Ex-Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly are trashing its decision to cut Tucker Carlson: 'A suicidal move'

• Ex-Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly trashed the network over Tucker Carlson's ousting.

• "To me, this is a suicidal move for Fox," Beck said after Fox News cut ties with Carlson.

• Kelly said, "This is a terrible move by Fox, and it's a great thing for Tucker Carlson."

Ex-Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly trashed the network for suddenly cutting ties with its primetime star Tucker Carlson, slamming it as a "suicidal" and "terrible" move.

"Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Now, I don't know what that means. You know, we're in wild speculation territory," Beck, who left Fox News in 2011, said on his BlazeTV program on Monday.

"To me, this is a suicidal move for Fox," Beck said, adding, "If it's their move."

Fox News said in a bombshell announcement on Monday that Carlson and the cable news giant had "agreed to part ways," but Carlson was reportedly blindsided by the decision.

"I'll tell you, now more than ever, where are you going to get the truth? Tucker was the only guy out there that I felt was in the mainstream media that was telling America the truth," Beck said. "Who's doing that? There's nobody in the mainstream media. Nobody, and I now include Fox."

Kelly, a former Fox News anchor who left the conservative media powerhouse in 2017, called Carlson's ousting "a terrible move."

"This is a terrible move by Fox, and it's a great thing for Tucker Carlson," Kelly said on Monday's episode of her SiriusXM program "The Megyn Kelly Show."

"I don't know what drove Fox News to make this decision. And it was clearly Fox News' decision because they're not letting him say goodbye," Kelly said. "That's my supposition."

Kelly said Carlson was the "only reason a lot of people still" watched Fox News.

Meanwhile, Bill O'Reilly, who was forced out of Fox News in 2017, said Carlson's ouster from Fox News could have not only "a tremendous effect on the future of the Fox News Channel," but also on the 2024 presidential election.

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