Former Fox News star personality Tucker Carlson is throwing some haymakers at fellow Republicans and even one of his former colleagues at Fox News.
During his latest podcast, Carlson slammed his former Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin as ‘the deepest of the deep state’ as he continued to criticize his former employers over their coverage of the Israel-Iran war.
This comes after Carlson feuded with both President Donald Trump and engaged in a viral showdown with Senator Ted Cruz over America’s support for Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program.
As Trump announced a ceasefire – one Carlson reacted to by tweeting: ‘Thank God’ – he released an episode of his show where he continued to question his ex-employer’s coverage, taking his ire out on Griffin, the network’s Chief National Security Correspondent.
“Jennifer Griffin is, even by the standards of Pentagon employees, she’s not technically an employee of the Pentagon. She’s a shill, obviously, for the deepest of the deep states. But she’s like a parody. She’s like a parody. It’s like the whole thing,” Carlson said.
Carlson and fellow former Fox host Clayton Morris even joked about Griffin’s allegiance to the “Deep State” and an instance where Carlson even went to network execs about her.
“The crazy thing is Jen Griffin is a liar, but also very liberal, a true Trump hater, to the point where I complained about her and I really tried not to complain about other people at Fox when I worked there,” he said.
“She was discrediting the channel, she was such a Trump hater, and it was emotional.”
He even went to one of his superiors at the network and suggested Griffin wasn’t helping.
Carlson said he asked: “She’s an idiot. She doesn’t tell the truth. She misleads our viewers. And she’s like a screaming liberal who hates Trump, who our viewers love. So what are we getting out of this?”
The response he got from the network was that “you could not touch Jennifer Griffin.” This is the latest in a slew of attacks from Carlson against establishment Republicans.
Last week, Carlson confronted Cruz about his support for military action against Iran.
“How many people live in Iran, by the way?” Carlson asked.
“I don’t know the population at all… I don’t know the population,” Cruz replied.
“You don’t know the population in the country you seek to topple?” Carlson asked. He then said that Iran currently has an estimated population of 92 million. “How could you not know that?”
“I don’t sit around memorizing population tables,” Cruz responded.
“Well, it’s kind of relevant, because you’re calling for the overthrow of the government,” Carlson shot back.
It quickly devolved into a shouting match between the two. Take a look:
Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/hJNwAHAnxZ
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 18, 2025
Fox News has also been the target of other conservatives, with outspoken Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene attacking Fox News host Mark Levin this week.