Bret Baier is trying a few new maneuvers at Special Report, one of the longest-running programs at Fox News Channel. About six months ago, he says, he talked to his staff about getting more ambitious. “We had a talk about what the show should look like,” he recalls. “Most days, you take singles and doubles and you cover the news and you do it as best you can, but the occasional triple and home run sometimes lend themselves to other big plays.”
Plans for a televised Fox News forum with three contenders for House Speaker fell apart soon after they were announced. Host Bret Baier was slated to have House Majority Leader Scalise (R-La.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) for a Monday event that Fox News billed as a “joint interview” rather than a debate. But the unusual move — nationalizing an internal GOP conference decision — prompted backlash from GOP members, and changes to the plans.
The Fox News host will present what is now being called a “joint interview,” not a debate, with House Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Kevin Hern (R-OK) from Capitol Hill on Special Report, Monday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m. ET.
The Fox News anchor, who hosts the afternoon program Special Report and serves as FNC’s chief political anchor, has signed a contract extension with the cable news channel. Baier last signed a contract extension in 2021, in a deal that was set to run into 2026. It was not immediately clear how long Baier’s new contract runs, though Fox says it is a “multi-year” extension.
The first Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 presidential election season has been awarded to Fox News. The event will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 9-11 p.m. ET and be held at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks.
The interview got tense as soon as the former president brought up Trump’s recent indictment surrounding classified documents.
Bret Baier, chief political anchor at Fox News Channel, will moderate the third installment of The Senate Project series, which features senators from different ends of the political spectrum debating key issues. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are featured. It takes place Monday, June 12, at 11 a.m. ET at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. The event will run live, commercial-free on Fox Nation and will air on Fox News Channel Sunday, June 18, at 10 p.m. ET.
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier is perhaps the best personification of Fox Corp chief Lachlan Murdoch’s description of Fox News as a network that targets the “center-right.” While his selection of stories and analysts often appeal to conservative sensibilities, Baier presents the news from a journalistic standpoint, covers major developments of the day, and corrects misstatements of facts.
They are among the names submitted this week as potential witnesses by Fox and Dominion Voting Systems, although it doesn’t guarantee that they will appear in court. It still isn’t certain there will be a trial. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis is expected to make a summary judgment ruling in favor of either side or to go forward with a trial.
On Monday, the Fox Nation streaming service will host a televised debate between Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a replica of the Senate Chamber hosted at the Kennedy Institute. The debate isn’t about an election. Neither Graham nor Sanders are up this year. Rather, it’s about trying to bring sincere, old-school debates back into style at a time when social media and cable news chyrons are king. The Senate Project, as it’s being called, is a byproduct of the Institute, as well as the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Two other debates are already scheduled, with the next set to be hosted by C-SPAN.
In its statement on Wallace’s exit from the network, Fox News said, “the legacy of Fox News Sunday will continue with our star journalists, many of whom will rotate in the position until a permanent host is named.” Among those mentioned among the network’s news-side anchors who will rotate in the Fox News Sunday moderator role are Bret Baier, John Roberts, Harris Faulkner, Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Neil Cavuto, Bill Hemmer, Jennifer Griffin and Dana Perino.
FNC will present special live coverage of the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races as well as the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Anchor Bret Baier has renewed his contract with Fox News Channel, extending a pact that was last negotiated in 2019. The deal will keep Baier at the network through 2025 and will maintain his roles as anchor and executive editor of the Fox Corp. network’s Special Report and as the outlet’s chief political anchor.
Jay Wallace, president of Fox News Media and several of the network’s top anchors — Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Dana Perino and Juan Williams — have been advised to quarantine after being exposed to someone on a private flight who later tested positive for the coronavirus, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said on Sunday.
A chart included on Special Report with Bret Baier illustrated gains made by the S&P 500 index after King’s assassination in 1968; the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014, and the May 25 death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. The network said it “should have never aired on television without full context. We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously.”
Fox News host Bret Baier and his family have survived a motor vehicle crash in Montana. In a statement released Tuesday, the anchor and executive editor of Fox News Channel’s […]
Bret Baier has signed a new multiyear deal with Fox News Channel, where he will continue as anchor and executive editor of Special Report (weeknights 6 p.m. ET) and chief political anchor […]
Five TV broadcasters — Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier and Gayle King — swap stories about when guests lie to your face, Megyn Kelly joins your network and the importance of accurate reporting: “I’m not sure there always are two sides to every story.”
Several news outlets have rebutted a report from Fox News stating that an “indictment” is “likely” in an ongoing FBI inquiry into the Clinton Foundation. Throughout the day on Thursday, NBC News, ABC News and CNN all reported that Fox’s assertion was not true. And Bret Baier, the Fox host responsible for the original assertion, seemed to backtrack from it, saying he had spoken “inartfully.”
(RTTNews) — Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, announced that Bret Baier has re-signed a multi-year deal with FOX News Channel or FNC where he will continue as […]