On Tuesday, July 21, the popular Special Report All-Star Panel hosted by Fox News anchor Bret Baier erupted over the implications of the second CMP (Center for Medical Progress)  investigative video dealing with the Planned Parenthood “baby parts” business.

The CMP video, which had been released earlier that day, showed via a hidden camera an interview with a Planned Parenthood affiliate doctor and an actor, posing as a “buyer.” It proved that, contrary to Planned Parenthood’s repeated assertions, price negotiations and bargaining over prices for aborted fetal organs did indeed take place. The video closed with the abortion doctor joking about the possibility of raising prices because she “needed a Lamborghini.”

The amazing thing about the response of the well-known panel on Baier’s popular show was their utter rejection of competing media narratives which have been picking up Planned Parenthood’s defensive line, reassuring all that the entire process is legal and was investigated unethically. After showing an MSNBC clip where the anchors of that show clearly propagandize the PP narrative, Baier turned to The Weekly Standard‘s Steve Hayes, who proceeded to deliver one of the most direct attacks on the mainstream media that has been seen on television in recent memory.

Baier sets up the discussion that provoked strong comments at (4:33) by showing the clip from MSNBC.

Obviously shaken and angry, he made such statements as: “I find that absolutely stunning! How do you possibly make that argument? … This is not one of those discussions where there are two sides to the discussion…”  and “… on the scale of things that are morally reprehensible, infanticide is just about the worst … this is worse! It is infanticide for profit!”

Then he got even more direct. “It’s absolutely unbelievable that somebody would make the argument that they were making on that other network …”

The panel, including Charles Krauthammer, Baier and The Hill associate editor AB Stoddard, basically agreed. Stoddard went on herself to make a startling statement, especially as a Capitol Hill insider: “… they [Planned Parenthood] are going to have to make quite a case that what they are doing is legal and proper and acceptable when they are taking taxpayer dollars — that is going to be a very rough ride.”

Baier’s highly-rated show not only did not skirt the video (as many major media outlets did when the first video was released a week earlier) it placed the issue center stage both in Baier’s commentary and in the focus of his All-Star Panel. That is quite a change from the week prior, when the first video by CMP was released, and few newsrooms even seemed to notice.

This is one of many clear indications that Washington is now on notice.