Jan 14, 2026
Tucker Carlson Goes NUCLEAR On 'Unhinged' Laura Loomer
Tucker Carlson erupted on "unhinged" Laura Loomer's support for war with Iran. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
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Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer
are tearing each other apart,
which is a lot of fun.
The thing that's not fun is what Laura
Loomer has succeeded in pushing for,
which is dragging the United States
into war with Iran.
And right now, as we speak,
and this is a developing story,
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you have Douglas MacGregor, who used
to be Trump's foreign policy adviser,
unfortunately no longer reporting
that the son of the supreme leader in Iran
is attempting to seek refuge in Dubai.
Iran has cleared its airspace.
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You have military assets from the United
States moving toward the Middle East.
So it looks like we could be at war
with Iran as as early as tonight.
With that in mind, Tucker Carlson
and Laura Loomer are tearing each
other to shreds over the latest battle
in this conservative civil war.
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I don't even know if I would
consider Laura Loomer part
of any political ideology.
She's Israel first.
That's the only thing
that matters to her, and it shows.
So Carlson and Loomer have feuded
repeatedly, and Loomer constantly posts
about Tucker Carlson,
and their latest brawl started recently
after Carlson wrote about Loomer
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in his morning, his morning newsletter.
And this will provide
a little bit of comedic relief
because the writing here is amazing.
So Loomer's Rumble Show,
whose viewers deserve sympathy and prayer,
is called Loomer Unleashed.
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It should receive an
immediate rebrand to Loomer.
Unhinged. Jake, what are your $0.02?
I love it.
All right, look,
for all of Tucker Carlson's faults,
he is definitely America first.
And you can say, well,
I don't like parts of America first, and I
like other parts, but he is what he is.
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And so he does not work for a
foreign government and doesn't care about
foreign governments, sometimes to a fault.
Laura Loomer cares about Israel more than
everything else on planet Earth combined.
If you don't know that you're really
super dense, like you don't know anything
if you don't know that.
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And so.
But what's more
important for us than this.
Interesting.
And it is a super interesting storyline
of this clash inside manga is yes,
but how is that going to affect policy?
And even though Tucker Carlson
is a thousand times bigger
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than Laura Loomer, the Laura Loomer
of the world run this place.
So Tucker probably will
not win the policy fight.
But that's short term versus long term.
Long term might be a very different story.
So a lot to get to.
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So further, the newsletter writes take
one of her meaning Laura Loomer's podcast
Cocktail Hour tweets from last night,
which predictably calls or called for an
attack on Iran bomb the ayatollah,
the message stated without another word of
analysis, details are not her strong suit.
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Could such an assault prompt another U.S.
War in the Middle East?
Could it get Americans killed
and destabilize the region even further?
Would civilians die, too?
She answered none of those questions
because she does not care.
The reason she lusts for a conflict is
that she thinks it would help the nation
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she actually cares about, which is Israel.
Her loyalty to that country
guides her every move.
And it's true.
I mean, like Loomer has repeatedly
accused Tucker Carlson
of harming the conservative movement
by criticizing other right wingers.
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But that's not what she's
really talking about right now.
I mean, there was a poll that was just put
out in regard to Republican sentiment in
regard to the US going to war with Iran.
Even a majority, it's a slim majority,
but even a majority of Republican voters
do not want to get dragged
into a war with Iran.
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But it doesn't matter.
Loomer seems to get
what she wants in this regard.
So in response to the attacks that Loomer,
you know, sends Tucker's way.
Tucker Carlson responded with,
establishment Republicans
spent the beginning of the 21st century
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committing their lives to serving
corporate donors and foreign interests
before those of regular ballot casters.
Why else would they support
open borders, job killing, free trade?
The Iraq and Afghanistan catastrophes
and maintaining the tax codes
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carried interest loophole.
Trump rejected all of that.
I don't know if I agree with that.
But anyway, Trump rejected all of that,
and it fueled his climb
to the top of the party.
I mean, he rejected all of that
in his campaigning, but, campaign Trump
is different from President Trump now.
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Loomer and her friends want
to undo this transformation
and return the GOP to its days
as an obedient, special interest lapdog.
More attention for the Israel lobby,
less for the American people.
I mean, I wholeheartedly agree
that that's what Laura Loomer wants.
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I mean, she could not possibly care less
about this country or the American people.
Obviously, we're dealing with
terrible economic decline in this country
from the vast majority of Americans,
consumer debt as at all time high.
No one can afford to buy a home,
even if you're making a six figure income.
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I mean, it's out of control.
But don't worry, We've got endless money
for empire building and foreign wars.
Yeah.
So look, the Mark Levin's
and and the Laura Loomer's
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have a microscopic audience.
Their influence on voters is nearly nil.
Right?
So do they have the pro-Israel crowd?
Yeah, but they always had that anyway.
And that.
That's a tiny, tiny crowd, right?
So Ben Shapiro is different.
A Daily Wire used to have a real audience.
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Not as much anymore.
But you would think like, oh, well,
you know, if you have a giant cable show
or big media outlet that it might affect,
the politicians and it does,
and especially with Trump,
when, when he's running for office,
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he's very aware of that and courts it
aggressively because that's smart.
And that's a rare time I'll say
that Trump is smart on that.
But it is good strategy because you want
to collect as many voters as possible.
But once he's in office,
he only cares about money, right?
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So he's like voters. What do you mean?
I already scammed him twice.
I'm already in office again.
They believed all
the junk I was telling him.
Now let's get rich, right?
And let's just sell out
to every donor there is.
That's where it shifts
to Laura Loomer's advantage.
So they might be small,
but the pro-Israel crowd in this country
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is obviously enormously wealthy.
And they donate
a tremendous amount of money.
So Trump should know
one pro-Israel family alone.
The Adelsons gave him over $337 million.
That is an enormous amount of money.
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And they financed 94% of Congress.
So we could have on the left,
we got the Young Turks in just about
everybody else that's saying, no, please,
free Palestine, end the genocide.
Don't do it. Don't attack Iran.
Are you nuts? Right.
And on the right now.
And by the way, I have never seen.
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And you've got to call it as it is,
and you've got to give credit
where credit is due.
I have never seen a single human being
move as many people in America
as Tucker Carlson did on the right.
He almost single handedly moved like an
enormous percentage of their voters
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from pro-Israel to anti-Israel, at least
not funding Israel anymore with our money.
So that's why.
Oh, sorry to interrupt you, but that's
why Loomer, like, loathes him so much.
And by the way,
it's not just about Israel.
I mean,
his his monologues about Venezuela.
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I wholeheartedly agreed with.
I thought they were smart.
I thought that they were well thought out.
I wish our president
actually thought through
foreign policy decisions in a similar way.
But I have to bring it up because.
Do you think it was a bad look
that Tucker Carlson was at that oil
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executive white House meeting?
Because it did seem weird
that he was criticizing
what the Trump administration did.
- But he attended that event.
- No, not at all.
Being honestly, if there was if Bernie
was president, I'd go to the white House
as often as possible.
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And if Bernie was doing a deal with
the oil companies, which is hilarious.
Larry's thought, I would want
to be in the room not to go rah rah.
Go get him, but to try to influence it
in the better direction.
Right?
So we have no idea
what he was doing inside that room.
And they're both right wing.
He'd be crazy not to go.
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You want to influence the president
as much as you possibly can.
So now finally, we get to. Yeah, but.
So who's going to win this fight?
Because Tucker did move
almost certainly all the voters under 50
that are on the right now.
They're gone for Israel. Right.
And Candace had a role. Others had a role.
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But Tucker was number one. Okay.
So none of that matters in Washington
because they could give a rat's ass
about any voter.
They they the politicians in Washington,
including Donald Trump,
think that the American citizens
are a joke to be used and manipulated.
And so they love
the Laura Loomer's of the world.
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They're like, oh yeah, fake news.
Let's use it for our own advantage, etc..
Right?
So in the short term,
Laura Loomer's of the world will win
and we will almost certainly attack Iran,
and we'll do it for Israel, and we'll try
to put that puppet in for them.
The Shah. ET cetera.
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And okay.
But it seems like the story is over.
It didn't matter
how many voters you moved.
Now almost the entire left and right
don't want to fund Israel anymore
and don't want to attack Iran.
It doesn't matter.
But it does matter because I think
that if Tucker Carlson runs in 2028, they
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could have all the money in the world.
They're not going
to be able to win that primary.
Okay.
I agree with you on that. Yeah.
I mean, look,
I'll give you the numbers right now.
So Quinnipiac poll that just came out.
Dave DeCamp is sharing it on X. If you
want to take a look at it for yourselves.
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Seven out of ten Americans,
do not want the U.S.
To take military action against Iran.
And when it comes to Republicans
specifically, 53% oppose.
So I've been a little bit down today
because the propagandists
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have done a really good job manufacturing
this atmosphere where it seems
like there's widespread support
for the US getting dragged into this war.
But the real numbers
don't really bear that out.
Yeah.
And by the way, the reason
why it looks like, an illusion
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is because it is an illusion.
Mainstream media works for Israel,
so they're like, oh well,
those poor protesters,
we have to do something for their freedom.
Laura Loomer is so right.
This is about their freedom.
That's why we need to put a dictator
in place that will work for Israel.
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I thought you said it was about freedom.
Okay, so they pervert.
And then this 12,020 thousand number.
I just want to be clear about that.
So that's the number they say.
Oh, that's the number of protesters
that are killed in the streets
by the terrible Ayatollah.
Ayatollah is terrible. Okay.
But did they really kill that many people?
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A we have no idea.
The internet is totally disconnected.
We're getting no real news
reporting from inside.
Where did the number come from?
CBS and CBS is now owned by Israel.
Barry Weiss runs it for David Ellison,
who proudly says that he's,
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like, loyal to Israel.
ET cetera.
So Israel is making up that number
to go, oh my God.
And one of our members
wrote a great point.
This is like the Saddam's killing
the babies in the incubators Story
every time they have some
outlandish piece of propaganda.
By the way, later in the war,
Israel will do.
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And we keep saying Israel
and America is doing the attacking.
No, no, it's our troops that might die.
It's our money that's going to get wasted.
But Israel is engineering all of it.
So later they will order us probably
to do if they don't do it themselves.
One of the things they pretended
that Iran was doing,
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they'll probably do themselves.
That's their pattern every single time.
Oh, can you believe that Hamas is raping
the Israelis and all the sexual assaults
and murdering of the babies and, oh,
they've killed so many babies, and then
they go and kill 20,000 Palestinian kids
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and they rape Palestinians in the prisons.
- So on camera.
- Yeah.
So look, guys, war is coming.
Loomer's going to win in the short run,
but there's going to be
a reckoning over this.
And this.
I guarantee you
this war will be a disaster.
It will not be clean
like the other operations.
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