Bret Baier tried to focus on Joe Biden’s draft deferments in search of some false equivalence, but FOX News contributor Jessica Tarlov wasn’t having any of it. She drove home that point that the Atlantic article was well sourced, making that fact inescapable for all the Fox News Sunday viewers watching.
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BAIER: Jessica, I understand the Biden campaign jumping on this. I understand that the former vice president and -- and his passion about -- talking about it with the caveat, if true, when he delivered those remarks.
TARLOV: Right.
BAIER: What I don't understand is the campaign surrogates who are out going after Donald Trump for his deferment to the Vietnam War because of bone spurs. That seems interesting because Joe Biden had deferments too to avoid the draft. In fact, he had five of them because of a diagnosis of asthma as a teenager.
TARLOV: Bone spurs, asthma, that's very much in the past. I don't think that's necessarily the relevant point right now.
Joe Biden speaks about this issue passionately, not only because he cares about our troops, and he famously carries around a card that's updated on a daily basis of how many lives we have lost of servicemen and women abroad, but as the father of someone who fought honorably for the United States, Beau Biden, who passed away a few years ago. So I don't really want to talk about bone spurs versus asthma. I don't think that's the issue.
I think that there are really two issues at play here. One, to Tom's point about sources. Deep Throat was an anonymous source. It was not revealed who he was for decades. I don't think that anyone on this panel or in the world would deny the fact that that account mattered and that it certainly carried weight. And has Jennifer Griffin defended her own reporting yesterday with Neil Cavuto, her sources are very real, they are not anonymous to any of these reporters, and she even said, I'm sure they're not anonymous to the president himself.
This isn't an account that came out of a left-wing rag. "The Atlantic's" reporting has been confirmed by us, by "The Washington Post," by "The New York Times," by the Associated Press, all by very good reporters at those outlets as well. So to say that this is anonymous and it's a hoax is --
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