“I will not be the fig-leaf for these two idiots next to you”

“That palace behind you,” Salusti said, referring to the Kremlin, “…is where the worst crimes against humanity of the 20th and 21st centuries were organized. That palace is full of shit! You should have the courage to say to your hosts there that the palace behind you is a place full of shit! Because from there, communists orchestrated the worst tragedies of the last two centuries. … It makes me upset to see a journalist I respect to be called “child” and an incompetent by an idiot [Zakharova] who doesn’t know what she’s speaking about.”

Salusti proceeded to walk off the broadcast. But not before delivering a massive parting shot.

“I will not be the fig-leaf for these two idiots next to you,” he told Giletti, referring to Zakharova and Solovyov. “Thus, I decide to leave, I refuse my remuneration, and I end my participation in this farce.”