Tucker Carlson is being ripped apart after his wild claim that Western journalists haven't tried to interview Vladimir Putin. While announcing that he will be conducting the Russian president's first interview with an American news outlet in 3 years, he accused journalists of scoring countless interviews with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but none with Putin.
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00:00 Tucker Carlson is being ripped apart after his wild claim that Western journalists have not tried to interview Vladimir Putin
00:06 While announcing that he will be conducting the Russian president's first interview with an American news outlet in three years
00:13 He accused journalists of scoring countless interviews with Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky
00:18 But none with Putin not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict
00:25 Vladimir Putin CNN's chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour stated on X
00:30 Does Tucker really think we journalists haven't been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine?
00:37 It's absurd. We'll continue to ask for an interview just as we have for years now
00:42 BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg also posted that the network has lodged several requests
00:47 But always come back with a no added Yaroslav Trofimov chief foreign affairs correspondent at the Wall Street Journal
00:54 Poor poor Vladimir Putin until now
00:56 Nobody in the West has had the chance to hear him explain all the excellent reasons for why he had to invade Ukraine
01:02 Not in the speech that was broadcast live on every global network the morning of the invasion and not in countless others
01:08 Premlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov even shot down Carlson on this saying mr
01:13 Carlson is wrong
01:14 But then quickly tried to defend him by adding that the other media outlets that have requested to interview Putin take an exceptionally one-sided
01:21 Position of course there is no desire to communicate with such media and it hardly makes sense and it is unlikely that it will be
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