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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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00:00Tucker Carlson is being ripped apart after his wild claim that Western journalists have not
00:05tried to interview Vladimir Putin. While announcing that he will be conducting the
00:09Russian president's first interview with an American news outlet in three years,
00:13he accused journalists of scoring countless interviews with Ukrainian President Vladimir
00:17Zelensky, but none with Putin. Not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview
00:22the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin. CNN's chief
00:27international anchor Christiane Amanpour stated on X, does Tucker really think we journalists
00:32haven't been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine?
00:38It's absurd. We'll continue to ask for an interview just as we have for years now.
00:42BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg also posted that the network has lodged several requests,
00:48but always come back with a no. Added Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent at
00:53the Wall Street Journal, poor, poor Vladimir Putin. Until now, nobody in the West has had the chance
00:58to hear him explain all the excellent reasons for why he had to invade Ukraine. Not in the speech
01:03that was broadcast live on every global network the morning of the invasion, and not in countless
01:08others. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov even shot down Carlson on this, saying,
01:13Mr. Carlson is wrong, but then quickly tried to defend him by adding that the other media outlets
01:17that have requested to interview Putin take an exceptionally one-sided position. Of course,
01:22there is no desire to communicate with such media, and it hardly makes sense,
01:26and it is unlikely that it will be useful. For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:31And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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