Bret Baier

Bret Baier currently serves as FOX News Channel’s (FNC) anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier (weeknights at 6-7PM/ET), chief political anchor of the network and co-anchor of the network’s election coverage. Baier is also host of FOX News Audio’s “The Bret Baier Podcast” which includes Common Ground and The All-Star Panel. He joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter in the Atlanta bureau and is now based in Washington, D.C. where he was recently described as “the most influential news anchor in America right now” at the 2025 Semafor Trust in News summit.

Throughout 2025, Baier has interviewed world leaders and newsmakers across the political spectrum, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, among others. Baier also traveled to the Middle East in May to anchor Special Report where he interviewed world leaders such as Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Saudi Arabia’s Economy, Planning Minister Faisal Alibrahim, and President Donald Trump. Ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Baier sat down with President Donald Trump and, weeks before the 2024 election, he conducted FNC’s first formal sit-down interview with then-Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris. The interview was the highest rated non-primetime interview in the history of cable news.