'We weren't stuck': Astronaut pushes back after Fox News host suggests Biden marooned them

Astronaut Butch Wilmore pushed back after Fox News host Bill Hemmer suggested President Joe Biden's administration left him "marooned" on the International Space Station.

During a Monday interview on Fox News, Hemmer spoke to Wilmore and Suni Williams about their failure to return to Earth on Boeing Starliner, leaving them in space months longer than expected.

President Donald Trump has claimed that the astronauts were "virtually abandoned" and that he had tasked Elon Musk's SpaceX with bringing them home. However, plans were in place to bring the two back on a SpaceX capsule before Trump took office.

"I just wanna put a fine point on this because, Butch, you said, we don't feel abandoned," Hemmer told Wilmore. "We don't feel stuck. We don't feel stranded. Could I use the word maroon?"

Wilmore politely disagreed with the Fox News host.

"Okay, so any of those adjectives, they're very broad in their definition," he explained. "So, okay, in certain respects, we were stuck. In certain respects, maybe we were stranded."

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"But based on how they were couching this, that we were left and forgotten and all that, we were nowhere near any of that at all," the astronaut continued. "In the big scheme of things, we weren't stuck. We were planned and trained."

Watch the video below from Fox News.