Tucker Carlson set to release interview with Iranian president
Carlson, who has been a staunch critic of the US's involvement in Israel's conflict with Iran, said he expects to be 'criticized for doing this interview.'
'Why did we do it anyway? Well, we did it because we were just at war with Iran 10 days ago, and maybe again,' he said in a clip Saturday.
'And so, our view, which has remained consistent over time, is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the God-given right to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them.'
3 A Tucker Carlson interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will be released on the pundit's network in a few days.
Getty Images
The full interview between the right-wing pundit and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to air in a 'day or two,' Carlson said, once editing is complete.
Carlson, once a devoted Trump ally, heavily criticized Israel's preemptive strike on Iran in early June. He said President Trump was making the US 'complicit in the act of war' and added that, 'politicians purporting to be America First can't now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it.'
The former primetime anchor said he didn't bother asking Pezeshkian certain questions, such as the state of the nation's nuclear capabilities after the US bombing, which the Pentagon has said set the program back around two years.
3 Tucker Carlson said Americans have the 'God-given right to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them.'
The Tucker Carlson Interview
'There's no chance he's going to answer that question honestly. I didn't bother to ask it. The answer, in fact, from an American perspective, even from the CIA's perspective, is unknowable. So we dispense with those,' he said.
Instead, he said he asked the Iranian president, 'What is your goal? Do you seek war with the United States? Do you seek war with Israel?'
3 Tucker Carlson said he only asked questions where he could expect an honest answer from the Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian.
APAImages/Shutterstock
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of orchestrating the two failed assassination attempts on President Trump during his third presidential campaign last year.
Carlson said he's also asked Netanyahu to come on his show, The Tucker Carlson Show. He said he is still waiting to hear back.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Politico
15 minutes ago
- Politico
Summers, Miran highlight worst- and best-case scenarios for Trump's megabill
'These higher interest rates, these cutbacks in subsidies to electricity, these reductions in the availability of housing, the fact that hospitals are going to have to take care of these people and pass on the costs to everybody else, and that's going to mean more inflation, more risk that the Fed has to raise interest rates and run the risk of recession, more stagflation, that's the risk facing every middle-class family in our country because of this bill,' Summers told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's 'This Week.' The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the law will increase the national deficit by $2.8 trillion over the next decade, taking into account the legislation's impact on inflation, interest rates and economic growth. Miran, whose interview followed Summers', called his response to the law 'doom-mongering,' echoing comments from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett who told CBS' Weijia Jiang on 'Face the Nation' Sunday the CBO's estimate is misguided. 'It's the same combination of policies, tax cuts, deregulation, trade renegotiation, and energy abundance that gave us astounding economic growth in the president's first term, 2.8 percent until the pandemic,' Miran said. 'And that's exactly what we forecast again, very similar numbers.' Summers called Miran's council's forecast projecting $11 trillion in deficit reduction from the bill 'respectfully, nonsense,' arguing that scaled back federal funding for education and research and development will have a negative impact on economic growth. 'There is no economist anywhere, without a strong political agenda, who is saying that this bill is a positive for the economy,' said Summers, who served as director of the National Economic Council in 2009-10. 'And the overwhelming view is that it is probably going to make the economy worse.' Miran also defended the law's controversial cuts to Medicaid, which the CBO predicts will result in 11.8 million more Americans becoming uninsured by 2034. Democrats have gone on the offensive against the law's Medicaid provisions, rolling out attack ads bashing Republican lawmakers who voted for the bill and recruiting candidates to challenge them in next year's midterm elections. 'The best way to make sure people are insured is to grow the economy, get them jobs, get them working, get them insurance through their employer,' he said. 'Creating jobs, creating a booming economy is always the best way to get people insured.'
Politico
28 minutes ago
- Politico
Crew abandons ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the ship was taking on water and its crew had abandoned the vessel. The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet referred questions to the military's Central Command, which said it was aware of the incident without elaborating. Moammar al-Eryani, the information minister for Yemen's exiled government opposing the Houthis, identified the vessel attacked as the Magic Seas and blamed the rebels for the attack. The ship had been broadcasting it had an armed security team on board in the vicinity the attack took place and had been heading north. 'The attack also proves once again that the Houthis are merely a front for an Iranian scheme using Yemen as a platform to undermine regional and global stability, at a time when Tehran continues to arm the militia and provide it with military technology, including missiles, aircraft, drones, and sea mines,' al-Eryani wrote on the social platform X. The Magic Seas' owners did not respond to a request for comment. The Houthi rebels have been launching missile and drone attacks against commercial and military ships in the region in what the group's leadership has described as an effort to end Israel's offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The group's al-Masirah satellite news channel acknowledged the attack occurred, but offered no other comment on it as it aired a speech by its secretive leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi. However, Ambrey said the vessel targeted met 'the established Houthi target profile,' without elaborating. Between November 2023 and January 2025, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors. That has greatly reduced the flow of trade through the Red Sea corridor, which typically sees $1 trillion of goods move through it annually.
32 minutes ago
New details emerge on Gaza ceasefire proposal as Netanyahu heads to White House
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- New details of the Gaza ceasefire proposal emerged on Sunday as Israel sent a negotiating team to Qatar ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's White House visit for talks toward an agreement. Inside the territory, hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 38 Palestinians. 'There are 20 hostages that are alive, 30 dead. I am determined, we are determined, to bring them all back. And we will also be determined to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,' Netanyahu said before departing, emphasizing the goal of eliminating Hamas' military and governing power. A person familiar with the negotiations shared with The Associated Press a copy of the latest ceasefire proposal submitted by mediators to Hamas, and its veracity was confirmed by two other people familiar with the document. All three spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive talks with the media. The document outlines plans for a 60-day ceasefire during which Hamas would hand over 10 living and 18 dead hostages, Israeli forces would withdraw to a buffer zone along Gaza's borders with Israel and Egypt, and significant amounts of aid would be brought in. The document says the aid would be distributed by United Nations agencies and the Palestinian Red Crescent. It does not specify what would happen to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the American organization that has distributed food aid since May. Israel wants it to replace the U.N.-coordinated system. As in previous ceasefire agreements, Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli facilities would be released in exchange for the hostages, but the number is not yet agreed upon. The proposal stops short of guaranteeing a permanent end to the war — a condition demanded by Hamas -- but says negotiations for a permanent ceasefire would take place during the 60 days. During that time, 'President (Donald) Trump guarantees Israel's adherence' to halting military operations, the document says, adding that Trump 'will personally announce the ceasefire agreement.' The personal guarantee by Trump appeared to be an attempt to reassure Hamas that Israel would not unilaterally resume fighting as it did in March during a previous ceasefire, when talks to extend it appeared to stall. Trump said last week that Israel had agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire, but it was unclear if the terms were those in the document reviewed by the AP. Hamas has requested some changes but has not specified them. Separately, an Israeli official said the security Cabinet late Saturday approved sending aid into northern Gaza, where civilians suffer from acute food shortages. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision with the media, declined to give more details. Northern Gaza has seen just a trickle of aid enter since Israel ended the latest ceasefire in March. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's closest distribution site is near the Netzarim corridor south of Gaza City that separates the territory's north and south. Israeli strikes hit two houses in Gaza City, killing 20 Palestinians and wounding 25 others, according to Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of Shifa Hospital, which serves the area. Israel's military said it struck several Hamas fighters in two locations in the area of Gaza City. In southern Gaza, Israeli strikes killed 18 Palestinians in Muwasi on the Mediterranean coast, where thousands of displaced people live in tents, said officials at Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis. It said two families were among the dead. 'My brother, his wife, his four children, my cousin's son and his daughter. ... Eight people are gone,' said Saqer Abu Al-Kheir as people gathered on the sand for prayers and burials. Israel's military had no immediate comment on those strikes but said it struck 130 targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours. It claimed it targeted Hamas command and control structures, storage facilities, weapons and launchers, and that they killed a number of militants in northern Gaza. Ahead of the indirect talks with Hamas in Qatar, Netanyahu's office asserted that the militant group was seeking 'unacceptable' changes to the ceasefire proposal. Hamas gave a 'positive' response late Friday to the latest proposal. The militant group has sought guarantees that the initial truce would lead to a total end to the war and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Previous negotiations have stalled over Hamas demands of guarantees that further negotiations would lead to the war's end, while Netanyahu has insisted Israel would resume fighting to ensure the group's destruction. The war began when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. Most have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel responded with an offensive that has killed over 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The ministry, which is under Gaza's Hamas government, does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. The U.N. and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.
