Peev is known for an interview for The Scotsman of Samantha Power, a foreign policy advisor to U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Peev told MSNBC "I don't know what the convention is in American journalism, but in Britain here we have very firm rules about the fact that generally, you establish whether a conversation or interview is on or off the record before it actually happens.
The host, Tucker Carlson, asked Peev why she didn't agree to Power's request to strike the unguarded remark off the record.
Peev then stated that, "If she makes a comment and decides that it's too controversial and wants to withdraw it immediately after, unfortunately if the interview is on the record, it has to go ahead.
"[5][6] In an unrelated problem, Nassim Taleb claims [7] that in an article written on August 20, 2009, Peev reversed his position on global warming by portraying him as an anti-ecologist.