Megyn Kelly tells Tucker Carlson that launching his own network will ‘be great for America’ as the fired Fox News host praises Elon Musk for giving him a launchpad on X

Megyn Kelly praised her former Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson as he launched his new network Monday, months after he was abruptly fired from the right-wing cable network.

On Monday’s episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, the host told Carlson that independent journalism was the “only path” forward for him.

“This will be the best thing that ever happened to you. This will be a great thing for America,” she said, calling Fox and cable news a “dying animal” that he leaves behind.

Carlson and Kelly worked briefly at Fox before her departure in January 2017 and subsequent short stint at NBC. Carlson hosted the late-night show from 2016 to 2023 and has been a member of the network since 2009.

Since April, when Carlson was kicked off the air without explanation but following Fox’s huge $787 million payout to Dominion Voting Systems, he has been a long-running interviewer on Channel X, where each episode has drawn tens to hundreds of millions of views.

Megyn Kelly congratulated her former Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson on his new media project he announced over the weekend.

Carlson, who was unceremoniously fired from Fox in April, has been publishing independent interviews for X for months.

On Monday, Carlson clarified that despite the launch of a new subscription service that will stream “exclusive content,” “X stuff” isn’t going away, he said.

“I’m just amazed at what a great platform it is,” he added, going on to praise Elon Musk’s revamped short-form publishing platform.

“What I really noticed is how international he is. I mean, this is really the last major free speech platform in the world. There’s something very attractive about that.”

He called X an “amazing place” and said Musk “has been very good to us” but the platform is not designed to host longer videos, adding that he and his team will likely take advantage of X’s subscription feature once it’s available “debugged”.

The former top-rated Fox host said that most of the content he and his team create will still be published on X, and that if audiences are interested in “some other feature films and documentaries,” the subscription service will include them in addition to his longer form interviews.

Since becoming his own boss, Carlson has been able to interview a number of controversial figures, including misogynist Andrew Tate, conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and, most recently, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Jones told Carlson that President Joe Biden is constantly taking amphetamines and wandering around the White House wearing yellow clothing when the sun goes down.

In his official announcement of the new venture, Carlson said, “Time flies when you’re unemployed, but we’ve actually been working in secret and have been producing a lot of material for months now.”

Fans can register on its site to gain access to “exclusive content” with a “limited time offer” to “become a founding member.”

The site promises that Tucker Carlson’s new streaming platform is “just days away” from launching and encourages people to “get ahead of the crowd.”

The head of the new media venture told Kelly that the main goal of the new service is to create a “large library” of videos “right in front” of the user on the page, which is something X is not set up to do.

“We had a huge library that we used to work with (at Fox), but we completely lost it, so we want to rebuild it,” he said.

– And… you need scale. If you want to collect information, you need a lot of people working for you—there’s too much going on.

“To have staff that can provide a lot of information about what’s happening right now, especially in the next 12 months, which I think will change the world, you need to pay them and have a real company.” ‘ He said.