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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Tucker Carlson confirms Russia trip and teases Putin interview

Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson composite
Tucker Carlson, right, claimed ‘western governments’ would seek to censor his interview with Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikovagiorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

The far-right pundit and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed on Tuesday he was in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin, and said he would air his conversation with Russia’s president to counter what he described as pro-Ukraine “fawning pep sessions” by western media covering the war.

Speculation had been growing for days that Carlson, who was dumped by Fox last year for “getting too big for his boots”, had traveled to the Russian capital to meet Putin, whose reasons for invading Ukraine he says have a right to be heard by the American public.

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