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Drinking water. explain. >> we say, when something comes so effortlessly to someone, its like drinking water. you see the nonchalance in which these security forces in iran were just shooting people, as if they were going out for an afternoon stroll. and the supreme leader in iran, ayatollah is probably the longest serving dictator in the world. hes been in power since 1989. its what i call the khomeini doctrine. he believes that when your population is rising up, you should never back down, you...

Billionaire tyrant. >> and murdoch really pushed that agenda. he likes the big headline, the screamer, the things that grab your attention. >> he has on shows like a current affair, which is basically a tabloid newspaper front page being slapped up on the air. >> tonight, the last days of a hollywood legend who didnt care whom he took with him to the grave. >> there was a kind of a raw truth telling to this show. this was the place where every man could go to for their news. >> they were ambush ...

Them as an evil empire or imploring gorbachev to tear down this wall. >> and i think it is an important technical role for the united states which is to inhibit the iranian regimes ability to quell the protests, and cut off iran from the rest of the world and prevent iranians from communicating from one another and the rest of the world. so technically i think it is an important role for the united states. >> star link is available for use if they can get those platforms into that country. thank...

With him to the grave. >> there was a rock, truth telling, to this show. this was the place where every man could go for their news. >> there was ambushed stories, gotcha stories. one day, mikhail gorbachev is going to be in new york, donald trump wanted to see gorbachev. >> mr. trump is coming now. >> so, reporter, gordon elliott, hired a gorbachev lookalike, put him in a limousine with a few young ladies. trump runs out of trump tower to meet gorbachev. >> how are you, how are you. i love your...

Lower brow more populist approach to entertainment. >> im rupert murdoch. >> and murdoch really pushed that agenda. he likes the big headline the streamer the things that grab your attention. >> he has on shows like "a current affair" which basically a tabloid newspaper front page being slapped up on the air. >> tonight last days of a hollywood legend who didnt care whom he took with him to the grave. >> there was kind of a raw truth-telling to this show. >> this was the place where every man co...

>> it was really just a slightly lower brow, more populist approach to entertainment. >> im rupert murdoch, the billionaire tyrant. >> and murdoch really pushed that agenda. he likes the big headline, the screamer, the things that grab your attention. >> he has on shows like a current affair, which is basically a tabloid newspaper front page being slapped up on the air. >> tonight, the last days of a hollywood legend who didnt care whom he took with him to the grave. >> there was a kind of a raw...

>> mr. trump is coming now. >> hey. >> so reporter gordon elliott hired a gorbachev lookalike, put them in a limousine with a couple of young ladies. trump comes running out of trump tower to meet gorbachev. >> mr. trump, how are you? >> how are you, mr. gorbachev? its a great honor. >> i like your tie. >> great honor. >> trump looks in the limousine, sees the two women. >> thanks a lot. >> you know what i mean? >> i know what you mean. >> gordon turns around and says, "i think he worked it out....

It was after we announced that we were going to do it that the detractors showed up. >> is cable news network just gonna be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? >> no. it already does provide different fare, and cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. people love news, and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. >> new york city, hello. >> a major catastrophe in americas space program... >> im lou dobbs alon...

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