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promoting. huff your essence. >> how painful was this for you physically and mentally to go through. this it's the hardest thing you can go through as a mother and woman. >> a very hard journey for fox news jennifer griffin. >> but you beat it. >> yeah. i'm very lucky. >> it's did you know he that three, and it starts receipt now. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. and the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching this special edition of the factor did you know that part three. we have special stories to tell you about our fox news talent. we begin tonight with two of them. fnc bill hemmer and fox business network anchor kennedy. >> so there you are little billy hemmer.

>> little billy. >> ohio, suburb of cincinnati. >> cincinnati, ohio, that's right. >> five kids. >> five kids. >> father is a hard-working guy, not making much money. >> i remember when my father told me was making $60,000 a year. >> that wasn't bad. >> dad, you are making $60,000 a year? you're rich. >> he said it's never enough, billy. >> you were raised in a home that was traditional, would you say? >> i would say it was a traditional conservative catholic family. >> and you started to work as i did, very early? >> between the ages of 16 and 20 i had 16 jobs. the first interesting job landed was a sports producer in cincinnati, ohio. >> the anchorman was jerry springer. >> yes, he was minus man. i got the job at age 200, 21, making 9 grand a year. >> you become on air guy, sports guy. >> yeah. >> in cincinnati? >> the bulls won until tonight. >> and then you quit. >> yeah. >> why did you quit?

>> i had you my mid life crisis at age 26. >> and i had saved $15,000. and my grand-am biggs in the world was to backpack around the world before i turned 30. i took my dream job in my hometown and left it on the table. that was a big risk that i took. it was china and it was vietnam. it was indonesia. new zealand, india and nepal. >> that's a real education. all right. so then you show up at mother teresa's clinic. what did you do there. >> spent two weeks there and observed what was going on at the mother house and the various clinics throughout calcutta. it's a very complicated town. >> did you ever get to speak to mother teresa? >> i did. i don't really remember the content of the conversation. >> she wasn't scolding you, was she? >> i don't think so. not that time. but what i did observe, rather acutely, is that the number of people who came from all over the world to get this close to that woman.

>> she was a saint. >> at the time a living saint. and she was aware of it, bill. >> i you wish i had met her. i never had the opportunity. so you come off your world trip. how long did the world trip take. >> i was gone 10 months. >> and then you get an agent in new york. your agent takes your tape to cnn. they hire you just because this like the way you look. >> diane audition in atlanta. they test your skills. part of the reason why they decided to hire me is because i could turn my resume over and write down all the countries i had traveled to. >> sure, that's invaluable. >> if you want to see just how much change is taking place, all you have to do is walk down this street in saigon. >> then you quit cnn? >> they wanted me to go work at the white house as a senior white house correspondent. >> yeah. >> i had just moved to new york. this was the town where i wanted to live. >> you didn't want to do that. >> i didn't want to do that. >> so you resigned? >> yes. and i resigned from there and i have been following the husband industry of roger ailes for several years. >> you get a meeting with ailes. >> yes. >> not easy.

he doesn't even know who i am. >> come on, now. i have been here 19 years. >> listen, it is not easy to crack the lineup for the new york yankees. yotl84cbur7the schedule here. >> this man right here i seen on tv doing it but it was for another channel. >> so ailes likes you and he hires you and he puts you with maccallum because no one else would work with her. >> good morning, everybody, a lot of emails here i'm bill hemmer welcome to america's news room. >> good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. >> when you come to another cable network to fox, it is a substantial change in your professional life. because the way the business is set is up here at fox under ailes, we don't have the employees that the other networks have. we do so much more with so fewer people. >> that's because we are so much smarter. we don't need a whole bunch of people. your parents have been married for 52 years. 54 coming up in august. >> you better give them a nice present. you better spring for something for them. 54 years. >> i love them to death. they are my favorite people

in the world. and i am so appreciative of the example. >> they must be proud of you, hemmer. don't say anything else. they must be very proud of you. >> all right. so little lisa kennedy montgomery, you. >> yeah. >> you raised in lake os oswego, oregon. raised by a single mom. you and two brothers. mom was from romaine yanchts right. came over on a boat. >> was she tough? >> i think she taught us to appreciate aesthetics, it was definitely a family where you were not allowed to run from your mistakes and had you to work really hard. >> i ask that question because you became a conservative kid. >> yeah. i was a teenage republican. and i had fallen in love with reaganomics and ronald reagan and deeply moved by our -- i cried when he left office when i was in high school. it was he very sad. but, you know, i you got a job at mtv because i started inturning at radio station in los angeles for community

college extra credit. >> so there you are lisa kennedy montgomery at mtv then you change it to kennedy to be cool and groovy. and you become a success at a very young age. but you are surrounded. you are a conservative by left wing loons. >> these were clintonites. >> way beyond that. >> baby boomer clintonits in love with their brand of narcissist socialism. i was a kind of a unicorn. >> you were the only one who wasn't a left winger. then had you to deal with nirvana and these bands. >> a bunch of comeys. music television was filled with comeys from stem to stern. >> come to mommy, hi how are you, great. it's kennedy. this is alternative nation. i'm back from jamaica, love. >> you you are most successful. however voted most hated dj by, who. >> "rolling stone." >> comeys, hurt your feelings? >> yes, i was scared for my

job. i was actually scared for my job. i was worried that my kind boss who had plucked me out of obscurity when i was 18 to be a dj was going to kick me back to los angeles. >> your ratings were pretty good, right? >> i guess. it was more about like name recognition and getting press and stuff like that back then because they didn't have social media. and there was no competition for mtv. would people luke scream when you showed up? were you a teen idol luke these other bands that you hung with. >> there were times when i remember red hot chili pepper show i almost was monday. i feared for my life the crowd was closing in. >> what did they want? >> they wanted to huff my essence and i couldn't let them. >> huff your essence, okay. i thought that was one of the groups you were promoting. you have your essence. anyway, in a stunning turn of events, i leave mtv, you go back to college, you get a disagree at ucla. then somehow you find your way to fox news and business.

how on earth could that happen? >> well, it really -- i connected with roger ailes for the first time in 19911. i was so bad when i got onk@zlh. somebody gave me his book and said please read this so you can be slightly telegenic. it was the book how to give the message. when i did your show, promoting book roger was watching he said i want you to move to new york and work for me. i said i just moved to seattle with my boyfriend. >> i am responsible for your success as i am for so many this goff music thing. people say this is destructive force. the devil is good. i love satan. all of that what's your feeling about that? >> i think it's just there are horror films on sound tracks. >> now, are you still a conservative person? >> i'm a libertarian. >> so you want everyone to smoke pot and stuff. >> i want everyone to smoke pot and hire prostitutes. i love freedom. i love freedom of

expression. i love economic freedom. i don't want the government to tell me what to do with my kids. i want everyone to leave me alone. >> so the -- some of your career, so far, has been, i think, the strangest story i have ever seen in the media. >> wow. >> all right? you go to l.a. you out of nowhere become an mtv star. you dump that. and you come to fox news. nobody has that resume. >> all right? >> and you would say the reason all of this has happened for you is? >> i think if you work hard and you are a good person and you do what you love, good things will follow. >> thanks for being here. >> thanks, bill. >> next up, did you know that a fox news anchor used to play the violin? we will tellxfçto=dzñ who. ♪ ♪ there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips' fiber good gummies plus energy support. it's a new fiber supplement that helps support regularity and includes b vitamins to help convert food to energy. mmmmm, these are good!

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and you see her, of course, at 2:00 p.m. on the real story here on fnc. but did you know that? merchandise carlson did not like the way she looked as the a child. >> so you were raised on the plains of minnesota, right? you, at age 6, take up the violin. >> i guess the story goes that i heard commercials on television and i went to the piano and plunked out the tune and my parents thought oh maybe she is interested in music. the neighborhood piano teacher took a look at my hands and said she will never be any good because her hands are too small. a violin fluke incident. very serious and playing before isaac stern when i was 10 years old. >> you get into your 10 years. are you still a little pudgy? i know there was a pudgy factor here. >> i was fat. >> you are not allowed to say that now. >> i was interested in high school senior in tenth grade. i overheard him in the hallway say i think she is a

nice girl but too fat to date. on that day i went on a diet for the first time. >> you go on a diet and then you turn into a beauty and you become miss america. >> did i. >> in 1989. >> miss america is gretchen carlson. , minute -- miss minnesota. >> what do you think when you have the little crown and walking out there. >> i'm thinking total relief because i had worked so hard for that. >> then you are miss america and go back to college. a lot of beauty contestants want to be in tv news. you hear that all the time. did you want to be in tv news was that a goal. >> no. you was going to be a lawyer. bloopers and practical jokes with ed mcmahon and dick clark they set me up as miss america. >> watch gretchen's face when he she realizes she has to fake it. >> gretchen, you are super bloopers and practical jokes. [ laughter ] >> and that's what catapulted me into television news because i got calls from tv agents after they saw me on that

and said if you can do that, you can do it. v. >> so now you have some agents interested and you start your career. one thing stood out to me. you were in cleveland and you were teamed with another female anchor. i think it was the first two female anchor team in the country? >> it was, yes. >> it bombed? >> yes, it did. >> what happened? >> it just didn't work. so what happens is i come back from my honeymoon. i had been married one week. i get called up into the general manager's office and he said this thing isn't working and we have to let you go. by the way you will be fine now because you have a husband. >> wow, that's not a good comment. >> not a good comment. i was stripped of of my identity. toughest year of my life, bill. >> then you began to make a come back. >> did i. >> you get a job in texas and work your way up. how did you get to fox news. >> first i went to cbs news. >> i'm les mitchell. >> i'm gretchen carlson thanks for joining us this morning. >> i got a call from roger ailes the opportunity to do that five days a week a morning show was always my goal.

>> you doocy and kilmeade that's painful to have to get up and look at them every day. >> not at all. >> he is always shopping. >> you mean for food? >> is that my husband? >> your husband is like that, too. >> oh, yes. >> that was fun and now you have got your own program, right? >> i do, i do. >> so your biggest message to young women who want to do what you have done, you got one message. what is it? >> if a fat little girl from a small town in minnesota who happens to play a mean violin can grow up to go to stanford and oxford and become miss america and have her own tv if i can do it, you can do it too. >> great message. thanks for being here. was john roberts really a canadian heart throb? right back with it.

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did you know that seeing many tonight. fox news correspondent john roberts, he achieved success at cbs news before he came to fnc.gm but, in his early career, he was a big pop music guy in canada. i didn't know that. >> so you were a canadian guy. >> by birth. >> by birth. get a tough blow when you are a little kid. your father dies. >> i was a years old when he passed away. >> your mom raises you and two siblings. >> suddenly my father dies. leaves her barely enough money to pay off the house. doesn't leave her enough money to take care of herself and the kids. she goes to work as a cashier in local pharmacy making $90 a week. managed out of sure force of will and prude dense and a real sense of thriftiness keep a roof over our heads and clothes on our back and able to bring us all up pretty well, i think. >> you go to college but you don't graduate from college? >> correct. >> because you wanted to be a dj, right? >> i wanted to be in radio.

the people on the radio were kind of like my idols. i thought i want to do that i wanted to be a doctor. when i look back at it now i say why wasn't i a doctor? i say let me take two years to see if i can get to the top rock radio station in two years. i got there in 18 months. this isn't too bad. maybe i should keep doing this. >> top rock station in canada, all right? and you are an idol. >> it wasn't so much when i was in radio. it was when i moved to television and we started a program which was kind of like a rolling stone magazine called the new music. >> welcome to the new music. >> it was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. >> it seems when a form of music becomes popular, a lot of bands you never expect to see come up with big hits. >> i interviewed u 2, the police, the culture club, before anybody knew who they were. >> who is the biggest rock star you interviewed? >> probably robert plant. >> robert plant led zeppelin. >> he came in to the

station. we interviewed him up on the roof. >> did you give hum a hard time? >> i did not. there was nothing to give him a hard time about. >> how do you make the transition from rock guy in canada to american journalist? >> shear force of will and not letting anybody tell you that you can't do it. so i said to the guy who ran the network, i said i don't want to do this for the rest of my life. i want to get back into news and we have a great television news operation here. he said no problem. he made me the anchor of the 10:00 show. did i hear about it? who are you, roberts, what kind of credibility do you think you have? you are a music guy, blah blah blah blah blah. so one of the things did i to get away from that, i moved to the united states. >> who hired you first down here? >> i got hired by cbs at the o and o. the brand new o and o in miami. >> there are many women, some of whom are with us tonight, who have had the procedure. interestingly, many of those people have wound up on opposing sides of the abortion issue. >> then you work your way up in the traditional way. and you get to cnn, right? >> i went miami, then i went back to canada to host a

morning show, then back to cbs in the summer of '92. i worked as a general assignment reporter there for a while. became the chief medical correspondent. eventually became the chief white house correspondent and anchor of the sunday evening news and filled in for began rather. >> a dangerous category 3 storm. >> why did you go from cbs to cnn? how did that transition go? >> they made a bunch of changes. they decided katie couric was going to be the anchor, dan rather got. >> that was in that transition. >> it was in all of that transition and it was decided that i would probably find a better home somewhere else. >> so you go to cnn. it's like being in the witness protection program. i mean, nobody sees you. and then you are over there. and then you come over to fox, the bug dog. >> yes. >> for christian conservatives, their first chance to road test many of the 2016 presidential candidates. >> final thing, your mom would be very proud of you. she died, when? >> she died in 2010. >> how did your mother process your success? >> she was just very happy that i actually did something with my life.

>> that you weren't in prison? >> that's the same thing with me. when i you go back to left town, how come you are not in jail? >> the last thing she said to me is how come you weren't a doctor? no, i'm kidding. she was very happy with the way things turned out. >> all right, john. thanks for coming. in we appreciate it? >> good to be with you, bill. >> plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. fox news correspondent lauren green almost won the miss america contest. even more interesting is that she dumped the rock singer prince. ng, making your own way can be pretty, well, bold. rickie fowler is redefining what it means to be a golfer. quicken loans is doing the same for mortgages. quicken loans. home buy. refi. power. official mortgage sponsor of the pga tour.

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in the did you know that segment? tonight, fox news chief religion correspondent lauren green. she has been nio withn fnc 19 years much but, before that, some very interesting things happened to her. >> so you have had a very fascinating life. one of five children, right? >> um. >>um grew up in minneapolis, minute society? >> right, right. >> you were a regular public school kid. >> went to public school. everyone went to public school. >> started playing the piano 6 years old. >> we stopped for a little bit and really started again at 10 years old. the piano was in the households all my life so i really just always played ♪ ♪ >> now, did you like playing the piano as a kid? most kids hate those lessons? >> i loved playing the piano. you loved music. in fact, my mother had to get me off the piano to do my homework for school.

>> then, talking about music. a kid gets a crush on you in sixth grade and that kid's name is? >> prince. >> prince has a crush on lauren green in sixth grade. you went to the same school, obviously. >> we went to the same school. when i was in sixth grade i wasn't interested in boys at that time. i spurned him. >> you spurned prince. >> i know i hope he has forgiven him. >> do you stay in touch. >> we were never really buddies. he did ask me to be in the music video he. >> you didn't do the music video. >> i did. >> let's get back to when he he was a little kid. how did you know he had a crush on you? >> he called me on the phone. >> he called you up, prince. was he wearing a cape in sixth grade? >> i don't know. i hate saying this because it was so bad. called me on the phone and he says i like you. >> oh. how could you not. >> i hung up on him. >> you hung up on prince. oh myk9éñynck2 god. i'm very sorry. >> in 1984, you became a

miss america contestant. you were miss minnesota, right? >> miss minnesota third runner-up. you are on auto pilot. you are happy -- it's over and you are going up there sitting it's over and the pageant is still going on. why is it still going on it's over for me. >> do you know who was mad that you didn't win? >> who? >> prince. okay. so how do you get from miss america. >> yeah. >> to the fox news channel? >> that's very interesting. because at the miss america pageant i came back and i want'ed to get into tv programming. i thought that was really wonderful. i had done some commercial acting and some commercials on tv. i really wanted to get into production. so i applied for internship at the logical cbs station in minneapolis. i realized i needed mover background. i got a master's degree in journalism. i started working working it abc affiliate and went to chicago. and from there wynn went to fox. >> you worked your way up. like i did. you did local news and

worked your way up and you are here. >> now you are the religion remember the. >> yes. >> you also played the piano for pope benedict. how did that happen. >> my goodness. i happened to meet his brother's biographer at an event in rome about a year before that he invited me for was was zinger's birthday. by the way we would love to do a concert for his 90th birthday would you be interesting? >> yes. of course the pope resigned. and they weren't going to have this concert there and they said hey, well, change of plans. we are going to have the concert in rome at the vatican. and it will be for not only monday senior but his brother, too, pope benedict. >> so you played for the pope emeritus? >> yes. >> was he happy with you. >> after he played he jumped up and came over to me and was smiling. he said it was wonderful. >> you are in a place where you a concert pianist? >> yes. >> you are a fox news

correspondent? >> yes. >> and you are an exflame of prince. there is really nothing more. is there nothing more to say? >> i am getting married. you know. my fiance now feels really great because he feels like he bested prince. >> he should feel great. lauren green, everybody. >> okay, thanks. >> coming up, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin discusses her battle with cancer and how she got to the fox news channel. new from meow mix with real salmon chicken or tuna. the only treat cats ask for by name. what does it mean to have an unlimited mileage warranty how about over there? on a certified pre-owned mercedes-benz?

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did you know that segment tonight. fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin. she has led a fast sunating life, and she almost died a few years ago from breast cancer. >> so you were raised prime mauryly in northern virginia, affluent home? >> yes. >> all right. so you go to private school and do you very well throughout school, correct? >> i did well. >> and you wound up going to college at? >> i went to harvard. >> harvard; very um progressive. so you take a leave of absence from harvard as a sophomore. unstead of going second year abroad or third year abroad. you go down to south africa. so then you come back to harvard, right? and you finish up? >> i had met my husband who was working for the a.p. i went back and punished up harvard. i had to go back and do my junior year and i went down

and did my thesis in the townships. on the violence in the townships and ran around with hulus. >> going back and forth from cambridge to johannesburg and you got credits for doing that and everything. you had the journalistic bug. >> i caught the bug. it was amazing historic time. i was there the day mandela walked out of prison. that was really my first news story. i took a photograph of him. it was one of the first iconic photographs of mandela on that first day out of prison. and i caught the bug. i loved it. >> so you graduate from harvard and then you start to roam the world. >> i graduated and i was going back down because my boyfriend was in south africa who became my husband. and my dad gave me some money for graduation, that was supposed to last the whole year. it was going to be for prelansing. >> keep yourself alive. >> i arrive on a friday and greg says, great, glad you are here. we have dated from afar from

two years. he says great, stay put. i'm heading up to somalia. he is working for the a.p. i didn't know married to a foreign correspondent. he said i will be back. i'm not sure when. i stewed for about a week and by the end of the week, bought a ticket up to nairobi. there were no flights into mogadishu because the civil war was going on and no planes going. in went to this little airport outside of nairobi and the unicef was flying accredited journalists. in i wasn't accredited. at the other end of the airport the drug dealers who were providing cross to all these somalis they said i could pay my way in cot. i was negotiating to do that when someone from unicef saw me and felt sorry for me. i was 22. >> i thought i had an adventurist early 20's. >> greg didn't know i was coming. >> so then you evolve into a journalist. and you get hired fairly

early on at fnc 19999, right? >> right. >> you come over here to do a bunch of reporting. >> it sounds like a -- that they are firing. >> then, you get married and you have children. >> we got to jerusalem in '99. that's when fox hired me full time. and that's when the two -- our two daughters were born during the -- >> you had two really intense situations. the first in 2006, steve centanni was kidnapped by terrorists. >> yes. >> and you were involved in getting him released. how did you do that? >> steve and his cameraman ohleg wig were kidnapped. we didn't know who had them. we were just down. we were well-connected in gaza. we had great stringers down there. we had met with many of the leaders of hamas in the past. we started pounding the pavement. trying to find out where they were. we eventually found out that they were being held by a really bad character called

dogmush. it was very intense two weeks. we were beating the pavement. showing up saying we know somebody has this guy. we met with every all the war lords and all the hamas leaders and we essentially said we know someone has them. >> help us get them back. so finally steve and ohleg get released. thank god. >> then after that you get breast cancer. tell me about that. >> we moved back to the states after the kidnapping incident in gaza. i you started working at the pentagon. and i got pregnant with my third child, luke. who was our first son. and he was six months old when i found a lump and it was a grapefruit sized lump. it was stage 3 triple negative breast cancer. and so i immediately went into treatment. i had 17 rounds of chemotherapy. i had raidation.

i had a double mastectomy. it was -- you know it was a rude awakening. >> how did your children respond? obviously the baby doesn't know but the two younger girls. >> the children were amazing. the girls who had been born in israel, they were 6 and 8 at the time. one, amelia, who is is the middle child, she started videotaping me when i shaved my head. we went wig shopping together. >> you should get your mom -- >> -- how painful was this for you physically and mentally to go through this? >> i mean he, it's the hardest thing you can go through as a mother and a woman, i think. >> so both physically and mentally the pain was amazing, right? >> yeah. >> but you beat it? >> yeah. i'm very lucky. >> was there something that you did that you believe contributed to you defeating the cancer? >> one of the principle things because tripling inive is the kind of breast cancer that doesn't have a treatment. it doesn't have a drug that stops the recurrence. and one of the things that i was told at the time is that a healthy diet, organic

food, exercise, i used exercise to really fight the cancer. and we got it back into abeyance. i was very lucky. the chemo worked. but it was a serious trauma. >> sure. >> for us. >> so then you recover and you are back on fox. it was you who introduced me to the track chair guys and that's come out to be an amazing situation frnghts it's really unbelievable. when i came back from my breast cancer, the first time that i came -- i was on the air was in afghanistan. i flew out to kabul to interview general petraeus. it was a very emotional moment between me, shepard smith was interviewing me. >> i have been on the verge of tears all day because i have had so many warm wishes from everyone there. i must thank everyone. it's very emotional for me to be back. >> there was something about covering the military and having covered the wounded warriors and the people had been injured. you needed to get back on the horse. and then i got involved with luker, and the independence

fund. i did a story on a quadruple amputee named staff sergeant john peck. and told us about these incredible chairs. these track chairs. and he was like a kid at christmas time when he was given this. >> sure. >> at walter reid. they were giving away two chairs. we realized there were 2 oother guys who all wanted one of these chairs. that's when i approached you. you profiled these guys. and these are life-changing. >> sure, now a thousand guys have them. >> we just had the ceremony we gave away the 1,000th chair. >> we will get 1,000th chair if i have to. don't give me credit. >> if you hadn't talked about it, bill, it would have never happened. >> you and the guys who do it every day are the ones who really deserve the credit. so here you are, you are healthy. you are doing good for a lot of people. and you are a great correspondent. so thank you for talking to us, jennifer. >> thanks, bill. >> in connection with up, two fnc guys used to be

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continue our story. did you know that there are certain people who haveei two fnc guys were actuallytw standup comics. >> rhetorical thing. don't yell it q out. i discourage heckling. why is it necessary to label one of those chickens as young chicken? as if i don't feel bad enough eating something living breathing thing now feel twice as bad knowing it was struck down in the prime of its life so i can have one meaningless meal go. the rest of the way and put bioon there. r like bobby the chicken, beloved son. frank doll, decapitation.

>> [ laughter ] >> walk down the street and think you know, start the wave. >> with my hand. >> here now kilmeade and colmes. you got the same hair cut, colmes. >> hasn't changed. >> same dopey expression. >> thanks for your support. >> stand-up is the hardest thing to do in the entertainment industry. it's absolutely the hardest thing. if you can sing, you sing. to tell jokes to win the audience over. how long did you do it. >> i did it from 1990 to about 96 or 97. got the job at fox news and getting up at 2:30 in the morning after doing standup at 10:'0 let alone getting permission to do it would have been impossible. my wife insisted on having children and they wanted me around. >> so you went right from

standup here in new york? >> right. >> primarily. >>? i was still doing sports and news at the same time i said what could help me at memorizing. help me increase a stage presence? i thought i could try and do it. do it whenever i can. i thought i would be better as a host ad-lib, understand copy and understand an audience. >> that was all you on chicken. >> all me. >> you did stand up in new york? >> yes. >> how long? >> probably 15 years or so. >> 15 years, colmes? >> yes he. >> started when you were 18 years old? >> i was a fetus. and it was very, very. yeah. i mean, it was something he loved making audiences last. the nightclub business itself was very tough. my radio career took off. broadcasting can consume you. >> you so you were going out at night for 15 years. so you must know -- i know you know ray romano and everybody loves remain monday. he was a friend of you on the circuit. >> carol leafer and chris

rock. >> he this were all there with you. >> richard bellser. belmar, even dennis miller who is on your show. >> you hung with them or did they shun you. >> they would toss me a quarter and ask me to go away. >> did you think you were going to make it big as a standup? >> i never had that feeling. my passion was always broadcasting and radio. i you never actually gave up my radio career and then i got into tv by accident. that's a whole another story. broadcasting, radio and tv because always my god. >> i have a goal. >> sometime you have a bad night. >> always. >> new york, tough town if you are not doing well they are throw stuff at you. >> worse evidence is prom. >> prom night? bar mitzvah's too. >> made small. the guy would rather impress his date. hospital met valerie harper.

he we wasn't into the sick area of the hospital. if i am goods to give this a shot and get more experience two doo it three or four times a day. during the day go to the hospital and try to make those people feel better. i trudy that. piano know i shouldn't play so i talked. i watched you do your standup. when you do your appearances. >> when i do don't out with thoroughly i don't tell jokes. so when barack obama and i are doing an interview, what happened of what happens before. some is after. i'm knot going for laughs. >> you are reacting to the room. miller who is a he she probably fresh but sometimes miller and i have a bad night. miller just tell the audience f you. >> and then get really famous, it doesn't matter. walk up and say hi. >> hustle ling audience has helped me here. >> there you go. you got new glasses and looking good.

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in th ine the did you know that segment tonight. how does a lady fighter pilot go from that fascinating job to a national reporting position at fox news? first the facts. leah gabriel graduated as a naval officer, spent 12 years flying fa 18 hornets, supporting combat operations in iraq as well as gathering intelligence. she left the service and there she is a national correspondent. let's take it step by step. annapolis is no easy thing, right? >> i wouldn't say it's an easy play to go. >> do they call them cadets? >> mid shipmen. for me i was a minority which

was a valuable experience for me. but you have to learn to fit in and hang with the boys. when i was there it was about 10% women. >> ten to one. the physical training, was that hard for you? >> it wasn't too hard because iz was a figure skater growing up. >> excellent. you get through annapolis and you're commissioned as a naval officer. >> i saw the blue angels fly when i was in the naval academy. i remember being in awe of them and having this moment where i realized, why am any awe of these guys. i'm in a position to fly these things. >> you applied to the aviator school, right? >> right. >> they ship you over to iraq. >> i few missions over afghanistan. i was still in the persian gulf flying missions off of uss george washington. before the war in iraq i flew missions over iraq but i was

flowing missions in freedom of afghanistan supporting troops on the ground. >> you zoom out there. was that dangerous? >> you know, as somebody flies an f 18 because of the rules of engagement that we have, it's not as dangerous as you would think. the most dangerous part would be coming in to land on the ship at night. >> landing on the aircraft carrier at night. were you scared? >> i'm not going to lie to you, bill. >> no one does. >> there are times it was scary, really are. >> it's just you. >> cat shot were scarier than the landing. >> the what shot? >> catapult shots. >> i thought you had a little cat at home. they pulled you back and the plane goes zooming. >> they slingshot you off the aircraft carrier. they're a lot of fun but dangerous. >> then you decide to become a tv person. >> yes. >> why? >> when i was serving i started

paying attention to journalists because it occurred to me that the journalists were writing tomorrow's history today. i appreciated the fact that even people who might not support the war tended to support or troops because of journalists. >> did you go to school for that. >> i did school for digital journalism. >> you got a job in san diego. >> my real school was beating the streets as a reporter. >> a good market by the way. you learned your craft. >> yes. >> and then they hired you here? >> yes. and it's been a great honor to be here. when i was in the military i appreciated how fox news supported the troops, people like yourself. >> but that's okay, all do is i got bodyguards. you're the one up there with the cat thing or whatever. amazing story, you know. >> thank you. >> there she is, everyone. that is it for us tonight.

thank you for watching this special edition of the factor. i am bill o'reilly please always remember the spin starts right here. because we are definitely looking out for you. it is a proes test movement born of controversy that now finds itself mired in the same as black lives matter becomes a phrase heard in households across this country, there are growing questions about the group's goal, its message an what the americans thigs about it activists. i'm megyn kelly. it began in 2012 when an unarmed black teenager named trayvon martin was killed by george zimmerman. the incident inspired