“Champion of conspiracy theories”

Deadline: White House

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News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace discusses Tucker Carlson’s shocking exit from Fox News, what the network’s reasoning behind the departure could have been, breaking news from Fulton County DA Fani Willis that an indictment announcement will come this summer, the GOP’s efforts to keep abortion off the ballot after seeing successive disastrous results in last year’s election cycle, and more. Joined by: Jeremy Peters, Nick Confessore, Tim Miller, Claire McCaskill, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Marc Harris, Katie Benner, Frank Figliuzzi, Greg Bluestein, Michele Goodwin, and Maya Wiley.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, everyone.
0:08.4	It's 4 o'clock in New York.
0:10.0	When you pull back the layers and really try to understand how anyone of the most damaging
0:15.2	conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political
0:21.1	conversation and corroded the body politic.
0:25.1	From election denialism and its violent manifestation, January 6 in correction, to Vladimir Putin's
0:32.3	propaganda about Ukraine, which has ceded opposition to the United States' response to the
0:37.9	largest land war in Europe since World War II to conspiracies about COVID-19 and the
0:44.4	vaccine and mask wearing.
0:46.4	So the discussion around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifesto's
0:51.9	of mass shooters.
0:53.5	It is fair to say it is not hyperbolic at all to argue that Tucker Carlson is the throughline
1:01.0	through all of them.
1:02.0	He's a champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences
1:07.4	in cable news for disseminating them.
1:10.6	Not anymore.
1:11.6	News broke today that Tucker Carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest
1:16.1	microphone of his career.
1:18.2	That stunning announcement by Fox News made this morning in a short statement that read
1:23.0	quote, Fox News media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
1:27.1	We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
1:33.0	Carlson's last program was Friday, April 21.
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