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Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP

Published June 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:01

This can't be new to you. Well, you're never going to hear me whine about threats ever, to me, because I got in this voluntarily. I know what the. I mean. I got fired after 15 years, the highest rated show in American cable television. And I got fired for my opinion. So I. And I'm not whining at all. I'm so grateful that I got fired. I'm just saying it's not like I didn't know what the price is. (18:01–18:08)

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Claims he was fired from the highest-rated show in American cable television due to his opinion.

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“One family buying a huge chunk of American media in order to do public relations for a foreign country. So that's Israel.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 02:25-02:35
“It's the richest country in the world by resources.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 07:36-07:40
“The United States went to war with Iran because of pressure from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 11:59-12:12
“The United States went to war with Iran, a war that we are losing, that we've effectively lost already.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 12:01-12:07
“We still don't have the full corpus of the Kennedy assassination documents.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 31:20-31:24
“Every reference to Israel was redacted [in the Kennedy assassination documents].”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 31:24-31:27
“Canada has the highest ratio of resources to population of any country on planet Earth.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 40:45-40:51
“It's not media. They're state organs. It's official propaganda that supports the people in power.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 00:05-01:40
“Certainly what's happening in the United States is, I don't think, as bad as what's happening with the BBC or the CBC or, you know, with…”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 02:12-02:23
“Their [Republican Party's] personal values, the way they live, greedy, bizarre, bizarro sex lives.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 03:32-23:14
“The neo neoconservatism, their foreign policy is just. It's just evil. It's completely evil. I mean, in every sense, but in the most basic…”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 05:41-05:54
“Canada is our closest ally in the world, or it's the most important ally in the world.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 07:33-07:37
“Civil liberties are going away in Canada. It's becoming a police state.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 08:00-08:05
“Speech codes in Canada are not acceptable in my opinion.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 08:16-08:20
“People going to jail [in Canada].”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 08:23-08:25
“The maids program, I think, is like the scariest thing I've ever seen.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 08:24-08:28
“The move to China has been going on a long time. That is a very serious challenge to the United States.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 09:23-09:30
“Iran has basically won the war, which is to say it's more powerful now than it was on February 27th.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 09:54-10:01
“They control the Persian Gulf and they didn't on February 27th.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 10:02-10:07
“They're making decisions on the basis of other criteria. What's best for this company, what's best for Israel, what's best for our donors?”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 14:59-15:08
“The onus is on the policymakers and advocates and members of the media in the United States who are more loyal to a foreign country than…”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 16:34-16:45
“He was, I believe...most likely murdered for his evolving views on Israel.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 18:23-18:34
“The Republican Party in Washington is just completely out of control.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 23:01-23:06
“I don't share [the Republican Party's] values on any level.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 23:05-23:08
“Loyal to a foreign country, above the United States.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 23:14-23:17
“This president has completely betrayed his own voters.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 24:27-24:32
“I don't think Trump has dementia.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 27:33-27:36
“As of [February 27], which is the day that he made up his mind to start this war.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 27:43-27:48
“The US President doesn't get to run the show or make independent decisions. He works for somebody else.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 29:49-29:55
“The next president [should force] the FBI to divulge the reams, the literally hundreds of thousands of pages of information they have.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 30:42-30:53
“There's no national security pretext to hide [the Kennedy assassination documents].”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 31:36-31:40
“When the Israeli prime minister pushed the United States, my country, into a war that is gravely damaging the United States and getting…”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 34:48-34:56
“I started criticizing the war in Iran and they started calling me an anti Semite and it was run, and it is to this day run out of the…”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 36:30-36:39
“I'm not for using my military, the US Military, to fight your war. I mean, we can't afford it, for one thing. We're bankrupt.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 37:19-37:26
“Canada is the richest nation in the world.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 40:42-40:46
“Why isn't every person in Canada, like, incredibly rich? But they're not. They can't buy houses.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 40:58-41:05
“The growth of [artificial intelligence] AI is more dangerous, I think, because politicians, you kind of know who they are.”
Tucker Carlson: The Conversation They Tried to STOP | Uploaded June 18, 2026 | 45:35-45:42
“I'm mad about Lindsey Graham's politics. I'm mad about the effect he's had on the country. I'm mad about all the people who've died as a…”
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