Fox fired Tucker Carlson<\/a> on April 24 that he found Carlson\u2019s theories about the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to be \u201cbullshit,\u201d leading Gutfeld to respond via tweet, \u201cYou\u2019re a class act Geraldo, a real man of the people.\u201d Carlson had downplayed the violence on Jan. 6, calling people who invaded the Capitol \u201csightseers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nRivera and Gutfeld had a handful of particularly contentious exchanges. In late April, Rivera told him \u201cstop pointing at me\u201d when they argued over electric vehicles. He called Gutfeld \u201can arrogant punk\u201d on the air last year during a fight about abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rivera would not comment directly about Gutfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere has been a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences and personal annoyances and gripes,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not worth it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rivera, once a friend of Donald Trump who split with him over the former president\u2019s false claims of winning the 2020 election, said that \u201cunder no circumstances do I think Donald Trump should be president of the United States again and that\u2019s an important message I am committed to bringing to the American people between now and November 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although \u201cThe Five\u201d and its large viewership would seem a prominent place for him to deliver that message, he said \u201cyou can imagine the friction that role by definition\u201d would provoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m 80 years old,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want the friction. \u2018The Five\u2019 is too intimate a place and it gets too personal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The argument over electric vehicles illustrated the challenge faced the liberal voice on \u201cThe Five.\u201d As he talked, onscreen chyrons below him read \u201cBiden pushing pricey electric cars on Americans\u201d and \u201cAmericans not buying Biden\u2019s EV hype.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rivera had a colorful syndicated talk show that aired from 1987 to 1998, and hosted an evening news and interview show at CNBC in the late 1990s. He was brought to Fox shortly by then-chairman Roger Ailes after the September 2001 to be a war correspondent at first and has remained. On Wednesday he expressed some regret, in retrospect, for not leaving the network after the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said his relationship with his colleagues on \u201cThe Five\u201d is \u201ca reflection of what the country is going through. … It\u2019s not an easy job if you take it as personally as I do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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