Leaked Footage Shows Tucker Carlson Having Meltdown While Interviewing Historian

According to The Washington Post, he has spent the last two years branding himself as an anti-elite thinker who has spent enough time with the upper crust to see their hypocrisy up close.

Bregman has recently made headlines for his appearance on at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland.

There, he mentioned feeling bewildered at the concept of people flying 1,500 private jets to hear Sir David Attenborough speak about how emissions affect climate change, but he noticed an even larger issue.

As he put it, "I hear people talking the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency. But then almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance. And of the rich just not paying their fair share. It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to speak about water."

If this tweet from Bregman didn't make that clear enough, Fox News executive Justin Wells said the historian, "turned an opportunity to have a substantive, informative discussion into an obviously calculated personal insult campaign. We were disappointed in the segment and respect our audience’s time too much to consider airing it."

The interview starts off friendly enough with Carlson praising Bregman for being the only person either man were aware of to tackle the issues that the World Economic Forum failed to address, as well as their failure to address them, right to their faces.

As he said, "If I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to you."

Carlson liked that Bregman talked about the hypocrisy of flying private jets to a climate change discussion, and the idea of taking people to task for avoiding taxes, but was made uncomfortable when Bregman said that most Americans are in favor of high taxes on the rich.

This was doubly true when he stated that both those at Davos and Fox News don't support this "mainstream" idea because they were both "bought by billionaires."

He went on to say that Carlson's image of standing up for the little guy wasn't convincing and that the Murdoch family and the Koch Brothers have paid him to "scapegoat immigrants instead of talking about tax avoidance."

Carlson then claimed that Bregman wouldn't have seen enough Fox News programming to determine that, to which he replied that he had done his homework.

At least, that's the only impression that we can get from the response, "Why don't you go f*** yourself, you tiny brain and I hope this gets picked up because you're a moron. I tried to give you a hearing, but you were too f****** annoying."

Since the interview didn't take place at a Fox News studio, it wasn't as difficult to obtain a recording of the interview from the Amsterdam studio where Bregman sat in for it.

And so, you can now see the whole exchange for yourself in the full video.