Tucker and Steve Bannon Respond to Israel’s War on Iran and How It Could Destroy MAGA Forever

Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon on how the president’s enemies are working to destroy MAGA with the war on Iran. (00:00) Will the Iran War Be the Downfall of MAGA? (06:55) Fox News’ Pro-War Propaganda (12:42) The Never-Trumpers Pretending to Be On Trump’s Team (15:30) Attacks on Anti-War Voices (29:48) The CIA Is Too Powerful Paid partnerships with: Eight Sleep: Get $350 off the new Pod 5 Ultra at https://EightSleep.com/Tucker MeriwetherFarms: Visit https://MeriwetherFarms.com/Tucker and use code TUCKER76 for 15% off your first order. PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch Policygenius: Head to at https://Policygenius.com/Tucker to see how much you could save Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:27Tucker Carlson?

  Donald J. Trump gets elected in November on the back of this amazing coalition, unprecedented coalition, different parts of American society you never thought of anything in common. Trump paints a picture that makes it really obvious that the old structure, left versus right, Democrat versus Republican, is basically BS and a control device, I think. This is my interpretation, anyway. So he creates this brand-new coalition. New York Times writes almost nothing about it because it's such a massive threat. But this coalition, which you described earlier and more precisely than anybody by far, is the defining fact of American politics. And it kind of feels like it's being blown up over this war in Iran.

• 1:11Tucker Carlson?

  That's my observation, correctly.

• 1:14Speaker 02

  Well, I think if you look at the three planks, no forever, stop the forever wars, seal the border and deport the illegal alien invaders, and redo the commercial relationships in the world around trade deals and bring high-valued manufacturing jobs back here. They're trying to shut all three down, right? But the one that they're obsessed with the most, which I find strange, is the forever wars. They've got to be in the forever wars, and particularly in the Middle East. I mean, this is what, and I'm a big supporter of Israel.

• 1:47Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:48Speaker 02

  And I'm telling people, hey, if we get sucked into this war, which inexorably looks like it's going to happen on the combat side, it's going to not just blow up the coalition, it's also going to thwart what we're doing with the most important thing, which is the deportation of the illegal alien invaders that are here. If we don't do that, we don't have a country. And you just see right now... Dublin, Tripoli, this is actually potentially a real civil war in our biggest cities. And President Trump has to have our backing. And so, and this came out of nowhere. I mean, the, the trade deals, you saw he put, he put together Liberation Day, but they've been thinking about it a long time. I mean, Trump's been talking about this since Lou Dobbs back in the 90s. He lays that out there. It's very sophisticated. He's got Scott Besant running around with Lutnik. They're trying to make these deals.

• 2:33Speaker 02

  He's sealed the border already in the first 60 days. Now we're really going down and actually having the deportation, see the fight. And then out of nowhere, comes a war with Persia. It's like a shooting war with Persia, a massive shooting war with Persia. It's like, how did this happen? And that's why I've been up as a defender of Israel and someone that's very pro-Israel. I've been saying, hey, this is going to be the end of Israel because of the way these decisions have been made. And you have, I think, shockingly today, early when we had you on the show.

• 3:05Speaker 02

  You bring up a point that we have to address, which I think it's the thing itself. What is it about this apparatus? When you have a coalition that's like 1932, that's coming together, like, like Roosevelt had Harvard professors and crackers and, in, in Democrats and ranchers out west and, and big city bosses and the Irish and the Italians. And you put it all together and they juggled it.

• 3:26Tucker Carlson?

  You've got Brooklyn, Butte, Montana, Birmingham, Alabama, and they're all on the same side. How does that happen?

• 3:31Speaker 02

  And they govern literally almost all the way to Trump. You know, Reagan took out part of it, New Gingrich took out part of it, but it was 50, 60, 70 years. We have the same ability. We have hardscrabble Hispanics on the rear Grand Valley of South Texas. We have tech bros. We have, you know, economic nationalists. We have economic populists. We have people that want to stop their forever wars. There's three planks. And right at the beginning of it, you know, and it's on the 10th anniversary of coming down the golden escalator. That was 10 years ago, Sunday. And I tell people, as many triumphs and tragedies, victories and defeats, good days and horrible days. When we're winning and sometimes we're losing, those 10 years of everything that's gone on.

• 4:12Speaker 02

  It's just the preamble for where we are today on the convergence of these crises. And now, all of a sudden, a shoot- Shooting war where they're taking the Nimitz battle group out of the South China Sea and sending three carrier battle groups now to the North Arabian Sea, Red Sea, plus Arleigh Burke destroyers and a whole fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean. We're prepping for a major shooting war. And how did it happen? I think what's most shocking is what you said. Hey, it was like Iraq. You're inexorably just drawn and decisions kind of just happened. It's like, what's happened over the last 72 hours? How did we even get to this point? How did this actually happen? Who made these decisions when we had the intel out there that this was not like a thing? This was something that was going to happen a year or two from

• 4:55Speaker 02

  now. Bibi admitted to Bret Baer on Sunday night. And so the question before us is not simply the Israel-Persia situation is what the fuck is going on in this city that just drives this city, whether you're Barack Obama or Donald Trump. And if we don't sort it out now, and I mean right now, that's what we have to have a throwdown. We have to name names. We have to expose it. If we don't throw it out now, throwdown now in the summer of 2025, we're not going to have a country. You know, forget the midterms, forget the next election still. We have to have this. What the CIA, what happened in Ukraine, what the CIA has done, what DNI is doing, what the Justice Department, what the FBI, what DIA and the Pentagon, because right now we only have a tenuous grip on those. We have

• 5:40Speaker 02

  two people at FBI, Cash and Bongino. We got a handful of people over at the Justice Department in a massive 30 some person, 15,000, 20,000 person operation. We have three or four people at DNI with 17 agencies. We're putting a couple of people in there. At the Pentagon, we got Pete and a handful, a handful of guys. And every time a guy steps up or the team steps up to say they want to stop the forever wars, they're turfed out. He's lost 10 people since we've even got there. And every time Bridge Colby tries to do something, you know, Bridge Colby's on the front page of that he's an appeaser. So my point is that we, now we're getting down to it. With all these converging crises, we have a apparatus.

• 6:24Speaker 02

  That reports to Wall Street, to foreign investors, to Silicon Valley, in business with the Chinese Communist Party, that's running the deal, and now's the time we got, if we don't lance the bull over this, this country, you're not gonna, if you can't turn around with Trump, the Trump team he has, people like you, myself, and they're blessed to have these apparatuses, if we can't do this now, it's not gonna get done. And so that's why, to me, it's gone, of everything we're doing, stopping the forever wars, redoing the commercial relationships, we're trying to bring jobs back, and sealing the border, and sending home the 10, deporting 10 million, which is gonna be massive, almost like a civil war in these big cities, of all of those, and I've always said the deportation's

• 7:04Speaker 02

  the most, to get our sovereignty back, the war we have to have now, the throwdown we have to have now, is with the deep state. And we can't, I think we've, we've, we've looked away too often, we just kinda kicking the can down the road, and if we can't do it now with Trump, it's not gonna get done.

• 7:22Tucker Carlson?

  It does feel like Fox News is playing, and I never criticized Fox, because they were so kind to me, but they are playing a, like a central role in the propaganda operation here, it feels like.

• 7:37Speaker 02

  It's, it's, let's go back to the Iraq War, I mean, you were there, you saw it, look at the Iraq War.

• 7:42Tucker Carlson?

  I promoted the Iraq War.

• 7:43Speaker 02

  Because of the information you were giving, knowingly, what they did, if you go back to look at Iraq, it's not like these things are successful, they're not successful, they're unsuccessful, they can't be successful, because as Lincoln told us, what you need is popular opinion to have your back. And we don't do enough about educating the American people on what reality is. In fact, they give them the exact opposite, that's why it's all, that's, this is, the rise of Trump is from two things, the rise of Trump is from the failed Iraq War, and from the 2008 financial collapse.

• 8:13Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 8:14Speaker 02

  You had Buchanan before that, we had Perot before that, we had even Reagan for some populism nationalism, you had these sprouts, you could see people were trying to get there, but they couldn't. It was those two cataclysmic events, right, an epic failed war, right, that we were lied to about everything, the reason we went in, because remember, at first, the American people supported it. Given the information they were given, then later they realized that, hey, not just with the initial predicate for this a lie. All the updates were kind of a lie, right? All the updates were a lie. We really weren't winning, right? Until we sent General Kelly to the Amber, Amber Province to be the toughest tribe.

• 8:50Speaker 02

  It was, it took forever and what 8,000 dead, 50,000 wounded, nine trillion dollars, two trillion in, or seven trillion in Iraq and, and two trillion in Afghanistan. You're just lied about the entire time. That's what's happening here. We're not being dealt with straight. And I'm just saying on the information that's put out. The Israeli position on this has changed three or four times. First, it was the, uh, nuclear bomb, the, the processing or there was going to be something like last weekend, you had to go now. You had to go on Thursday night. It had to happen, right? Then we find out it's a year away at earliest and then it's a decapitation strike. They're trying to have regime change. That just kind of came up over the weekend and saying, oh, well, since they're there, we're there, we have to do it.

• 9:35Speaker 02

  Understand, they said, this is unilateral. We're doing our own, but understanding that they needed American air assets on the defense to protect themselves. And this is why the early Burke were rushed in, and this is why American air defense assets have been used nonstop. Now they're talking about, oh, by the way, we really can't take out for door. We can't take out the, the hidden mountainous. Uh, second part of this, we need American combat sorties. We need American tankers to refuel us. We need the bunker busting bombs and we need assets. This thing changes all the time. When Tulsi Gabbard's still out there, as the last thing publicly said by a senior intelligence official, she said in March. They don't have a program. They haven't had a program.

• 10:17Speaker 02

  And Bret Baer asked, that's why Bret Baer asked, uh, asked, uh, Bibi on Sunday night. And Bibi said, well, we have new information, new intelligence. Well, hold it. We were told that we gave you exquisite intelligence. You weren't giving us intelligence. Exactly. We have to have a total vetting. And by the way, we need to get a vetting on Ukraine. We need to get a vet, a vetting on was American intelligence involved because it's a zero probability. That without our satellites, without targeting. With a fire control information, there's no chance that the Ukrainians, as courageous as they are, as much valor as they have, could have pulled out something so complicated. And so this is right now the fight. The fight has to be, we have to take on the deep state.

• 10:59Speaker 02

  We have to name names and we have to basically take these organizations and take them apart. And that's, then you're going to unmask everybody in DC that's not really on your side. You're going to unmask all those people that say they're conservative and say they're Republicans. When they start protecting this, you're going to say, well, hang on for a second. This doesn't mean we're a constitutional republic. Trump's commander in chief. This is what a constitutional republic is about. I don't care if AOC is the president later on, or Bernie Sanders, or J.D. Vance, another right winger. Right now, we have a system that's like the Praetorian Guard. It's got its own national security policy. It's got its own reason for existence. And it doesn't care whether it's progressive like Barack Obama, or an economic populist nationalist like Donald Trump.

• 11:44Speaker 02

  And so that is the fight we have to take on today.

• 11:47Tucker Carlson?

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• 15:03Tucker Carlson?

  There's this mad scramble in Washington on the right to invoke Trump's name and to make the case that, "No, no, I represent Trump. He's on my side. I'm true MAGA." And you wind up with these kind of hallucinogenic scenes where you have people who hated Trump, who were never Trump, Mark Levin, you know, who hates Trump, which is fine, but he's like the standard bear for Trump now. But what makes it even more perverse is that these same people are allied with the deep state that is subverting Trump's stated agenda, which is negotiation toward peace, both in Ukraine-

• 15:38Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 15:39Tucker Carlson?

  ...and in the Middle East. Trump has said, "We want to get to an agreement with a lasting peace so we can all be richer, safer, and happier." And in both places, his so-called allies, who secretly hate him, have destroyed that.

• 15:52Speaker 02

  And most of those guys, almost all of them, are a person for the Ukraine war. People in your audience should understand one principal thing. We are farther down the pike in a kinetic part of a third world war than how World War II started.

• 16:06Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 16:07Speaker 02

  If you go back from September of 1939, the invasion, the start of the European war, not the Asian, but if you start with the invasion of Poland by the Germans, and you go to June of 1941, the invasion of Russia by the Wehrmacht, and you look at that time, which really they called the phony war, you look at the casualties from the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the fall of France, you look at what happened in North Africa early on, Finland, throwing 300,000 Finland, you add it all up, it's not half of what's happened between Ukraine and Gaza today, and now in Persia. We are much bloodier, this is a much, we're in a shooting part of the Third World War. The Third World is not about to start. It has started. And that's what Trump is saying.

• 16:50Speaker 02

  What he wants to do is have everybody lay their guns down, let's get to the table and figure out a tenuous, at least subtle peace that we can then use capital and trade and commerce and try to rebuild these countries, and let's get people back to work and maybe tamp this thing down, whereas the apparatus is exacerbating the conflict part of it.

• 17:13Speaker 02

  That's where we are right now in the summer of 2025 and that's this thing is gonna be in the next 200 days, the next 200 days are some of the most perilous times for the American Republic in its history. Because if we don't get this sorted, we're gonna be drawn in totally into a conflict as a combatant. As not a supplier of logistics or as an actual combatant, a participant in the situation in Ukraine, what they did in Russia, in the situation of what Israel is right now doing to the mullahs, as bad as they are and as evil as they are, right? We're gonna get sucked into a shooting war of which it'll be 10 years and the casualties will dwarf anything you saw in World War II.

• 17:52Tucker Carlson?

  One of the lessons that we never talk about from World War II, since you evoke the comparison, is that the second the shooting war started in Great Britain and the United States, opponents of the war went to jail. And Winston Churchill's entire political opposition went to jail with their wives, with their wives for the duration of the war and some of them died. That's been completely, this is a fact and you can call those people whatever you want and they may have been terrible people, whatever, but they were his political opponents and he put them in jail. And Roosevelt did, you know, sic the federal government on opponents of the war, flat out. So if

• 18:24Speaker 02

  Lincoln, Lincoln did the same.

• 18:25Tucker Carlson?

  And Lincoln did the same, that's exactly right. And I love Lincoln.

• 18:28Speaker 02

  And in areas that we control in the Revolutionary War, which is not a lot, the same thing happened. That's called war.

• 18:33Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 18:34Speaker 02

  This is what happened.

• 18:34Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly. And opponents of war are invariably described as allies of the enemy and they're persecuted.

• 18:44Tucker Carlson?

  Do you worry about that happening to you? You just said on camera, I don't want this war, but we're moving toward a third world war.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  Well, I saw a

• 18:51Tucker Carlson?

  Are you worried about going back to jail?

• 18:53Speaker 02

  I went to prison, I went to prison on a misdemeanor, but it was kind of one of the same things. I wouldn't testify. I wouldn't turn, because I said, this committee is not legitimate, doesn't have a ranking member, doesn't have a minority council, is totally legitimate, plus he's got executive privilege. That's good enough for me. And if I have to fight this and I think it's gonna go to the Supreme Court, although I've served my prison sentence, I'm taking it up to the Supreme Court because I had a pretty good ruling, not terrible, from the from the, from the appeals court. A couple of the judges are making arguments about why I should take it further. It's definitely gonna happen. Look what's happening to you. I mean, I've known you for a long time and I sit there and I look at what's they're saying about Tucker. I said, what is Tucker saying so, so bad? He's kind of laying out these arguments that ought to be debated right now in the halls.

• 19:34Tucker Carlson?

  I feel very moderate.

• 19:35Speaker 02

  Tom Cotton's coming out and saying all these influencers and podcasters are, well, let's have a debate. When we had a debate about the Ukraine, about the funding of Ukraine in the Senate, we beat them. This is why Mitch McConnell had to resign. We, because why? Because the podcasters and influencers are much closer to the MAGA base and can deliver the heat into the House and the Senate, and they know that. I'm all for having a War Powers Act debate right now.

• 20:00Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly, I agree.

• 20:01Speaker 02

  Let's have the American people weigh in, because you're gonna see the American people are 90% against forever wars. And even people that support Israel are saying exactly what we're doing here. We thought we had this thing in Gaza you had to clean up with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Next thing you know, we're dropping, we're bombing, we're bombing Tehran, and you're taking incomings. What's happened in Tel Aviv over the last 24 hours is pretty shocking, because you're taking these ballistic missiles. What Trump's been saying, everybody calm down, let's get back to the table, I can get actual thing. He said, I can get it, we can take it apart, we can blow it up if we want to, but I can cut a deal. And Whitkoff and Trump, if you got to talk about two dealmakers that don't, are not like diplomats, but guys actually going to get stuff done,

• 20:44Speaker 02

  I feel more confidence with Steve Whitkoff and Donald Trump trying to work something out than continue on the shooting war, where, trust me, with a carrier battle group heading over there, and all these tankers heading over to, to the Middle East, we are prepping right now to come in on the offensive side of combat sorties, and that's a game changer. As bad as it is now that we're combatant, because we are combatant, which I say, if they're unilateral, why did we get sucked in here? Where is that decision? Where you said, hey Steve, decisions just get made, you never know how they get made.

• 21:16Tucker Carlson?

  They're organic. There's never a moment where we stop and we say, do we want to be involved in another Middle Eastern war? You just wind up there, just like everything in life. You're just like, how did I get here?

• 21:25Speaker 02

  But I think that's why they're attacking you, because you're saying, hang on over a second. Let's have a national discussion on this right now before we get in, and they don't want that.

• 21:32Tucker Carlson?

  But why the viciousness? Not, not toward me, I mean, I'm kind of punched out of society, but... Like, why, why is it this topic evokes a cruelty and a dishonesty that no other topic does?

• 21:45Speaker 02

  Never been questioned like this. There's never been question out in the, out in the open. We've never had this debate that you've kind of led for the last couple of months and now we're actually having this debate. They've never had people in government like Tulsi Gabbard, like, like Bridge Colby, like others. And look, I don't think Bridge is hard enough in the Chinese Communist Party, but his book was amazing and he's got the pivot to Asia, which we have to get to. If people want to see how the institutions and apparatuses work, and this is why the Democrats are all institutionalist now, right? We're the anti-institutional guys because to see how corrupt they are, you need not look further than CENTCOM. One of the problems we have is that Obama tried it. Obama put his

• 22:27Speaker 02

  whole presidency on the nationalist side. We're going to pivot out of Asia. We're going to pivot out of Middle East to Asia. The pivot to Asia. Put Joe Biden in charge. After eight years, he had one combat brigade of Marines forward deployed to Brisbane, Australia, Darwin, Australia. That was it. No other changes. No other changes.

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• 25:03Speaker 02

  Hey, on our first.

• 25:05Tucker Carlson?

  I just asked you, I supported that. That was like the, I despise Obama. I think he wrecked the country. But I don't think that's a cra- that was not a crazy idea to pivot.

• 25:13Speaker 02

  We're having this debate. I had Flynn on today after you. The same, we're having the same debate today. Remember, the carrier battle group that's over protecting Taiwan in the South China Sea is now en route to the Malacca Straits. The Nimitz Battle Group is going to the North Arabian Sea.

• 25:28Tucker Carlson?

  So you're a former naval officer. Give us a sense of the decision making process that leads to a move.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  Well, here's what, in, on November, what, 5th of 79. I'm a destroyer officer, navigator on a destroyer in a carrier battle group. We're doing the changeover from San Diego from, we're home point, the third fleet to the seventh fleet. All takes place in Hawaii, the Hawaiian opera. You do like three or four days of workup because they have a certain different lingo and a different tempo. So you gotta get to how they do it. We get called in in the middle of the night on the red phone. Everybody line up single file and head into Pearl Harbor. Well, Pearl Harbor as a sea detail is almost impossible to do because it's so narrow, right? And Honolulu is up there. So it's not like. War too. It's very dangerous. We go in there. We hear the hostages have been taking taken and now all of our assets in in in Korea, in the South China Sea and in Japan are heading towards

• 26:18Speaker 02

  the North Arabian Sea, which the United States Navy had never been at. We had a couple of white painted destroyers in Bahrain, but we were not, we were not used to that. So they go, we follow a carrier all the way to Korea because you had to be we were a gas turbine. We the only ones could keep over the carrier thirty five knots for like two weeks. Damn. We destroyed the ship. We destroyed the sonar dome because you go through a typhoon. You go through some heavy weather because we had a treaty at the time with Korea. We would keep a carrier battle group within a twenty four hour strike of North Korea. So we have to get there. Once we get there, they peel us off. Us and our squadron of ships, the the famous destroyer squadron twenty three early burst little beavers. We go to the North Arabian Sea.

• 27:00Speaker 02

  Why? They're working up for and that is like a house. I tell people, if you haven't been off the coast of Iran or Persia, as I call it, it's like the landscape of the moon. This is most inhospitable place on earth. I've been there. Yeah. You've been the the Straits of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, the North Arabian Sea. And our carrier battle group stayed. We rotated out after about four months. People stayed and eventually a couple of months later actually did the failed rescue. We practiced every day. You could see every day they had the it had the lift capacity. The helicopters were practicing going in. We were actually going to do plane guard against potential Russian fighters in the in the Persian Gulf, put the radars up because nobody knew what was going to happen. It was a failed effort, but I tell people and it turns out the Nimitz

• 27:45Speaker 02

  is now about to be decommissioned. This may be their last cruise. They were there fifty years ago is the first time they really got commissioned. Their first assignment was in Gonzo and Camel Station in the North Arabian Sea. So these are big decisions the Pentagon makes when they particularly today. When they decide to take a carrier battle group, strike group away from the South China Sea in the defense of Taiwan, given how on pins and needles we are there because the the Chinese Communist Party are not doing exercises. They're doing rehearsals for an invasion. Yeah. To take that. And to take it to the North Arabian Sea is signaling the world that we're about to do something. And that's what's so scary right now. And when you get to your theory that these decisions, you're just getting inexorably drawn in.

• 28:30Speaker 02

  Now we have all of our basically air assets that are ready to launch combat sorties on Tehran. And whatever else happens, they're in place. So it just takes, it's not like you make a decision. Well, it'll take us a week to get there. They're in place. The tankers are over there. We can do in-tank refueling. So I think in the next 24 to 48 hours, a decision could be made. And that's why I'm getting more and more vocal, not less vocal, that we need to go full stop right now. We need to find out, because there's too many moving pieces and moving pieces about exactly what's going on. What's the risk? We haven't had a full debate about this, and I would like to see some voices come forward. I'd like to see Tulsi Gabbard come forward and tell us, has anything changed in DNI, which is 17

• 29:14Speaker 02

  agencies, including the CIA for this? Has anything changed from what you told the public at a hearing in March? If it's changed, let's just hear it. I would like to have John Ratcliffe go to the sticks, and I think Ratcliffe's a good man. John Ratcliffe should go to the sticks and say two things. Number one, we had no involvement at all in the Ukraine assault under Russia. Just say, because he's kind of been in hiding in that, and then he ought to be open to

• 29:37Tucker Carlson?

  He's never criticized. No one ever criticized as John Ratcliffe.

• 29:40Speaker 02

  Well, the reason I think they're not

• 29:42Tucker Carlson?

  Ever.

• 29:42Speaker 02

  I think the reason they're not criticizing John Ratcliffe, and John Ratcliffe's a good man. But you have to remember, John Ratcliffe was a mayor of a small town in Texas.

• 29:50Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 29:50Speaker 02

  That went to Congress, did a great job. President Trump likes him a lot. He's got Mike Ellis over there, but they're two guys, right? We don't have 10 political appointees, which we should have. We got two guys running that building.

• 30:03Tucker Carlson?

  That's the way the agency is structured. There's no civilian control of the CIA.

• 30:06Speaker 02

  Well, you know better than anybody, but it runs, it runs the way it's going to run. I mean, we sent Pompeo over there.

• 30:14Tucker Carlson?

  It's an army, it's a business, it's a government agency, it's a country.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  A venture capital firm.

• 30:19Tucker Carlson?

  It's literally a venture capital firm, and its budget is unknown, its reach is, and you know.

• 30:26Speaker 02

  And we have no idea what They're doing.

• 30:27Tucker Carlson?

  Of course, because the majority of things that they do are not, you know, US government employees doing. Even the door kickers, no, it's they're working through some exile group they've been funding for 30 years, right?

• 30:37Speaker 02

  They will also look you right in the eye.

• 30:38Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, I know.

• 30:39Speaker 02

  And lie to you.

• 30:40Tucker Carlson?

  Oh.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  Because that's the wilderness, the wilderness of mirrors, right? Look, look.

• 30:44Tucker Carlson?

  And they're smart. Somebody said to me the other day, someone knowledgeable said, the problem with the US government is like, why can't we do this or that? And like, if you wanted to light rail, you know, we couldn't do it. And this person said, because all the smartest people in government are at CIA.

• 30:56Speaker 02

  Yeah. They also, with the interagency process, they control the entire process. This is why downsizing NSC was so important. When you have this, we have these detailies that come from all the different departments, because NSC should have 30 people, but it had 250. There are 60 local pointies.

• 31:13Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 31:13Speaker 02

  Right? And there's 280 come from different agencies to do all the different paperwork. They have the interagency process. The CIA controls that process. They control the process at the Pentagon, they control the DHS.

• 31:24Tucker Carlson?

  Yep.

• 31:24Speaker 02

  They control over the Justice Department. They are embedded deep because they've been around, you know, they've been around so long and they know how to embed deep, right? With the smartest people out there. And so if you don't get control of that, you're not going to get control. They're like a Praetorian Guard right now. We have, we have to answer this. This is like the Roman, late stage of the Roman Empire. When the Praetorian Guard kind of ran the deal and they would put forward every legionary captain that they thought was going to be good for a time. And they are planning right now to thwart President Trump's second term. Make sure they wait him out and they're going to have a hand selected person for the third term. And I don't say this as a conspiracy theory guy. This is just basic fact.

• 32:04Tucker Carlson?

  Totally true. They're so clever that if you criticize them, they will leak to people that you work for them. I happen to know. Which is like kind of brilliant. Like if, if you're an effective critic of CIA. Joe Ken, I've lived this personally, but also Joe Ken is just a wonderful man, a totally sincere man.

• 32:23Speaker 02

  Great man.

• 32:24Tucker Carlson?

  Former CIA contractor, lost his wife in Syria in Obama's Syria war and became an opponent of the way things are running. And they CIA played in his primary. And the way they did it was by convincing Republican primary voters that Joe Ken, who's the single most effective critic of CIA in the United States, was actually working for CIA. I mean, like, wow! I tip my nonexistent hat in deference to the brilliance of that.

• 32:49Speaker 02

  This is how brilliant they are. You notice from President Trump, the arc that he went through on Friday. You know something's up when David Ignatius at the Washington Post, which we call the Langley Bugle. He's the head of the comms.

• 33:02Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, where?

• 33:03Speaker 02

  When Ignatius comes out on Morning Joe and says, "Trump is doing such a really magnificent job here. He's acting like your commander in chief." That should be the red flare that goes up and goes, "What the fuck?"

• 33:13Tucker Carlson?

  No!

• 33:14Speaker 02

  So, I mean...

• 33:15Tucker Carlson?

  It's two friends. Why don't have a TV? Because it's too frustrating to wa... Like, I don't know a single person who doesn't like David Ignatius personally, and that would include me, and he's just such a courtly man. He's like the Murdochs. You can't dislike him. He's just got elaborate, wonderful manners. He's very nice. But like, he is the spokesman for CIA, and you wonder...

• 33:34Speaker 02

  The Washington Post is the Langley Bugle.

• 33:35Tucker Carlson?

  It's unbelievable! When Louis Joyland West, who was one of the last visitors to Jack Ruby in his cell before he went insane, was a CIA physician and, you know, deeply involved in a lot of really dark, some of the darkest things we've ever done. When he died, I went and looked up the Walter Pincus obit from the Washington Post. Walter Pincus was the CIA. I think Walter Pincus wrote it. And there was no mention in the Washington Post obit that Jolly West worked for CIA. And it's just like, oh my god! It's just like, but you wonder, like, do people watching Morning Joe have any idea who these people are?

• 34:10Speaker 02

  No, that's the whole...

• 34:11Tucker Carlson?

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• 36:18Speaker 02

  But there's a, there's a great story. You talked about the Kennedy thing today. There's a great story in, in the book, the guy just came out about the Kennedy assassination and, and the, the House and Senate committees, the Church Committee, the biography of the Church Committee came out about a year or two years ago. He talks about when his first forum, Frank Church was going to be one thing, but they got Gary Hart in there who'd just been elected. Yeah, exactly. Mike Mansfield, the old head of the, you know, really a guy knew how to run things, right? Mansfield from Montana, picked both of them. Church to head the committee, but Gary Hart was going to be assigned to the CIA to find out what went on. So Hart's seeing Colby and seeing some of the former directors and they, and they tell him, said, hey, the guy you really got to see, all of them tell him, say, I used to have dinner, you guys

• 37:01Speaker 02

  see Angleton. Angleton, Angleton runs the deal. Now, he was the counterterrorism.

• 37:07Speaker 02

  Legendary guy there forever.

• 37:10Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 37:10Speaker 02

  And he goes to, I think the Metropolitan Club.

• 37:14Tucker Carlson?

  Of course.

• 37:14Speaker 02

  For dinner and Angleton would take a drink and Gary Hart sitting there kind of working him. And so towards the end of the evening, he can't get up enough courage to ask like the question. So finally he says, you know, it's about over. I gotta do this says, look, Mr. Angleton, I just got a question. From the committee, we, we need to know, did the, did the CIA have anything to do with the Kennedy assassination?

• 37:34Tucker Carlson?

  He asked Angleton that?

• 37:35Speaker 02

  Asked Angleton, it's in the book, call it. Angleton takes another drink, puts it down and goes, Senator Hart, you were, you were a theology major, were you not? And he goes, yeah, as a matter of fact, I was a theology. So you know, the, the new and Old Testament pretty well? He goes, well enough. He goes, in my father's house, there are many mansions. Gary Hart goes, what the fuck? Didn't ask another question. Went back to church in Mansfield. Mansfield goes, okay, shut it down. He goes, no, this is why they came out, the CIA, remember they had tried to kill guys in the Congo. They even had the cigar and Castro. Nothing about the domestic stuff at all. That all got shut down immediately.

• 38:18Speaker 02

  And they figured, oh, it was a Lumumba in, in, in.

• 38:22Tucker Carlson?

  Patrice Lumumba in Congo.

• 38:23Speaker 02

  In Congo and they had tried to kill or killed three or four other guys, maybe Dag Hamish, who knows?

• 38:28Tucker Carlson?

  Definitely Dag.

• 38:29Speaker 02

  They got into all these things that the American people are interested in, why are you killing foreign leaders? But they didn't get to the heart of many mansions. Gary Hart goes, I'm not going any farther on this one, right?

• 38:39Tucker Carlson?

  And within 10 years, Frank Church is dead of galloping cancer. And Gary Hart is totally destroyed in 1988 through the.

• 38:46Speaker 02

  The leading presidential candidate at the time.

• 38:49Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, yeah.

• 38:49Speaker 02

  On with a picture.

• 38:51Tucker Carlson?

  Gets lured onto the monkey business.

• 38:52Speaker 02

  And then they, and then his house, the first time they ever surrounded his house, remember?

• 38:56Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, I'll never forget it at all. And boy, and the Washington Post led the charge. And I'm not for Gary Hart or whatever, but he, by today's standard.

• 39:03Speaker 02

  Cross them though. You're gonna, you're gonna pay, there's gonna be payback.

• 39:06Tucker Carlson?

  It's literally unbelievable, but you can't, how do you have a real country in the middle of that? Like, I don't under.

• 39:12Speaker 02

  Well, you can't. I think you make the point since 1963, it's, we've devolved and that's why, I'm not kidding. As Elon was the special government employee to do Doge to try to get waste from abuse. I think because we're at war now and the war we're at is an internal war. It's an internal war with this apparatus that we finally have a leader that will have the back of people that will go in. Cause he wants it taken down. I think he's getting terrible advice around that. Someone like you, not to organize it, but who knows the history of these institutions, and quite frankly, where the bodies are buried, have to come in as a special government employee to help get the people on there going to organize. We have to go to war against the deep state now?

• 39:55Speaker 02

  If we don't go to war with the deep state immediately, and have a couple of wins that we can point to and some momentum, and put them on their back leg, their back foot, in the next 200 days, nothing in America is going to change.

• 40:07Tucker Carlson?

  And we should be clear about who's serving its interests. Tom Cotton, who's the chairman of the Senate Intel Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, was one of the primary drivers of secrecy around the Kennedy files. So, Tom Cotton, I think, was born in the 80s. And I like Tom Cotton a lot. I know him. I know his wife, who worked at CIA. Nice, super-nice people. But when it came down to it, when Trump gets elected and gets inaugurated in January, Tom Cotton's, he's denied this, but he's lying, because it's true. I know for a fact. Tom Cotton's running around being like, well, whatever we do, we can't put people in place who are going to declassify all the Kennedy assassination files. 62 years later. I think Tom Cotton was born in the 80s. Why would he care?

• 40:46Speaker 02

  It's not a sources and methods thing anymore.

• 40:48Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, like, what is that? Why would Tom Cotton be so concerned about releasing the Kennedy documents that he's trying to prevent people from getting jobs on the basis of his belief that they might reveal those documents? Like, what is that?

• 41:04Speaker 02

  Because that's...

• 41:05Tucker Carlson?

  It's disqualifying. He shouldn't be in the Senate, of course.

• 41:08Speaker 02

  Because he knows that that is the key that can pick the lock. That something happened in 1963. We had a coup d'etat.

• 41:14Tucker Carlson?

  Yep, yes.

• 41:15Speaker 02

  The country's never faced up to it.

• 41:16Tucker Carlson?

  No.

• 41:16Speaker 02

  The country understands that, like, 80%, something's dead wrong. They understood at the time the Warren Commission was gun-decked. If you go back and read this new book, even by a New York Times writer, you see how, what a joke it was, how the FBI stepped in immediately. Jerry Ford was their guy. It was a complete joke.

• 41:32Tucker Carlson?

  Who was made president without an election?

• 41:34Speaker 02

  Made president without an election? I'm just saying, there are no coincidences.

• 41:37Tucker Carlson?

  Jerry Ford of the Warren Commission becomes president without an election? And you're like, hmm.

• 41:45Speaker 02

  If you go, I've read the testimony of Warren Commission. Just in the Warren Commission, in the, in the sixth floor, in the depository where the gunman sat, right next to him, the guy, I think his name was Willie Davis, he was a worker. Of the, of the black guys were up on the top deck pointing afterwards when the shot took place. He was gonna go join those guys. He actually sat there and had his lunch right next to where the assassin was. Now you know assassins in CIA, in Navy SEALs, I mean, their heart's beating out of their chest before that happens because they understand it may be the last time they take a breath on earth is when they fire. So they are really ready to meet their maker and they're highly focused. The last thing you're gonna do on earth is get that target.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  That is just, is just these cartons just suppressing by a few feet. This guy's giving testimony and it's unbelievable. They go, well, you were there. Yes. What were you doing? He says, I was eating a, a chicken sandwich, a bag of Fritos and a Coke. And, and they're going, you're right next to him and everything's going and you're hanging on the edge of it. And then all of a sudden Jerry Ford steps in and goes, excuse me, I have a question. Do you have a criminal record? And, and the guy goes, excuse me? He goes, do you have a criminal record? And the guy goes, well, I was picked up. No, no, no. You're a felon, right? And the whole conversation drops. I go, oh my God. We're literally at the moment, literally 10 minutes before the shot takes place.

• 43:10Speaker 02

  We have a witness that's there and you gotta ask him, did you hear anything? Did you see anything?

• 43:15Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, no.

• 43:15Speaker 02

  And, and Jerry Ford told us, as you mentioned, with Angleton and the guys, a few years later, out of nowhere, on a, on a, on Watergate, another operation they were deeply involved in, right? Uh, he's made Vice President of the United States.

• 43:30Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, but, because the president's, most popular president in American history is undone by a naval intel officer posing as a journalist.

• 43:37Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 43:38Tucker Carlson?

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• 46:04Tucker Carlson?

  A lot of this is taking place in private and it's one of the great frustrations as an American is you don't know what your government's doing and you have no way to find out. Even when it's done 60 years ago, you don't know. But some of it's taking place totally in public, the Tom Cotton stuff, and it grieves me to say this because I like Tom and I think he's smart, really smart, actually, and a good guy in a lot of ways. But he's acting on behalf of CIA, not on behalf of the people of Arkansas, obviously. But then there's Lindsey Graham, who's like florid, out in public, like there's no kind of hiding who Lindsey Graham is and what does, what is that?

• 46:36Speaker 02

  The whole Ukraine thing, he and Pompeo, how the weekend before the drone assault takes place, he's in Ukraine saying something's gonna happen, he's in France, I mean, if you talk to people over there, it's like he had inside baseball, he was all jacked up, the good things are gonna happen. Pompeo's in like Odessa, giving a talk, I mean, what is Mike Pompeo, there's a middle of a war over there, we're trying to extract ourselves, what is Mike Pompeo in Odessa, giving some, you know, a rally speech, essentially pump these guys up, and he's talking about certain things that could happen, or certain positive things that hang in on this war, exactly what President Trump's counter to. President Trump is trying to have everybody lay down their guns and let's, because right now, the British papers report, there's a million Russians dead or wounded, there's

• 47:20Speaker 02

  750,000 Ukrainians dead or wounded, I mean, this has been devastating, like World War I type of casualties. President Trump is sitting there going, we need to put the guns down, I need to get people at the table, we need to talk, we'll even buy your dirt, we'll buy your rare earths, we'll put money in, which we oppose, but if President Trump thinks he needs that for a peace deal, we'll support him. What is, what is Mike Pompeo in Odessa jacking these people up? What is Lindsey Graham over there jacking people up about? These questions have to be asked, we have to ask, what part of our government is going against the Commander in Chief and what the Commander in Chief is trying to do?

• 47:53Tucker Carlson?

  Is it legal for Lindsey to do that?

• 47:55Speaker 02

  Well, there's Logan Act, you know, I called for his arrest.

• 47:58Tucker Carlson?

  Good.

• 47:59Speaker 02

  Or cancel his passport. Do two things, either don't lean back in the country, or arresting, and I'm adamant about this, and Pompeo also, because I think there are arguments around the Logan Act, that they're over there countering what the Commander in Chief's trying to do.

• 48:13Tucker Carlson?

  And they have security clearances too, which I don't have, and you don't have, I assume, a security clearance, not anymore?

• 48:20Speaker 02

  Right.

• 48:21Tucker Carlson?

  But why does-

• 48:22Speaker 02

  I don't want one right now.

• 48:23Tucker Carlson?

  No, I don't either, but-

• 48:24Speaker 02

  Because if you sit there and go, "Hey, I didn't-" Don't blame me.

• 48:26Tucker Carlson?

  No.

• 48:27Speaker 02

  Don't blame me, I didn't-

• 48:27Tucker Carlson?

  But why does Lindsey Graham, and why does Mike Pompeo have a security clearance?

• 48:31Speaker 02

  Well, I think you gotta ask Mike, because I'm very disappointed in him. I knew him for years.

• 48:35Tucker Carlson?

  Me too.

• 48:36Speaker 02

  The guy I know today, the guy I see today is not the guy I knew.

• 48:38Tucker Carlson?

  And I-

• 48:39Speaker 02

  I think people have to, I think they ought to come on, when they come on TV, is they ought to have the, like NASCAR drivers. Like, who's on the, whose payroll they are.

• 48:47Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 48:47Speaker 02

  Right? The American people are, at least ought to be in a chyron, who they're taking money from.

• 48:52Tucker Carlson?

  But who, what, what's the deal with Lin- let me just say, I've known Lindsey for 25 years. And it's impossible not to like Lindsey Graham. He's one of the most charming, funny, he's just a wonderful person to travel with. He's the most charming person in the world. I'll just say that, because it's just true. I like him. If he was here, I would be having fun with Lindsey Graham. But his effect on the United States is so destructive, I don't understand what that is. What is his motive? You know him well, of course, because you're-

• 49:21Speaker 02

  Well, I know, and, look, I think, number one, he's very involved in the Pentagon, on our services committee. The Pentagon, the building runs like the building's gonna run. I mean, it's a trillion dollar- Why, when President Trump says, "We're gonna go to a hemispheric defense." From Greenland to block the Russian submarines, to Alaska, maybe Canada for the Arctic, because that's the new great game of the 21st century.

• 49:42Tucker Carlson?

  That seems reasonable.

• 49:43Speaker 02

  To the Panama Canal, because they're gonna block the Chinese, and Russia, and they're gonna get the Chinese out of the Caribbean. We'll deal with Venezuela. We'll have the Central Pacific, which has always been kind of our strategic pivot, the three island chains. And America's hermetically sealed. You add a golden dome or some sort of ballistic missile, America can live in peace and we can do-

• 50:01Tucker Carlson?

  Greatest.

• 50:02Speaker 02

  And we can do expeditionary, not that we're not engaged in the world, you can do expeditionary forces anywhere you want in the world.

• 50:08Tucker Carlson?

  You can't put Chinese infrastructure in St. Croix, which they have, a lot of, in St. Croix, which we control.

• 50:14Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 50:14Tucker Carlson?

  So you can't let the Chinese control your hemisphere? That seems- reasonable and they'll say to us, okay, get out of Japan. At which point you say, okay.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  This.

• 50:21Tucker Carlson?

  I mean, that seems like logical.

• 50:23Speaker 02

  This budget is not a trillion dollars going up, right? Because right now it's over a trillion dollars. If you add the supplement that's coming in, the reconciliation bill with the NDAA, you're over a trillion dollars and it's only going to keep increasing. This is the way the defense contractors make money. They embedded it over there. They kind of run the building right now. You don't see any pushback by armed services. In fact, every district's got huge plants. As you know, our industrial policy that we do have is really around arms manufacturing.

• 50:52Tucker Carlson?

  That's it.

• 50:52Speaker 02

  Right? And it's a, it's a high margin business and we want to sell weapons to the entire world. It's that system that's running the country. Remember, the difference between President Trump's first term and his second term is what happened under Biden is a massive concentration of power because they didn't back Lena Khan or the antitrust people like we have now in President Trump's administration, like Gail Slater. And what's happening to the FTC under Andrew Ferguson, taking big tech to court and trying to break them up. Right now, you have Wall Street, you have big tech, you have big agriculture, you have big pharma. You have the big healthcare industry, you have the defense contractors, you have the concentration in these massive industries

• 51:32Speaker 02

  that have every lobbyist, every, every communications expert, all the big law firms on their payroll. If you and I wanted to start today and say, hey, guess what? We want to take on one of the industries. Let's pay, let's take on big ag. You literally can't get a great law firm to represent you or a great lobbyist because they're all, they're all hired by these guys. That concentration.

• 51:52Tucker Carlson?

  And they'll set up regulatory hurdles that are insurmountable.

• 51:55Speaker 02

  This is the regulatory capture.

• 51:56Tucker Carlson?

  I'm living that in something that we're doing on the side. And you just find out that it's crazy.

• 52:04Speaker 02

  That concentration of power.

• 52:05Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, my God.

• 52:06Speaker 02

  Regulatory capture and really regulatory merger. It's, we said when we gave China everything after Tiananmen Square, when we gave most favored nation status and WTO and access that, that the more, the more they get prosperous by, because they were a backward agricultural country at the time. The more prosperous they get, the more they'll become like a liberal democracy like the United States.

• 52:26Tucker Carlson?

  I remember that.

• 52:27Speaker 02

  We actually have copied the model of the Chinese Communist Party. They have a handful of state-owned industries, very powerful, merged in with the central government, an authoritarian government. That's what we have and that's what President Trump, the promise of President Trump. Is to break that. The American people don't want it. They hate it. Now, they need the tools to do it. And that's why I think this next couple of hundred days coming after the 10th anniversary of really President Trump, because what happened? At the top of the escalator, Trump was in seventh place. Because people didn't know if he was serious about running or not.

• 52:57Tucker Carlson?

  No, right.

• 52:58Speaker 02

  He had just gone to CPAC, I think 90 days before. In the 2015 CPAC, Trump finished seventh in the poll at 3.5%.

• 53:06Tucker Carlson?

  I remember.

• 53:07Speaker 02

  Behind all these guys. At the top of the escalator, he's in seventh. That night, they do a flash poll, I think, on CNN. He's first. Why? That talk was in a nomenclature and a vernacular that the American people weren't hadn't heard from a politician about the border, about deportations, about China, about bringing jobs back, about ending the forever wars. Remember, as the campaign went on, he goes to South Carolina.

• 53:32Tucker Carlson?

  I'll never forget it.

• 53:33Speaker 02

  And in South Carolina, he literally blew up the entire, not just Bush apparatus, kind of Fox and kind of everybody on the right that had been in there. And when he said it, you could hear the audience gasp. And so many commentators came on and said, well, that's the end of him because.

• 53:47Tucker Carlson?

  They all said that. Except me, because I was the only one at Fox News that who I knew, I was like, yes. Thank you for telling the truth, finally.

• 53:56Speaker 02

  But everybody around you was that he's finished.

• 53:58Tucker Carlson?

  They hated me for agreeing with him. They hated me personally.

• 54:00Speaker 02

  And he won in a landslide.

• 54:02Tucker Carlson?

  Karl Rove, never, who was my neighbor and always got along with him. Again, perfectly charming guy, sort of, very, not a good person at all, but, but smart and, you know, Karl. But after that, that's, that was the moment I realized it was in that Greenville, South Carolina debate that all that mattered to them was a projection of force abroad. That's it. Everything else was just silly.

• 54:24Speaker 02

  Because they were so shocked he said it and united in the fact that he can't win?

• 54:28Tucker Carlson?

  That's when Bill Kristol turned against him, was that night. And if you look, you could look it up, check his Twitter feed. The day before, Kristol was like, you know, Trump's kind of a pig, but he's our pig. And actually, we can kind of use him and, and maybe we should make peace with Trump. Bill Kristol said that, who I used to work for for many years. The day after that Greenville debate, he took the position that he has now, which is, you know, we'll destroy the country to prevent Trump from exercising power. Like, he was a sworn enemy of Donald Trump's after that, when he came out against the Iraq war. How weird.

• 54:59Tucker Carlson?

  Why, if you hit some, if you killed a child in a DUI, okay, you're drunk, you accidentally run over a child, there's no possibility you could meaningfully advance in American life because people would say, "We've forgiven you, Steve, but you did something that's so

• 55:14Speaker 02

  You're irresponsible.

• 55:16Tucker Carlson?

  It's just horrible. It was a mistake. Yeah, it was a mistake, but it was horrible. We allowed the architects of the Iraq War, who gravely injured the United States, got all these people killed, Americans killed, to continue to advance. They were never held to account for what they did, ever, at all. They became the head of the World Bank. How did we do that?

• 55:34Speaker 02

  The specter of that is what we face over the last 72 hours. This is exactly the same pitch as the Iraq War. Weapons of mass destruction.

• 55:42Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, I know.

• 55:43Speaker 02

  You have to get it. So, they understand one thing, they think the playbook works. This is why we have to stop it now. If we don't stop it now, it's gonna work all the time. They think that playbook of lulling the American people to sleep and tell them there's these evil people that have to be taken down, and if they're taken down, everything's gonna be fine after that, and that we face an apocalypse if that doesn't happen, they're running the Iraq War playbook over again with almost some of the same players, or at least the proteges, right, in the verticals of who those players were.

• 56:13Tucker Carlson?

  But why does institutional conservatism allow it? If Mike Pompeo shows up at the, you know, Republican county of dinner in some state, like, he's treated as, I was in a restaurant with him recently, everyone's like, "Oh, Mike Pompeo." He's treated as like a legitimate person. No one has ever, the right does not hold its own people accountable on the most basic level.

• 56:35Speaker 02

  Well, we say the right, the Republican Party is controlled opposition, okay? Because they've never really put in a fight, let's go back to the three central tenets of Trumpism, you know, immigration, border and sovereignty, trade and ending forever wars. The official apparatus of the Republican Party hates all three of them, and doesn't agree with, and they agree with any of them.

• 56:54Tucker Carlson?

  Do you think that's still true?

• 56:55Speaker 02

  It's 100%. This is, look what happened here in the last 24 hours on the immigration side. All of a sudden, there was a, they promulgated that because of big agriculture's needs, that we can no longer have Raids on farms, raids in hotels, all of it, that that had to be counted by President Trump saying, hey, there's 20 million illegal aliens. I'm gonna get them all out of here. And then today, or this morning, he came out with, we're gonna triple down the raids in sanctuary cities, right? I'm gonna get all these guys out of here. No, this huge institutional fight led by Fox News, right? Their biggest is the forever wars. But if you look at the Wall Street Journal, and if you look at Fox News on the trade and bringing jobs back from China, they're very ambivalent about that. They're talking about the cost of living. I mean, they're putting up that,

• 57:39Speaker 02

  you know, because they're all free traders, which is the way the country got in the, in the, in the first place. They're also quite ambivalent on, on, on the immigration and mass deportation. Remember, mass deportation is just not the criminals. You have to get, President Trump said, they 20 million. I say it's 10, came in on Biden's watch. They all have to leave. But you're seeing a lot of ambivalence of that, particularly the Republican Party. They're saying, the Wall Street Journal says, well, no, they, they add 2%, one and a half to 2% to GDP, right? Because they buy so much stuff. Number two, they've driven down wages among particularly low skilled black and Hispanics. I say this is why we put the coalition together. This is why 39% of black men are voting for us.

• 58:18Speaker 02

  This is why South Texas is now MAGA territory, because they understand their wages to be driven down. So I think the Republican Party hates the basic tenets of President Trump's platform, particularly the one they most hate is ending the forever wars. That's tied to both Wall Street. It's tied to the defense industry. It's also tied to this mentality that we have an American empire. Remember you and I saying, hey, we are actually a republic. We want to go back to being a republic. Like, the founders of our country, when they set the constitution, they looked to Republican Rome. That was their source of thing, not the Roman Empire. What we've done, in fact, they said, I think it was General Washington, don't go overseas looking for monsters to slay. Exactly.

• 59:02Speaker 02

  Right? We have enough to do here. Let's do this. And I think that that's where we've gotten so far off track, and we have an American empire. That empire has to be taken apart brick by brick, because all it's done is to basically destroy the inner workings of the United States and just particularly destroy the very people who are the cannon fodder in these wars, right? And that's why I think- Destroy the nation. Drive around, drive around the country. Just get in your vehicle and-

• 59:26Tucker Carlson?

  And I don't see how anybody could say things are better now than they were 15 or 20 years ago or 40 years ago. It's a disaster. And so the empire destroys the country.

• 59:37Speaker 02

  And you add on top of it the national debt and the trillion dollars every month and the discussions. We have a discussion. Doge goes to a bunch of different places, but they never go to the Pentagon. They're not really allowed to go to the Pentagon. We have a budget that we're talking about. How do we make these cuts? How do you cut Medicaid? How do you cut the food stamp program? Which all have to be looked at and done, but it's sacrosanct. We can't even talk about defense. We have a trillion dollar defense budget. And I keep saying, Trump's laid out a strategy of hemispheric defense. It's very different than post-war where we're everywhere, the American empire and really around the ring of the Eurasian landmass, right? And I said, he's talking about a hemispheric defense. The budget is totally misaligned with the hemispheric defense, both in the allocation to the Navy, taking down big army. But hey, baby, the defense budget is gonna go

• 1:00:22Speaker 02

  and you're not gonna cut a penny of it because like you, you're raising your voice as someone that likes Israel and agrees with Israeli nation. You're saying that you raise your voice and all of a sudden you're being eviscerated, that you're an enemy of the Jewish people, that you're an anti-Semite. Not just that, you're an appeaser. And he said, Tucker's a pacifist, right? Appeaser and a pacifist because they understand.

• 1:00:47Tucker Carlson?

  Show up at my house and find out how far my pacifism extends. No, I mean, it's, no, it's all, it's slander and it's, it bothers me simply because it does convince people whose opinions I care about and I, who I care about personally. And it fractures relationships and it also comes from people I know really well. And that Ari Fleischer, who I've never, you know, like respected, but I always liked him and I, he wrote something, somebody sent me this thing yesterday and, you know, I'm just a carnival barker and I'm pretending to have my views. And I, I texted him and I was like, come on, like this is not, you know, I may be totally wrong. You of course disagree with me. That's fine. But you know that I'm sincere. I'm totally sincere. Why else would I do this? Of course he didn't respond to me, but it's painful.

• 1:01:30Speaker 02

  Ari who every day went to the podium and told us just another day away from finding weapons of mass destruction. How could they sit there and enlighten the nation? Now, I am quite serious. Given, because you're a product of Washington DC.

• 1:01:47Speaker 02

  There's no one better in an emergency, we have an emergency, we have a break the glass emergency, to actually be an advisor to the president, right, in a temporary thing, than you who know the whole, you know the canvas, not that you're, but you could sit there in the, in the, in the NSC, in the, in the tank, or the tanks of Pentagon, but down where the Kennedy room, and actually walk through, this is the apparatus, this is what we have to do, this is what we have to do with the FBI, this is what we have to do with the CIA, this is what we have to do with DNI, the Pentagon, and then we have people execute that.

• 1:02:19Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, I would never survive that, but, I mean, I don't come back, I had breakfast alone in the dining room of the Metropolitan Club this morning, which is a place I love, it's the only person there, it's me and the waiters, who I know well and love, and the second I walk outside that building, I'm like, whoa, the vibe in the city is.

• 1:02:35Speaker 02

  It's bad, it's bad.

• 1:02:36Tucker Carlson?

  Can you feel that?

• 1:02:37Speaker 02

  I feel it, ever since, ever since President Trump left in January 2021, because it was an armed camp then, we had.

• 1:02:44Tucker Carlson?

  I, I had left by then, I was like, I'm out.

• 1:02:47Speaker 02

  You came to the war room, we had a hundred National Guard troops.

• 1:02:51Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:52Speaker 02

  With two Humvees, barbed wire everywhere, it took from the guys at Fox and One America to come up to the war room, it's only a five minute walk up the hill, forty-five minutes to get there, you gotta go through checkpoints, ever since that time, and I hate to say, with all the positive energy President Trump has brought, it's still a dark specter, this imperial capital is probably, and I tell you why, they understand there's an eternal civil war here, that one side's gonna win and one side's gonna lose, their, their belief is they're gonna wait us out, that for all the Tucker Carlson's and Steve Bannon's and other people around President Trump are sitting there going, the Bobby Kennedys, right, and other people that know how this apparatus works at every level, and are sitting there going, we have to do this now, they believe that they will wait President Trump

• 1:03:36Speaker 02

  out, and I don't put a, a, a possibility of an assassin, if President Trump is to go too far into this, and bring you in as that, do not think, they would not think of an assassination attempt, they have no intention of turning over control and power of the most powerful empire in man's history, it has to be taken from them. And I tell people, we either do it now, if we don't do it now, th- this, this wave of kind of people that have come together, uh, w- w- we're not gonna be able to do it. And if we don't do it, I'm not sure we win another election. Because I think people are, they're gonna force us into doing either not deporting the 10 million, right? And not securing the border, not forcing China and not really kind of tough deals that start to bring real high value-added manufacturing jobs back.

• 1:04:21Speaker 02

  Cause Wall Street doesn't want that. They do, they think our labor cost is too high. They think the environmental cost is too high. They love the slave labor of Lao Bai Jing. And most importantly, they're not gonna stop the war machine. They're not gonna stop, and I'm not a pacifist. I spent eight years of my life as a naval officer. My daughter went to West Point. She fought in, in Iraq in 2010 under Obama, right? It's not that we're pacifists. We see what we see. And what we see now is a very evil specter over this imperial capital. And one side is gonna win. The President Trump kinda rebels or revolutionaries versus this Praetorian Guard apparatus. And that's why this fight, to me, is gonna happen the next 200 or 300 days. We're gonna, we're gonna know what side this is gonna, we, we're gonna know if there's enough momentum on our side to actually win.

• 1:05:06Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, there's a, you, it's a spiritual thing. And you can, I texted my wife this morning. I said, second, this administration's gone, I'm never coming back here. And I'm gonna, but got here in 1985 and it's really shocking.

• 1:05:18Speaker 02

  You see, you feel that though, when you hear.

• 1:05:19Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, yeah, it's just dark. It's super dark. And where I live normally is very, you know, it's not thriving at all. It's poor and there are lots of problems. And people die of drug ODs and all that, but you don't feel, a lot of people die of drug ODs. But you do not feel this kind of, when we sold our house, five years ago, my wife sold it over the phone. And next, I know there is a, it was a great house, beautiful house, super pretty house, not huge, but beautiful, in the District of Columbia. And she sells it to a CIA officer. Pays with cash and the next thing you know, there's a Ukraine flag flying from my flagpole. And I'm not making this up. And my neighbor sent it to me, he's like, oh, look what happened to your house. A house I really loved.

• 1:06:03Tucker Carlson?

  And I was like, wow, that's just a metaphor. But, okay, so let me ask you, you've made a couple of allusions. I almost don't want to ask you because it's upsetting, but to the country coming apart.

• 1:06:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:06:14Tucker Carlson?

  To conflict here, clearly, there's been a rise in violence. This weird Minnesota story, which I'm not even going to ask you about because I don't understand it at all. I don't think anybody does. But I want to ask you about what's happening in California. It does seem like resisting federal authority on immigration is an act of sedition more profound than anything they did at Fort Sumter in 1861. And this is not resolved. Like, I don't, what are we watching right now in California with Gavin Newsom?

• 1:06:41Speaker 02

  You're from DC. I'm from Richmond. I'm raised in Richmond. And I keep telling people, I thought we settled this about federal law and states' rights and succession in the mid 1860s. We had a civil war to determine the outcome of this. We've had that discussion. We've had that argument. It's been settled. I said this to President Trump in the first term, that this whole thing of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states is absolutely a neo-confederate, you know, mentality.

• 1:07:08Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:07:09Speaker 02

  That you can have. Gavin Newsom, right?

• 1:07:11Tucker Carlson?

  Have you said that, O'Rourke?

• 1:07:13Speaker 02

  Yes, I've said it.

• 1:07:14Tucker Carlson?

  That it's neo-confederate?

• 1:07:15Speaker 02

  He's so smart. It's a neo-confederate.

• 1:07:17Tucker Carlson?

  It is. That's exactly what it is. I'm stealing that, by the way.

• 1:07:20Speaker 02

  No, no, no.

• 1:07:21Tucker Carlson?

  So good.

• 1:07:22Speaker 02

  Jackson, look, you had this thing before the Civil War with Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun.

• 1:07:27Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:28Speaker 02

  On tariffs, where they, remember, the landed aristocracy in South Carolina, where some of the richest people, I think Charleston had more what would be equivalent to billionaires at the start of the Civil War than any place on earth.

• 1:07:37Tucker Carlson?

  And it shows in the battery.

• 1:07:39Speaker 02

  Battery, magnificent city today.

• 1:07:43Speaker 02

  John C. Calhoun, who was his vice president, was gonna stop and go down and defend South Carolina. He said, "We're not gonna do these tariffs." And Jackson said, "I'm gonna call the army down there, and if Calhoun's defying me, I'm gonna hang him from the first lamppost." I mean, Jackson was a guy who was gonna take immediate action. What's happening in California is kind of the equivalent. You've had the sanctuary cities, and if President Trump had not sent the troops in and federalized the National Guard, what would happen in L.A. was what we see in all these cities. It would explode. It would have been the Summer of Love of 2025, where there was a lot more rhetoric than actually action. One of the reasons President Trump had Bill Barr and Esper and all these people that wouldn't execute what he wanted. Now, he's got a team, and that's why I'm so glad he came out last night and says, "I'm doubling and tripling down the raids."

• 1:08:27Speaker 02

  My recommendation on the show, the day after this stuff happened over that weekend, was President Trump ought to triple the ICE raids, and he ought to go to, you know, he ought to go to schools or, hey, they gotta go, right? They have to go, and it's not pleasant. We gotta be very humane about it, but you have to have a show of force. And if you need to send in the army, if you need to send in the federalized National Guard, we have to do it. California is the railhead of this. That's why you have to break it there. It's gonna obviously pop up in Chicago and New York, but you have to take, and Stephen Miller said this, and I've known Stephen a long time. You know, Andrew and Stephen Miller and Ben Shapiro, Alex Martin, they all came out of kind of West L.A., right? Ben might have been in the Valley, but they're all West L.A. guys. Stephen Miller's been saying since the time I knew him,

• 1:09:10Speaker 02

  "The war for America is gonna be won or lost on the streets of Los Angeles." He's said this now for almost 20 years. And this is what, this fight, and this is what's so disturbing about the timing. We're totally focused on that, and President Trump actually implementing the deportations, or mass deportations. And all of a sudden, this thing breaks out in Persia, in the Middle East, and now the whole country's just focused on that? It's almost like a timed diversion to get our attention. It does feel that way. Because Bibi gave it up. There was no, it didn't have to happen on Thursday night. We were told, what was leaked, "Oh, there's a bomb, and they're gonna have it, and you know, this is something they have to have immediately, immediately, immediately." He comes on Bret Baer and says, "What, it's 12 or 13 months?" We've heard the 12 or 13 months for 20 years.

• 1:09:52Speaker 02

  It is 12 or 13 months, but that doesn't mean you have to act on Friday. Why is it Thursday and Friday when we're in the middle of actually the most important part of this third world war? Is the 10 million invaders we've had in this country or 20 million according to President Trump? They all have to go. You understand that there's many bad actors that came in on this. Right? That are now sleeper cells in this country. Everybody's got to go and we have to do it. That is the set. When I talk about third world war. The central battlefront for the United States of America is internal to the United States of America. This is why we have to focus on this in the timing because there's no coincidences of how all of a sudden. We're asked to do bombing runs in Iran, a half a world away.

• 1:10:33Speaker 02

  And it sucks up all the media attention that you don't even, you don't even, there's not even discussion on this. And that's why President Trump come out doubling down and Homan and Stephen Miller. There are going to be three more raids tomorrow and we got to get the focus back on that. So.

• 1:10:46Tucker Carlson?

  How should you deal with, I mean, when Orville Faubus, who was the governor of Arkansas in 1956? Presides over the state that refuses to desegregate. After the Supreme Court says you have to desegregate in Brown versus Board. And Dwight Eisenhower, who's not a liberal, says you can't ignore federal authority on a federal issue. This is a Supreme Court decision and he sends the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to Central High School and says, sorry, you're going to desegregate. Now, whatever you think of that, it's kind of disgusting in certain ways, but it's also essential to preserving the union.

• 1:11:21Tucker Carlson?

  I mean, I don't understand, like, how can you have your biggest state being like, no, to the federal government? Like what?

• 1:11:30Speaker 02

  On a central issue.

• 1:11:31Tucker Carlson?

  On a central issue. Who lives here?

• 1:11:33Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:11:34Tucker Carlson?

  Who takes federal benefits?

• 1:11:35Speaker 02

  Who's actually a citizen? Who has allegiance to this country?

• 1:11:38Tucker Carlson?

  Who gets to choose our leadership?

• 1:11:39Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:11:40Tucker Carlson?

  In a, in a democratic system.

• 1:11:42Speaker 02

  This is why this radical neo Marxist Democratic Party will fight. This is the hill they will die on.

• 1:11:47Tucker Carlson?

  So, but I don't understand how you can put up with that. How can you put up with that? That's like, maybe a little more important than whether Iran gets the bomb.

• 1:11:54Speaker 02

  Well, you can't, and by the way, the American people, the American people don't. I think it's like 60/40, where they agree with President Trump on these mass deportations. Remember, one of the reasons we're winning the African-American vote is President Trump does not believe, like the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris, in mass incarcerations. He believes in mass deportation. When I was in prison, the only thing I put up from Danbury was like on the 26th of August, I said, "Hey, victory's at hand." I can tell from the prisoners in Danbury, the young Hispanics and blacks who hate the Democratic Party, and they particularly hated Kamala Harris. Because I said, "Look, the Democratic Party is for mass incarcerations to break our families and to make us dependent upon the government." I mean, these guys were smarter than guys going to Yale in the political science department because it's a lived experience of them.

• 1:12:35Speaker 02

  And they support mass deportations because in a place like Danbury, 10% of the prison is bad hombres, from these other countries that are the most dangerous criminals, convicts you have in these prisons. People at the street level have our back on this. This is this new coalition. But we have to, we have to succeed in this. We have to succeed in the deportations and getting wages to rise. In fact, I think there was just something in the Wall Street Journal, they said wages for low-skilled workers are coming up, right? Because guess what? You have less non-citizens here competing as if people in their own country shouldn't have to compete against a non-citizen for a job. This is President Trump's centerpiece of the entire Make America Great Again movement. And that's why it has to succeed.

• 1:13:19Speaker 02

  And everybody now in the official political apparatus is trying to thwart him in this, and this is why it's so important for him to go. And the deep state is also, remember, one of the reasons that DHS is burning through money and there's not as many deportations, you talk to the guys at the White House, you talk to the guys at DHS, they're still playing by the old playbook. In other words, they have to have a deportation order from a court, they go to a guy's house and make sure there's no kids around, they take like 20 agents a week to go serve on two people and get them out of here. Well, obviously, that doesn't, that's the old playbook. You have to get much more aggressive on your deportations. I think Miller and Holman are trying to change the culture over there to actually do it. But even there, the apparatus, it's a, the administrative state's got its own mind of

• 1:14:04Speaker 02

  how they're going to do things. I think this is one of President Trump's big battles.

• 1:14:08Tucker Carlson?

  My last question has to do with like the first principle from which these positions flow, which is there's a certain segment of our population, I think the majority who think the US government's job is to help American citizens in America. But there is another very powerful segment, which is most of the US government, that believes the opposite. 10 years ago, I'm on an anthrax train to New York from Washington for work at Fox, and I get a call from a neocon writer called Julia Ioffe, who I think is Russian born, writing for The New Republic. And she says to me, and at this point, I'm like, she thinks I'm a neocon or something, but she's calling me for like, what do we make of Trump? And she goes, Trump's calling himself a nationalist. She was like way offended, and it was just prima facie, like nationalism, bad. And I said, well, I'm a nationalist.

• 1:14:52Tucker Carlson?

  And she goes, she's not stupid, and she goes, you're a nationalist? I said, well, I don't know, I think I am. I mean, I like America, I think the US government should work for America. She was like horrified, and I don't think I've ever spoken to her again. Why does that idea, which is non-threatening, it's not a Nazi idea, it's like a basic idea, it was the founders' idea, that the US government should act on behalf of Americans? Why is that offensive, so offensive to some people? What is that?

• 1:15:18Speaker 02

  I'm gonna tell my Mark Levin story, because I like Mark a lot, and I think he's one of the smartest guys in the Constitution. Although, I will say, I think we're opposed on every big topic dealing with MAGA, President Trump, just saying, because Mark is a neoliberal neocon, and that's what Fox is, right? Which is different than populism nationalism, totally different, they're two different totally.

• 1:15:37Tucker Carlson?

  And I've always gotten along with Mark.

• 1:15:38Speaker 02

  Yeah, and this is why neoliberal neocons, the whole Fox apparatus, this is what the Murdochs are, they're much, they're just a difference, you know, Gore Vidal said, it's just two sides of kind of the same coin that run the American empire. Because American empire is run on neoliberal principles and neocon principles. So Mark, when I kept saying nationalism and populism and nationalism, he calls me up, and you know, Mark, he goes, Bannon, he goes, you gotta drop nationalism. And I go, this is 10 years ago, 12 years ago, I was first doing it at Breitbart, and I go, I go, why? He says, it's Americanism. And I go, no, Mark, it's actually nationalism, right? And I tried walking through, he goes, no, no, no, no, it's Americanism. And then he puts out a book later, I think, Americanism, which talks about Certain tenets of nationalism, but they don't want to use that phrase.

• 1:16:21Speaker 02

  I think because of connotations that came from Europe in the 19th century. And then obviously in the 20th century, I said, this is, this is completely different. It is populist nationalism. It is a populist movement that puts America first and American citizens first. That's the big part of the nationalism they never get to. That is what unites us. But how could they see that as bad? I'm honestly 10 years in, I'm baffled by it. Like, what's bad about that? If you mention, if you mention that word, they just, they, they get lit up. I have still many people today, and people accuse me, oh, in fact, Ben, and Ben Shapiro is one of the smartest guys in the country. Ben said, when I was running Breitbart, when he left, whether he left or was on a quarter, I fired him is still a matter of debate. Still a matter of debate.

• 1:17:04Speaker 02

  Ben goes, I turned, I turned Breitbart into Trump Pravda, right? With the populist nationalism and away from Andrew's Cortez. So listen, that is an ideological fight about nomenclature, which is very important in us going forward. But the tenets of it and what we're trying to do, I think is what you're seeing President Trump do. We have a government apparatus of these people that when institutions carry on year after year after year and pass the baton and they control, and you know many of these people, that most of them have come from middle-class backgrounds. They're not, they're not coming just from elite. No, they're not Rockefellers. Not Rockefellers, there are some Rockefellers and there's some, some nepo babies. They're irrelevant, yeah. Mainly just middle-class people. Strivers.

• 1:17:46Speaker 02

  But they're in control of the greatest, most powerful apparatus on earth. And you mentioned earlier today, the thought of going into war and actually killing people. That's something that turns certain people on, the power of it. Right now, and that's why I say, tell people, when you come to Washington, you can really feel it's a spiritual war. Yes. Because of the dark specter that hangs over this town. Now, that spiritual war manifests itself in money and power. Yes. And you see so many people I've seen coming in Congress and, and people I've known that come here and they get corrupted. And they get corrupted because that basic human nature of being attracted to money and power is very.

• 1:18:27Speaker 02

  Tough and that's we're in a situation now that people we admire, people we like, people we've known. We have to go to war with them. This war against this apparatus is going to be as brutal as the war we're fighting in the streets of Los Angeles today. To make sure that actually Los Angeles is part of this American republic because right now California is not. But the major cities in this country led by Los Angeles, San Francisco are definitely not. They're a totally different entity.

• 1:18:55Tucker Carlson?

  I'm sad that you say that because the last thing I want to do is spend my day arguing with Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin. I mean, I agree with those guys on a lot and I know them, of course, I'm not mad at them personally even now. I don't want to fight with them. You know what I mean? I want to fight with George Soros or something or Gavin Newsom and but I feel like they are making it. This is my read, probably self-serving, but I feel like they are making it impossible to sit back in silence as they wreck the country.

• 1:19:24Speaker 02

  And that fight, as important as that is to me is a secondary tertiary fight right now. Then the fight that we need you on and the fight we need you on, you have a unique historical understanding of the institutions of this town and the smarts. We need a handful of smart people around President Trump. They're saying this is the look, we put Cash and Bongino into FBI. We've put Ellis and in Radcliffe, the CIA. We put a handful of great people at DOJ. We put Pete and a handful of great people at Defense. We put Tulsi and Joe Kent, a handful of people at DNI. It's not enough. The apparatus still runs the deal. We are hanging on in a very tenuous shape.

• 1:20:05Speaker 02

  We need to go to war like they want to go to war in in in Persia. We need to go to war with them and I mean, take the sword out of the scab and throw away the scabbard. We have to do that now.

• 1:20:16Tucker Carlson?

  Damn, if I got anywhere near any kind of institutional power, which I've never sought and I don't seek now, but if I ever did. You know, I think the Tom Cottons and the donors and people like that, I mean, I think they'd, I mean, I think that would be really hard. I think they'd put Kitty Porter on my computer, I'd get pancreatic, I don't know, man.

• 1:20:36Speaker 02

  First off, just the announcement of that, the intention of that would unmask. We need, part of this is going through an unmasking. Who's on our side and who's not on our side? Because a lot of people that are pretending to be on our side are on the opposite side. And we can go through a great unmasking.

• 1:20:54Tucker Carlson?

  What they fear is sincerity, because I'm hardly the smartest person in DC, well, not in DC, but I'm hardly the smartest person in this conversation at all. And I don't think I'm like, you know, have like brilliant cohesive philosophical ideas or anything like that. I'm just sort of a bumbling, middle-aged, you know, hopefully try to be Christian person. But I'm totally sincere. And that's why they hated MTG, who's also, you know.

• 1:21:20Speaker 02

  Marginal.

• 1:21:21Tucker Carlson?

  Well, we've probably got the same SAT score, you know what I mean? It's like, but she's not kidding. She's total, in that kind of.

• 1:21:27Speaker 02

  What you see.

• 1:21:28Tucker Carlson?

  In that chick way, where they get mad, or they just like start telling the truth.

• 1:21:31Speaker 02

  What you see is what you get.

• 1:21:32Tucker Carlson?

  Only women do that.

• 1:21:33Speaker 02

  Yeah. No, she, look, she's central to MAGA. I mean, what do you mean? She's been.

• 1:21:37Tucker Carlson?

  Well, she was written out today by Mark Levin.

• 1:21:39Speaker 02

  I know, she and I don't always agree on everything, but she's 100% MAGA, it's not even a question. That shows you the level they're prepared to go to. No. What you have is, which is tough in this town to get, is actually historical understanding of these institutions. The only other person, and this would be great if you did it, the only other person I know that has that is Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy has that understanding, obviously what his family's gone through, but he, at a very deep level, he knows the interconnections.

• 1:22:10Tucker Carlson?

  Good friend of mine, seeing him tomorrow morning. Steve Bannon, thank you for taking the time to do this. I am grateful and Godspeed in this city.

• 1:22:19Speaker 02

  Thanks. Tucker, it's amazing, I can't wait till you get your appointment.

• 1:22:22Tucker Carlson?

  Can you?

• 1:22:23Speaker 02

  Be the first interview on Roar Room after he gets it. I'm not kidding, when I get, hey, I've had longer odds on things than this, so stand by.

• 1:22:34Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:22:35Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 1:22:40Tucker Carlson?

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