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Here in d.c. this week and that quote comes from your piece on the "washington post" website. there was a woman in ohio who said to you, i always had to turn shep off because he upset me so much. >> the trump fans sound like trump. you know how oftentimes trump used to bash cnn, and its the same dynamic, sheps awful, hes a socialist, hes a lefty, i never watched him. that was a very common refrain. but these people are very, very well informed about what shep smith stood for and what he did and ...

Shep and i had a great relationship personally. we just didnt talk politics. we didnt get along that way. it was no surprise but that was his decision. fox, both sides say they tried to get him to stay. you know, hes the best breaking news guy ever seen on television. ive never seen anybody do better news than that guy. ever. in all the years i watched television. nobody better than that. >> sure. he was there for 23 years but he was there when they open the doors of fox news. obviously roger ai...

Shep and i had a great relationship personally. we just didnt talk politics. we didnt get along that way. it was no surprise but that was his decision. fox, both sides say they tried to get him to stay. you know, hes the best breaking news guy ever seen on television. ive never seen anybody do better news than that guy. ever. and all the years i watched television. nobody better than that. >> sure. he was there for 23 years but he was there when they open the doors of fox news. obviously roger a...

From weinstein in groping incident but andy says the story was lacking insufficient evidence, who is winning this argument? >> i think farrell is winning the argument, producer backs him up and key piece that farrell had famous audiotape when he was working at story for nbc, he had audio clip, taped confession, nbc by own admissions didnt think the story was worth pursuing in a certain time frame. howie: trying to get in hotel of italian model. that would seem to be a story. >> pulling back and,...

Howie: there were praise from rival network, its no secret that president trump was no fan of shep, sometimes jabbing him on twitter and on friday he made sarcastic comment on departure questioning on ratings even though he was number one in time slot. a new direction for fox, when shep approached management last month and said he we wanted to step down and he was asked to reconsider. thats a fact. whether or not you like shep smith outspoken to fact-checking the white house this is an extraordi...

Why do i trust everything? i mean, at the end of the day, and i think trump plays into this and -- and -- and its part of putins whole modus ap ran die is to make people distrust the idea of empirical facts. that there is one side that actually has fact and another side that has falsehood. trump plays into that and this video does in a really horrific way. >> shep smith sadly and surprisingly announced his resignation from fox news on friday. but one of my favorite sort of, you know, exasperated...

President trump criticized shep. he would tweet against shep. the president seems always to promote the opinion shows on fox and attack the news division. for example, he attacked that fox poll this week that showed impeachment getting a majority support among americans. david, your reaction? >> well, one of the things is, you know, with trump doing that, it really can wear you down. i mean, some of your reporting, you talked about him, about shep just wanting to move on. maybe being tired of th...

To have. they a business decision the murdochs are making. its unfortunate because the fox news audience is not served well by having uncritical views of what the president is saying. theres no dispute about the fact that the president doesnt and unless somebody says that on foxs air, theres no way the audience would know that. thats unfortunate. shep was very good at that. >> julie, you did sue fox for harassment and retaliation. you mention the secondives in in charge. do you have a personal a...

News, throwing up his hands after months of tepgzs with foxs opinion shows. shep had the power to speak truth, to provide a reality check to foxs viewers who hear pro-trump talking points all day long. but he wont be there anymore. his last day was friday. and i think this is bigger than fox. its a sign of whats happening in america and to america. people sorting themselves into tribes. tuning out inconvenient information. and right now this phenomenon is most intense on the right which is why s...

Here is that over the years, there was not a history of fox opinion hosts criticizing the journalists. and over the course of the trump administration, more and more the opinion hosts have been criticizing the journalists. and so that really pits bias against straight journalism. i think julies pretty much nailed it. thats a huge part of what frustrates the journalists at fox news because they shouldnt be arguing with people who are there to comment on the news and completely neglect what was ju...