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The Tucker Carlson Show

James Fishback on DeSantis’s Attack on Free Speech, Randy Fine’s Bloodlust, & America Last Globalism

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.58.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

James Fishback is running for governor in Florida. Pretty soon, all winning Republican politicians will talk like this. (00:00) Why Is James Fishback Running for Florida Governor? (11:18) How Florida's Economy Is Being Sabotaged (15:13) Randy Fine and Ron DeSantis's Anti-Free Speech Laws (33:43) Is Byron Donalds Bought and Paid For? (40:59) The Identity Politics Taking Over the Right Paid partnerships with: Beam: Go to https://ShopBeam.com/Tucker use code TUCKER and get up to 40% off Beam's Dream powder. SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/TUCKER to claim 50% off a new system. There's no safe like SimpliSafe. Battalion Metals: Shop fair-priced gold and silver. Gain clarity and confidence in your financial future at https://battalionmetals.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So you're running for Governor of Florida.

0:36.8

Why are you doing that? I'm doing it because I love my state.

0:39.9

My fourth generation Floridian, and I got to tell you, Tucker, it's really hard to be an American in America these days.

0:46.1

It's really hard for Floridians who quite literally put the state on the map. They're not being forced out of this state because they can't afford to live here anymore.

0:53.9

All while illegal immigrants still get the free stuff from the Biden years, all while H-1B still

0:58.7

come into our state and take jobs that belong to Americans here in Florida.

1:02.9

And then I think the last draw was this idea of Washington, D.C., negotiating a trade deal with China,

1:08.5

and then 600,000 foreign students are going to come to our universities, maybe a third of them to Florida colleges, where their taxpayer-funded universities are going to have to give up their seats from Florida kids from Charlotte County or Lee County to kids from Shanghai and Beijing. It didn't make any sense. And so I'm running because I'm the only... That's literally true?

1:27.1

Literally. That's part of the current framework, this bilateral framework between the U.S.

1:31.9

and China right now is that D.C. is now as a concession to the Chinese and this tariff war,

1:36.4

that we're going to have to accept 600,000 Chinese foreign students at our schools.

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