Bret Baier
Bret Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey, United States on August 4th, 1970 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 54, Bret Baier biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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William Bret Baier (born August 4, 1970) is the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and the chief political anchor for Fox.
He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent.
Early life
Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey, to a family of mixed German and Irish origins. Raised Catholic, he attended Marist School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1988. Baier then attended the methodist 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.
Personal life
Baier, who served as an altar boy in his youth, is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown.
Baier and his wife Amy have two sons, Daniel and Paul. Paul was born with cardiac problems and before the child's open-heart surgery in 2008, President George W. Bush invited Baier and his wife and son to the Oval Office for a visit and had the White House physician update him on Paul's progress. In 2009, Baier was named a "Significant Sig" by the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Career
Baier started his television career with a local television station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before joining WRAL-TV and then a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1998, he delivered an audition tape to Fox News and was hired as the network's Atlanta bureau chief. He went from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, on September 11, 2001, to cover the Pentagon's attack. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau but was instead tapped as the network's Pentagon reporter, spending five years and going on 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq.
In 2007, he was appointed Fox News' White House reporter, covering George W. Bush's administration. He began substituting for British Hume in the fall of 2007, then anchor of Special Report on Fridays.
Hume anchor John Hume's last show on December 23, 2008, and Baier announced that he would be replaced as the anchor of Special Report. On January 5, 2009, he hosted his first show as a permanent anchor.
On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Baier promoted his new book To Save the Republic, Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the 1876 War.