About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Tucker Carlson Makes BIG ANNOUNCEMENT About His Future In Politics from The Young Turks, published July 2, 2026. The transcript contains 2,904 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"The Iranians are worse, but deep down, they want to kill us and hurt us the entire time we're dying. Now, that's my point of view. Tucker will have a different point of view. Yeah. He thinks, and he thinks that we're too close to Israel. I think a lot of people, from people that I see all the time,"
[0:00] The Iranians are worse, but deep down, they want to kill us and hurt us the entire time we're dying.
[0:07] Now, that's my point of view. Tucker will have a different point of view.
[0:10] Yeah. He thinks, and he thinks that we're too close to Israel.
[0:14] I think a lot of people, from people that I see all the time, that's the number one thing
[0:20] that people say. They think we're too close to a country that's created a genocide against Palestine.
[0:28] Podcaster and comedian Theo Vaughn hosted Republican Senator John Kennedy on his program
[0:35] to talk about a whole host of issues. But certainly the topic of Tucker Carlson and
[0:40] US support for Israel came up. And as much as I thought that portion of the conversation was
[0:47] fascinating, it was also infuriating. Because it was a perfect example of the way a United States
[0:55] Senator, an American politician behaves when he is sitting across someone that he knows
[1:01] isn't necessarily equipped with the expertise to identify that he is lying.
[1:07] So Senator John Kennedy lied to Theo Vaughn's face with absolutely no problem,
[1:16] effortless, it was effortless. And so I'd like to invite Senator Kennedy onto our program.
[1:22] And I would like to hear him say the things he said to Theo Vaughn on our program. And let's see
[1:29] how that works out for him. I'm not saying that in a threatening way, I'm just saying,
[1:34] you're a liar. And I'd like to challenge you, let's see if you're willing to take that challenge.
[1:40] Now with that in mind, they did talk about the fact that Tucker Carlson is leaving the Republican
[1:49] Party, that's been a big story. And Theo Vaughn asks Kennedy about it, we're gonna get to that
[1:56] moment in just a second. But before we do, I wanna tell you that it looks like Tucker Carlson is
[2:02] actually serious about leaving the Republican Party. Because he just had an interview with the
[2:08] Columbia Journalism Review. And it looks like he announced that he's working on launching a third
[2:14] party. So let me tell you what he had to say. So he says, the breaking point and the huge change in
[2:21] my life came in June of 2025 with the 12 day war, which was not about Iran's nuclear program.
[2:28] It was the first salvo in a regime change effort led by Israel. And that's just antithetical to
[2:35] everything Trump ran on. Further, he says, I'm not interested in Israel. I don't think it's significant
[2:42] as a country from an American perspective. It's not in our hemisphere. It's got no resources.
[2:48] That's why it's trying to take over Lebanon. They want that gas field.
[2:52] So I just don't care. But once you start taking over my political system and destroying my country,
[2:59] then I have a right to care. So now I do care. Now later in the interview, he decided to announce
[3:07] that he is forming a third party. He says, I'm going to help build a third party.
[3:12] There should be a good faith effort to figure out what benefits the country. I mean,
[3:17] if you make $60,000 a year, you're degraded. So he's talking about cost of living here.
[3:23] Your life expectancy has gone down and the promise of your children's lives is likely gone.
[3:30] He talks about that a lot, by the way. I think he has four kids and they're all adults now,
[3:36] young adults who are probably looking to buy houses. They're looking to get married,
[3:41] start their families. And even coming from Tucker Carlson's family and the fact that he
[3:47] is doing well for himself, I'm sure. It's so hard to buy a home in America right now.
[3:54] I mean, depending on where you're looking to buy, obviously. But you're going to look to buy
[3:58] in places where the jobs are, and that's where the houses are outrageously expensive.
[4:05] Like the neighborhood I grew up in, guys, the neighborhood I grew up in, which I thought,
[4:09] I don't want to live in the neighborhood I grew up in. I want to be an up and comer.
[4:13] Like I really, I want to show that I've succeeded. I've gone further in life.
[4:18] I can't afford a house in Reseda, $1.5 million for a house in Reseda, California.
[4:23] Maybe you can find a fixer for like 900,000. That is insane, especially when you consider the
[4:28] current interest rates. People can't afford homes. So then he says, no one seems to care.
[4:35] It's not even a factor. What about Hamas? I officially don't care about Hamas. The US
[4:41] government should have as its first priority, the welfare of its own people. So there you have it.
[4:48] Tucker Carlson is in fact leaving the Republican Party and says that he's going to help launch a
[4:52] third party. I don't want to get into whether or not a third party is viable. That's a long
[4:58] conversation. I think people should try new things. And if you want to launch a third party,
[5:03] and he certainly has a following. It could work, who knows? But he did say that he has no interest
[5:09] in being a candidate representing this third party. So we'll see how that plays out.
[5:14] But let's get back to Theo Vaughn and the conversation he had with Senator Kennedy.
[5:20] So Theo brought up the fact that Tucker has left the Republican Party.
[5:26] And here's how Republican Senator John Kennedy reacted to it.
[5:30] Long time conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that there's no chance I would
[5:34] support the Republican Party ahead of the November midterm elections. Not gonna support the Democratic
[5:39] Party. Carlson was quick to add, I don't know what I'm gonna do. That's right. He said he felt like
[5:44] it was becoming Israel first party. Yep.
[5:46] And not America first. That's a big person to not have support from. Because he's been a big supporter of
[5:56] the Republican Party for a while. What's your response to that? Well, I know Tucker. He's very,
[6:00] very smart. He's very articulate. He has fallen out with President Trump and with those of us in the
[6:12] Senate who support Israel. He primarily fell out with President Trump over the conflict in Iran.
[6:22] Now, I've been very supportive of the President on the conflict in Iran. I don't want America to be
[6:30] the world's policeman. But I don't want Xi Jinping in China, or the Ayatollah in Iran,
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[8:10] You might as well wake up ready for them. So you want to be the world's policeman?
[8:16] Because what he just listed at the tail end of that statement indicates I want to decide which
[8:23] regimes rule which country. It's not your decision. That's what it means to serve as the world's
[8:33] policeman. When you look at leaders of foreign countries and say, I don't like that. I don't
[8:39] like that. So we're going to do a regime change. And every time we do it, it's a disaster.
[8:46] So Senator Kennedy is a representative of failed US foreign policy that has been pushed upon us
[8:58] by the neoconservative class who are loathsome human beings who don't give a damn about this country
[9:06] and only care about helping Israel expand its borders. That's what neoconservative foreign policy
[9:12] is. So don't say I don't want to be the world's policeman as you are literally simultaneously
[9:21] saying things that you support that would make you the world's policeman.
[9:27] But okay, that's actually not the worst clip. Okay, that one for the most part is mild,
[9:34] but we're just getting started. So he later downplays Israel's slaughter campaigns in
[9:39] the Middle East. That should be fun. Let's take a look at that.
[9:41] I'll give you another point of view. The real problem in the Middle East since
[9:49] forever, since God was a baby, the real problem in the Middle East is Iran. Hamas would hold the
[10:01] Gazans hostage. They would put them out front.
[10:05] But how do we even know that they killed 220 something- Because we've seen it.
[10:08] But they killed 220 something journalists that went there to document what was going on.
[10:12] There's no question there were civilian deaths. They wouldn't let journalists in to even document
[10:17] what was happening there. There have been civilian deaths,
[10:19] but it is primarily the fault. I'm not saying Israel is blameless, but war is ugly.
[10:26] Yeah, but is this war? But it is war.
[10:30] So he just regurgitated the most laughable zio slop imaginable. So you have, I mean,
[10:42] I don't believe the death toll numbers coming out of Gaza right now. I think the numbers are higher.
[10:47] But okay, fine. Let's be very conservative here and just repeat the Gaza Health Ministry
[10:53] numbers. Which is, I believe at this point close to 75,000 people killed. A lot of people have been
[11:00] killed after the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, of course. But he looks at all those civilians
[11:08] slaughtered by the Israelis, by the IDF. And he still tries to repeat the ridiculous talking point
[11:17] that Hamas is responsible for all that slaughter. Really? Is Hamas responsible for all that slaughter
[11:24] in Lebanon too? Is Hamas responsible for all that slaughter in Syria that Israel's responsible for?
[11:32] Is Hamas responsible for the slaughter over 1000 people killed in the West Bank since October 3rd?
[11:39] Is Hamas responsible for that too? Yeah, what a clown. Later in the conversation, by the way,
[11:47] Theo Vaughn accurately brought up the fact that Netanyahu and the Israelis facilitated the funding
[11:53] of Hamas. And Senator Kennedy just effortlessly lies to his face about it and says that's not true.
[12:03] You're a good boy for Israel Kennedy, real good boy. Did Israel tell you to fake your accent?
[12:10] Or did you just decide on that on your own? Look it up if you don't believe me. People who knew Kennedy
[12:16] back in the day, columnist who went to school with Senator John Kennedy says that
[12:20] his accent is fake. This was reported by Mediaite back in December of 2019.
[12:26] What a clown. These people are so disgusting and fake, but we're not done yet.
[12:30] So after downplaying the slaughter, he had more to say. So I actually wanna go back real quick,
[12:37] if you don't mind, Alyssa. So Theo Vaughn also rightly pointed out that most Americans at this point
[12:42] agree with Tucker Carlson. So while he says he had a falling out with the president,
[12:52] that's all it is. Theo Vaughn's like, well, I don't know. Tucker Carlson seems to be saying things that
[12:56] resonates with the American people. Take a look. Look, I don't hate anybody.
[13:00] And the Chinese people, to the extent that the Communist Party and China will let you
[13:06] interact with them, are lovely people. But they are determined, they hate America.
[13:15] And deep down, the Iranians are worse. But deep down, they wanna kill us and hurt us
[13:22] the entire time we're dying. Now, that's my point of view. Tucker will have a different point of view.
[13:27] Yeah. He thinks, and he thinks that we're too close to Israel.
[13:31] I think a lot of people, from people that I see all the time, that's the number one thing
[13:37] that people say. They think we're too close to a country that's created a genocide against
[13:43] Palestine and then is in conflict with these other people around them.
[13:47] It seems like they're just kind of the bullies of the area. It feels like they're the terrorist
[13:53] organization. That's what it seems like to a lot of people.
[13:55] A lot of people believe that. Because it's true. The IDF should be listed
[14:00] as a terrorist organization. They've killed far more people than Hamas has.
[14:04] They've killed far more people than Hezbollah has. So if those two groups are considered
[14:12] terrorist organizations, what are you gonna say about the IDF? Just because they bribe you,
[14:19] Senator Kennedy, doesn't mean that you can't identify what the truth is, right?
[14:23] If you're wondering how much he's taken in bribes from the Israel lobby,
[14:27] from AIPAC directly, he has taken $225,192. And then from individuals categorized within
[14:39] the Israel lobby, he took another $896,111. So over a million dollars in bribes from the Israel lobby.
[14:51] So that's what informs Kennedy's commentary and lies throughout the entirety of this
[14:59] portion of their conversation. So with that in mind, I'm gonna go to the last video here.
[15:03] Because I think this is the moment that infuriated me beyond belief that and the fact that he lied to
[15:12] Theo Vaughn about how Israel facilitated the funding of Hamas. So let's take a look at this last clip,
[15:18] and we'll get a reaction. Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more
[15:23] since October 7, 2023. Let me see, Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to
[15:30] torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons. This is all part of,
[15:36] let me see, United Nations. Well, first, I wouldn't believe it
[15:40] if it came from the UN. Really? Do you feel like they're not liable?
[15:43] No, they're not. They're not, sorry, reliable.
[15:45] They're not objective. Okay.
[15:46] They're not objective. Number two, and I know children got killed, and it breaks your heart.
[15:54] Hamas kills children too. So does Hezbollah, so does Iran. Do you think the Ayatollah doesn't
[16:01] care about the Iranian people? I mean, Hamas and Hezbollah killed children,
[16:05] so why don't we just give the Israelis a pass? Is that your argument? That's your argument.
[16:10] That's your argument? And you're gonna have the audacity to say that the UN is not credible,
[16:16] which is another Israel supplied talking point. The UN accurately carries out investigations and
[16:25] puts out reports about Israel's treachery. Israel doesn't like it, so they're like,
[16:30] the UN, they're just full of Jew haters. They're not credible. And then you have the
[16:34] clowns in our Congress just regurgitate their talking points. That's what that was. Okay,
[16:39] then is B'Tselem credible? Kennedy, be careful. It's an Israeli organization. They claim that Israel
[16:47] carried out genocide in Gaza. Are they credible, Senator Kennedy? Be careful,
[16:52] they're Israelis. You don't wanna be a Jew hater, do you? These people make me sick. They make me sick.
[16:59] And this is in no way me trying to chide Theo Vaughn, because Theo Vaughn's heart is very obviously in
[17:06] the right place. He's doing his best and you can tell he really, really wants to talk about this
[17:11] issue. You could tell when he was on Rogan's show. You can tell by the conversations he has on his
[17:15] own podcast. He's a comedian and a podcaster. He's not a political expert. He's not an expert
[17:20] in foreign policy. I've been doing this for 20 years. So I live for this stuff. I love reading
[17:26] about this stuff. I love studying this stuff. He's in a different field of entertainment than me.
[17:33] And so I just wanna be clear about that. I think Theo Vaughn is doing his best.
[17:36] But what makes me so sick is that Kennedy decides to use the fact that Theo Vaughn might not be as
[17:46] informed as someone who actually studies this stuff every day. And he used it to his advantage
[17:55] by lying to him and his audience. But I gotta say, Theo Vaughn's team, you can tell behind the
[18:02] scenes. They're pulling stuff up, doing their best to push back on Senator Kennedy.
[18:09] But if a guy is willing to lie about his accent, literally do a whole act for the American people
[18:19] and misrepresent who he really is. Can you really be surprised when he's willing to lie about crimes
[18:25] against humanity? I'm not surprised. But anyway, the invitation is open. Senator Kennedy,
[18:32] please come on the show. I'd love to have a conversation with you.
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