During a panel discussion about the investigation into ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade echoed a racist New York Post column on the makeup of special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury, repeating the quote that the panel "looks like a Bernie Sanders rally” and adding commentary on the jury's demographics.

Kilmeade cited an article by conservative columnist Richard Johnson in the Page Six section of the New York Post, where Johnson wrote that a source told him, “The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally. … Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley [Calif.]” Relaying information from his source, Johnson highlighted the number of black people on the jury, writing, “Of the 20 jurors, 11 are African-Americans and two were wearing ‘peace T-shirts,’ the witness said. ‘There was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor.’” HuffPost responded to Johnson’s story, noting, “That witness presumably knows a lot about what precisely the grand jury inquiry is focused on at this point. But instead of pursuing that story, Page Six gave a sympathetic airing to the witness’s complaints about the racial makeup of the grand jury.”

In the Fox & Friends segment, Kilmeade stopped short of explicitly quoting the parts of Johnson's column related to race, but added, “So it's not even emblematic of something that might be perhaps demographically pursuing justice.” Kilmeade’s latest attack on Mueller’s investigation follows months of right-wing media's attempts to undermine the Russia probe by insisting that Mueller’s team is biased and is targeting Trump for political purposes. From the January 3 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends: