Tucker Carlson appeared on Redacted from Maine, where he blasted the U.S.-Israel-Iran strike decision and suggested the officials behind the joint operation “should be in jail.”
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson now says the heroes who approved Operation Epic Fury, including President Trump himself, belong behind bars for daring to partner with Israel against the world’s top sponsor of terrorism.
During an appearance on Redacted with former Fox News host Clayton Morris and Natali Morris, Carlson launched into a broadside against the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran operation, warning that America had surrendered its own strategic judgment in favor of a joint war-making arrangement with Israel.
We all know the facts. President Trump took full ownership of the historic U.S.-Israel partnership in Operation Epic Fury, the decisive campaign that neutralized Iran’s nuclear ambitions, obliterated its missile programs, sank its navy, and took out Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his top terror enablers.
Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio all stood shoulder-to-shoulder with our unbreakable ally Israel in delivering the kind of “peace through strength” America hasn’t seen in decades.
As Gateway Pundit reported on February 28, Hegseth said Operation Epic Fury began “on President Trump’s orders” and called it “the most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history.” He also vowed that if Iran threatened Americans, “we will hunt you down, and we will kill you.”
Then, earlier this month, President Trump made it crystal clear who was in charge.
“No,” Trump said when asked if Israel forced his hand to launch these strikes against Iran.
According to the president, negotiations with Tehran were going nowhere, and he believed Iran was getting ready to launch missiles.
Reporter:
“Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran? Did that get the United States into this war?”
President Trump:
“No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that.
We have great negotiators—great people, people who do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully. Based on the way the negotiations were going, I think they were going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen.
So, if anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand. But Israel was ready, and we were ready, and we’ve had a very, very powerful impact.”
That is what makes Carlson’s latest comments so explosive.
During the Redacted discussion, Carlson suggested that those people behind the attack should be in jail.
He also argued that the United States no longer has the diplomatic credibility to broker peace and warned that the war could spiral beyond Washington’s control.
He also voiced alarm about the possibility of further escalation, including the use of weapons of mass destruction.
He attacked the joint operation as reckless, claimed Trump was “under immense pressure from the Israelis,” dismissed concerns about Iran’s nuclear program as “silly,” and bizarrely suggested the U.S. should “secure Dimona” to stop Israel from using nuclear weapons if things escalate.
EXCLUSIVE:@TuckerCarlson is now calling for President Trump, Secretary of War @SecWar @PeteHegseth and @SecRubio to be JAILED for making the decision to partner with @Israel in bombing Iran.
He made the call for President Trump and @PeteHegseth’s arrest on @ClaytonMorris’s… pic.twitter.com/1vnqdP9G6j
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) March 14, 2026
Full transcript below:
Tucker Carlson: “So, like, who brokers the peace here? It’s not the U.S. We don’t have diplomacy anymore. We’re so discredited. Our diplomacy is seen by the rest of the world as, like, a cover for war. This is all, like, a sneaky attempt to, you know, launch a sneak attack. And whether that’s true or not—you know, you pray it’s not true—but everyone thinks it’s true, so we’re not going to negotiate an end to this. I don’t know. The losses for the U.S. are so sad that I just can’t take a victory lap. I just feel depressed.”
Clayton Morris: “Yeah, it is absolutely depressing, because so many pieces are moving at once with the U.S. economy right now. Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Food prices are set to go up. We’re already seeing inflation numbers over the past 24 hours going up. So all of this is going to be hitting the American family pretty hard, who was already hit very, very hard.
And we just got this statement. I want to read it to you. I’m sure you’ve already seen it. Iran’s new leader, Khamenei, just released the first statement as supreme leader, releasing it to Iranian television. It was read—he didn’t appear on video or anything like that.
But among the points that he made: the Strait of Hormuz will be shut down forever until the United States begs, basically. We will not ignore the blood of our martyrs. They will be avenged—basically, an eye for an eye. We are not an enemy of the countries around us.
We’re only targeting American bases, he said, but bombs are raining on your neighbors anyway as a result of that. Close all U.S. bases in the region, or we will attack them all.
And he calls for total Iranian unity. He says, “We will not forgo avenging the blood of the martyrs. Every citizen killed by the enemy is a case for vengeance in itself.” So it doesn’t sound like they’re done, even though President Trump yesterday said, “We’ve won this war.” It doesn’t sound like this is over anytime soon.”
Tucker Carlson: “I mean, well, it certainly doesn’t. And Trump yesterday suggested we might use nuclear weapons in Iran. So no, those are escalatory remarks. They’re not, you know, consensus-seeking remarks.
However, you know, that country—maybe not this country, but certainly Iran—seems to have lots of different factions. And of course, you know, they just threw the board in the air. A lot of people were killed. Like, it’s not exactly clear who’s running the country, who’s making the key decisions. But my impression is there are different factions, and some, you know, seek some sort of negotiated settlement sooner rather than later.
But clearly, there are a lot of people there, after all the civilian deaths, after the killing of their religious leader, and after the failed diplomacy, who, you know, want to fight till the end. The question is: What does that mean?
And I just worry that, you know, Israel is going to find itself in a position where, you know, it uses weapons of mass destruction. I’m not even attacking Israel, by the way. It’s the size of New Jersey, so you can see why they would feel threatened. I don’t think they should ever use nuclear weapons.
I think the United States should tell the Netanyahu government, absolutely not. In fact, we’re going to secure Dimona. We’re going to secure your nuclear sites.
You’re not allowed to use nuclear weapons, because that could begin a cascade that ends the world. So you’re not allowed to do that, actually, Netanyahu.
But I do understand how, if their cities are getting bombed and the United States can’t stop that from happening, and they run out of missile defense or adequate missile defense, and maybe the bombing moves to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv—I mean, you can see this getting super radical, which is one of the main arguments I made against starting it in the first place. You don’t control it once it starts. There are other players here.
I didn’t realize it was going to be a joint operation with a country that believes in Amalek. You know, whoever made that decision should be in jail.
When was the last time the U.S. military partnered, on a decision-making level, with another country in a war?
Like, that’s crazy. You can have symbolic partners, but you can’t have a partner who has co-equal decision-making authority, because your interests are different. And you could wind up harming your own interests, and those of the world, very gravely. So you don’t do that, because you can’t make a clear decision.
And I think that we’re not far from that right now. Like, their goals have always been different from our goals. Trump was convinced they had a nuclear program.
I thought that was silly, but he seemed to believe it. He was also under immense pressure from the Israelis to do this, because they were going to do it anyway, as the Secretary of State revealed. That’s true.
But I don’t think there was any evidence that Trump wanted, you know, to commit ground troops to Iran or some protracted war over, you know, the killing of a religious leader or Amalek or these weird end-times fantasies that, honestly, both sides are engaging in—the Israelis especially, just being honest. Amalek? Are you kidding? How can—by the way, Western civilization has no place for Amalek.”
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