Peter John Lavelle (born February 28, 1961) is an American journalist and host of CrossTalk, a political talk show on the English-language TV channel RT, which is controlled by the Russian state.

[3] The New York Times has reported that Lavelle was previously a stringer for United Press International’s Moscow bureau and has contributed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

"I am proud of my work", he told Julia Ioffe writing for Columbia Journalism Review in 2010 also commenting that he avoids western colleagues based in Moscow.

[7] In 2012, regarding Julian Assange's World Tomorrow interview program for RT, Lavelle told the Christian Science Monitor that "we liked a lot of the WikiLeaks revelations.

[1][9] Lavelle accused the U.S. State Department of relying on Twitter and YouTube for evidence, while Cuomo insisted the US had depended on its own released intelligence for its assertions.