CNN anchor John King blasted Fox News’s morning show as “state TV” on Friday as he accused Fox’s Ainsley Earhardt of throwing President Trump softball questions in a new interview. 
 
King made the comment after airing a clip of the interview from “Fox and Friends” where Trump explained his recent declaration that he had no tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. Trump implied on Twitter weeks ago that he could have recorded Comey. 
 
As Trump answered, Earhardt added that she believed Trump’s tactic was a “smart way to make sure [Comey] stayed honest in his hearings.”
 
“Let’s set aside the tough, probing questions on state TV there,” King said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” to chuckles from the panel.