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FOREST YESTERDAY CARRYING HER
FOUR-MONTH-OLD BABY.
SHE HAS SINCE BEEN REUNITED
WITH HER PARENTS.
AND TO CAMPAIGN 2016, DONALD
TRUMP RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH
FOX'S MEGAN KELLY.
THIS MORNING, OUR JON KELLER
SAID THAT INTERVIEW GAVE US A
CRUCIAL CLUE INTO WHO HE IS.
Reporter: GOOD MORNING.
I BELATEDLY WATCHED MEGAN
KELLY'S INTERVIEW WITH DONALD
TRUMP.
UNFORTUNATELY, I FEEL LIKE I
MAY HAVE LOST A FEW IQ POINTS
IN THE PROCESS.
THERE WAS ONE INTERESTING PIECE
OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE
PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE.
TRUMP'S FAVORITE MOVIE IS
"CITIZENS CANE," WHERE THE 75-
YEAR-OLD -- TELLS THE STORY OF
A NEWSPAPER MAGNATE TURNED
POLITICIAN, WILLIAM RANDOLPH
HURST.
LIKE TRUMP, HE INTERIT --
INHERITED A BUSINESS FROM HIS
DISTANT AND WEALTHY FATHER AND
EXPANDED IT WITH A SHREWD GRASP
OF POPULAR CULTURE AND HOW TO
MANIPULATE IT.
HE WAS A FOUNDING FATHER OF THE
TABLOIDS STYLE KNOWN AS JELL-O
URINA -- YELLOW JOURNALISM.
HURST WAS A DEMAGOGUE WHO
STYLED HIMSELF AS A CHAMPION OF
THE WORKING CLASS WITH WILDLY
FLUCTUATING FOREIGN POLICY
VIEWS THAT RAISED -- FROM SPAIN
TO SOME ISOLATIONISM.
AND, HIS URST'S BUSINESS
SUCCESSES WERE MIXED WITH
SPECTACULAR FAILURES.
CITIZENS CAPE IS A PORTRAIT OF
A POOR LITTLE RICH BOY WHO
NEVER GOT OVER BEING ABANDONED
BY HIS PARENTS DURING
CHILDHOOD.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FASCINATING
TO HEAR MORE FROM TRUMP WHO WAS
SHIPPED OFF TO A STRICT
MILITARY SCHOOL AS A TEENAGER,
ABOUT EXACTLY WHY THIS MOVIE
APPEALS TO HIM SO MUCH BUT
KELLY DIDN'T BOTHER TO ASK.
THAT IS TOO BAD.
WE NEED TO KNOW ALL WE CAN
ABOUT WHAT MAKES PEOPLE TICK
BEFORE WE HAND OVER THE POWER
OF THE PRESIDENCY.
AND CITY TUNED FOR A FUTURE
COMMENTARY DEVOTED TO ANOTHER
CAMPAIGN FACT THAT MERITS
DEEPER INTO INVESTIGATION.
HILLARY CLINTON'S FAVORITE
MOVIE IS THE WIZARD OF OZ.