Maria Bartiromo’s sudden ouster led to an awkward blunder in the first broadcast of the hastily revamped show now hosted by a replacement. Just one day after the veteran host was shown the door after 12 and a half years with the network,

Bartiromo’s lawyer Bryan Freedman said in a statement Friday reports she was fired are “unequivocally false,” vowing “receipts and witnesses” will come out “through the courthouse or otherwise.”

Fox News Media abruptly announced Thursday that Bartiromo will be leaving her role hosting Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria” and Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” The company’s statement gave no reason for her departure, but thanked her “for her work over the last 12 ½ years” and wished her “all the best on her next chapter.”

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Puck News’s Dylan Byers reported that executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was fired from Bartiromo’s show on Thursday, following her out the door after she was sent packing for “betraying” Fox News by offering the Trump administration information on how the network was covering the president.

On Thursday, Fox announced that Bartiromo was “ no longer with ” the network, effective immediately. It didn’t give a reason, but reporters quickly put the pieces together. The drama seems to have started in July,

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Tuesday said President Trump tapped her husband, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, “because that was all that’s left.” The two were interviewed on “The Katie Miller Podcast,