Fox’s Bret Baier: ‘Hyperbolic’ and ‘insulting’ of VP Harris to compare Jan. 6 to 9/11

Fox News anchor Bret Baier said he would not be surprised to see families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks express outrage at comments from Vice President Harris on Thursday comparing those attacks to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. 

“I don’t think we’ve hit on it hard enough. The fact that the vice president conveyed that Jan. 6, 2021, was like Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001. Even for some people who are going to condemn the attacks and the riot and they’re going to find that, I think, pretty hyperbolic, and for 9/11 family survivors maybe insulting,” Baier said during his analysis of speeches given by the president and vice president on Thursday.

“We may see that backlash. And the other thing is the president going specifically numerous times to defeated, beaten, talking about failed, lost. It was almost that he was trying to stir former President Trump into saying something today, and we’ll see if that happens,” Baier continued.

During her remarks before President Biden, Harris said Jan. 6 will be one of “certain dates [that] echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them — where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.”