former fox news chairman and ceo roger ailes has died. lped transform fox news into a ratings powerhouse. he resigned last summer amid sexual harassment allegation les. roger ailes was 77. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein today headed to capitol hill to brief senators on president trump's firing of former fbi director james comey. >>> and controversial milwaukee sheriff david clarke says he's taking a new position in the trump administration as an assistant secretary with the department of homeland security. clark was an outspoken surrogate for president trump on the campaign trail. the administration says no announcement has been made. >>> and protests in tulsa, o oklahoma, after officer betty shelby found not guilty in the 2016 shooting death of terence crutcher whose car had stalled on a highway. crutcher was unarmed with his hands up when shelby opened fire. >>> and supermodel gisele bundchen, wife of tom brady, revealed brady has suffered a series of concussions during his career including one last year. the nfl says it has no r

roger ailes the founder, chairman, dead at the age of 77. his wife, as i stated 20 minutes ago -- beth ailes is an angel on earth and zachary ailes is a man everyone will be proud to call a son. our thoughts, our prayers, our hearts are with you now and we are sending you the greatest strength you need to get through a tough, tough time. 77. >> shannon: as sean put in that very personal statement about him wanting to kick a, was very competitive. he loved the idea of a good fight and coming out on top and giving everything you had in the process. he was a competitor at heart and passionate about all he did. >> the one thing he realized in the 1960s. television is a medium that has so much power and you better embrace it or you'll be left behind. he had that conversation with president nixon. he walked in the room and said i don't like this whole idea. roger said you better get used to it. this is the future. he passed it to him during an appearance on the michael douglas show. what you see now as a viewer so much of your tv monitor is a creat

roger ailes, the founder and former ceo of fox news has died. good afternoon and thank you for watching wusa9 news at noon. i'm andrea roane. >>> admirers and critics alike ane remembering roger ailes, 77 >> reporter: this is not an easy day. we begin with the sad news about a man who has meant so much. fox news is paying tribute to a legend of broadcast news. roger ailes was the force behind the fox news channel as it became america's most powerful conservative network. his 20-year reign crash to an end when he was dismissed with accusations of sexual impropriety. you may have left under a cloud but had many loyal supporters. fox anchors went on the air shell-shocked to report his death and some of them were in tears. they paid tribute to him and the impact on their lives. >> i will love you forever. >> you gave me an opportunity and i will forever, grateful. >> reporter: 's wife released a statement saying i'm profoundly sad and heartbroken to report my husband, roger ailes, passed away this morning surrounded by his beautiful family. roger wa

stay with us. >> roger ailes died yesterday. he was 77.he controversial media titan had been a mainstay of the american media for more than four decades. he is best known for launching fox news in 1996 with financial backing from rupert murdoch. combative, and created a news network to combine politics and entertainment. loyal right wing audience made fox news an empire. he stepped down last year following allegations of sexual harassment. he was described as a brilliant broadcaster who played a huge role in shaping america's media. gabe sherman, national affairs editor "new york" magazine and author of "the loudest voice in the room, how far the bombastic roger ailes built fox news and a divided country. and. >> and jim rutenburg has an interesting piece about roger ailes in toe's times. pleased to have you both. welcome. let's do this in the beginning. let's assume all of the things that became and tainted roger ailes career, all of the sexual harassment stuff, had not been there. what would be his legacy well, i think politically his le

to roger ailes, godspeed, my friend.tomorrow night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president trump faced the press today one day after the surprise appointment of former fbi director robert mueller, a special counsel to investigate any links between trump's presidential campaign and the russian government. the president, not surprisingly, said mueller won't find anything. >> the entire thing has been a witch-hunt. there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. believe me, there is no collusion. russia is fine. but whether it is russia or anybody else, my total priority, believe me, is the united states of america.

let me give my own personal tribute to roger ailes. you are absolutely right, he change the direction of so many people, and concluding my trajectory of my participation with fox. sum up what you said and a lot of others have said about roger ailes. he had an ear, and eye, and a heart for people and talents, that's what made him so special. getting back to your monologue about the attacks on trump. all i heard today on my radio show was the deplorable's are going to fight back. many of them are starting by calling the presidential comments line, it's 202-456-1111. the liberal media doesn't have his back, we know that. the democrats don't have his back, we know that. even some republicans don't have his back. the american people have his back, to the american people, you need to call 202-456-1111 and let the president know that we have his back. we are fighting back. >> sean: the two that i think it seemed be the most dangerous to the president accomplishing his agenda, america is in a precipitous decline, he's got to get his economic p

roger ailes the founder of the company died today at the age of 77.e love this country, especially the men and women in uniform. on a personal note, he hired me in 2006 and he saw something in me and gave me the best opportunity of my life. i will be forever grateful. he was the most generous open hearted man who prided himself on loyalty and that's exactly how i will remember him. he saw something in each and every one of us who work here at the fox news channel. his camaraderie and positive attitude made this place thrive. he taught all of us to push ourselves, to believe in ourselves, if we could reach high to retire. may he rest in peace and god bless his wife beth and son zach. >> juan: first of all, god bless roger. but it's been another crazy week in washington if you been washed in stomach watching the news. while everyone think partisanship is at an all-time high, take a look at this picture. here have ultraconservative arkansas center tom cotton, thence s of nebraska and leading democrat in defiance of trump senator chuck schumer of new york

this fox news alert, roger ailes has passed away. if you only know of him what you read in recent months, then you didn't know him. roger almost single-handedly built fox news channel from nothing. it's not possible to pay tribute to his accomplishments in just a few words. the son of a blue-collar worker, roger never forgot his ohio roots, even when he was advising presidents. he was able to spot abilities and people and someone from them their very best work. thousands of us here at fox news and fox business network and other tv networks as well oh, our careers to him. on a personal note, when i was in the darkest period of my life, robert was incredibly helpful and supportive and i wouldn't have made it through without him. he had his faults, we all do. i prefer to remember that roger ailes was a generous, hilarious, and a genius. if you enjoy the fox news channel, you have roger to thank for that. his widow, beth gives us the statement. i am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband roger ailes passed away this morn

powerful peoplee in office i'm just as her talk about mitch mcconnell, he wouldn't be there without roger ailest his influence and power is so incredible, i do think you've got to discuss, he left here and very troubled circumstances. terrible charges against him, it's just not the roger i knew, not the roger i loved. he was so great to me come up and he persuaded my wife that id should come here back in 1996,er '97 when i first signed a contract. just a great guy all around. >> jesse: i'm incredibly grateful to work for roger ailes, one of the most patriotic people ever met. one of the funniest people very quickwitted. great judge of talent, understood the tv screen, an excellent storyteller and i owe everything to him. my whole life and career the last couple years, it is unfortunate he left here in conjunction with some of the charges, inappropriate behavior. i just want to say he's been a great father, great husband, i feel terrible for them and i i wish them all the best and he's a very influential american. >> greg: one last thing, i was watching sean hannity on tucker and he said somethi

ate: roger ailes, who died 77.has been known as the greatest show on earth but after 146 years, the ringling brothers circus is shutting down. goes to sue the closing moments for those who called the circus their home. >> ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus are older than coca-cola, we are older than baseball. for ask -- for us to come to a close, it is sad. >> writing a canon onto the arena floor, it is powerful. smiling before i get in, is and as i get down to where the can and cannot -- where the crowd cannot see me, i stop smiling. i am focused, 100%. the word i think of is "attack." >> go! [applause] between cities, we travel and live on a train. we are like professional gypsies. it is such a unique lifestyle. that is one of the most nostalgic elements of this show coming to a close. this lifestyle is coming to an end as well. there is a culture we are losing that is 146 years deep. >> we are devastated. the performers are all out of work. hopefully, something else will come up where it's similar. i

charlie: what happens to fox news without roger ailes? >> that is a tremendous question. happened since is that bill left because of a similar sexual-harassment suit and then megyn kelly left. so where does this -- roger was too smart to follow one straight formula, but the people who worked for him new how to make it a formula and run fox as he sought. they are in a reinvention period and it is a big "if." they are now trailing both cnn and msnbc in the audience. i cannot remember a time really since the iraq war that fox news has not been the dominant player in cable primetime. charlie: he had the capacity to create stars in a big way. bill o'reilly and sean hannity and megyn kelly. >> there is the upside of this ailes was a guru and he would take past personalities like bill o'reilly and reinvent them as the avatar of the working man's right. the downside of that is that ailes required ultimate loyalty from his talent, and it really cult ofld -- a personality. culture oflly this silence that he created that unfortunately led to this pervasive culture of harassment that

reporter: a polarizing figure to the end roger ailes combined his passions, politics and television to news. allegedly abusing his power for his own pleasure. >> women who worked for ailes told me over and over they felt pressured to suacome to advance. >> he always denied the advances. it began on the mike douglas show going to producer until a meeting with richard nixon led him to a career in republican politics. ailes was steed have two speeds, attack and destroy. >> i predicted in 1968 that nobody would ever be elected to high office again without learning how to communicate effectively on television. >> his savvy helped election nixon, ronald reagan and coverage h.w. bush. bush tweeting not sure i would have been president. >> politics is america's favorite indoor sport. >> he would make his mark creating fox news, a platform for conservative voices. what is ailes legacy >> i think transforming american politics into a contact sport. >> his biographer calls it a world wrestling style of politics that led to the election of donald trump. a controversial republican king maker undone

but roger ailes dead at the age of 77. look at the two people that impacted american culture and politics, over the past 20 years, you would look at steve jobs, and roger ailes. >> yeah. i was going -- this always happens. i was going to call him the other day. going through -- he's done bad things. been through bad things, but he got me started in cable television back when he was running c nbc and "america's talking." i met him. an amazing thing. i think the reason he succeeded with fox in the beginning he's the kind of guy that would watch fox. like sports fans. they root for the team because they love it. he rooted for his network because that's what he wanted to watch and i think that was his strength, like it or not. >> chris and i first met roger ailes. i was right out of school, 1968 in philadelphia. he was the producer of "the mike douglas show" in the same building where the nbc affiliate was. i would see him all the time. after that is when he first hooked up with richard nixon and did that '72 campaign. and he w

roger and beth ailes just had a son, zach. he was the love of roger's life. he wanted to help make america a better place for his new son. that's how he thought. we talked about how close my father and i are. how my relationship had survived and thrived in a mess sy divorce. he asked about growing up in mississippi. roger was a small town boy. born in ohio. no connection to power. look what he accomplished. i could too. stick to your instincts. he told me be good, treat people well and be happy. negative people make positive people sick. stick with me, said roger ailes. sky is the limit. as we finish the 15-minute that suddenly was an hour, as i stood to leave his office, a hug. a big embrace. "love you" he said. tell your father i think the world of you. i want to meet him soon. go get him. the boss loves me, cares about my father, has a new baby for whom he wants to make the world a better place. it was heavy. felt important. i was sold. one random afternoon in the basement newsroom of this building, we got word of a school shooting in colorado. columbine,

roger ailes a brilliant broadcaster. ger played a huge role shaping america's media over the past few years. he will be remembered by many of the people both sides of the camera we furtherterred. roger was a great patriot who never ceased fighting for his beliefs. 2 fox we'll always be enormously grateful for the great business he built. our thoughts and prayers are with his wife elizabeth and his son. >> can i say one thing about the business angle o this thing. when they started, nobody, not many people gave them a chance. that is when msnbc started. some other networks were starting back then. i was working, working for "the wall street journal" but i was also moonlighting working for john malone who had a little tv show. john malone is a great business leader. he canceled the show when he heard about fox news being started because he said those two guys, rupert murdoch and roger ailes are going to be unbeatable. you have the best deal maker in best manager in the world, roger ailes. between the two of them they will k

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i heard that rupert and roger ailes are getting together, rupert murdoch, the best deal maker and roger in the world, when they get together, they'll be unstoppable. took a few years, they were absolutely right. liz: he was so smart, he was telling me about when he produced the mike douglas show. he was a nice man, wanted to be on camera and wanted to play golf. >> by the way, people forget but before there was fox news, there was america's talking, which morphed into msnbc, but roger ran it when it was america's talking, and he had his own show, and his own show was fascinating. he would sit down and asked very simple questions to the people. not long complicated questions that and you i have a tendency toet into, so many details, simple questions why, do you part your hair that way? what do you think of when you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning? little questions that get inside a person's character. liz: he said you are the message, meaning not just the voice, it's inside of us. right? your character is your fate, of course, we know that. so the point you make is well spo

>> i covered roger ailes for years. sometimes he got into trouble because he would say very strong things with colorful language. he hired me, despite the fact that i had been aggressive in covering him. he created the show, media buzz, and barely talk to me because he wanted to give me independence knowing that i would be covering fox news as well as the rest of the media world. no secret that roger ailes and fox have a lot of detractors out there, but one thing people will miss about him is his genius and how he made everybody follow his lead. secondly, for all the criticism of fox by people who define it by its opinion commentators often on the right, he was a guy who connected with middle america because they felt they were not hearing their voice or their viewpoints in the mainstream media. as an outsider, he founded a channel. even his detractors have to say that he saw this opening in the marketplace for what he called fair and balanced television and a way that created fox and overtook cnn within five years. thi

. >> neil: shepard, and amazing tribute to our former boss of roger ailes. i want to get into more developments that roger loved so much. two quick developments. we're following all of these senators that have just met with rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general that just appointed robert mueller, the former fbi director to look into the ties between the trump folks and russia. they seem to be welcoming this appointment and optimistic it will lead to a conclusion. how long it drags out, anybody's guess the right now, the focus on the white house. the president will have a joint statement with manuel santos. he's columbia's president. president has been cracking down on gorilla efforts and won a nobel peace prize for trying to find a negotiated settlement. the two leaders are expected to come to microphone shortly. no doubt the president and his staff to see the end of the senator's meeting before they go with what they seem to be the next step in this investigation. to kevin corke at the white house and on how the white house is sorting this out. kevin?

walk us through what we know and any reaction so far. >> the news ce from roger ailes' wife' l elizabeth. saying in part "roger was a patriot, grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise and to give back. during a career that stechd more than five decades his work in entertainment, in politics and in news affected the lives of many millions so even as we mourn his death, we celebrate his life." he leaves behind a complicated legacy. while he built fox news into a powerhouse, giving kwon conse e conservative politics a voice on cable tv in recent months he was best known for allegations of sexual harassment, allegations that he forcefully denied but nevertheless forced him to resign last summer. those allegations came most notably from gretchen carlsson, former anchor on fox news who ultimately settled with ailes and the company for some $20 million. roger ailes has been since he resigned sort of out of the spotlight, a spotlight that he created and in many ways he craved. he started hiss as a gop operative, he led cnbc and america's talking and w

former fox news chief roger ailes has died. we'll look at the legacy of a man who changed news in america for years to come. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm chris jansing at our msnbc headquarters in new york. right now, president trump this morning seeming to contradict himself, calling the newly announced investigation into his campaign's possible ties to russia not just the single greatest witch hunt of any politician in american history, but adding, with all of the illegal acts that took place in the clinton campaign and obama administration, there was never a special council appointed. tweeted that before 8:00 eastern time this morning after releasing a measured statement last night. saying he, quote, looks forward to this matter concluding quickly. his scathing new criticism unleashed even as something highly unusual is unfolding in washington this morning. bipartisan agreement. praise for former fbi director robert mueller as special council to oversee the russia investigation. >> all of us are -- that know director muel

. >>> tonight reflecting on the complicated legacy of former fox news ceo roger ailes dies today.ct news and created a working culture. >> tonight new details in sudden death of media tight an samantha amos roger ailes slipped in his mansion and while in coma died from internal bleeding. news of his death taking employees by surprise. >> this is a fox news alert, roger ailes one of the founders of fox news channel has died. >> the architect of fox news he was as bombastic as controversial. >> question came up with we report you decide. fair and balance. >> but last year roger ailes was the headline after accusations of sexual misconduct. his former colleagues paid hopper on air. >> was a presence and he will be missed. >> roger ailes was 77 years old. abc 7 news new york. >>> frankie a v a lon is singing the praises of a new san francisco hot spot. >>> star bucss is now offering a . >>> star bucss bucks is now offea . >>> starbucks . >>> starbucks are offering cubes only available in baltimore and st. louis. >>> san francisco newest public art installation opened at 8th and missio

. >>> roger ailes has died. the former fox news ceo forced to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment. we now learn how he died. >>> and the king and his secret. what's he's been doing all these years. >> announcer: this is abc "world news tonight" with david muir, reporting tonight from washington. >>> good evening, from washington tonight. where we met with the president today. what he says about that special counsel now brought into investigate russia. but we're also following those horrific pictures out of new york city today, the deadly crash, the driver plowing into pedestrians, right in the middle of times square. a barrier is the only thing that stopped the car. the driver right there on the left, trying to get away. witnesses in panic. nearly two dozen hit or injured. many lying on the street. this is video of the car in the air. and moments ago we learned the one person killed was an 18-year-old tourist from michigan. the driver in custody tonight. there were initial worries, could this be terror

of the founders of the fox news channel has died. >> reporter: a polarizing figure to the end, roger ailes combined his two passions, politics and television to build fox news. allegedly abusing his power for his own pleasure. >> women who worked for ailes have told me over and over again have told me they felt pressured to succumb to his sexual advances. >> reporter: he always denied the charges. >> it began on the mike douglas show. going from prop boy to executive producer, until a meeting with richard nixon led him to a career in republican politics. ailes was said to have two speeds, attack and destroy. >> i predicted that nobody would ever be elected to high office again without learning how to communicate effectively on television. >> reporter: his media savvy helped elect nixon, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. not sure i would have been president without his great talent and loyal help. >> politics is america's favorite indoor sport. >> reporter: he would make his indelible mark creating fox news. >> what is ailes' legacy. >> it's transforming politics into a contact sport. any

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from his wife elizabeth. >> she says i am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband roger ailes away this morning. roger was a loving husband to me to his son zachary and to -- and a good friend to many. >> profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard to rise ton give back. during a career that stretched over more than five decades his work in entertainment in politics in news affect add the so even -- >> ailes leaves be behind controversial legacy. he began his career in television in the early 1960's in cleveland and the philadelphia. that's also where ailes met richard nixon. the president hired ailes as a media consultant. ailes would go on to work for presidents ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. he led c nbc for a time in the early 90's before becoming the founding ceo of fox news in 1996. ailes left fox last summer amid a sexual harassment scandal. again roger ailes dead at the age of 77. >> we have an update on that water main break in northwest. d.c. water reports macarthur boulevard will remain closed in that both directions

he'll return may 27th, a nine-day trip. >>> now to the death of former fox news ceo, roger ailes. 'reilly speaking out about ailes' legacy as questions are raised about what will happen to the women who are suing him for sexual harassment. rebecca jarvis has details on that story. >> reporter: good morning. you're right, several pending lawsuits and a federal investigation into whether fox news' parent company violated any securities laws. with the passing of roger ailes, the question now, how do they move forward? >> there are very few human beings on this planet who are visionaries. roger was one of them. >> reporter: overnight, bill o'reilly speaking out about the passing of roger ailes. >> he was a tough guy and settled scores and that made him a big target. didn't take any guff from the left or the right. he alienated a lot of people. he was very tough and a lot of people hated him and that hatred ultimately brought him down. >> reporter: o'reilly telling listeners on his no-spin news podcast, he thinks the fox news founder never really recovered after he was forced to resign

in a state, ailes' wife "roger was my best friend. derful loving husband and father to our zachary." ailes advised successful presidential campaigns and he later built fox news providing conservatives with a powerful voice. >> roger invented fox news. for 20 years has been fox news. >> "roger played a huge role to shape america's media in the last 30 years. he will be remembered by the many people on both sides of the camera he discovered, nurture and promoted." last year, ailes found himself at the center of sexual harassment allegations from fox news anchors including gretchen carlson and megyn kelly. he resigned last summer. following his death, president bush tweeted, "he wasn't perfect but he was my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent, loyal help. rest in peace." after roger ailes left fox briefly to assist donald trump in debate prep against hillary clinton. a spokeswoman for trump called the two long-time friends. josh haskell. scott: did you encourage him to back down on the inv

passed away this morning. >> reporter: for two decades, roger ailes helped build fox news from e ground up. >> we've invested a lot in politics from day one. >> reporter: ailes spoke to charlie rose in 2001. >> and we think that politics is really america's favorite indoor sport. >> yeah. >> whether people talk about it, they vote, they don't vote, they all have opinions about the issues. >> reporter: before his time at fox news ailes was a well-known political consultant working with presidents richard nixon, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. >> you are about to enter the no spin zone. >> reporter: ailes was essential in helping fox news rise to power behind personalities like bill o'reilly who recently left the network over sexual harassment allegation but was one of its biggest stars for years. >> i am bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. >> we kind of created people like bill o'reilly. we didn't create him in the sense that bill has been around for 25 years, but we gave him a form to do his thing in prime time. >> the philosophy is to -- in prime time you have to

roger ailes. the corridor in palm beach florida said roger ailes died from bleeding on the brain after he fell last week at his home. roger ailes was a pioneer of conservative, cable tv news and helped turn fox news into a ratings powerhouse. he is credited with helping to elect three republican presidents and he was a major force in american conservative politics. ailes step down last summer after several women came forward with the stories of sexual harassment. roger ailes died at the age of 77. [ music playing ] >>> more reaction to the death of musician chris cornell. the lead singer for the pioneering grunge band, soundgarden. he died wednesday night after performing in detroit. officials there said it was a suicide. that cornell hanged himself in his hotel room. he was 52, born and raised in seattle. he was part of a close knit group of artists who form the foundation of what would become the grunge scene that exploded in the early 1990s. >> the idea that he was 52 and a family man and seemi

but roger ailes has died and details are just now coming in.d from the white house, amy. >>> let's go to george stephanopoulos. >> this is really shocking, george. >> yeah, he had been battling various illnesses for sometime. you can't underestimate the imprint he made on public and american politics. his time in politics goes back to the days of richard nixon, and he was responsible for the comeback of richard nixon in 1968 when he was the producer of the "mike douglas show." and remember, nixon had been out of politics and lost the race to kennedy in 1960, and he helped engineer the comeback for these men in the arena town meetings, and he put richard nixon back on the maps. he played a big role in the election of h.w. bush, and then what a mark he made at fox news after working at msnbc, and came to fox news in the beginning and shaped the culture and ideology and shaped the world view of that network who had such a huge impact on our politics. >> all he has people know him most for fox news. his wife said i am profoundly sad and heartbroken

>>> roger ailes dies, the disgraced fox news founder sudden death months after being forced out. word from the coroner. >>> beachgoers be ware, a warning about the sunscreens at the store, you might not be getting what it says on the bottle. >>> and a valuable lesson in friendship playing out at recess, "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we heard directly from president trump late today about the on slot of headlineslot of headline slot of headlines battering the white house this week. in a brief news conference, the president saying yesterday's appointment with special counsel to take over the russia investigation is a witch hunt that divides the country. and he offered an emphatic no when asked whether the former fbi director comey knew about national security advisor michael flynn. we get details from chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: tonight, new reaction to the special counsel taking over the russia investigation. >> i respect th

from his wife elizabeth. >> she says i am profoundly sad and heart broken to report to my husband roger ailesd way this morning. roger was a loving husband to me tox his son zachary and to a loyal friend to many. >> halls patriot, profoundly grateful to live in country that work hard, to rise and to give back. during a career that stretched over more than five decades his work in enter taken many, in politics, in news affected lives of many millions and so even as we mourn his death, we celebrate his life. >> our thoughts and prayers so zachary. they're beautiful son. >> roger -- >> more on the life of roger ailes a media consultant for presidents 96 couldn't, reagan and george hw bush. back in october of 1996 he was the founding ceo of fox news. roger ailes was 77-year-old although his ladder live eclipsed by the allegations of sexual misconduct at fox news lot mourning the loss of a true pioneer in the media industry. difficult morning. >> it is a difficult morning. it's difficult morning. he clearly has a legacy. he did a lot. he'll be remembered for how it ended and so -- >> at love peopl

created reported his >> roger ailes, has died. >>> >> reporter: a statement from his wife saidpassed away this morning, surrounded by family members. the cause of death has not been released. but a 911 report indicates he had been hospitalized after suffering a blow to the head from a bathroom fall. he resigned fox news amidst allegations of sexual harassment from more than two dozen of the company's female employees. >> he commanded tremendous loyalty from his staffers and also fear and he ruled fox news with an iron fist. >> reporter: he worked as a consultant for political figures from richard nixon to donald trump. in 1996, he launched fox news, which became a powerful force in american politics. >> no one changed politics more with a single medium than ailes. >> reporter: in a rupert murdoch said everybody at fox news is shocked and grieved by the death of roger ailes and called him a great patriot who never ceased fighting for his beliefs. >>> developing right now at 4:00, the chair of the powerful house oversight committee is calling it quits. utah congressman jason chaf

roger ailes was accused of some pretty horrible conduct toward women.we have to balance that against whatever else he achieved in his long career in politics and media. >> he was different things to different people. and you have people like this network who he -- who have come out and talked about how much he helped them when they were going through family situations, when they were sick. he did those things. those things cannot be denied. you have other people who obviously who have come out and said that some of them destroyed their careers and created a culture of object jok. howie: let me get you here on this last question. many assumed he gave daily marching orders. he hired me, and i covered him aggressively on other news organizations. and he never had any contact with me on what to do on this program. >> i would think after he left the network we would have heard from other anchors who used to work here who would say i was told what to say. as far as professional dominance as far as not living an exemplary life, you look back at former presiden

to roger ailes, godspeed, my friend. we will see you here tomorrow night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." president trump faced the press today one day after the surprise appointment of former fbi director robert mueller, a special counsel to investigate any links between trump's presidential campaign and the russian government. the president, not surprisingly, said mueller won't find anything. >> the entire thing has been a witch-hunt. there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. believe me, there is no collusion. russia is fine. but whether it is russia or anybody else, my total priority, believe me, is the united states of america. >> tucker: the president also denied allegations he pressured to fired fbi james comey to abandon an investigation of former national security advisor michael flynn. >> did you urge james comey in any way, shape, or form, to back down the investigation against michael flynn? >> no

roger ailes, the architect of the fox news channel, died today. doctors say he had a brain hemorrhage after falling last week. ailes was 77. anna werner has more on the man who was once called "the loudest voice in the room." >> reporter: roger ailes went from a 27-year-old tv introducer nixon to the american people in 1968. he helped elect ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, too. by 1992, ailes had retired from politics and soured on the news media, as he told charlie rose then... >> if you want to have tremendous political influence and still be a womanizer, drug abuser or an alcoholic, you only have one choice of career, and that's journalism. >> reporter: but four years later, ailes would become founder and c.e.o. of the news channel. >> caution. >> reporter: with conservative comment traitors like bill o'reilly, why did viewers watch? he told rose in 2001... >> they think perhaps points of view are being eliminated and some stories are being eliminated on other channels, and that's why we're winning. >> reporter: h.w. bush said ailes wasn't pe

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channel. >> it began 21 years ago amid widespread predictions that it would inevitably fail but for roger ailesfrom civil beginning that is the son of a shop foreman, roger eugene ailes found his way up. by age 25 he was executive producer of the highly successful mike douglas daytime tv show. one guest was richard nixon who was so taken with the young ailes that he hired him for his president a campaign. a broader career as a media and political consultants. in 1984 he advised ronald reagan after reagan lost the first presidential debate walter mondale. ailes approached vice president george hw bush in his successful campaign to succeed reagan. president bush xli tweeted the he wasn't perfect but roger ailes is my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent and loyal help but, rest in peace. after a successful stint as cnbc and launching the channel that would later become msnbc news corporation chief rupert murdoch tapped him to start the fox news channel in 1996, it was a huge gamble. >> we had no studio control room, stars, programs or anything else

and from a business perspective, roger ailes was tremendous. a news organization right here, that's for sure. you know, i only knew roger for a brief time, for a little over a year. but i will tell you i am very grateful i had that opportunity to work with such a legend. roger ailes, dead at the age of 77. our hearts and prayers go out to his wife and his son. rest in peace, roger. liz: breaking news, the president of colombia is expected to arrive at the white house at any moment now ahead of a joint press conference that will take place in this hour, supposedly 3:45 p.m. eastern time. president juan manuel santos is meeting with president trump, and it'll happen this year, and it comes as president trump makes news on another front in latin america. he has made it official, the u.s. will renegotiate the nafta trade agreement with mexico and canada. this was a big campaign promise. now he says it is going to happen. it's a jam-packed day for the president as he deals with what he calls, quote, the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in

he was in almost every key meeting with roger ailes. and women i've interviewed have said that he was aware of the sexual harassment. we should point out he has denied knowing about it. he was in a position to know. it shows that he enabled and allowed thisser arer atmosphere of that went on unchecked for many years. >> this wasn't just a passive turning of a blind eye. there are allegations that bill shine was involved in the cutting of a check. if there was a check to be cut. or the logistics of some of the things that roger ailes was up to with female subordinate workers. >> yes, of course. one of the most vivid and disturbing cases was that of laurie moon, a female fox news executive who said that she was subject to almost a 20-year sexual and psychological abusive relationship with bill ailes and bill shine arranged to travel to new york for meetings. he mondayered the her e-mails when roger ailes was worried that she might go rogue and go public with the stories of her experience. and so bill shine again was intimately involved. n

nbc's anne thompson has late details. >> reporter: roger ailes, bill o'reilly and now fox news co-president bill shine. ailes and o'reilly gone after accusations of sexual harassment. shine resigning today after accusations he covered up the abuse. accusations he's denied. new york magazine's gabe sherman broke the story. >> shine really was a continuation of the old fox news culture. so today is a sign that the murdochs are slowly deciding they need to answer critics by turning a page. #. >> reporter: 21st century fox chairman rupert murdoch characterized shine's resignation as sad. writing in an e-mail, i know bill was respected and liked by everybody at fox news. not everybody. in her lawsuit, fox contributor julie roginski says shine aided and abetted ailes' acts of retaliation and harassment. andrea once a member of the five in her suit allegations shine told her that ailes was a very powerful man and sheneeded to let this one go. shine had a powerful advocate in his corner. fox star sean hannity tweeting last week as rumors of shine's demise swirl, i pray this is not true because if i

roger ailes built an entire network around grievance what they've been talking about.k about he and roger ailes would go to luncht michaels and have the premier table with a vast view of the room with all the media elite who lunch at michaels, particularly on wednesdays, people coming up to the table, kissing his ring, giving him compliments and singing his praises. the thing john kline found most remarkable, even though the media elite of the country were bowing down to roger ailes at this restaurant, he felt aggrieved. he said, they're saying these nice things but they hate doing it. i piggyback on what joan said, i'm not as inclined to be as charitable to roger ailes. i don't begrudge him his business success but i do take issue with what it has done to america and the discourse. we have a president of the united states who really challenges not only who we are as a country but our very democratic small d institutions. >> that sense of grievance, it sounds like donald trump, very similar, donald trump is a great consumer of fox news, he is a big fan of it and echos