Megyn Kelly is making it very clear how she feels about Tony Dokoupil.
The former Fox News anchor ripped apart the new “CBS Evening News” anchor on the Wednesday episode of her podcast, alongside disgraced political journalist and commentator Mark Halperin.
“We have to talk about the new anchor of ‘CBS Evening News,’” Kelly said of Dokoupil, who’s faced a tough first week at his new gig, and recently made headlines for bizarrely crying during a recently released news segment.
“There’s no crying in ‘Evening News,’” Kelly said, as she provided one acceptable exception.
“There might be some crying when a president is shot and assassinated right before your very eyes, like we saw with Walter Cronkite … there was like, a wiping of the eyes when he took off the glasses to report that JFK had been shot and killed,” Kelly said, adding, “That’s as far as he went. That’s as far as most ‘Evening News’ anchors would ever have gone traditionally.”
But it’s “the dawn of a new day,” Kelly continued, as she teed up a clip of Dokoupil getting teary as he was asked why Miami is his “favorite place in the world.”
“I literally could not believe my eyes,” Kelly said, as the clip started.
“It makes me emotional,” Dokoupil said as he attempted to answer the question about Miami while continuing to wipe tears from his eyes.
“To help people understand why I have such a reaction,” the anchor said as he choked up and wiped his eyes. “Florida is where I grew up. My grandmother’s here, my father, my mother, my aunts and uncles, cousins, and it’s where I would have spent all of my childhood, but we left. It was because of my father.”
Dokoupil added, “He got into some trouble with business. Like we laugh about it now, but he was a drug dealer. But the reason it’s so emotional for me is because I feel like I was robbed of the full Miami experience. So when I come back, I’m always like…” He then chokes up and gets emotional again.
“Oh, my God,” Kelly said as she raised her hands to her head. “I thought for sure that story was going to end in ‘And they were all killed in a house fire, I was the sole survivor,’ in which case I would’ve excused the multiple tears that preceded it.”
She continued, “Turns out the dad had some problems. I’m sorry to hear it. The sobbing, the repeated ― the voice quivering, the inability to recover, what is that?!”
Halperin said of the pre-taped segment, “Look, it’s the fact that they [CBS] put it out. I don’t begrudge anyone crying over their family. I cry when I talk about my family sometimes. But I wouldn’t put it out.”
Watch the full clip below:
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