called america is talking and these executives who battled with ailes, the things they said were chilling. in a letter to bob wright, andy friendly, who is a prime time executive at cnbc, son of legendary cbs executive fred friendly, he said, that roger ailes pressured him and his colleagues to lie to the press and that fred friendly feared for his safety and in one conversation roger ailes, quote, said he would blow his brains out. david, another top nbc executive, currently the head of the ceo of discovery communications, highest paid media executive in america, certainly no wilting flower himself, he wrote in a letter to nbc hr, which i quote from in the book, that he feared for his family s safety. that roger ailes ailes used a slur, anti-sem met tick slur against him, ailes denies it, and he also denied it. why would both men deny it if it was written down in legal documents. i detail this episode in
conversation with pastor emanuel cleaver. if you believe the president is a christian, why would that be you still come to the belief he s trying to destroy religion? republican strategist ralph reed. is it similarly wrong them for democrats to say that the republican party is engaged in a war on women? and david brody of the christian broadcasting network. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. all of that in a few minutes. first to the breaking news we are following this morning. legendary cbs anchorman mike wallace is dead at the age of 93. i m joined on the phone by larry king. i know you were very good friends with mike wallace. give us your thoughts this morning. i am so sad, candy. i know it was a ripe old age, but there s no one like him. i had the pleasure of spending three, four hours with him last year at his apartment and he wound up, i know, sent to a home. he was really suffering from dementia and it was sad to see. there was no other
person in large measure responsible for reporting the news. walter did pioneer the idea of the reporter/anchor. walter took that several steps beyond that. as he left the anchor chair in 1980, he had sought and succeeded in taking the cbs evening news to a lot of different venues. the technology had not quite caught up with walter s i am bigs, determination to bring the news where it s happening. by the time i came to the anchor chair in 1981 and the technology was becoming such that less expensive satellite time, the portable telephones and that sort of thing allowed the anchor to be much more moving around. walter would have dreamed what