Tucker Carlson told Chris Cuomo he “can’t even guess” who killed Alexei Navalny during a confrontational exchange with Cuomo, who blasted Carlson for asking Vladimir Putin softball questions.
Cuomo will air the two-part chat with Carlson — often rivals during the Trump era, when they hosted competing cable news programs — Monday and Tuesday nights on News Nation.
Although Cuomo admitted that Carlson should not have gotten into a “shouting match” with the Russian president, Cuomo still felt the ex-Fox News host could have taken a tougher stance and asked about Navalny.
“(You) made choices,” he said. “You didn’t ask about Navalny. You said: kill all murderers, all leaders. But don’t you feel like if you sit down with someone like that, you have to hold him accountable for things that matter, the fact that he killed someone or a lot of people.”
Carlson responded by saying he had taken Putin to task, but claimed that “Ukrainians say (Putin) didn’t kill Navalny.”
Tucker Carlson told Chris Cuomo he ‘can’t even guess’ who killed Alexei Navalny during confrontational interview with Cuomo, who attacked Carlson for asking Vladimir Putin softball questions
Cuomo will air the full interview with Carlson — often rivals during the Trump era when they hosted competing cable news programs — Monday night on News Nation
Cuomo responded, “Who killed him then? One minute the guy looks good, the next minute he’s dead.’
“In a broader sense, the Russian government, the Ukrainian government, said he died of natural causes,” Carlson argued.
“I can’t even guess what’s actually going on there.”
Ukraine’s top spy chief has claimed Navalny may have “died of a blood clot”, amid widespread speculation that the outspoken Putin critic was murdered by Russian spies.
The pair also discussed Carlson’s reporting on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Your approach and other people’s approach, hey, this was just, you know, these guys were in the wrong place, the wrong direction, but that was it. I do not agree with that. I think it was a riot,” Cuomo said.
“And I think they went way over the line, and I think they were motivated to go over the line in part by the president of the United States.”
Carlson responded, “Parts of it were obviously a riot, but let me ask you a few questions. The first is: Why can’t we know how many federal agents were in the crowd and what they were doing there?’
The pair also discussed Carlson’s reporting on the Jan. 6 insurrection
Carlson was accused of having “cherry-picked” footage of the January 6 riot
‘It’s fine for me to know. I like transparency. It is the key to understanding,” Cuomo responded.
Cuomo then lobbied to “cherry-pick” the footage he played from that day to make those accused of crimes in connection with the Capitol riot appear sympathetic.
“I broadcast what they sent me,” Carlson responded, prompting Cuomo to again claim he had made it “the icing on the cake.”
Cuomo was critical of Carlson’s interview with Putin after clashing with Candace Owens about it on Patrick Bet-David’s podcast.
In the Carlson interview, when asked what was the decisive moment when he decided to launch his attack on Ukraine, Putin replied “initially it was the coup in Ukraine” – referring to the removal of Zelensky’s predecessor Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
‘And what led to the current events? First, the current Ukrainian leadership would not implement the Minsk agreements, Putin continued. The Minsk Agreements were a series of treaties aimed at ending the Donbas war between Ukraine and Russian separatist groups, signed in 2014.
He accused the former leaders of Germany and France of failing to fulfill their obligations to the agreements.
Although Cuomo admitted that Carlson should not have gotten into “a shouting match” with the Russian president, Cuomo still felt the ex-Fox News host could have gone harder and asked about Navalny.
During his interview with Tucker Carlson, Putin provided a “historical background” to the conflict with Ukraine before defending his military’s action
Asked what the decisive moment was when he decided to launch his attack, Putin replied: “initially it was the coup in Ukraine” – referring to the removal of Zelensky’s predecessor Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
“They never intended to carry them out, they just fooled us,” he said. He was also angry at the idea that a change of president would change the outcome of the war.
‘You just asked me if there will be another leader who will change something? It’s not about the leader,” he said.
Putin sensationally claimed that a peace deal on the war in Ukraine was once close to being agreed, blaming the “Western side” for wanting to prolong the war for as long as possible.
“We are ready to negotiate,” he said.
“It’s the western side, and Ukraine is clearly a satellite state of the US. It is obvious. I don’t want you to take it as if I’m looking for a strong word or an insult. But we both understand what’s happening.’