VP candidate Tim Walz questioned about his fibs and misstatements on Fox News Sunday

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to attempt to finally quiet the critics that he and his running mate, Kamala Harris, will only sit for interviews with friendly hosts. 

Walz wrote off his past lies and fibs to “misspeaking,” and suggested that voters aren’t too concerned about that, according to the New York Post. 

Bream questioned him about his claim of being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in Beijing, China, in 1989. This came up during the debate last Tuesday with GOP vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance. Walz claimed that he misspeaks because he is so passionate about these issues. He said during the debate that sometimes he is a “knucklehead” and that he “misspoke” when he made that claim. 

Regarding his repeated claim that he and his wife, Gwen, used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their two children, he is now acknowledging that she had actually used intrauterine insemination (IUI).

Walz attempted to downplay the discrepancy, and attempted to turn it in to an attack on former President Trump. “I don’t think people care whether I used IUI or IVF when we talk about this. What they understand is Donald Trump would resist those things,” he told Bream.

Regarding his bizarre statement during the debate that “I’ve become friends with school shooters,” he said that “I think they heard me the other night speaking passionately about gun violence and misspeaking.”

Bream also asked him about the law regarding Minnesota’s abortion policy. The Born Alive Infants Protection Act removed language that called on doctors and other medical personnel to “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.”

Walz argued that “Minnesota law aligns with every other case of what physicians are required by their ethical responsibilities. And so it changed nothing other than aligning with all care that physicians provide in any circumstances for any medical case.”

“The vice president and I have been clear, the restoration of Roe v. Wade is what we’re asking for. This is a woman’s right to make her own choices,” he said.

The campaign has announced this weekend that candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris will be sitting for interviews this week with the women of “The View,” with Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show,” and with Howard Stern on “The Howard Stern Show”