Tuesday night Baier told CBS’s Late Show host Stephen Colbert all those headlines about the blockbuster lawsuit, followed by other lurid charges made against Ailes by other women, dating back decades, “are foreign to me.”
“You guys over there are making some news that I’m sure you don’t welcome,” Colbert said right off the bat when FNC’s top political guy sat down to talk about the upcoming political conventions.
“Gretchen Carlson has accused your boss, and the genius behind Fox News, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment and reprisal.” Colbert wondered what’s the mood in the FNC hallways, because “other people have come out and supported these accusations.”
“The Roger I know is somebody who has been amazing to me” and “one of the first people who called when my son had to have open heart surgery, not once but three times,” Baier said. “That’s the Roger I know.”
According to deadline.com, he quickly tried to turn the talk to FNC’s upcoming convention plans, beginning with “We have a lot of focus on; we have a lot to do.” But Colbert wasn’t finished with that other topic:
“It must be hard to do when you guys ARE the story,” he pushed back. Fox “has always been in the headlines, one way or another; I think unjustly sometimes,” Baier said, then he began again to plug FNC’s political confabs plans, including his upcoming interview with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, TV Newser reports that when Fox News journalists show up in Cleveland to cover the Republican National Convention next week they'll be packing gas masks,
Bret Baier says they’ll be ready for anything that might happen, especially involving protests.
“We have teams out there that will be covering protests. They have equipment, gas masks, security,” Baier told CBS’ The Late Show host Stephen Colbert. Security is “a serious concern” at both the Republican and Democratic conventions, he added.
“Anything can happen,” Baier said. “And this election has proven that we don’t know what’s next.”
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