Tucker Carlson

This is very frustrating for Republicans to hear.

This is even frustrating for liberals to hear sometimes, but it's just the truth.

This was not a normal decision-making process.

And my strong impression was that Trump was more a hostage than a sovereign decision-maker in this.

I don't know what I'm getting at.

I'm just telling you what I observed.

And that's kind of the question.

And what I'm really fascinated by is the lack of curiosity on display into how exactly this happened.

What are the mechanisms by which a guy who's supposedly sovereign, in charge, granted this authority by voters—

tens of millions of them, can't make a decision in the country's interest or even in his own interest.

He knew, and I know he knew because I talked to him about it directly, that the consequences, potential consequences were profound and profoundly bad, the end of his presidency to start, which I think it has proven to be.

He knew that.

What are our country leaders doing?

They're following Netanyahu.

The timing.

of this war was dictated by Bibi Netanyahu.

But we should never, ever be bullied as maybe President Trump was by any other world leader.

Israel has that power in our Congress, not because we have so many Jews, I don't know how many Jews live in the United States, fewer than 10 million, I think, but because we have tens of millions of evangelical Christians who unquestioningly support Israel because they believe it's their theological duty to do so.

So on this question hangs the future of the American economy and the lives of American service members.

I'm against the idea that Hezbollah and Hamas are at the center of our domestic conversation.