Fox News Chris Wallace

As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years.

Mr. Wallace said he hoped “to have the kind of intimate, thoughtful conversation where we forget we’re on camera in a studio.” Interviewing Ms. Collins, he chimes in with a few lyrics from her 1975 hit, “Send In the Clowns.” In early episodes, he discusses space travel with the “Star Trek” actor William Shatner, asks the former Disney boss Bob Iger about meeting the pope, and at one point sings a warbling duet with the songstress Judy Collins. A new president, Chris Licht, is taking over CNN after the network’s longtime leader, Jeff Zucker, resigned in February over an undisclosed relationship with a colleague. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.” “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. The stakes are high for CNN, which is undergoing wrenching change. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’” “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? “One of the reasons that I left Fox was because I wanted to put all of that behind me,” Mr. Wallace said, adding that since his exit, “there has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision.” But in December, Mr. Wallace, 74, issued a final verdict: He was done. — I found that unsustainable.”

Wallace said he felt good about being at Fox News all the way until November 2020 — when Donald Trump lost the election.

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