Fox host hits back at MAGA loyalists

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00:00Fox host hits back at MAGA loyalists.

00:03Fox News anchor.

00:05Brett Beyer defended the network after MAGA supporters criticized its protest of the Pentagon's

00:10new press rules.

00:11Several news outlets are protesting the Pentagon's new press policy.

00:15Several news outlets, including Fox, are protesting a policy announced by Secretary of Defense

00:19Pete Hegseth, which the Pentagon Press Association called an unprecedented message of intimidation.

00:26The policy requires journalists to seek authorization before obtaining or soliciting any information

00:31from the Defense Department.

00:33The Pentagon has warned that violating the rules could be considered a criminal act and

00:37would not be protected under the First Amendment.

00:39Nearly all outlets have declined to comply with the new restrictions, which Beyer detailed

00:48on Fox News' special report.

00:50I covered the Pentagon for six and a half years.

00:52I covered the White House for four years, he said.

00:55I covered the Pentagon.

00:57And we knew not to?

00:59Walk into the tank, and the classified areas are off-limits.

01:03We obviously were always trying to get the story from different elements.

01:06And there was a freedom, but everybody had badges with them.

01:10Beyer noted the boundaries reporters are expected to follow.

01:13Beyer noted the strict boundaries journalists have always followed.

01:16At the White House, I never walked into the Oval Office or the Situation Room.

01:21These are stipulations that essentially are changing the dynamic about how to get information,

01:25and how they disseminate information.

01:27Beyer responded to some of the online backlash.

01:30Beyer responded directly to some of the online backlash.

01:34One ex-user wrote,

01:35News agencies don't get unfettered access to military intelligence.

01:38Don't care who you are.

01:40Beyer replied,

01:41Never did.

01:42But, thanks.

01:43Another user commented,

01:45Sorry, Fox News, no one should have unfettered access to classified areas.

01:50Press restrictions make sense.

01:51I was shocked to learn they didn't already exist.

01:54Beyer said,

01:55We could never go in classified areas.

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