(CNN)– Donald Trump and the Fox News host Megyn Kelly met at Trump Tower on Wednesday morning, people with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney.
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes was not in attendance, the people said.
An NBC reporter spotted Kelly entering Trump Tower shortly before noon.
Representatives for Trump and Fox had no immediate comment. But Kelly is planning to discuss the meeting on her prime time program Wednesday night.
Kelly reached out to Trump’s office to set up the meeting, one of the sources said.
The face-to-face chat raises the possibility of a Kelly-Trump interview sometime in the future.
Kelly is known to be seeking high-profile guests for a Barbara Walters-style prime time special on the Fox broadcast network in May.
Trump’s intense dislike of Kelly — who he has called unfair, overrated and even “crazy” — has been one of the subplots of his run for president.
Trump has essentially said she started it by treating him unfairly during the first GOP debate of the season last August.
The candidate and the journalist did not speak for months afterward. In fact, he skipped the next Fox debate, in January, which she co-moderated.
But he did attend a third debate held by Fox, in March, and treated her kindly.
Later in the month, he resumed his insults, accusing her of stacking her 9 p.m. show with anti-Trump guests.
Fox shot back: “Donald Trump’s vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land.”
Several weeks have passed since then. He has not attacked Kelly via Twitter since April 1.
At that time, he wrote, “Is it possible for @megynkelly to cover anyone but Donald Trump on her terrible show. She totally misrepresents my words and positions! BAD.”
In an interview last week, Kelly said she has not made a formal request to interview the candidate.
“To be honest, every time I prepare an invitation to sit down with him, he attacks me on Twitter or elsewhere,” she told Variety. “I had always been hoping I could reach out to him at a time when he wasn’t angry. I don’t think it would be a good interview if he was angry at me — but then he never stops with the attacks.”
She added, “I was just about to ask him to sit down with me two weeks ago, but then he started up again out of the blue.”
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