Listen as Larry spoke with Tucker Carlson regarding his new time slot on Fox News, Caitlyn Jenner and who he would like to interview!
During the interview, O’Connor asked why he chose to launch the new show with Caitlyn Jenner:
O’Connor: So I’ve got to ask, this is what everybody’s murmuring about, everyone’s talking about it, I’ve got text messages from my friends…Why is Tucker bringing Caitlyn Jenner on for his first show? What was the thought process behind that, because it is a bit out of the box?
Carlson: Well there wasn’t really. To be totally honest with you, that was a preexisting booking from the show that I inherited.
O’Connor: Oh is that right? Oh wow!
Carlson: I had nothing to do with that actually. That was just O’Reilly had booked Caitlyn Jenner and so we are interviewing Caitlyn Jenner. But that’s fine with me. People read into things a lot and I just plan to do the show I’ve always done. And so, to do something else. But no, I’m interested in the politics of it. I mean, here you have someone who is often described as courageous for life choices, but I think maybe the most interesting and brave thing Caitlyn Jenner did was vote for Donald Trump. Living in Malibu in 2016, try that!
Carlson also addressed the future of the Democratic Party:
O’Connor: Although, again, because they [The Clintons] are still periphery and they still sort of loom large and then you’ve got Terry McAuliffe, who is associated with The Clintons, I know you’ve known Terry McAuliffe for a long time, they are now rumbling because he can’t run for re-election in Virginia, that he may run for President. And I’ve got to think, I mean you tell me, this is a challenge for the Democratic Party is it not? To sort of move beyond the Clinton years?
Carlson: Well, the Democratic Party is so committed to identity politics and divisional and racial lines and pretty open race hatred at this point – and it makes me sad to say that but it’s true – that it’s hard to imagine them ever nominating a white man again. I don’t think that’s ever – not a straight one – that’s never going to happen because it’s inconsistent with their beliefs. So Terry McAuliffe does not have a chance. Joe Biden never was even seriously considered as a candidate, though he would have beaten Donald Trump, I think, etc. So like they’ve got to figure out what’s the Democratic Party about. Is it about a constellation of independent race groups who are mad, who come together for the spoils – which is kind of what it is now? Or is it the party of like the unrepresented middle class – which is what it could have been. I don’t really know what the Democratic Party stands for actually at this point. I don’t know anyone who does.
Lastly, Carlson shared with O’Connor the one person he would love to interview.
O’Connor: And I’ve got to ask you, so far over the course of these months, is there an interview that you’ve been trying to get that you can’t? Or even, you may not have even tried yet, but you’re sort of musing and saying, ‘You know, I would really love to sit down with this person’.
Carlson: Yeah, I’d love to sit down with Barack Obama.
O’Connor: Ahh! Well hey he emerged today, right? Now he’s back out. He was at the University of Chicago talking about community organizing. Do you think he would do it?
Carlson: I don’t know. But I have a lot of questions for him. So I hope so.
O’Connor: Let’s give him a head-start, if he were to accept it, let’s give him a cheat. What would be your first question for Barack Obama?
Carlson: You know, why did you have Al Sharpton at the White House 85 times? What was that about?
O’Connor: Was it really, was it that many? 85?
Carlson: Yes, it was. It was. It was. And that’s like the opposite of what he ran on, it’s the opposite of what everybody else thought he was. I mean, like what is that? What is the justification for that?
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