Is The Anti-War Right Siding With America's Enemies? | The Big Ben Show

The Big Ben Show

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Is the Vice President’s inner circle a political liability? Ben Domenech explores the fallout of the ongoing Iran conflict and the "McCarthyite" climate surrounding foreign communications. Ben examines why the CIA and FBI are monitoring backchannels and whether these associations will haunt the GOP in 2028. Later, global reporter Jamie Kirchick joins the show to discuss the "opportunism" of Rep. Ro Khanna and the shifting gatekeeping on the American Right. Plus, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty joins Ben to discuss "Making the Cut" and how to restore public trust in the medical establishment after years of over-centralization. 🎙️ Listen and SUBSCRIBE for more candid conversations on speech, culture, media power and politics. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3fRPRZR... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Follow The Big Ben Show on all social platforms: X: https://x.com/BigBenShowFox Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigbenshowfox Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigBenShowFox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Big Ben Show.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Ben Dominic.
0:10.5	You can follow me on X at B.
0:12.6	Dominic.
0:13.2	You can follow the show on X and Instagram at Big Ben Show Fox.
0:17.1	We hope that you will check out our clips and share them with your friends.
0:22.2	Give us a rating,
0:27.2	review, leave a comment if you're interested in what we're talking about. And today I want to talk to you about this ridiculous but viral statement that has been offered by one of my former colleagues
0:34.0	here at Fox, Tucker Carlson, about the fact that the CIA has apparently
0:39.5	referred him for criminal referral, he claims, to the FBI over his communications with
0:46.4	certain individuals in Iran. There was a ton of speculation about these comments, what they
0:52.5	actually meant, what they indicate, if it was
0:55.7	the kind of thing where he was attempting to back channel with the Iranian regime, informed them
1:02.1	about the thoughts of the president of the United States, or maybe engage in some kind of attempt
1:08.2	to avoid the type of thing that is going on in Iran right now.
1:13.0	But whatever the motivation, whatever the context of those messages,
1:17.3	I just want to give people a perspective on what goes on when it comes to talking to representatives of foreign regimes.
1:24.6	If you are a journalist, you know that communicating with people who are either members of a
1:31.0	foreign regimes government or representatives of them in some corporate manner, cutouts effectively
1:37.4	who communicate with the West, it is just something that happens. It's in the line of duty to
1:43.0	have those messages snarfed up by our
1:45.7	intelligence services and looked at, considered, because the simple fact is that we have
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