Megyn Kelly tells Tucker Carlson that launching his own network will ‘be great for America’ as the fired Fox News host praises Elon Musk for giving him a launchpad on X

Megyn Kelly praised her former Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson as he launched his new network on Monday, just months after he was abruptly fired from the right-wing cable network.

On Monday's episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, the host told Carlson that independent journalism is “the only way” forward for him.

'It will be the best thing that ever happened to you. It will be a great thing for America,” she said, referring to Fox and cable news as a “dying animal” he leaves behind.

Carlson and Kelly briefly overlapped with their time at Fox prior to her departure in January 2017 and subsequent brief stint at NBC. Carlson hosted a nightly show from 2016 to 2023 and was a contributor to the network beginning in 2009.

Since April, when Carlson was taken off the air without explanation but following Fox's massive $787 million payout to Dominion Voting Systems, he has hosted a feature-length interview show on X, where he gets between tens and hundreds of millions of views for each episode .

Carlson, who was unceremoniously ousted from Fox in April, has been posting independent interviews on X for several months.

On Monday, Carlson made it clear that despite the launch of a new subscription service streaming “exclusive content,” “the 'X' thing isn't going away,” he said.

“I'm just amazed at what a great platform it has been,” he added, continuing to praise Elon Musk's revamped short-post platform.

'What strikes me most is how international it is. I mean, it's really the last great free speech platform in the world. There's something very attractive about that.'

He called it is 'refined'.

Fox's previously top-rated host said much of the content he and his team produce will still be posted on are longer job interviews.

Since becoming his own boss, Carlson has been able to interview a number of controversial personalities, including misogynist Andrew Tate, Hungary's conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and most recently conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Jones told Carlson that President Joe Biden is consistently given amphetamines and wanders around the White House in his pallor as the sun sets.

In his official announcement of the new venture, Carlson said, “Time flies when you're unemployed, but essentially we've been working in secret for months and producing a ton of material.”

Fans can sign up on his site to access the “exclusive content” with a “limited time offer” to “become a founder.”

The site promises that they are “just days away from launching Tucker Carlson's new streaming platform” and urges people to “beat the crowd.”

The new media company's boss told Kelly that the new service's primary goal is to create a “large library” of videos “right in front of” the user on the page, which X is not intended for.”

“We had a huge library where we worked before (at Fox). We lost everything, so we want to rebuild that,” he said.

'And… you need some scale. If you want to collect the information, you have to have a lot of people working for you; there are just too many things happening.

“To have staff who can provide a lot of information about what's happening now – especially in the next twelve months, which I think will reshape the world – you have to pay them and you have to have a real company,” he said.