"Why Apologize?” - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Bet-David sits down with Kevin Roberts to discuss the Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes fallout, Heritage Foundation’s stance on political versus theological Zionism and anti-Semitism, adapting conservative policy to social media and AI, birth rate and family policy proposals, transgender surgery and mental health, China policy shifts, cabinet leadership under Trump, and calls for transparency surrounding the Epstein controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Tucker had Nick on and they did a podcast to get and he got a lot of heat for it. |
| 0:04.2 | Article that came on, maybe even you spoke about it, about going to your staff and apologizing. |
| 0:08.4 | What did you apologize for? |
| 0:09.7 | A couple of phrases in there that I regretted. |
| 0:12.2 | Project 2025 were young Americans. |
| 0:14.8 | All of the elites have all of this power and here's a plan to take it back. |
| 0:18.8 | Your fiery talk you gave at World Economic Forum, |
| 0:21.8 | IDMD has said, great job. That was amazing. And if I may, I will be candid and say that the agenda |
| 0:27.6 | that every single member of the administration needs to have is to compile a list of everything |
| 0:32.3 | that's ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum and object to all of them wholesale. |
| 0:36.7 | You get a call. |
| 0:38.1 | Somebody wants to give $2 million plus. |
| 0:40.7 | But he was on the Epstein Island, and he had a relationship with Epstein. |
| 0:45.6 | But 12 years ago, would you still accept the money? |
| 0:49.6 | That's all. |
| 0:50.4 | We believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday. |
| 0:58.0 | Not to be clear, not that everyone who has gone through that surgery would do that kind of thing. |
| 1:02.0 | The World Health Organization is discussing, foisting gender ideology upon the global south. |
| 1:09.0 | How do you address this? |
| 1:10.0 | You outlaw it. You outlaw it? Because it's bad for the global south. How do you address this? You outlaw it. |
| 1:11.3 | You outlaw it? |
| 1:12.1 | Because it's bad for the human person. |
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