Fox Nation Streams Bipartisan Debate Between Two Senators With Opposing Views
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBret Baier is gearing up for something that may surprise Fox News aficionados and its cable rivals: a debate event that features two U.S.
Senators with distinctly opposing views who say they just want to talk things out.Baier will at noon on Fox Nation moderate the first event from The Senate Project, in which two U.S.
Senators take part in Oxford-style debates. In the first, Senator Lindsey Graham will wrangle with Senator Bernie Sanders, in a one-hour policy debate that will subsequently appear in edited form on Fox News Channel a few days later.
The series has been organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. “The hope is that it starts to be sort of a rock that goes downhill to gather steam and has some really interesting discussions on both sides, people who argue passionately but then also figure out where they can get something done,” says Baier, in an interview, “It’s something that doesn’t happen too often in Washington.”Or on many cable-news outlets, which increasingly cater to a base rather than present a broader take on the issues of the day.
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