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Director. and joe lieberman, one of four candidates, the president not getting specifics, to replace james comey but soon. >> a rough day at fox news, we remember and honor roger ailes, the man who created this channel. heather: he died at the age of 77 and this morning, the fox news family remember him as a tough but brilliant strategist and television pioneer. >> my name is roger ailes, chairman of fox news channel. >> it began 21 years ago amid widespread predictions that it would inevitably fail but for roger ailes failure was never an option. from civil beginning that is the son of a shop...

Potential to derail busch's candidacy. >> fox news ratings climbed. coverage of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, by the end, fox news fox news became everyone in cable news and has remained so ever since. there has always been as scrappy atmosphere. a sense that the work here is a privilege to be enjoyed. >> i tell people, if you're not having any fun, go home. go home. you are irritating me. >> roger never forgot where he came from. >> how would you describe yourself? >> a guy from ohio who worked his way up and got lucky. going into television as a gofe gofer, and an opportunity presented ...

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 be...

It so happens the niche was half the country who felt they were being underserved by the media. ailes died this morning at 77 years old. his legacy lives on here at fox. take a look back, he is being remembered as someone, the man who created this channel, the man was being remembered tonight as tough but brilliant strategist and television pioneer, a career that ended here in controversy. senior political analyst brit hume worked with ailes from the beginning of the channel. he takes a look back tonight. >> good morning. my name is roger ailes. >> 21 years ago amid predictions it would fail. ...

>> rogers death this morning was announced by his wife who described herself as profoundly sad and heartbroken. he suffered from hemophilia and took a fall in the bathroom of his home in palm beach florida which caused bleeding in his brain. he is survived by his 17-year-old son zachary. stealing all those years, he said so many things to all of us. he used to say negative people make positive people sick. he used to fire us up. i know the man we knew for all those years was not the man at the end of his career that ended in controversy. when he hired me, some 20 years ago, my experience was a...