Veteran newsman Chris Wallace took a swipe at his former Fox News colleague, Tucker Carlson, while also saying he doesn’t have a problem with Fox paying $787.5 million to settle the defamation lawsuit from voting software company Dominion regarding election lies spread on its airwaves.
Wallace, now a CNN host after having left Fox in late 2021, appeared for the first time Tuesday on MSNBC’s The Beat, where anchor Ari Melber reread Carlson’s opinions about his then-colleague—text messages that were revealed as part of that lawsuit.
Carlson’s anger at Wallace stemmed not only from Wallace’s moderation of the first 2020 presidential debate, but his refusal to be a mere sounding board for Trump’s election lies.
