Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson reflected Thursday on being shot at in the Middle East while interviewing comedian Dave Smith.
Carlson told Smith that a “gun battle” broke out at a house he was at while documenting the Iraq War in 2003.
“And one night I’m sitting on the roof on a sat phone trying to talk to my wife back in Washington, taking our dog to the vet. And someone starts shooting at me. And then all these people start shooting at our house and there’s like a gun battle at our house,” Carlson said. “And I’m like, what?”
Carlson told Smith that he “absolutely” had a gun — an AK 47 — while he was a journalist in the Middle East. He said journalists were “required” to carry a firearm and “get a certification from the state bar” before revealing that his “buddy,” journalist Mike Kelly, was killed while they were in Iraq.
Watch @TuckerCarlson tell @ComicDaveSmith about the time he was nearly shot in Iraq.
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“There is a gun battle at the house.” pic.twitter.com/mUHcrU22mi
