Bret Baier is the anchor of "Special Report With Bret Baier." He formerly served as chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity, Baier reported on presidential activities on a national and international level.

Prior to being named chief White House correspondent, Baier served as a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from the Pentagon.

Throughout his career, he has secured numerous exclusive interviews with government officials, including interviews with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Richard Myers, among others.

In September of 2008, Baier had an exclusive interview with General Patraeus live from Iraq, in Patraeus' final interview from the region. Baier also reported from the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.

In 2008 he hosted a one hour special on President Bush including exclusive behind the scenes interviews with the President aboard Air Force one, inside the Oval Office and at the Bush residence in Crawford, Texas. In 2007 he had an exclusive sit-down with Vice President Cheney while traveling in Iraq. In 2004 Baier hosted an exclusive special on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He also has provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, reporting live from Iraq on 13 separate occasions since 2003.

Baier has also covered the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, live from the region 11 times including a stint embedded with U.S. troops along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Baier reported on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and then followed the evolution of the attacks into the war on terror. Previously, he reported on the U.S. military mission in Haiti and on the 1999 conflict in Kosovo and the 2000 election recount in Florida.

He joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter to be based in the Atlanta bureau. As the network's southeast correspondent, Baier covered stories ranging from the 2001 Timothy McVeigh execution to the 1999 Elian Gonzalez story. He also provided a series of reports on Cuba and covered more than a dozen hurricanes, including stories filed from the centers of the storms.

Prior to joining FNC, Baier worked for WRAL-TV (CBS) in Raleigh, NC, WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, IL, and WJWJ-TV (PBS) in Beaufort, SC.

A graduate of DePauw University, Baier has a bachelor's degree in political science and English.