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Fox’s Bret Baier Reveals ‘Most Challenging’ Thing About Trump: Debating Which Fact-Checking ‘Hill To Die On’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier revealed that fact-checking is the most challenging thing about interviewing President Donald Trump — and deciding which “hill to die on.”
NOTUS (News of the United States) — which bills itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit newsroom dedicated to “honest reporting” — held a journalism forum on Wednesday morning, hours after Trump delivered a 99-minute address to a joint session of Congress.
The program, entitled “Media and Democracy: Covering Trump 2.0,” consisted of a panel moderated by NOTUS White House reporter Jasmine Wright and consisting of Politico White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett, ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl, and MSNBC host Ali Vitali.
The headline attraction was a Q&A with Baier moderated by Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal, during which Dawsey quizzed him extensively about interviewing Trump and other presidents.
Asked the most “challenging” thing about Trump, Baier noted “there’s a lot to fact-check” with him:
JOSH DAWSEY: What do you what do you find is the most challenging part of interviewing him one on one and sort of how do you prepare for it?
BRET BAIER: Yeah. So the fact-checking real time, you have to debate what is– what is worth dying on that hill and having that moment.
Because there’s a lot to fact check, as you know, you know, through something, he says.
But in an effort to get news, I think you you try to steer him to the questions you’re trying to go to. The heart of the issue.
He does answer questions more than any other president I’ve ever seen. I think he’s already answered some 1400 questions from the press in some way, shape or form– comparison to the last president. Contrast, rather, is night and day.
He eventually answers the question. You just have to give them time sometimes to get there. And that’s a challenge. In a TV interview especially.
JOSH DAWSEY: Right. It’s different sort of in print. You know, if I have 30 minutes with him, I can sort of let him wander off and then bring him back and then whatever.
But when you’re on a limited time period and you’re live on camera, I’m guessing there’s different contours and how you think you have to handle that.
BRET BAIER: Right. And so I’ve interviewed obviously other presidents, President Obama of days before the the Obamacare vote in the House. And, you know, I just remember being in the blue Room asking questions. And the first answer was three minutes, and the second answer was three minutes and 30s. And they gave me 20 minutes overall. And there was a guy, a White House staffer with a phone that was ticking back from 20 minutes, like a time-bomb. And, you know, I’m looking at it going, wow, if I don’t step in here.
JOSH DAWSEY: (inaudible) president in the wrong way. You also sort of pardon my French look like an asshole. So–
BRET BAIER: Yeah, yeah. So there’s a fine line.
Watch above via NOTUS .
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Colby Hall: ‘Hamilton’ Did Trump a ‘Favor’ By Cancelling Kennedy Center Run
Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall argued producers behind the popular musical Hamilton did President Donald Trump a “favor” and threw him a softball by canceling their Kennedy Center performances in protest.
“Our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture that is being imposed on the Kennedy Center,” Jeffrey Seller, the show’s producer, said in a statement after the cancellations.
The move was in response to Trump taking control of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees after taking issue with shows being performed. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously said in a statement after Trump took control that the “Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke.”
Hall, a NewsNation contributor, argued on Thursday that the protest is “consistent with free speech and constitutional values.”
He said, “Personally, I don’t really have a problem with it. It’s a protest that’s consistent with free speech and constitutional values and conservative, long-standing conservative values. It’s a free market. And if you don’t want to be a part of something that has, you know, apparently been politicized in a way that it hasn’t been before, you know, you sort of just ought not to do it.”
Hall warned that this “publicity stunt” will in no way punish the intended target.
He argued:
“The people that are actually going to be punished by this is no one in the Trump administration and not Trump. It’s the musical theater fans in the D.C. area, which I think are largely left of center. So, you know, there may be sort of unintended consequences of punishing people that would normally be your fans, but, you know, it’s designed to get us talking about it and bring attention to it and here we are.”
Hall denied that art can be “apolitical” as critics and “Archie Bunker” Trump appear to want.
“I don’t think art is necessarily apolitical, right? I think, you know, if you look at most art, it’s often sort of come from the underground and, you know, people that are trying to speak truth to power or say something different or think differently,” Hall argued, adding:
And art typically starts as radical ideas that then later gets accepted, you know, many, many decades and generations later. So, you know, I don’t think that Hamilton is really that much of a sort of — I mean, it’s mainstream a hit because it, you know, there’s a reason why vanilla ice cream is very popular also, like it’s not that edgy. And so I think they made their point.
I’ll also say the idea that Trump inserted himself by taking over the Kennedy Center because he didn’t like the woke programming is, you know, it’s straight up Archie Bunker and [the] popular vote wanted that.
Not much will be made of the controversy, Hall concluded, but he also argued producers may have done Trump a “favor” as he thrives on “wedge” issues.
Hall concluded, “It’s the situation where our political leaders are sort of fighting one another like toddlers. Like he started it. No he did. And I think a lot of people are over it. You know, they have the right to say that they don’t want to do it anymore. And, you know, it’s the sort of wedge issue in conflict that the Trump administration delights in. So they kind of maybe did him a favor.”
Watch above via NewsNation .
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