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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