CNN anchor Jake Tapper is on the defense after penning the book “Original Sin,” with co-author Alex Thompson, which details how White House staff covered up for President Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline.

But many have been asking what Tapper’s role, as well as the role of the media as a whole, was in allowing the cover-up to continue.

Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked him about that when she interviewed him on her Sirius XM radio show, where Tapper admitted that conservative media got it correct, and he did not.

“Alex and I are here to say the conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently 100 percent,” the CNN anchor said.

“Over here in my ecosphere, we were covering all of these things,” Kelly said. “It wasn’t just falling down, it was getting lost. It was some of the stuff you report in your book, we knew and we were reporting on. Like the multi jump-cuts in the videos of him, where it was obvious he couldn’t get through a one minute take.”

“It was clear to us that he was using a teleprompter, and there was some reporting on that at the time — all of which the White House was denying,” she said. “Now, the current White House, I have some connections. With the Joe Biden White House, I had none — but you did. There was an attempted cover-up. It could only ever work if you allowed it, if the press allowed it. Some of us tried not to and some of us were complicit.”

Kelly also mentioned how Tapper had accused Lara Trump of making fun of people with stutters when she spoke about how President Biden was speaking.

Tapper responded by saying that he had apologized to her.

“What did she say?” Kelly asked.

“I don’t want to disclose the contents of a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well, and she said – she’s had said this publicly, so I feel fine sharing it – she said that she would never mock anybody’s stutter. But after we did the research for this book and I realized how bad his acuity issues were, I called Lara Trump and I said, “You were right,” he said.