Over the weekend, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said he’ll “lie” when “cornered,” but said he makes an effort not to do so on his primetime program.

“I mean, I lie if I’m really cornered or something. I lie. I really try not to. I try never to lie on TV. I just don’t… I don’t like lying. I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever,” the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host told Dave Rubin on Sunday’s “The Rubin Report.”

In the segment, first flagged by activist and watchdog group Media Matters for America, Carlson and Rubin were discussing hosts on other networks, who, they said, “lie” often.

“To systematically lie like that without asking yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’ So, if these people ask themselves, ‘Why am I doing this?’ And they say, ‘Well, I want to protect the system because I really believe in the system,...