Hegedűs István interjút adott a Hír TV-nek 2017. szeptember 6-án a magyar kormány által elvesztett úgynevezett kvótaperről.
István Hegedűs gave an interview to Hír TV about the trial on the so-called refugee quotas that was lost by the Hungarian government on 6 September 2017.
On 14 November 2014, in Hír TV, István Hegedűs reacted to an interview by Udo Ulfkotte which was broadcast two days before. According to his own words, the former journalist of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung became an agent of the secret services during his study tour to the United States in 1993 as a fellow of the German Marshall Fund.