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“I Apologized” - Heritage Foundation CEO ADDRESSES Nick Fuentes & Tucker Carlson Fallout

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Roberts addresses the Tucker controversy, donor backlash, free speech, Zionism, and Heritage’s “one voice” policy. He explains apologizing for tone, separating personal vs institutional ties, and how Heritage publicly debated and reversed its China stance under Trump.

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0:00.0

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0:13.2

It's a new workday. When you make money, the profile of somebody that has money, they're not

0:19.1

easy people or else they wouldn't be successful. They're drivers, right? They're demanding. They fairly get, they tend to typically get what they want. So they could sit there and say, you know, if I just cut you a million-dollar check and you got up there and, you know, for example, let's use the instance of what happened, right? Where Tucker had Nick on, right?

0:39.1

Tucker had Nick on, and they did a podcast to get, and he got a lot of heat for it.

0:43.9

And right afterwards, I think you said we will always stand with Tucker and the rel-

0:51.3

– so you said something, very positive, complimentary towards Tucker.

0:54.0

And I think even Tucker spoke at Heritage two years ago, two and a half years ago at one of your events. with Tucker and the relics you said something very positive complimentary towards Tucker and i think

0:54.4

even Tucker spoke at heritage two years ago two and a half years ago at one of your events so he's

0:59.3

complimentary of you guys as well but when that came out and then some of the people walked there was a

1:05.1

article that came on maybe even you spoke about it about going to your staff and apologizing what did

1:10.3

you apologize for?

1:11.6

I apologized for two things, mixing up personal friendship with institutional friendship.

1:17.8

And secondly, especially for Jewish friends, but for anyone, a couple of phrases in there that

1:23.6

I regretted. And I can tell you, my closest Jewish friend called me the next morning,

1:29.0

and he said, Kevin, I know you're not an anti-Semite. You've expanded the work of anti-Semitism and

1:35.1

heritage. And he said, you're a Roman Catholic. I know your faith well enough to know you couldn't be.

1:38.9

He said, but this is something that you need to address head on. And so it's sort of like the conversation with my retired OBGYN friend and donor,

1:48.6

that this Jewish friend up until this very moment as we sit here has been a great guide

1:54.3

in setting up conversations for me and for us at Heritage to have.

1:58.2

The reason those have gone well in spite of not just the

2:01.3

new cycle, but what seems to be an agenda that goes well beyond the video controversy is because

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