Geraldo Rivera talks leaving CNBC to join Fox News after 9/11: 'I was so furious'

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Labor Day marks 50 years on television for Geraldo Rivera and Fox News will celebrate with a one-hour special entitled “FOX Nation Presents: I Am Geraldo, 50 Years” on Sunday, at 10 p.m. ET.

Highlighting his golden anniversary ahead of Sunday night's special, Rivera opened up about a pivotal point in his career following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the native New Yorker walked away from a high-paying CNBC gig and joined Fox News to work as a war correspondent. The move was a personal one for Rivera, he explained.

"I had a cushy job in the highest-rated show on CNBC at the time. But they would not let me go to war and when 9/11 happened, it hit my hometown," he told Jon Scott. "We lost six dads in our child's elementary school," Rivera said. "It was outrageous and terrible and I was so furious, I just wanted to personally take revenge against Usama bin Laden and what they did to my town and my country. And CNBC would not let me go.

"I took 40% of the pay that they were paying me to go to work as a correspondent and I've not regretted it for a minute."

 

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Who...oh oh oh the guy who found an empty Al Capone vault and made an ass of himself on national television. Good place for him among the jokes

Geraldo has had a great career. Fox needs to fire the reporters spewing false stories about trump. Have the balls to come forward.

What ever. Loser

Geraldo👏👏👏👏👏

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