The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Qatar’s Prime Minister React to Trump’s Move Against Bibi
07 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What was Trump's unprecedented move regarding Qatar and Israel?
Thank you, Sheikh Mohammed, for doing this. Have you been reading the coverage on American social media of this?
Well, actually, I've been going through some of them this morning, and I saw a lot of contradicting messages.
Pretty intense, I'd say. This country is being denounced as a terror state, terror financing, very high-volume lots of attacks, including from politicians, sitting US senators, Ted Cruz, for example. And the main criticism seems to revolve around Hamas. And the idea is that your country and you specifically are supporters of Hamas, you're terror financiers.
And I'd like to just get right to the truth of that. So my understanding is Hamas is here in Doha because the United States and Israel asked you to host Hamas. Is that true? And if not, what is the truth about Hamas in Doha?
Well, thank you. Thank you, Tucker. First of all, look, the starting of the relationship with Hamas and the communication was started back more than 10 years, 13 years ago at the request of the United States.
Even beyond that, like it was 19 years ago when they first participated in the election and then when they moved their office back in 2012 here, it was used only for the communication and to facilitate like ceasefire, facilitating AIDS to Gaza.
Unfortunately, Qatar has been attacked for having them here, but when you look at what's happening within the region, this region, when you look at its conflict, the parties of the conflict, sometimes they are state actors, sometimes they are non-state actors. If you have no one speaking to those non-state actors, how we are going to resolve or to reach to a solution at the end of the day?
And now we have seen that this communication has led to ceasefires, has led to the release of the hostages, has led to elevating the suffering of the people over there.
And unfortunately, you know, there are like politicians who are trying to use this for score like short term political gains to fuel their narratives in order to like, you know, using Qatar to blame to blame another country for what's happening over there or for their own policies.
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Chapter 2: How does Qatar respond to accusations of supporting Hamas?
He took the side of an Arab country against Israel in this specific case. I don't think I've ever seen that before. I don't think it's ever happened before. What was your reaction to that?
Well, of course, uh, president Trump has, has took, uh, was very clear from the beginning since the attack, uh, actually when, uh, when he was informed about the attack, he assigned one of, uh, his advisors to reach out to us. And at the same time, he called his Highness after the attack and, uh, he expressed his, uh, like his frustration, his disappointment.
from such a thing that's happening by Israel because he knows everything about the process and he knows how helpful we were throughout this process. And this kind of move was shocking for him as a partner in these efforts and these endeavors to achieve peace in Gaza. And at that time, actually, when the strike happened,
It was happening while we were trying to convince Hamas to accept the offer was made by President Trump at that time. To convince them to engage, to convince them to get a deal before the 20 points being developed when the attack happened.
So you're saying that President Trump was surprised by the bombing of Doha by the Israelis. Of course, it was his peace process that was short-circuited by their bombing using American money. You're saying that the president didn't know that was going to happen. He was surprised.
He called us right away. His advisors reached out to us. They reached out to us just a couple of minutes before the attack, which was like the attack was already happening. So it was very clear demonstration with all the actions that this is something happened against his will.
and he doesn't accept it, and he made it very clear for everyone that this is like a red line, that he doesn't want anyone to cross it, and we highly value that and appreciate it.
I'm just pressing you on this because there were news accounts in the subsequent days, the next day, the day after, in Israel saying, no, the Israeli government did this, the prime minister did this, with the agreement of Donald Trump. This was part of Donald Trump's plan was to bomb Doha, bomb his own peace negotiations, and you're saying that's not true.
Well, I think this is one of many efforts to sabotage the relationship between Qatar and the United States, and they want us to believe that. And I think that these efforts are not new to us. We have seen a lot of efforts ongoing for years now based on disinformation and spreading lies and false information about Qatar.
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Chapter 3: What role does Qatar play in mediating conflicts in the region?
I should say from an American perspective, it's even more grotesque. So you are asked to pay for the destruction and for the rebuilding. This is like... It's a little much, but you're saying clearly that your country will not pay to rebuild what Israel destroyed.
That's our position. Our position is that our payments will go only to help the Palestinian people if we see that the help is coming to them is insufficient. That's basically our position.
What happens to the current residents of Gaza? Do they stay in Gaza? I know there's an effort to find some other country to send them to, either in Asia or Sudan or Milwaukee, but do they stay in Gaza?
Well, I think that it's hurting us when we hear people talking about the people of Gaza as some sort of different people because they have the right to have the choice where to live. And they don't want to, you know, to leave their country.
And we have seen these demonstrations like in many occasions when we see the opening between the south and the north of Gaza, we see the mass return of the people to their homes, even if their homes is flattened and gone. They just go there and build it. And this is just showing you how solid are those people, how resilient are those people, how those people...
They don't want to leave the land that they belong to, and I don't see anyone has the right to deport them or to force them to go somewhere else. It's their country, it's their home, and they have all the right to stay there and to live there.
Yeah, the idea of moving millions of people by force into another country has been discredited, I would say, historically. Big picture, this is a question that remains unanswered in the United States. What is the plan here exactly in the Levant? What is Israel's plan? What is the strategy? I understand it's defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.
I understand the short-term goals that are often articulated, but what does this look like in 10 years? What is the object? Do you have any idea?
I think if we If we look at the situation currently, I have mentioned that yesterday, the situation currently is not something that can survive for long and being stable. Now, the issue that if the Israeli forces remains there, if the violations remains happening in Gaza, this conflict can scale it again. And that's what all of us, we want to avoid.
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Chapter 4: What was the impact of the Israeli bombing on Qatar?
Sheikh Mohammed, thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I appreciate it.