Fox News anchor Bret Baier reveals the 'rumor' about why Biden REALLY dropped out of the race... who's taking over in the White House... and issues an ultimatum to his critics

Fox News main governmental anchor Bret Baier thinks nan White House owes his web an apology.

But he won't beryllium holding his breath.

In an exclusive question and reply pinch DailyMail.com, nan anchor and executive editor of Special Report pinch Bret Baier fired backmost astatine Democratic critics, who person sought to undermine his reporting connected President Joe Biden's grounds of disturbing nationalist incidents.

And, while Baier is not yet fresh to state a 'White House cover-up' of nan president's existent condition, he's not ruling it retired and he's surely not done investigating who knew what and when.

'There was intelligibly an effort to forestall immoderate of what they knew [about Biden's health] from getting out,' Baier told nan Mail. 'We're going to find retired that there's a batch much to this.'

Most explosively of all, Baier questioned who is genuinely successful complaint successful nan White House, arsenic Biden seemingly hands complete much power and powerfulness to his Vice President.

'Now that you're going to person Kamala Harris gathering separately pinch overseas leaders, for illustration we saw pinch Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu [last week] and having her ain property conferences,' Baier said, 'we person a business wherever President Biden whitethorn slice from nan spotlight and location could be, successful essence, a co-presidency.'

Indeed, successful nan 16 years that he's anchored Special Report, taking complete from his friend and mentor FNC fable Brit Hume, Baier said that he has ne'er been done specified a 'crazy' and 'consequential' play successful US politics.

And, he made clear, nan communicative is acold from over.

In nan days and weeks earlier Biden shocked nan state by appearing frail and confused connected a statement shape pinch Donald Trump, Baier and his FOX News Channel (FNC) colleagues were accused of spreading manipulated videos aliases 'cheap fakes' of nan president.

It's an allegation, Baier argues, that should now beryllium dismissed arsenic patently absurd.

'This wasn't a video that we were editing,' he said. 'This was a video that showed President Biden being led disconnected nan shape by erstwhile President Obama [at a June 15 fundraiser successful Los Angeles]. It was location for viewers to see.'

Yet, galore successful nan mainstream media appeared to spell on pinch nan spin.

'Other channels purposely jumped connected those [White House] talking points, saying this was each made up and President Biden runs circles astir his unit and outworks everybody,' Baier said.

It was only aft Hollywood prima and Democratic mega-fundraiser George Clooney, a friend of Obama, penned a July 10 New York Times op-ed revealing what he witnessed backstage astatine nan fundraiser that nan reality couldn't beryllium hidden immoderate longer.

Clooney wrote: 'It's devastating to opportunity it, but nan Joe Biden I was pinch 3 weeks agone astatine nan fundraiser was not nan Joe "big F-ing deal" Biden of 2010. He wasn't moreover nan Joe Biden of 2020.'

'When [Clooney's] article came out, location was nary 1 successful nan White House aliases nan Biden run who reached retired [to FNC] and said, "You were right. They weren't inexpensive fakes. This wasn't made up,"' said Baier, who is good alert that sparing pinch nan powerful is what existent journalists do.

It's besides portion of nan reason, Baier believes, that FNC is experiencing an unthinkable surge successful tv ratings that rival nan heights that nan transmission reached during nan 2020 statesmanlike election.

Viewers - Republican, Democratic and independent - are coming to FNC for nan afloat story, he said. 

During nan week of July 15-21, which included nan attempted assassination of Donald Trump, nan Republican National Convention and Biden's determination to driblet retired of nan 2024 race, much viewers tuned into FNC during primetime (between 8.00pm and 11.00pm) than immoderate different broadcast aliases cablegram news competitor. 

And FNC's sum of nan last nighttime of nan RNC collapsed nan grounds for nan most-watched normal ever.

The different facet driving these historical ratings, said Baier, is nan velocity and value of FNC's programming.

'It's a in installments to nan group that we person here. We've been astir this artifact earlier connected large events,' he said. 'We're capable to respond and create a show retired of bladed air.'

In fact, Baier and his squad person been called connected to do conscionable that.

Baier was changing retired of his play apparel aft competing successful nan yearly American Century Celebrity play tourney successful Lake Tahoe, California connected July 13 erstwhile he received a news alert that Trump had narrowly survived an effort connected his life astatine a rally successful agrarian Pennsylvania.

In moments, he was connected nan telephone pinch sources adjacent to nan erstwhile president.

Minutes aft that, he was speaking to millions of viewers via a telephone question and reply pinch FNC anchors Shannon Bream and Bill Hemmer, who were helming nan breaking news coverage.

He hadn't moreover near nan locker room. That evening he was connected a level to Milwaukee, arriving a time early for nan RNC.

A week later, erstwhile Biden abruptly announced by tweet that he was stepping down arsenic nan presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Baier was driving to prime up 1 of his 2 sons adjacent their location successful Washington DC.

'The first point I'm reasoning is: This is going to beryllium a monolithic story,' he said. 'The 2nd point I'm reasoning is: I've sewage to get personification to prime up my son.'

Baier went location for a suit and headed consecutive for FNC's workplace connected Capitol Hill. 

FOX News Channel's unrecorded sum of Biden's determination to extremity his reelection run was nan astir watched programming crossed each of television, while its cablegram news competitors were slow to study nan bombshell developments.

Now it's an imperative for Baier to find why, aft weeks of guidance and pledges from Biden's soul circle that he would stay successful nan 2024 race, that nan president abruptly decided to extremity his governmental career.

'What sewage [Biden] from adamant that he will beryllium nan nominee to penning a missive that he was going to measurement down? What was that? What epiphany happened' Baier asked.

He has heard rumors that erstwhile Speaker of nan House Nancy Pelosi was threatening to merchandise polling that undermined Biden's lawsuit for staying successful nan race. 

He besides reports that President Obama was exerting his power down nan scenes to push Biden disconnected nan governmental stage.

And he considers this to beryllium 1 of nan awesome untold stories of these past fewer weeks.

'The White House says location are nary problems [with nan president] and he's still A-Ok. Yet he stepped down from a title that he said he was ne'er going to measurement down from. And location are still questions astir whether he's going to spell nan full region for nan five-plus months remaining successful nan presidency,' Baier said.

'Anything is imaginable now,' he added.

'I don't consciousness that nan 25th amendment is going to beryllium launched anytime soon,' he told nan Mail. 'But that's not to opportunity that there's not immoderate awesome wellness incident that changes that dynamic. It's day-to-day.'

That intends location are apt to beryllium plentifulness much shows broadcast from overseas locations and abrupt changes successful plans for nan seasoned anchor. 

It's thing he seems to relish.

'It's a fascinating clip successful politics. I can't foretell what's going to happen, but I tin foretell that group will tune in,' he said.