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Tucker Carlson: “The Secretary of state said something out loud that the day…”

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Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti

Published March 6, 2026 | Video Starts at 49:46

So now I want to ask you about the effect on American politics. I mean, it feels like in the last week, you know, well, as, as you said, The Secretary of state said something out loud that the day before would have been denounced as an anti Semitic conspiracy theory. Israel made us do it. He said that. And it's true. I can, I can verify that that's true. And now everyone's seen it. And so, like, where do we go? (49:46–49:53)

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Asserts that the Secretary of State made a statement previously considered an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

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“The Israeli government has helped move migrants into Europe, to weaken and destroy it.”
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“A week ago, the United States [declared] war on, you know, unprovoked. There's no direct provocation in the middle of negotiations with…”
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“Australia, New Zealand, Canada, every country in Europe, you're not allowed to have certain attitudes. You can go to jail.”
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“Israel... has abetted the decline of Europe very aggressively.”
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“These attacks are part of a propaganda campaign waged by Israel and its proxies here in the United States.”
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“This is fundamentally a religious war whose effects are already being felt here, which is to say groups are in fear of other groups…”
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“The Israeli campaign is telling Americans, that they could be killed. That anti Semitism in the United States is so terrible, being ginned…”
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“Israel wants to be bigger. They want their regional rivals out of the way. They want to weaken the United States, get us out of the Middle…”
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“There is an organized campaign underway this moment to foment religious hatred in this country, hatred of American for American on the basis…”
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“Some people do want to wreck the United States, weaken the United States, people behind this war want to do that.”
Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti | Uploaded March 6, 2026 | 10:29-10:36
“The American President just has less room to maneuver than voters imagine he does.”
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“The vote for Trump, which I cast, and I try not to, I don't vote that much, to be totally honest.”
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“They did it in part as a vote for sovereignty.”
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“Does the United States have a right to make decisions in its own interest, in the interests of its own people?”
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“Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want.”
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“It would require weapons of mass destruction. It would require presumably nuclear weapons in order to do that.”
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“Let's not lie to ourselves, we're moving toward that [use of nuclear weapons].”
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“If our allies in the Gulf... feel unprotected by the United States, and it seems like they do, because they are, they're going to go…”
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“The option is powerful states, emerging states like Turkey... will align with the BRICS.”
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“The net effect of this is to weaken the United States, to get us to pull out of the Middle East, which Israel wants.”
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“The migrant flow is already going into Europe.”
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“Israel is taking over southern Lebanon and more aggressively oppressing the West Bank and making moves in Syria.”
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“How can Israel spare the military capacity, the men's and armament in the middle of this massive war with Iran to take over southern…”
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“The point of course, is to build Israeli empire to replace American empire, which is dying hastened by this war with Israeli empire.”
Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti | Uploaded March 6, 2026 | 41:53-42:02
“Israel is destroying Beirut, which is one of the prettiest places on the globe.”
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“Nothing of beauty has been built [in Israel] since 1948.”
Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti | Uploaded March 6, 2026 | 42:20-42:24
“The nature of this emerging empire [Israel] is destructive.”
Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti | Uploaded March 6, 2026 | 42:26-42:30
“Wars that are planned by [the boomer] generation really did kind of diminish the United States in the space of just 50 years.”
Tucker on the Devastating Cost of War and What It Means for American Politics With Saagar Enjeti | Uploaded March 6, 2026 | 47:08-47:19
“Israel made us do it. He said that. And it's true. I can verify that that's true.”
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“Gavin Newsom...just said he understands why people would call Israel an apartheid state.”
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“I flew up to D.C. three times in the last month to try to convince Trump not to [engage in war].”
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“He's being shown polling that this war is like a 9010 win for him.”
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“He's watching Fox News, which is telling him the same thing, and he's getting fake polling.”
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“Voters take a guy from completely outside the political system because they're so frustrated with the system.”
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“The system has been found wanting. It doesn't actually respond to voters in the way that it should.”
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“Now I think we can say that [the attempt to shock the system and drain the swamp] failed.”
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“This is the last English speaking country, probably the last country in the world in which attitudes have not yet been criminalized, at…”
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“This effort over the past year to criminalize attitudes.”
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“You have a right, a God given right, not granted you by government, but with which you were born, to have any opinion, you want to follow…”
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“You don't have a right to do anything you want, but you have a right to believe anything you want and to say anything that you want that you…”
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“Any American has the right to preferences and beliefs. Religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, political beliefs, those are absolute…”
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“You can never prosecute someone for having views you disagree with, period.”
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