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CNN’s Amanpour Slams Tucker Carlson’s Interview With Putin

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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour criticized Tucker Carlson’s upcoming interview with Vladimir Putin, highlighting Carlson’s past support for Putin and inaccurate claims about the lack of Western journalists interviewing Putin.

Amanpour emphasized that Carlson’s interview is friendly towards the Kremlin and expressed her commitment to practicing journalism.

“I think that Tucker Carlson, as you know, has said over the years, many, many things that are very supportive of Vladimir Putin, even after the annexation of Crimea, suggested the Putin was never a threat to the United States or to US interests, has called Zelenskyy, you know, an authoritarian and a dictator, worse than — you know, is as bad as Lenin, et cetera,” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said.

“So, you know, this stuff just doesn’t hold up. Why he’s doing this interview now, obviously for the Kremlin, it makes sense if they want to talk.”

“It’s a friendly — it’s a friendly voice, but we will keep trying our best to actually commit journalism,” Amanpour said.

“Cristiane, moving to Russia and Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson has now interviewed Vladimir Putin. He made an inaccurate claim that no other Western journalist has bothered to try to interview Vladimir Putin. What do people need to know ahead of this interview being released?” Poppy Harlow asked.

“Well, you know, of course, that is so ridiculous that even Vladimir Putin’s press spokesman –” Amanpour said.

“Right,” Harlow said.

“Dmitry Peskov, a very powerful man in the Kremlin, close associate of Putin said that that wasn’t true, because he knows that all of us have been, you know, knocking down his door to try to get such an interview. But he said, well, maybe, maybe Carlson didn’t know that,” Amanpour said.

“You know, that’s the sort of nonsense that Carlson is trying to justify this interview. But let me just read for you what some — you know, what some Russian journalists have said, if I can find that, in fact, I will look for it. Basically, somebody like Yevgenia Albats, who is a prominent journalist, has been very angry at this notion that only Carlson can interview Putin.”

“She said, ‘Unbelievable. I’m like hundreds of Russian journalists who’ve had to go into exile to keep reporting about the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine. The alternative was to go to jail.’ And then she adds a little bit of an expletive against Tucker’s position there,” Amanpour said.

“But I think what’s really important to know is Tucker Carlson suggests that the American people, the rest of the West don’t understand Putin, don’t understand the Russian military action, the war, the invasion. Well, again, that’s clearly untrue, because if you saw polls in the United States and around the world, even at the UN, everybody understood that this was an illegal invasion of a democratic and sovereign state and the polls were very, very much — and these are people, not journalists, for the defense of Ukraine and the values it is upholding for all of us, and that is a fact,” she said.

“Now, obviously, the longer it goes, the more difficult it is to keep up that support, particularly as you’ve just been reporting, the unbelievable shenanigans that are going on in the US Congress that simply will not send support to a country that is trying to fight not just for its values, but for all of our security.”

“So I think that Tucker Carlson, as you know, has said over the years, many, many things that are very supportive of Vladimir Putin, even after the annexation of Crimea, suggested the Putin was never a threat to the United States or to US interests, has called Zelenskyy, you know, an authoritarian and a dictator, worse than — you know, is as bad as Lenin, et cetera.”

“So, you know, this stuff just doesn’t hold up. Why he’s doing this interview now, obviously for the Kremlin, it makes sense if they want to talk. It’s a friendly — it’s a friendly voice, but we will keep trying our best to actually commit journalism.”

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