Commentator Tucker Carlson is opening up about why he frequently attacked former CNN journalist Chris Cuomo while he had his show on Fox News.
Carlson and Cuomo sat down for an interview after both men lost their jobs at Fox News and CNN, respectively.
But the former CNN journalist and current NewsNation host had a question.
“We can go through different stuff that I say, that you say,” Cuomo said during an interview that aired exclusively on NewsNation, adding, “Cause I still want to know why you came after me as much as you, by the way.”
Carlson responded pithily, “Cause I’m a dick, probably.”
He burst out laughing, before adding, “Cause it was easy, and I don’t like CNN. And I really mean that in my heart of hearts.”
“But why me!?” Cuomo asked.
When Carlson insisted he did not know why, Cuomo pressed, “How can you not know? It was so intentional, it was so frequent.”
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Chris Cuomo asks Tucker Carlson why he went after him so much. Laughter follows. pic.twitter.com/07NMW1zn5J
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Carlson laughed, and said, “People kept sending me videos from Instagram.”
Cuomo jokingly pointed to some off camera and said, “You! It was you!” However, he asked why the former Fox News host found the Instagram videos of him working out funny as he is an outdoors guy.
Carlson admitted he was “pissed about the Covid thing… but what I did was not a pure refutation of your positions on Covid, it was me taking the cheap shots, which I’m not always above, but you should be.”
“Did it feel good when you would come after me like that?… Cause you enjoyed it! Let me tell you, there was no shame in your game,” Cuomo added.
Carlson insisted there was a sense of “animal thrill of doing something wrong.” And Cuomo suggested he “loved it” before lamenting how hard it was to know his in-laws loved Carlson’s attacks on him.