Below is the full interview of RT host Rick Sanchez with Tucker Carlson. Mr. Sanchez destroys a lot of negative stereotypes about Russia as well as exposes the truth that the media in Moscow gave him full journalistic freedom, where as back home in the land of the free editors and handlers eternally strangled his creativity and ability to spread the truth as he sees it.

Here are some interesting moments from the interview to note:

00:11 – On how Larry King advised Sanchez to consider a job offer at RT.

02:52 – On journalistic freedom at RT: “I picked my own staff. I completely wrote all the scripts. I picked my own topics.”

03:19 – How CNN, NBC and Fox kept people the White House didn’t want out of interviews.

13:10 – Carlson said that if RT is banned in the US, the problem is not the channel and its agenda, but the states themselves.

14:14 – Carlson: banning RT from broadcasting in the US is a violation of the Constitution.

19:00 – Sanchez reveals that the State Department was monitoring him.

22:08 – On how the US could fine or jail anyone who worked for RT in one way or another in the US.

28:18 – Carlson says he doesn’t want to live in a country that disadvantages athletes because of a Slavic last name.

27:01 – Sanchez: “Russians in general are incredibly businesslike, pragmatic and yet very honest.”

32:13 – On Ukraine, NATO, and broken US promises.

53:52 – about how the US intimidated Rick Sanchez with a jail term for working for RT.