Tucker Carlson: “I have just read in the paper this morning that Israel tried…”

“You're just asking questions. Yes, I am. So here's my question to you. If the Ayatollah is killed in Iran, and he very. Yeah, very well could if there's a war. I have just read in the paper this morning that Israel tried to take [the Ayatollah] out twice and Trump told them not to. I have read that. I don't have independent confirmation one way or the other. Do you think that they should take him out? So I actually talked about it.” (1:25:58–1:26:05)

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