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Tucker is a master framer. Look at what he does here. He sets the frame around murder and forces Altman to respond. That's easy. However, when Altman attempts to move the frame by effectively saying "I trust the cops" Tucker pulls it right back by listing evidence and then says "I don't know how they see all this and call it a suicide. It makes me question how effective our systems are at dealing with serious issues"

He also brings up the mans mom, and gets Altman to establish that he cared about this man. Altman realizes this and says "I mean I didn't know him well but I knew him for a long time" or something to that effect. Tucker then builds an argument that gets the AUDIENCE to ask themselves "OK, if he liked this guy so much, why is HE not pushing for the truth?"

He then puts Altman in a corner by saying "I just think that any reasonable person who looks at this would clearly see this was a murder". This now centers you, the viewer as a "reasonable person" just like Tucker, and pushes Altman into the "Unreasonable" category. This forces Altman to try and join the center by saying he thought it was suspicious. But because of the groundwork laid out by Tucker he can't stay here as it opens Altman up to more questions about what he's going to do to "honor his dead friend". Tucker asks him "so what changed your mind?" This is such a fatal question that Altman has no way out of as we see. He buffers for a moment, stumbles out an answer, tries to put that back on Tucker, who has no reason to deviate from his plan.

That's when the interview basically ends.

Tucker is like a machine in this setting. He is so good at framing and reframing conversations, and he is so good at talking directly to the audience without it sounding like he's talking directly to the audience. He effectively is the audience at some point.