Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
>> Yeah.
>> [APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC]
>> They said it couldn't be done.
>> [LAUGH] >> Because he brings in
a lot of racist money to Fox News.
But Tucker Carlson is gone, for now.
He'll probably be back and probably in a worse form, but I don't care.
I don't care, we're having fun right now.
I found out about this news the way some people found out about it.
From Brian Stelter on Twitter who tweeted, Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News,
effective immediately.
This is an earth-shaking moment in cable news.
And I immediately didn't know what to think, because thanks to Elon Musk,
there was no verification thing next to Brian Stelter's name.
So it seemed like fake news.
But anyway, it turns out to be true.
Fox put out a message saying, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, lost program,
blah, blah, appreciate him, blah, blah, parting ways.
And, I've been thinking, Francesca, about how I can reproduce for
the show, my immediate reaction in the moment, and
I don't think I can do it better than Tucker Carlson himself could.
So let's roll this.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Old fashioned newsman [INAUDIBLE].
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] And he's gone,
hopefully destroyed.
There's really no reason to believe that America is a cesspool.
It rewards people the worse they are.
But wouldn't it be great if this was the end of him?
What do you think?
>> I like to think he, again, the final ghosts visited him in the night and
it had to be they sent a lot of spirits to spook Tucker Carlson into doing
the right thing and leaving.
But we know that's not the case.
And this is why that statement really matters,
is that it says, Tucker Carlson's last show was April 21.
Was, that means this is not.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Right, look,
Brian Williams leaving MSNBC took him like, I don't know, months and months.
He announced it was gonna be in two months or something.
Rachel Maddows had a slow burn leaving of MSNBC as well.
Only does Mondays, whatever it is, usually there's gonna be a moment,
a long period of time and they speak about it on air.
Something went down.
>> Yeah, Maddow's exit can't be any faster paced than her intros to stories.
>> Yes, of course.
>> Anyway, look, we are going to be waiting through the details to
try to figure things out, but I wanna turn now to that.
Those are immediate reactions.
It's funny, screw him.
He's utter garbage.
He's one of the worst and most damaging people ever
to have occupied a spot as a big dog turd would in the media landscape.
So that's generally what I think.
Let's talk about the manner in which Tucker Carlson left,
because it does seem abrupt, does it not?
He was the biggest name in Fox News for several years now.
And despite all of that,
here is what the literal end of his last program on Fox looked like.
>> What a great way to end a week.
>> Yeah. >> Truly, that was a great segment and
just grateful that you came on, and I'm especially grateful for the pie.
>> Thank you for having me, appreciate it.
>> Employee of the week, we're just make it of the year,
Tyler Morrell of Coco's pizza.
That's it for us for the week.
We'll be back.
By the way, the entire episode of Let Them Eat Bugs not quite as good as pizza,
streaming now on Fox Nation.
Use a promo code, originals for 30 days free, and we'll be back on Monday.
In the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love,
and we'll see you then.
>> [LAUGH >> Francesca,
could that have been any better?
>> He clearly swallowed one too many spiders this weekend.
I'm just imagining very, like, Lion King, Pumbaa and
Timon scenes of just, sucking down grubs.
What a way?
What a way to end pizza.
And I'll be my special, let them eat bugs.
>> Yeah, which, by the way, that could be a discussion of the future of food and
how do we get away from some of the incredibly damaging emissions caused by
animal agriculture.
I'm gonna guess it's demonizing global Jewish billionaires for
forcing us all to eat spiders or something.
>> Yeah. >> I have a feeling that's
probably what it was.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Vegan diet.
>> [CROSSTALK].
>> It's gonna be enforced on you.
It's a global conspiracy to make you eat a centipede.
What better way to end than a true Alex Jones segment?
And he said there, we'll be back.
Yeah, maybe eventually, not next week.
So he clearly didn't know.
And more important, in terms of the evidence of how abrupt this was,
they were promoting his show this morning on Fox.
He was supposed to be interviewing a Republican presidential candidate.
They were still promoting it as of today.
So, what I wanna talk about now with Francesca is why and what the hell?
So why do we think this happened and what happens from here?
God, because it's Fox News.
I don't think it's on moral grounds.
They finally got sick of the white nationalism.
They finally realized it's not good for their advertisers.
They finally realized the dominion lawsuit they can't afford more of those.
And he's no, no, no, that's not what it was.
This is not Fox News reforming themselves.
He slept with, Murdoch's daughter dude.
He's the reason Murdoch called off the wedding.
Straight up, it's something ridiculous like that.
He put his junk on a sink.
You know what I'm saying?
Something weird happened.
They found him actually peeing in a litter box in the men's bathroom.
This is the level.
That's the level.
>> Yeah, maybe his own personal testicle microwave wasn't working, so
he used the break room one and somebody walked in.
It could be something like that.
So here's what you know.
This almost cannot be one of the big obvious things that you would think,
because the big obvious things like this is fallout from Dominion.
Why in this form?
Now, it could still be that there's a little bit of an out for
that because it could be that as part of the fallout from that.
They'd been having discussions with him about maybe a change in rhetoric or coming
out with a statement about either dominion or more likely, maybe Abby Grossberg.
And maybe as part of their behind the scenes negotiations,
it suddenly fell apart this morning.
But it's difficult to imagine that it's one of those obvious big
things because of how abrupt it was.
They don't seem to care that this could burn the bridge with him,
that this could burn the bridge with his audience.
Remember, despite the fact that he despises his audience more than any
leftist ever could, they still like him.
It was trending on Twitter, something about, done with Fox.
So this could hurt Fox as much as it hurts Tucker Carlson.
And so, look, I wanna jump to one of the other theories is this is just him
leaving to run for president.
And I'm not ruling out that he might do that.
In fact, it might be more likely now.
But again, why abruptly exiting?
He could have just wound down his show or something.
They could have done a special leading up to it.
Why this form?
>> John why you gotta ruin my day?
He's out at Fox.
He just been deep platform from the largest mouthpiece for
the Republican Party, and now you gotta float.
Maybe he's running for president.
Come on.
>> [CROSSTALK].
>> Can I make it good for you again?
>> No, okay.
>> If he runs, sure, maybe he wins or whatever, but
especially now that he doesn't have Fox News, maybe it's more likely that
Donald Trump absolutely destroys him and finishes him off.
Maybe he's shaking from the loss of Fox and Tucker and
Trump releases a pudding ad or something, and
that just puts him out for good, and that's the end of his career.
>> Yeah, especially now that he's groveled to Trump back and
forth I love him, and then gave him an interview.
>> What if this was Trump?
What if Trump was so angry that he gave Tucker one more
chance with that interview last week, and
that wasn't good enough, and so Trump called in a favor?
I don't know if we'll ever know.
That's the thing that makes me frustrated.
>> Well, what's interesting, actually,
is they should probably team up because Fox is mostly soured on Trump as well.
Except.
>> [CROSSTALK].
>> Yeah. >> They want DeSantis.
They're steering away from Trump.
And so we shall see.
We know he's not gonna go f off into the night.
I always say this about millionaires.
I always say this about people who have way too much money,
who've done enough damage, f off into the night forever.
You've got a lot of money.
I was just randomly looking at celebrities who bought homes, etc.
He just bought his neighbor's home for $5.5 million in Florida.
He's doing great.
And obviously he has to buy out his neighbor's homes because nobody wants to
be Tucker Carlson and his son Buckley's neighbor.
Buckley, who, by the way, the Biden family helped get into his ideally
preparatory school or something or college.
Anyway, but this is the problem, is yeah, they don't go away.
They just fester and get worse.
It's almost like we need reparations from the damage that
right-wingers do in order for them to not do it.
Or just some sort of, the way politicians when they leave,
can there be a shut up like a buffer?
>> Like an NDA?
How about a no, like a no competition, no defamation clause against the country?
How about that?
[MUSIC]