Tucker Carlson says that if legal efforts to block Donald Trump from running for president again fails, the next steps could be assassination and a hot war with Russia to maintain power and unite the population.

"No one will say that but I don't know how you can't reach that conclusion. Do you know what I mean? They have decided, permanent Washington and both parties, have decided that there's something about Trump that's so threatening to them, they just can't have it," Carlson said on the Adam Carolla show.

"If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work, what's next? Graph it out, man. We are speeding towards assassination, obviously," he continued.