Shows across the cable news channel, including ones with news hosts like BRET BAIER and NEIL CAVUTO, have been trying to book Fauci for months but he’s been turning them down, according to an official familiar with bookings at Fox News…

Fauci likely has limited effectiveness with Fox News’ audience anyway, in part because of Fox News’ steady drumbeat of critical coverage of mask mandates, lockdowns, and other measures to stop Covid’s spread. And it’s one of the reasons Fauci, who for decades has served as one of the nation’s most reliable voices on public health, has emerged as a partisan lightning rod over the 18-plus months of the pandemic…

“Would you go on a show that compared you to a Nazi war criminal? Do you really think that’s an opportunity to get a fair hearing?” said ERIC SCHULTZ, an adviser to BARACK OBAMA and former White House deputy press secretary. “I don’t think we should blame Fauci for not appearing on the network that has undermined his credibility every step of the way.”