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Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement

Published November 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 53:13

He's not even going to try to pretend to care about me. And a guy like that, he really needs censorship and bullying to succeed. Because The free market does not reward a man like [Ben Shapiro] at all, ever. Because people don't like it. Why would they like it? Here's another clip that makes basically the same point that is in some ways even more disgusting, maybe less well known. (53:13–53:18)

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“September 11th led to millions of deaths in the Middle East.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 22:07-22:12
“The Soviet regime... committed genocide against Christians. Most people don't even know that it did more efficiently than Nazis did.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 26:26-26:36
“Venezuela has banned pornography, banned abortion, banned gay marriage, banned sex changes, and banned usury.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 42:44-42:54
“63 million abortions in the United States since Roe v. Wade.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 43:49-47:04
“There are payday loans in this country that are 600% annually.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 45:17-45:23
“The average American home buyer, American born homebuyer, is almost 40 years old.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 46:20-46:25
“The year I graduated from college, it [average age of homebuyer] was 28.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 46:26-46:29
“Barry Weiss is at the top of that list. Here's a media executive, the head of CBS News, whose real interest is imposing censorship on the…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:18:57-1:19:09
“Donald Trump inaugurated January 22nd of this year almost immediately after he is visited at the White House by the first head of state to…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:39-00:51
“The visit is not simply a congratulatory visit. They're not actually allies in any sense. Remember that Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 00:50-01:03
“And that was to get American support for regime change, war in Iran to overthrow and replace the government of Iran, which the nation of…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 01:10-01:22
“Iran has all kinds of very dangerous conventional weapons. The United States spends a lot protecting Israel from those missiles.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 01:22-01:29
“Israel wouldn't last three days in a war by itself against Iran. In fact, probably not even 24 hours.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 02:01-02:08
“No honest person suggests or would suggest that it could. It needs the United States.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 02:28-02:33
“There have been quite a few, most notably Iraq.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 02:41-02:45
“There's no evidence that any regime change war we've engaged in in the past couple of generations has helped us.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 04:42-04:49
“In June, the debate ended and the United States did commit military force to Iran. It bombed Iran and spent billions to protect Israel once…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 05:47-06:00
“Thank God, we did not get lured into a regime change war.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 06:01-06:05
“Censorship is totally incompatible with Democratic government, period. And it's also, by the way, illegal under the First Amendment to the…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 10:59-11:09
“Republicans just won an election on that platform [against censorship].”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 11:08-11:12
“Mark Levin [believes] there are Americans whose DNA makes them less than human, unsalvageable, inherently evil.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 12:29-30:16
“Mark Levin [is] calling for violence against [people he deems inherently evil].”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 12:29-12:30
“Mark Levin [is] calling people Nazis.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 12:29-34:42
“It's an argument about to what extent should US military power be used on behalf of another country, not the United States.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 14:32-14:41
“October 7th led to Gaza.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 22:14-22:17
“Mark Levin has repeatedly called for just murdering civilians, children in Gaza.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 22:46-23:03
“That's the Israeli government's attitude, well documented attitude. We're paying for that.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 25:31-25:36
“BB Turns out, let them in. We found out today in the Knesset.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 25:49-25:54
“Calling people Hitler leads to violence.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 31:40-31:43
“AIPAC is a foreign lobby. It should register as one.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 37:57-38:01
“Our country should come first in the thinking of every person represents our country.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 38:02-38:06
“Some of them really think that [Vladimir Putin is the single most dangerous person in the world].”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 38:57-39:04
“The election of Trump was really a refutation of that [Washington's priorities].”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 39:26-39:33
“They're telling us now that Iran is the biggest problem we've ever had.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 39:58-40:02
“How many Americans have been killed on American soil by Iran as compared to the number of, I don't know, killed by Mexico, which brings all…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 40:04-40:13
“Ben Shapiro...will not be a factor in America in five years, I can promise you that.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 41:08-56:11
“Ben Shapiro spent, I don't know, a decade posing as someone who actually cared about your concerns as an American.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 41:18-41:25
“Debt for young people is probably the number one issue, which is to say it's the number one thing that is destroying them and making it…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 46:36-46:48
“If you climb ladders for a living, you know, or do any kind of physical labor, even light physical labor, your body breaks down.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 54:34-54:41
“You go to these little towns around the country and most businesses are gone. There are no furniture stores or no toy stores.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 54:47-54:54
“What you do find next to the drug rehab places are chiropractors or a lot of chiropractors throughout the country.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 54:58-55:08
“You can't have a country of 350 million people governed by boutique goals and concerns.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 57:28-57:38
“It's illegitimate, actually. And if you keep it up, you're flirting with you know, real backlash, like a real one.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 57:47-57:55
“We will see mass killing if we don't get that attitude under control.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 58:52-58:56
“We cannot have permanent enemies, period.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 59:51-59:56
“I really like and respect Anna Kasparian...because I sincerely think that Ana Kasparian...is motivated by a desire to figure out what is…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:01:07-1:01:30
“I'm worried about all the Nazi talk...because once you start talking like that, it's kind of hard to walk it back.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:01:50-1:01:59
“I am worried that the violence will accelerate.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:05:39-1:05:42
“I've been denounced as America's most dangerous anti Semite. No one ever provides a single example of me being anti Semitic, because I'm…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:12:41-1:12:51
“I was told that AL Qaeda did 911 and killed 3,000 Americans.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:22:19-1:22:24
“So if that's true, how do we have an Al Qaeda leader playing basketball with American servicemen?”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:22:29-1:22:37
“They understood that it was Turkey and Israel that did this, of course, and for their own ends.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:23:20-1:23:26
“The only reason that we bombed, ineffectively bombed, the nuclear sites in Iran is because no one ever acknowledged that Iraq was a mistake…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:29:56-1:30:10
“We shouldn't have been there for 20 years. It was all a mistake and nobody ever admitted it, much less took responsibility, much less…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:30:11-1:30:21
“Ben Shapiro describes the United States as like, this economic zone, totally divorced from the actual people who live there and their…”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:34:03-1:34:16
“I don't think that we should tell people that they have no right to live in the town where they were born.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:34:55-1:35:02
“We are subject to forces that we can't control. It's just a fact. I didn't write the tax code, for example.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:37:28-1:37:35
“Venezuela is not the main source of fentanyl in United States. It's not even close. That's Mexico.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:39:50-1:39:55
“Hezbollah does not play a meaningful role in the decline of the United States that I have noticed.”
Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement | Uploaded November 13, 2025 | 1:41:41-1:41:45