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Insiders. take a look at this brief clip in the hand off. news viewers know how the hand offs work. here was neil cavuto at the end of the announcement. >> i'm a little stunned and heart broken. i don't know what to say. >> gabe. >> yeah. that is a genuine one of these live tv moments. neil like shepard was at fox since the beginning. clearly he was blind sided byship. he commands a lot of loyalty inside the network. this was something that was handled at the top levels. shep kept his cards close. no one inside the network that i spoke to knew that this was coming. so, when he announced it on ...

Murdoch should be investigated. why? what do you fear would be at the root of this meeting? what kind of red flags are you seeing? >> i find it preposterous that attorney general barr would meet with rupert murdoch. let's think about this for a second. the attorney general is supposed to be the attorney general for the american public. not the white house, not the president. and at the same time, the president is speaking out against fox not having his back. and the same time fox is losing one of its best journalists because of the propaganda that's put out through the opinion-makers. the atto...

Stelter, he decided last month he had simply enough, and his own fox colleagues attacking him for his coverage. we talked to him before about a growing rift between fox hosts. well, that rift just took a hit. senior fox employees tells cnn that shep's departure feels like a death in the news division. assistant editor at the "the washington post," david swerdlik. >> if you're going to sign off, just sign off, drop the mic. well played by shep smith. i think you get to a point that you have to say, look, i'm a news guy, and we're tipping too far away from news. >> yeah. >> if you think about an...

Guys are just news max light. >> if they go too far to speak truth to power, will the network back them if the president attacks? will it back them as an opinion host goes after them? as we've seen with shep, the answer is no. joe biden's campaign sent a letter to "new york times," strongly worded letter, about a column they had written. joe biden's campaign also sent a letter to tv networks, asking them to stop booking rudy giuliani. is that a bad look? >> it is a bad look. earlier this week, let me take a left turn. earlier this week, vice president biden made a comment also about senator ...

>> even in our currently polarized nation, it's my hope that the facts will win the day, that the truth will always matter, that journalism and journalists will thrive. i'm shepard smith, fox news, new york. >> so, david, while the focus is on shepard smith, you know, the presidencies the network really operating in his favor. but does this departure, does that kind of messaging perhaps signal even to the president that things are changing? >> yeah, fred, indeed. first of all, i don't think shep smith is sweating the president's tweets. our colleague, brian stelter, reported he's leaving a $15...