Bret Baier Shares His Impressions of Kamala Harris After Contentious Sit-Down

Fox News host Bret Baier recapped his Wednesday night interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, telling his colleagues that he bought a way early on that Harris “was going to be robust to redirect with out me attempting to interrupt.”

The interview, Harris’ first on the right-wing community since turning into the Democratic nominee, was broadcast on Particular Report after being filmed within the earlier hour. Based on Baier, the interview had been scheduled for five p.m., however Harris confirmed up quarter-hour late. This, he complained, was like “icing the kicker” in soccer.

“We have been supposed to start out at 5 p.m. This was the time they gave us. Initially, we have been going to do 25 or half-hour. They got here in and stated, ‘Properly, possibly 20.’ So, it’s already getting whittled down. After which the vp confirmed up at about 5:15 p.m. We have been pushing the envelope to have the ability to flip it round for the highest of the 6:00 p.m.. In order that’s the way it began,” Baier stated.

The Fox host, who would go on to interrupt Harris’s responses a number of occasions, stated their first alternate—on immigration—confirmed that she can be “robust.”

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“I may inform after we began speaking that she was going to be robust to redirect with out me attempting to interrupt,” stated Baier, who likened his expertise to interviewing former President Barack Obama years in the past. “I did this with President Obama—at one level I simply stated, ‘Mr. President, I do know you prefer to filibuster.’ I simply didn’t even have the possibility, generally, to redirect in these methods. I had loads of different questions.”

Baier stated later that in direction of the conclusion of the interview, he may see members of Harris’ group signaling that his time was up.

“I’m speaking like 4 folks waving their fingers prefer it’s bought to cease,” he stated, including that Harris would possibly profit by doing related interviews sooner or later.

“Possibly she ought to do extra of those,” he stated.

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