The Tucker Carlson Show - Our Federal Agencies Are Out of Control
Aired: 2023-11-23
Duration: 06:59


=== Firing Comey: The Insurance Policy (01:31) ===

[00:00:00]  That's my question.
[00:00:00]  How do you, if you get elected again, go back to Washington, how do you keep the agencies under control?
[00:00:06]  How do you keep FBI and CIA specifically under control?
[00:00:09]  The way you do it, like I fired Comey, that was a big deal.
[00:00:12]  You know, a lot of people said, and I fired him very early.
[00:00:14]  Somebody said, oh, I wish you would have fired him.
[00:00:16]  There was a real question about firing him.
[00:00:18]  Anyway, you understand, because when they have a 10-year term, there is a question.
[00:00:22]  I fired Comey.
[00:00:23]  That was a great thing.
[00:00:24]  If I didn't fire Comey, maybe I wouldn't be talking to you, or I'd be talking to you about real estate or something else other than politics, right?
[00:00:31]  That was a coup, in my opinion.
[00:00:32]  That was a very sick deal.
[00:00:34]  That was the insurance policy.
[00:00:35]  You remember the insurance policy?
[00:00:37]  Oh, she's going to win, darling.
[00:00:39]  She's going to win.
[00:00:41]  But just in case she doesn't, we have an insurance policy.
[00:00:43]  And insurance policy was what they were doing.
[00:00:47]  And we caught them with that.
[00:00:48]  That was a very important tweet or whatever it was, text.
[00:00:52]  It was a big deal.
[00:00:54]  That was a big deal.
[00:00:55]  The insurance policy.
[00:00:58]  She's going to win $100 million to one.
[00:01:01]  That's not good odds.
[00:01:02]  At least they gave me one, right?
[00:01:03]  $100 million to one.
[00:01:05]  But just in case she doesn't win, we have an insurance policy.
[00:01:10]  And everybody said, that's strange.
[00:01:12]  That's strange.
[00:01:13]  But we caught all that because I fired Comey.
[00:01:16]  Because when I fired Comey, it was like throwing a rock into a hornet's nest, into a nest of bees, and the place went crazy.
[00:01:25]  So when you were president, are you confident that you knew everything, say, CIA was doing around the world?

=== Insurance Policy Bet (05:27) ===

[00:01:31]  No, I'm not.
[00:01:32]  I'm not.
[00:01:34]  It's a very interesting group of people.
[00:01:36]  I had very good relationships, I thought.
[00:01:37]  I was a little surprised when I got out that, you know, things go on.
[00:01:44]  What were you surprised by?
[00:01:47]  I was surprised.
[00:01:47]  I think at some of the people, I was surprised that there was.
[00:01:51]  I had a group of people.
[00:01:52]  Look, we killed many using the CIA.
[00:01:55]  I have to say this.
[00:01:57]  Bad, very bad actors.
[00:01:59]  We were very good at it.
[00:02:01]  You look at Solomony, you look at al-Baghdadi, bigger than Osama bin Laden.
[00:02:06]  I mean, Osama bin Laden, but Al-Baghdadi did ISIS, and he was rebuilding ISIS very strongly.
[00:02:13]  And that was the CIA that did that.
[00:02:15]  That was really us that did that.
[00:02:17]  That was really us that did that.
[00:02:19]  And Soleimani was us that did that, not so much CIA.
[00:02:24]  But we did some very good work with the CIA.
[00:02:28]  One of the things I did with EPA is you have states, many states, most of the states have so much water.
[00:02:34]  You know, it comes out of heaven, right?
[00:02:36]  The water pours down and you have it.
[00:02:38]  It's there.
[00:02:38]  It's got to go wherever it goes, into the oceans, whatever.
[00:02:42]  It's not like a big problem.
[00:02:44]  Now, in some states, they have a problem.
[00:02:45]  You know, you have some desert areas and all, and for that, it's okay.
[00:02:50]  But they have sinks where no water comes out.
[00:02:54]  You turn it on, no water comes out.
[00:02:57]  No water comes out of the shower.
[00:03:00]  No water is allowed to go into the washing machine for your dishes or for your clothing or what.
[00:03:06]  And I avoided all of that.
[00:03:08]  Wait, they have sinks where no water comes out?
[00:03:11]  Sure, you have restrictors.
[00:03:12]  When I say no water, very little water.
[00:03:13]  You want to wash your hands, right?
[00:03:15]  Yeah.
[00:03:15]  And you've seen this.
[00:03:16]  And you turn on the sink and it's very little.
[00:03:20]  Or you want to wash your beautiful hair, right?
[00:03:23]  And you're standing under a shower.
[00:03:26]  Then the suds never go.
[00:03:27]  The water comes out very slowly.
[00:03:28]  I'm sure you've seen this.
[00:03:29]  It usually takes place in new hotels in New Orleans.
[00:03:32]  Yeah, you take a drill and take the water out.
[00:03:34]  Well, you can, but now they make it so you can't do that so easily.
[00:03:37]  They have a restrictor.
[00:03:38]  It's called a restrictor.
[00:03:40]  And it restricts the water from coming out.
[00:03:42]  So I ended all of that.
[00:03:44]  And you have to see these, they let the water come out.
[00:03:48]  You know what people do?
[00:03:49]  They wash their hands like five times longer, or in the washing machine, they'll press for their, let's say, the dishwasher.
[00:03:56]  They'll press it.
[00:03:58]  Then they'll press it about seven or eight times.
[00:04:00]  They'll end up using more water, and it still won't be very good.
[00:04:04]  I met with the head of Whirlpool.
[00:04:05]  They were practically going out of business during my administration, and they said to me from Ohio, incredible, great state.
[00:04:12]  I love Ohio.
[00:04:13]  And they were really doing badly because people were dumping washing machines all over, mostly from South Korea, but also from China.
[00:04:21]  And he was explaining it's just a terrible situation.
[00:04:24]  I said, let me ask you, how's the quality?
[00:04:26]  He says, well, better, but they are good enough quality.
[00:04:29]  But, you know, of course, he's going to say that.
[00:04:30]  But, you know, they are better.
[00:04:32]  He said, but they don't allow us.
[00:04:35]  They're dumping these machines.
[00:04:36]  They're cutting us in half.
[00:04:38]  They're killing us.
[00:04:39]  And on top of it, the government won't let us use water in our machines.
[00:04:44]  I mean, he shows me like a quarter of a bottle of water that's supposed to be washing clothing.
[00:04:50]  And I freed it all up, and I put tariffs on these countries that were selling and the machines coming into the country.
[00:04:57]  And that company went from a big, big, all the washing machine companies, they make washing machines, they make dryers, they make all of the different machines that do this kind of work, including dishwashers.
[00:05:08]  And they went from a disaster area to being just thriving.
[00:05:11]  But they love me in that part of Ohio.
[00:05:13]  Well, I bet they do, but why should EPA, no one at EPA was elected by anybody, why do they have the power to decide how much water your washing machine uses?
[00:05:22]  Shouldn't Congress in a democracy get to vote on that?
[00:05:25]  Who wants to not be able to use a gas stove or have to drive an electric car, which, you know, you have a four-hour drive, but the car only goes an hour and a half, so you have to charge it.
[00:05:37]  The happiest moment for somebody in an electric car is the first 10 minutes.
[00:05:41]  In other words, you get it charged, and now for 10 minutes.
[00:05:45]  The unhappiest part is the next hour because you're petrified that you're not going to be fine with another charger.
[00:05:51]  People, I'm saying if people, I'm not knocking electric cars, they're fine.
[00:05:55]  They're fine.
[00:05:56]  But if people want to buy a gasoline car or hybrid, hybrids are pretty good, actually, but they should be allowed to buy.
[00:06:03]  They don't want to do any of this.
[00:06:05]  So right now, California is in a big brownout because their grid is a disaster.
[00:06:10]  The grid all over the country is sort of a disaster, but the grid in California.
[00:06:14]  And yet, they want to have in a very short period of time, millions and millions of cars going off that grid essentially.
[00:06:23]  It doesn't work.
[00:06:23]  So plug your car into a grid that's fairly fast.
[00:06:25]  You should be able to buy an electric car.
[00:06:27]  You know, electric cars could be fine if you drive short distances and you want to have, you know, whatever, and you have plug-ins everywhere you go.
[00:06:33]  They could be fine.
[00:06:35]  But you've got to have gasoline cars.
[00:06:36]  You've got to have everything.
[00:06:38]  Let people buy everything.
[00:06:40]  Now the new thing is your heating systems in the house.
[00:06:43]  They don't want you to have a modern-day heating system.
[00:06:46]  They want you to use a heating system that will cost you at least $10,000 to buy and won't work very well.
[00:06:52]  You know, none of this stuff works as well.
[00:06:56]  You'll hear people say the news is full of wine.