Bret Baier: HRC Indictment "Likely"... Oops... My Bad
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Fox News anchor apologizes for false report of 'likely' Clinton indictment
Fox News anchor Bret Baier apologized on air Friday for his report that Hillary Clinton faces a "likely" indictment as the result of a federal investigation into the Clinton Foundation and for his report that Clinton's private email server had been hacked by five foreign intelligence agencies.
Both of Baier's mistaken reports were made Wednesday night in an appearance with Fox News Channel's Brit Hume. At the time, Baier said the information was based on "two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations into the Clinton emails and the Clinton Foundation."
Baier "clarified" his reporting Friday on the Fox News show Happening Now, hosted by Jon Scott.
"On the hacking of Clinton's private, unsecured server: While multiple sources believe and are operating under the working assumption that the server has been hacked, and some had specific quotes to that belief, there are to this day no digital fingerprints of such breaches," Baier said Friday on the Fox News show Happening Now, hosted by Jon Scott.
Baier admitted the report was based on a single, anonymous source.
He then said his statement that an indictment was "likely" in the investigation into the Clinton Foundation was a "mistake." Baier had already backtracked somewhat the previous night, calling the wording "inartful."
"Well, that just wasn't inartful, it was a mistake and for that I'm sorry," Baier said. "I should have said they will continue to build their case. Indictment obviously is a very loaded word, John, especially in this atmosphere and no one knows if there would or would not be an indictment no matter how strong investigators feel their evidence is."
Good on Bret.
I'd heard about the retraction. I guess everyone else here missed it. I know Trump missed it.
Did not know that the retraction included the "5 Foreign Governments Hacked" thread. The retraction is probably already noted there...
** Shocker ** It wasn't... so I did... no extra charge.
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say, how about an apology for this?
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Posted Yesterday, 10:37 AM
Tour says he has donated large bucks to the dems, but didn't this year, and wasn't invited
to some shindig.
He says he voted for higgardly,despite all the scandals, etc etc etc.
and has the gall to question MY moral compass because I voted for Trump,
because in the NFL draft, I value high character when I talk about the draft.
cept I didn't draft Trump. I voted for Carson in the primary. I'm not the only one asking
the question - Tour, how to you figure to question MY moral compass, when you
voted for completely viciously corrupt higgardly?
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