Tucker Carlson: “So you were asked to do that by the incoming administration…”

“They said, hey, I know you've only been here for a couple months, but we're gonna put you on this in this position. Which was surprising. But I wanted to take on the challenge at the time. Really. So you were asked to do that by the incoming administration, by the Trump administration. It was. Well, it was people from. It was leadership in nea, which some of them were civil servants, but were experienced people that were.” (04:30–04:35)

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