The Fox host finally addressed the issue Monday, in response to the comments by President Biden that the network has a vaccine mandate.

“As a factual matter, what Joe Biden just said is completely untrue. It is a lie, period,” he said. “We can say that with authority since we work here.”

He said Fox News “defends this country’s most basic civil liberties”:

To cynical authoritarians like Joe Biden and the ghouls around him, like Susan Rice, that just can’t be genuine. They assume the people you see on Fox News must be pretending, pretending for money or prestige or ratings or something else. But they are wrong. We are not pretending at all. It’s real.