From the August 15, 2022, edition of Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus

HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): The former president himself was talking with Fox this morning, and said he’s willing to do whatever possible to help the nation after the raid, saying the temperature has to be brought down. In Focus now, Matt Whitaker, acting attorney general under President Trump. Great to see you today. Let's talk about that temperature, let’s speak directly to the former president's words, and where we are, and what the nation needs to know.

MATTHEW WHITAKER: Well it’s good to be with you today, Harris. And the president’s absolutely right, we need to lower the temperature across our country. Obviously, political violence is never appropriate. But I want to remind everyone that, you know, really the FBI’s extraordinary action here, unprecedented, never happened before in American history, is really what raised the temperature in the first place.