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Tucker Carlson’s POWERFUL message after leaving Fox News

Just days after his departure from Fox News was announced, Tucker Carlson shared a message with fans on social media. In this clip, Glenn plays the entire, powerful message about never giving up in the stand for truth: ‘As long as you can hear the words,’ Tucker says, ‘there is hope.’ Plus, Glenn and Stu predict what may be next for the former Fox News host…

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw Tucker Carlson's little mini monologue that he put online yesterday. Let's play this here.

TUCKER: Good evening. It's Tucker Carlson. One of the first things you realize, when you step out of the noise for a few days, is how many genuinely nice people there are, in this country.

Kind and decent people. People who really care about what's true.

And a bunch of hilarious people, also. A lot of those. It's got to be the majority of the population. Even now. So that's frightening.

The other thing, when you take a little time off, is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They're completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years, we won't even remember we had them.

Trust me, as someone who has participated.

And yet, at the same time, and this is the amazing thing.

The undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all. War. Civil liberties. Emerging science. Demographic change. Corporate power. Natural resources.

When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?

It's been a long time. Debates like that, are not permitted in American media.

Both political parties, and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them. And they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.

Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.

That's a depressing realization.

But it's not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won't last. They're brain dead. Nobody actually believes them.

Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.

This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't.

The people in charge know this. That's why they're hysterical and aggressive. They're afraid.

They've given up persuasion. They're resorting to force.

But it won't work. When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.

At the same time, the liars, who we've been trying to silence them, shrink. They became weaker.

That's the iron law of the universe, true things prevail.

Where can you still find Americans saying true things?

There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.

As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.

GLENN: That is a great, hey, I'm not dead. I haven't disappeared, and nobody is shutting me up message from Tucker Carlson. It wouldn't be more effective if he wasn't such a Nazi, right?

STU: Right. That's the only hole in the message. He doesn't sound like a Nazi.

GLENN: You know, he likes freeways.

You know who invented the freeway?

STU: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. It's all coming together, Glenn. It's all coming together. The tone of that is really great.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. It really is.

STU: You see that. That's the happy warrior thing. Right?

Where like, he's not backing down. He's not leaving his foundations or his principles, but he's also smiling and enjoying life a little bit.

GLENN: Well, of course, you know, you pay that. A hundred million dollars and they say, get out, and you're not going to work for it.

STU: Why can't I find that job? I need the job.

GLENN: I want that job. I think everyone should have a chance at those jobs.

STU: Right. A job that pays you multiple millions of dollars to not do that job. That's the job I want. I'm sick of doing the job.

GLENN: Right. I am sick in living in this country, that promises all these great things. Oh, you do it. You can achieve. When we have to work for our money!

I want to work a year, and get paid for four.

STU: Yes!

Now, we're not working hard or doing a real job of course. We should know that.

But still! I want no work, and lots of money.

GLENN: Still.

STU: Where is that job? Low on the work side, high on the money side?

You could argue, we probably already have that job. But I want someone that is even more, low on the work side, and high on the money side.

GLENN: I love that he was in his golf cart with his wife. And they're at his house in Florida. And they're zipping around. And they're like, he looks so happy. Of course. Of course he's happy.

They paid him not to work. And it looks like he can work anyway.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: His family is now set for generations. Well, you -- well, you don't get that deal. I'm here for you. I say we sue all of our companies. So -- wait a minute. This would work in our -- I don't want this.

We need to be able to work a year, and get paid for four. That's -- I mean, if I'm president, that's my slogan.

STU: And it would probably work in this era --

GLENN: Oh, it would.

STU: Let me ask. You know Tucker. I mean, other than me talking to them briefly in my interviews. I've never talked to Tucker in my life.

What kind of person is he? Is he a person that will be happy taking a giant paycheck, and hanging out on the beach?

Or is he the type of person that will want to --

GLENN: No. He's the type of guy.

Like, if I was in his situation. And they said, hey. We're going to pay out your contract. I would say, fine.

But there is -- there is no noncompete. There's nothing.

I get to do what I want. Otherwise, I'm going to work for you because I'm going to honor my contract. I could not go on the beach, and waste four years.

And he's not like that either. You see what he's setting up here. He's setting up a different kind of show.

A show where he takes big issues and debates them. That's where he's headed.

STU: Yeah. I'm looking for something a little more substantial. Which is great. Something you need. I will say, it really connects when he's talking about that thing. Where we have these debates, then 5 years later, we don't even remember they happened.

It's so true. We waste so much time on nonsense.

GLENN: It's really, really crazy.

Because when all the conventional wisdom has always been, oh, online. People want it in three minutes. People want it in three minutes.

Explain Joe Rogan. Explain this podcast. People will listen to this podcast, every day for three hours.

I mean, I don't know how you do it. I have to do it. But then if I had to listen to it too, that would be six hours of my day.

And I just couldn't handle it. No matter what they pay. Because I'm still working for other days.

STU: That's a lot.

GLENN: That's a lot of work.

But really, I don't know how people have the time. But they're looking for longer for longer form intelligent questioning.

STU: And honest questioning. And look, we try to do that every day here. But I do think that as a society, certainly on cable news, you see a lot of this happening, where you just -- even said it, I even participated -- of course, we have as well. Everybody has. But this is something that we can fix.

You know, and I think that's what people want.

GLENN: And it's being fixed.

STU: Yeah. It is.

GLENN: It's sorting itself out.

It's just -- it's those damn commies, that are trying to prop up the old system, that is worthless. They say it's about progress. No, it's not.

They're propping up all the old systems.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.