Sunday Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” “The Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly discussed the criticism she and her colleagues have received over last week’s Republican debate.

Kelly said, “We were trying to drill down to most vulnerable areas and give them a chance to explain them and also give the audience a chance to see how they would handle that. So the job is to actually get past the talking points and go to the place where they might be most vulnerable with the Republican primary voters or conversely the place they may be most vulnerable in a general election and then give them the chance to knock that ball back to us.”

She added, “If you can’t get past me, how are you gonna handle Vladimir Putin?”

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