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Hi, guys.

Jenna and David here.

Another "Faith Nation" underway this week.

David, big show today.

Oh, we got a huge show.

The Majority Leader, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy

on the show.

But let's not bury the lead, because we've

got other special guests here.

And I believe-- look who's sitting on the set.

Our lead story, Bret Baier, Fox News superstar--

Bret, thanks for being here.

Great to be here.

Thanks, Brett.

Well, we have to start with the news of the day.

President Trump at it again, tweeting this morning,

saying that transgenders no longer will be

allowed to join the military.

Were you as surprised as we were when these

tweets starting coming down?

We were.

Because obviously, this policy has been set

with the last administration.

And a lot of folks believed that this was where

the Pentagon was going to be.

I think there's a lot of questions

not only with the administration,

but at the Pentagon.

Because the people we talked to this morning

said they found out by Twitter.

There wasn't this big discussion about it.

So I think there's all kinds of sides to this.

And there are a lot of folks-- we did a story last year

about concern about it from generals

who had looked at it as a social experiment

that the military was doing.

But then there's obviously what the president

had said as a candidate about this issue and where he is now.

So it's a lot of different angles.

And you've got a unique perspective, obviously,

covering the Pentagon there for a while.

You've got these military roots, if you will.

I do.

And a lot of people I still talk to all the time

from my days of 6 and 1/2 years of walking around

the 19 miles of the Puzzle Palace, as they call it,

the Pentagon.

Jeff Sessions-- boy, I tell you what, he marches--

he being the president-- he marches

to the beat of his own drum.

You wonder if this is going to have

some serious residual effect within the base

of the conservative movement here.

Where does this end here?

Well, I think it's a great question.

I think if you hear Mark Levin and different conservative talk

show hosts saying that this is a bad move,

it's interesting to see that the president keeps

on going down this road.

I think most people will say that they'd

like to see them sitting in the same room and talk out,

air out the differences.

But the president's communication of choice

has been by Twitter.

And from what we hear, the Attorney General

is not going anywhere.

Unless that changes in the last--

we better check Twitter.

Stand by.

Well, speaking of communications, new White House

Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci-- what's your

read on this guy?

By the way, I call hum Tony from New York.

Well, that's better than the Mooch.

That's his nickname, the Mooch.

What does that say about him?

Listen, he's smooth.

He's kind of a character.

But here's what he has-- he has the trust

and access to the president.

And in that position, that's key.

I don't know how he's going to change things.

I think it's a great sign that he

said the on-camera briefings are coming back.

That's a positive for all of us who cover the White House.

But he is somebody who definitely has the president's

back when it comes to seeing simpatico on his agenda.

Well, I'm from New York, and I can tell you

I think he's been called a piece of work.

He's a piece of work for sure.

Fox News-- the critics will say, look, the president

is pretty friendly with Fox News.

What kind of pushback do you all get over there?

You guys have had that access to the president.

Is there certain flak from other journalists based on the fact

that Fox News is-- has been in this position for a while,

but with this president, it seems like it's

a different level, if you will.

Well, it's important to point out the two sides of Fox.

You've got the opinion side and the news side.

So if you're looking for--

I'm still looking for that first President Trump

interview, as is Chris Wallace.

And we ask every day.

So we haven't been there.

The last interview I had with candidate Trump

was eight days before the election.

So it's different.

We love the access for the channel overall.

But it's two sides of the channel.

And so I think the critics paint with a broad brush,

and they don't look at the news side and the opinion side.

Do you know why that is?

Why do you think yourself and Chris--

not to get too personal about it,

but there has been other places he's been on the channel.

Is there any rhyme or reason to that, or any philosophy?

I don't know, but we're working it.

And I don't know whether--

he's obviously more comfortable on certain shows.

He watches "Fox and Friends" a lot,

and he's on that show a lot.

And obviously, Sean is a personal friend.

I think we are in a different news position.

And like other news shows, he has not

done a ton of those interviews.

And President Trump, he complains a lot

about the Russia coverage.

What do you think?

Is there too much of it?

Well, I think the balance has been lost.

You can cover it and cover it aggressively.

And we don't know what we don't know as this continues to go.

But I do think that there are some outlets that

have gone over their skis as far as the amount of coverage

with what we do know.

As these leaks come out, some of them

have had to be walked back.

And so we take it one day at a time.

We're aggressively reporting it, but we're also

covering other things in the world that

are really important so that somebody at the end of the show

could say, I have a perspective of what's

going on as opposed to, well, I know

all the angles about Russia.

Well, Brett, we want to cut to Facebook.

We're getting some questions for you.

Wow, look at this.

Interactive.

Yeah.

This comes from Maggio Alvarado.

Have you ever, Brett, been in a position

to go against your beliefs, afraid to lose your job?

I've never had to.

And as a news guy, I'm providing both sides.

I'm a Catholic, and I'm a guy who believes

that faith is really important.

I'm not afraid to talk about it.

And Fox is a place that welcomes that.

So I've never had to do that.

And as opposed to the portrayal that we are this top down,

like omnus organization that somebody is saying you

have to cover this--

from the news side, it is very much bottom up.

And we cover what's happening.

Let me ask you--

we're going to get to the faith angle

in a moment and the book, "Special Heart," which

of course we know all about.

Fake news versus real news, this whole thing-- boy,

what's interesting to me is that the president was calling it

fake news for a while, and he still does.

But then he went to--

I know he called CNN the fraud news network.

But he is using the word "fraud" a little bit more,

which I find interesting, fraud being deception.

Fake is a whole different matter.

There does seem to be a delineation when

he talks about fraud.

Because there does seem to be quite a bit of deception out

in the mainstream media circles in terms

of how they might skew a story.

And I think that's different from a story

actually being outright fake.

What's your take on that?

That's true.

How you approach a story is also something,

and he obviously disagrees with certain approaches.

But then there is fact and fiction.

And I think we just have to be careful about using

that fake news moniker all the time.

Clearly, different organizations cover things differently.

There are good journalists over at CNN,

and there are great journalists at MSNBC,

and there are great journalists at Fox.

But I think we all collectively have to stick to the facts.

Your Facebook page, by the way--

can we say it right now?

Facebook.com/brettbaier--

SR. SR, Special Report.

So hopefully they're all linked in.

I think we had it timed out.

And that's good.

Well, Brett, we did want to talk

about your book, "Special Heart: a Journey of Faith, Hope,

and Love."

And I know our audience at home, they

would love to hear how your son Paul is doing.

So Paul is doing great.

He's 10.

He's the tallest kid in his class.

He's had three open heart surgeries

and nine angioplasties.

But he's doing fantastic.

In fact, we just dropped him off at sleepaway camp

for the first time in North Carolina.

Oh, there he is playing basketball.

And there's the little guy, Daniel, who's seven now.

And so my wife is a mess this week.

We get him back Friday.

He's been gone for two weeks.

But apparently, he's been having an amazing time.

And we've only been receiving letters.

There's no phones, no texts, no iPads.

It's like, hello, Mother, hello, Father.

It's like "Little House on the Prairie."

Yeah.

And so it's been tough.

But it's been really fun to see him independent and having fun.

And he's doing wonderful.

Tell us a little bit about the faith angle to this.

Because the word "faith" is in the title to this,

the subtitle of this book.

Where does this factor in, and what have you

seen God do in this area of your life, his life?

Yeah.

It's a big part of our life.

And to be able to get through the darkest moments of that,

and the diagnosis and the surgery,

and to be able to get to look at the other side of the tunnel

to say that it was going to be OK--

the only way that we could do it was through prayer.

And we threw it out there.

And it was amazing.

Thousands of people came back, offered prayers,

and it lifted us up.

So we then felt emboldened to be able to say

we're one day closer to getting him home.

And we do that literally every time.

And every time we put it out, it comes back in spades.

This just in-- prayer works.

Yeah, exactly.

That's a Fox News alert.

Fox News alert with the whole [INAUDIBLE] and everything.

That's it.

Brit Hume-- you've talked about this in places,

about how important he was, especially at that time from

a Christian faith perspective.

How did he help you along in this journey?

Because I know faith very important to him as he

suffered through some tough times as well.

Right, he obviously lost his son, Sandy.

And he went through a very dark period there, too,

and it was faith that helped him out as he talked to me.

But he's my mentor and really good friend.

And so in all things-- fortunately,

he's still on the show as senior political analyst.

He has 100 days a year.

And don't tell anybody, but he's got a big calendar

in his office with a Sharpie that he marks down

the 100 days.

And the rest is playing some golf.

I love it.

Well, that's great.

That's great.

Well, thank you so much again.

We appreciate you being here.

And for all of you out there, "Special Report," 6:00 P.M.

6:00 tonight.

And we will have a special 11:00 P.M. show tomorrow night

after the health care vote-a-rama.

So a lot going on, as you all know, here in town.

I will say this.

A couple of quick comments coming in.

Love Brett.

That's in quotes from Bob.

OK.

Thanks, Bob.

I don't think Bob has a last name.

And Judy on Facebook says good to see Bret on CBN.

They love you on here.

Well, it's great to be here.

Big hit.

Congrats on this format.

It's a lot of fun.

Thank you.

We love it.

We're having fun with it.

Sean Spicer on last week, and now look what happened.

So we may be the kiss of death.

I'm just letting you know.

I should call the office.

Jim Acosta, by the way, on the show next week.

Oh, good.

So we're looking forward to that.

That's great.

He's a good guy.

He's gotten a lot of heat.

Sir, thank you.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot.

Have a good one.

All right.

Thank you.