Bret-Baier

 William Bret Baier (/'bret 'beI@rBret Baier (born August 4 1970) is the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and the chief political correspondent of Fox. Before being hired by Fox, he was the Chief White House Correspondent, and Pentagon correspondent. Baier attended DePauw University in Greencastle in Indiana and graduated in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English as well as political science. While at DePauw, he became an active member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternityBaier began his TV career at a local station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, prior to joining WRAL-TV, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1998, he submitted an audition tape to Fox News and was hired as Atlanta bureau chief. He drove from Georgia to Arlington in Virginia to report on the Pentagon attack on September 11, 2001. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau, and instead was tapped as the network's Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years, taking eleven trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips