Megyn Kelly to Tapper: ‘Your Network at Every Turn Was Telling Us Those Were “Cheap Fakes,” and You Were Not Combating that Narrative’

Kelly: “Because when we got to leading up to the debate, which you anchored, that June 27th debate 2024, there was a ton of news leading into that debate in that month. And —”
TAPPER: “Mm-hmm.”
Kelly: “— we looked back at your coverage and found that you ignored it. Not only did you ignore the Jackie Walorski moment when you had him 13 days later, but you ignored the freeze up that he had at the Juneteenth celebration. You ignored what happened to the G-7 when he wandered off and Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, had to go find him. You ignored the freeze up —”
TAPPER: “Megyn —”
Kelly: “— at the George Clooney L.A. fundraiser. You didn’t cover it. You only covered it after the debate, after George Clooney wrote his op-ed. Jake, nobody made you do that. There was — your network at every turn was telling us those were, quote, ‘cheap fakes.’ And you were not combating that narrative. You were — CNN was actively misleading us on what our very eyes were showing us. That’s the truth. That’s the record.”
TAPPER: “I will acknowledge that after I was named moderator, co-moderator of the debate, I tried to make sure that my coverage was fairly vanilla, both about Trump and about Biden, because I just wanted to get to the debate. And, you know, the Biden people and the Trump people, I’m kind of, frankly, surprised that either one of them agreed to have me as a moderator because both sides disliked me so much. But, yeah, I remember that moment. And I remember that moment, the glitch at the immigration event, and not getting much attention outside of conservative media at all. And Alex and I are here to say that conservative media was right and conservative media was correct, and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently, 100 percent. So, I mean, I’m not here to defend coverage that I’ve already acknowledged. I wish I could do differently.”
Kelly: “Mm-hmm.”