Tag Archives: Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace: Trump Faces Effective “Life Sentence”

The Hill reports: CNN anchor Chris Wallace said if former President Trump is convicted on any of the charges against him in federal court stemming from his handling of classified documents, he could die in prison. “Well, look, you’d have to be crazy not to be worried,” Wallace said about how Trump might be feeling. “It’s, almost everyone, Republican and …

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Wallace: Trump Is Inciting Another “Violent Protest”

Mediate reports:  CNN anchor Chris Wallace warned that Trump supporters will hear a “call to arms” in former President Donald Trump‘s recent comments about the prospect he’ll be indicted. Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he couldn’t “imagine” he’ll be criminally indicted, but made a rather ominous prediction if that were to happen. “He didn’t say it explicitly, but …

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Ex-Fox Anchor Chris Wallace To Host New CNN Show

Axios reports: Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s new parent company, plans to announce during its upfront presentation to advertisers on Wednesday that Chris Wallace will host a Sunday evening show on CNN. The longtime Fox News host had recently moved to CNN to launch a show on its now-defunct streaming service, CNN+. Wallace, who was hosting an interview show four days …

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Chris Wallace: The Cultist Lying Drove Me Out Of Fox

The New York Times reports: “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.” He confirmed reports that he was so alarmed by Mr. …

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Breitbart Thrilled At “Left-Wing” Wallace Leaving Fox

From Breitbart columnist John Nolte: On Sunday, Christ Wallace announced he was going to work for CNN. Oops, I mean CNN+, which will be CNN’s soon-to-be-failed streaming service. Well, let’s first point out Chris Wallace has always been working for CNN. So with this humiliating career demotion, all he’s doing now is making it official. Week after week after year …

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Fox Issues Chilly Statement On Wallace’s Departure

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News has released a frigid statement on veteran Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace’s departure for CNN’s new streaming platform, CNN+. Wallace, 74, said he was “ready for a new adventure” at the end of his regular broadcast Sunday. The network’s statement on Wallace’s departure read, in full: “We are extremely proud of our journalism …

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Chris Wallace To Join CNN’s Coming Streaming Service

Mediaite reports: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace is headed to CNN+, in a seismic industry shakeup. Variety first reported the news that Wallace may be joining the yet-to-launch streaming platform from CNN, in what amounts to a major coup for the nascent subscription service. Mediaite has confirmed the news through an industry source. Wallace ended his 18-year tenure as host …

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Longtime Fox Anchor Chris Wallace Leaves Network

“After 18 years — this is my final Fox News Sunday. It is the last time — and I say this with real sadness — we will meet like this. “Eighteen years ago, the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a guest I booked or a question I asked. And they kept that promise. “I …

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Fauci To Chris Wallace: My Critics Are “Denying Reality”

The Washington Post reports: Anthony S. Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said Sunday that his critics “deny reality that’s looking them straight in the eye” as they traffic in conspiracy theories and spread misinformation about masks and vaccines. Fauci, asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace why he thought he had become “so controversial,” said he has …

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Fox Anchor Confronts NE Gov Over Opposing Biden’s Vax Mandate: Your Schools Already Require 9 Vaccines

Newsweek reports: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts over the latter’s opposition to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates—questioning the Republican about why he views the commander-in-chief’s orders differently than requirements for students in Nebraska to receive a number of vaccinations before enrolling in school. Ricketts was one of a number of GOP governors to condemn …

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Fox Host: I Keep GOP Election Deniers Off My Show “Because I Don’t, Frankly, Want To Hear Their Crap”

“There are plenty of people who were the leaders in the Congress of challenging [the election] that I just have not had on the show ever since then, and have purposefully not had on the show, because I don’t frankly wanna hear their crap. “But having said that, there are some leaders that you have to ask them questions. There …

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Fox Anchor Chris Wallace Grills Pompeo On Afghanistan: Do You Regret Giving The Taliban Legitimacy? [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: Wallace pointed out that a number of critics have said that Trump cutting a deal with the Taliban without the Afghan government even being involved was “hugely demoralizing” and led to the current chaos. (Notably, just weeks before the 2020 election, the Taliban endorsed Trump for president in the hopes he would “wind up U.S. military …

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Chris Wallace: The GOP Is More Outraged About Liz Cheney Than They Are About Their Loony QAnon Rep

Mediaite reports: There’s a lot of scrutiny on whether the GOP will do anything in response to recent reporting on staggering, insane conspiracy theories pushed for years, including incendiary comments about school shootings and posts about executing Democratic leaders. Kevin McCarthy is apparently going to be talking to Greene this week, but as Wallace observed, “You’ve got a situation right …

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Wallace: Best Inauguration Speech I’ve Ever Heard

The Daily Beast reports: Following Biden’s powerful address in which he declared “democracy has prevailed” and called upon Americans to “end this uncivil war,” the 73-year-old Wallace turned to his Fox colleagues and likened it to all the other presidential speeches he’s witnessed over the years, including that of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. “I thought this was the …

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Wallace Corrects Azar: “He’s The President-Elect, Sir”

Roll Call reports: “If President Trump had worn a mask then and urged everyone to wear a mask then back in April the way Joe Biden is right now, wouldn’t we be in much better shape?” Wallace asked. “Well, Chris, I welcome Vice President Biden to the club. Since the middle of April…” Azar started to say. Wallace interjected to …

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Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace: Republicans Will Now “Pull Back” From Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warned Saturday that it would become “increasingly untenable” for President Trump to pursue legal challenges in states after Joe Biden was projected the winner of the presidential race. “I think it’s going to be increasingly untenable because I think you’re going to start to see a lot of the Republican leaders, who …

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Wallace: Trump Family Refused Masks At Debate

“Mrs. Trump came in wearing a mask but took it off once she sat down. I didn’t see when they came in, but all the other members of the first family that I saw there, including Ivanka, Tiffany, when they sat down, they weren’t wearing masks. “I’m told by the pool of reporters who was there that somebody from the …

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Debate Commission Promises Changes After Debacle

The Washington Post reports: After a chaotic and nearly unwatchable first presidential debate that devolved into interruptions and insults, mostly by Trump, the Commission on Presidential Debates said it would look into changing the format of the remaining debates. The televised debates are supposed to be “for the benefit of the American electorate,” the commission said in a statement Wednesday, …

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Trump Bullies And Lies In Chaotic Debate, Moderator Chris Wallace Unable To Stop His Endless Interruptions

CNN’s Stephen Collinson writes: It was easily the worst and most rancorous presidential debate in history. But it still left the country with its starkest election choice in many generations. Americans will need to decide if they want four more years of the fury, insults, chaos and self-absorption served up to millions of viewers by Donald Trump. If they will …

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Debate Commission: Moderators Won’t Do Fact-Checks

Axios reports: Presidential Debate Commission co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. said Sunday he doesn’t expect Fox News anchor Chris Wallace or any of the other moderators to fact-check President Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden at the debates. “There’s a vast difference between being a moderator in a debate and being a reporter who is interviewing someone.” Fahrenkopf Jr. said …

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