Much has been made about Tucker Carlson interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly argued she’s faced similar backlash during her previous interviews with the Russian President.
During The Megyn Kelly Show Wednesday, the former cable news host argued
“Tucker Carlson flies to Russia and announces that he’s interviewing Vladimir Putin,” Kelly said. “Who, my audience knows, I’ve interviewed three times. It was fascinating stuff. I really enjoyed going to Russia and I really enjoyed the Russian people. Vladimir Putin is a very fascinating character, to say the least, but probably the most controversial in the world today. Or at least one of them.
“There’s a complete media meltdown about the fact that he’s doing it. Now, he did say some controversial things already in promoting it, like no journalists had attempted to do it. A lot of journalists have pointed out that they have requested — multiple times — to interview Vladimir Putin. It’s not an easy get, that’s for sure,” admitted Kelly. “What’s more interesting to me is the freakout that he’s even doing it. I had this myself. I had this actually when I interviewed Putin the first time before he invaded Ukraine. I had it when I interviewed Alex Jones, who’s nowhere near as controversial as Vladimir Putin. But the meltdown was catastrophic over here.”
She argued — like many other conservative pundits have — that people should reserve judgement about the interview until it is actually released.
