Arnold Schwarzenegger honors Chris Wallace during his Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony

Broadcast journalist Chris Wallace is honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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00:00Steve you're so funny. That was wonderful, but it is great to be here again. It takes me back to my

00:08early days in my career when I got the star on Hollywood Boulevard. I think it was 1987,

00:16June 1987, and you know you go through the ceremony and you enjoy it of course,

00:24but really it has such an unbelievable impact that for the rest of your life and beyond that

00:32this star will be on Hollywood Boulevard. So this is really big time and there's of course no one

00:37that deserves it more than Chris. Chris has been such a fantastic journalist and this is why I'm

00:43here today because Chris made two phone calls to me in his life. One phone call was to do an interview

00:52with me. And the other one was to be here today and to be a presenter of him and to introduce him

01:02at this celebration of the Hollywood star. And he called me and he said to me, he says,

01:10Arnold, you know that my biggest dream is to have my favorite action hero introduce me here today.

01:19He says, but I'm sorry to say that the loan was not available. He says, so I can ask you,

01:28can you do it? And I said, of course, it's a piece of cake. But of course, when you do something like

01:33that, you'd rather we do some research. And I did some research on him. You know, he was born same year

01:39I was born 1947 on October 12th, correct? 1947 exactly. And also at his birth, he wore a suit.

01:52Just so you know, because you know, you never, you never ever see him without a suit.

01:58That's the bottom line. But he's an extraordinary, like I said, extraordinary journalist. He's worked

02:02for Fox, he's worked for CBS, do wholly owned subsidiaries of the White House. So we're very

02:10proud of that. And the other thing I wanted to just say is that the reason why I know he's a fantastic

02:17journalist is because I know a lot about journalists. I've been interviewed, you can imagine in my lifetime,

02:24thousands and thousands of journalists. But not only that, but I also was married to a journalist.

02:33The only difference between Chris and Maria is that Chris never has taken half of my money.

02:44Anyway, it is great, it is great to be here today and to introduce Chris. I mean,

02:52he's a fantastic, just to show you, there was just recently a poll done of who are the most

02:59trustworthy journalists. And I was blown away by that, but I know it was not unusual. He was,

03:06he ranked amongst the top in the last few decades, amongst the most trusted journalists. So along that

03:14group is just literally Walter Cronkart or his father or him. And of course, he deserves that recognition

03:21because he's a fantastic journalist. I love watching his show. And one day he did call me and he said,

03:27I would like to do an interview with you, Arnold. And I said to him, I said, well, you know where you can

03:31find me. And he said, oh no, are you not talking about the gym? And I said, yes, Gorge Gym. That's where

03:39you can find me. And he came down to Gorge Gym. And for the first time ever, I saw him

03:43him with a sweatsuit on. And not with a suit, but a sweatsuit. And he worked out with me. And it was

03:52just after a surgery that he had. What was that surgery? Some appendix surgery or something like

03:57that that he had? There was some surgery. Huh? Sex change. Yeah, exactly. Sex change.

04:02It was surgery that he had. But then he worked out and he did really a great job with the workout. And

04:08then he did part of the interview in his track suit, in his gym suit. I was really impressed with

04:16that. And the rest of the interview we then did again in his normal clothes with his suit and tie

04:21and all of that stuff. But anyway, he is fantastic. I love to support him. I love being here today and

04:27to introduce him. So, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chris Wallace.