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Fox News anchor Bret Baier worked hard to convince former President Trump to participate in a town hall in Iowa, slated to take place Wednesday and compete directly with the fifth Republican primary debate on CNN. “It’s not easy,” Baier told the New York Times this week about his efforts to encourage the former president to sit for “tough but fair” questions in a live setting. “This is getting to the playoffs,” Baier said. “This is a time when voters need to see him live, in person, when it happens.”

MILWAUKEE, WI — Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is in hot water today after cameras clearly caught the candidate copying his Indian classmate's homework. "My eyes just happened to drift over there!" said a defiant DeSantis. "I wasn't cheating, I promise!" Despite DeSantis' protest, Brett Baier confirmed that DeSantis came up with the exact same answer as his Indian classmate. "There's no use denying it," said Mr. Baier. "Look, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. You're such a smart guy, Ron! Don't go down this road!" Caught red-handed, Mr. DeSantis finally confessed to copying the Indian kid's homework. "He just seems...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with "Special Report" on Monday for a wide-ranging interview, offering insight into whether former President Donald Trump can win in a general election. DeSantis said he doesn’t believe Trump can win in 2024 because there are "too many voters who just aren't going to vote for him going forward." "I saw it in Florida in my re-election. You know, I won the first time by less than a percent, second time by ‘20. Why did people vote against me in ‘18 but then voted for me in ‘22? The number one reason they gave...

Brett Baier interviewed Ron DeSantis Monday, July 31, 2023. Covered all of the anticipated topics including Trump's demand for fealty, abortion, campaign reset, Ukraine, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hITqG4vetRg

Fox News retracted a hit piece against former President Donald Trump and admitted they “inaccurately attributed” an anti-Trump quote to former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Fox News’s story had the following headline: “Former Trump Cabinet member tells him to ‘kiss’ his ‘butt.” The since-retracted, purportedly exclusive story read, in part: EXCLUSIVE: Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told Fox News Digital there’s “no way” he will support former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid. When asked whether he will endorse Trump, Price said, “After he fired me? No way.” “The only thing that guy has...

Earlier this evening, President Trump sat down for an extensive interview with Fox’s human cabbage patch doll, Brett Baier. {Direct Rumble Link} Many people were apprehensive about President Trump talking to DC gatekeeper Mr. Baier given that Fox News would like to support the prosecution effort against Trump.President Trump appears with Baier because President Trump has done nothing wrong. The legal arguments against him, and more succinctly against the power of the office of the president, are nonsensical. There is no person, agency, bureaucracy or process that exists above the executive office of the president.The President has every right to...

Fox News has tapped anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum to co-moderate the first Republican presidential primary debate this summer. The debate, set for Aug. 23, will be held in prime-time at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, with the network providing special coverage before and after the event. Baier and MacCallum have been staples of Fox’s political coverage during the last several election cycles and major political events, most recently co-anchoring special programming for President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address. The Republican National Committee earlier this month released criteria that will be used for candidates to qualify for the...

Fox News’ interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday became tense after host Bret Baier told Trump, “But you lost the 2020 election.” After Trump was asked how would win back the independent, suburban women voters who were a “hard no” in supporting him despite disapproving of President Joe Biden, Trump said, “First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot, ok? Let’s get that straight. I won in 2020.” “That’s not what the votes show,” Baier shot back. Trump insisted, “You take a look at Truth the Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on...

I just turned on Fox News. Brett Baier and Brit Hume, I think, did not cover the Arizona election controversy. Please correct me if I am wrong. Brett Baier is the sleazy Fox Reporter who ambushed Kari Lake in a very unfair hit piece interview. Brit Hume is a establishment guy.

At 9:33 p.m., anchor Bret Baier declared, “We are now ready to make one of the biggest calls of the night. The Fox News Decision Desk can now project the Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.” “A lot of listeners out there, their heads are exploding, but this is going to be a very different Washington,” his colleague Chris Wallace said. At a time when it seemed the night could be turning away from Democrats, the Fox News call of the House was the first by any media outlet. And...

Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, 'The Trump campaign was really pissed,' book says

FNC anchor Bret Baier said Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” that President Joe Biden has had a “couple of good weeks” because the U.S. military killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri. ..... Snip..... Co-host Jesse Watters said, “Well, obviously a great win for the United States and a clear victory over terrorism. Politically for the president, we’ve just talked about it in the A-block, how the administration and some in the media have been framing this as the resurgence of the Biden presidency and a few things about to be passed in Congress. And now this big...

Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier said Tuesday on his network’s coverage of today’s hearing by the House Select Committee investigating January 6, 2021 that the testimony was “stunning” and moved the ball. Discussing the testimony from Mark Meadows’ former aide Cassidy Hutchinson about Donald Trump, Baier said, “Inside the limo saying he wanted to go up to Capitol Hill. According to her testimony, he said, I’m the f-ing president. Take me there, and goes to grab at him. This testimony is, first of all, stunning because we haven’t heard this. Two, it is compelling because of her proximity to...

“I’ve covered politics a long time,” Bret Baier said on the air. “I don’t think there has been testimony like this — that is kind of jaw-dropping, in a way — on the inside workings of a White House in crisis after, you know, at this moment, Jan. 6, that we have seen since Watergate.” < snip > Baier continued to comment on Hutchinson’s testimony. “Bottom line though, this testimony is stunning … I think this — it does move the ball in this hearing,” he said.

Anchors Sandra Smith, John Roberts and Bret Baier reacted Tuesday on Fox News to actor Mathew McConaughey’s White House address, noting how “impassioned” McConaughey was. Smith said, “You were just listening to actor Matthew McConaughey, born in Uvalde, Texas, meeting with the victims’ families, met with the president, saying we need to make the lost lives matter. He went into the ways he believes we can improve the situation in this country and prevent mass shootings. He wants to raise the age for buying an assault rifle to 21 years old unless you are in the military. He says all...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” about the public losing confidence in her agency over their COVID guidance. Baier said, “Dr. Walensky, you mentioned the confusion about the guidance, and over the past year, the most recent example is obviously on isolation and testing, but other guidance is the mask-wearing, educators being vaccinated before returning to the classroom. Before you took this job officially, you emphasizes that one of your primary goals was to restore public trust. But in this time, do you think that it’s fair...

Fox News’ “Special Report” host Bret Baier wants to make it very clear that he isn’t like his hack co-workers at Fox, okay? Amid shockwaves over Chris Wallace’s departure to CNN, Baier on Sunday tried to distance his show from fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson, who regularly peddles pro-Trump talking points and misinformation in service of the ex-president.

Fox News commentators Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes have quit the network, upset over a documentary about Jan. 6 that was produced by Tucker Carlson. “With the release of ‘Patriot Purge,’ we felt we could no longer ‘do right as we see it’ and remain at Fox News. So we resigned,” they wrote in a joint post at The Dispatch, where both work. “Patriot Purge” is a documentary series from Carlson about what took place on Jan. 6, when protesters and rioters breached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, interrupting a joint session of Congress that was certifying electoral votes. A...

Following the departures of Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes from Fox News, a new report says the network has seen a significant level of an internal dispute over the conspiracy theories espoused by Tucker Carlson. New York Times media columnist Ben Smith reported on Sunday that Goldberg and Hayes walked out because of Patriot Purge, Carlson’s 3-part Fox Nation docuseries about the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Fact-checkers and media commentators have been tearing Patriot Purge to shreds for boosting known propagandists and advancing unsubstantiated claims about January 6th. NPR’s David Folkenflik reported on this development new details that had...

Bret Baier responded to a statement former President Trump released in which he specifically named Baier, who was anchoring for Fox News when the network called Arizona for President Biden. In the statement, Trump made several baseless claims of election fraud in Arizona, all of which Baier fact-checked. “The former president points to a third-party audit presented to the Arizona state Senate showing 168,000 ballots were printed on illegal paper. An elections official in Maricopa County says it uses paper approved by Dominion Voting Systems, which makes the tabulation equipment." “Former President Trump says 74,000 mail-in ballots were received that...