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FNC’s Bret Baier: I Regret That Obama Chose His Responses the Way He Did
FNC's Bret Baier on interrupting President Obama: "I do respect the office and I do believe that in an ideal world in that Blue Room interview I would've liked to ask questions, receive answers and move on. But I felt like in this amount of time, with the clock ticking and me getting wrap signs from White House staff members, that I owed it to our viewers and to everyone tuning in to really try to press for answers and not the everyday response that that we've been hearing really for a number of weeks - almost a year plus - on health care reform."
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