Fox News’ Bret Baier Shares His Impressions of Kamala Harris After Contentious Sit-Down
Fox News host Bret Baier summarized his interview on Wednesday evening with vice-president Kamala Harris, telling his colleagues that he had a very early feeling that Harris “was going to be difficult to redirect without me trying to interrupt”.
The interview, the first on the right network of Harris since becoming the Democratic candidate, was broadcast on Special report After being filmed at the previous hour. According to Baier, the interview had been scheduled since 17 hours, but Harris appeared 15 minutes late. This, he complained, was like “icing the kicker” in football.
“We had to start at 5 p.m., it was the moment when they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came and said, “Well, maybe 20 years. So it is already reduced.
The host of Fox, who would continue to interrupt Harris’ answers several times, said that their first exchange – on immigration – displayed that it would be “difficult”.
“I could say when we started to speak that she was going to be difficult to redirect without my trying to interrupt,” said Baier, who compared his experience to the interview with Barack Obama years ago. “I did it with President Obama – at some point, I just said:” Mr. President, I know that you like to study. I did not even have the opportunity, sometimes, to redirect this way.
Baier later said that at the end of the interview, he could see Harris team members pointing that his time was sold.
“I speak, like four people by waving their hands as if it were to stop,” he said, adding that Harris could benefit from it by doing similar interviews in the future.
“Maybe she should do more,” he said.
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Later, in an interview with the conservative personality Mark Levin, Baier developed, saying: “There was a little frustration” and that “I had so much to reach.
“I hoped that it would be a civilian back and forth, but it was good for her to come and I think she should do more, but I was just trying to cross the points of discussion and it took some time, and it was a bit, you know, to interrupt and in a way, entering the breath.”
“They wanted a viral moment,” said Baier, repeating how his initial time would have been cut by the Harris campaign and that Harris was late.
“I was really hoping that it was going to go as I considered it, which looked more like a conversation on subjects. We could say: “You have differences, that’s where I am”, I would press, but in a respectful way. And I did a lot of these interviews where it is really fruitful to have a back and forth and you get a little space, and you learn something about politics and where they are. Essentially, it is a practice for a debate and therefore I must be able to get my questions as much as possible in a respectful but difficult way and hope that it will come back when it is in a different and talkative mood and we learn more. “”
