"Ye claimed that he’d rather his kids learn about Hanukkah than Kwanzaa since 'at least it would come with some financial engineering.'"

"His assertion that 'professional actors' had been 'placed into my house to sexualize my kids.' He said he trusted Latinos more than 'certain other businessmen' — a vague descriptor he used to 'be safe.' Ye also told Carlson that he had 'visions that God gives me, just over and over, on community building and how to build these free energy, kinetic, fully kinetic energy communities.' Both in the snippets Vice obtained and what made it on the air, Carlson mostly nodded along with Ye’s commentary. There is no obvious effort to question Ye’s assertions or to express uncertainty about moving forward with the interview at all. What emerges from the fuller context provided by the Vice segments, really, is that Carlson wasn’t really interested in interviewing Ye or presenting his views to his audience. Instead, it’s that Carlson wanted to present a very specific version of Ye to his viewers, a Ye that mirrored Carlson’s rhetoric on race and politics and didn’t go much further...."

From "The Kanye West Tucker Carlson didn’t want his audience to see" by Philip Bump (WaPo). 

Fox News showed an edited version of the interview, and Vox has made some unused material available.

Bump makes assumptions about Carlson: he "wasn’t really interested in interviewing Ye" and "wanted to present a very specific version of Ye." Bump wants to present a very specific version of Carlson. 

I wonder how much control Carlson had over the interview. Would West have put up with an interview if Carlson had pressed him with questions probing into the accuracy and cogency of his various statements? It seems that a news commentary show ought to have that kind of questioning, so I'd like to hold everyone to that higher standard, not just Carlson. 

Attempting to read the Vox article, the one with all the outtakes, I could see that there had to be editing to fit into Carlson's constrained TV time. And West babbles wearingly, going on about his children and various conspiracies. There are references that a TV viewer would find impenetrable. For example, West said:

"When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are. This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief.”

Vox put some effort into explaining that:

Ye was also referring to the claim, unsupported by historical evidence, that Black people are the “real” Jewish race, which is often used to promote antisemitism. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has a broader explanation of this particular tangled claim, which is often, but not always, associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites, a movement that originated in the 19th century; some Black Hebrew Israelite sects believe that non-Black Jews are impostors or usurpers of “true” Jewish identity.)

Fox News should just make the unedited video available on line (or did it agree to let West or his people edit out what they chose?). Let us judge for ourselves, and let's get more fact-checking and explanation than Vox's cursory "often used to promote antisemitism" and reliance on the SPLC.

It would be easy to brush West aside as mentally ill or to think of him as a person with an artist mind and to value his words as enigmatic poetry of some sort. But he's choosing to engage politically, he's going in at an emotional level, using race and religion, and he's taking advantage of the existence of millions of conservatives who have long been underserved by the glamorous pop stars of America.