to remembering the white house should focus on actually solving real things, and people should work together and recognize that the primary opponents are outside the white house, not inside the white house. laura: is this not about the people of the country? this is about america. and americans. we need happy americans. ronald reagan always understood that. i was go back to reagan, maybe that s not fair, but i came to washington in 1987 to work for president reagan. the idealism and the resolute nature of the way he went about his business, he wasn t perfect, had some scandals, but in the west wing it was a sense of, even with rivalries, a sense of purpose. there is a sense of being in it together. when it s such a public feud versus keeping it inside the family, and scaramucci is out there saying i m a straight shooter, well, yeah, sometimes these fights are better settled behind closed doors rather than
president bush 41 tweeted this today he wasn t perfect, but roger ailes is my friend, and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent, loyal help. rest in peace. after head of cnbc and launching the channel that would become msnbc, news corporation chief rupert murdoch tapped ailes to start the fox news channel in 1996. we had no studios, control rooms, stars, programs or anything else. we did have an idea. we knew there was an audience. critics scoffed. this was bill carter of the new york times comic given the current state of fox news, it may be less a toy than an imaginary friend. it took a few years to build it but the audience did come in for long there were cameras, studios, control rooms and
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 been president without his great talent and loyal help but, rest in peace. after a successful stint as cnbc and launching the channel that would later become msnbc news corporation chief rupert murdoch tapped him to start the fox news channel in 1996, it was a huge
eugene o donnell, thank you very much for stopping by. and right now on capitol hill, we re a waiting deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, he will be participating in a closed door briefing for on all senarsn the firing of former fbi directorames comey. next, who is robert mueller and can americans trust the outcome of the investigation he is now heading? and also as we head to break, the death of roernlg ailand i also roger ailes, he was credited with essentially creating fox news as we know it. that is before he was ousted over sex scandals earlier this year. today george h.w. with bush who ailes worked for in the 1980s tweeted he wasn t perfect, but roger ailes was my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent, loyal help, rip. roger ailes was 77 years old. roger ailes was 77 years old.
founder and our former boss and your other boss, george herbert walker bush, tweeted this today. let s put that up on the screen. he said this. he wasn t perfect but roger ailes was my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent and loyal help. rest in peace. governor. roger was a great friend. he was a great patriot. he certainly was a friend of mine, as well as the president. and i think he contributed greatly. his perspective on fair and balanced, i think, has contributed a great deal to the kind of discourse that takes place in the country today. he will be missed. as a friend and is a great media innovator. martha: thank you very much. governor sununu, good to have you with us tonight. when we return, remembering former fox found her roger ailes and the legacy that he leaves behind. when we come back.