Veteran anchor Chris Wallace left Fox News after 18 years for CNN, dealing a significant blow to Fox’s news operation when the network’s opinion side has overshadowed it. Wallace delivered the surprising news that he was leaving at the end of the “Fox News Sunday” show he moderates, and within two hours, CNN announced he was joining its new streaming service as an anchor.
“It is the last time, and I say this with real sadness, we will meet like this,” Wallace, who is 74, said on his show, which airs on the Fox network and is later rerun on Fox News Channel. “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.”
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Wallace was a veteran broadcast network newsman, working at both ABC and NBC News before the late Roger Ailes lured him to Fox with the promise of his own Sunday show. Methodical and never showy — in contrast to his father Mike, the legendary “60 Minutes” reporter — Chris Wallace was known for his willingness to ask hard questions of all guests, no matter their politics.
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He was the first Fox News personality to moderate a presidential debate in 2016 and 2020. Last year, the debate he moderated went off the rails when then-President Donald Trump repeatedly interrupted Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
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Chris Wallace’s departure from Fox News was the topic of discussion as co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked what would become of the cable news network without Wallace. Behar interjected, “You mean QAnon News.” She laughingly went on, “Just call it Trump News.”
Sunny Hostin then added her suggestion. “Does it become the Tucker Carlson Fake News Network?” she questioned.
After Wallace’s departure, the co-hosts questioned where Fox viewers would get "straight news?" Behar went as far as to suggest that Fox Corp's Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are complicit in destroying America.
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Chris Wallace left Fox News Sunday and will join CNN, expected to debut in early 2022. "I want to try something new, to go beyond politics, to all the things I'm interested in," Wallace expressed. "I'm ready for a new adventure, and I hope you'll check it out."
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QAnon is a right-wing online movement that originated on 4chan message boards in October 2017. The posts are by an anonymous person going by “Q” who claims to be a government official with top-secret intelligence clearance. The user made a variety of generally evidence-free "bread crumb" claims about Trump covertly battling a series of "deep state" plots and global conspiracies. They also alleged a ring of sex traffickers that included Democratic politicians, business leaders, and Hollywood elites.
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