ļ¼Death To America DOESN'T Mean What You Thinkļ¼ - Iran President EXPOSED In Tucker Softball Interview
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Summary
Tucker Carlson interviews the President of Iran and asks him a question about Iran's "Death to America" and what it means to be a bad guy in the eyes of the people of the United States and why they should be afraid of Iran.
Transcript
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The interview with Tucker Carlson and the president of Iran, Rob.
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Ilan, Tucker announces that he's going to be doing the interview,
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what do you think about the fact that he's doing the interview?
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The more I get a chance to hear what the president of any country has to say.
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I got a lot of shit when I interviewed the founder of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
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And they're like, I cannot believe you're doing this.
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Now, having said that, in the intro, Rob, is this the intro or is this theā
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That is where they talk about Death to America being chanted.
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Okay, so here's a question that was asked about Death to America.
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do you believe the president Iran's explanation of what Death to America really means?
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It doesn't really mean what you think it means, right?
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It has a complete different meaning when they say Death to America.
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like, listen, man, Death upon America, motherā
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It's coming from a very nice, dirty, you know, way of speaking.
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Rob, do you want to just go to the question and let them light it up?
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You say you're not afraid, but Americans are afraid.
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If you can close the poll, then you're going to go back to it.
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You say you're not afraid, but Americans are afraid of Iran,
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and they believe that Iran would like to strike the United States
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They see video of Iranians saying death to America,
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I believe that this is a very wrong impression that anybody might have of Iran or the Iranians.
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I would like to remind you that Iran has never invaded another country in the last 200 years.
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When they say death to the United States, it doesn't mean death toāthey don't mean death to the people of the United States
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They mean death to crime, death to killing and carnage, death to supporting, killing others, death to insecurity and instability.
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This isāhave you ever heard that an Iranian killing an American?
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Or a terrorist that was Iranian and he carried out a terrorist attack against the Americans?
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No, it was your president who confessed that the Americans created ISIS in our region.
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And they were responsible for this wrong image that is portrayed of religion or the Muslims in the world.
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And once again, I would like to tell you and remind you that this is not death to the American people or to the officials.
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Death to crimes and atrocities, to bullying, to the use of force.
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I bet that little report surprised the hell out of the Iraqis that spent 10 years going back and forth.
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And I think there was fiveāI'm going to get this wrongābut there was this huge number of people.
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I thought it was five million on each side that died in the 10-year Iran-Iraq war,
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where Iran never set foot in Iraq, didn't do anything, wasn't invading.
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They were going back and forth with each other.
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So I think when I listen to this full list, you know, what goes in my head is like,
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I have no idea what his audience is and who he thinks is really believing it, unless it's justā
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The question is, does the audience of Americans believe it?
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What percentage of Americans just watch that and say, wow, he's right?
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Like, how many people did that right there, what he just said, work on?
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Do you believe the Iranian president's explanation?
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Right, which means it's probably 30 to 40 that believe this.
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Yeah, and a big chunk, I think a big chunk of the Democrats believe it.
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I think probably 33 percent of Democrats believe that, because they want to believe that.
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This is subversive stuff, because that is what 30 percent of the globalist, hard globalist Democrats want to believe.
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But I wasāon a deeper thing, I was seeing a lot of stuff on Tucker and how, you know, everybody was pissed off at him, but he started interviewingālike, think about it, he's interviewed Putin.
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And it's almost as ifāI heard reports, and it was like people like him, and they named one other person.
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I'm trying to figure out who it was, that they think that they're getting money fromāyou know, everybody always says, well, Israel's paying them, and Israel's in their pocket.
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I've heard, allegedly, that these guys are starting to get money from the other side, from the Middle East.
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I saw reports where it was like, Theo Vaughn, who, guys, we all know, he's a comedian.
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Once he went to Qatar, he was there when the president was there.
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He got back, and the moment he got back, all of a sudden, it was, you know, what's happening in Gaza is a genocide.
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I want you to elaborate that on a little bit more, because there was an ad network, and there were things out there that it turns out people were getting ad dollars, and it was a big embarrassment to a lot of podcasts.
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Where theyāyou know what I'm talking about, Pat?
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Where they all got surprised by the ad network that came from some bad people.
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And if not, what are you talking about now specifically?
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I'm talking aboutāI saw a bunch of stuff on the internet, on X, a bunch of posts where the timing of people's attitudes changing about the Middle East.
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Like, for instance, whenāby the way, Theo Vaughn went to Qatar and went on stage and was making people laugh and everything.
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And mind you, I personallyāI know Theo Vaughn, and I never heard anything aboutāanything about Middle East diplomacy, anything, war, anything.
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Once he got back from that trip, and then it was, you know, he started being way more vocal against Israel.
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So I'm just saying that's the type of stuff that I was hearing.
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And so when it comes to, like, Tucker as well, I saw other people pointing out to the fact that he's starting to interviewānot starting, but he's interviewing all these people and giving them a voice to try to prove their selves and make them look like they're not.
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Because, by the way, saying death to America, I don't give a damn who you are or how you spin it.
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Saying death to America is saying death to the country, death to all the people, and that you wish that that place doesn't exist.
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That's what death to something means, meaning no life, no breath, nothing.
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Well, Vinny, welcome to reality, because Qatar has been paying everybody.
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I'm not saying that they're paying Tucker, but here, Rob, I'm going to send you a little thing ofā
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I'm just saying I've been hearing a lot of it, and I'm a timing type of guy.
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When it happens like that, when all of a sudden you switch, it kind of makes me question.
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Well, I think people have been yelling from the rooftops, watch out for the Qatari money for quite some time.
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Because a lot of people basically say, who's a bigger foe in the Middle East?
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Is it Iran, who's basically broke and has spent all their money on nuclear weapons or proxies, and we see the ROI that that's having?
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Or is it Qatar, who's basically printing money with liquid gold and has been funding universities, NGOs, anti-American, anti-Israel?
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None of this is new to anybody that's been following Qatar.
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Now, as far as Tucker goes, here's how this works.
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Well, no one in their right mind would be like, yo, here's your money, buddy.
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You use an intermediary or a third party to act as the sort of bag man to collect the money.
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Because in America, there's something called the FARA, F-A-R-A, the foreign agent.
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So if you take money from a foreign entity, you have to register as that.
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But if you allegedly have a third party in between, there's a way of doing this.
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Anybody that's been following Qatar knows that they're basically, they've already done it in Europe.
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If you look at Europe, why is Europe such a dysfunction?
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Everyone I talk to, whether it's Germany, whether it's the UK or Paris, they say the following.
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Qatar has bought every official, every diplomat, every single person in Europe.
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And if you look at what's going on in Europe, that's what they're trying to do with America.
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I think he was interviewed by, it starts with a D.
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He goes, why do hardcore Muslim extremists vote or give their money to the progressive leftists?
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There's no Muslim conservatives in Congress, by the way.
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So to get back to this concept of Tucker, here's what I know for sure.
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If you want an easy softball interview and you're a thug like Putin, if you're a terrorist
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state like Iran, if you're funding terrorism around the world, go to Qatar.
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Go on to Tucker and get your little softball interview.
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He's not going to refute any claims that you say.
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He's just going to sit there and do this stupid looking face.
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And then when you say something, and that's Tucker.
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Tucker, I would 100% go on Tucker if I was a foreign autocrat and I wanted a zero pushback
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Now, as far as believing the president of Iran, death to America.
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We want to give you a big hug and kill you with love.
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Well, apparently 20% of our audience believes that.
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Go interview the people that have been suffering from the Iranian regime for the last 46 years.
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Go interview those people and see what they have to say.
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Because I guarantee you're going to get a completely different response.
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Those people want to see the Iranian regime go and go immediately.
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But you're going to sit there with the president of Iran and take him at face value and then
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To me, Tom, I think Iraq attacked Iran the moment Shah fell and they saw weakness.
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And that's where the opportunity came in with Saddam.
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I don't think Khomeini had a bone of military background in him to know how to have any kind
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So they were exposed because he killed off a couple thousand of Shah's generals and colonels
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But for them to say nothing, the amount of fatwas Khomeini put, didn't Khomeini put a fatwa
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Even, you know, Ruallah Khomeini recently said, death upon America.
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Stop with this nonsense bullshit that you're all innocent and it's not death upon America.
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When I was in Iran and we would learn how to write, it's so important.
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Iran, Iranians take writing very seriously and it would teach you how to write like.
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Honestly, it was like, I would, I would have a hard time with it because it was like art
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the way you would write and the way you would go.
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Iran gave us some of the most incredible poets of all time.
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You mean to tell me that you can say death upon America and you don't really mean what
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You say something like that to an average guy who may take it.
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Do you know when we had the professor that came from Harvard that was doing a study about
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Was there really a bias on police attacks on blacks?
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And he came up with the report a couple of times and he went on very wise.
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If you remember, and then we brought him in here.
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Do you know what was the other research he was doing?
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Do you know what was the other research he was doing that he was going to be launching?
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You know how they say CIA was involved with hip hop.
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Now, the impact that hip hop had on kids, you know what he said he gave a glimpse of
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He said hip hop didn't have a negative influence in the ghetto.
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Hip hop didn't have a negative influence in streets like, you know, Baltimore or Compton
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He said hip hop had a negative influence in the suburbs of a bunch of white kids being
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raised who started listening to hip hop and the words of hip hop got them to act, commit
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crimes, became criminals, act like they're gangsters.
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What is the song by Tupac that said cost his life?
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You know, he calls out everybody in that thing.
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And if you talk DMX, you go to Bone Thugs and Hummer, Mo Murda, Mo Murda, come, come
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And when you listen to these words, they do something to you.
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If you're telling me Mad Bad America doesn't have any meaning, then stop saying it.
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Because a 12-year-old kid is going to hear it and they're going to be like, I'm so loyal
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I'm so loyal to you that I'm actually going to act upon these words of death upon America.
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I'm actually going to be willing to go commit suicide because I may have a place in heaven
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if I'm able to commit suicide and do it for my country, do it for my religion.
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What other religion goes out there and tells you to go commit suicide for your religion?
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Are we taught to go commit suicide on behalf of our God?
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It says go into all the world and teach people about me, baptize them, and teach them to
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What does Christianity teach you about suicide?
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Well, the Catholics seem to believe that it's an unforgivable sin, but the Bible doesn't
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Is there anything in the Bible that encourages you to commit suicide?
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There's nothing, especially nothing to kill yourself and to off other people.
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And by the way, none of the guys in charge think it's a good idea.
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By the way, none of the clerics will say, I'm going to do it first, I'll show you how.
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Well, the challenge here becomes, you can fool a percentage of people that hear that.
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Like, my follow-up would have been, Tucker would have had an opportunity to have so many
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additional follow-ups there to that one specific topic, similar to the way he pushed Ted Cruz.
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Because to me, that Ted Cruz interview was phenomenal.
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That Ted Cruz interview was incredible for both sides.
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I thought that was one of the best interviews he's ever done.
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You know, that interview ended up getting the podcast to go all the way to the top.
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I think he was number one for like a week or so.
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That's the pushback that we sometimes need with these guys to ask the follow-up.
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So to me, the only argument I would make on behalf of Tucker, why he wasn't able to push
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it was because maybe the other side said, we will only do the interview if you don't
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And Tucker had a list of seven questions to ask in those 28 minutes.
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And he knew he couldn't stay on that one topic.
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And he even said at the beginning of the interview, there's some questions I'm not going to be asking
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because we all know we're not going to be getting the answers.
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Well, that applies to anybody though, doesn't it?
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I mean, you can ask Ted some questions about AIPAC.
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Are you really going to get all the answers on this?
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This whole thing about, you know, Qatar is doing what they're doing with the money.
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The only difference for me here, I'm not going to sit here.
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By the way, just so everybody knows, I don't make friends when I take these positions because
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I don't fully gain my Israel audience and I don't fully gain my, what do you call it?
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The lady yesterday, because the, what do you call it?
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The VT News contest winners were over here and I had a chance to come through here and
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And I had cigars with them last night at the cigar lounge.
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It was Heather Airby, who's, I'm definitely, she's listening on the way to the airport.
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I think he came all the way from Montreal, if I'm not mistaken.
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Zach, that gift that you gave me is in my car, just so you know, Vinny, I says, well, the
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scripture, it's in my car and I read through it.
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She says, I follow the comment section so closely and it's so interesting.
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One minute, you know, the Muslims are so happy that you're calling out Israel and one minute
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they, you know, the Jews hate you and the next minute the Jews are so supportive of what
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you're saying about Muslims and the next minute Muslims hate you.
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We're not making friends here with the positions I'm making.
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But the reality of it is you want me to sit here and believe that death upon America is
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Get the hell out of here trying to talk to people as if they're dumb, you know, trying
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Language is a form of art in your country, Iran.
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By the way, what says Khamenei and the president cannot stand up today?
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Khamenei and the president of Iran cannot stand up in front of their people and say,
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moving forward, we can no longer use the words death upon America and death upon Israel.
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Can Khamenei on his Twitter account that is still active till today, can he get up there
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and say, moving forward, we are a religion of peace?
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And as a religion of peace leading the rest of the world, we will no longer be using the
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phrase death upon America and death upon Israel, even though the amount of damage that they've
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Let's just say you say that, even with that last sentence, I would retweet that if they
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Because it's part of their profile because it's what they believe in deep down inside
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that rage, that anger is in them and they keep duplicating that with others.
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So yes, to the people that are upset that Tucker did the interview, I am so glad he did the
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Phenomenal job with the interview because you either are being sold into a bunch of BS propaganda
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that death upon America really means, you know, it's a shot at crime.
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If you're really that naive, wait till you see what's in store for you in the future.
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If you're that naive, wait till you see what's in store for you in the future.
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Naive people are going to get, I can't use this word, but it's going to get very bad for
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And then eventually you're going to be like, oh my God, I thought it was just, but that person
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on social media was saying this, but I thought they were all good.
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These guys are just trying to sell you a bunch of propaganda.
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Speaking of Khomeini, you know, he came out and just made his first appearance since the
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whole war, makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel started.
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He came out and of course, he comes out and he says, Tehran had delivered a slap to America's
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face by striking the U.S. base in Qatar, warning against further U.S. or Israel attacks and
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Like after we just destroyed their nuclear program, took out all their sites, zero missile
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defense at this point, but they're the ones that, you know, took out our base in Qatar.
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He goes, look, man, you're a man of great faith, a man who's highly respected in his
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country, but you have to tell the truth, buddy.
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If you're Tucker or if you're Tucker's producer and you push back against Ted Cruz, we saw what
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you can do, but then you give zero, zero pushback against the president of Iran, who's lying
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And if they say, listen, you have a half hour, please don't push back.
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Sometime when you got a 28 minute interview, your job as a, cause remember at, in the court,
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So it's like, what, here's the questions, go audience react and make up your mind, right?
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What he did here was a, it was a Fox News interview.
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But the Ted Cruz podcast, by the way, the Putin was a podcast.
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On this one, I just think, uh, uh, the only a little bit was death upon America.
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We've always been a religion of peace and all this other stuff.
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Um, yeah, yeah, 20, it's very hard to look at it a little bit differently.
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If he went to Russia to interview Putin, we saw how he just like made how the train stations
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I would argue when you're in the presence, uh, in the Kremlin, maybe you don't want to do
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We just talked about some guy who just suicided himself.
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You're doing a fricking zoom interview with the president of Iran and who lies to your
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You don't want to push back 30 seconds, Tucker.
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You don't want to take 30 seconds for 28 minutes to maybe give a little pushback to me that you
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talk about how Dan Bongino or Kash Patel or Pam Bondi are losing, uh, credibility.
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You're not going to push back for 30 seconds, bro.
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It's weak, but I do see it a little differently.
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If I got 28 minutes, I want to get as many answers out of them as I can.
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And if he gives me that death to America, I think in my head, I'm going to put a narration
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And I'm going to call this guy out on the short clip and I'm going to publish the clip.
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I'm going to say, and then I asked him this about, and then he did this.
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I can clip that later because I got my answer and I can go with it.
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And it would be so obvious to the jury of public opinion that sits out there.
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But in 28 minutes, I want to get as many answers out of them as possible, which gives me as
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So you're saying that you'd, you'd basically justify not pushing back after the fact, but
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No, during the interview, it's like, and that was a long question.
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Which part of that are you going to push back on?
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I mean, all he had to do was with this goofy chuckle and just like laugh at the guy's face.
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My thing is, and I think, Pat, me and you talked about it a couple of days ago when it actually
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happened, saying, I'm not even going to ask him this because we know what the answer is
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I want to see, even if he goes, whatever, BS, BS, BS, I want to look because we're not
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done, but we can tell a body language question.
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And that's where people start asking questions about, you know, and don't get me wrong.
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I think he's one of the most important voices to do, especially this type of stuff.
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You get a pushback, especially Death to America, and you're one of the most American, pro-American
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So I know this is not a popular for some of you guys.
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And there's nobody that gets more criticism when you interview crazy people like this.
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So in whatever context that you get a person talking, get them talking.
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And with that, this to me is a success because I get to see, because at the end of the day
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with Iran, with everything that they're going through, this was the closest Iran got to
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And who knows when the next one's going to be coming around.
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Again, that doesn't mean that there's not a surprise and an ace up Trump's sleeve that
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something could happen in the next few weeks or a few months.
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Because Trump's, one thing Trump's made very clear.
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It is such a great quality when it comes down to a president that's going against his enemies
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and you need to stay a little bit unpredictable and he's doing that.
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This campaign that we launched with the messages, Rob, if you can go to it.
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I absolutely love the stories that we're getting.
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That you open it up with a video being played with the hat and the merch being in it.
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And it's a heartfelt message to people that are going through tough times today.
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If you haven't yet sent this to anybody, listen, I challenge you.
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Here's some of the notes we got recently from three people that have been using the lemon box.
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I gave it to my wife as part of her Mother's Day gift.
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She's a national sales manager for a yacht company and found it to be very encouraging.
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And I'm sure she will open the box again and listen to it over and over and over again.
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The recipient loved the lemon box with the hat and video.
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It was just what she needed to pull her out of a bad time.
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Thanks for such creative ways we can express love and encouragement to people who need just a bit of recognition.
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Bought this box for my son who was going through some hard times.
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When he got it, called me crying because he said it was exactly what he needed and thought this gift was the most thoughtful thing he had received.
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It's a simple message and a great message for so many.
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So if you got somebody that's going through things, folks, job, career, family, marriage, personal life, go to vtmerge.com, zest it forward, send it to somebody.
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Sometimes we love getting stuff for ourselves, but sometimes we just want to make somebody else's day.
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You can't wait for them to message you and tell you how grateful they are for that.
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And on top of that, ladies, you've been asking about it.
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And my wife, some other ladies, Kim, others have been saying, Pat, we need some sports gear for the ladies.
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So here's what we have now as well that's officially launched on vtmerge.com.
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So make sure the golf cart doesn't come with the purges.
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I'm so, you know, I'm a little offended that you guys didn't ask me to be in it.
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Not the one you dress up to be sometimes, Vinny.
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When you do, you will receive a VT, I love VT, keychain, gang.
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We know most of our listeners are men, and we know most men.
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What we tend to do is we tend to procrastinate.
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Guys, go buy some gear for your wife, for your girlfriend, for your loved ones, and send it to them.
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