Tucker Carlson shoots with Ted Cruz in Israel-Iran’s attacks: “You don’t

An interview between Tucker Carlson and Senator Ted Cruz about Israel’s military campaign against Iran became controversial when former News presenter interrogated Texas Republican about Iran, highlighting a crack among President Trump’s allies.

The round trip depended on the support of Cruz from the Israeli attacks against the Iranian objectives. The Trump administration has declared that the United States is not directly involved in the offensive, but it has helped Israel defend against Iranian counterattacks, and Trump has weighed the strikes of realization of the Iranian nuclear objectives, News themezone He has previously reported.

Carlson, a vocal skeptic of military intervention, questioned the premise of joining a war with Iran and criticized Cruz for saying that he would like the Iranian regime to be knocked down, telling Cruz at one time: “You don’t know anything about Iran.”

One of the most controversial exchanges in the two -hour interview, which was launched in its entirety on Wednesday X, occurred when Carlson asked Cruz what the population of Iran is. Cruz said he wasn’t sure.

“Don’t you know the population of the country you are looking for?” Carlson asked.

“I don’t feel memorizing population tables,” Cruz replied.

Then, the host continued to ask Cruz about the demography of Iran. When Cruz said they were Persians, predominantly Shiite Muslims, Carlson asked him for the percentage, frustrating the Texas senator.

“It’s fine, I’m not Tucker Carlson’s expert in Iran,” Cruz said.

Trump’s two supporters also discussed whether Iran has tried to kill Trump, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged last week. Last year, federal prosecutors announced charges against an Iranian asset, accusing him of conspiring to kill Mr. Trump.

Cruz cited the alleged murder plots while criticizing Iran’s leadership, but Carlson questioned why the senator had not supported the military action of the United States immediately if he believed that Iran has tried to kill Mr. Trump.

Cruz, meanwhile, suggested that Carlson at one time has a “strange obsession … with Israel” when Carlson asked about the support of the American Public Affairs Committee of Israel. Carlson said he interpreted the comment as an accusation of anti -Semitism, which Cruz denied.

“You don’t know anything about the country whose government you want to overthrow, and you’re calling me reckless,” said Carlson late in the interview.

“I want to prevent a lunatic who wants to kill us from obtaining nuclear weapons that can kill millions of Americans. You say ‘I can’t see how that benefits the United States in any way.’ That’s strange,” Cruz replied.

The fight continued on social networks, with Cruz accusing Carlson of “interpreting a ‘gotcha’ about the population of Iran” and making fun of the question about the size of Iran.

The bitter exchange reflects a broader division among Trump’s sponsors on how involved they should participate in the United States in the Israel-Iran conflict. The president has long criticized foreign intervention, but has also supported to press Iran.

Trump’s closest advisors They have not reached an agreement On whether the president must attack Iranian nuclear facilities, News themezone reported.

Some Republicans, in addition to Cruz, have Backed A hard line policy against Iran and is open to the United States that joins Israel to hit Iran. Republican senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina He told News themezone During the weekend, I would prefer a diplomatic resolution to prevent I will acquire nuclear weapons, but if that fails, he urged Mr. Trump to “enter to make sure that when this operation ends, there is nothing in Iran with respect to its nuclear program.”

During the interview, Cruz told Carlson that he does not support the sending of US troops to Iran, but told journalists on Wednesday that the president “could make the decision” to bombard Iran’s underground nuclear site in Iran Ford.

But other Trump allies distrust the intervention. Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, told Carlson in an interview that he sees that “Forever Wars” is stopped as a Core Maga Tenet, and suggested the participation of the United States in Iran could “exploit the coalition” and damage the domestic priorities of Mr. Trump. Even so, Bannon told reporters on Wednesday that he thinks “the vast majority of the Maga Movement” would trust Mr. Trump if he decides that Iran is necessary.

Meanwhile, a handful of Republicans of Congress I have requested a resolution that blocks Mr. Trump to take military measures in Iran without the approval of the Congress.

It is not clear how the president will continue, although he minimized the idea of ​​an intra-magnish crack about Iran on Wednesday, telling journalists: “My supporters are more in love with me today, and I am in love with them.”

The president also repeatedly lashed out at Carlson on Monday, before Cruz’s interview was released. The president called him “Kooky” in a social position of truth, and seemed to make fun of Carlson for his dismissal of News.

“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson says,” Trump said. “Let it go to look for a television network and say it so that people listen.”

• Tucker Carlson
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• Israel
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• Donald Trump