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Tucker Carlson: “We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon, which they didn't…”

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

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Joe Kent Reveals All in First Interview Since Resigning as Trump's Counterterrorism Director

Published | Video Starts at 53:31

… chaos, whatever the effects of that are on the rest of the world, all of them disastrous. Then on the American side, you have the President's stated goal, which is, We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon, which they didn't have and weren't trying to build in any imminent way. Right. Okay. So if you join those two together in a common mission in a war like that's our partner in this war. Yeah. Then you create all kinds of very bad incentives. (53:31–53:37)

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Asserts that Iran did not have and was not imminently trying to build a nuclear weapon.

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