The Tucker Carlson Show
Ed Martin on Dan Bongino vs. DOJ, and Republicans in Congress Secretly Plotting Against Trump
Wed, 14 May 2025
Ed Martin was on his way to cleaning up Washington as the new U.S. Attorney, until Senate Republicans decided he was too sincere and killed his nomination. (00:00) Ed Martin’s Response to the Crazed Leftist Who Spit in His Face (07:21) Why Would Republican Senator Thom Tillis Want to Destroy Martin? (09:33) Tillis’s Mission to Lock Up January 6th Protestors (18:14) The DOJ Is a Much Bigger Mess Than People Realize (35:12) Crime and Homelessness in DC (45:26) DC’s Absurd Gun Control Policy Paid partnerships with: Hillsdale College: Take a free online course today at https://TuckerforHillsdale.com Eight Sleep: Get $350 off the new Pod 5 Ultra at https://EightSleep.com/Tucker iTrust Capital: Get $100 funding bonus at https://www.iTrustCapital.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened when Ed Martin was spat on by a leftist?
This woman came up to me screeching in a way, I mean, she can't know me. She didn't know me. I never met her. A screeching, screeching, screeching, swearing, and then spitting.
That suggests that your mere physical presence evokes... An emotional response. DOJ is a bigger mess even than some conspiracy minded people on the outside like me imagine.
Some people would say, what's Dan doing, Bungie? You know, he's going hammer and tongs at this stuff right here. The scope is bigger and it is therefore much, much worse than people think.
Chapter 2: Why did Senator Thom Tillis oppose Ed Martin's nomination?
Why would Tom Tillis be the instrument of your destruction?
He railed on J6. He said, how could you represent J6 people? How stupid do people have to be to go into the Capitol and blah, blah, blah?
Chapter 3: How are January 6th protestors being prosecuted and why is it controversial?
The Republican Party tells you they're one thing, but they're actually another thing.
Right now, it's Trump's party. It's just that some of the elites don't want to let go.
Exactly. You want your kid to go to Georgetown? Oh, he goes to Georgetown. It's way more than that. People just have no idea. The CIA small arms training facility was on their campus. It's an arm of the deepest of the deep state. Way worse than Harvard, actually, I think. Thank you for doing this. So, I'm laughing. I saw a very angry young woman spit in your face on camera two days ago.
That suggests that your mere physical presence evokes an emotional response. Why? DC is in trouble. I'm from there. I can vouch for that. You are going to fix it. What exactly do you think, from your perspective, was the resistance to you?
Well, first, I'd like to point out, Tucker, because I've been accused of having a signature piece of clothing now, like in the old days, the bow tie. You know, the jacket that I wear, the sort of raincoat? Yeah. The New York Times called it my signature. I like it. It was very effective because the spit went on the raincoat. It was able to be cleaned off.
It's very old school Watergate, by the way.
Columbo. I'm going Columbo, not, as my kids said, Inspector Gadget. I thought that was degrading, and I've indicted all three of the four of them now. All right, so... Look, I did the job. President Trump gave me this incredible privilege. Usually a U.S. attorney is nominated and then they get confirmed and then they come into office, right?
So it's usually like October and you finally get somebody in office. And that whole time you have the Sally Yates problem. Remember Sally Yates who was acting? You have some acting person that's either undermining you or is not totally into the job.
Exactly. Exactly.
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Chapter 4: What is the extent of the chaos and corruption inside the DOJ?
And they worried what you would do.
Well, that's I think that's fair.
So the U.S. attorney needs Senate confirmation.
Mm hmm.
Democrats control the Senate by a huge margin, is that correct?
Something like that, yeah.
Oh, no, that's not true.
Yeah, no, no, that's not quite true. No, look, I would have won on the floor, but the Judiciary Committee, Tillis, Tom Tillis decided to block it in the Judiciary Committee.
Democrat from California?
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Chapter 5: How is crime and homelessness affecting Washington D.C.?
We'll make the judges roll along and we'll make sure we put them in one after another. We'll say, see, 15, 12. It's a good charge. Judges went for it. Everybody went for it. And then we'll get Trump. And one judge said no. Then it went up to the Supreme Court and the bipartisan Supreme Court said, hell no, and threw it all out.
So we watched American citizens rotting in jail for years for walking through the Capitol and 1512. And Tillis is okay with that. Well, Tillis is saying, oh, my gosh. He said anyone who's dumb enough to go into the Capitol should be charged with everything under the sun. I said, well, if a cop opens the door and you walk in and you walk out, you're going to charge him?
And anyway, so— What did he say when you asked that?
Well, he said, you know— Because that's about what I—that's almost what I was about to say. Yeah. That we now have videotaped Jake Chansley, for example, a QAnon shaman, led into the Senate chamber by a cop. Right. Wanders around and then leaves and then goes to prison. Right. Right. I don't understand. And I want to be charitable to Tom Tillis, who is obviously very liberal.
And there are things about him I don't like. But I want to be fair. But I don't understand how he couldn't know that.
It was an insight into the mind of people that are trapped in that understanding. The other thing they all said to me is, oh, you must like people that hit cops because you defended people that hit cops. Who said that? Everybody. The Washington Post, all these people. Because lawyers are supposed to defend. We defend the sort of worst of the worst. Always. That's the system.
For people who've been charged with crimes. Exactly. Isn't that the way it works? Isn't that the way it works? So I say, look. Nobody's for hitting cops, right? Nobody's for hitting cops. My office, my predecessor, did not charge cops—did not charge assaults on police officers because they're only misdemeanors in the stupid D.C. laws.
And I said, new law, new rule, touch a cop getting charged with assault, right? So— stipulate we're all against hitting cops. After that, what happened on January 6th, forget about even the day of it. Watch what happens. Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson run a $50 million misinformation campaign to tell the world this is what was going on. And that's what Tom Tillis is believing, I guess.
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Chapter 6: What are the issues with gun control policies in D.C. and surrounding areas?
Chapter 7: What role does Georgetown University play in the political and legal controversies discussed?
Chapter 8: What does Ed Martin say about the Republican Party's internal dynamics and Trump's influence?
Right. DOJ directly. All the way.
Right up. Right up. Of course. I mean, look, 1512 is an Andrew Weissman creation, right? This was Andrew Weissman advocated for 1512 charge.
Who's Andrew Weissman?
In the Mueller investigation and the Mueller investigation. Andrew Weissman is one of these lawyers who is at NYU right now. He goes in and out of government and he's basically at the center. There's about six or seven of these people that are at the center of coordinating the weaponization of government against the people right now.
And every time you turn around, you know, I love I'll give it to you. The guy that was the prosecutor in Kosovo before Jack Smith, you know, a special prosecutor. Forget his name right now. He left. So Jack Smith could come in. Where'd he go? One guess, NYU to Andrew Weissman's shop.
Perfect.
So when you watch Andrew Weissman's at Mueller, he says in Mueller, we need 1512. We can charge Trump in the, watch this. We can use 1512. We're making it up, but we can get away with it if we build it out this way and just get everybody to go along. He fails at that, Mueller. You know, Barr says, and Jeff Jensen, no, Barr says, you can't do that, right? You can't do, we're not going to do that.
Shuts it down. And then along comes Andrew Weissman, Lisa Monaco, all these same people. They say, charge the 1512. Tucker, the 1512 charge, right? Viewers may not track it well enough, but 1512 was an addition to the law about 20 years ago after Enron, because Arthur Anderson, the accounting firm, was destroying documents everywhere. Enron was the target of the investigation.
Arthur Anderson was destroying documents, wasn't the target. And there was no law to say if you knew there was an investigation, you shouldn't destroy documents. So they passed this law. OK, 1512. It said, if you know there's an official proceeding, you're not allowed to destroy documents.
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