Fox News host Bret Baier claims Harris was late as he offers autopsy on ‘tough’ interview | EUROtoday

Fox News host Bret Baier claimed Kamala Harris was quarter-hour late to their fiery sit-down interview as he delivered his verdict on the vice chairman’s efficiency.

The veteran presenter spoke to colleague Dana Perino to present his autopsy on the 27-minute interview after it wrapped on Wednesday evening, saying it had been “tough to redirect” the Democratic candidate with out interrupting her.

Baier in contrast Harris being late to the interview to when the kicker in soccer calls a time-out earlier than they go to kick the sphere purpose.

“They’re icing the kicker,” he mentioned. “So, we were supposed to start at 5pm. This was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, ‘Well, maybe 20.’ So, it’s already getting whittled down.

“And then the vice president showed up at about 5.15pm,” he mentioned, including that it was a decent turnaround as a result of the present airs at 6pm.

Baier has been criticized on-line for repeatedly interrupting and speaking over the vice chairman throughout the interview, the place the pair had a number of heated exchanges.

Addressing his interruptions, he advised Perino: “I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to redirect without me trying to interrupt.

“I did this with President Obama–at one point I just said, ‘Mr President, I know you like to filibuster.’ I just didn’t even have the chance, sometimes, to redirect in those ways. I had a lot of other questions.”

When his time was up, he mentioned Harris’s marketing campaign workers began waving their palms signaling the interview was over. “I’m talking, like, four people waving their hands like it’s got to stop,” he mentioned.

However, Perino conceded: “At times, especially when she was trying to go after Donald Trump, she was fairly effective in that, to try to get her point of view across.”

In one other interview with conservative commentator Mark Levin, Baier mentioned he was “frustrated” as a result of he couldn’t ask all of the questions he needed within the allotted time.

“I had so much stuff to get to,” he mentioned. “I was hoping it was going to be this civil back-and-forth, but it was good for her to come on and I think she should do more of them, but I was just trying to get through the talking points and it took a while.”

The Independent has contacted the Harris marketing campaign for remark.

Trump weighed in on the interview, accusing Harris of getting an “irredeemable case of Trump derangement syndrome,” and – regardless of considerations over his personal cognitive schools – recommended the vice chairman ought to take a cognitive check.

Posting on Truth Social, Trump mentioned: “She is barely able to talk about any subject other than the man who had the best economy ever, the strongest border in history, and who just got the UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT OF THE U.S. Border Patrol, ME!”

He added: “She is also the WORST Vice President in history, but hopefully will soon be GONE. Again, congratulations to Bret Baier on a tough but very fair interview, one that clearly showed how totally incompetent Kamala is. For the good of our Nation, her inferior Cognitive ability must be tested at once!”

Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg advised CNN it was an “impressive” efficiency from Harris.  “She was tough, smart, focused, disciplined, the same qualities that made her a very effective prosecutor, and I think are going to make her a very effective president,” he mentioned.

Former GOP consultant Adam Kinzinger additionally praised her for “going into the lion’s den”.

“She went into the lion’s den and took them on and stood tall.  Fox tried their bs [sic] gotchas in their rightwing reality, and she turned everything deftly back to Trump and held him accountable in his own safe space,” he mentioned.