Tucker Carlson explains himself
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's today explained. President Trump has not made a coherent case for his war in Iran, and last night he said he's not ending it yet. |
| 0:08.0 | We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. |
| 0:17.0 | His ally, Tucker Carlson, has been making a very coherent case against the war. |
| 0:21.7 | Because it doesn't serve American interests in any conceivable way. |
| 0:26.9 | And let me just say that if it does in some way serve the interests of the United States, |
| 0:32.1 | I'd love to hear it. |
| 0:33.0 | I haven't heard. |
| 0:33.6 | On Tuesday, we asked Carlson about his break with Trump and about how the Trump coalition is splintering as some young conservatives abandon the president and embrace something darker. |
| 0:43.9 | It becomes like all of a sudden like, hey, you kids, why you listen to Elvis Presley and that rock music is bad? |
| 0:49.5 | Like all of a sudden, Fuentes controls the conversation and becomes the cool kid. And the net effect is to make |
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| 1:36.2 | You're listening to today explained. |
| 1:39.4 | My name is Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm not sure what I do. |
| 1:43.9 | I have a podcast. Is that I don't know if that's a job or not. |
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