>> diners. >> there was very little evidence against carl carlson. needed cindy to get him to repeat what she complained claimed was his confession. but carl was suspicious. >> part of me feels like i'm walking into a booby trap. >> well, i can imagine you would feel that way. i had to convince him that, you know, it wasn't a trap. i offered for him to check my purse. and then she got him back to the subject of that day in 2008. >> i asked you if you push the truck and you said yes. >> i didn't push the truck, i said. no, i had nothing to do with it. but i asked and said i took advantage of the situation once it happened. >> carl, you told me, that why you didn't set it up that way, but when you are in the, you saw the opportunity. >> no, after it happened, i panicked and saw the opportunity. >> reporter: the detective was struck by that exchange. how could a father called this an opportunity? >> i understood then, this is someone who doesn't think like wheat do. >> reporter: but this exchange was no confession and the evidence so far was circumstanti

tucker carlson is extremely sympathetic to rittenhouse's case and if you watched the interview tonight he compliments him and calls him a sweet kid, those are carln's words, not mine. he is not on excusing his actions on that night but really saying that we need more people like kyle rittenhouse in society. and so it's not too surprising i guess from a public relations standpoint if you're handing out an interview to someone, you know, tucker carlson has the biggest microphone on the right. he's certainly talking to an audience very sympathetic to his case. >> a double edge sword comes with that. here is more from the interview because he's explaining what he said to police right after by the way he killed two people and injured a third. here he is. >> i said hey, i just had to shoot somebody. i just had to shoot somebody and then they say go home and i didn't know this until -- >> go home? >> yeah. the officer said to go home. i don't think he knew what happened or heard me. there was a lot of chaos going on. >> yes. >> i mean, elliott, he says his case is not about race but just looking at this objectively, police tell him to go home. i mean,