Interviewers make a choice every time they sit down with a newsmaker and start to ask questions. Do they start by warming their subject up or go straight for the jugular?

Fox News anchor Bret Baier said Thursday that he made “a mistake” in not including a specific clip of former President Trump during his interview with Vice President Harris on Wednesday. During his interview the previous day with the vice president on Fox News’s “Special Report,

Harris praised her interlocutor, Bret Baier, as a “serious journalist,” a contrast from Trump saying Fox News was “owned” by her spokesperson Ian Sams. And she took a step to defuse last week’s self-own that her presidency would not be much different that Joe Biden’s.