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.
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