Bret Baier Biography
Bret Baier an American news journalist and political correspondent who hosts Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and the chief political correspondent for Fox.
He previously served as the network’s Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent. Baier is as well recipient of the 2017 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, the National Press Foundation’s highest honor for a broadcast journalist.
Bret Baier Age
Bret was born on August 4, 1970, in Rumson, New Jersey.
Bret Baier FOX News Channel
Baier currently serves as FOX News Channel’s (FNC) chief political anchor and anchor of “Special Report with Bret Baier” (weeknights 6 PM-7 PM), the top-rated cable news program in its timeslot and consistently one of the top five shows in cable news. Based in Washington, D.C., Baier joined the network in 1998 as the first reporter in the Atlanta bureau.
He began his television career with a local station in Rockford, Illinois, before joining WRAL-TV, then CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998 and was hired as the network’s Atlanta bureau chief.
Bret drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network’s Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq.
He was named Fox News’s White House correspondent in 2007, covering the administration of George W. Bush. In the fall of 2007, he began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of Special Report, on Fridays.
On December 23, 2008, Brit Hume anchored his final show and announced Baier would replace him as the anchor of Special Report He hosted his first show as a permanent anchor on January 5, 2009.
A Freedom of Information Act request filed to investigate anti-Fox News bias in the Barack Obama administration revealed an internal email written by Deputy White House Communications Director, Jen Psaki, dated October 23, 2009, that referred to Baier as a “lunatic.”
Bret Baier Salary
Bret earns an annual salary range of of $100,00-$200,000
Bret Baier Net Worth
Bret has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Bret Baier Height and Wight
Bret stands tall at an average height and has a moderate weight.
Bret Baier Family
Bret joined Marist School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1988.
Bret Baier Education
He later attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a BA degree in political science and English. At DePauw, he became a member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Bret Baier Father
Bret’s was born to his fatherBill Baier who sadly passed away in September 2020 after succumbing to cancer.
Bret Baier Wife and Married
Bret is married to Amy Baier, the duo got married back in 2005. The pair have been blessed with two sons namely Daniel and paul.
Bret Baier Son Paul Baier
Bret’s son Paul was born with Cardiac complications and before Paul’s open-heart surgery in 2008, President George W. Bush invited the duo and son to the Oval Office for a visit and had the White House physician update him on Paul’s progress.