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Clayton Morris, ladies and gentlemen, we worked together at Fox News.

You were there 10 years.

You've since gone on to be a lot more successful than either one of us was at Fox, and I think a lot happier.

And congratulations.

No one gets out of it alive except you.

And me.

And me.

Yeah, no.

It's great to beat the odds we both did.

But But is it weird to look at your former employer?

You spent a decade working for them and see them as like a prime driver

for war?

It's not weird when, if you look at history, right?

To me, when I started watching over the past few weeks,

this drumbeat for war, I started seeing, it's almost like they went to their shelf and they grabbed their book, their manual.

They got it off.

They dusted it off.

Like, what did we do back in 2002?

What have we done before that successfully worked and pushed people and entire populace along with CNN and MSNBC towards war?

They flipped open the pages.

They, you know, they skipped past, they, they, they skipped the preamble because they already knew, you know, what, what to do.

And they started lining up every show with the same rhetoric.

They started putting up the TVs where they would stand and get up with their big pencils and their fingers on the board.

Here's where they're going to attack.

These are the bases, almost giving, like telegraphing military moves.

It's from the same playbook, so it's not stunning.

That's news.

Right.

That's recording the news.

Where is the journalism?

I don't understand it.

But

particularly this weekend,

I became enraged this weekend.

I'm not one to get enraged unless my kids leave their shoes in the kitchen or one of my eight-year-olds steals my phone charger.

Like, that's when I fly into a rage.

I don't even get road rage.

Like, I'm a pretty even-keeled person.

Very even-keeled.

I can confirm that.

Things could be happening all around me.

And I, you know, I just, I kind of, you know, float along.

I got enraged this weekend watching this coverage.

And almost breathlessly, as soon as there was this announcement that, that Trump had authorized this bombing of these nuclear sites, it was.

It was almost as if like the hosts on these shows were like grabbing an American flag and anyone who opposed this was unpatriotic.

And this was the most spectacular, amazing American moment in history.

He'll go down like Reagan and Thatcher, you know, attempting to bring down communism.

Everyone tried to do this for decades.

Trump is the only one that could do it.

I just, you know, one of the hosts, I just got off the phone with Trump a few minutes ago, and he said their entire nuclear program has been decimated.

It's done.

And I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

People didn't vote for this.

No.

And to see these networks pushing this coverage, and it's not, you know, just Fox, it's CNN, it's MSNBC, and they're all right back to their playbook because it's so incredibly profitable.

I mean, just like follow the money on all of this.

So, if we wind up, I mean, contextually here, I don't know how much of your audience is aware of like what happened in 2002, 2003.

We were sort of in that world at the time,

you much more than me at that time.

I was part of the propaganda effort.

Yeah, and you were

you at MSNBC?

I was at CNN, the most trusted name in news.

This is CNN.

This is CNN.

Yeah.

So,

and you can't, the American media was all in lockstep.

And you know that there were almost no dissenting voices allowed on the network news.

Let me repeat that.

There were almost no dissenting voices allowed on those shows across the board.

MSNBC, we learned,

had a two-for-one

booking,

official booking plan that meant two pro-war voices for every one anti-war voice.

But across the board, I mean, shows changes.

So they actually were explicit about that.

Yeah.

I mean, producers who worked for, for instance, I'm getting ahead of myself here because I'm just so.

It's all right.

It's all right.

I mean, people,

this is not a debate over the next budget agreement.

This is not a debate even over, you know, boys and girls sports.

This is a debate debate over the future of the world and millions of people could die.

That's not a crazy

concern.

And so, yeah, this really matters.

I think it's fair to be worked up about.

Well, I'm just trying to be level-headed as much as I can.

I can be.

So I'm just going to look at the, I just want to talk about the facts here because I've looked, I was, I studied this very, very closely at the time.

I was infuriated by the, at it, at it, by the time when George W.

Bush would get up there and tell us, you know why they attack, you know, it's because they hate it, why they hate us?

It's because they hate our freedoms.

I mean, my bullshit meter went as soon as he said those words, I just wanted to scream at the television back then.

They don't hate us because of our freedoms.

That's just garbage.

Why aren't they attacking Norway?

I went on CNN.

Well, I repeated that as well, for sure.

And I kind of believed it.

And then I went over to the region right after 9-11.

And then a year later, I made the mistake of reading Osama bin Laden's manifesto on CNN.

Not an endorsement of Osama bin Laden, obviously.

Right.

But it's news.

Well, I just think it's important to know why people do things.

You can disagree completely, but I think it's important to be honest about other people's motives.

And so I read this and maybe it's all made up or whatever.

Can you trust Osama bin Laden?

No.

But I think, do I like Osama bin Laden?

No, obviously.

But I'm an American, but I think it's important to know why, or at least what he said about why he did it.

And the two reasons, there are a number of reasons, but the two big ones were: you've got U.S.

forces on the Saudi peninsula,

two holy, most holy cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina.

Like, that's offensive to me.

In his backyard.

Yeah.

Well, right.

He's Saudi, but also it's just like symbolically offensive.

I get it.

I don't agree, but it's important to know that.

And by the way, the U.S.

military moved its base out of Saudi Arabia after that.

So like they took it seriously.

Okay.

It's, you know, unnecessarily unnecessarily provocative.

And the second reason was you're on critical support of Israel.

So I read this on the air at CNN.

Whoa, whoa, shouldn't have done that.

I was immediately denounced as an anti-Semite.

What?

Okay.

Like, you're reading Osama bin Laden's words, and you are an anti-Semite.

Yeah, I mean, I got completely slammed by some group.

I can't remember the name of it.

I was shocked by it.

But I'm not endorsing Osama bin Laden.

I despise Osama bin Laden.

He murdered 3 million Americans or 3,000 Americans.

So whatever.

You were not allowed to deviate from the talking points.

I mean, I experienced that.

Right.

Like, for real.

No, you're not.

You have to just nod along and be like, oh, okay.

I mean, if you think about how ridiculous that is, you know, I had to read Mein Kampf in college, right?

We still read Hitler's words to understand

the move towards a final solution, understanding bloodline, all of that.

It's written in his own book, so you can understand where he got to with this.

It's important to understand

historically.

I agree.

I don't endorse Hitler.

I don't think so.

By the way, I'm with you on that, Clayton.

Glad we agree on that.

We do.

By the way, I read that book in my History of the Holocaust class.

You know, who was taught

a Jewish professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

It was an incredible class.

But it's crazy to think that countries become so irrational, partly because of training from cable news,

that knowing something is considered the same as endorsing it.

Right.

And what it really is, is an attempt to control your mind, to control what you believe by limiting your access to information.

That's really what it is.

Also, what I find so offensive about at least cable news now is maybe it's always been this way.

I think it probably has, but it's

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We can't ask.

Yes.

We can't ask questions.

And if you ask questions, that's an endorsement of that position.

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Do you think that if you still worked at Fox, by the way, you were not fired from Fox just for the record.

Yeah.

This is all available online, but people don't know your backstory.

You were not fired from Fox.

You're one of the only people I ever met who left voluntarily.

Yeah.

So true?

True.

I was there for 10 years.

They were great to me.

I love, you know, the people were fantastic to me, but it was time to not wake up at three in the morning and do that show anymore.

I was tired of like personal attacks and, you know, all of that.

And I didn't get to see my kids on the weekend.

And I was done.

So, and I said, you know what?

I'm, I'm moving on from this.

And I had been in morning television for like 20 years.

You know how miserable that is?

Yes.

That people get cancer regularly.

I mean, this is a fact.

You work the night shift like that.

You like, you pretty much can bank on getting like cancer.

You know, it's like, well, I just got fat.

Yeah.

No, I mean, it's, it's incredibly hard physically.

Yeah.

Everything about it is hardest job I ever had.

So I get it.

But you didn't leave.

They didn't force you to leave.

No.

You left on the terms you just described.

They were nice to me.

I want want to go do something else.

That, that never happens.

I just want people to have that conversation.

Yeah, they were great to me.

Thank you.

And

I said, I'm going to, you know, leave this.

And then they, they were actually, I said, well, what if we gave you your own show?

You know, and I said, no, I appreciate that, but thank you, you know, and they were, but they were great.

They were great.

And we parted ways on great terms.

And that was it.

So,

you know,

and I felt like while I was there, I was, I was able to,

I would get sky, I think I would get side eyes from people.

But when I would question like the military industrial complex, like, I'm sorry, like, why are we spending, this at the time was like $600 billion a year on a military industrial complex budget?

And all of these, like, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, they build factories in everyone's backyard.

So all the members of the House of Representatives, every member of the Senate has like, oh, well, I've got Boeing in my backyard.

Oh, that's, that's interesting.

Because that's intentional that there's all of these military production facilities in your backyard.

So it's always in your backyard.

And I just became furious about,

I've always been furious about that.

I've always had a problem with that.

And so occasionally I would ask those questions of guests on the show and I could tell like it was not a favorable question to be asking about the military industrial.

I just didn't like it.

Yeah, you, you know, you knew.

And you knew there's a, there's a lot of unsaid things, right?

So

I don't exactly, you know, I don't know where it comes from, maybe the top.

I don't know.

I work the morning, so I was kind of in and out of there and I didn't really have like a lot of interaction with like suits, you know, I wasn't one of those types of people.

But you knew that when you were given sort of like, this is what we're covering on the show today,

I don't see anything on here about

$800 billion like in a defense budget, or I don't see anything in here on our show.

We've got a four-hour show, but we can't ask

questions about

did we actually hit

nuclear weapons or did we actually hit is there anything in Fordo when we hit it?

I don't see, you know, I don't see any of that in here so you knew what sort of the agenda would be for the day

did you ever know but no one ever told me what to say you know I just want to be clear right but it's it's like you show up I'm being disingenuous because I had the same job that you had so I know the answer to this question but it's just people may not understand how this works so you you show up

and like everything's prepared for you yeah so it's not a matter of telling you what to say or what not to say it's all kind of written down you're you're guided in a certain direction just right did you ever figure out who was making those decisions?

I didn't.

No.

Did you?

Because, again, I was a, I considered myself,

I never really got along with like the suits types.

You know,

I get uncomfortable, I think, in that environment.

You know, if I have to wear a suit, I cannot wait to take it off.

So I don't know those people.

I don't have dinner with those people.

If I have to see them occasionally to kind of talk about something, it's incredibly uncomfortable for me.

So, no.

But, so I don't have the answer to that.

I could assume, but maybe you have a better claim.

Yeah, no, no, I know where that comes from.

It comes from the family that owns it

for sure.

I mean, I watched it.

I did have dinner with suits a lot.

Yeah.

You knew that world so much better.

I didn't come from a suit world, yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, no, the Murdochs made those decisions, who I really like to this day.

I like the the Murdochs, but not against the Murdoch, but it's just a fact that they did do that and

they overruled their people on questions of war.

I remember, I think it was 2000, I'm pretty sure it was 2012, Roger Ailes was running it.

Wonderful man, wonderful man.

Flawed guy, but wonderful.

I really liked him and admired him personally.

Others disagree, but I still feel that way.

But anyway, he had this guy called Andrew Napolitano, Judge Knapp.

Did you ever run into him?

Yeah, yeah.

What a nice guy.

Just a really nice guy.

Like everyone liked him.

Yeah, he was great.

I still really like him a lot.

But anyway, he had this show.

I think it was called Judging Freedom, maybe?

Yeah.

And he's more of a libertarian, I would say.

Exactly.

He was hired as a libertarian.

Well, he's a strict libertarian.

He's an absolute constitutional.

Like, stay out of other countries.

100%.

He's

kind of a more

erudite Thomas Massey.

Yeah.

Same basic politics.

Not a hater at all.

Just a nice nice man.

But anyway, he made some anti-war noises on his show and

basically said, you know, why are we supporting all these other countries?

Like, why are we doing this?

Whoa.

He lost his show over it.

And a bunch of people came to Roger Ailes.

I remember I talked to him about it at the time and demanded that he fire Judge Napolitano over this.

Wow.

And ultimately, they just stripped him of his show, but kept him around as a contributor for another four or five years.

As I remember, I may be getting some of the details wrong, but I, but that's basically what happened.

But they took a show away.

I always wondered what happened.

Oh, my gosh.

He was like.

I loved watching that show.

Oh, it was great.

It's interesting, too.

He's really smart.

Oh, man.

And I remember thinking, oh, that's the red line.

They don't care if you get up there and you're like, I think, you know, whatever, some controversial racial opinion or.

They'd be like, ah, that's a little hot.

Maybe not.

Don't go there.

You express, you know, an opinion about our foreign policy that they don't like.

We're done now.

Like, they are totally serious about that.

Well, you knew Roger Ailes used to watch our show religiously on the weekend because he was home.

And the joke was, well, if you own a network or you run a network, what do you do on the weekend once you wake up and have coffee?

You watch your shows.

So

it was a joke that he would watch our Fox and Friends weekend show more than just about any other show on the network because it was Saturday morning.

He was waking up with coffee.

So he would call into the booth all the time, you know, about a graphic being wrong.

He was very, very cautious.

But no one ever told me what to say or anything.

There was one time where I criticized Mark Zuckerberg and I called him a scumbag on the air.

Fair.

And I got a talking to about that.

Like, we don't use the term scumbag.

And I was like, oh, I'm from Philly.

I thought that was like, that's kind of like, that's how you talk.

You know, I'm sorry.

No, we have moms and with their children with you.

We use the word scumbag.

I'm like, okay, got it.

I'll refrain from calling Zuckerberg a scumbag.

But

I mean, it makes sense to me.

I never hit that red line in that way because, as you pointed out, you're being guided a certain way.

So, all of the segments, for those of your viewers that don't understand, like, you know, you have a card, you'd have like a packet, you know, of maybe like 10 articles regarding the segment you're about to do.

And every segment's like four minutes long.

So, you and I can talk for two hours.

Every segment is like four minutes long.

Then you've got a commercial break and you might have two guests during that time.

So, you're maybe it's a debate.

Can you really have a debate in four minutes?

No.

So you have a debate and always the other, the other person's always sort of set up for failure to begin with anyway, but

and you're sort of guided in what their positions are.

You know that John Smith, he believes this and, you know, Sarah, whatever, knows that believes this.

And you kind of go from there.

If you deviate from that, that's when, you know, you have problems.

So that's you're, you're guided through the whole day like that.

And that's why this weekend, when we were watching this coverage, I was not surprised as they would sort of hand off coverage from show to show to show to show.

It's all the same.

Trump.

It's all the same.

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He carried out,

he destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

This is amazing.

Oh, and by the way,

if you're anti-this attack on Iran, that's the new message now, then you're unpatriotic.

Well, you're pro-Iran.

You're pro-Iran.

you're pro-Iran you were never MAGA you are

you're yeah you're pro-Islamic terror you're a bigot would say it just reminds me so much of Black Lives Matter in 2020.

Oh yeah.

We were on the other side, of course.

I certainly was.

And Fox was

generally.

They didn't want to talk about it.

They were kind of pro-Black Lives Matter, actually, if I'm being totally honest.

But I was completely opposed to it from day one, just because I thought it was irrational and destructive um and stupid but it's the same impulse it's like this hysteria sweeps over america fanned by the media fox being a big part of that the biggest media and um anyone who disagrees is just written off as a hater like they go right to motive oh you must be taking money from a foreign power you must hate this or that group there's no like even attempt to

engage with what you're saying It's like this right you off.

Just like,

it's the same as shut up, racist.

Right.

You can't ask questions about Black Lives Matter being a corrupt organization, stealing money, which is a fact.

You know,

you're a racist.

How dare you ask that question?

It's Black Lives Matter.

We literally paint Black Lives Matter on intersections.

Like, how dare you

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It's a corrupt organization.

You can't bring that up.

We're sorry to say it, but this is not a very safe country.

Walk through Oakland or Philadelphia.

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What's so hilarious, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised because they always accuse you of being exactly the way that they themselves are, is anyone who asks questions or disagrees is woke now.

Have you noticed this?

The woke, right?

So you're like, I'm not sure that we should have a war with Iran right now.

And like, it seemed like there are a lot of problems here.

And like, people I know are dying of drug ODs.

Shut up, racist.

You're woke.

It's like, wait, what?

Or people who are clearly working on behalf of a foreign country accuse you of working on behalf of a foreign country.

It's so amazing.

Because, well, so many of these were former left-wing.

Oh, yeah.

That's the thing, right?

So these neocons, let's be honest, right?

They were left-wing.

Oh, yeah.

So they have now taken the moral high ground to tell me that I'm

part of the woke right

because

I don't want us to intervene in a foreign.

So I guess by that measure, then George Washington is a member of the woke right in his farewell address telling the nation we shouldn't intervene in foreign affairs of other countries.

So I thought wokeness was a euphemism for engaging in identity politics.

It's identity politics.

What matters most is your identity.

Right.

Ethnic, religious, whatever, racial.

The people who are using the term woke right are practicing like the most vicious kind of identity politics I've ever seen.

It makes the Black Lives Matter people seem like amateurs, which they are, of course.

I mean, this is serious identity politics.

Like, you disagree, you're a Nazi.

Right.

Like, what's that but identity politics?

Well, and it's also being described as like insidious.

Like, you're not aware that you're anti-Semitic, you're anti-Semitic now.

Like, Tucker, I don't know if you know, just the way that you dress today is now anti-Semitic.

It's unconscious bias.

Right.

I mean, I literally heard.

Did you just hear this five years ago from the left?

And now.

Unconscious bias.

You don't, you're racist without knowing it.

You don't need to to be aware of your bad attitudes you just exude them we heard this five years ago from the left and literally driving here i heard it on glenn beck's radio show glenn beck said the exact same thing and i like glenn beck oh i love glenn he's an amazing he's a but he said most people now it's a sort of a soft his exact wording glenn don't be mad at me but it was like and he'll admit it that we're now be it's it's like an insidious we've been like a sort of soft anti-semitism that people are now they just without really consciously being aware of it, they've become anti-Semitic.

So it's

the same thing.

It's exactly.

We're going to need to be deprogrammed.

But we've been so heavily programmed by the mainstream media with wall-to-wall coverage.

You're not getting any perspective from

the Middle East.

You're not getting any perspective from Iran.

You're not getting any perspective from that side of it.

All of the guests that you'll have on television are all pro-Israel.

And this is right out of that same playbook from 2002.

So

if you look at the data on this, I find this fascinating.

And again, this is where I'm trying not to be emotional, but I'm trying to just like look at the data after 2002.

And I came at this from like a personal perspective and not to talk about me, but like my, my brother was in the first Gulf War.

And he went in with the Navy SEALs

before anyone else.

He was in Baghdad.

So he was there basically directing tomahawk missile attacks at himself.

You know, he could fly right over his head, essentially.

He was in Baghdad?

Yeah.

So we would send like care packages and things like that.

But of course, we were all told at the time, tie a yellow ribbon around your tree.

You remember the black and white images of Wolf Blitzer with a little helmet on,

you know,

talking about how great this was to, you know, to stop.

to stop Saddam Hussein.

So we watched all that happen.

I forget how long that lasted.

It was like 11 months or something like that.

I forget.

Ish.

Ish.

So then 2002 rolls around, and here we go again.

And now the playbook was set.

Is your brother out by this point?

No, he wasn't out at this point.

He was still in the Navy, but he didn't have to deal with this part of it.

So more of like a land lover, I guess, you know, at that point.

But then he was in Afghanistan.

So he's had a long history of like having to deal with this.

But

so I saw, if you looked at the media analysis at the time, like 2002 into 2003, like we're attacked on September 11th.

I maintain a massive false flag operation, but you do you, you know, but I

absolutely believe it was a catalyst to get us into these forever wars.

Shut up.

Don't ask questions about it.

You'll be painted as, you know, a truther, whatever.

Yeah, we can't declassify those documents.

Yeah.

So whatever.

Whose country is this, by the way?

I was under the impression it was partly mine.

I thought I was a shareholder here, born here.

I'm a citizen.

Why don't I have the right to know?

I don't understand.

I know someone who died on 9-11.

I spent years of my life responding to it professionally.

So did other members of my family.

And I don't have a right to see the documents.

Because tell me how that works.

Well, you know, William Randolph Hearst made us sure that we couldn't know the truth.

I mean, we want to go back even further into history with the media narratives being how everything is being framed.

I mean, we look at Remember the Maine, the reason we went to war with Spain, you know, on

the front pages of the Hearst Papers, the New York Journal at the time, I think.

Journal American.

Yeah.

So

the playbook was set.

And after

9-11, these networks, all of the major news networks, started the drumbeat for war.

CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS News.

They started their nightly newscasts every night, would have guests just about, they were all pro-war, go take out Saddam Hussein.

I think when they did the analysis, the FAIR, the FAIR report at the time, looked at just the nightly newscasts.

393 of their guests out of those, three of them, just three of them were anti-war and like moderately anti-war.

That's wild.

Not like you or me on there.

It's like, eh, maybe we shouldn't.

Only three of them.

And that was just the nightly newscasts, like the shows that most people don't even watch anyway, you know, the 630 nightly newscasts, the Tom Brokhall era.

But then Colin Powell, you know, goes before Congress and he holds up that fake anthrax vial

and pushes us to war in Iraq and says that he has mobile biological weapons labs.

We can't really find them.

So they're mobile.

We got to go in there.

It's a threat to the region, of course.

It's a threat to Israel.

The network,

cable news channels, then, that was when they did the really exhaustive study of the cable news channels.

And I found this fascinating that I think it was like 1,600,

I might be off by like a few, but it's like 1,600 guests they analyzed during that time after Colin Powell sat before Congress and essentially lied, I think unknowingly lied that this was a threat.

1,600 of the guests, there were,

it was like 67% of the guests were pro-war

on across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, all of the networks, all of the networks, the Brit Hume show on Fox,

the Wolf Blitzer show on CNN, almost overwhelmingly all

pro-war.

MSNBC at the time then fired Phil Donahue.

Canceled his show because he was very much in the Jojnapolitano, like, maybe we shouldn't be going to war.

So MSNBC fired him, canceled his his show, and replaced it with a show called Count Down Iraq.

Count Down Iraq.

So, they fired Phil Donahue, who was vehemently anti-war, and he was asking questions about this.

Why are we doing this?

Why should we be doing this?

This seems like it's a boondoggle, it's a lie.

Maybe we should be questioning this, allowing the weapons inspectors to do this.

Oh, and by the way, at the time when all of the networks were pushing this narrative, they did a study, and 61% of Americans supported delaying any kind of attack.

Let the weapons inspectors do their jobs.

Like, we don't want to go to war.

So, even with all of that propaganda that was being pushed by these networks, 61% of Americans still said, no, we shouldn't involve ourselves in this, which, by the way, I think if you looked at those numbers, it would be very similar to like what Trump got in this last election with like, do we support probably way higher?

You probably know these numbers better than I do.

Like, what percentage of Americans right now want us to be involved in these forever wars?

Oh, and by the way, you're not allowed to say forever wars anymore because now you're if you say that you're unpatriotic.

You're you're part of like the Thomas Massey, you know, uh isolationists.

If you say forever wars.

Thomas Massey is unpatriotic now?

Apparently.

That's what he's being called, unpatriotic, because on Fox?

Well, on Truth Social.

I mean, I think we've seen that he's anti-American.

I can imagine.

I think Trump just called him that he's unpatriotic and anti-American.

I know Thomas Massey.

Well, I mean, you don't have to agree with Thomas Massey on anything, but to call him unpatriotic is really

shocking.

Right.

So again, by that measure.

So who is Thomas Massey?

Thomas Massey is ideological, but more than that, he's like a gentleman.

He's a very decent man personally.

He believes in self-restraint.

He believes in self-reliance.

He built his own off-grid house.

He lives in the community he's from, knows everybody.

His rise in politics was totally organic.

He didn't, you know, was in the Young Leaders Program at

Davos.

He's like the most American person.

Married his high school girlfriend who passed, unfortunately, has great kids who love him.

I can't imagine a more American man than Thomas Massey.

You can totally disagree with Thomas Massey.

You know, you think his ideas are dumb or whatever.

It's fine, of course.

But to impugn his character is so disgusting to me.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

And,

you know, I, I, I have that makes me, because I know Thomas Massey.

Like, I don't agree with everything Thomas Massey Massey says.

I don't agree with anything anyone, everything anyone says, but

that's disgusting that people would say that about him.

And when people attack, I invite him on my show.

You know, come on, because I can't stand, I can't stand when people attack him or call him that he's somehow not make America great again because he stands in the way of a massive multi-trillion dollar debt time bomb that he that we're going to pass in Congress, that he talks about that or that says we shouldn't bomb other countries.

Well, his views are sincere.

I mean, you could say, well, you know, there are a million different plausible arguments you can make for and against any potential action, you know?

And, but you can't say that Thomas Massey is thoughtless.

You can't say that he's acting on behalf of somebody else.

He's totally transparent about what he believes and why.

And he's totally sincere.

And he's saying what he believes is true.

And in a decent society, in a Christian society, that has to matter.

Just because you're sincere doesn't mean you're right, of course.

Right.

But we have to take that into consideration when we assess you as a person, that you're sincere.

You're not being paid to say this.

You're not being paid for some hidden reason.

You're saying this because you really believe it.

Like that's meaningful.

That has to be meaningful, or else we've lost our decency.

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the United States of America, where pubs across Philadelphia were filled with people just sitting there having friendly debates over politics,

having a hard cider at nine in the morning, like our founding fathers did.

Maybe we need to bring back hard cider, but that's what they did.

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No, but it's sorry.

I'm sorry to get sad.

Wow, that I'm not

as clued into what people are saying as I probably should be, but I didn't know that he was being attacked like that.

Vehemently.

And President Trump just launched a

large diatribe on Truth Social about him, you know, calling him non, you know, not, not MAGA, and he's not Make America Great Again.

And Thomas Massey is the wrong target.

Yeah.

I think it was the first time that I saw Trump get ratioed, actually,

when he attacked Massey a few months ago.

And just read the comments.

So people usually, you know, all of the MAGA people will just jump on and say, you know, whatever you say, President Trump, we love you, we love you, without any sort of critical

thought.

And then

when he attacked Massey a number of months ago, the ratio was unbelievable.

I never thought I'd see it.

But people overwhelming were like, Mr.

President, wrong target.

It's wrong target.

I understand that Trump is annoyed, understandably, that Massey's like criticizing his bill.

Trump thinks the bill is really important, and Massey's just totally against it, and you can't win Massey's vote because he really means it.

I think this is what the president's thinking is, is my sense.

And that annoys him because he really feels like he has to get this bill through.

Okay, that's a fair debate.

I get it.

I get both sides.

But to accuse him,

for anyone to accuse Massey of having evil motives is really dark and says much more about the accuser than the accused, I would say.

I agree.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, wow okay we've already got me spun up cleton morris well i've been spun up all weekend so it's i have to share some of that energy with you i mean i know you've been furious too so well also ashamed because i was part of the propaganda push in 2002 and 2003 up until december 15th of that year when i changed my view life and views but um

i don't remember anyone ever talking about so i was in tv from 2003 well i'd been in it long before that but I was in 2003 to, I got fired in 2023.

So that's 20 years.

I guess that's exactly 20 years.

Yeah.

I don't remember really any conversation,

you know, backstage

about our role, the media's role in the run-up to Iraq.

Did anyone ever talk about that in your experience?

No.

No, and it's such a vital part of this.

It's such a

important piece of this to have that propaganda piece of this, the manufacturing of consent for war.

Yeah.

And we have, again, a long history of this.

You don't do it without the newspapers.

You don't do it without the television stations.

You don't do it without the Fox News or the CNNs, the MSNBCs.

I mean, CBS changed the name of their show to Showdown with Saddam.

Hi, you know, I'm Clayton Morris, host of Showdown with Saddam.

We haven't attacked them yet,

but that's the name of my show.

Welcome, we're replacing Phil Donahue with Count Down Iraq.

So

you're framing all of this ahead of time.

The propaganda is there ahead of time.

So it's all being laid out.

Basically, it becomes an inevitability that we are going to attack.

Exactly.

The show should have been called, What the Hell Does Saddam Hussein have to do with 9-11?

Hosted by Greg Mars.

No, that's like, even I, who was a semi-witting

cog in the propaganda machine those years, even I was was like always baffled.

Like, what the hell does Saddam have to do with 9-11?

And there was this character, Steve Hayes, who later became a Fox News contributor.

Oh, yeah, member, who was like, who's just kind of dumb,

not evil or anything.

He's just stupid and ambitious and trying to feed his family.

But he wound up writing this book.

And I think the Cheney people like leaked him a bunch of lies, and he was dumb enough to believe them.

And it was like a book, like, no, actually, Saddam was behind 9-11.

Yeah, believe me.

Even I, and I liked Haze, too, at the time.

We worked together, actually.

I was like, ah,

I don't think you really made the case there.

When did he publish that book?

Was that before Colin Powell's Anthrax?

You know, it's all a blur to me.

It was a long time ago, and I was right in the middle of it.

So

it's harder to see the outlines when you're in the middle of something.

I didn't have clarity.

And like the FAIR report at the time, I would have been like, FAIR is a very liberal group.

And I would have been like, well, liberals.

Who gives a shit what they think?

And I'm still very opposed to liberals, but the definition of liberal has changed.

But now I would, I would hope I would say, I don't care where the information comes from.

What matters to me is whether or not it's true.

Right.

You have to be focused on what's true, period.

Like that has to be your, your North Star, or else you're going to wind up participating in lies, as I did.

Do you remember a curveball?

Yeah.

So this is

the media complicity with us.

So I spoke to an FBI agent who told me, he said, you know, when we want to leak leak information, you know, we push it out to the Washington Post or we push it out to

intelligence agencies want to push and leak stories or plant stories.

We go to the New York Times, we go to the, you know, we go to the Washington Post, et cetera.

And of course, it used to be, you know, back in the day, you know, they were embedded inside of newsrooms, right?

So you had them inside the CBS newsroom and all of that.

And now they just give them the information and then they run with it.

They don't question it at all.

So Curveball, this has always been fascinating to me.

It's, you know, Colin Powell gets up there and holds up this vial,

and it's been kept from him that this guy, Curveball, was a defector from Iraq.

He defects to Germany

and starts talking all kinds of shit about Saddam Hussein.

He's got mobile biological weapons labs.

Mobile bio labs.

I remember that.

He's got all these things.

And the German authorities are like,

this guy curveball has got a screw loose.

Like, eh.

So do you remember there was a CIA European chief?

I think his name was like Tyler Drumheller or something like that.

He knew that this guy Screwball had a screw loose.

And he warned his counterparts in D.C., like, don't pay attention to what this guy Curveball is saying.

This information is not accurate.

He's got an agenda.

This smells bad.

Don't base base anything that you're giving Colin Powell or anybody else any reason to go into Iraq.

Don't base it on Curveball.

DC ignores it on purpose, hides it from Colin Powell.

So then Colin Powell goes before the American people with a little vial of fake anthrax and says mobile biological weapons labs.

And I mean, all of the networks run with it.

There were people in the media who were aware that Curveball had a screw loose, but it didn't matter because the narrative had been set.

We ignored it.

So the

DC offices ignored it on purpose and cordoned it off.

I think Colin Powell's speechwriter at the time and

head of his office said we were completely deceived because they withheld this information.

And this was, he's, Colin Powell spent weeks at CIA headquarters going over all of the documents.

Not one of them did he find credible.

The one that he ended up using, one of maybe two, was the mobile biological weapons labs that all came from Curveball, which was all made up.

And then, of course, in 2011, Curveball comes out and says, Yeah, I made the whole thing up because I hated Saddam and I just wanted regime change.

And I knew if I planted this seed, it would lead to regime change.

Shouldn't we have a stronger predicate to go into these countries?

And shouldn't the incurious media be asking questions of these people?

But they go along with it because it's part of,

you know, I don't know who's feeding them these sort sort of like deep state talking points that they need to carry on with this, but to me, they're an extension of

the Pentagon.

I mean, when you have like Fox News has like an office in the Pentagon.

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I think Jennifer Griffin.

Oh, Jennifer Griffin.

Yeah.

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You know what's amazing if you look at, well, first of all, her coverage of this

in the immediate aftermath of the bombing was, this is spectacular.

You know, Sean, this is spectacular.

This was really,

yeah, this was an amazing operation.

There was not one leak.

No one.

The explosions.

Jennifer Griffin's fought in a lot of wars.

She's personally courageous.

She's put a lot on the line.

So many of these people are.

Even like that Jim Sciudo from CNN.

That's unbelievable.

He was embedded in Ukraine and he's like, we know this massive offensive is coming.

Here's this and this.

Being fed information directly from the deep state.

So they're all an extension,

CNN and all these other, they're all an extension of the intelligence community being fed this information and given these sources.

So they can never say a negative thing about them because then you cut off your sources.

You know, Jennifer Griffin, as this was all unfolding, and it was clear to me that there are a lot of questions about what was actually in those nuclear sites because a week earlier, Israel had struck two of them.

So do you think that Iran just kind of hung out and just like got a broom out and cleaned some stuff up and just put like the pictures back up on the wall?

No, they were empty.

And Fordo, by all accounts was empty as well so what exactly did we hit and then this information was coming out almost in real time but i was watching the network news coverage and there was no sort of walking it back

there was no assessing telling the truth right just lying just continuing with this this is the greatest moment in america

jen griffin is a a liar

but also very liberal.

Wow, true Trump hater.

To the point where I complained about her.

And I really tried not to complain about other people at Fox when I worked there because like, I don't like that, you know, office politics stuff.

But she was discrediting the channel.

She was such a Trump hater.

And it was like emotional.

Like her internal memos, you know, from the Pentagon, sources are telling us were like screeds.

It was like, oh, I'll just read political playbook if that's what, you know, or whatever.

I'll read Mother Jones.

And I said to an executive at Fox, like, what, what are we doing with this Jennifer Griffin person?

She's an idiot.

She doesn't tell the truth.

She misleads our viewers.

And she's like a screaming liberal who hates Trump, who our viewers love.

So what are we getting out of this?

And it was like, oh,

it's like, boy, you could not touch Jennifer Griffin.

I don't know what that's about.

But.

Well, if you have an office in the Pentagon, maybe that's what that's about.

Maybe.

I mean, or

I don't know.

That's that whole other world that I, you know, I'm not a part of, but I just, I cannot, I can't tolerate it.

And it's why so many people are so fed up with cable news.

But you have to understand, well, you understand it.

Maybe your viewers don't fully understand or appreciate how profitable

it is for these networks during war.

So if you look at the numbers from like

Q1 of 20 or 2002,

2002, before we went into Iraq, the numbers for revenue

for Fox

was

about 70 or so.

I forget the numbers exactly, but anyway, in that following quarter, when the war started in March, the numbers went up 150%.

No way.

150%.

So war is incredibly profitable.

I mean, CNN was built on it, right?

I mean, CNN's.

Wars literally started or was brought to public attention during the war that your brother served in in 1990.

So they made

billions off of war.

So countdown to Iraq, showdown with Saddam, like all of the sort of build-up to war, people are going to tune in.

They're going to make money from ad revenue.

When in an era where ad revenue is plummeting,

the young people don't watch cable news.

They get their news from like TikTok and X and little sound bites here and YouTube and places like that.

They're not buying a cable subscription.

Do you know any young people that have a cable?

I bet if you asked any of your staff like do you any of you guys own a cable subscription so you can watch cnn or fox news no so that audience is you know like getting much much older so it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens to like the cable news landscape in the next few years you remember benghazi right i'm glad you brought that up for a whole a whole host of reasons but go ahead i don't mean to well i that was kind of in progress when i got to fox i've been fired from a couple other channels Roger Ailes hired me.

So nice of him.

I'll never stop being grateful.

And,

but I show up in this Benghazi thing.

It's like

going bonkers and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

And this is like the touchstone to this is the Rosetta Stone to

the Obama administration right, take him down with Benghazi.

And of course, the U.S.

ambassador was killed.

And

so whatever.

I mean, that's, I'm totally opposed to my father's U.S.

ambassador.

I'm against U.S.

ambassadors being killed right now.

Gragged through the streets.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, completely.

So I was on board, and we talked about it a lot on TV.

And I remember one day I was thinking, I saw some number of the number of CIA operations guy, CIA officers who were there.

And Benghazi is like an ancient city.

I think it's across from Cyprus.

It's on the Med.

And,

you know, second city of Libya.

It's a real place.

But

we had so many CIA personnel in Benghazi, Libya.

And I remember this was after NATO killed

Gaddafi.

And I was like, why?

What were they doing there?

What were those people doing there?

So I asked that question on TV.

It turns out they were there helping to move Qaddafi's arms stockpiles to fund

the war in Syria, which we were not prosecuting on our own behalf.

It was 100% for a foreign country.

We were doing this.

We had no national interest in stoking a civil war in Syria.

We did that really at the behest of another country, shamefully.

Killed all these people.

But whatever.

Anyway, I didn't know any of of this, but I was just, I asked like one day, why do we have so many CI officers?

I sort of understood that world a little bit.

And I was like, that's weird that we have 35 operations guys in Benghazi, Libya.

Like, what is, or whatever the number was.

Whoa, I got immediately,

whoa, that's not the Benghazi story we're looking at.

Really?

Fox told you that?

Oh, 100%.

Like, I don't know.

Like, what does that have to do with it?

The point is, a U.S.

ambassador was killed.

That's bad.

Let's just keep it there.

Like, we don't, that's not our area.

I'm glad you bring this up.

And I was like, oh my gosh, something big is going on here.

Because, you know, Fox hated Obama, of course.

Yeah, yeah, me too.

I still do.

Yeah, vehemently.

Hated Hillary Clinton.

Me too.

Vehemently.

So

they're responsible for the Benghazi disaster, the killing of U.S.

Ambassador.

But you couldn't ask questions about like, why the hell are we in Libya to begin with?

Well, exactly.

So isn't that amazing?

So you, because that speaks to the heart of of it, which is the Uniparty, right?

That speaks to the heart of it, which is both that liberals,

neocons, they're all operating from the same playbook.

Exactly.

So you can't question, like, why are we in Libya in the first place?

Why did we go in and, you know, just because, you know, Qaddafi wanted to make his own country prosperous?

We can't have that in the Middle East.

in the same way that we couldn't have Iran nationalizing their own oil in the 1950s, right?

It's the same thing.

So you can't ask that question.

And so it just speaks to the military-industrial complex control, the UNI party that operates in Washington, D.C., that fully is an operational at the media networks as well.

Don't question why we're in Libya.

Just focus on the Hillary Clinton piece of what happened in Benghazi.

Don't question what's going on in Syria.

Just focus on Assad as a madman and he's going to kill.

He's gassed all these people, which was fake.

It was fake.

I said it was fake.

Boy, they wanted to kill me for saying that.

I mean, this sort of predicate, these propaganda pieces that they use, and it becomes part of like, you know, this national vernacular on television.

You know, Saddam is, you know, Assad is gassing his own people.

It's not true.

But they were so emotionally...

So that by that point,

I'm neutral on Assad, always have been, but there was a thriving Christian community there.

I am a Christian.

So it felt legitimate for me to ask, like, how does it affect the Christians?

I don't know.

No one else is saying it.

So I thought I would.

And I said that.

Wow.

People didn't like that.

And then the gas attack came, which was, of course, the justification for a bombing campaign, another bombing campaign in Syria.

And someone high-level person tipped me off.

Hey, this is not real.

Well, there's no evidence it's real.

If it's real, show me how it's real.

Yeah.

In fact, it's been not only no evidence, it's been debunked.

Right.

But this was like the day after, the day of.

So I said that on TV.

Boy, I got taken aside by a senior person there who I really liked, had known my whole life, life, honestly.

And I was like, Tucker, I don't know what you're doing here, but this is this is, and I was like, and very emotional.

Like, why are you defending Assad?

I was like, I'm not defending Assad.

We're using the U.S.

military to kill people.

And I just want to know if the justification for that is real.

And they haven't shown that it is.

And they're clearly lying.

And I don't know much about anything, but I do know lying when I see it.

I have a good instinct for that.

And I think they're lying.

Wow, I got scolded by somebody who I really liked and was close to personally, but was like emotional.

Like, how dare you?

What is that?

I don't, I never have, I don't understand it to this day.

I think I understand it in a, if you look at it with this like broader brush, that we're, we can't have dissent when you're trying to, when you're trying to do the bidding of a foreign country.

I mean, Israel absolutely wanted us to take out Assad.

They've been wanting

the same thing with Libya.

And if you go back to Netanyahu sitting there in front of Congress, telling us about Iraq, that Saddam Hussein 100% has weapons of mass destruction.

100%, there's no doubt in my mind he has weapons of mass destruction.

You need to go in there.

By the way, it's a risk to America.

So this is always the,

you know, the story, which is it's a risk to America if you don't go and bomb Iran.

It's a risk to America.

We're defending freedom together.

And the same with Syria, that Syria is going to launch attacks, which, by the way, Syria was one of the most peaceful countries in the world.

Damascus, a beautiful country, a beautiful city.

One of the most peaceful countries in the world.

Look it up.

But when you want to take care of your own people and you want to sort of de-westernize, that's a huge threat.

In the same way that Iran wanting to nationalize its own oil and kick British petroleum out of its country, yeah, we're going to keep our own oil.

I mean, look what it did to Norway in the late 70s.

Norway became one of the richest and wealthiest countries in the world.

Number one per capita.

So if there's a history lesson here, like Iran Iran was basically trying to do what Norway did in the late 70s.

We're going to

not, you know, nationalize our own oil, but keep the profitability for ourself.

And then what happened?

The United States took it over.

British petroleum came back in.

We installed the Shah.

They end up using all of this oil, funneling off to other places.

So it doesn't enrich the Iranians at all.

Widespread poverty.

It's like something out of Mao's playbook.

Take all of your food and then just ship it off to Russia.

Exactly.

Right.

And then also charge your Chinese people

really high taxes, give them no food, produce a bountiful amount of food, just like Iran with oil, but instead of keeping it, send it to Stalin so that you're fattening them up.

The wheat goes to Russia, doesn't go to the Chinese people.

It's right out of that playbook.

So we cannot have a strong Libya

that

serves its own self-interests.

We cannot have a strong Iran that wants to enrich its own people.

I mean, mean, have you ever seen the photos of like Iran in the 1950s?

I have.

It's unbelievable.

People should look it up.

I mean,

girls in mini skirts walking.

You'd be hard-pressed to tell like the difference between like downtown Rochester, New York, these black and white photos.

It was also thriving.

Yeah.

In 1954.

Yeah.

Sad.

No, it's sad.

And I don't know.

I've managed to see the Israeli perspective on, I don't see it on gossip.

I'm just going to say that.

But on most things i've managed to see the israeli perspective and you know they think they're acting in their own interests and my kind of gut level view is that every country acts in its own interest every person acts in his his family's interest that that makes sense to me i've never been mad about it um again gaza i think is

is too much It's my personal opinion.

Sorry, call me a hater.

But whatever.

But in just in general, like countries act in their own interests.

Like, that's okay.

I don't understand the Americans who are bought in on that

or change their profiles so that they've got they're Christian Americans and they've got an Israeli flag.

I don't get that.

I don't understand.

I don't get that.

Everyone's like, oh, you hate Israel.

No,

my, my real rage is reserved for people who sell out their own country.

Yeah.

Like, I get their perspective.

They think they're doing what they need to do.

They could be right or wrong.

We can debate it, whether what they're doing is good for them.

You know, it doesn't seem like it, but maybe they're, you know, what do I know?

No, I think Israel, I mean, I'll say it.

I think Israel is killing themselves.

Yeah.

Okay.

but that's their country right i don't understand

why the selling out of my country where i'm from by my countrymen like that really offends me that's fair isn't it right because i i don't hear israelis wanting to pump us with billions of dollars telling us that you know you guys have a fentanyl problem like you know or or coming into our country like the idf is going to protect our southern borders to protect us yeah we why are we sending billions of dollars why

Israel has a surplus, a budget surplus,

and a space force,

like space program.

Like, why are we, I mean, just driving down the streets seeing like homeless people.

Oh, I know.

I mean, I was driving down the street just the other day, just this guy like with a bag, just like, you know, falling out of the trees.

I was in California a few weeks ago, and just the tents, I couldn't believe the amount of 10 cities underneath.

It's a never passing.

It's national emergency.

It's the most pressing national emergency I can imagine.

If your countrymen are dying of drug ODs by the hundreds hundreds of thousands and living on the street by the millions, which they are.

Yeah.

How is that not the most important thing that's happening in your country?

But they'll say it's a false dichotomy.

What does us sending billions to Israel have to do with all the homeless people in the world?

No, I mean, that's, it's silly.

How much disk space, how much attention of our leaders is focused abroad versus how much is focused here?

It's, it's simple.

It's not even about the money, though.

It is on some level about the money.

But it's about the attention.

If I'm totally absorbed in the problems of my neighbor's children, it leaves less time for the problems of my own children.

It's that simple.

Well, Ted Cruz said to you in your interview with him, the very first thing out of his mouth, the very first reason he wanted to become a part of the United States Congress is because he wanted to see how he could serve Israel.

I think those were his,

maybe.

Yeah, the problem with that is once you start saying that stuff out loud,

I mean, you know, it's not good.

People are, you know, once you see how things actually operate, it radicalizes people.

And as a true temperamental moderate, let me say, I don't want that.

I don't want a country full of angry people.

You know what I mean?

But people like Ted Cruz, who just sort of admits that the U.S.

is not his main interest in life,

but he is a United States Senator representing one of our biggest states,

that radicalizes people.

I mean, why wouldn't it?

Yeah.

And I just don't want that.

I want everyone to be kind of happy.

And I don't want people to be pissed off and writing crazy shit on X and which they're now doing.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

All of it.

Anyway.

So can I, you said you saw Fox News recently.

You're not a huge Fox.

Well, you lived out of the country for years.

Yeah.

I guess it's not.

I didn't really watch it for years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But now you're back in the United States and you saw it.

Can I just play?

We just put together a montage, which I think is fair.

By the way, Fox canned me over two years ago.

I've never attacked Fox.

I'm not mad at Fox.

I've always liked Fox.

I'm grateful to them.

This is really the first time I've attacked them, but I think it really matters.

I think this is a fair representation of what's on

Fox's air right now.

Okay?

Here it is.

The greater risk would be to do nothing in the face of a clear and present danger.

The world cannot experience another Holocaust.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, I think the odds are unacceptably high that we would find out with a mushroom cloud over New York City or Los Angeles or Tel Aviv and Israel.

Israel is doing an enormous favor to the United States right now.

And nuclear Iran is not just an existential threat to Israel.

It is an existential threat to America.

Take these enemies not just figuratively, not just seriously, but literally.

When they say they want a second genocide, they want a nuclear holocaust, they mean it.

If we need to provide bombs to Israel, provide bombs.

If we need to fly planes with Israel, do joint operations.

But here's the bigger question.

Wouldn't the world be better off if the Ayatollahs went away and replaced by something better?

Wouldn't Iran be better off?

America First is not sitting in a beach chair and using words.

It's taking decisive action when we can take out Ford with one swoop of an airplane.

What the hell is it going to take to realize what we're up against here?

This country should be united, united in its own defense.

Nobody's dragging us into anything.

It's not the Jews.

It's not Israel again.

No.

Long-range, intercontinental, ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are for you and me and your children and your grandchildren.

That's what's airing on Fox.

By the way, that same person, Mark Levin, who was a totally minor player in Fox World up until recently,

I can tell you firsthand,

suggested today that we send nuclear weapons to Ukraine, too.

But I should just make it clear, in the last clip that we played, he said, intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads are meant for you.

They're going to kill you, the mullahs.

Iran doesn't have intercontinental ballistic missiles.

It doesn't have nuclear warheads.

Like, all of this is, it's, it's deranged.

Um, and the point is to scare

old people into obedience.

And let me say one last thing that everyone on that list, so we've got Hannity Cruz, Barry Weiss, Lindsey Graham, Kaylee McEnany, Mark Levin, Levin.

Of those people,

Hannity's, I think, a genuine friend of Trump's.

I think Hannity really likes Trump.

And I just want to say again, I really like Sean Hannity personally.

Got no problem with Sean Hannity at all, personally.

And

he likes Trump.

I don't know Kaylee McEnany, what she thinks of Trump, but Ted Cruz, Barry Weiss, Lindsey Graham, and Mark Levin hate Donald Trump.

They're all never Trumpers.

Well, I mean,

you know, one of them, Ted Cruz, ran against him.

Right.

So, like, these are people who hate Donald Trump.

I'm not guessing.

I know them all.

They're like Nikki Haley supporters.

100%.

Right.

Ron DeSantis.

And they're all now saying how much they love Trump.

Like, anyway, I'm going to stand back and just let you assess what we just saw.

Well, one thing I noticed, I didn't see any dissenting voices at all.

Again, goes right back to the 2002 playbook.

I didn't see anybody saying, wait a second,

challenging Mark Levin about intercontinental ballistic missiles.

There was no

questioning of that.

There's no one there to question it.

There was a guy who would have questioned him, but they fired him a couple of years ago.

And now he's got a much bigger platform.

No, that's just a

mean to sound self-pitying, but it is.

No, it is true.

Like, is Hannity, I mean, I think Ted Cruz, I don't know whose show he was on during that, but is Hannity going to question?

Like, I saw Mark Levin go on a tirade the other day on Hannity's show, and then Hannity basically jumped in and supported that tirade, praising Trump as maybe, you know, that decades of presidents had the opportunity to attack and didn't do it.

It took Donald Trump, like,

you know, God, basically, to attack and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.

But I didn't see any dissenting voices on this at all.

And the idea of Barry Weiss saying that

this is a threat to America.

So that's what we keep hearing.

This is a threat to America.

Barry Weiss will say whatever she needs to say.

Barry Weiss's interest is not the United States at at all.

It's, I mean.

But factually, is it a threat to America?

That's what I want to know.

Like, who, and if it is, certainly make it a threat to America.

Right.

And that's the, that's the beauty of now we're hearing about, now there's sleeper cells.

So I spoke to a CIA agent, a former CIA agent a couple months ago, and he said, my biggest fear is

that they will use,

he said, this is the CIA plan.

This is what we do.

So we'll use a dumb Muslim.

We'll get a dumb Muslim who's easily brainwashable, and we'll have them carry out an attack as a catalyst for us to go into war, go into war in Iran.

And then, oh, this guy's Iran.

This guy's an Iranian?

Ah, there you go.

Got a dumb Palestinian Christian like Sirhan Sarhan.

Just throwing that.

Yeah, exactly.

Excuse me.

Right, exactly.

So we will use a Patsy, and that will be the catalyst.

Do you see what they did in, you know, in Wayne, Michigan?

Did you see what they did?

There was a, there was a, you know, carrying out this attack.

By the the way, these accounts, as soon as we attacked the nuclear sites, almost immediately there were videos being surfaced and flooded on social media about Islamists running towards subways in New York City.

It's so reckless and dangerous.

It's so immoral.

But so profitable, Tucker.

So much money they'll make off of this.

I mean, I think Mark Levin and Barry Weiss.

you know, whatever.

I mean, these are people who just really just don't care at all.

Okay.

But there are other people here, Lindsey Graham, who everyone hates Lindsey Graham, but I always say this and I mean it.

Lindsey, absolutely delightful person, delightful person, hilarious, nice.

Like, he's not in person.

He's not some kind of monster at all.

He's like a fun guy to have dinner with, which I have done.

What's he thinking?

Does part of him think, geez, you know, a lot of people could die?

Like, I'm...

Like, when they die, do I feel bad about it?

It's an unpatriotic question, Tucker.

No, but like, this is so

athletic question.

Like, how can you think he really thinks that?

I don't think he's, I think he's so bought and paid for by the military-industrial complex, how much money he's made from the military-industrial complex.

People are dying?

I don't think they care at all.

They are in a bubble.

Man, I don't think they care at all.

And do they not think at some point they're going to have to answer for this?

Maybe in the afterlife they will, but because it always happens over there, we don't live that long.

Like, human lifespan's pretty short.

I don't know.

You're really rolling the dice with this kind of stuff.

I mean, maybe there's no God

and, you know, it's fine.

And like the guy who dies richest wins.

I guess, maybe, but what if you're, what if, you know, the Blaise Pascal formula is like right?

Like, why would you,

why would you risk that?

He's only risking like purgatory for a few thousand years and then he'll, you know, eventually get sheltered off one way or the other.

But it's incredibly profitable.

Like if somebody sent you $10 million to say that, you know,

Firestone tires are better than Bridgestone tires, assuming they're not the same company, which I think think they may be, but whatever.

You know what I mean?

You'd be like, okay, I'm for Firestone now, $10 million.

But if someone sent you $10 million or $100 million or $10 billion

to say something was untrue that you knew would get people killed,

you want $10 billion, but you'd be like, oh, I don't know.

I can't.

That's not a good idea.

Kind of rolling with my soul here.

But these people are soulless, and they're not going to ask these tough questions.

They're not going to challenge this.

As you and I talked about last night, I'm thinking of that Upton Sinclair quote where he said,

It's hard to convince a man of something he's paid not to see.

Yeah, yeah.

It's, you know, if you're paying, if you're on the salary, if he's being paid to not see it, if your whole salary relies on knowing something

or not knowing something,

you know, it's difficult.

So all these, you know, different anchors on these different television, they want the prestige of being on TV and having people like put makeup on them and all of that.

And they rely on that contract.

They rely on that salary.

And then if they don't have that, they go off and try to do things like what Don Lemon did or whatever.

And if you're part of that machine, no one wants to watch your stuff, you know,

because, well, you for 10 years, you were a liar.

So now you're going to go off and do an independent show and now, and now we're going to watch you and trust you.

Like you were lying for money for so many years,

pushing a narrative.

And now you're going to go off.

We're not going to watch it.

So

I just find it so.

No,

it's the same argument that they used in 2002, that it's an existential threat to the United States of America, that Saddam Hussein is going to use intercontinental ballistic missiles.

He's going to gather a warhead with anthrax.

He's going to shoot, you know, he's going to shoot it into some mall somewhere.

So that's the fear, right?

They're playing on our fear that we are going to be attacked by Iran.

And they don't have an intercontinental ballistic missile to hit us.

Forget, just don't let the facts get in in the way.

They actually don't have a nuclear warhead,

they don't have the re-entry mechanism to even make that happen.

But we need to be fearful of it.

Like, I don't wake up fearful of Iran in the morning.

Maybe I'm dumb.

You know, maybe I'm an idiot, and I should.

That should be the first thing that I do when I wake up in the morning, not like the Trende Aragua gang down the street.

I should be more worried about Iran is going to attack me.

And by the way, why would they attack us?

I know.

Like, why, why aren't they attacking Sweden right now?

If they hate our freedoms, why aren't they attacking Norway right now?

Why would they attack us?

If we get the hell out of there,

maybe we wouldn't have these problems.

If we wouldn't build these bases in their backyard, if we wouldn't meddle in trying to decapitate their leadership and overthrow and install a pro-Western government and tell them to open McDonald's.

But we can't.

We seem like we're so addicted to doing it.

And we thought under Trump that this would be a realignment.

We're not going to do this.

Well, the whole game has been to manipulate the president, of course.

And, you know, I think that's true with any president.

I mean, that's the seat of power.

So, of course, a lot of people are interested in moving it in their direction.

I get it.

You know, it's all, it's not surprising.

It's not even offensive.

It's just the way things are.

I'm just offended watching these people who I know personally, and I know for a fact they hate Trump.

The Murdoch really hate Trump.

There's no one who hates Trump more than the Murdoch.

I mean, I got fired in April of 2023.

In May of 2023, they asked me to run for president against Trump and said they would back me.

Obviously, I'm not going to run for any, you know, I would never get elected anypost.

I like Trump.

I mean, that's the funny thing is I actually genuinely, you know, I get frustrated.

I'm frustrated now.

So hold on.

I'm sorry.

You just said that.

And people buy, I mean, they asked you to run for president against Trump, the Murdoch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lachlan Murdoch said you should run for president.

We'll back you.

The whole thing, the whole.

The whole Fox News apparatus.

And not just Fox, but Wall Street Journal, all of their papers.

Absolutely.

Yeah, we'll back you.

And that came right from.

You should do that.

I was already gone.

They'd already canceled my show.

I was still under contract, but they canceled my show.

You should run.

We support you.

You should run.

We want to stop Trump.

Yeah, well, he was running.

I was like,

and first of all, I like Trump, and I thought DeSantis was kind of promising.

And then he signed some hate speech bill out of the country.

And I was like, ooh, you're a betrayer.

Like, that's so offensive to me.

I can't even, any hate speech bill is so offensive to me.

Can't criminalize opinions.

What?

Criminalize violence, which they don't.

And I like DeSantis, but that was, I was at, I was like, no, I can't.

That's so a violation of my principles.

And I really, I, I've always liked Trump, despite getting frustrated, as I do with everyone I love.

We get frustrated, but I always liked the guy a lot, and I still do.

Anyway, but whatever.

And also, I couldn't get elected to anything, and I don't want to be elected to anything.

It's not my world.

I'm not zero interest.

I've never had any interest.

But he looks at me, oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

At dinner, you should run.

And

I was like, I don't, that's not my world.

Like, I'm an opinion guy.

I sit behind a mic and tell you what I think.

And that's what I've done my whole life.

It's what I want to do.

It's all I'm qualified to do.

And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, you should do that.

That's a fact.

So

that's fine.

I mean, lots of people dislike Trump.

It just bothers me that this channel run and staffed by Trump haters.

They're not all Trump haters.

Again, Sean Hannity likes Trump.

Good for him.

For real, he does.

And there are a few other people there who like Trump, but most people hate Trump.

They wouldn't allow Trump on my show, period.

Like Trump would call in what they call a beeper or a phoner.

You know, I mean, we had him on our show all the time.

Yeah.

Trump would call it.

Like, nope, not doing that.

I did an interview in April of 2023, right, with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, right before I got canned, like a week before I got canned.

And boy, they were furious that I talked to Trump in that interview.

Because they didn't want him to hate him.

They didn't want him being promoted.

And I don't know that it's personal.

They just dislike his views.

They dislike his views on economics.

They dislike his views on foreign policy.

And they're very serious about it.

So, again, that's fine.

You can disagree.

You're allowed to.

I believe in disagreement, sincere disagreement.

I'm just blown away that those same people are like, no, no, no, we're here with MAGA.

We're policing MAGA.

You're not MAGA, says Mark Levin or whatever his name is.

It's like, are you serious?

And they were supporting DeSantis.

I mean, they were up until a primary.

Mark Levin hates Trump.

So, like, which is, again, that's fine.

I'm not attacking him.

I believe that everyone is allowed to come to his own conclusions about everything.

Because I believe that people have souls.

They're not slaves or animals or machines.

They are autonomous beings created by God.

And so they're allowed and have to be allowed to come to their own conclusions.

And all conclusions are legal.

I'm not the one who's trying to criminalize opinions as they have done in Europe and are trying to do here.

I reject that.

But Mark Levin is on the other side, Levin.

And, but for him to be like, oh, I just love Trump.

And Trump's the man.

If you're a true paper, no, you're a Trump hater.

And so are your bosses.

And so are your colleagues.

And Jen Griffin, you're a Trump hater.

It just drives me bonkers because it's a lie.

It's fake.

And that's the part that bothers me.

I have much more respect for, I don't know, just some sincere leftie who's like, yeah, I don't like Trump now.

I didn't like him then.

I disagree.

Like, that just seems straightforward and

sort of manly to me.

This just seems totally creepy.

Like, Ted Cruz, like, oh, I love Trump.

And sycophantic.

Totally.

Yeah, it's always, yeah, it's always, that's always bothered me.

The, you know, the sycophantic,

you know, ass kissing on the air.

But then the other part of it is that you know that Trump watches Fox all day.

Yeah.

So,

well, they know that.

That's why they're doing that.

They know that.

So when they start an hour of a broadcast and say, Trump just carried out the most magnificent attack in American history on nuclear sites, Trump's sitting there watching it.

Yeah, I did that.

So it's like feeding this ego.

It's like a weird loop.

I don't understand it.

Yeah, I know.

It's going to be very interesting when these.

I mean, I do understand it.

It's like, this is the same reason people check their Twitter mentions or whatever they call it or Google themselves, something I've never done.

But

I don't approve of it.

I think it's bad.

I think it makes you more insecure when you look to other people for approval, people you don't know.

Who cares what people you don't know think of you?

Like it's so weird to me.

But anyway, but I think it's a super tough call right now.

He's under the president's under enormous pressure from outside the White House, from donors and

etc.

And I think it's natural for people to seek affirmation.

The problem is that you don't, you know, you don't want to be

unduly influenced by flattery.

I think that's a just for all of us, that's a weakness that all of us have.

And I think you need to approach flatterers with hostility.

I agree.

Flattery is way more dangerous than criticism.

Yeah.

And people often ignore the flattery part and just soak it in.

So it's very easy to get like a thousand comments that are praising you.

I love you, Tucker.

You're amazing.

And then there's like one negative really goes after you, calls you whatever, and you can dwell on that and lose sleep over that.

Oh, yeah.

But maybe the more insidious and more dangerous or the thousand love of comments.

Of course.

Of course, there's a kind of, I mean, again,

there's false

criticism.

You work for Qatar.

Okay.

Right.

But like, there's also legitimate criticism, which I think is is really important to hear.

And I seek it always.

I try to.

I want to anyway.

But flattery is the most deceptive of all.

It's the most insidious.

It's the most dangerous.

It shows the least respect to you.

Someone who flatters you has no respect for you at all.

If you were going to try to bring the conversation back to like a non-emotional level with what's going on there, where would you go?

How's America doing?

It's really simple.

How's America doing?

Country's defined by its cities.

Go to our 10 biggest cities, walk around, spend a day in each.

How's it going?

Doing a good job?

Our leaders doing a pretty good job.

That's a fucking disaster.

It is.

And I live in rural pockets that are great because they're more like the country was in the 80s.

Yeah.

But that's not the country.

The country is its cities.

Any country.

I mean, in fact, there weren't even countries until fairly recently.

There were cities.

I mean, that's Rome was a city.

It controlled the world.

The idea of a nation state is a pretty new concept.

No, cities matter.

They really matter.

I hate them.

I don't go to them because they're terrible.

Right.

So I would just say the pressing problem in America is the condition of its cities because that is America.

It's not Iran with an intercontinental ballistic missile coming up.

No, it's not Iran.

It's also not Malibu or Jackson Hole or the weird little pockets where I live.

It's not.

It's New York, Chicago, L.A.

It is.

It's Atlanta.

It's Minneapolis.

Have you seen Sunset Boulevard recently?

No.

I just did an interview with someone who grew up in Hollywood, and you know, Hollywood's collapsing, but Sunset Boulevard, all the big stores are closed.

Oh, seen

actual

Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Yeah, yeah, not like the East-West artery that defines the city.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, I know it very well.

It's like all these classic stores, 80-year-old restaurants closed up.

In Hollywood.

Oh.

Yeah.

So in Franks, it's like, yeah, that whole area.

No, I know that area really well.

I grew up for a time in my childhood right there and I love it.

San Francisco.

Go to Union Square.

I went there with my great-grandmother who survived the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

Went to Gumps with her as a child over Christmas.

I'll never forget how charming Union Square was.

And I was born there.

And I was there this spring and I was like coming down off Knobstang and Knob Hill, come down Union Square.

And I was just like, oh, my heart broke.

Yeah.

So that's, that's the problem.

It's really simple.

And you mention it to someone like Ted cruise or i mean marklevan and barry weiss are like what they don't even know what you're talking about they don't care yeah they have no interest in america at all but but but some of these people i mean certainly lindsey graham he should care he doesn't but again it's up to sinclair right if you're it's very difficult to get someone to understand something or care if their entire salary depends on them not caring so his entire salary the money that he makes from all of these lobbying groups all the military industrial complex

funds his

mania, his

wanting to,

you know, decapitate Putin, regime change in Russia,

regime change in Iran, doing the bidding of all of these, you know, all of these, uh,

all of these foreign countries, doing the bidding of military-industrial complex, which stands to make a lot of money.

Wouldn't it be amazing if we could that trillion, like you brought up a great point the other day, but that trillion dollar budget that we now have for the military-industrial complex, like why do we not have the material to protect ourselves?

Like, as you think with that kind of budget.

I don't know.

Ask Jen Griffin.

Shut up.

You hate the military.

You love Iran.

You love our enemies.

Yeah, no, it's so, it's so frustrating.

And again,

I don't love Iran.

I don't hate Israel.

I really am angry at the people who abandon their own country who are positions of responsibility in their nation, the nation of their birth, and just abandoned it.

I look on them as

I view a father who abandoned abandoned his family with true contempt.

I don't care how hot she was.

I don't care how bad your drinking problem was.

I don't care what your excuse was.

You left your family.

And I just, I, I, I have total contempt for that.

By the way, that's not even considered bad now.

Right.

No, it's encouraged.

Totally.

I mean, you abandon your children.

That's cool.

I mean, I was in a Barnes and Noble the other day, and I haven't been in one of those in a long time, like a big bookstore.

That still exists?

It still exists.

Where?

It was in outside of Denver, Colorado.

Wow.

And I used to love going to, I would sit there for hours and just read books, get a coffee.

And that's where I did most of my studying at the University of Pittsburgh was the Barnes and Noble down the street.

And I loved it.

I loved being around books.

I loved, you know, that environment.

But my wife and I went, she's like, oh my God, I got to get out of here.

Like all of the little tables for like, you know, gender studies or gender, you know, and then there was the whole family.

This really stunned us.

The whole family section

was not about like how to improve your marriage or have a better family.

It was all how to get divorced.

Get divorced next to how to kill yourself aisle.

Yeah, yeah.

That's exactly what.

And they, they, of course, they push this, and this is what they want.

You know, they don't want us to have a strong nuclear family.

They don't want us to have

strong neighbors, friendships in the neighborhood.

They want us to, you know, they want, they want women to say they don't need men.

Get rid of men in your life.

Don't need men.

So these, I guess, I mean, I have opinions on everything you said, but I don't want to keep repeating myself like an old person, but I guess I would just say we have a lot of problems, like real, real problems, not just inflation or GDP or like actual systemic problems to steal a term that they love.

And,

you know, anything that diverts attention from that, it seems really bad.

So this is the madness that I, this is another part of my rage because I watch the economic numbers also.

I'm not an economist.

Play one on television.

I am.

I remember when I graduated from HBS and went to the New York Fed just for five years as an internship and thinking I could make this a career, but I instead went into cable news.

You could have worked at the Treasury, but you

couldn't.

Excuse me.

So if you think about right now, what would devastate the United States of America?

Is it an intercontinental ballistic missile?

No, no.

What would devastate the United States of America would be $5 gasoline?

So have we thought about that?

Because when I heard them come out on TV the other night, say, we've thought through every possible scenario as an attack against us after we launched these attacks on these nuclear sites.

We've gamed out everything were their words.

We've gamed out everything.

Did you game out that the Iranian parliament just voted to close the Straits of Hormuz?

Did you figure that part of it out?

Because I remember in 2022, 2022, under Biden, when gas hit $5.01,

you had people filling up the flatbed of their truck with tarps, with gasoline, because they were in panic mode.

Biden literally emptied the strategic oil reserves as a response.

Inflation went over 9%.

The CPI number went over 9%, which is the consumer price index, which means how much are people paying for their groceries?

How much gas prices are included in the CPI number?

$5.

Closing the Straits of Hormuz could put oil, our gas prices in the United States, between $7 and $10.

It's only 20% of the world's petroleum flows through there.

Not a big deal.

Have we thought about this?

Have we thought about how everything that we're doing right now, the lights on, the food that we get on our tables,

would be affected by this in a massive way?

I mean,

the only silver lining is that also China relies on the Straits of Hormuz,

you know,

in a very large way.

Luckily, they don't play the long game, though, so it's not a concern.

I'm sure they're day traders just like us.

So China just can't flip on that Siberian oil pipeline to Russia.

Hey, we need instead of the 800,000 barrels a day that we normally get from you, let's crank it up to three.

You okay with that, Putin?

Do you think that they have a relationship?

The BRICS nations have a relationship to soften this?

They do now.

So what, boy, you're making me sad.

So I'm going to end on,

Clayton.

It's so great to see you.

It's great.

So let me end on what I hope is a hopeful note.

So both of us worked in television our whole lives where you left voluntarily because you're smarter than I am, but I was expelled like a hairball from the system.

And

so

you've been out.

How long?

What year did you leave?

2017.

So eight years ago.

Wow.

Crazy.

I've been out two years.

My head is starting to clear.

I feel better.

Yeah.

I feel like a much younger man.

But what's the, what's the future of that, of that business, of that medium?

Well, I think it's collapsing in real time.

And I've, I said that while I was there.

Yeah.

That this idea that people are going to pay for a cable subscription in order to get their CNN or Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity, like that's dying.

And that audience is dying with them.

I I don't know if you've ever watched Fox in the Afternoon.

It's all ads for hip replacement or like don't fall out of your shower stalls because you're elderly.

So they know their audience.

They know it's aging out.

The joke back when I was at Fox was that, oh, CBS's audience is like 90.

It was like 75 at the time, but I'm just being exaggerating.

So now those people are in their 90s.

That audience is not getting any younger.

Again, I don't know anybody watching right now who's buying a cable box when they go to Xfinity or Comcast and they're starting out.

They're like a young couple.

They're in their 20s.

They want to have children.

They don't even know what a cable box is.

So they're going now maybe with like the, you know, they'll buy a phonograph, but not a cable box.

And a lot of this is like shifted over to like YouTube TV and things like that, you know, things.

So, I mean, there'll be people that'll still flip through, but I think it's those era of like those massive salaries and everyone's kind of, I think that era is gone.

So I think you just answered the question that's been bothering me for the past month, which is why do old people love killing so much?

And I, I love old people.

I'm not one of those people who hates the elderly.

I love the elderly.

My favorite person, my dad, was elderly when he died at 84.

So I'm not, I've always thought we should respect our elders.

My whole life, I've thought that.

That's why I'm conservative.

But in the last month, that's like every old person I come into contact with is like let's just kill them like thoughtlessly just kill people and it's like you're gonna face judgment really soon should you really be calling for killing people in your final days here I always think that I never say it but why is that and I do think it's at least in part the result of watching this filth and it is filth it's it's wall to wall it's filth they don't turn it off it's worse than pornography it's disgusting Keith Kellogg talking about killing people Keith Kellogg was a complete idiot.

I know Keith Kellogg is like truly stupid.

The idea that Keith Kellogg could have any influence over anything is like shocking, totally ignorant,

just enthusiastic about killing

and reckless and just, oh, not qualified to drive my car.

And I'm like, how, who are these people?

And why are old people so into killing?

I honestly think it's because they're watching it.

Yeah.

And you and I know this to be true, which is that

I think even Roger Ailes told us that the reason Fox and Friends in the Morning would do so well is because the people at night would leave their TV on, set to that channel, and they'd wake up and it was the first thing would click on to that show.

And then they leave it on all day.

I've heard from so many viewers over the years that are like, oh, my parents would just turn it on and they would leave it run all day.

It's just kind of like a noise in the background.

So every hour, doesn't matter what panel show it is with four people sitting there on a couch or one person hosting a show,

when 80% of your guests are pro-war and the entire narrative all day is about how Trump is amazing and carried out the most spectacular attack on America, you know, on

in the Middle East since we've, since Normandy,

then they're just sucking that in.

We, I, that Barnes and Noble the other day, I met an old gentleman, lovely guy, and I was in the history section and he just started chatting and we just started chatting and talking to my wife.

And he said, yeah, you know, I'm really concerned about, you know, Iran getting this nuclear weapon, Iran getting this nuclear weapon.

And, you know, and I said, do you know that Israel has a nuclear weapon, right?

He said, what?

I've never heard that.

Is that true?

And he's like, well, you know, I just watched, I just have it on the news on, they just tell me that Iran, you know, we got to be worried about Iran.

So do you, do you ever hear them talking about that Israel has an entire nuclear weapons program, that JFK pushed them for inspections and then pushed and pushed and pushed Ben-Gurion for inspections and then was assassinated.

Not saying they're related.

And Eisenhower warned JFK about it.

Like this goes back to the 60s.

Why don't we know about this?

So this guy, because he's watching this like spoon-fed propaganda all day, doesn't know any of that.

Clay Morris, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.

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