, the inarguable evidence of roger ailes' behavior appalled him. he found it despicable, but he also knew him as a man who was wonderful company. he had a great sense of humor. in fact, he was very, very tough on his own conservative clients, for being too conservative. - yes, he was. i know somebody that worked at fox news that can tell you. - a, i mean, a startling piece of information. none of us is perfect. my favorite line in shakespeare is when hamlet, who is most certainly shakespeare's voice saying, i am myself in different honest, and yet i could accuse me of such things that it would, it were better that my mother had never born me. we're all capable of good. and we're all capable of evil. and it's my job as an actor to explore all those gray areas. - you've also played franklin delano roosevelt, - yeah. what is it? - who i heard you describe. you said you learned of fdr, that quote: he had many slippery qualities. in a way, events turned them into a sort of great unwitting hero, as a descendant of franklin delano roosevelt's chief politi

. >> how would roger ailes have reacted to all this?ger ailes in his prime i don't think would have been consumed by donald trump. i don't think that he would have been victimized in this way, and he would have probably given himself more operational space. the thing that ailes was good at was being unpredictable. he would zig when they expected him to zag. one other thing that roger knew that was really important was fox had to have enough journalistic credibility. there had to be enough of a backbone in there of actual journalists so that you could afford to have the exaggerations or the partisanship or the over the top performances of the prime time host so that you could point back and say, hey, look, we got it. that's the editorial page. that's the entertainment. this is the news division and they do good work. >> i said here for the last couple of nights that the tweets, the texts that were sent to meadows were appropriate because i'd like to think that somebody wanted the events to get shut down and the president to hurry up and

republican politics, increasing over the years ever since its founding in 1996 under rupert murdoch and roger ailes, you have something like 3/5 of registered republicans or so claim that they believe that joe biden won the election fraudulently, which is not true. disproven in countless ways. and the reason they do that is because an echo chamber is provided by fox news and its lesser peers and gives amplification and ballast to not only in former president trump and those around him and those who seek to ride his coattails to power and office by having them say, this is a message that will work for us, therefore we will lie about things, mislead the public, raise concerns, and deny, deflect, dismiss, or denounce claims of any involvement of people in the trump circle or people with loyalty to president trump or support for him with what happened on january 6. at the same time as they claim what happened january 6 is not meaningful and claiming it was a terrible hoax perpetrated by people in the deep state or antifa. judy: david, thank you very much. >> you bet. judy: in the aftermath of last frid

increasing over the years, ever since its founding in 1 1996 and the leadership unr rupert murdoch and roger aileshs of registered republicans claim they believe joe biden won the election. the reason they do that is an echo chamber is provided by fox news and sort of its lesser peers, and it gives amplification and ballast to not only former president trump but those around him and those who seek to ride his coattails to power and office by having him say this is a message that will wok for us and we'll lie about things, mislead the public, raise concerns and, by the way, deny, deflect, dismiss or denounce claims of any involvement of people in the trump circle or people with loyalty to president trump or support for him with what happened on january 6th even at the same time that they claim what happened january 6th isn't meaningful, they're claiming it was a terrible hoax perpetrated by people in the deep state or antifa. >> woodruff: david folkenflik, who covers the media for npr. david, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> woodruff: in the aftermath of last friday's deadly tornado outbreak, fe

what is interesting about this moment is that when roger ailes, the founder of fox news, was in controlthey were directly connected to the republican party or conservatism. but as the republican party and conservatism particularly has gotten more extreme that mask has fallen and fox news has devoted less and less energy to try to look like its impartial. it is a political operation that occasionally behaves as a news organization and it's more and more willing to reveal that to the public and less and less affected by criticism rooted in that truth. >> eric deggans, disturbing conversation. thank you for bringing it to us nonetheless. appreciate it. >>> a comeback story like no other. tiger woods returns to the links with a playing partner who kind of looks like him. ks like him. you have a wealth plan that covers everything that's important to you. this is what it's like to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. making sure you have the right balance of risk and reward. and helping you plan for future generations. this is "the planning effect" from fi

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