Bret Baier Confirms ‘Concerns’ Over Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Documentary

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Fox News host Bret Baier confirmed that he shared some “concern” about Tucker Carlson’s documentary on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Hill reports:

“I didn’t get hurt by it. I didn’t get damaged by it. Were you bothered by it? Because that’s the reporting,” Brian Kilmeade, who is a co-host of the “Fox & Friends” morning program, asked Baier on Monday afternoon during an appearance on Kilmeade’s radio show.

“There’s a … Brian, I don’t want to go down this road,” Baier responded. “You know, I mean, there were concerns about it definitely … I think that the news division did what we do, we do when we covered the story.”

Kilmeade was apparently referring to reporting from NPR this week that Baier and Chris Wallace, the anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” shared their objections to Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” documentary series with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and the company’s president of news, Jay Wallace. NPR reported that the complaints from Baier and Wallace rose to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network’s parent company, Fox Corp.

Ultimately, Carlson’s documentary led to two Fox News contributors to resign from their positions at the network.

“Indeed, the news side of Fox routinely does what it is supposed to do: It reports the truth,” Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg wrote in an announcement of their decision, noting it remains the case that “there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis” at the network.

The pair called Carlson’s choice to produce the documentary “irresponsible.”



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