Bret Baier admits he made a ‘mistake’ in Harris interview—a day later

Fox News host Bret Baier is attempting to do damage control on his reputation, saying on Thursday that a deceptively edited clip he used during his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was aired by "mistake.” 

During his Wednesday interview with Harris, Baier played a clip of Donald Trump in which the former president was trying to clean up a comment he had made in which he warned that Democrats are the “enemy from within.” Trump’s authoritarian suggestion that Democrats are even more dangerous than foreign adversaries, such as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, has drawn widespread condemnation.

Baier said Thursday that he was expecting the clip he aired to include the original “enemy from within” comments as well as Trump’s explanation of why he made those comments from the Wednesday town hall hosted by fellow Fox News host Harris Faulkner.

“I did make a mistake,” Baier said on Fox News on Thursday. “When I called for a sound bite, I was expecting a piece of the ‘enemy from within,’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview, to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about the ‘enemy from within.’ It just had the piece from the town hall.”