Rudy Giuliani erupted on Newsmax on Sunday, threatening to sue Tucker Carlson over the former Fox News host's on-air conversation with Hunter Biden concerning Giuliani's relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Tucker virtually had Hunter on my lap, feeding him a bottle," Giuliani seethed. "I'm gonna sue him!"

Giuliani was responding to Carlson's lengthy video interview with Biden earlier this month, in which the two discussed the New York Post report — based on information provided by Giuliani — about content found on Biden's laptop.

During the interview, Biden and Carlson both addressed Giuliani's 2020 claim, which was never substantiated, that Biden's laptop contained "numerous pictures" of underage girls.

"The allegation that there was abuse of minors on the laptop? That came from the Israelis," Carlson claimed, further alleging that an Israeli "connected to Netanyahu" had approached him and Fox News with similar allegations.

Carlson offered no proof for his claims but aggressively defended them as indisputable.

"It was the Israelis who were pushing that – fact, fact! Literally, to me!" he said.

Carlson also agreed with Biden's criticism of Giuliani for having promoted the claim that the laptop contained images of underage girls.

Giuliani characterized that exchange as Carlson accusing him of being an "agent for Bibi."

"Hunter is saying Bibi Netanyahu set it up, and at the conclusion of his saying that, Tucker said 'I agree,'" Giuliani raved. "He agrees that I was – and Trump was – an agent for Bibi? Well, he can go to hell! I wasn't an agent for anybody but myself and the United States of America."

Giuliani then affirmatively stated that he would be filing a lawsuit against the ex-Fox News star.

"I don't know what has happened to Tucker Carlson," Giuliani said. Asked to confirm whether he intended to sue Carlson, Giuliani answered: "Absolutely!"

Giuliani has called Netanyahu his "personal friend for 25 years," and has told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he will "never go to Israel without spending two hours with Bibi."

The clash comes amid a broader pattern of political fallout around the laptop story, which has been revisited repeatedly in interviews, media appearances and partisan disputes even as parts of it remain unverified. Carlson's comments on Biden and Giuliani pulled that old fight back into view, this time with a direct public threat of litigation from Giuliani.

Rudy Giuliani says he's suing Tucker Carlson for calling him an "agent of Bibi" pic.twitter.com/XDZk2Q8Ocy — Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) August 23, 2026