican growing up. Yeah. And the last Republican I voted for was George H.W. Bush. And so why did I vote for him? because he, I thought he did something very principled. He said, look, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Starting point is 02:06:24 Yeah. And we can't have that. They're an ally and they're a sovereign country. And if sovereign countries attack one another, there'll be no end to it. Right. Okay. So then they said, okay, and I like that. I like the first Persian Gulf War.
Starting point is 02:06:36 In fact, at college, I did a pro-war rally. Okay? Actually. At Penn. Yes. I got on Fox for it. and it debated a anti-war guy in Philadelphia over. Okay.
Starting point is 02:06:51 So. Is that tape available? Yeah, it's my first TV appearance. What year was that? That must have been 91, 92. Yeah, and that one for. Amazing. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:07:01 And so, look, I don't think I'd do a pro-war rally today. Probably not. Right. And people change. And that's what's what's... We've also had an awful lot of war. Right. We've had an awful lot of war from 1991 or two to present.
Starting point is 02:07:13 I don't know how many wars. in 35 years, we've had a lot of wars. Yeah. And at that point, we didn't. We left Vietnam in 1975. And, you know, we'd grenade, but we didn't really have a lot of wars between Vietnam. Right? So is people had a different memory.
Starting point is 02:07:28 Yeah. And so, first of all, you know, one of the things that we emphasize on Young Turks is open hearts, open minds. Amen. And so, and one of the things I tell the audience is, if I didn't believe in open minds, I would have stayed a Republican. So, right? So, so you got to have, you got to be thinking. You've got to be looking at new evidence, data. So in that case, it was actually not a bad war.
Starting point is 02:07:48 I mean, wars are always terrible. But Persian Gulf War, we go in. It's very limited. We free Kuwait and we get the hell out. And the decision I liked the most was he did not go into Iraq. At the time, Israel and others are going, going to Iraq, going to Iraq. They were mad that we didn't go. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:08:04 And the guy who held the line was Dick Cheney of all people. He was a secretary of defense. And he said, no, it makes no strategic sense for America to go in. into Iraq, what are we going to do with it? Right? And that was really prescient and right. And it's amazing what happens to people. And I don't know what happened to Dick Cheney. But he then turns around, you know, just some small amount of time later working for George W. Bush. And it says, we got to go into Iraq. We got to go into Iraq. And then, of course, Halliburton makes a tremendous profit. Israel is super happy. Or the defense contractors are super happy. We think that Iraq was a
Starting point is 02:08:41 waste. We lost trillions of dollars. We lost trillions of dollars. We lost thousands of men, Americans that died on foreign soil. Or were destroyed, you know, for the rest of their lives. Yeah. I mean, you must know some. I sure do. Absolutely. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:08:53 But it wasn't a loss for the donor class. For the donor class, they won. They won spectacularly. Defense contractors, oil companies, the speculators on Wall Street, they all literally made a killing, right? And at the time, Israel was saying, that's our number one enemy. You have to attack Iraq. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:09:11 So it's the whole puzzle. It's not just one thing. And there's another piece to it, which is there's no power like the power to end human life. There's a thrill that people derive in being able to extinguish another person's life because it's a godlike power. And I've certainly seen it a lot. People just like, not because they're evil or because they hate, but they're just like, oh my gosh, I'm so powerful. It's unbelievable. I can literally kill someone.
Starting point is 02:09:38 And it's allowed. Boy, that is addictive. and the more you do it, the more you like it. Yeah, I'm worried about it. And so, look, back to Hope. So back then, the media was terrible. And 69% of Americans thought that Saddam Hussein had personally attacked us on 9-11. Now, if I thought Saddam attacked us on 9-11.
Starting point is 02:10:00 Yeah. Yeah. If I thought that, I would be for attacking Iraq. I mean, attacking us on 9-11 was terrible, right? We need to make sure that that never happens again. There needs to be consequences. Is that true? 69% of Americans thought that?
Starting point is 02:10:14 Yes. At the time of the invasion, seven out of ten, why? Because mainstream media systematically lied to them. They implicitly lied. They would have Dick Cheney come on and say, Iraq is from the same general region as al-Qaeda. Now, wait a minute, if you were a journalist, you would say, but, sir, Iraq is opposed to al-Qaeda.
Starting point is 02:10:36 They execute al-Qaeda on the spot, right? But they didn't say that. Meet the press, Tim Russard, didn't say it when Dick Cheney said that. No, I interviewed Cheney during that period, too. I'm embarrassed to say. He probably said it to me. I don't even remember, but that's so bad. The two main things they kept saying, Tucker, and Young Turks were so old, we were on the air at the time online.
Starting point is 02:10:56 Okay. And in that case, the radio, okay? And so we're only two shows against Iraq war, Young Turks and democracy now. Okay. And so we're, that were national. And we're going, no, they didn't attack us. And everybody in media is like, shut up, shut up. Unpatriotic, yeah.
Starting point is 02:11:12 On patriots. Support the troops. I'm like, yeah, I support the troops. I don't want them to die. And for no reason when they didn't attack us. The second thing was weapons of mass destruction. And where do we get the fake intelligence on weapons of mass destruction? Israel.
Starting point is 02:11:26 Yep, as laundered through the New York Times. As laundered through the New York Times. So now wait, where's the hope? Now look at the media. Now CNN, MSNBC. We just had a conversation 10 minutes ago about how they're becoming irrelevant. Yeah, who cares? Right.
Starting point is 02:11:39 They went from the gods of the universe. right, getting to set the narrative and you want an Iraq war, we're going to give you an Iraq war, right? You want subsidies, we're giving you subsidies. You want to end negotiating prices. We're going to end negotiation of prices. And we're not going to say any, no one's allowed to say that's anti-capolis, anti-free market. No one's allowed to say anything outside of these tight rules. How do you know that? Well, I said things outside of those tight rules and they said, you got to go, right? And they do that. They did it to Dylan Radigan. They did it to you. They do it to everyone. But now the podcast have swarm them. Now we're larger than them. So now that we're larger than them, the dynamic has changed.
Starting point is 02:12:18 So the left and the right didn't abandon Israel for good cause, excellent cause. They didn't abandon them for no reason. They abandoned them because mainstream media does not dominate anymore. If there were no online media, nobody would have heard about any of the terrible things they did. None of it. None of it. So here, I'll give you one fact that's startling. You know, we can talk about the incredible amount of deaths and the who died and they killed more journalists than the rest of the conflicts in the world combined hundreds of journalists over 250 journalists okay some of them assassinated included an american journalist oh i know this was pre not october 20s october 7th bashrine abuakle is an american journalist oh shot with scoped rifles at a distance wearing a press i don't even like
Starting point is 02:13:04 journalists that much but that's like that's such an atrocity i can't believe it happened yeah they we know even the New York Times and CNN was like, yeah, that's an assassination. Shot from hundreds of yards away. Sniper, make sure to get him in the neck, doesn't hit the vest, doesn't hit the helmet, and kills him. Okay. So, Jamal Khashoggi, when he was killed by the Saudis, that became an enormous story. Good, good. I don't want anybody chopped up.
Starting point is 02:13:30 That's a Washington Post columnist. That was crazy. And they got condemned, and they should. Israel assassinates an American journalist. They're like, who cares? Wait, did the person get arrested? Who shot her? Who gave the order?
Starting point is 02:13:44 Have we asked for extradition of that person? Oh, I know. Nothing. And supposedly American commentators like celebrate Rachel Corey with some lefty girl. Gets run over by a bulldozer. I don't know that I agree with Rachel Corey on much, but she's an American, I think, from like Pennsylvania. Yeah. She's a girl. And she gets killed.
Starting point is 02:14:02 And Ben Shapiro's like, well, don't stand in front of bulldozers. It's like, I don't know. That's your fellow American. Like, don't you care that a foreign country murdered an American? No, it's her fault. One of the guys who was delivering food got killed. Oh, yeah. Jacob Flickinger, if I'm not mistaken, again, look up his name.
Starting point is 02:14:21 But no consequences. No one arrested. No one goes to jail. But you murdered him. You murdered an American. You murdered nine Americans. Shouldn't there be consequences? But these days, now, the ultimate fact I was going to get to is,
Starting point is 02:14:35 so how do you tell him, group is a terrorist organization. They target civilians. How do you know they target civilians? Because they have a very high civilian kill ratio. So, for example, Hamas on October 7th, they killed civilians and military. They killed hundreds of military guys. But they killed more civilians. 67% of the people they killed were civilians. So terrorist group, clear, obvious. That's terrorism. That's terrorism. Okay. In Gaza, Israel's civilian kill ratio is 83%. It is worse. than Hamas. In fact, it is worse than any terrorist organization in the world. 83%. And at scale, tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands of people killed,
Starting point is 02:15:20 83% civilians. They say, no, you have to apply that label unevenly and unfairly. You only apply it to our enemies, but if we do worse than them, you are not to ever say it. And that figure, by the way, comes from the Israeli press. The Israeli press is way better than the American press. I've noticed. Yeah, you know why? Because they can't call them anti-Semites. Right, it's totally right.
Starting point is 02:15:44 Right. So they can't end the career of anyone who criticizes Israel because they're all Israelis, right? But here in America, if you report the same thing, you're going to be called an anti-Semite, and they're going to try to get you fired, shut you up, and ruin your life. Yeah. So that is why. I'm not playing along. Sorry. Exactly.
Starting point is 02:16:03 But that's my point about hope. No one on TV has ever said what the Israeli press has reported, that Israel has an 83% civilian kill ratio in IDF is basically a terrorist organization. And they have killed 70 times the number of people Hamas is killed. And they've killed more civilians as a percentage. But we're forced to fund that terrorist organization. But no one on TV will ever tell you that because if they do, they know that they risking getting fired. And so I talked to Ryan Grimm from DropSight News about this just a couple of days ago on our show. We do young Turks from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern every day on YouTube. Then at 8 p.m. We're doing a show called revolution, peaceful, nonviolent, political revolution. So you must take
Starting point is 02:16:52 power away from them. If you don't take power away from the lobbies, then you're forever going to be their servants. Of course. Right. Now, you could do that in dumb ways, like violence. But that's not going to work and it's even moral. Or you could do that through the way that our founding father is designed through democracy, right? Take their power away at the voting booth. Primaries are golden. Go do primaries. And that's why mainstream media hates this. So, but Ryan's on. And I go, hey, Ryan, you guys have done these brilliant stories connecting Epstein to intelligence. There's no question about it. Has anyone followed up from mainstream media, New York Times, etc. He's like, no, no, not at all. And he said, look, we're going through a cache of emails that are actually public.
Starting point is 02:17:35 They can actually beat us to the scoop. And I tell our competitors beat us to the scoop. And they won't do it. They won't do it. So then we got a new conversation and why won't they do it? He said, look, there's no, I totally agree with them. There's no grand conspiracy. There's no memos for it.
Starting point is 02:17:50 But every reporter in D.C. knows that if you do a story on Israel, even if it's 100% factual, you're risking your career. You want your kids to get into college? as James Carville said, that's exactly right. Well, you found out. You want your kids to get into high school? No, can't get into high school now. That happened to you.
Starting point is 02:18:07 Yeah. I've seen very similar things. And so, yeah, that's intolerable. I have a pretty high tolerance for, you know, a corrupt ruling class. I think every ruling class is corrupt to some extent. But I have zero tolerance for humiliation, unnecessary humiliation, and for cruelty to people's families. Zero tolerance.
Starting point is 02:18:29 Just never accept that. And that's what's happening now. And cruelty to the families is really. And you shouldn't be surprised. Look what they're murdering all these kids in Gaza. You think they have different attitudes, not American attitudes at all. So the naivete is something we were also taught by mainstream media, right? Oh, what the government says is true.
Starting point is 02:18:51 And if you disagree with what the government says, you're a conspiracy theorist. Wait. A, that presupposes that the government never lied. Not just the U.S. government. No government ever lies. Israel never lies. Turkey never lies. Nobody ever lies.
Starting point is 02:19:07 That has not been my experience. No. Okay. Nor mine. Right. Number two, they say, if you say the government is lying, you're a wacko, you're crazy, you're immoral, and you should be banned for media. You should be canceled, right?
Starting point is 02:19:26 So that way, there's no voices to oppose the government inside of, media and press and journalists. But as they oppress the population, so like you go, I've been a million monarchies in my life and some of them are well-run and others are not, but in the well-run ones, you can say, well, there's no freedom.
Starting point is 02:19:40 You cannot let it criticize the king. Okay. But, which I'm opposed to, I'm American. I'm a totally different frame. However, if the country's well-run and the people are prosperous and happy and think that their children have better lives than they do,
Starting point is 02:19:52 at least you could say, well, they're doing a good job for the people here. But if you run a government that systematically oppresses the people, so thoroughly that their life expectancy drops, and then you say you're not allowed to say a word about my leadership, that can't stand. Like that doesn't have a long lifespan.
Starting point is 02:20:12 That's too much. Like nobody can handle that, right? And that's where we are. Oh, I know. And so that's why now in the podcast, for this, and it's not just you and me, right? You got Tim Dillon and Theo Vaughn and everyone is now speaking up and saying, no, enough.
Starting point is 02:20:27 No, mas. And so I noticed. the Americans they killed. I noticed the 20,000 kids they killed. I noticed all the civilians they killed. And I noticed the Congress that they bought. And I noticed that the media is in their pockets. You know, the Congress is obvious. They literally get paid to support Israel, let alone whatever, you know, other interesting, you know, material they might have from Epstein or whoever else, right? And now I see the media. So now I see, this is an awesome development, Tucker, not just saying, hey, I'm done with Israel or I'm done with money in politics. And that's
Starting point is 02:21:05 my number one issue. Israel is just a symbol. Money in politics is the cancer. That's why we lost our democracy. That's why we lost control of our government because they're just working for the people bribing them. It's super robbing. Israel is a symptom. It's not the cause of all this stuff. Exactly. So, but on top, layered on top of all in that, the thing that gives me the greatest hope is that people are beginning to see the illusion. Oh, they're getting us to fight one another. Okay. What are the culture wars?
Starting point is 02:21:33 What is identity politics? So as a lot of the left was doing identity politics, we're a lone voice, the young Turks very much in favor of Bernie, very, as left as it gets in the biggest show on the left for a long, long time, right? But we're saying don't do identity politics. Exactly. Why? Because identity politics splits us apart.
Starting point is 02:21:52 Exactly. Okay. So now you've got to get past that. and people are beginning to get past it. And it creates conflicts that can't be resolved. Like you and I are mad at each other. Our kids are mad at each other. Our grandkids are mad at each other.
Starting point is 02:22:04 Like these are not fixable problems. If you have tribal conflict, it can endure for centuries or longer. Can I see one thing I think it's super important is that you can't allow people to force you to lie ever. And you will lie, you know, inevitably. And you will say things that are wrong unintentionally. I've done both. But allowing somebody to force you to say something you know is not true, destroys you as a person.
Starting point is 02:22:33 And I look at, I mean, I could name many people, but Mike Huckabee, I've known for over 30 years, almost 35 years, because I worked in Arkansas at the newspaper. And he's a completely different person. Completely, that's a broken man. And I say that with heartfelt compassion. That's a guy who's allowed other people to steal his integrity and force him to lie and you become a husk.
Starting point is 02:22:54 And no man can live like that. It's a 1984 Winston-Smith thing. Like, once you say two plus two equals five, you're broken inside. Like, don't allow people to force you to lie. Just need to say that. Yeah, gaslighting is almost an industrial version of torture. It is. It's torturing the mind.
Starting point is 02:23:13 It's stripped your dignity from you. Yeah. So on the left, you got Federman and Ritchie Torres that are like that. On the right, you got Huckabee and Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz. And notice, huh, they told us to fight each other, but they seem to agree an awful lot. These are not happy people either. They paid a huge cost.
Starting point is 02:23:29 So they all think they're getting something out of this and whatever they think they're getting. I can't even imagine. Or they're afraid of threats or whatever. But in the end, they lose. When you allow other people to treat you like a slave and to repeat their lies, you are destroyed. And you have to live with that for the rest of your life. Don't ever take that deal.
Starting point is 02:23:47 Tucker, let me give you one more analogy that clarifies that. Yes. So it's like a movie where they tell you, hey you know what your your wife came in uh with this baby that she found and it's a victim and you guys are going to adopt it and she's so goldenhearted and she brought the kid home and you go okay great let me see the kid and a guy walks in and goes here first i got to give you some glasses okay and he gives you glasses and you put them on and you oh my god what a cute kid i have no idea where this analogy is going but i love it okay yeah totally wrapped up it okay yeah so and your and your wife is nursing the kid and feeding it
Starting point is 02:24:24 etc. And then one day you go, I wonder what things look like without the glasses. And the guy who gave me the glasses goes, no, no, no, don't take the glasses off.
Starting point is 02:24:33 Don't take the glasses off. Now you're like, wait a minute. I really want to take the glasses off. Yeah. And you take the glasses off and you find out the glasses were the illusion.
Starting point is 02:24:43 It's not a baby. It's a grown man. Ooh. And he's been inside your house the whole time. Chew it on your wife. Cuddling with your wife. Oh, no.
Starting point is 02:24:52 Taking your money. He's got like a house. Almost a half shirt on, big belly, you know, hairy guy. He's sitting on your couch with your wife. Suckling. Suckling. It turns out the glasses were the thing that made you see it wrong and made it seem like it was an innocent victim. A little baby you were taking care of.
Starting point is 02:25:12 Now you find out you got a grown man inside your house. Pawn on your wife and draining your checking account. Now, the question is, who are you most mad at? Okay. I'm the least mad at the guy. First, though, the first action I'm going to take, even though I'm the least mad at him, is you got to leave. You got to leave the house right now. Otherwise, something terrible is going to happen.
Starting point is 02:25:34 The man child. Yes, the man child. Okay, yeah, I totally agree with that. Okay. First step is get the fuck out of my house. Okay. Second guy I'm mad at is the guy who gave me the glasses. Yeah. What the fuck?
Starting point is 02:25:48 You made it seem like it was an innocent victim. and I was being a good guy by helping this entity. Okay. And now I find out, no, it was just someone taking advantage of me. Yes. And taking the person who was supposed to be closest to me that was supposed to have trust with me. Yes. And taking all my money and you played me for a fool?
Starting point is 02:26:10 I fucking hate the guy with the glasses. Right. But the person I'm most upset. Is the betrayer. Is the betrayer. The wife in that case. It's an uncomfortable analogy. switch it to the husband and wife that's not the point the point is yes if you don't get it by now
Starting point is 02:26:26 whether it's israel or any really lobby any donor class that's the baby the guy with the glasses is the media saying oh no these poor little oil companies they need your money look at it it's a victim otherwise they can't drill for oil these drug companies they've only made trillions you can't let them negotiate prices, right? Or it's Israel. Oh, it's an innocent victim of all the nasty Muslims and terrorists around them. And then you look at the map, wait a minute, Israel has gained all this territory and they've done it by taking 300 billion from us. But most importantly, the wife is the politicians. Yes. And they're supposed to represent us and they have betrayed us. Okay. And I can't stand it. I can't stand it. It's time for a divorce? It's time for a divorce?
Starting point is 02:27:16 time for a divorce. So everyone's got to get out of the house. First, the hairy guy, you got to go. Okay. Otherwise, we're going to have trouble. Then the guy with the glasses and then finally the wife. Everybody's got to go. We're going to get a fresh new start. Operation Consequences.com. Okay. I can't, I literally could do this interview for 10 hours and never improve on that analogy. So I want to end with that. That was amazing. Oh, that was a, I'll wake up thinking about that and a cold sweat. Thank you. That was amazing. Thank you, Tucker.
Starting point is 02:27:49 I appreciate it.

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