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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, the Spectators Daily Politics

Podcast.

I'm Josh Rose and I'm joined by James Heel and our deputy editor Freddie Gray.

Well usually Coffey House Shots is all about the Westminster bubble, what's happening in

Westminster politics. Today one of the news

stories that lots of people are talking about in Westminster was something that

happened abroad. It was Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Freddie watched the whole recording last night.

Freddie, it was about two hours long.

What were the highs and what were the lows?

I suppose the low was the beginning, which was very, I mean it was hilarious in a way but it was also

very mind-numbing particularly for short attention-spanned internet addicts like me

because as everybody has already observed

Tucker Carlson tried to ask him a sort of straightforward question about a speech he made in which he sort of suggested that he thought Russia felt threatened by America

and Putin immediately said you know are we here for a serious interview or not?

And then said, allow me to give a 30 second or one minute, a bit of history, and then went into this bizarre meandering potted history of the

formation of Russia and poor Tucker Carson just looked a bit kind of stuck as to how to get them to stop this.

I mean a lot of interviews will now say, oh he should have been more aggressive and I mean

good luck trying that with Vladimir Putin is all I can say. So I thought the second hour was a lot more interesting.

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