washington former fox news star tucker carlson surfaced publicly on wednesday for the first time since abruptly leaving the network this week releasing a videotaped statement in which he criticized the state of public discourse on us televisioncarlson in the videotaped statement did not directly address his departure from fox where he hosted the highestrated cable news program in the key age demographic on the mostwatched us cable news networkinstead he took aim at american media and the us political systemboth political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it carlson saidsuddenly the united states looks very much like a oneparty state thats a depressing realization but its not permanent he saidwhere can you still find americans saying true things carlson asked there arent many places left but there are somedespite signing off the roughly twominute clip with the words see you soon carlson did not give any hints of his next movecarlson and fox parted ways less than a week after parent company fox corp settled for 7875 million a defamation lawsuit in which carlson played a starring rolethe new york times reported on wednesday that a tipping point for fox executives may have been private messages containing what the paper called highly offensive and crude remarks by carlson the wall street journal reported that carlson called a senior executive the cworddominion voting systems said in its lawsuit that carlson allowed debunked electionfraud claims about the votingtechnology firm to air on his show while casting doubts on the plausibility of those claims in some of the private messagescarlson is also key to additional legal battles facing fox including a lawsuit filed by his former head of booking abby grossberg who said fox coerced her testimony in the dominion casegrossberg last month accused network lawyers of pressuring her to provide misleading testimony and said fox exposed her and others to rampant sexism and misogyny fox fired grossberg saying her legal claims were riddled with false allegations against fox and our employees