Tucker Carlson Claims Lawyers Warned Biden Administration Would Arrest Him If He Gave Putin Softball Interview

Carlson: “My lawyers before I left, and these are people who work for a big law firm, this is not Bob’s Law Firm, this is one of the biggest law firms in the world, said you’re going to get arrested if you do this, by the U.S. government on sanctions violations. And I said, well — you know, I don’t recognize the legitimacy of that actually, because I’m American and I’ve lived here my whole life, and that’s so outrageous that I’m happy to face that risk, because I so reject the premise. Okay, I’m an American, I should be able to talk to anyone I want to, and I plan to exercise that freedom, which I think I was born with. And I gave him this long lecture, they were like, ‘we’re just lawyers!’ But that was — let me put it this way. I don’t know how much you’ve dealt with lawyers, but it costs many thousands of dollars to get a conclusion like that. Like, they sent a whole bunch of their associates or whatever. They sent, they put a lot of people on this question, checked a lot of precedent, and I think, and they sent me a 10-page memo on it and their sincere conclusion was, do not do this. And of course, it made me mad. So, I was lecturing on the phone and I had another call with the head lawyer, and he said, look, a lot will depend on the questions that you ask Putin. If you’re seen as too nice to him, you could get arrested when you come back. And I was like, you’re describing a fascist country, okay? You’re saying that the U.S. government will arrest me if I don’t ask the questions they want asked?”