Bret Baier is the Chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity Baier reports on presidential activities on a national and international scale.

Prior to being named Chief White House correspondent, Baier served as a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy, and the intelligence community from the Pentagon. Throughout his career, he has secured numerous exclusive interviews with government officials, including interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace, among others.

In 2007 Baier had an exclusive sit-down with Vice President Cheney while traveling in Iraq. He also has provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, and was the only television reporter to travel with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers on the general’s first trip to Iraq since the capture of Saddam Hussein.

Baier reported on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and then followed the evolution of the attacks into the War on Terror. Previously, he reported on the U.S. military mission in Haiti and on the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.

Baier joined FOX News Channel in 1998 as the first reporter to be based in the network’s 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 the network with a series of reports on 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 in Raleigh, N.C., WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, Ill. and WJWJ-TV in Beaufort, S.C. He began his career as a production assistant at CNN.

Baier has received several honors for his work, including the South Carolina Associated Press Award for Superior Television Journalism.

A graduate of DePauw University, Baier has a bachelor’s degree in political science and English.