FOX News Channel’s Bret Baier to Interview Former President Donald Trump on Monday June 19
07 June 2023 - 1:36AM
Business Wire
Interview Marks Baier’s First Sit Down with
the Former President Since 2018
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) chief political anchor and executive
editor of Special Report Bret Baier will interview former President
Donald Trump on Monday, June 19th. The interview marks Baier’s
first with the former president since 2018 and will air during
FNC’s Special Report at 6 PM/ET with a focus on the 2024 Republican
presidential primary.
Throughout his tenure, Baier has helmed coverage of every major
political event for FNC, providing viewers with the latest insight
and headline making interviews while breaking television ratings
records in the process. His program, Special Report with Bret
Baier, has averaged over 2.2 million viewers a night this year,
routinely ranking in the top five most-watched shows in all of
cable news. Special Report has also been the highest rated 6 PM/ET
cable news program for 14 consecutive years and Baier’s Common
Ground podcast is among the top offerings on FOX News Audio.
Additionally, Baier has served as a moderator for the FOX News
editions of The Senate Project debates, a coalition between the
Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the
Edward M. Kennedy Institute, which hosts leading senators from
different ends of the political spectrum with the goal of finding
areas of common ground. He will moderate the next installment of
the series on Monday, June 12 featuring Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA)
and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) which will stream live on FOX Nation at
11 AM/ET.
Since joining the network in 1998, Baier has interviewed sitting
presidents, lawmakers and world leaders across the political
spectrum, including then-President Barack Obama, then-President
George W. Bush, then-Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and the Dalai Lama,
among many others.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service and has been the number one network in basic cable for the
last six years and the most-watched television news channel for
more than 21 consecutive years, currently attracting nearly 50% of
the cable news viewing audience according to Nielsen Media
Research. Notably, Nielsen/MRI Fusion has consistently shown FNC to
be the network of choice for more Democrat and Independent viewers,
with the most politically diverse audience in cable news.
Additionally, a 2021 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index
report stated FOX News leads the news industry in both brand
loyalty, engagement, and expectations while a 2022 Brand Keys poll
showed FNC dominating morning and evening news in customer loyalty
engagement. Owned by Fox Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 80
million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely
notching the top 10 programs.
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