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Tucker Carlson: “Pretty much every member of Congress takes Almost every…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on Indictment and Immigration Challenges in New York City

Published | Video Starts at 03:42

Well, the weird thing is, from the Washington perspective, where I'm from, is that you're under indictment for allowing foreign governments, Turkey, not North Korea, by the way, or Iran, but like a member of NATO, allowing them to upgrade your flights. Pretty much every member of Congress takes Almost every single 535 House and Senate takes flights to other countries hosted by foreign governments and are given, in effect, tens of thousands of dollars of goods and services by those governments every single time. Upgrades, police protection, motorcades. No one's ever been indicted for that. That's less than what you did. Are you aware of that? Yes. Yes, I am. (03:42–03:57)

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Asserts that almost every member of Congress takes flights hosted by foreign governments and receives goods and services.

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