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[0:00]This fool Huckabee, who has not been repudiated by Donald Trump, has informed the Arab countries in the US coalition, exactly what these neocons have in mind for them.
[0:16]Tucker Carlson did something that no major US journalist has been willing to do.
[0:24]And it all fell apart on the question of land and what Huckabee said was 'cause of this book, the Jews can have any land they want between the Nile and the Euphrates because that's what the Bible said.
[0:41]And so it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask what land are you talking about?
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[0:00]This fool Huckabee, who has not been repudiated by Donald Trump, has informed the Arab countries in the US coalition, exactly what these neocons have in mind for them.

[0:16]What about Huckabee? What about Tucker? Tucker Carlson did something that no major US journalist has been willing to do.

[0:24]And it all fell apart on the question of land and what Huckabee said was 'cause of this book, the Jews can have any land they want between the Nile and the Euphrates because that's what the Bible said.

[0:36]'Cause you have said it three times that God gave this land to this people.

[0:41]And so it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask what land are you talking about? Because I just read Genesis 15 as I have many times. And that land, I think it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is once again, basically the entire Middle East.

[0:57]It would be fine if they took it all. And that caused a massive diplomatic incident, which caused all prompted all of the Arab vassal states that normally bow down before the US.

[1:09]Saudi Arabia, which just honored Israel's favorite general, the former CENTCOM Commander Michael Kurilla.

[1:15]Jordan, which is hosting US anti-missile systems deployed against Iran, to actually issue this statement condemning the US ambassador.

[1:25]Something we've never seen before, and this was all because Tucker simply went to Israel and behaved like an actual journalist and asked these critical questions.

[1:38]I should also mention the first question that Tucker Carlson asked was, "Why did you secretly meet with Israeli mega-spy, convicted traitor to the US Jonathan Pollard in secret at your embassy?" And Huckabee's first answer was to lie.

[1:52]He straight up lied and insinuated that he'd only met Jonathan Pollard twice in the past, just in passing at hotels.

[2:00]The truth was, Huckabee had come to Jerusalem starting in 2011 to campaign for Pollard's release.

[2:07]And so Huckabee lies, but then you what he said to Tucker, I thought was so remarkable.

[2:12]He said, "You're actually the first journalist to ask me about that meeting with Jonathan Pollard." I mean, it was reported in the New York Times, but since then, no one's asked him about it.

[2:21]So where the hell is the rest of the US media to conduct these interviews, to ask these questions, to even uh pressure Trump?

[2:28]I mean, you look at the White House briefings, there's no pressure, there's no antagonism or adversarial confrontation about the fact that the US is about to ignite a regional war on behalf of Israel.

[2:42]And so Tucker is really just the one journalist doing his job and he caused a major diplomatic confrontation that might have actually complicated that war.

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