Former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly will be teaming up for a sit-down interview Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern time on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The former prime-time hosts both experienced widely reported exits from the news channel.
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While promoting his latest book, Killing the Witches, O’Reilly teased his interview with Carlson and likened the burning of witches and accusations of witchcraft to cancel culture.
“The witches start to get hanged and all of that. But anyone who objected then was accused of being a witch. So nobody could stand up and say this is insane to have 12-year-old girls accusing adults that they didn’t like executed,” he said on WMAL radio on Wednesday.
“Now, it’s the same thing. The corporations that run the media are so afraid of the cancel culture and the accusation that they don’t protect their people,” O’Reilly explained.
The former Fox News host added, “I’ll give your audience a little newsbreak here: Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, Tucker Carlson is going to drop an interview with me.”
O’Reilly said the interview would compete with the second Republican presidential debate.
“He and I talked about this whole witch culture and the attacks that you can’t stand up against,” he said.
The former television personality said he taped the interview “two nights ago in Manhattan” with Carlson.
Carlson and O’Reilly’s interview will be one more programming item to add to the busy night of must-see 2024 news.
Republican presidential candidates are preparing to face off Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the second primary debate. It will air on Fox Business and Univision at 9 p.m. Eastern time. The seven candidates participating in the debate are Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND).
Also on Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump will skip the debate and deliver a prime-time speech to union members in Detroit.
Carlson’s Tucker Carlson Tonight took over O’Reilly’s prime-time spot on Fox News after O’Reilly left in 2017 following sexual harassment allegations.
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O’Reilly reacted to Carlson’s surprise departure from the channel earlier this year.
“There’s nothing good about this! Nothing!” O’Reilly said.
