Peters had been telling friends that he planned on leaving the network in a "nuclear" fashion, one of those friends told CNN. (In an email Wednesday morning, Peters said he had not told friends he "intended to make a splash" on his way out.) Fox News responded to Peters' email in a statement Tuesday evening. Related: The Trump-TV feedback loopPeters told CNN in an email, "Fox can assail me all it wants, but I intend to do what I believe is ethically correct." And Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor at Fox News, was critical of the Fox News opinion bloc in a story published last week.

Source: CNN March 20, 2018 22:51 UTC