Tucker Carlson vs. Fox News

“Crude” and “highly offensive” text messages could be the reason Tucker Carlson was suddenly fired from Fox News, according to some reports.

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00:00Tucker Carlson spoke publicly for the first time since his abrupt departure from Fox News,

00:04but he didn't say exactly why he was fired. So what are the leading theories about his exit?

00:08Brute can explain in less than 60 seconds. Most theories point to a series of redacted

00:12messages that recently came to light. Just one day before the Fox News and Dominion

00:16Voting Systems trial was set to begin, the News Network reportedly found highly offensive and

00:21crude texts from Carlson in court filings, including one in which he calls a senior Fox

00:26executive a misogynistic slur. Leading up to the trial, other texts from Carlson were made public,

00:31including vulgar messages about Sidney Powell and critical messages about Donald Trump. It's

00:35unclear why it took until a day before the trial for the Network to discover the troubling messages,

00:40and Fox News has yet to release a statement as to why Carlson was fired.

00:44The content in many of the messages remains unknown, which has led other news outlets to

00:49call for the texts to be unredacted, meaning they could still become public in the future,

00:53even though Fox News and Dominion settled the lawsuit for $787.5 million last week.