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Speaker 1: his show. We've been called out quite a few times

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Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee. And then there was a challenge, why don't

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Speaker 1: you actually come to Israel in interview me as Tuger,

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Speaker 1: Carlson had new claims that Christians were being persecuted at

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Speaker 1: Israel like never before. Well, that's where we get into

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Speaker 1: the new crazy part of the story. Now, Carlson did

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Speaker 1: travel to Israel, but wouldn't even leave the airport for

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Speaker 1: Mike Kuckabee and Christians, who he says are looking the

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Speaker 1: other way with what Israel really is doing. Well after

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Speaker 1: the interview, which had not gone public, Carlson publicly claimed

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Speaker 1: that Israeli airport security had confiscated his passport and those

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Speaker 1: of his team. He also said as executive producer, was

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Speaker 1: and he described the experience as bizarre before leaving Israel,

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Speaker 1: of the country. Well, there's receipts of what actually happened

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Speaker 1: Tucker's Carlson described happening. In fact, the US Embassy in

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem said his depiction was inaccurate. It said it Carlson

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Speaker 1: as team received the same passport and security questions that

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Speaker 1: and not anything to do with custody or interrogation. Huckabee

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Speaker 1: echoed this routine passport checks happened to travelers all the time,

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Speaker 1: to be clear, I also have been in Israel recently,

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Speaker 1: and if Tucker Carlson was detained by Israel, then well

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Speaker 1: I guess I was as well, because the exact same

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Israel's official response was also consistent. Israeli airport authority issued

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Speaker 1: asked routine questions like any traveler, but did so in

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Speaker 1: Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett publicly land blasted Carlson, saying

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Speaker 1: lies from Carlson. Shortly after Carlson's statements circulated, video footage

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Speaker 2: At the airport.

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Speaker 1: Officials underscored that there was no evidence of custody abuse

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Speaker 1: reporters also noted Carlson's versions appeared to be exaggerated. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they were leaked to a former colleague of his, an

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Speaker 1: brief visit. The episode's adds to ongoing controversy around Carlson's

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Speaker 1: previous criticisms alleging bias anti Israel, rhetoric and contentious interviews.

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Speaker 1: Now you can make your own decisions about what you

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Speaker 1: think about what Carlson actually did. There is a part

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Speaker 1: of this is well straight up humor. There's a comedian

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Speaker 1: Carlson in a brilliant way.

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Speaker 3: Back some of the PACKFOLI, y'all, I don't even know

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Speaker 3: what that means. Actually, I mean, I certainly I packed

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Speaker 4: So what do we have to ask to make sure

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Speaker 4: you don't no one put the weapon or something you

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm proud of owning guns. I own lots of guns.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna apologize for that. Like at all I

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Speaker 3: You'll have one here, So I'm not gonna apologize for that, Okay,

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Speaker 5: Okay, Okay. What do you do for work?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist and a commentator.

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Speaker 3: I talk to people, I have conversations with people journalists. Okay,

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Speaker 3: do you ever lie?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: All the time? I lie every day, lie every day,

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Speaker 2: and I'll continue to do it. I'm sure I'll continue

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Speaker 2: I do that, but I'm certain that I do do it.

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Speaker 5: You're lying right now about your intentions.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I'm very honest about that.

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Speaker 2: I'm very honest about that.

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Speaker 5: You're honest that you're lying.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you with a major network, No, we're independent.

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Speaker 5: Okay, And who is funding you?

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Speaker 2: I'd rather not say that's some of your business? So

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Speaker 2: your business at all, it's a secretctually, and I don't

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 4: You travel to the Middle East at all in the

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Speaker 4: last six months, I have Okay, yes, where you go?

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Speaker 4: Which places you travel well? And why do you go there?

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Speaker 5: Oh? No, let's go.

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Speaker 2: I went to places. They were nice. I just I

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Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to people and see people, have

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Speaker 4: Okay, any of the people you talk to have any

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Speaker 3: I mean really, I mean, last I checked, they were

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Speaker 3: all political organizations. What any of those regimes were political organizations?

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Speaker 2: Last at checks?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 4: These funny dude, Are you Jewish?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: I'm not Jewish. I certainly there's nothing wrong with being Jewish.

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Speaker 3: Some of my favorite people are Jewish, like really like

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Speaker 3: some of my very absolutely favorite people are Jewish. Some

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Speaker 2: I hate them.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm appalled by them, actually, like really like really

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Speaker 3: a pol But I'm not gonna apologize for who I am.

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Speaker 3: I'm a white person, I'm a Christian, I'm a man,

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, a couple more questions. Where are you from? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I came from Maine.

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Speaker 5: What is main?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I live across from my parents' graves.

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Speaker 5: Wow, okay, from Maine. What's the population?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I see what you did?

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Speaker 5: And so what brings you to Israel?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm here to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

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Speaker 5: You'll know Ambassador Mike Huckabee very well. Actually I know

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Speaker 5: a lot from where you know him.

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Speaker 3: And I also have no idea who he is, like

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Speaker 2: I don't even know who he is. And so I'm

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Speaker 5: So you don't know him? Why you don't know him?

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Speaker 5: And moving? Okay? Anyone give you a gift or something

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Speaker 5: to take to his old with you?

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Speaker 2: I mean I got a house from Qatar.

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Speaker 3: While you get that they're an ally. Last night, Chuck

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Speaker 3: they're an ally. They're like one of our closest allies.

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Speaker 5: Actually, okay, we're gonna need your passport please.

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Speaker 2: Why do you need to see my passport? Is because

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Speaker 2: I'm a Christian.

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Speaker 5: What's you're saying?

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Speaker 2: Did you just spin at me?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 2: Did you just spin it me?

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Speaker 5: We need your passport, your passport please?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm surely not going to give you my passport.

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Speaker 2: I would never do that, like at all.

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Speaker 5: This is thank you to the supervisor.

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Speaker 2: They're detaining me off.

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Speaker 5: This is just like the demon.

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Speaker 2: This is just like the demon.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes humor can actually just well make everything makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta be honest with you, that might be

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Speaker 1: the most accurate way I have seen Tiger Carlson truly

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Speaker 1: this issue, but one thing's for sure. Democrats, we are

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Speaker 1: the dismantlement of the Department of Homeland Security should look

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Speaker 1: like now. Omar's remarks come as Democrats continue to protests

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Speaker 1: federal immigration enforcement operations directed under President Donald Trump. ICE,

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Thursday mark the sixth day of a federal shutdown forced

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Speaker 1: new restrictions on ICE operations. What does that include? Banning

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Speaker 1: in many of the accusations that are coming from the

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Speaker 1: radical left now. In addition, Democrats are seeking to prohibit

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Speaker 1: immigration enforcement actions at what they describe as sensitive locations,

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Speaker 1: meaning they'll become safe havens for actual criminals. What are

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Speaker 1: these places? Hospitals, schools, and polling sites? Just so you know,

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Speaker 1: with American individuals that have broken laws, as an American citizen,

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Speaker 1: you can be arrested right now at a hospital, or

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Speaker 1: a school, or at a polling site. So why would

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Speaker 1: we give special care to illegal immigrants? Is the question

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Speaker 1: every American should be asking now. One on Earth's side

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Speaker 1: arrest illegal immigrants at polling sites. Republicans, they're laughing at that,

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Speaker 1: noting that non citizens, by the way, are literally prohibited

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Speaker 1: I hope a lot of people that are watching this,

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Speaker 6: There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy. And

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