Megyn Kelly Defends Don Lemon After ‘Classless’ CNN Firing: ‘The Last Straw Felt Very Sudden’ (Video)

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a prior discussion about Tucker Carlson’s Fox News exit. She joked, “Oh my god, am I still employed myself?”Responding to Lemon’s claim that he learned of his firing over the phone via his agent rather than by Licht and CNN’s upper management speaking with him directly, she conceded that he’s “not wrong” and that “if that’s true,” he deserved better treatment from the network. “Everybody knows I’m not exactly Don Lemon’s fan, but he’s not wrong that — if that’s true, that he was just told by his agent he was fired, and they didn’t have the balls to tell him man-to-man — that’s just classless.

He’s got a right to complain about that,” Kelly said. “Something must’ve happened here,” she continued. “There must have been something like a final straw.” In conversation with “The Megyn Kelly Show” executive producer Steve Krakauer, Kelly later revisited her curiosity of what that final straw might have been. “Their ratings on that morning show are in the toilet.

The entire daytime and primetime ratings and CNN are in the toilet. Their main competitor MSNBC is doubling them right now. They got nothing going — absolutely nothing,” Kelly said. “And I’m sure he’s making a nice salary.

But so far, he’s been untouchable. So I’d love to find out what changed, because the last straw felt very sudden.”Lemon tweeted early Monday that after 17 years, he had been fired from CNN. “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have terminated by CNN,” the “CNN This Morning” host wrote. “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.