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.
SPECIAL REPORT CONTRIBUTORS
Juan Williams
Juan Williams, who joined Fox News Channel in 1997 as a contributor, recently had his role expanded at the network. Williams serves as a Fox News political analyst, a regular panelist on Fox Broadcasting's Sunday morning public affairs program, "Fox News Sunday," as well as the weekday political newscast, "Special Report with Bret Baier," and as a regular substitute host for "The O'Reilly Factor."
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
Behind the scenes and during commercial breaks when the panel jokes with Bret and when they are able to let loose and cut up a little.
Q: If you weren’t a political analyst, what else would you like to do?
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be the short stop for the NY Mets.
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
The Atomic Bomb in Japan—we are still dealing with the aftermath and the world still deals with the threat of nuclear weapons.
Q: What's your favorite location in Washington, DC?
The Tidal Basin along the Potomac River near the FDR Memorial because it is not a well known memorial and is very private. He also loves to walk along the basin and watch the boats and walk around the memorial through the waterfalls and read the quotes.
Q: What's your favorite location outside of Washington, DC?
Top 3 (in no particular order) would have to be New Orleans, San Francisco and Montego Bay.
Q: If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
I have interviewed every President in his lifetime as well as everyone from Nelson Mandela to Tony Blair—so I would like to interview someone who has had an interesting life journey and one man on that list would be Tiger Woods.
Top 3 Favorite Books
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- The Power Broker by Robert Moses
- The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
Favorite Quote
“Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.” - FDR
If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
A great book, a tool for hunting and matches to build a fire for warmth and cooking
Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post Writer & Fox News CommentatorCharles Krauthammer writes a syndicated column for The Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. It is published weekly in more than 230 newspapers worldwide. He is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, and a weekly panelist on Inside Washington. He is also a contributor to FOX News, appearing nightly on FOX's evening news program, Special Report with Bret Baier.
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
The day Mort Konracke and Fred Barnes accidentally walked on the set before their segment while Brit Hume was in the middle of speaking. General pandemonium ensued.
Q: If you could ask one question to any president, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you ask?
To Jefferson: Was that "inalienable" or "unalienable"?
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
The decision of Cyrus the Great to allow the Jewish Babylonian exiles to return to Judea (c. 539 BC) Had he not made that decision, there would be no Judaism, no Christianity, no Islam, no West, no human history recognizable to us.
Q: If you weren’t a columnist, what else would you like to do?
Physicist, except I wasn't smart enough.
Q: If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
A chess computer, the complete Shakespeare, and a toothbrush (you never know who you are going to meet).
Q: What is your favorite quote?
"I've often speculated why you don’t return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me." - Captain Renault to Rick, Casablanca
Top 3 Favorite Books
- Stupor and Coma, by Fred Plum
- Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Book of Jonah/My 60 Memorable Games (Bobby Fischer)
Favorite location in Washington, DC
Nationals Park
Favorite location outside of Washington, DC
Fenway Park
Mara Liasson
Political ContributorMara Liasson is the national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway. Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races.
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
The day the show started!
Q: If you could ask one question to any president, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you ask?
Bill Clinton - What's your biggest regret other then Rwanda?
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
July 4, 1776 - America's Independence Day
Q: If you weren’t a political correspondent and contributor, what else would you like to do?
Architect/Planner
Q: If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
Aung San Suu Kyi- because she is a model of bravery and patience.
Q: If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
My two kids and my husband!
Top 3 Favorite Books
Favorite Quote
Beware of what you wish for, you just might get it!
Favorite location in Washington, DC
Rock Creek Park
Favorite location outside of Washington, DC
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
AB Stoddard
The Hill Associate Editor and ColumnistA.B. Stoddard, an associate editor and columnist at The Hill newspaper, has covered the U.S. Congress since 1994. She is also a regular contributor to The Hill's Pundit's Blog. Her column appears Thursdays in The Hill.
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
Mine are all off camera and off the record :)
Q: If you could ask one question to any president, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you ask?
I want to ask two good friends, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, what they might be able to do together to convince their parties to fix Medicare
Q: If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
Since I wouldn't have the nerve to ask my Dad and Charles Krauthammer all my questions, I would choose Clarence Thomas. I think we know very little about him, and he remains one of the most fascinating stories in America today.
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
Impeachments, assassinations and Nixon's resignation are most memorable, but most significant is the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Q: If you weren’t a columnist, what else would you like to do?
Be Tina Fey or her assistant.
Q: Favorite location in Washington, DC
On the Potomac River
Top 3 Favorite Books
- The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
- Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
- For non-fiction I am putting in a pitch for "Fly Fishing with Darth Vader" by the inimitable Matt Labash for best laughs and I am finding "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray laugh-free though absolutely riveting
What is your favorite location outside of Washington, DC?
Any uncrowded beach, anywhere. Except a desert island
If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
Salt, a sun hat and Jon Stewart.
Favorite Quote?
"We do not remember days...we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese
Bill Kristol
Political ContributorWilliam Kristol is a political contributor for the FOX News Channel (FNC) and serves as a regular contributor to "Special Report with Brit Hume," the highest rated political program on cable television. Kristol serves as editor and publisher of the Washington, D.C.-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard.
Q: What's your Special Report favorite moment?
Any time Shannon Bream substitutes for Bret (just kidding!)
Q: If you could ask one question to any president, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you ask?
To Abraham Lincoln admired several Shakespeare plays. But you wrote, "I think nothing equals Macbeth." Why did you think that, and what did you mean by that?
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
The Exodus from Egypt
Q: If you weren't a political contributor, what else would you like to do?
If I weren't a magazine editor, I'd like to be a mystery writer.
Q: Favorite location in Washington, DC
The White House.
Q: Favorite location outside of Washington, DC
Churchill War Rooms, London.
Top 3 Favorite Books
- Irving Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion"
- Leo Strauss, "Persecution and the Art of Writing"
- Donald Westlake, "Baby, Would I Lie?"
If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
Don't know--I don't do interviews....
Favorite Quote?
"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away." -- Lincoln, Second Inaugural
If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
Bible
Kirsten Powers
Political AnalystKirsten Powers served in the Clinton administration from 1993-1998 and has worked in New York state and city politics. She is a political analyst on Fox News and a writer for the New York Post. She is also a columnist for The Daily Beast.
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
One word: "booger." I was privileged to be a part of history when Charles spoke this word for the first and probably last time on Special Report.
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
For me personally it would be Florida 2000. I went to bed thinking Al Gore was president and woke up to chaos.
Q: If you weren’t a political analyst, what else would you like to do?
I'd want to be a human rights advocate.
Q: Favorite location in Washington, DC
My church in Columbia Heights.
Q: Favorite location outside of Washington, DC
Anywhere my nieces, Mataya and Khloe are.
Q: If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, to ask how she can stand by silently (as she shops online) in the face of widespread rape of women in the country by Syrian soldiers and her husband's killing and torture of the Syrian people.
Top 3 Favorite Books
- 'Break, Blow, Burn' by Camille Paglia
- "What Makes Sammy Run" by Budd Schulberg
- "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
If you were stuck on a dessert island, name three items you would bring with you?
My Bible, sunscreen and a flare gun.
Favorite Quote?
"You get what you settle for." --Louise (Susan Sarandon) in "Thelma and Louise"
Nina Easton
ColumnistNina Easton is FORTUNE's Washington columnist and senior editor, covering politics and economics in the nation's capital for a readership of more than five million. She is a panelist on "Fox News Sunday" and "Special Report," among other shows and provided prime-time commentary throughout the 2008 election. Easton is author of the acclaimed political history "Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy," praised for its "inventive, exhaustive and entertaining" account of post-Reagan conservatism. She won numerous national awards as a Sunday Magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times and later served as deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe. Easton is a California native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
Q: What’s your Special Report favorite moment?
Anytime that I'm right, and Charles is wrong (rarely happens)
Q: If you could ask one question to any president, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you ask?
To Lincoln: "If you knew that the Civil War was going to mean the loss of 618,00 American lives, what if anything would you have done differently?"
Q: What do you think is the most memorable political moment in history?
The death of Jesus
Q: If you weren’t a columnist, what else would you like to do?
Expand our efforts to help women in developing countries become entrepreneurs
Q: Favorite location in Washington, DC
The Billy Goat Trail (Potomac River)
Q: Favorite location outside of Washington, DC
Big Sky, Montana
Top 3 Favorite Books
If you could interview any living person tomorrow, who would it be and why?
Pope Benedict. So many unanswered questions.
Favorite Quote?
"Churchill: “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
If you were stuck on a desert island, name three items you would bring with you?
Solar-powered Ipad, French roast, sunscreen
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