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Friends that really helps transform donald trump from an entertainment figure into a political one. >> why can't he produce a birth certificate? there is something very strange going on. >> he would go on and talk about what's really going on with barack obama's birth certificate. the message is, here's an other, here's a black person who may not be what they seem. >> it was a natural synergy between what trump was espousing and what fox had already been telling its viewers for years. >> and then they get president b. hussein obama in there. >> he kicked his american flag pin to the curb. >> o...

>> fox and friends. >> well good morning folks, it is already wednesday, thanks for joining us. >> in the beginning it was the perfect job for me that i had always dreamed of. the only remnant is the freezing temperatures here this morning. >> right. >> gretchen carlson was very much in the mold of a fox news female anchor; blond, former beauty queen. >> you're just a just sexist. >> yes. i jest-- >> okay. >> but she didn't dance to roger the way he would have liked. so there was always a little bit of a conflict going on, from the beginning. >> headline time, women are everywhere, we're letti...

And watching it, and thinking about it, in the moment, it was breathtaking. >> he helped found the news division 20 years ago, rupert murdoch made the announcement to staff personally. in a statement, he prized ailes, saying roger ailes had made a remarkable contribution -- >> roger ailes is gone, and that creates a huge power vacuum in the center of the company. >> james sees that there's a real opportunity in this moment for fox to chart a new path, to cater to younger audiences, to be a little less right winning. >> but lachlan's view and rupert's view was why would we change this? we've ne...

He'd hear things -- >> oh now let's talk about immigration, yesterday we told you about -- >> -- and then he would tweet them. >> here's the, i mean the president just tweeted, can we take a look at this tweet that he just put out? >> donald trump will watch that, say we need to get our borders under control, and then fox news will shift coverage to talking about how the president says there's a crisis on the border and we need to get things under control. >> it was difficult at times to tell, was donald trump setting the country's agenda or was fox news setting the country's agenda? >> presid...

Questions to anybody else. >> why do you think that was? >> i don't know. >> unlike other republican politicians who have always felt that they answer to fox news and they cannot do anything to offend rupert murdoch, donald trump instead decides to go to war with fox. >> i was asked some really nasty questions by people that are not nice people. she's not very tough and she's not very sharp, so you know, i blame fox to a certain extent. >> rupert went on twitter and said; donald, you need to calm down. and then fox held the follow-up debate in january 2016. >> before we get to the issues, let'...