This is the Tom Hartman program.

Vladimir Putin complains Tucker Carlson gave him softball questions.

Our crazy alert for the day.

This is nuts. Tucker goes over to Moscow and bows down and

you know polishes Putin's shoes with his tongue and now Putin is criticizing him for it.

Oh man.

He told Putin had a subsequent interview.

This was yesterday with

Pavel Zarubin, who is a Russian interviewer, you know,

somebody on Russian television. And Putin says,

I honestly thought he would be aggressive and ask so-called sharp questions and I just wasn't

ready for that.

I wanted because I would have given me opportunity to respond sharply in kind.

But he chose a different tactic, says Putin.

He goes on to say, he tried to interrupt me several times, but still surprisingly for a Western

journalist, he turned out to be patient and listen to my lengthy dialogues, especially those, that would be monologues actually,

especially those related to history and didn't give me a reason to do what I was ready for.

So frankly, I didn't get complete satisfaction from this interview.

Aw, you didn't have a happy ending.

I don't know, maybe they're...

I'm not even going to extend that one okay

Trump's extreme anti-environment blueprint amazing we're getting a fairly clear

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