‘You Called Yourself a Knucklehead’: Fox’s Shannon Bream Confronts Tim Walz With List of Past Misstatements in Rare Showdown

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream pressed Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on various misstatements he’s made — in the VP hopeful’s first one-on-one interview since the DNC.

In an exclusive interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream confronted the Minnesota governor on what many believed to be his worst moment during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate — a rambling response during which he folksily referred to himself as “a knucklehead” when asked if he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989. Walz admitted he “misspoke” after CNN reporting uncovered he had’t traveled to Asia until later in the year.

Bream quizzed the VP contender on that and other past claims.

“I want to give you a chance — because you called yourself a knucklehead this week — to talk about some of your misstatements,” Bream said. “You’ve modified your story or explained that you misspoke about things involving your military rank, about carrying a weapon in war, your 1995 DUI arrest, using IVF to have your beautiful children, Gus and Hope, being in Hong Kong and China in the summer of 1989 during the Tiananmen events. A lot of people would say they couldn’t get away with saying, ‘I’m just too passionate. My grammar is not right. I’m a knucklehead.’ What do you say to the American people who think, ‘I don’t know that I can trust this guy with all those modifications to be the potential commander in chief of this country?'”

Here is the governor’s full reply:

“I think they heard me the other night speaking passionately about gun violence and misspeaking. And I got to be honest with you, Shannon, I don’t think people care whether I used IUI or IVF when we talk about this. What they understand is Donald Trump would resist those things.

“Look, I speak passionately. I had an entire career decades before I was in public office. They know and I’m very proud of my 24 years in service, and my record. I have never disparaged someone else in this, but I know that’s not what Donald Trump does. They disparage everyone, did personal attacks.

I will own up when I misspeak. I will own up when I make a mistake. Let’s be very clear: On that debate stage The other night, I asked one very simple question, and Senator [JD] Vance would not acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. I think they’re probably far more concerned with that than my wife and I [using] IUI to have our child, and that Donald Trump would restrict that.

So I think folks know who I am. My constituents here in Minnesota have elected me eight times. They know where I’m at and I’m proud to be on the ticket and will deliver, just like we have here in Minnesota.”

After that, Bream wrapped the largely cordial 15-minute interview by thanking Walz for both his military service and his time as a teacher.

Watch above, via Fox.