Tucker Carlson: “And now we're even closer [to nuclear war].”

“And I remember that you were denounced as, like, a Nazi for worrying about nuclear war. Yeah. And now we're even closer [to nuclear war]. Does anyone in Washington understand this or care? They don't care. That's a fact. If they did care, they wouldn't speak so easily about the fact that we are closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before in our country's history.” (02:32–02:34)

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