Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren admitted Wednesday to kicking her dog “five times” because she was bothering her during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” this morning.

“Why don’t you tell the world what you were doing during my entire “Fox & Friends” hit,” says Lahren in an Instagram story. “Oh I know, chewing on her damn bone as loud as she possibly could. So I had to kick her about five times during the show.”

On March 15, the network announced Smith would stay and that he had signed a multiyear contract renewal.

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Smith says he’s unbothered by the divergence between his reporting and Fox’s opinion slate. “We serve different masters. We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules. They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion. I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy.”

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Unlike some portion of the audience that reflexively switches on Fox News, Smith is disengaged by politics. “I get it,” he says, “that some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining. I get that. I don’t work there. I wouldn’t work there."

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“I think we have to make the wall between news and opinion as high and as thick and as impenetrable as possible. And I try to do that. And if I were doing this, there would be a lot more fact-based reporting, but it’s available for people who want it. I don’t know how badly they want it.”