Tucker Carlson: “It's bad when foreign countries control your country.”

“The government of any, of any country ought to be sovereign, which is to say it should make most of its big decisions on the basis of what's good for the people that it represents. And It's bad when foreign countries control your country. Those are not. Those don't strike me as hateful statements at all. Those aren't expressions of animus against anybody, are they? I. I don't think they're hateful statements at all.” (03:42–03:46)

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