UPDATE
Feb 6, 2024 6:25 PM CST
Tucker Carlson has confirmed that he is going to interview Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia. The former Fox News host will be the first Western journalist to interview the Russian leader since the invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, the BBC reports. "Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now," Carlson said in a video posted on X Tuesday. "Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in." Carlson, who has previously expressed support for Putin and slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a "dictator, said the interview would air on X and TuckerCarlson.com, CNBC reports.
Feb 5, 2024 11:34 AM CST
Tucker Carlson is taking in the sights in Moscow, which is leading to more than a little tongue-wagging that he's just there as a tourist. "It is beautiful," Carlson told the Izvestia newspaper. "I just wanted to see it because, you know, I have read so much about it, but I have never seen it before." But as Reuters reports, the ex-Fox News pundit, when asked if he was in town to interview a certain Vladimir Putin, just smiled and said, "We'll see." The Kremlin, Reuters notes, was equally evasive, with a rep saying that "many foreign journalists come to Russia every day, many continue to work here, and we welcome this. We have nothing to announce in terms of the president's interviews to foreign media."
If Carlson does score an interview with Putin, it would be the first with a Western journalist since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The New Republic, with a headline asking, "Why Is Tucker Carlson in Moscow, and Why Right Now?," notes that Carlson has often expressed his support for Putin and has said in the past that he's tried to nail down an interview with the Russian president but was foiled by unnamed US agencies. (More Tucker Carlson stories.)
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