Fox News host Chris Wallace shutdown Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand while she was attacking Fox News during her town hall on the network.
“Senator, I just want to say, we’ve brought you here for an hour. We are treating you very fairly,” Wallace said Sunday after the New York Democrat criticized the network for supporting conservatives in the abortion fight. “I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News, you’re going to attack us. I’m not sure, it’s frankly very polite, when we’ve invited you to be here.
“Instead of talking about Fox News, why don’t you answer” a question that’s been asked, Wallace said.
Before Wallace intervened, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate had launched into an attack of the network.
“And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this. Because it’s a problem. I can tell you before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide,” Gillibrand said before Wallace cut her off as she started a sentence saying, “Infanticide, it doesn’t exist.”
After Wallace told her to answer the question, Gillibrand said she would only criticize the network in a “polite way.”
The senator continued, saying the network was important to the debate on abortion because they talked about infanticide for 6.5 hours before the 2019 State of the Union. She said that infanticide “doesn’t happen” and is illegal and “not a fact.”
Gillibrand then started yelling about states like Alabama and Georgia which passed abortion restrictions, stating she didn’t “understand it” and that the laws undermine “every human right, civil right that we could have.”
The senator’s criticism of Fox News comes after fellow presidential contenders Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Kamala Harris said they will not appear on the network for a town hall. Warren said the network was a “hate-for-profit scam.”
Gillibrand is currently polling at 0.3% in the Democratic presidential primary race according to RealClearPolitics polling average.
