Piers Morgan joins 'Tucker Carlson Today' for first interview since 'cancelation' | Preview

when piers morgan was forced off the air last month we were told it was because he had insulted the fake duchess from los angeles but on some level it wasn't really about her even about him it was about all of us and our right to say what we think is true in a supposedly free country it was about free speech and the freedom of conscience conscience he of course is still at large a daily mail and what he writes is still worth reading but he's on television right now and again that has implications for the freedom of speech around the world here's part of our conversation what i found was over five years we trebled the ratings on good morning print the last day ironically was as you said the first day we beat the bbc ever and we had trebled our ratings so you would have thought people might be thanking me instead i was basically corralled into a position where i was told you've either got to apologize for effectively disbelieving meghan markle's version of events here or your position is untenable and you have to leave and my gut was i'm i was going to be damned if i was going to apologize for something that i believe and i just wasn't going to go down that road i've seen too many people when they're bullied by the woke brigade into apologizing we saw it with sharon osborne she was bullied into apologizing for defending me against a disgusting slur that i'm a racist and rather than the person who was accusing her apologizing to me cheryl underwood for accusing me falsely of being a racist sharon had to apologize for her passionate defense of me and then she lost her job anyway we saw recently the editor of teen vogue before she could even start she apologized for years about stuff she tweeted as a 17 year old kid but that wasn't enough so apologies don't ever get you anywhere i don't believe meghan markle now what i didn't know and what was a fascinating thing to discover after i left was that meghan markle between the monday and tuesday had made a personal complaint to the boss of itv named carolyn mccall i didn't know that i was ever told that i don't know what pressure she was directly putting on but she did i know personally contact her i also know she had personally contacted along with prince harry ofcon which is a government regulatory body designed to regulate what we put out on news shows so i was under attack from miss markle uh both directly to my boss and to the government regulatory body under attack to basically conform to her version of events and i had to believe her and if i didn't i was a callous racist and i should be condemned and ultimately as it turned out later that day lose my job and i think that's a pretty perilous slope a journalist's job which is to express skepticism about some of the more outlandish claims like the secret wedding like the story about archie becoming a prince and so on even down to small stuff like she'd never had any interest in the royals when there were pictures of her draped over buckingham palace railings when she was a teenager and so on um i should be able to be a journalist and question the veracity of those statements and frankly i should be allowed in a democracy that values freedom of speech i should be allowed to say i'm sorry i don't believe you but i wasn't i wasn't allowed to do that it was megan's way and megan's narrative and megan's truth that phrase was actually used by oprah winfrey this is your truth what does that mean when do we get to your truth this is this is the kind of defense that it was the kind of thing we would hear liberals attack donald trump for for reinventing facts for creating his own truth but when meghan markle does it the same liberals that attack donald trump cheer and applaud and say this is her truth and it must be believed and if you don't believe it you're a racist well i'm sorry i'm not a racist i just don't believe her and no one points out the kind of underlying irony is that here you have two of the most powerful people in the world in oprah winfrey and meghan markle both claiming to be victims they're oppressed they have more power than you they got you fired but you're oppressing them the strong pretending to be weak in order to crush people below them does anyone notice this dynamic well it's completely absurd frankly and i've written about this regularly for the daily mail about the ludicrous hypocrisy of this couple who by the way contrary to what many americans have been led to believe the press coverage of these two right up to the wedding was you completely over-the-top euphoric everyone in britain was thrilled that finally we were having uh a non-white bride in the royal family it hadn't happened we were all very happy about this i wrote about how wonderful it was on the wedding day so this narrative that from the start she was bombarded with horrible hateful racist press coverage is another disingenuous load of nonsense fueled by the oprah winfrey show where they flashed up a series of headlines but really where this leaves us is that you've got this concept that somehow meghan markle who married into one of the richest most privileged families in the world and within a couple of years has gone back to her home in california is living in an 11 million dollar mansion is doing all sorts of enormous deals with netflix spotify you name it they're taking the checks hundreds of millions we read and how are they getting those taco they're getting them because they're the duke and duchess of sussex they're getting them off their royal titles the royal titles bestowed on them by the very institution in the interview with oprah winfrey they say they they can't stand and he's suffocating and traps them and so on and so on but he can't have it both ways if you really believe that way about the royal family and the monarchy give up your titles but they won't do that because it makes them too much money so now you have these two oppressed people living in a mansion in california earning hundreds of millions of dollars in the middle of a pandemic that's killed nearly three million people portraying themselves as the biggest victims in the world but there are many people who don't have our platform who are getting wiped out eradicated lives destroyed careers ended over the most ridiculous things and it's got to stop and it will only stop when the mass body of people who don't feel this way who don't find themselves offended by absolutely everything when they stand up and go enough i'm not going to let this happen the power of free speeches winston churchill said some people think free speech is absolutely fine right to the point they hear an opinion that they don't like and then it's an outrage that's not what free speech is free speech is about listening to an outrageous opinion you don't agree with and being able to accept that somebody else doesn't feel like you that's what free speech is suffering does amazing things to people they become very different in a short period of time in the case of piers morgan he's gotten a lot wiser and a lot braver and very much worth listening to we spoke to him for over an hour today it's available on demand foxnation.com if you want to watch

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Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021