Fox News - Tim Russert death - 2008-06-13 - 4 p.m. (E)
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[0:00] Al had gone downhill for many years and
[0:03] turned it into uh one of the major and
[0:06] most influential programs again
[0:09] comparable to what it was in the old
[0:11] days of Larry.
[0:13] >> The longest running uh Sunday Sunday
[0:15] program of its kind in the United States
[0:18] history and one of the finest guys in
[0:21] our industry a role model for all of us
[0:24] dead today at the age of 58. I'm Shepard
[0:26] Smith. Our coverage continues now with
[0:28] Neil Kavuto. to all our friends in the
[0:30] NBC family, our deepest regrets.
[0:39] Perhaps the most feared financial
[0:41] journalist, regular journalist,
[0:43] political journalist, any type of
[0:44] journalist in America, is dead. Tim
[0:48] Russard, 58 years old, now gone. He died
[0:51] of a heart attack while at work at NBC
[0:55] Studios in Washington today. The fallout
[0:58] fast and furious from political and
[1:00] media luminaries alike. How a man who
[1:03] was dramatically shaping the landscape
[1:05] in terms of the political questioning
[1:07] this election year and the hardedged
[1:10] nature of that questioning has left us.
[1:13] Uh we're going to be going to Chris
[1:15] Wallace now who worked closely obviously
[1:17] with Tim Russer competed against him
[1:19] aggressively for the Sunday talk show
[1:22] audience. Chris, uh, all this is so
[1:24] sudden and and and so dramatic, it you
[1:27] still can't quite fathom it.
[1:29] >> No, it's a it's a bolt out of the blue.
[1:31] Uh, this was to to take Tom Wolf's
[1:34] phrase, he was a man in full. He was uh
[1:37] the king in Washington and even though
[1:39] he he was I was his his competitor and
[1:42] I'm flattering myself even to say that
[1:44] he was the king here. He was the most
[1:46] important in