I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, but the US government stopped me. Think about it, the journalist told the publication on Sunday and noted that no one in the American media supported his right as a journalist to cover the opinion of the Russian leader about the Ukrainian conflict.
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00:00 The US government denied Tucker Carlson the opportunity to interview Putin.
00:06 TV presenter Tucker Carlson told the Swiss magazine Die Weltwache that he tried to interview
00:12 Russian President Vladimir Putin, but was banned from doing so by the US authorities.
00:20 "I tried to interview Vladimir Putin.
00:23 But.
00:24 The US government stopped me.
00:26 Think about it."
00:27 The journalist told the publication on Sunday and noted that no one in the American media
00:34 supported his right as a journalist to cover the opinion of the Russian leader about the
00:40 Ukrainian conflict.
00:42 He also stated that the US administration has been making aggressive attempts to gain
00:48 control over all American media for decades, and most media workers are afraid to say anything
00:55 that might be unpleasant to people in power.
00:59 On August 27, the "editor-in-chief of RT, Margarita Simonyan, reported on the ROSSIYA1
01:09 TV channel that Carlson had "expressed a desire to interview Putin" and asked to convey information
01:16 about this to the head of "the Russian state."