Fox News' chief political anchor, Bret Baier, called out members of the media and said that America just "didn't trust" what they were being told as one of the reasons for President Donald Trump's victory.

During Baier's interview for Politico's Deep Dive podcast, the host of "Special Report with Bret Baier" was asked about Trump's reelection and "who's to blame for the lack of trust in the media, for the loss of trust in the media."

"Well, the media. I mean, we went after collectively, and I say broadly, stories that didn't pan out and went overboard on covering some of it," Baier said. "And then at times wore opinions on their sleeves in news programs that really don't fit under the opinion umbrella."

"We talked about the opinion shows on Fox," he explained. "There were times where I would watch what I thought was a news show on other channels that became very opinionated and pretty one-sided."

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"But Middle America didn't trust what they were getting from a lot of the media and you saw that even in polls of the election that suggested he [Trump] was going to lose up until the last minute," Baier continued. "You know, there were a lot of people that just didn't buy in."

At one point, he also talked about what those in the media need to do to earn back trust after covering up for things like former President Joe Biden's cognitive and physical decline, and more, over the last eight years.

"We say, 'We report, you decide.' We'll tell you what this senator is saying. We'll tell you what Democrats, Independents, Republicans are saying. You make the decision how you feel about it. We're not going to tell you whether it's good, bad or indifferent. You make that decision. And story choice, how you go about that, all makes a difference in especially how Middle America views the media. Unfortunately, our business has taken a real hit and I think trust took a hit over the past eight years."

Baier also defended playing golf with Trump "a handful of times" and taking off-the-record calls from the president. 

"Listen, I think that off-the-record conversations with the president of the United States — any journalist would welcome just to know where his head is," Baier said. "Day-to-day, depending on where the day's going, it's a good thing to have a blueprint of what they're thinking about."

He also suggested Trump is even more open with the press than before after the non-stop coverage of the now-debunked Russia collusion story consumed his first administration.

Yeah, he was open, but he wasn't as open as he is now as far as taking adversarial questions, taking questions pretty much every day. He's had so many Q&A sessions or sprays in the Oval Office. That could be 30, 40 minutes of a Q&A that's ahead of a news conference. And this White House, in that session, is making a ton of news by what he says. All of that is news throughout the day. It changes my show five or six times before I get to six o'clock.

Baier is no stranger to criticism, most recently hitting back at unemployed former NBC News anchor Chuck Todd, who mocked the Fox News anchor who said Baier is just worried about his next "tee time with the president." Todd finished by mocking Baier, saying, "I hope he enjoys it," RedState reported.

In response, the Fox News host put him in his place:

HOST: And you take a fair amount of heat for this. Chuck Todd, a, I don't know, ex-friend of yours said, "I thought he actually cared about being a journalist first and wanting to walk that line, and now he just wants to have tee time with the president."

BAIER: Yeah, that's interesting. I don't know what prompted Chuck to do that. I have an interview to do with the UK prime minister today. So, I don't know what he's doing. 

Baier continued, "I think, I think my focus is, you know, what I said, covering the news. If I have off-the-record conversations in moments with President Trump, I think any journalist would want to get in his mind of what's next. Things are going a million miles an hour, just to give some perspective off-the-record. So I don't think that's true. As I've said, we've covered a lot of things that we were first on. You know, the cognitive questions about President Biden. We were told we were running cheap fake videos."