Former Fox News host Chris Wallace said he could go longer remain at the network after people started questioning the truth about the election and the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” Wallace told The New York Times. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion … But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
Wallace told The Times that Fox News, a longtime conservative news network, has changed in how it covers the news in recent years.
“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace said. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”
“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he added. “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’ ”
Wallace announced he was leaving Fox News in December after several decades of anchoring “Fox News Sunday.” Shortly after his announcement, CNN revealed he would be joining its new streaming service, CNN+, which launches this week.
Wallace’s new show “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” begins on Tuesday.
