Bret Baier

Bret Baier serves as the anchor of FOX News Channel's
(FNC) "Special Report with Bret Baier" (6-7PM/EST), the number one
cable news program in its time slot (6-7 p.m. ET) –averaging almost three
million viewers a night and regularly ranks in the top five cable news programs,
according to Nielsen Media Research. Before assuming this role, which he took
over for Brit Hume in January of 2009, Baier served as chief White House correspondent,
where he reported on presidential activities on a national and international
level from 2006-2009.

Prior to being named chief White House correspondent, Baier
served as National Security correspondent where he reported on military and
national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the
intelligence community from the Pentagon from 2001-2006. Baier has reported
from Iraq 12 times and from Afghanistan 13 times. He has traveled the world
with various administration and military officials and reported from 74
countries.

Most recently, he co-anchored Fox News 2012 election
night coverage alongside Megyn Kelly, an evening which delivered more than 12
million viewers and finished second among all of the broadcast and cable
networks. Bret provided extensive coverage of the 2012 campaign cycle, which
included taking his show on the road to nine battleground states; anchoring the
three Presidential and one Vice Presidential debates and the Republican and
Democratic conventions, along with moderating the network’s five debates.

Throughout his career, Baier has secured numerous
exclusive interviews with government officials. He had the only interview with
President Obama during the week leading up to the historic health care vote in
the House of Representatives in March 2010.  Wall Street Journal columnist
Peggy Noonan called it, “The most revealing and important broadcast interview
of Barack Obama ever.”  Additionally, Baier has interviewed President
George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers and his
successor General Peter Pace. He has also interviewed many world leaders
including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in anticipation of key
peace talks at the United Nations, Polish President Lech Kaczynski days after
the U.S. decision to abort missile defense plans in Poland, and Georgian
President Mikheul Saakashvili after the Russian invasion of Georgia. In
addition, Baier had an exclusive interview with General David Petraeus, which
was his final interview as the head of U.S. operations, live from Iraq in
September 2008.

Baier has also anchored several political specials on
FNC, including one hour specials on the Benghazi attack, cities declaring
bankruptcy, the stimulus package, the bank bailout, the housing crisis, green
jobs, and the primaries of 2010. The Midterm election coverage in 2010,
anchored by Baier and Megyn Kelly, was the most watched election coverage of
any television channel-cable or broadcast.  

Baier joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter to be
based in the Atlanta bureau. As the network's Southeast correspondent, Baier
covered stories ranging from the 2001 Timothy McVeigh execution to the 1999
Elian Gonzalez story. He also provided a series of reports from Cuba and
covered more than a dozen hurricanes, including stories filed from the centers
of the storms.

Prior to joining FNC, Baier worked for WRAL-TV (CBS) in Raleigh, NC, WREX-TV
(NBC) in Rockford, IL, and WJWJ-TV (PBS) in Beaufort, SC.

A graduate of DePauw University, Baier has a bachelor's degree in Political
Science and English.