"Tucker Carlson is a staff writer for the Weekly Standard. Good morning. Thanks for being with us."

And that's how Tucker Carlson's first appearance on C-SPAN began ... taking audience calls...

December 30, 1995 …

Between 1995 and 2015, Tucker Carlson appeared on C-SPAN call-in programs 17 times.

In this episode of C-SPAN's "The Weekly," you'll learn personal information Tucker Carlson shared about himself ... during 20 years of taking calls and talking with the C-SPAN audience.

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