[MUSIC]
Don't know if it was voluntary or
was somebody fired, but I think Tucker's been terrific.
He's been especially over the last year or so, he's been terrific to me.
>> It's really hard to understand how it is that Donald Trump is still so
supportive toward Tucker Carlson after the revelations regarding how Tucker
really feels about Trump.
I mean, he did call Trump a demonic force and reveled in the idea that he might
never have to talk to him again after Trump lost the 2020 election.
Nonetheless, Trump seems pretty torn up over Tucker getting fired from Fox.
Now, all of that, I guess, beef, potential beef between Trump and
Tucker is water under the bridge, no bad blood.
Here's, more of Trump essentially gushing about Tucker Carlson after
his firing at Fox.
>> There's a lot of turmoil over there at Fox, I mean, 787 they just paid,
why would they get rid of a guy who's performing?
Why would somebody do that to their business?
Cuz they're losing money right now, their stock has gone down.
>> Well, I was surprised that they made a settlement on that case,
I thought that was a case that should easily be won and they made a settlement.
Look, you'll have to ask them, I'm not representing them at all by any means.
But the Tucker situation again, you don't know if it's a firing, maybe he left
because he wasn't being given his free reign, he wants free reign maybe.
But I wasn't surprised by it.
>> Now, this interview with Greg Kelly is over at Newsmax, which,
by the way, is facing its own defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion's 2020 election lawsuit against Newsmax to move forward,
judge rules, that's according to an ABC headline from June of 2022.
So, Cenk, what do you make of this?
>> Yeah, so first, the easy answer, which is, why does Trump do what he does here?
So, number one, Trump's kind of like a mob boss, and so he thinks,
okay, you speak bad against me, I'm gonna come and destroy you, right?
But the minute you turn around and
you publicly avow your allegiance to the boss, he's done with it, okay?
And so Tucker said all those terrible things behind his back, by the way,
half of which he probably didn't mind.
A demonic force and a destroyer, he destroys everything in his path,
and he could easily destroy us.
I bet Trump loved that part, right?
But when Tucker said, I hate him passionately, he didn't like that part.
But when Tucker then comes and bows in front of him remember,
Tucker just did the interview with him and bowed and
said he's such a moderate, reasonable, sensible guy and that he loves him.
Trump thinks, good, you kiss the ring, okay?
Once you kiss the ring, all is forgiven, you're back in the fold, go out there and
do propaganda for me, okay?
So that's definitely what's going on with Trump.
Now, there's a lot of drums about Tucker's exit and
it turns out that Tucker had recalculated his timing as I had suspected.
Remember I was saying he might wanna run again,
he might wanna run in 2024, and he's goading the Murdochs, etc.
But I said I think he got the timing wrong, and I talked about it on Old School
last night, [COUGH] cuz he didn't expect that Trump would be in this election.
He doesn't wanna take on Trump, he thinks Trump is tougher than he is, okay?
He wanted to go after Trump, but now that Trump's definitely in this election, it
turns out he was negotiating with Fox News to get a contract that ran through 2029.
Which to me says, if I'm right, he was planning on running in 2028, not in 2024.
So Tucker apparently was actually blindsided by this firing and
there's a whole other theory as to why.
But for Trump, the minute you kissed the ass, he says nice things back to you, and
it doesn't matter who you are and how terrible you are and
what you've done in the past.
Remember Kim Jong Un.
>> Yeah. >> Communist dictator of North Korea, and
has threatened Trump.
>> That's right.
>> And Trump had threatened him back, right?
>> Lindsey Graham's another example.
>> Exactly, Lindsey Graham had said terrible things about Trump, but
the minute Kim Jong Un and Lindsey Graham and
Tucker Carlson lined up on their knees, he's like, good boy.
I bless you, you're all back in the fold.
>> That's actually very true, and that's a good point.
Now, there was an interesting exchange over at the Five,
so why don't we take a look at that and see if we can make any sense of it.
[CROSSTALK] >> Susan Rice is going to take on
Kamala Harris for the nomination.
>> I think there is a chance.
>> I'll watch it.
>> And then so in 2024, it'll be Susan Rice versus Tucker Carlson.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, up next, Bill Meyer are ripping
into liberals- >> Interesting reaction from
Janine Piro after Greg Gutfeld floated that possible ticket, I guess.
>> Yeah, in another Fox News segment, they literally said,
we're not talking about Tucker.
So the memo has gone out, do not talk about Tucker Carlson.
So Hannity had like half a sentence.
Right, right, right.
>> Gutfeld does a little joke and then Piro is like, okay,
we're going to break, okay.
>> Yep. >> [LAUGH] She's in such a panic,
she's like Bill Mahar, Mar.
>> Yep. >> [LAUGH]
>> So there was also a moment where
Brian Kilmead, who was hosting the hour that Tucker would typically be on,
he had to address what was going on, but he did so in the quickest and
most cumbersome way imaginable.
So let's watch that.
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>> Hi, everybody, and welcome to Fox News Tonight, I am Brian Kilmead.
As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
I wish Tucker the best, I'm great friends with Tucker and always will be, but
right now, it's time for Fox News Tonight.
So let's get started.
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>> Boom, real quick, real quick.
Cenk, take notes, that's how you make a concise point.
>> Look at this.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay,
we're not talking about that right now, okay?
>> [LAUGH] >> Let's talk about Bill Mahar.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] So, listen,
that was super awkward and funny.
And my problem is that when I see something I can't unsee it,
like Brian Kilmead's half eyebrows.
>> Dude.
>> I did not realize it until now, and I can't unsee those.
>> I was thinking the same thing, but I'm like,
typical vein and focusing on stupid things like that.
But no, the makeup artist is doing him real dirty,
cuz there's stuff that they can do.
>> And the eyebrows are like, upside down V's, they really are sharp.
They go up.
>> They're bad, yeah.
>> But they don't go down.
>> You got to fill them in, brother.
>> [LAUGH] >> You got to fill them in.
>> Anyway, that's just nonsense, we're just kidding around, okay.
>> Most important point made on the show so far.
>> [LAUGH] Please, but okay, now back to the serious stuff,
get a load of these drums.
Vanity Fair reporting that [COUGH] Murdoch super pissed at
his ex-fiance he was about to get married.
She's a religious fundamentalist.
>> Right. >> Had invited Tucker Carlson over for
dinner in March, and the fiance really liked Tucker Carlson, and
they exchanged Bible stories back and forth, and apparently Murdoch hated it.
And then he dumped the fiance a couple of days later.
>> I remember this.
>> Yeah.
>> Gabriel Sherman.
>> Yes. >> He's got the hot dog, I remember this.
>> That's right, okay, and he's reporting it, it's not us,
it's Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, okay?
So there's two parts of that story.
One is that then when Tucker Carlson started spewing
religious stuff at the Heritage Foundation event on
Friday night, that apparently set off Rupert, and
he's like, that's it, I want him gone, okay?
And the second part of it is the full Logan Roy, they're putting
out that Murdoch is kind of senile- >> And losing it, and
he's having these temper tantrums, etc, but they can't say no to him.
So when he goes off, he goes off, right?
Apparently, Fox is paying out his contract, and so
that's $20 million a year for another couple of years.
So that gives Tucker an incredible incentive to not strike back against
Fox News, cuz you don't wanna lose about $40 million, right?
>> Jesus Christ, man.
>> So that's why right now, you haven't heard anything from Tucker,
and you might not hear any shots against Fox News until about a year and
[LAUGH] eight months or so.
And then Tucker might [INAUDIBLE] it's potential that he can go get another job,
start his own thing, etc.
But as long as he's getting paid by Fox,
I would be surprised if he lashed out at Fox, no matter how crazy the firing was.
And by the way, let's not get it wrong, Tucker lies all the time on air,
he should have been fired, but for other reasons.
>> Right. For those reasons,
as opposed to Murdoch didn't like how he talked to his fiance.