Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera and Bryan Llenas join ‘Fox & Friends’ to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Ainsley well this
Ainsley. Well, this
morning we are
celebrating hispanic
heritage month, Geraldo
spent five decades going to
local street reporter to
network correspondent
and beyond
the man himself. Geraldo
Rivera joins us along
Fox NEWS, correspondent,
Bryan Llenas, hey Guys,
Geraldo hi, everybody
Ainsley. We are so proud
of you and proud of your
career, and we know that
youre from Puerto Rico,
and you speak so proudly
about that and we all
just embrace you with
that.
Bryan had a chance to
sit down with you to
interview on Fox nation
Right Bryan,
reporter yeah shes
been a staple on
television, so long that
you forget that Geraldo
was the first
hispanic american
journalist to make it to
the big time becoming a
broadcast legend
receiving more than one hundred and seventy
journalism awards. While
hispanic heritage month,
we honor Geraldo and
Historic career
Geraldo. I havent
shaved mustache, since
one thousand nine hundred and sixty eight
its like my here. I
am soy latino
for five years, Geraldo
Rivera captured
audiences with raw
compelling and
trailblazing style
Geraldo. Sometimes I can
be serious and sometimes
flamboyant and the one
thing I never lost sight
of was my puerto rican
identity.
Reporter born in New
York City, son of Lili
Freedman, a jewish woman
from New Jersey and Cruz
Rivera New Yorker Army
veteran and puerto rican,
immigrant
Geraldo, my dad Cruz
Rivera Bayamon Puerto
Rico. First, to graduate
high school
in nineteen, forty Cruz came to New
York, literally Bryan on
the banana boat
reporter Geraldo got
start in nineteen. Seventy after
local news director
noticed him in a tv
interview
Geraldo. I was a lawyer
for puerto rican active
group.
They would send me to
Colombia, university
school of journalism to
have a crash course, and
they would put me on the
air
at the time. Local news
was all white pen
reporter in nineteen. Seventy two as a
young 28 year old, reporter Geraldo got his
reporter. Geraldo got his
big break, sneaked into
Willowbrook,
unannounced and
Unexpect bid the school
administration. We toured
building number six.
What he saw was
unimaginable
dozens of neglected
patients, some naked
others sitting in their
own feces and
overcrowded and filthy
facility
Geraldo. What we found
and documented is a
disgrace to all of US
reporter. You took a lot
of risk in the story and
it really affected you
Geraldo it didnt
matter what the
obstacles were if they
didnt put it on. I was
leaving
the Willowbrook
institution and that
really it started a
movement that took a
decade and a half to
finally close, all of the
big awful institutions
reporter after Expose
Riveras career soared.
Will the real Geraldo
Rivera stand up
laughter
reporter became anchor
of NBC Goodnight
America
Geraldo Rivera
applause
reporter jetting from
global conflicts,
just as we were
leaving the front lines
yesterday, a mortar
exploded, five feet from US
reporter interviewing
everyone from Fidel
Castro to Muhammad Ali
Geraldo makes me wonder
what happens to boxing.
His career took a
turn: afters fired from
ABC in one thousand nine hundred and eighty five. Four months
later, he was asked to
host a syndicated
special on the opening
of Al Capones Secret
VOLT
Geraldo. This is why we
are here the massive
concrete chamber
reporter the volt
turned out to be empty
Geraldo once in a
lifetime where a pot of
gold would be better
than chasing rainbows
largest audience of
syndicated television
holds all the rating
records.
I refuse to admit
defeat
come on guys
reporter special led
today time TV show where
he talked to everyone
from Whitney Houston to
Charles Manson
Geraldo. Did you tell
those women to kill
somebody?
No. No.
Reporter became prime time CNBC Anchor, but in
time CNBC anchor. But in
the wake of nine slash eleven attacks,
he took a cut to work as
correspondent
Geraldo. I was in
Pakistan in route to
Afghanistan,
theyre firing on us.
It was very very decade
from two thousand and one to twenty eleven.
My kids never saw me
reporter in two thousand and eleven
Geraldo was angling. The
night Bin Laden does
killed.
Geraldo Bin Laden is
dead, confirmed
multiple sources. Osama
Bin Laden is dead
happy days happy days,
everybody
reporter at seventy seven Geraldo
still has a lot to offer,
but when its all said
and done Geraldo, I
want people to know that
im a proud new, Yorker,
proud American and its
been amazing and amazing.
Fifty years
reporter, wow Geraldo
Rivera has accomplished
so much but frankly
greatest legacy that he
paveed the way for
future hispanic. American
journalists like myself
to have future in
television news,
Steve, thats, fantastic,
Bryan, Llenas, good job on
the report,
Geraldo Rivera. How
would you grade that
report about your life
laughter,
Geraldo, I think of
Bryan. As a relative of
mine offspring,
I gave birth to him and
the others im very
proud of Bryan and the
job he did, for
instance, the night of
the rioting and the
looting in New York, and
he was out there
steadfast courageous
reporting for the
channel.
Every time I see what
the young hispanic
reporters that are on
every channel now, every
network, I feel an
enormous sense of pride,
Steve,
Ainsley, thats, sweet
Brian Bryan Llenas is
such an investigative
reporter? Are you
concerned that he was
going to find something
unsavorily in your
background
laughter
Geraldo its funny? I
just heard from General
John Campbell, who you
say I was in pretty good
shape. He said that I
could outpush up you any
day
Brian. I said that
youre in great shape,
Geraldo, but you know
I I love. I love
what I do.
I still love it
im excited by it.
As I said, I have
different kinds of joy
now when I have young
reporters going out
there and standing in
the hurricane putting
their nose in the face
of the bad guys a and you
know, and the
microphones sticking
the microphone I just
I feel kind of like a
godfather now Padrino
and im still active, but
I love. I love my
my next generation and
the generation after
that,
my goodness, my sixth
decade, now its been
quite a run.
Ainsley such a great
guy youre, a friend to
all of us, it looks like
you had fun doing it
sometimes shirtless
Brian
Laughter,
Brian Great package,
Bryan
reporter all of his
career is on Fox nation.
Like a four hour special,
I encourage everyone to.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.