Tucker Carlson: Trump is Days Away From Nuking Iran — Transcript

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1. 0:00On Sunday night, Tucker Carlson posted a
2. 0:02warning that has
3. 0:04been seen tens of millions of times. He
4. 0:06says the Trump administration may be
5. 0:08days away from using a nuclear weapon on
6. 0:11Iran. He says Benjamin Netanyahu is
7. 0:13pushing for it, and he says a decision
8. 0:16could come by this Saturday, November
9. 0:187th. So, we're going to go through his
10. 0:21post here. It's quite a long one, but
11. 0:23we're going to we're going to This is
12. 0:25just
13. 0:26a small section of it so you get an
14. 0:27idea. But, we're going to go through
15. 0:28this here. So, he says, "Under pressure
16. 0:31from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
17. 0:33Netanyahu, the Trump administration may
18. 0:35be within days of launching a nuclear
19. 0:37strike on Iran. The target would be
20. 0:38Pickaxe Mountain in Central Iran. No
21. 0:41conventional weapon in the American
22. 0:43arsenal can penetrate 300 ft of solid
23. 0:47granite. The only military option is a
24. 0:50nuclear strike." So, he's saying Israel
25. 0:52says that Iran has restarted its nuclear
26. 0:55program inside of a mountaintop, and
27. 0:59it's very deep inside of the mountain.
28. 1:00Sorry, it's it's way deep in the
29. 1:02mountain, not on the mountaintop. It's
30. 1:03way deep into the mountain, and it's too
31. 1:06deep to bomb with normal weapons. So,
32. 1:08the only way to destroy it is a nuke.
33. 1:09Now, if this is true, this means America
34. 1:12would be using a weapon about 20 times
35. 1:15the size of Hiroshima in order to hit a
36. 1:18target Trump himself says could be
37. 1:20handled in an hour. It would be the
38. 1:22first nuclear use
39. 1:24since 1945.
40. 1:27He goes on to say, "Netanyahu has been
41. 1:29pushing hard for one. BB calls Trump
42. 1:32about it every day," says an informed
43. 1:34observer.
44. 1:35So, he says that
45. 1:37the pressure isn't even coming from
46. 1:39inside the Pentagon. It's not even
47. 1:40coming from Americans. It's actually
48. 1:42coming from
49. 1:45It's coming from Israel. That's That's
50. 1:47who's doing it.
51. 1:50He says that
52. 1:53And if obviously if that's true, then
53. 1:54that's a foreign leader is steering the
54. 1:55most consequential decision in American
55. 1:59foreign policy. The most consequential
56. 2:00decision an American president can make.
57. 2:02I mean, we always say, "Oh, you know,
58. 2:03somebody's got the the nuke button,
59. 2:05that's the American president." This
60. 2:06would be the most consequential choice
61. 2:08an American president can make, and it
62. 2:09turns out that it's a foreign leader
63. 2:11who's steering that decision.
64. 2:14He goes on to say, "Netanyahu is
65. 2:16cornered and desperate. After last
66. 2:18week's election results, he can't form a
67. 2:20government unless Trump intervenes
68. 2:22directly in Israeli politics and brokers
69. 2:24a deal. Otherwise, he's out as Prime
70. 2:26Minister and on his way to ignominy,
71. 2:29investigations, and possibly jail.
72. 2:31Netanyahu must stick close to Trump. He
73. 2:33needs this war."
74. 2:37Um
75. 2:38So, this isn't even about American
76. 2:40politics. It's about one man's political
77. 2:42survival, and that political survival is
78. 2:46Israel's political survival, the Prime
79. 2:48Minister of Israel, a foreign country.
80. 2:49It's not our national security, has
81. 2:51nothing to do with our national
82. 2:53security. And obviously, um this means
83. 2:56that Americans could be dragged into a
84. 2:58nuclear war so that a foreign politician
85. 3:02can stay in office and stay out of
86. 3:04court.
87. 3:05This is impeachable. You know, I if
88. 3:08Trump actually goes through with this,
89. 3:11I hope Democrats will impeach him. But
90. 3:13of course, they won't.
91. 3:15I was against the first two
92. 3:16impeachments. I thought they were
93. 3:17ridiculous.
94. 3:18Uh but this would be a reason to
95. 3:19impeach. And of course, the when they
96. 3:21should, they won't. He goes on to say
97. 3:23he's applied max pressure to allies in
98. 3:25the administration, including Secretary
99. 3:26of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM
100. 3:28Commander Brad Cooper. Secretary of
101. 3:30State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John
102. 3:32Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu's
103. 3:34lead, as are leaders of the Democratic
104. 3:36Party. Barack Obama said he opposes the
105. 3:38current Iran peace deal being drafted in
106. 3:41Doha.
107. 3:42So, the war camp includes America's top
108. 3:45defense, intelligence, and diplomatic
109. 3:47officials, plus Democrats,
110. 3:49obviously. So, this makes it a
111. 3:50bipartisan push. And um if this is true,
112. 3:53then that means nearly the whole
113. 3:55national security leadership would be
114. 3:57aligned with a foreign government
115. 3:59against a peace deal, leaving the
116. 4:02president with a couple of voices of
117. 4:04restraint who of course don't really
118. 4:06have his ear.
119. 4:07He goes on to say, "On September 27th,
120. 4:09Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to
121. 4:11enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort
122. 4:13for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis
123. 4:15refused." So, even Israel's closest Arab
124. 4:19partner won't back them on this.
125. 4:22But they're going to get the US to do
126. 4:23it.
127. 4:24So,
128. 4:26you know, that and think about what that
129. 4:28means. I mean, the countries closest to
130. 4:29the blast, right? They're the ones who
131. 4:31are like,
132. 4:32uh no. I mean, they're the ones who's
133. 4:33who are going to get some nuclear
134. 4:35fallout potentially. They're also going
135. 4:37to get Iran's retaliation. They're
136. 4:39saying no, but Washington could end up
137. 4:42overruling them and doing it anyway
138. 4:44because Bibi Netanyahu wants him to do
139. 4:45it.
140. 4:47Um after 8 months of conflict, Gulf
141. 4:49economies are teetering, so are global
142. 4:51energy and fertilizer markets. About 850
143. 4:53supertankers in October alone, 11 of
144. 4:55them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At
145. 4:57this pace, a global depression is
146. 4:59imminent. So, gas prices, food prices,
147. 5:03fertilizer
148. 5:05uh drives crop costs actually, so those
149. 5:07are going to be going through the roof.
150. 5:09Shipping costs all are going to spike at
151. 5:11once. So, Americans are going to feel it
152. 5:12at the pump and at the grocery store. He
153. 5:14says, "Fallout from a ground explosion
154. 5:16at Pickaxe Mountain would contaminate
155. 5:17the Persian Gulf poisoning the water
156. 5:19supply for 100 million people. So, some
157. 5:22of the richest cities in the world
158. 5:24including Dubai, Doha, Kuwait City,
159. 5:26Riyadh could face massive water
160. 5:29shortages within days by a refugee
161. 5:31crisis."
162. 5:34He says, "No country other than the
163. 5:36United States has ever used a nuclear
164. 5:37weapon in war. Some would like to and
165. 5:38American nuclear attack on Iran would
166. 5:40set a new precedent. The Russians have
167. 5:41already told at least two other
168. 5:42governments that an American nuclear
169. 5:44strike on Iran would free them to use
170. 5:45nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
171. 5:47Pakistan and India would be tempted to
172. 5:49do the same against each other as would
173. 5:50North Korea against Seoul. It was one
174. 5:52thing to drop it in 1945, right? But
175. 5:55uh it's another thing to drop it today
176. 5:56when more countries have it. Back then,
177. 5:58we were the only country that had nukes.
178. 5:59We were able to drop them twice and then
179. 6:01everybody was in awe, shock and awe. But
180. 6:03now, so many other countries have nukes.
181. 6:05It would just free them up for using
182. 6:06them.
183. 6:07And that's, you know, that's uh a point
184. 6:09to think about.
185. 6:11Um after the first nuclear strike, World
186. 6:13War III is inevitable. That war would be
187. 6:15short and final.
188. 6:18Since February, the administration has
189. 6:19quietly rewritten America's nuclear
190. 6:21doctrine to make first use of so-called
191. 6:24battlefield nukes easier and therefore
192. 6:25more likely. No one in Washington in
193. 6:27either party seems bothered by this.
194. 6:29So, the groundwork for this moment was
195. 6:31apparently laid months ago.
196. 6:33And um you know, the that means the the
197. 6:35rules for America using nukes have
198. 6:37changed without a vote, without a public
199. 6:40debate, and without most Americans even
200. 6:43knowing about it.
201. 6:44He says,"Close observers say Trump is
202. 6:46likely to decide by next weekend whether
203. 6:48or not to use nuclear weapons. That
204. 6:50would be November 7th, 6 days from now.
205. 6:52To his credit, he's hesitating. At the
206. 6:54moment, Trump is listening to his Vice
207. 6:55President J.D. Vance and to his envoy
208. 6:57and friend Steve Witcoff, both of whom
209. 6:59argue a deal with Iran can be made."
210. 7:02So, you know, we're going to have to
211. 7:04wait with baited breath while this
212. 7:06tug-of-war happens inside of the United
213. 7:07inside of the White House. He says,"The
214. 7:09Iranians are famously frustrating to
215. 7:11negotiate with. Elements of that
216. 7:13government have become more radical
217. 7:14since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his
218. 7:17family were killed in February, but
219. 7:18overall, people who have spoken to
220. 7:19decision-makers in Iran say there is a
221. 7:21consensus that more war is bad for
222. 7:23everyone and a deal is worth making."
223. 7:25One group that hasn't been consulted so
224. 7:27far is the global population, the
225. 7:28hundreds of millions of people who'd be
226. 7:29killed along with their children if
227. 7:31Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into
228. 7:33launching a nuclear strike next week.
229. 7:35Now would be the time for them to speak
230. 7:36up.
231. 7:37Most And so, um
232. 7:39you know, that means that the president
233. 7:41has sole authority to order a nuclear
234. 7:44launch. There is no vote. Congress has
235. 7:47no fast break.
236. 7:50This this decision would be made over
237. 7:52the public's head. The public should
238. 7:53speak up right now, really. I mean,
239. 7:56the global population is um
240. 7:59at risk, and if Trump does this,
241. 8:03uh
242. 8:04definitely this could trigger that World
243. 8:06War where everyone believes they can now
244. 8:08start using nukes.
245. 8:10I mean, all we can hope is that his
246. 8:12insider information is not exactly
247. 8:14accurate. That, you know, maybe it's
248. 8:15more alarmist, but I tend to think that
249. 8:19this is probably pretty accurate. The
250. 8:21only thing that might save us is that
251. 8:22Trump is a bit mercurial.
252. 8:25Maybe Trump will hesitate. Maybe Trump
253. 8:27will say,"You know what? Actually, I
254. 8:28don't."Maybe he'll get right up to the
255. 8:29point where he's about to push the
256. 8:30button and he says,"Never mind, I'm not
257. 8:32going to. I'm going to go tweet and push
258. 8:33send instead."
259. 8:35And that would be our best-case
260. 8:36scenario. But I guess now we just have
261. 8:38to all wait with baited breath and see.
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