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The Megyn Kelly Show

Tucker Carlson on His Exit From Fox, What He's Building Now, and America's Free Speech Reckoning | Ep. 683

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.438.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Tucker Carlson, founder of the Tucker Carlson Network, to talk about what was really behind his exit from Fox News, the way he was treated behind-the-scenes, what happened in the media after he left, the decline of corporate legacy media, continuing to work and speak the truth, the subscription network he's launching now, the free podcast, the future of the media, X as a free speech platform, whether Tucker would consider being Donald Trump's VP running mate, what he thinks of Trump personally and politically, the way politicians change their personalities, the potential for violence if Donald Trump is thrown in prison ahead of the November election, political consequences being felt now in cities, Harvard and other top colleges going through a reckoning related to free speech, how universities have become about business and money and not merit, the truth about Tucker's position on Israel, whether the GOP will really withhold funding to Ukraine, Putin's next move, American interests in Ukraine and elsewhere internationally, the true reality of the border crisis, Tucker's relationship at home with his wife, and more. More from Tucker: https://tuckercarlson.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Happy Monday. Hope you had a great weekend. I'm excited to bring you today's show back in April, the top rated cable news host Tucker Carlson was suddenly removed from his Fox News show,

0:28.2

sidelined at the height of his career and we had no idea why. To this this day Fox News has not said that's how much it

0:36.3

respects its audience we've talked about it many times on the show we brought you

0:40.1

the truth about what was really happening behind the scenes and what they were doing to him in the press thereafter,

0:45.6

while so many others just went with a spin being offered by that network's communications person.

0:51.9

Tucker and I have known each other for a long time. We've talked many times since April,

0:55.9

off the air and off the record, but today is our first conversation on the air since that seismic moment earlier this year.

1:04.0

Since he left Fox, Tucker has been putting our videos, out videos, I should say,

1:09.0

on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

1:11.0

Now it's called X with his successful Tucker on X show. known as

1:13.0

Twitter, now it's called X with his successful Tucker on X show.

1:15.3

But as we're going to discuss today, there's a whole lot more Tucker coming your way

1:20.6

starting right here.

1:27.0

Tucker way starting right here. Tucker Carlson, welcome back to the show. It's great to see you.

1:28.0

When he said, Boxers are still not divulge.

1:30.0

Literally the first thing that came on mind was, I bet's guilty of human trafficking and then I thought wait it's me

1:37.1

I'm trafficking it just sounds so bad to this day we don't know why they did it

1:42.4

you know if Irea thought she could

1:44.3

get away with that lie she would have planted it. Sure I've never trafficked

1:48.4

anybody I will say I've had a long and varied life but that has not been part of it. Let's thank God for that.

1:54.0

Well that's as good a place to start as any and we're going to get to very shortly you have a big

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