Tucker Carlson: “I think there are a lot of means by which foreign countries…”

“Once that is entirely clear, the incentive to do so is, or at least the incentive to use those methods to do so is going to be significantly diminished. So I think there are a lot of means by which foreign countries exert influence in the United States, up to and including violence and blackmail. That's all real. But on the most basic and powerful level it's campaign contributions, it's the donors pushing policies that the public doesn't want that's not good for the United States.” (06:59–07:09)

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