Bill Maher blasts Bret Baier with savage insult after Kamala Harris interview on Fox News

Comedian Bill Maher branded Bret Baier an 'a**hole' implicit the Fox News host's combative interrogation with Kamala Harris. 

The wide speech amusement host, 68, said connected his Real Time with Bill Maher monologue Friday nighttime that helium had Baier 'pegged wrong', claiming helium antecedently believed helium was 'the astir morganatic writer connected Fox News.' 

'No actually, helium was a immense a**hole,' Maher slammed the newsman.  

Maher, an avowed anti-Trump voice, went connected to support Harris' show successful her interrogation with Baier, which galore of her opponents labeled a 'car crash' and said Baier 'ended her campaign.'

Speaking connected Harris' Fox News interview, Maher joked that 'they were fair', adding: 'They asked her the aforesaid question they inquire each guest, 'Don't you conscionable hatred Kamala Harris?'' 

Turning his absorption to Baier - who clashed with Harris connected a fig of issues including her grounds connected migration and the system - Maher asked his audience: 'Do you cognize this guy?' 

'I indispensable accidental I had him pegged wrong. I'd ever heard astir him,' helium continued. 

'I don't ticker Fox News that much, truthful I didn't know, but they kept saying helium was the astir morganatic writer connected Fox News... No actually, helium was a immense a**hole.' 

Maher insisted helium wasn't insulting Baier successful a 'partisan way', earlier repeating: 'Well, there's pugnacious journalism, and past helium was conscionable a immense a**hole. 

'So, you know, being the astir morganatic writer connected Fox is simply a small similar being the hottest idiosyncratic successful the dollar store.' 

Baier's interrogation rapidly divided viewers, with supporters of Harris saying helium 'ambushed' her portion opponents said she was a 'car crash.' 

Vince Langman, a protagonist of Trump, wrote after the broadcast: 'I forgive Bret Baier. He's virtually ending Kamala Harris's run earlier our precise eyes!'

Brian Stelter, a media expert from CNN, countered that the interrogation arsenic a affirmative effect for Harris.

'A batch of viewers are going to travel distant saying, "Wow, she's consenting to bash that. That's a motion of toughness and strength,"' Stelter said successful a clip shared by the Harris run connected societal media.

However, Baier admitted to his Fox News colleagues this week that helium made a glaring mistake during a contentious infinitesimal of his interrogation with Harris.  

During Thursday night's occurrence of his show, Special Report, Baier told panelists Harris Faulkner and Harold Ford Jr. that determination had been 1 large screw-up.

'Harold, I did marque a mistake. And I did privation to accidental that I did marque a mistake,' Baier said. 'When I called for a soundbite, I was expecting a portion of the "enemy from within" from Maria Bartiromo's interrogation to beryllium tied to the portion from your municipality hall, Harris, wherever you asked the erstwhile president astir "the force from within."'

Instead, Baier admitted, what played retired was conscionable 'the portion astir the municipality hall.'

'Just instrumentality a perceive to what I meant to roll,' helium told viewers.

Former President Donald Trump had said Sunday during his sit-down with Fox's Bartiromo that, 'I deliberation the bigger occupation is the force from within.'

'Not adjacent the radical that person travel successful and [are] destroying our country. We person immoderate sick people, extremist near lunatics. And I deliberation they are - and it should beryllium precise easy handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, oregon if truly necessary, by the military,' Trump said.

That remark received wide condemnation, with Harris adjacent playing it retired for her assemblage Monday nighttime erstwhile she held a rally successful Erie, Pennsylvania, which made it all-the-more evident erstwhile that's not what played during the sit-down with Baier.

What Baier played during the interrogation with Harris was the accidental Faulkner gave Trump to play clean-up.

'I heard astir that,' Trump said during Faulker's municipality hall. 'They were saying I was, like, threatening. I'm not threatening anybody. They're the ones doing the threatening.'

'They bash telephone investigations. I've been investigated much than Alphonse Capone. He was the top gangster,' the ex-president continued. 'No, it's true. No, but deliberation of it. It's called weaponization of government. It's a unspeakable thing.'

When Harris heard this clip played retired and not Trump's archetypal 'enemy from within' comments, she grew incredulous.

'Bret, I'm sorry, and with each owed respect, that clip was not what helium has been saying astir the force wrong that helium has repeated erstwhile he's speaking astir the American people,' Harris said. 'That's not what you conscionable showed,' she objected.

In the moment, Baier defended the playing of that clip.

'Well, helium was asked astir that circumstantial ...' Baier started to say.

'No, no, nary that's not what you conscionable showed, successful each fairness and respect to you,' Harris changeable back.

'I'm telling you that was the question that we asked him,' Baier said.