latimes | On “Sunday Night,” Kelly came out of the gate in a much more forceful
manner than she had with Trump, and asked much harder questions. But it
was a poorly planned match in which to make an impressive launch for
her series. She has to win over a wider audience than she had at Fox,
and Putin ranks as one of the world’s toughest interview subjects, a
proven master of deception.
The interview took place in St.
Petersburg over the weekend, after Kelly had moderated the St.
Petersburg International Economic Forum, “Putin’s signature event.”
Clips
were played from the event that showed Kelly asking Putin in front of
4,000 guests about Russia’s role in the hacking of the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
Did Russia hack the U.S. election, she
asked, pointing out that U.S. intelligence agencies had found ample
evidence, “fingerprints,” that it had meddled.
“What fingerprints,
hoof prints, horn prints?,” he answered dismissively. “What are you
talking about? … It could come from your home IP address, as if your
daughter carried out the attack.”
The setup was a recipe for
failure, especially for Kelly, who was hired for $15 million to $20
million by NBC last year after leaving Fox News, the conservative news
outlet that had launched and propelled her career.
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