bret baier, welcome. >> thank you.ere. >> how hard is it to relive the agony of what happened in the writing of this book? >> it was tough. i didn't think it was going to be as tough as it was. and getting back into some of these e-mails and some of these moments was pretty emotional. and then as i was writing this book, we found out that paul, our son had to have a third open heart surgery. so the final chapter is the third open heart surgery. so getting into that and while i was finishing the book is -- >> it's largely a book about what happened in the past also became a duke about dealing with currently yet another surgery. but every page, it's a very personal book. any hesitation about going public with so much pain and personal story? at a time by your own admission your family is under great strain and you were not at your best. >> we had long discussions, my wife and i about this. and we came to the conclusion that by putting this out there, it possibly could help other families. and not just if they have a kid

up next, a conversation with bret baier about his awful ordeal. what it's like to watch your newborn baby cling to life. ke >>> bret baier was riding high at fox news when he and his wife, amy, had a baby only to learn that a defective heart could kill him at any moment. young paul had two open heart surgeries and a stomach operation in his first year. and the pain and the pressure on his parents was of course crushing. and bret recounts that ordeal in a new book. >> is it hard to watch, sweetheart, when you see everything that went on? you're okay? >> mm-hmm. >> and you did that race and everything? >> mm-hmm. when you see them? >> thank you for my life. >> bret's book is called "special heart: a journey of faith, hope, and love." i spoke with the anchor of special report right here in studio 1. >> bret, welcome. >> thank you. >> how hard was it relive the agony in the writing of this book? >> it was tough. i didn't think it was going to be as tough as it was. and getting back into some of these e-mails and some of these smoemts was pret moments

i'm shannon breen in for bret baier. president obama is making no apologies tonight for the prisoner exchange that freed an american soldier, but released what's being called a taliban dream team of terrorists. his defiance is not stopping the outcry over a deal many say should never have been done. jennifer griffin at the pentagon lifts a curtain on the sergeant. mike emanuel over how the deal was struck. we begin with ed henry who was with the president in war saw, poland. >> reporter: the president is here to reassure that the situation in ukraine is okay but he's dealing with a problem at home. his handling of foreign policy dipped to a low of 41% amid yet another crises. with questions back home mounting about whether president obama broke the law with the taliban prisoner swap, he used a news conference in poland to start pushing back hard. >> the united states has always had a pretty sacred rule, and that is we don't leave our men or women in uniform behind. >> reporter: well, the president said that rule applies

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created by the cable industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a >> this week on q&a, our guest s bret baier. >> bret, in your new book, you tell about a little girl. >> this week our guest is bret baier, anchor of "special report with bret baier" on the fox news channel and author of "special heart" chronicling the life and near death struggles of his son, paul, who was born with a rare and severe heart defect. >> bret baier in your new book called "special heart" you tell a story about a little girl named maggie. what is it? >> my son, paul, was in the hospital at childrens national. we were waiting to have his open heart surgery. he had been diagnosed with general heart defects and had to have the surgery otherwise he would die. part of waiting was being in the hospital and realizing all of the other families are there. you are kind of in the trenches with them. maggie's family. maggie had been through nine surgeries in nine months. we were really feeling for them. we were in that waiting room every day and walked past maggie's bed on the way to paul. on the day of paul's surgery we came

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier? >> i think you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was ess

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier?ink you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was essentially

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

if you're thad cochran tonight what your thinking, bret baier? think you're thinking you have a real uphill climb because this, i think, all would argue that this energizes a tea party that perhaps wasn't -- they were energized but not to this extent. to be able to take out a house majority leader i think thad cochran who is now in a run off with chris mcdaniel in mississippi will have a real uphill battle to hold on to that seat. >> bret baier, special report each week night, 6:00 eastern here on fox. thank you. check out his book it's in bookstores every where. joining us now with much more, chief political correspondent carl cameron fox news contributor, tucker carlson. carl, earlier you brought up this sea coast trip that eric cantor had taken, the comes of senator mitch mcconnell and even john boehner joking around. there's a dismissive attitude and combative attitude towards tea party members in the republican party. >> eric cantor went down to florida and sponsored by a group called the republican main street partnership which was essentia

i'm bret baier. the search for truth about what happened to emails concerning the irs targeting of conservative groups today touched on the subject of legality. republicans have long claimed the irs violated the law. and as chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel tells me even though federal workers say they may have crossed the line in disappearance.

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general election. it

i'm bret baier in washington. now we will send it back to new york and the o'reilly factor. >>> factor follow up segment tonight. the great american retreat of 2014. no question the u.s.a. is losing influence abroad. here at home border chaos still shaking the economy and a number of major problems. fair to say america is in decline at least at present. charles krauthammer addressed that last night. >> there is a big difference between decline as a condition and decline as a choice. what we have with obama is a president choosing decline. we have a president who doesn't believe in american exceptionism, exceptionalism and america's greatness he has chosen for america to retreat from the middle east and not lift a finger places like ukraine. basically to make us one nation among others.

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

bret baier, anchor of special report. our fox news bret hume. i want to start on that with you bret baier, because the way the democrats are looking at this is there goes those crazy republicans again, infighting, civil war, don't know who they are, continue putting these crazy tea party candidates. all we've heard about, dave brat he's not a crazy candidate he's an academic who didn't like cantor's stance on immigration but the way it will be painted by the left they went with the extremist. >> sure. the releases are flowing out from the democrats and that's to be expected. they see this as a major scalp because they can say that this is the rise of the tea party. laura makes an interesting point about the issue of immigration period, one that we've been talking about and that this is a fervent, really important issue especially for conservatives across the board and if laura is on the phone i would love to ask her. when i was talking about low turn out and reign, clearly this is a small primary as compared to a big turn out for a general elect

i'm bret baier. after a 21 month search, detecti detectives have captured a suspect linked to the benghazi terror attacks. we will get reaction from the woman in charge of the state department when the american facilities were attacked. former secretary of state hillary clinton joins us live on set in a few minutes. we have fox team coverage with ed henry at the white house what this means for a president taking heavy criticism for his foreign policy we begin with jennifer griffin to tell us how it all went down. >> good evening, brett. the united states has been criticized for not getting to him sooner. the united states has been watching him since shortly after the attacks. >> reporter: on sunday, two years after the attacks on benghazi, a joint team of special forces carried out a secret raid to capture the suspected ringleader. >> on sunday night the united states government conducted an operation to capture ahmed abu khatt khattala for the attacks on libya in 2012. >> our special forces showing

and our "power player of the weed," bret baier on his son's amazing story of survivasurviva right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. we'll get to hillary clinton's new book and what it means for 2016 in a moment. but first, some breaking news. the lone american pow of the afghanistan conflict is now in germany. after almost five years in captivity. the taliban turned over army sergeant bowe bergdahl in exchange for five high level afghan detainees being held at guantanamo bay. let's bring in fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> chris, right now sergeant bergdahl is being seen by specialists in landstuhl, germany. he has not spoken to his parents. intelligence are trying to glean anything they can about his time with the taliban. >> he wasn't forgotten by his country because the united states of america does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind. >> only very, very few people knew about this operation. we did not want to jeopardize any leaks. >> bergdahl broke down whether he was on the helicopter being flown to

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. >> this week our guest is bret baier, anchor of "special report with bret baier" on the fox news channel and author of "special heart" chronicling the life and near death struggles of his son, paul, who was born with a rare and severe heart defect. >> bret baier in your new book called "special heart" you tell a story about a little girl named maggie. what is it? >> my son, paul, was in the hospital at childrens national. we were waiting to have his open heart surgery. he had been diagnosed with general heart defects and had to have the surgery otherwise he would die. part of waiting was being in the hospital and realizing all of

i had a good time working with bret baier too.was really >>> tonight on "red eye." >> coming up on "red eye" has the government invented a tanning booth that can help you predict the stock market? the story the situation will do anything to keep secret. plus what has it been like for the president rooting for a soccer player who wasn't even born here? >> it has been a little weird, but keep in mind i have some experience in this myself. >> and when is drunk skateboarding off a roof a good idea? our fearless panel won't rest until they find out. none of these stories on "red eye" tonight. >> welcome to "red eye." i'm andy levy filling in for greg gutfeld. and now let's welcome our guest. from the way she has been crowing about the los angeles

here at this desk in this studio as the former secretary of state sat down for half an hour with bret baier and greta. >> the chancellor of germany is set that we bugged her phone. should she? >> she should be. uncalled for. >> you write that the obama administration or obama campaign after john mccain selected sarah palin, they called you and wanted you to and you something that would dismiss her. >> yes. i believe sexism is a problem not only in politics but downism and business and all kinds of human endeavours in our country. >> the decision to spend a good part of the time on benghazi threw flak from some. >> the first eight questions, eight questions were about benghazi. >> bret baier asked 15 questions, 12 about benghazi. if the fox professional whose cook up this obsession cannot lay a glove on clinton, how good is the committee going to be? >> was fox fair? we now have fox news contributor and former usa executive who hopes associate buzz. >> and a fox news contributor and former spokesman in the bush administration. and craig crawford founder of the trail mix blog and former colum

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lou: bret baier, the book, "special heart," indeed. quite a few special hearts in that family.he proceeds go of course to the family's favorite concern and charity right now. and that's pediatric medicine and -- what are some of the groups that you're donateing? >> various nonprofits, every dollar will go to the pediatric research and treatment. there's a ton of stuff going on. lou: bret baier and his family helping and you can too to make sure that stuff keeps going on. time for comments. social media authors receive a copy of my new book "border war." co written with jim born, asking whether president obama should have released five radical islamist terrorists for sergeant bergdahl. john tweeted us, obama released five terrorists for one deserter. what has he done for a good marine in mexico? >>> frank in new jersey asks, would it be reasonable for americans to be offended by obama's lack of interest and action with a marine in prison in mexico being abused? >>> and richard in indiana e-mailed, lou, today harry reid said he wanted to get all detainees back to home countries.

. >> bret baier asked her a lot of the questions that members of congress should have asked her. a fantastic interview. >> a very successful, very interesting. >> christiane amanpour is one of the best. >> bret baier did really good job. >> fascinating hour-long town hall meeting. >> great to watch. >> great job. >> outstanding job. >> jon: you know, both interviews really were the ultimate [bleeped]. back to you. cnn wasn't satisfied with their exclusive hillary clinton town hall. they held an exclusive after town hall, rent prospective tribute to their previous town hall. >> did she do a good jor or didn't she good a good job. what do you think? good job? [cheering and applause] i think they think she did a pretty good job. the anchor of "the lead" jake tapper has some thoughts. >> christian did great job. let's give a great round of applause for christiane amanpour. she's here with us as well. you did an excellent job. give me a kiss. beautiful job. [laughter] >> jon: i swear to god, you know, cnn, from now on i'm just going to call your network ron jeremy because you're the o

i had a good time working with bret baier too. that was really fun.>> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> regardless of how long it takes, we will will find you. and i want to make sure that everybody around the world hears that message very clearly. >> u.s. special forces grab one of the alleged ringleaders of the benghazi killings in libya. he is now on his way to america. meantime, the al qaeda atrocities mount in iraq. what will president obama do? charles krauthammer, john stossel, and i will analyze. >> talk about the border patrol too biz jr. changing diapers and not going after dope peddlers and illegal immigrants. >> border crisis getting more intense as tens of thousands of foreign children

special reporter bret baier has a new book out today called "special heart."uccesses and good fortune but then the story takes a challenging turn. hours after brett and his wife welcomeded their first child into the world doctors had some alarming news for them and what a journey it has been since that day nearly seven years ago. joining me now, my friend and election night co-anchor, bret baier. great to have you here. i remember it very well because you and amy had paul. you sent out the typical e-mail welcoming in the world and shortly thereafter we received an e-mail, my husband and i dated july 1, 2007 not as we expected. thank you all for your kind words and good wishes after the last e-mail. now we would like to ask you for something else. your prayers. >> yeah. that was tough. tough time. we had the moment where we had this blissful 24 hours with paul. and parents know that. when you meet your new addition and a nurse noticed he was turning pale. they took him for tests. they thought it was a bacterial infection. they called in a cardiologist. he diagn

good evening, i'm bret baier.dent who gets bipartisan criticism for not working with congress all the time, today talked with top lawmakers about iraq. this comes as a new poll shows more and more americans are wondering aloud if the obama presidency is over. more than half, 54%, think

i want to go to bret baier from. all accounts this really was a surprise. saying look in recent weeks they thought eric cantor might come and win this thing after all. you look at the a.p. numbers tonight, bret, this was a fairly resounding defeat for eric cantor whom many thought might be the next speaker of the house. >> trace, this is a huge, huge moment in the republican party. it's also a huge moment in politics. for the house majority leader to go down to a political novice, an economics professor in dave brat, on specifically, it seems, the issue of immigration. over the past two days, brat has been campaigning, saying that a vote for eric cantor is a vote for amnesty. he has been saying that what he says in public cantor, he said, is not what he is saying in private. on the issue of immigration this raise as issue issue and this race and result about immigration reform. if there was any thought that republicans were going to move any piece of legislation through, this race, i think, changes the dynamics significantly on immigration. remember are, th

news , "q & a" with fox anchor and author bret baier. then another chance to see the discussion about the defense and foreign policy goals of president obama. >> for over 35 years, c-span brings public affairs events to washington putting you in the news and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house. we're c-span created by the cable industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a >> this week on q&a, our guest s bret baier. >> bret, in your new book, you tell about a little girl.

back with us is our anchor bret baier. 94% reporting is my last look?ow, it's 50.6% to 49.4%. with thad cochran leading right now. about 40,000 votes separating the two. you have some interesting places still out on this map, some desoto county, that's the outskirts of memphis, votes that are still out being counted also some in heinz county. it is tough to see how this goes back and forth. we've been down to 2,000 votes separating the two over the last few minutes. thad cochran desperate to hold on and win another term. mcdaniel trying to upset cochran and it was believed the tea party support would get the conservatives out. both of them did get, it looks like, the votes out. and turnout is really high in the special election, really quickly, new york, charlie rangel is hanging on right now, still early, 36% in. espaillat is a challenger, dominican born, the district has changed around charlie rangel. he could lose this he's trying to get a 23rd term in congress. >> do we know anything about the 5% of the vote that is out in mississippi tonight? >> it

. >>> i'm bret baier in washington. ion in mississippi has gone to the incumbent let's go to john roberts. >> good evening, bret. looks like 51% for thad cochran, 51% for chris mcdaniel. nobody wanted to see it this close. this is a very, very big wake up call for the republican establishment here in the state of mississippi but there is a new movement in this state they need to pay attention to. cochran won the unions on the coast. 50,000 more people voted in the runoff than the primary. it's extraordinary. >> john, thank you. a major battle for g.o.p. nomination for colorado governor. it's been called for. political watchers say this could help cory gardener in the fall. in oklahoma, congressman james langford over senator over the end of the year. it's a busy night here on america's election headquarters i'm bret baier in washington. now back to new york and the o'reilly factor. >>> factor follow up segment tonight. the great american retreat of 2014. no question the u.s.a. is losing influence abroad. here at home bor

bret baier's young son paul was born with heart disease. on tuesday, he and gretta are going to interview former secretary of state hillary clinton and brett, thank you for coming in on a weekend and happy father's day to you. >> happy father's day to you, governor. >> i want to begin. you have been to iraq a dozen of times and now you are seeing a situation that is clearly, clearly on fire. i want to get your reaction to what is happening and from your personal perspective and having been there, your feet have been on the ground there and what are you thinking as you watch this? >> i was struck by lieutenant colonel's interview earlier. and to hear the men who fought on those battlefields and who have held those cities essentially standing side by side with iraqi soldiers and watching them fall one by one to the radical group and the isis. and we had an intelligence officer on special report. he said it is more radical than al-qaeda. and they are leading disa tacted sunnis against the sunnis and prime freedom malkey. and it is sad to watch

let me know on faib.com/bret baier sr. on or twitter, you can use the #special report. >> another record setting day on wall street. dow up 18, s&p up 2, nasdaq up 14. >> no good deed goes unpunished. why the keystone pipeline really could be a matter of life and death. the grapevine is next. they lived ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what mas a subaru, a subaru. finally, the purple pill, the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand. comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection. >>> fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the last we heard from the administration on the keystone xl pipeline was the april announcement of an indefinite delay on a final decision. it drew bipartisan criticism with several democrats calling it unacceptable. friday, the state department released corrections to its environmental impact statement which found the pipeline raised no major environment concerns. the corrections give pi

i want to give a shout out to bret baier. he has a new book out. it's called special heart.tal heart disease. he had surgery when he was only one-year-old. he survived and now he's a thriving little boy. bret writes about the whole ordeal, 1 in 100 children born with some type of congenital heart detective. i remember when he came in the day before, to see president bush, every cent of this book goes to charities to help children with heart disease. so you can see me on special report tonight. you can see him on o'reilly as well. >> the picture i'm about to show you is my beautiful lovely daughter mckenzie and her date at her senior prom and it's been commented on me several times, how can somebody that beautiful come from me, well, she did in fact and it may have been just the luck of the draw, but i love her very much. she's on her way to colorado to go to college, and she is a delightful young lady. >> and you are going to her graduation ceremony. >> she looks beautiful. >> i was going to talk about snap chat, but instead, let's do this. what i learned today, bob beckle,

hillary clinton sat down with bret baier, greta van susteren. i think she did an outstanding job. here she is setting the record straight on benghazi. >> did you talk to secretary panetta that night? >> i talked with director petraeus. >> your testimony where -- before the senate on benghazi, you stated this. i certainly did not know of any reports that contradicted the talking points at the time that ambassador rice went opt the tv shows? you stand by that statement. >> i do, bret. i wrote about that at length in my book. this was the fog of war. >> do you know where the president was at the time of the attack? >> the president was in the white house? >> did you talk to the president about the video? >> i don't know that i talk to him about it at that conversation. >> i must say, she sure didn't seem brain dead there. she seemed very lively, answering tough questions from a first rate interviewer. >> you have something to say. >> they did did a great job. >> she came in a the lions den and she was to be supposed to injured and uncertain. >> you really in good faith think she did

. >> fox news anchor bret baier explaining how his 6-year-old son survived a devastating heart ailment. bret will be here tonight. >> goldberg on the. who americans love and who they loathe. >> al sharpton. i think he is sneaky, conniving. just don't trust him. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪. >>> i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us. net another controversy in the white house. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. it truly amazing -- i have never seen almost every week there is another intense situation raising questions about presidential leadership. last week it was the v.a. this week, a trade with the taliban to get an american soldier released from captivity. 28-year-old sergeant bowe bergdahl was captured by the taliban in afghanistan on june 30th, 2009. apparently he slipped out of his camp and the terrorists grabbed him. over the weekend the president made a deal with the taliban to have the sergeant released immediately. in return, five top taliban terrorists were held who were held in guantanamo w

good evening, i'm bret baier, the u.s.s the message tonight from president obama as he deals with a resurgence in islamist extremist in iraq. he's promising some aid but no troops and telling the iraqis they need to step up themselves and solve their political differences. we have fox team coverage tonight, jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with a look at who

then "q & a" with bret baier. >> congress should have the authority to look at highest and best services so we can continue to improve on private security systems and also continue innovation and investment. >> issues facing the telecommunications industry with verizon executive on "the communicators" on c-span2. sunday at eight." >> many of the problems we saw at the end begin at the very beginning. i spoke already about the attempt to control all institutions and control all parts of the economy and political life and social life. one of the problems is that when you do that, when you try to control everything, then you create opposition and potential disdense everywhere. if you tell all artists they have to paint the same way, and one artist says no, i don't want to paint that way, you have just made him into a political dissident into someone who might have otherwise been apolitical. if you tell boy scouts they can longer be boy scouts they have to be young pioneers, which is what happened in a number of ountries, and then they formed underground boy scouts groups, you have created p