Bret Baier defends interrupting Kamala Harris 38 times during Fox News interview, says he loves the SNL sketch

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Fox News host Bret Baier says he understands why people were upset about his recent controversial interview with Kamala Harris that was parodied Saturday Night Live over the weekend.

“I understand the criticism,” said BaierVanity Fair on Monday. “I wonder if that was different.”

During last week's interview, Baier interrupted Harris frequently.

Baier argued he had subjected other high-profile executives to a similar style, including an interview with Donald Trump in 2023.

“If you remember the one-on-one conversation with former President Trump, he didn't like it at the time,” the Fox News host added.

However, a CNN analysis found that Trump interrupted Harris 38 times in 27 minutes, about twice as often as Trump interrupted.

The Harris interview also drew criticism for the way the moderator handled discussion of Trump's recent comments in which he suggested using the military to control “radical left-wing lunatics,” whom he described as ” “the enemy from within”.

During the conversation, Fox News aired another segment from a subsequent town hall event with Harris Faulkner in which Trump appeared more moderate. Trump's original comments had actually been made days earlier in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.

Baier later described the decision to run the separate club as a mistake.

“I made a mistake and I want to say that I made a mistake,” Baier told viewers last week.

The Fox host further explained the moment Vanity Fair.

“I wanted to point out that Harris Faulkner had a town hall meeting with the former president that same day asking specifically about this question and what he meant,” Baier said, adding that “in the chaos of getting it on the air , I…”I didn't see how we could have made that clearer to both the viewer and the vice president who heard it.”

The Special report The host also said he was annoyed by how the interview was later parodied SNLwith Alec Baldwin and Maya Rudolph taking on the roles of Baier and Harris, respectively.

“I laughed out loud several times and my sons thought it was very cool. Alec is welcome as a guest presenter Special report Anytime,” said Baier.