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American politics and discourse. radio as a medium, you know, bill press, its intimate, youre talking directly to your listener in a way that often on tv youre not. >> he needs fox more than fox needs him. >> got to go to break. when we come back, glenn beck isnt the only big-name broadcaster moving on. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pil...

Crisis, financial crisis, social and economic instability. you need official money from the outside, a system of incentive, otherwise there could be a vicious circle between the political side unraveling and the fiscal one also. >> it is essential that the governments that are coming in after transition manage expectations because there is belief amongst the youth that you have this uprising and then the economy comes back in as it was prior to the crisis of average growth, for example, in egypt...

So i dont think the beck phenom that that weve witnessed as a white hot comet streaking across the land scape, i dont think a year from now it will burn as brightly. fox will do just fine, but i do think that fox is getting very uncomfortable with having glenn beck be the face of the network. that will no longer be a problem. >> beyond what hes saying, whether you agree with him or not, just as a broadcaster, you know, to make standing in front of a black board compelling television is an extrao...

>> beyond what hes saying, whether you agree with him or not, just as a broadcaster, you know, to make standing in front of a black board compelling television is an extraordinarily difficult thing and hes done that. im trying to think of somebody to compare him to and i cant. >> hes very, very talented broadcaster. he can be very funny. and it was odd, because once he went from hln to fox news, he not only seemed to become more inflammatory and to say things that sometimes he had to walk back, ...

>> there is no substitute for being part of the daily conversation for having a daily show. so i dont think the beck phenom that that weve witnessed as a white hot comet streaking across the landscape, i dont think a year from now it will burn as brightly because of the loss of fox. fox will do just fine, but i do think that fox was getting very uncomfortable with having glenn beck in the eyes of some be the face of the network. that will no longer be a problem. >> beyond what hes saying, whethe...

>> does the president really think were this stupid? >> reporter: and build an army of fans that marched on washington last summer, a crucial boom in the conservative grassroots. >> it is time to start the heart of this nation again. >> reporter: but for fox news, it might have been just too much. >> this divorce was inevitable. beck had proved two radioactive, even by the opinionated standards of fox. >> this is he said about the president. >> reporter: this is what he said about the president....

Actually confirmed. sheds of newspaper, sawdust and polymer observe water by 60 times its own volume. they tried doing that it wont crack 9 inches long in one particular tank. it wouldnt work. they have to start over again. another method resorted to try to find the leak is also by putting white bath sals into another tank and seeing where that leaks out. so far no indication of where that water is coming from. >> shepard: bath salts fascinating. new report that the japanese government withheld ...

When a million dollars doesnt come in, youre kind of in trouble. michael strahan who made millions will talk about the lockout. now a broadcaster, he went through it twice as a player. well find out where he thinks this whole thing is going. >> you know something else well find out today at 10:30 in the morning, we will discover the identity of seven state employees for the state of new york who are going to split this whopping $319 million mega millions. they won it on friday night and we do kn...

Incoherent? did you hear any babbling voices or did you hear voices of conviction? the conflict in libya has exposed the soft under belly of the republican party. they still cant be trusted with national security. half of them want to bomb the daylights out of gadhafi and the others want to let the terrorists stay in power. what do they want? the thing that is so unique and so different for the conservatives in all of this, you see they havent been subjected to any sell job on the american publi...

The american way. and i guess you could say to really slam it as a broadcaster who supported obama, so much for all this executive experience, the short comings there. so much for this cutting and running on being a good partner. so much for all the talk that hes not ready to be president. doesnt have the executive experience. hasnt made tough decisions. oh, gosh. this was just less than two and a half years ago we were hearing all of this. i said the other night on this broadcast that the presi...