SheWrites wrote:I've tried to find a clip to post but it's not on Fox News, Bret Baier's blog page, or CNN.
On CNN, this morning, Alison Kosic and Chris Cuomo showed a clip from Bret Baier's evening news show on Fox. He retracted a statement that said Hillary was close to being indicted. He went through the process to indictment and stated he was wrong and had things out of order (wish I had the clip or a note on what he said because I'm probably misquoting!) Anyway, no one mentioned it on Fox and Friends this morning. Nothing on the internet. And I don't see it on CNN online. Hopefully it pops up a bit later. I doubt it.
The fast paced "we gotcha" news arena needs to be schooled. We are over run with low quality "journalism."
Oops: Fox anchor retracts claim of ‘likely’ Clinton indictment after conservatives sites go wild
Fox News anchor Bret Baier admitted on Thursday that he had been wrong when he reported that Hillary Clinton would “likely” be indicted by federal authorities, a claim that sent conservative websites into a frenzy.
“We talked to two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations,” Baier explained on his Wednesday program. “The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported so far… Several offices separately have been doing their own investigations.”
“They are actively and aggressively pursuing this case,” the anchor insisted. “The investigations will continue, there is a lot of evidence. And barring some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to likely an indictment.”
That news immediately exploded on conservative–leaning sites.
But on Thursday, Baier said that his characterization of the news was simply not true.
“I want to be clear — I want to be clear about this,” he explained. “I pressed the sources again and again what would happen [if Hillary Clinton wins]. I got to the end of that and said, ‘They have a lot of evidence that would likely lead to an indictment.’”
“But that’s not, that’s inartfully answered,” Baier continued. “That’s not the process. That’s not how you do it. You have to have a prosecutor. If they don’t move forward with a prosecutor with the DOJ, there would be, I’m told, a very public call for an independent prosecutor to move forward.”
“There is confidence in the evidence, but for me to phrase it like I did, of course that got picked up everywhere, but the process is different than that.”
Watch the video below from Fox News, broadcast Nov. 3, 2016.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/oops-fox-anchor-retracts-claim-of-likely-clinton-indictment-after-conservatives-sites-go-wild/