Bret Baier Admits to ‘Cold Sweats’ at Thought of Handling Donald Trump in Debate

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[RoosterRedux]

Fox News anchor Bret Baier knows it’s going to be great television, but the upcoming Republican debate in Cleveland will also present a challenge: what do you do if Donald Trump won’t follow the rules? “I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that I have woken up in cold sweats wondering how I’m going to deal with a Donald Trump who’s not listening,” Baier tells TIME Magazine.

[Arm_Bears]

Fire his sorry a$$ if he can’t handle it.

[Gaffer]

I know Brit wasn’t involved with the Ryan-Biden debates but maybe he should call that bitch Martha Radditz and ask her how to handle a putz that won’t be quiet in a debate.

[Rennes Templar]

The other candidates should be having cold sweats.

[Responsibility2nd]

Two words:

Microphone Switch.

[Seruzawa]

Yeah, it’s tough when you have a candidate who has no fear of the stinking Press. All the others are so careful to truckle to reporters. If Trump thinks you’re a moron he’ll say so. And it’s true of 99% of reporters anyhow.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I’m sure they are.......

[C. Edmund Wright]

Like all who get the Fox anchor chair, Bret has gone more establishment and down hill by the day.

He handled Obama in a one on one pretty good on Obama Care....but that was early. He’d probably kiss his ring now.....

[Fester Chugabrew]

Well then . . . let’s have Candy Crowley moderate instead.

[rockrr]

How about “do your job”?

[quantumman]

Brett will be OK - I think DT probably holds him in some amount of respect. He (DT) doesn’t go after FNC people because they give him a bully pulpit on F&F and also BOR. He will most likely behave because FNC has given him so much free publicity. I doubt he has spent a nickle (other than airfare) on his campaign yet. He knows how to manage his expenses and use other people’s money, i.e., Roger Ailes.

[waterhill]

‘who’s not listening’ ??????

Trump seems to have great ‘hearing’ as of late....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that I have woken up in cold sweats wondering how I’m going to deal with a Donald Trump who’s not listening,” Baier tells TIME Magazine.

If that is factual, Bret is a whiny ass little girl with a very limited intellect.

On second thought, he didn't say that he woke up in cold sweats wondering how he'd deal with a Donald Trump. He only said he’d be lying if he said he didn't say it.

[TADSLOS]

One part of the debate that’s still being discussed, however–the sound effects. In 2012, Baier says, a doorbell sound irritated a surprising number of viewers with dogs. “I literally got 1,000 emails from dog owners who said they were racing to the door every time we rang it. And we were ringing it because the candidates were not paying attention.”

These beltway pundit fools are self absorbed, clueless a-holes.

[Calpublican]

Let’s see, you went into the business of communications and you’re worried about how to handle communications.

[RoosterRedux]

Can you imagine how Trump might have reacted to Candy's boost for Obama in debate?

That's where Mitt choked.

Trump would have chewed her out.

[Will88]

Well then . . . let’s have Candy Crowley moderate instead.

I'd love to have seen Trump handle the debate situations Stephanopoulos and Crowley threw at Romney.

[hlmencken3]

There is no excuse for having three big ego moderators for a debate. It’s clear the moderators will be trying to star as much as any candidate.

[hoosiermama]

Moderators will handle him with kid gloves. No gotcha questions. Megan hinted about having amnesty questions. yeah right. It would eliminate Yeb

[hoosiermama]

He owns his own air fleet. helicopter to large jet