Tucker Carlson was interviewed on Saudi state TV on Saturday, following his interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in which the podcast host and former Fox News personality did not leave the airport, staying only for a few hours to cross-examine Huckabee on his various positions, including his meeting with Jonathan Pollard.

It appeared that Huckabee had failed to make a dent in Carlson’s views, as Carlson reiterated his past anti-Israel positions and took some shots at the ambassador. While Carlson pressed Huckabee pretty hard during their interview, he was much friendlier toward his Saudi host and failed to mention past Saudi human rights abuses, like the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Doubling down on his dual loyalty charge, Carlson said, “What I really object to, what makes me mad, is when American leaders, whose job it is to represent Americans, are more loyal to a foreign country than they are to their own.”

“They have instead sent billions and billions and billions of dollars to a foreign country. And none of that has helped the United States. In fact, it’s hurt the United States,” he added.

“How is it in America’s interest to decapitate the government of Iran on behalf of Israel?” he asked, lashing out at the United States government for its involvement in Iran. “Not to rebuild a new Iran, but just to kind of kill the people in charge and hope something better happens. To create chaos in Iran, as we have done at Israel’s behest in so many countries in the region, as you well know since you live in the region.”

“This is bad for us, this is bad for the surrounding countries, it is bad for the world, I don’t think it’s good for Israel,” he fumed. “Actually, I don’t think Israel understands its own long-term interest very well, [but] that’s my view.”

He also blasted Israel for what he called a “land grab” in Gaza.

“The idea that we had to pretend that the Gaza operation is like a response to October 7, and it’s not an effort to expand the territory of Israel, that’s insulting to me because that’s a lie,” he raged. “That’s what it is.”

In the interview, Carlson was asked about a clip in which he denounces Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, in these words:

“He’s not the only world leader who’s evil and destructive, by the way, again, but he is. And he’s hurting the United States, and he’s destroying his own country, and I think he imperils the world. I think that clearly they’re going to try and blow up al-Aqsa Mosque, I believe that, on the Temple Mount to build a third temple, and then you’ve got global war. So like he’s a threat. There’s no question he’s a threat to the Trump administration. No question.”

Carlson said he stands by every vile word.

Carlson also blasted Huckabee and presented himself as the clear-eyed Cassandra watching politicians stumbling around in “a haze,” befuddled by Israel’s cunning.

“I watched someone like Mike Huckabee, who’s the U.S. ambassador to Israel … betray the United States again and again and again by promoting Jonathan Pollard, who was a spy against the United States, who betrayed the United States, and Mike Huckabee, who’s our ambassador, is helping, truly, the most destructive spy in American history,” he said.

Pro-Israel politicians in the United States are under “a kind of spell, a kind of hypnosis, a kind of haze that people are in, where they’re doing things for reasons they don’t understand.”