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"And by the time they apologized, I said look, the problem is we now have a big event scheduled," Donald Trump said. | AP Photo Trump: Fox called to apologize

Donald Trump says he spoke with Fox News this evening and received an apology.

"I've been in six debates. I've done well in every debate, everybody said the last one, but they said I won most of them," Trump told CNN's Brianna Keilar aboard his plane, remarking that he "enjoyed the process" of the debates, as long as they were fair.

"And by the time they apologized, I said look, the problem is we now have a big event scheduled," Trump said, as Keilar interrupted to confirm that someone from the network had called to apologize. Trump and the network have been fighting over tonight's presidential debate, which Trump declined to attend.

Trump responded, "Yes, Fox could not have been nicer."

"You got an apology?" Keilar asked.

"Yes, and they could not have been nicer," Trump said, declining to say who provided the apology, though saying later that he talked to "top people."

Asked whether he would have attended the debate had he not already scheduled his event for veterans, Trump said, "I might have." But he hastened to add that the situation by now "had taken on a life of its own."