2026-02-22
2 小时 46 分钟We're about to play you an interview we did with U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, two days ago in Israel.
In general, it's never worth talking about the backstory behind an interview.
It's kind of not the point.
It makes it about the interviewer, not the person being interviewed.
For one thing, for another, it's not that interesting most of the time.
And for another, it's kind of off the record.
You know, the other person hasn't consented to you telling the story.
So in general, we don't do that.
Who'd want to hear that?
Let the interview speak for itself.
But in this case, we want to tell you just a few things about how this interview came about because they are pretty
interesting, revealing, and now weirdly relevant, apparently.
So this interview with Mike Huckabee came about a couple of weeks ago on Twitter.
One of our producers showed me.
He said something to the effect of, you're talking to Middle Eastern Christians, Tucker Carlson.
Maybe you should talk to me.
Why don't you come do an interview?
And I paused for a minute.
I thought in the past about trying to interview Mike Huckabee,
whom I 've known for over 30 years and worked adjacent to at Fox.