Dueling Speeches - September 24, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Everything's computer, how terrific.

SPEAKER_2 (0:01)

They can be gone.

Ana Kasparian (0:13)

We've got dueling UN speeches with Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and of course, Netanyahu, the warlord prime minister of Israel. We'll get to them in just a bit. We also have Tucker Carlson sitting down with the president of the United States, Tucker Carlson sitting down with NPR to talk about how desperately he would like to see President Donald Trump removed from office. So he not only said that previously, he is repeating that call. So we'll get to the details on that. He actually disclosed some details about a private conversation he had with Trump.

And what Trump said to him is terrifying to say the least.

Later in the show, we'll get into other details of what's going down. I don't even remember because there's so much news to get to, to be honest with you. But in the second hour, Julian Androni, who is one of the fantastic on the ground reporters in DC for Dropsite News, will be joining me as my co-host. And in the bonus episode for our members, honestly, one of my favorite independent journalists on Substack, her name is Leah. She runs the Leah Files on Substack where she does deep investigations into corruption. She used to work for the DOD. She considers herself politically homeless. I can't wait to talk to her because I've been watching her videos and reading her reports, especially one of her latest reports about how it appears the Trump administration is literally stealing Venezuela's oil money. Incredible, incredible. So I'll ask her some questions about that. And for our members, I think you're really gonna enjoy that conversation. tyt.com/join to become a member, or you can just hit that join button if you're watching us on YouTube. Now, before we get to the UN General Assembly speeches, I actually wanted to start off with the Tucker story, just because it kind of gives you a sense of where we're at as a country. And where President Donald Trump's head is at, when it comes to, I don't know, human life, including our own. Let's watch.

Donald Trump (2:14)

Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?

Tucker Carlson (2:32)

He should be removed from office. He should have been removed from office by his own cabinet secretaries the moment he threatened a nuclear attack.

SPEAKER_6 (2:40)

You're talking now about the 25th Amendment where a majority of the cabinet.

Tucker Carlson (2:43)

That's correct.

SPEAKER_6 (2:44)

Yeah.

Tucker Carlson (2:45)

He should have been bundled up and taken out. Here you have a guy threatening to eliminate the human race.

And that's not considered a crime. It tells you how deranged our moral scale has become. So he should be removed from office for threatening first use nuclear strike.

Ana Kasparian (3:02)

That wasn't the first time Tucker Carlson had uttered those words that he believes that President Donald Trump should be removed from the White House. Given his statements about using nuclear weapons against Iran. Now, he sat down with NPR to repeat those statements which he had made earlier on his own program. But what really stood out to me the most in regard to this interview was what Tucker Carlson disclosed about his conversation with Donald Trump days before the Trump administration decided to go to war against Iran. Now Tucker traveled to the White House in order to sit down with Trump and attempt to do what Charlie Kirk did earlier, which was to persuade Trump not to go to war with Iran.

Trump wasn't buying it and what he said about human life really stood out to me take a look at this.

SPEAKER_6 (3:55)

But you quoted him as waving off the risk by saying it'll all be fine, which could-

Tucker Carlson (4:00)

You want to know what he said? I'll tell you exactly what he said. I haven't said this but I'm just going to tell you.

SPEAKER_6 (4:03)

Sure.

Tucker Carlson (4:04)

This war is being pushed by Israel with three aims. One, its own regional hegemony take Iran off the map. They don't have freedom of movement as long as Iran is a regional power. Two, diminishing the power of the GCC, the six Gulf states, which are a rival to Israel and are becoming this kind of Switzerland or the Middle East and that's bad for Israeli interests. And three, getting the US out of the Middle East because we constrain their ambitions, getting our bases out, destroying our bases. Israel wants our bases out of the Middle East. I said this to Trump, to his face in the Oval Office days before the war began.