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Tucker Carlson: “Plenty of states have done that [implemented European-style…”

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Megyn Kelly on Venezuela, Ben Shapiro's Treachery, and Mark Levin's Mental Illness

Published January 8, 2026 | Video Starts at 41:36

But whatever, it's one specific group protected somehow by the United States State Department. But this is a guy who actually has … Plenty of states have done that [implemented European-style hate crimes laws]. … And two, they're all contrary to the First Amendment. You couldn't have laws like that here. And three, when you actually look at those laws that Rabbi Yehuda Kaploon is saying are so great, they're used to suppress Christianity. (41:36–41:38)

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“The President announced that he is hiking the Pentagon budget from 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion.”
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“Ashley Babbitt was shot in the chest for doing nothing. An unarmed woman, an Air Force veteran, murdered by James Byrd in the Capitol…”
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“Great Britain puts thousands of people in jail every single year for thought crimes.”
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“In Finland, one of the lead opposition political leaders is now on trial because she tweeted a quote from Romans.”
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“A bunch of different states, including the state of Florida, has codified antisemitism as a crime.”
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“The claim that someone is Israel first is a crime in the state of Florida.”
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“Right after 9/11, Brit Hume and Carl Cameron did an amazing week-long series on the dancing Israelis, the Israeli intel operatives who were…”
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“The United States has been an empire for a long time, for at least the last 80 years, since 1945.”
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“The US Government is finally acting in the interest of the United States, or says it is.”
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“Congress will inevitably wither. It already is. They were not consulted before we took out the president of Venezuela.”
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“The next presidential election, 2028, means much more than any presidential election in our history because the power has expanded so…”
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“We've been waging a proxy war against Russia for four years.”
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“The world's great superpower, oldest superpower, the United States, just acted purely in its own interest and said so out loud.”
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“The UN most famously, but all of them, The World Health Organization. How about NATO? Do they have any authority at all?”
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“We now live in a world where countries will act in their own interest without apology.”
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“You could very easily imagine soon the US Government doing what it did in Venezuela, in other countries.”
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“You could wind up a nuclear war.”
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“An empire needs serious men to run, needs people who understand the stakes.”
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“Donald Trump shut [the installation of Lady Machado in the presidency in Venezuela] down.”
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“The intent of the administration [is] to not turn Venezuela into a Libya or an Iraq.”
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“That's the kind of budget that a country that anticipates a global or regional war has for its military.”
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“The United States has to have a relationship with Russia in order to survive anything like [a big war].”
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“It's pretty clear that the last administration intentionally drove Russia into an alliance with China, which they now have.”
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“We've been at war for four years. All of us are pretending we're not.”
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“You are hearing calls not just from the left to end the freedom of speech in the United States.”
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“There are a lot of Israeli billionaires who've been calling in an Israeli prime minister for censorship in the United States.”
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“You can't call for the destruction of Israel. Of course you can call for the destruction of any foreign country you want.”
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“If they try and take that away, away, you need to have an insurrection against the government because you're done at that point.”
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“There is a current administration official, like an actual official in the executive branch right now who's making this case that Americans…”
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“It's an office set up by George W. Bush. Like most insane, unjustifiable things, anti Semitisms are at the State Department.”
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“There is no stop Anti White Hate Czar, of course, and there never will be.”
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“European hate crimes laws are great. Well, first of all, every single one of them is immoral.”
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“This is what will destroy the country and divide the country and make people hate each other.”
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“Whenever the US Government protects one group and allows others to be attacked, it's prima facie unfair.”
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“Here you have an administration official calling for hate crimes laws.”
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“At some point, this president, or some president is going to start ignoring the courts, too, and you're going to have just total power in…”
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“There's a lot of evidence that the emerging America demographically wants [total power in the executive].”
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“The president said, clamped down on free speech most aggressively in our history. Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, Woodrow Wilson…”
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“I think we're gonna wake up one morning with European hate crimes laws written in a way that is not fair at all.”
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“There's hostility here. This is not just a foreign policy debate.”
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“Fox played a huge role, basically in every pointless conflict we've had for the last 30 years.”
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“Fox played a huge role in selling the Iraq war.”
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“They're doing the same thing with Venezuela.”
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“They've never wavered at all on the need for America to be involved in neocon wars.”
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“Fox News deleted [the series on Special Report about Israeli intel operatives] from the website.”
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“Judge Napolitano, who was over at Fox Business, [was] fired for criticizing Israel.”
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