Fox News Contributor Who Left Over Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Documentary Joins NBC

Conservative commentator Steve Hayes is joining NBC News as a contributor.

According to the network, Hayes will “appear regularly across all NBC News platforms” and “contribute to the network’s special political and election coverage.”

Hayes tweeted about the news, “Very excited to join NBC News as a contributor. Eager to get to work.”

Hayes, who worked at the Weekly Standard, co-founded the conservative outlet The Dispatch in 2019 along with former National Review writer Jonah Goldberg.

Hayes and Golberg were contributors for 📺Fox News but left last year over host Tucker Carlson’s documentary about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In a blog post in November, the pair wrote, “The special—which ran on Fox’s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on 📺Fox News—is presented in the style of an exposé, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions.”

“And its message is clear: The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner —and with the same tools—that it used to target al Qaeda,” they continued.