Tucker Carlson said that an advisor to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told him he would need to pay $1 million when the host asked for an interview.
Carlson made the accusation while speaking to Glenn Beck, nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media, about his much maligned interview with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.
“So, I’m over in Moscow waiting to do this interview. It gets out that we’re doing it, and I’m immediately denounced by this guy called Boris Johnson, who was for a short time the prime minister of Great Britain,” said Carlson.
“And Boris Johnson calls me a tool of the Kremlin or something. And I’m thinking, ‘His name is not actually Boris,’ as I’m sure you know. His name is Alex Johnson. He called himself Boris in high school. So, the guy who calls himself Boris is accusing me of being [a tool of the Kremlin],” he laughed.
“So, I was annoyed, and so I put in a request for an interview as I have many times because he’s constantly denouncing me as a tool of the Kremlin. He says no,” Carlson continued.
He said that he reached out to people who know Johnson in order to seek an interview.
“Finally, one of his advisors gets back to me and says, ‘He…
