Kilmeade followed, noting how he had watched the Fox Nation series Patriot Purge, which he found to offer an” interesting perspective” about January 6th that he hadn’t seen before. “I didn’t get hurt by it. I didn’t get damaged by it. Were you bothered by it? Because that’s the reporting.”

A pregnant silence followed that very pointed question in which Baier had to address an alliance to Hayes and Goldberg, or the host of the show that follows him at 8 pm, Tucker Carlson.

“There’s a…Brian, I don’t want to go down this road,” Baier answered, perhaps with the slightest sense of annoyance towards Kilmeade.

“You know, I mean, there were concerns about it definitely,” he continued, adding, “I think that the news division did what we do we do when we covered the story.”