'The View' hosts discuss the future of Fox News' coverage following Chris Wallace's departure: 'We can now call it Trump News'

• Chris Wallace announced Sunday that he is leaving Fox News after 18 years and moving to CNN+.
• The hosts of "The View" discussed his departure Monday, weighing how it would impact the network's future coverage.

Hosts of "The View" expressed concern for the future of Fox News Monday following Chris Wallace's departure from the network.

Wallace announced he will be leaving Fox News and will report for CNN+, a streaming platform for the news network set to air next year.

"Eighteen years ago, the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a guest I booked or a question I asked. And they kept that promise," Wallace said. "I have been free to report to the best of my ability, to cover the stories I think are important, to hold our country's leaders to account. It's been a great ride."

During a Monday segment, Whoopi Goldberg responded to Wallace's exit, asking other co-hosts: "How do you think his exit impacts the future of Fox News?"

"You mean QAnon News?" Joy Behar responded. "We can now call it Trump News. Just call it Trump News."

Behar also said she thought that Wallace, whose reporting and line of interviewing contrasted his right-leaning counterparts, is what "almost" gave Fox News "some legitimacy."

Amanda Carpenter, a so-called "Never Trump" Republican and CNN contributor who made a guest appearance on "The View," said Wallace "was in a very difficult position at Fox News" because he was "clearly uncomfortable with the direction the other newsmakers' there were making."

She also argued that media outlets should take a closer look at which voices they elevate on their platforms about the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection.

"Everyone in the media, after we saw what happened on January 6, should seriously question who they should choose to elevate them to their platforms," Carpenter said. "Because anyone that enabled 'The Big Election Lie' that led to destruction and the breach of the United States Capitol on January 6 for the explicit purpose of interfering with the peaceful power of transfer should seriously rethink what they're doing."

Tucker Carlson, one of the most-watched hosts on Fox News, previously released a special called "Patriot Purge" which detailed the January 6 insurrection. In the three-part documentary series, Carlson claimed that Capitol Police and FBI informants caused the riot and that the government is now "hunting" conservatives, Insider's Jake Lahut previously reported.

"January 6th is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans — disfavored Americans — of their core constitutional rights, and to defame them as domestic terrorists," Carlson said in the documentary, which failed to detail the violence by accused rioters at the Capitol that day.

Critics have referred to the special as "revisionist history," The HuffPost reported.

Two Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resigned in protest of the special, The New York Times reported.

"So to your question, Whoopi, what does it become now?" Sunny Hostin asked. "Is it the 'Tucker Carlson Fake News Network?'"

Fox News did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.