Overheard on the record in Washington, Tucker Carlson edition

There's one bridge even Tucker Carlson won't cross, sorry, PepsiCo.

The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz captures an extraordinary inside-the-beltway moment with Tucker Carlson.

“I know J. D. Vance very well, and I know that he’s, like, the most authentic person in politics,” Carlson said. To prove it, he brandished an incandescent-green object—a plastic bottle of Diet Mountain Dew. “They don’t have this at the Aspen Institute, trust me,” he said. There is not much that Carlson won’t do for an audience’s approval, but he put the bottle down unopened. “I’m not gonna try that, sorry,” he said. “I’m not a man of the people.” Instead, he picked up a smaller, darker glass bottle of Perrier.