Top 6 moments from Mike Huckabee's tense interview with Tucker Carlson: 'Frankly confusing'
2. 'Who are his descendants?'
After saying he decided to "give up" on getting a clear answer from Huckabee about the morally justifiable borders of modern Israel, Carlson questioned him about how it's possible to discern the modern-day descendants of Abraham and the inheritors of the Genesis promise.
"How do we know it's the same people?" Carlson asked, who went to query if DNA tests could play a role in determining who has a right to live in Israel.
Tucker is so extreme he actually asks if today's Jewish people are the same ones described in the Bible.@GovMikeHuckabee's response: "If they speak the same language, worship the same God, follow the same Bible, cultures and traditions.... doesn't that give you a clue?" pic.twitter.com/CCnS3t4F5I
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) February 20, 2026
Claiming he "wasn't anticipating" that his conversation with Carlson would become "a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren't really the same people as the Jews of the Bible," Huckabee accused Carlson in an X post on Saturday of promulgating the controversial Khazarian hypothesis.
When I sat down with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, I was expecting a thoughtful conversation and that he would ask questions and give me the opportunity to actually respond--just like he did with the little Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes or the guy who thought Hitler was the good…
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 21, 2026
The hypothesis, which was promoted by Israeli-American molecular geneticist and Johns Hopkins researcher Eran Elhaik, suggests Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical inhabitants of ancient Judea, but were instead primarily descended from the Khazars, who originated in the Caucasus and converted to Judaism in the 8th and 9th centuries A.D.
The theory clashes with the Rhineland hypothesis, which posits that Ashkenazi Jews are primarily descended from a small group who migrated from the Middle East, settled in the German Rhineland and France around the 10th century and later migrated eastward.
Huckabee claimed he had never heard of the hypothesis before speaking with Carlson, and said it "comes from some of the darkest realms of the Internet and social media."
During an interview with podcaster Theo Von in 2025, Carlson suggested he believes that the genetic and religious basis of the Abrahamic covenant ended with the Roman destruction of Herod's Temple in A.D. 70, a claim he said has prompted allegations of antisemitism from Christian ministers that he has found especially hurtful.
VIDEO: In his appearance on Theo Von, Tucker Carlson ???????? lied and said that DNA tests are illegal in Israel, then lied and said that the Jewish religion of today has no continuity with the Jews from before the Temple was destroyed.
— Max ???? (@MaxNordau) December 27, 2025
Most importantly, he lied and claimed that he… pic.twitter.com/knwt1fUA2r
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