Bret Baier currently serves as FOX News Channel's anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier weeknights, chief political anchor of the network and co-anchor of the network’s election coverage. Baier is also host of FOX News Audio's "The Bret Baier Show" which includes Common Ground and The All-Star Panel. He joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter in the Atlanta bureau and is now based in Washington, D.C. where he was recently described as "the most influential news anchor in America right now" at the 2025 Semafor Trust in News summit.