'Morning Joe' surprise: Fox News alum Eric Bolling gets no questions on sexual harassment scandal

Former Fox News anchor Eric Bolling granted his first major interview Wednesday after being fired from the network last year to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

From the beginning of the segment, Joe and Mika told viewers that there would be no discussion of the sexual harassment scandal that forced Bolling out from Fox News back in September 2017.

“Eric, you lost the job that you loved at Fox News amid controversy and a lot of people might want us to ask you a lot of questions around the circumstances around that departure,” said Brzezinski. “But for this segment, we’re going to leave those questions for another time.”

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Bolling’s career at Fox News unraveled in August 2017 after Yashar Ali published a story in HuffPost revealing that the anchor sent sexually suggestive text messages to several female Fox News and Fox Business employees, and made lewd remarks to female employees.

Fox swiftly suspended him and after an investigation, he was ultimately fired. The show he co-hosted, “The Specialists” was also canceled a short time later. Bolling is one of several former network stars who left Fox News in the wake of sexual misconduct accusations.

Instead of focusing on his ouster, the “Morning Joe” segment focused on Bolling’s work tackling America’s opioid crisis.

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Bolling’s son, Eric Chase, was found dead the same day Bolling was fired from Fox News as a result of an accidental overdose. Bolling thanked Scarborough for his support after the news, and described how he first learned of the death.

“My wife and I had gone out to dinner, we were about to turn the page on my career. Went out to dinner, everything was fine. On the way home from that dinner, my cell phone rang and [my wife] was driving and it was one of Eric’s friends who was in a panic,” he said.

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