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BRET BAIER: “President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is having a negative impact and effect on the agriculture industry. The loss of workers, causing problems for farmers out west. Correspondent Dan Springer takes a look from Washington state tonight.” DAN SPRINGER: “When ICE raided a California farm in June, rounding up illegal immigrants, the ripple effect has led to worker …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Bret Baier admits that President Donald Trump’s decade-long “Fake News” crusade is to blame for plummeting trust in the mainstream media. Baier, 54, said the president “broke the system” and decimated whatever trust remained in the media before he took over the Republican Party in 2016. “Maybe that was part of his MO, …

“I did make a mistake. And I did want to say that I did make a mistake. When I called for a soundbite, I was expecting a piece of the ‘enemy from within’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about ‘the enemy from within.’ It …

Politico Playbook reports: Since she replaced President Joe Biden atop the ticket, the most pervasive knock on VP Kamala Harris has been that she’s too buttoned up, employing a risk-averse strategy that hews toward friendly interviewers who lob softball questions and don’t challenge her enough. After her Fox News sitdown with Bret Baier last night, you can forget that. There …

“Today, this morning, there was some kind of leak on Capitol Hill. We obviously worked with a number of staffs to set up Monday and how the logistics were going to work. “Somehow, somewhere it leaked on Capitol Hill with some bizarre stories and weird reporting that I was going to be moderating a debate privately for the Republican caucus, …

The Hill reports: Fox News’s Bret Baier will host a televised forum for the three candidates for Speaker of the House — an unusual move that follows Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) unprecedented ouster as Speaker. House Majority Leader Scalise (R-La.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) would participate in the event …

NPR reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier repeatedly sought to devote an hour-long Sunday evening special following the 2020 elections to set out and debunk the leading myths bolstering Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. On “Special Report,” Baier had addressed many of those individual claims, which had been promoted by Trump and embraced by his supporters. Baier told colleagues he …

The New York Times reports: On Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, and Jay Wallace, the network’s president, convened a Zoom meeting for an extraordinary discussion with an unusual goal, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times: How to keep from angering the network’s conservative audience again …

“I led a presidential delegation to support American wounded warriors and injured service members – the Invictus Games as has been tradition for many years. “I led the American delegation as one of the great honors of my time in this job. And the diplomatic protocol on a presidential delegation is that the principal is often accompanied by their spouse. …

The Hill reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier praised the elected Republicans, state officials and local elections workers who have testified before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in recent days. “This testimony shows not only the Arizona House speaker, all of the state officials, these officials in [the Department of Justice], who …

“Fox News and other media outlets incorrectly side with the outdated and terrible Maricopa County Election Board to report no fraud found in the Presidential Election. “They spew the gross misinformation purposefully put out by the county and the Associated Press, and IGNORE the very important Arizona Senate’s hearing yesterday. “The same anchor at the desk the night Fox called …

Politico reports: Fox News host Brett Baier took to social media Friday to document his COVID-19 vaccination experience, giving a thumb’s up to the camera in the process. “Vaccinated & ready to go,” Baier captioned the photo he posted on Instagram. The posts are just the latest for anchors and reporters at Fox News highlighting their vaccinations. They come the …

Mediaite reports: At the end of its A-Block on Friday night, Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier made a bizarre choice of bumper music, playing Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire as the show segued out of a news brief about a raging Colorado wildfire. “That’s tonight’s live look outside the beltway from Special Report,” Baier concluded seconds later, as …

“This was not – as the president says time and time again – no collusion, no obstruction. It was much more nuanced than that. He said specifically they couldn’t find evidence to move forward with the crime of collusion for the investigation of the Trump campaign. He said specifically if they had found that the president did not commit a …

People Magazine reports: It was truly a rapper’s delight at Bret Baier‘s Special Report Christmas party on Thursday night in Washington, D.C. Hip-hop group The Sugarhill Gang was on hand at The Dubliner to help the Fox News anchor celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, along with his 10-year anniversary as anchor of Special Report. Baier, 48, even …

“This president sometimes does troll the media and the left. I think that he wants heads to explode. And when he says that he’s really concerned that Russia’s going to interfere in the election, I mean, that’s exactly opposite of what he said in Helsinki. And that is exactly opposite of what he’s said – kind of cleaned up – …

Newsweek reports: Fox News says the “fake news” mainstream media isn’t to blame for once, and it is instead pointing to the president. No, you aren’t reading that wrong. Anchor Bret Baier said no one other than President Donald Trump is the cause of the latest controversy involving the White House—over calling families of fallen soldiers, including the four recently …

Yesterday’s apology was widely criticized as self-serving so he tried again today. Via Mediaite: Fox’s Bret Baier apologized Friday for his damning reports about the FBI’s investigations into Hillary Clinton, namely his reporting that an indictment in the Clinton Foundation probe was in the works and that her server had been breached by foreign intelligence multiple times. “Barring some obstruction …

Raw Story reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admitted on Thursday that he had been wrong when he reported that Hillary Clinton would “likely” be indicted by federal authorities, a claim that sent conservative websites into a frenzy. “I want to be clear — I want to be clear about this,” he explained. “I pressed the sources again and again …

Carlos Maza writes for Media Matters: Fox News anchor Bret Baier debunked the network’s defense of Indiana’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law, explaining that the law is broader than both federal law and similar measures in other states. Baier’s comments echo what others have already noted: Indiana’s RFRA is categorically different from other “religious freedom” laws, because it includes for-profit businesses …