Amy’s work for children’s health
Amy graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in communications. She moved to New York and worked as a media planner for Calvin Klein before returning to Chicago, where she worked in neuroscience.
“My family was in the healthcare business, so switching gears made sense,” she told Naples Illustrated.
Amy is chair of the Children’s National Hospital Foundation board and has been involved with the foundation for more than 15 years. According to The U.S. Sun, she has helped raise tens of millions of dollars for its work.
Their son Paul’s heart journey
The Baiers learned soon after Paul was born that he had five significant heart defects and needed surgery within his first days of life.
“We went from the highest highs to the lowest lows in a really short time,” Bret told the Daily Mail.
Paul underwent his first major open-heart operation 10 days after birth. Bret explained that surgeons used a donated baby aorta to help his heart pump correctly, but the repair could not grow with him.
Paul needed further open-heart surgeries at 10 months, six years and 13 and a half. Bret said his son also underwent 10 angioplasties and a stomach surgery.
“We spent a lot of time in the hospital and he’s doing great,” Bret said.
Bret’s career at Fox News
While raising their family, Bret continued a broadcasting career that began at Fox News in 1998, when he was hired as the network’s Atlanta bureau chief.
He traveled from Georgia to Virginia to cover the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and became a Fox News White House correspondent in 2007. He is now the network’s chief political correspondent and host of Special Report.
His interviews have included President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Baier has also published books, including The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation.
