Exactly. Faulkner just had the misfortune to be presiding over the segment, and then got stuck with a producer babbling something into her ear while she was alone on camera and nobody else was talking. It was mainly a fuck-up on the porduction side. Not clear if Francis made her comment on her own initiative, or if that was in response to a producer's instruction.

The segment was ending anyway, and Gingrich was allowed to finish his statement, and even squeeze in a couple of comments after Francis and Harf commented about not bringing Soros into this.

Seriously, it sounds like he not only donates money but has his own staff providing the copy to be included in articles:

he repeatedly attempted to peddle a right-wing trope about philanthropist George Soros

Soros, who is Jewish, has been the focus of anti-Semitic tropes for years, including by many Fox News personalities and guests—mainly dabbling in the Soros-as-political-puppeteer conspiracy theory long popular in far-right circles.