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Bret Baier: 4 Kamala Harris Staffers Frantically 'Waving Their Hands' Forced Me to 'Dismount' at End of Interview

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A word-wrestling confrontation that marked the end of Bret Baier’s Fox News interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was cut short by her staff, Baier said after the interview.

Baier was pressing Harris about her position on the Middle East as he indicated he was being told that the interview had reached its end.

“They’re giving me a hard wrap here,” Baier said at the end of the testy exchange with Harris, according to a video posted to YouTube.

“I’m talking to like four people, waving their hands like, ‘It’s gotta stop!” Baier said in a video clip posted to X.

“I had to dismount there, at the end,” he said.

The ending capped an evening in which Baier believed Harris and her team brought gamesmanship to the interview, according to Newsweek.

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“It was a little tense. We were given the time of 5 p.m. ET. Obviously my show is at 6 p.m. They wanted to tape at 5 p.m.,” he said.

“We said we were going to tape as live, in other words roll the tape and just turn that around unedited, uninterrupted, but we had to do it before 5:15, otherwise we couldn’t turn the whole machine around before the top of the 6 p.m. show,” he said.



“So we were waiting at 4:55, and then 5:00, and 5:05 and 5:10,” he added.

“At 5:17 the vice president walked out, so it did feel a little bit like they were icing the kicker or trying to, and originally they were talking about 25 minutes, and they gave us 20 minutes,” he said, referring to a football strategy of trying to deliberately keep an opposing team’s kicker waiting for a big field goal attempt.

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Baier said he believed Harris came seeking a scrap and a sound bite to share.

“I think she had a mission that she wanted to do, and maybe she wanted to have a viral moment. She wanted to have a pushback,” he said.

“She came to Fox News, and she wanted to go after Donald Trump — [a] viral moment that plays on a lot of other channels and on social media. And I think she may have gotten that,” he said.

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Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com.
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