Tucker Carlson Gives First LIVE Interview Since Leaving Fox With Glenn Beck

In a wide-ranging LIVE interview behind the paywall of BlazeTV, the network's founder and lead host Glenn Beck the two conservative icons discussed everything from Carlson's departure from Fox News, the fate of his remaining team at Fox to the end times, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine.

The two spoke for an hour after 'The Summit,' an event thoroughly reported on by the DC Enquirer where Carlson, teaming up with Beck's Blaze Media conducted marathon interviews with Republican presidential candidates Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. 

Beck asked Carlson early on "When you got up this morning, did you imagine that you'd see not one but two presidential candidates light themselves on fire in front of you?"

He went on to describe in video shared by MRC Newsbusters' Kevin Tober, that though he "like(s) all of them" but the talking points of the candidates didn't avail them because "No one ever gets pushed very hard. And so it doesn't take much. I was certainly not acting out of any hostility. But if you're just like: 'Well. What do you mean?'" He then imitated a guttural confused grunt, "Uhhhhhhh," before laughing and saying "Answer the question!"

He chided the candidates, "You're mad that I'm trying to get you to be more precise about your answers that you should have memorized already because you're presuming to represent me?"

Early in the evening, Beck had commented after the Hutchinson interview: "I don't think I have seen anything burst into flames and die that fast." He himself tweeted, "Asa Hutchinson's interview with Tucker reminded me of one thing, the Hindenburg burning down in 29 seconds."

Carlson noted during the interview that after his contentious exchanges with Hutchinson and Scott "I did definitely tone it down, but oh a couple of times..."

He then explained to Beck, "The Mike Pence religious freedom stuff, I have to say... spun me up. It did. It did. You can't, can't be like 'I'm for religious freedom' except for like priests who say things the government disagrees with, they can be arrested...Huh?"

Tober noted in a tweet, "I can watch Tucker & Beck all day. They are both fantastic."

Probably the most contentious moment of the evening came at the close of Carlson's interview with former Vice President Mike Pence when he asked Pence, ""I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President. You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks? Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There's not one city that's gotten better. And it's visible. Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth, and disorder and crime have exponentionally increased and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, don't have enough tanks? I think it's a fair question to ask: Where's the concern for the United States in that?"

To which Pence replied directly: "That's not my concern."

Based on the interview between Beck and Carlson, it doesn't seem that even Tucker fully grasped the significance of the moment, given that he noted his disagreement with Pence on religious freedom more readily.

The interview appeared to suffer a technical difficulty and the live feed cut abruptly. Should additional footage become available DC Enquirer will provide an update.

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