Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson clashes with 2024 Republican candidates like former Vice Pres. Mike Pence at The Family Leader Summit in Iowa.
Tucker Carlson, left, and former Vice President Mike PenceFormer Fox News host Tucker Carlson clashed with 2024 Republican candidates like former Vice President Mike Pence atin Iowa on Friday, with some candidates expressing frustration that Carlson didn't focus the "fireside chats" on family issues which unite the crowd of evangelical Midwesterners, but instead, on topics like Ukraine and the 2020 election.
Carlson, who has advocated for ending aid to the war-torn country, grilled Pence on his support for defense spending in Ukraine. At one point, the former vice president was booed when he tried to explain his reasoning. "The problem is you don't accept my answer," Pence added when Carlson continued. "I just told you that I asked the religious leader in Kyiv if it was happening. You asked me if I raised the issue, and I did."The meeting between Pence and Carlson was expected to be awkward given the former Fox News host's comments about Pence's tenure as vice president.
"I was there at the Capitol, and let me assure you it was not, as some would have us believe, a matter of tourists peacefully enjoying our Capitol," Pencein March at the annual Gridiron Club dinner for journalists in Washington, before he launched his campaign for president. "Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks decency to portray it in any other way.
"This is one of the biggest issues in the country, and I think every person in this room would agree," Carlson replied, provoking applause. "It is a central issue." "There's obviously some room for disagreement, and so I think that I gained respect through that presentation -- even with a difficult interviewer," he added.
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