00:00Tucker Carlson claims the CIA read his personal text messages in the lead up to the U.S. war with
00:05Iran. Why, you ask? Well, the conservative pundit says it was all an attempt to frame him as a
00:10foreign agent of the Iranian regime. Carlson has been very outspoken against Operation Epic Fury,
00:16but he denies he's a foreign asset. I'm not an agent of a foreign power.
00:20Unlike a lot of people commenting on U.S. politics and global affairs, I have only one
00:25loyalty, and that's the United States, and have never acted against it. So what makes him think
00:30the feds are after him? Here's the Post's deputy managing editor, Michael Zinni.
00:34So Tucker Carlson posted a video basically announcing his belief that his text messages
00:41to people in Iran had been read by the CIA. And it seemed clear that this was sort of
00:48him outing himself and trying to take control of the narrative because it seemed like
00:55this was likely to be leaked. Or, you know, he intimated that the government was going to try
01:03to, quote unquote, smear him with claims that he was being investigated. So he was also not specific
01:13about who he was talking to. But what we do know is he has very, very high level connections
01:20with foreign governments. He previously sat down with Vladimir Putin. He has had high profile
01:28interviews with top leaders in the Middle East. And he's also been very vocally opposed to the war
01:37in Iran. So the big question here is who he was talking to and what he told these people in
01:46Iran.
01:46The other interesting thing is just a few days before the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign
01:53started in Iran, he was actually a guest at the White House. And that has led to some speculation
02:00that maybe the U.S. government knew that he was going to report back to Iran and was trying to
02:09either back channel or convey some message.
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