Tucker Carlson: Stop to the madness of immigration, stop to the insanity that was going on . He says there was no way we were going to last another four years with the insanity of the last four years . Carlson: If we do not have Tom Homan and Stephen Miller to go all the way to actually deport everybody that is needed to be deported, to fix the southern border .
00:01:33.200And I just want to go through with you, if we could, since you were right in the middle of this election, working on behalf, outside the campaign, but on behalf of reform and on behalf of the country, really, you know the answer to this question.
00:01:49.800What are the things that you're looking forward to over the next four years?
00:01:56.160Well, first of all, stop to the madness.
00:01:58.920I mean, there was no way we were going to last another four years with the insanity that was going on.
00:02:02.660So we can put a stop to that, at least for the moment.
00:02:06.200I think the most, one of the most exciting things to me is...
00:02:14.800I'm going to be disappointed if that's all we get, but if that's all we get, that's a serious step in the right direction.
00:02:20.240So just name three trends that are, well, I guess Biden's still president, that have been in progress the last four years that we could not sustain for another four years.
00:02:32.060I mean, we're seeing what we've seen over the last four years, not only the wide open borders.
00:02:37.120We don't even really know who's come in.
00:02:39.340We know there's tens of millions of illegals that have come in, millions of getaways.
00:02:45.440I still don't understand why we haven't had a deeper conversation about the tens of thousands of Chinese national males that have come in over the southern border.
00:02:52.780Like, what the hell is going on with that?
00:02:56.520At the same time, conversation about the fact that for four years they've been importing new voters.
00:03:02.220I would hope that every Republican, regardless of where they are on the spectrum, because again, we know that not all Republicans are created equal.
00:03:09.340That even the Chamber of Commerce Republicans understand over the next four years for their own self-preservation, they should be wholeheartedly behind Donald Trump's deportation efforts.
00:03:20.340We start with those illegals that have criminal records.
00:03:22.580And we keep right on going and deporting all of the new Democratic voters that they've imported over the last four years for the sake of self-preservation.
00:03:29.500If you want to have a two-party system instead of a single-party state, the immigration has to be fixed.
00:03:35.760And I would argue to the point of if we do not have – if Donald Trump does not unleash Tom Homan and Stephen Miller to go all the way to actually deport everybody that is needed to be deported, to fix the southern border, it calls into question who we are as a country.
00:03:55.700I mean, this to me is one of the things that, again, if you don't have a border, you don't have sovereignty, you don't have citizens.
00:04:02.640What does it actually mean to be a country?
00:04:13.280And with everything that has been taking place in regards to immigration, if it was to have continued for another four years, again, I think all bets are off on who we are as a people, who we are as a country.
00:04:23.500So immigration, first thing, foreign policy, I mean, that to me, what are we even doing on a whole host of fronts in regards to Ukraine?
00:04:33.860That whole mess is still going where we're still apparently sending billions of dollars over to Ukraine before they, you know, shut the lights out on the Biden White House.
00:04:41.500But the foreign policy, again, getting us to the point, and also the weakness that we have demonstrated on the international stage for the last four years, at a certain point, that was going to cause even more serious implications if it was another four years of that.
00:04:54.460And I don't know where it would have ended.
00:04:57.180Well, this week, I mean, as if he hasn't started enough wars, I mean, he started all kinds of wars that people aren't, I mean, we're in battle with the Houthis right now.
00:05:06.540But Biden just announced that in the final couple weeks of his administration, he's going to start a war with Iran.
00:05:14.440With Lindsey Graham's full support, this to me is at some point, at some point, I hope that we can restructure the Republican Party in the primaries of 2026.
00:05:29.160That's another topic that we'd love to discuss with you.
00:05:31.580But yeah, at some point, Donald Trump won on an America First message.
00:05:36.620It'd be really nice if the rest of the Republicans fell in line with that and understanding that the people voted for change and the change is what they want with America First.
00:05:45.100And that includes Donald Trump's approach on foreign policy.
00:05:48.440That does not include more shooting wars with Iran and others across the globe.
00:05:52.960At the same time, there is a certain approach that I think Donald Trump brings to foreign policy that brought us peace.
00:06:39.260And I couldn't imagine another four years of them being devastated economically where we would be.
00:06:45.940So those three things, immigration, foreign policy, economy, inflation.
00:06:50.020I know personally, someone I'm close to the other day just told me, a middle class person, solid, you know, probably makes higher than middle.
00:07:00.020I mean, I don't know, probably makes 160 a year if I had to guess.
00:07:05.260Which used to be considered pretty solid.
00:07:18.380It's kind of shocking when you realize that people that are making what would be considered, used to be considered pretty good salary going.
00:07:37.820But then the next step becomes, Donald Trump to me, listen, nobody's perfect.
00:07:44.320We all have many imperfections and nobody's a perfect person.
00:07:47.420But I think Donald Trump's a man for the hour.
00:07:50.700He has shown and demonstrated political courage.
00:07:53.440I cannot even begin to imagine the last four years of the political, the lawfare that has been put on him, used against him, the incredible pressure to try and destroy him.
00:08:06.480And I've told people this, and I'll say it here.
00:08:09.760Donald Trump knew what he was going up against.
00:08:37.160I mean, as much as we despise the administrative state and the deep state and the corporate propagandists and all these things, these are very powerful forces.
00:08:44.160And they can do a lot of damage to your life.
00:08:47.560He could have been enjoying a very good life somewhere else in the world, playing golf for the rest of his life every day in the lovely spot in the world.
00:08:54.520And he took incredible pressure, incredible body blows, kept running at them, and in many ways triumphed over these people that were trying to destroy him.
00:09:06.120And now he's back in a position of power to be able to implement, I think, a vision for this country that will begin a restoration.
00:09:15.060This is—I don't consider myself a conservative, necessarily, because what are we actually conserving?
00:09:20.980This, to me, is one of my great frustrations with the conservative movement writ large.
00:09:25.160Explain to me again what we've actually been conserving over the last 40, 50, 60 years.
00:09:29.000I'm more interested—and it's very—it's a very reactive term, too, conservative.
00:09:34.880I'm far more interested in restoration, in being a restorationist, in restoring the republic, in restoring a constitutional republic, in restoring a government of, by, and for the people that actually promotes the interests of the American people, which is kind of the premise of the American republic, right?
00:09:52.800All power flows from the American people, from the people to their duly elected representatives, who they make the stewards of the power and money given to them, to put together a government that actually promotes and protects the interests of the American people every day on every issue.
00:10:06.320And Donald Trump's—the great temerity of Donald Trump back in 2016 was that he kind of showed up and said, hey, I think a government of, by, and for the people should actually promote the American people and their interests.
00:10:16.480And that's why I think he was considered such a great threat by permanent D.C., the administrative state, whatever you want—however you want to define it.
00:10:22.820This, to me, is a moment in time where we have a shot, where we have an actual shot of restoring the republic, of restoring a government of, and of, for, and by the people, to the people, to promote the people, to protect their interests.
00:10:37.660That, to me, is one of the most interesting things over the next four years.
00:10:40.140But it's going to require someone like Donald Trump, with this political courage, instilling into others political courage to actually do the right things.
00:10:48.780I'm a little nervous about Mike Johnson as speaker.
00:10:54.620But I think if he can actually instill the political courage necessary into Republicans on the Hill, but also into his various nominees, who I think will actually have what it takes to do what they should be doing in the various departments and agencies,
00:11:06.680we could be in for a singular moment in American history in which we look back and go, this was the turning point where we actually began to restore the republic.
00:11:17.660So many threads, but before we get to—no, no, I think it's a great overview.
00:11:25.460Will all of Donald Trump's nominees be confirmed by the Republican Senate?
00:11:32.120I feel pretty good about a lot of them.
00:11:34.540I would not be surprised if Pete Hegseth gets 52.
00:14:30.360Donald Trump would like these people to actually be in these departments and agencies.
00:14:34.340And unless they're a criminal or unless there's some, you know, terrible thing in their past that is disqualifying, you get to confirm them.
00:15:15.000So where's the cleansing sort of justice where you call up certain senators, I'm not going to name names, and say, not only will we primary you and make certain you lose your Senate seat, we'll make certain you don't get a job after you leave the Senate.
00:15:25.780And then we're going to unleash some of the toughest people in the Republican Party to take a really close look at you.
00:17:41.200The corporation, the corporate lobbyists and all of these various interests have way too much say in how a senator actually or a congressman actually operates instead of the people that actually voted them into office.
00:17:54.440And you and I both know this because the lobbyists are in there every day pressuring, making sure there's a lot of money coming in for the re-election campaign so they can get re-elected, the idea of self-preservation.
00:18:04.720It's a pretty, I mean, there's a whole host of things wrong with our system today.
00:18:10.380The bell that rings that they respond to is not the right bell.
00:18:14.220It's been over a decade since Edward Snowden, who is a hero, exposed the U.S. government for spying on its citizens.
00:18:21.440He didn't commit the crime they did, but he, of course, was punished.
00:18:25.320Now, you would think that the information that he brought to the public would cause permanent Washington to pause, reflect, apologize for violating the Constitution to the United States, the privacy and the rights of American citizens.
00:22:29.600You're talking with hundreds of millions every election cycle to have a proper enforcement mechanism of, you said you were going to do this.
00:22:52.540I mean, I look at people, including some in leadership, who clearly have had a hard conversation with someone who's like, we've got your online porn records, or we know who your boyfriend is, or, you know, you got wasted on a codel to Croatia and acted like a pig.
00:23:26.900I would make the argument—I mean, one of the arguments I make in American Leviathan is we're not really a constitutional republic anymore.