The Real Reason U.S Is Going to War With Iran | Tucker Carlson Interview — SF706
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm talking with Tucker Carlson about what happens when politics stops making sense and something deeper starts to emerge—where power really sits, why war keeps happening regardless of who's in charge, and whether democracy as we understand it is already gone. We get into his shift on Trump, the pressure behind the Iran war, and why he believes leaders have far less control than we're told, with real decisions being made elsewhere. From there it opens into a much bigger conversation about spiritual power, the role of faith in public life, and the idea that what looks like political conflict may actually be something far more fundamental.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand |
| 0:11.1 | Antichael |
| 0:12.1 | controversial conspiracy theorist |
| 0:14.3 | Trying to bring real journalism to the American people. |
| 0:21.0 | Tucker, Russell! You're right at the middle of the people. Tucker. |
| 0:22.6 | Russell! |
| 0:24.1 | You're right at the middle of the culture again. |
| 0:26.4 | Indeed, watching you move through what seemed to be vocal, and one might have imagined |
| 0:33.8 | from the state that your country was in at the point and what appeared like a crisis, vociferous and meaningful support of President Trump, to skepticism, now to the |
| 0:43.4 | point where it seems that your criticism of him, and in particular his actions or announcements |
| 0:49.0 | around, of course, war, which you've always been anti-war, strongly anti-war in all contexts, |
| 0:53.2 | so I know that's not personal, |
| 0:54.5 | but also with some of the announcements or posts that is made regarding religion have led you |
| 1:02.0 | to as close to condemnation as I can imagine you being of him and his presidency. It seems like |
| 1:08.1 | it's a really significant moment, I think for him, let alone you. |
| 1:12.3 | And I wonder how you feel at the middle of it, whether you feel like you're participating |
| 1:16.5 | in some significant moment. |
| 1:18.8 | Indeed, whether or not your support is so pivotal and important that its denial could cost |
| 1:24.6 | Trump presidency in, well, it's not true. |
| 1:29.0 | It's not going to run again, |
| 1:35.3 | but like, I wonder how you have moved from a position of support to a position of condemnation and how critical you imagine it might be for him. In reverse order, I don't think it's critical |
| 1:39.9 | at all. It's probably meaningless. I have no power at all. I don't think I've moved much. I think |
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