Carlson said on Saturday:
“We know we’ll be criticized for doing this interview. Why did we do it anyway? Well, we did it because we were just at a war with Iran 10 days ago and may be again. And so our view, which has remained consistent over time, is that American citizens have the Constitutional right and the God-given right to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them. If their country is doing something with their money in their name, they have a right, an absolute right, to know as much about it as they can. And that would include hearing from the people they’re fighting.”