Tucker Carlson and a contributing editor for the progressive magazine The Nation agreed on the media reaction to President Donald Trump‘s meeting with his Russian Counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Seriously.

During an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen concurred with the Fox News host that condemnation of Trump from the media, Democrats, and even many conservatives, was over-the-top.

“The reaction by most of the media, by the Democrats, by the anti-Trump people, is like mob violence,” Cohen said. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”

Cohen argued that every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower has met with the head of Russia “for one existential purpose — to avoid war between the two nuclear superpowers.” As such, he believes Trump was right to take the meeting with Putin.

“I want my president — I didn’t vote for this president — but I want my president to do what every other president has done. Sit with the head of the other nuclear superpower, and walk back the conflict that could lead to war.”

Cohen’s defense of Trump was particularly notable on a day in which a journalist from The Nation was forcibly removed from the press conference with Trump and Putin.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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