Fox's Steve Doocy Tries To Explain Trump's Al Smith Dinner Joke That Made People “Uncomfortable”

From the October 21 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): The gloves certainly came off last night at the annual Al Smith charity dinner. 

PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): That's right. It got so fiery that even some called it the unofficial fourth debate. 

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Well, our own Fox News religion correspondent Lauren Green was there. She was squirming at part of it, and she joins us live. 

LAUREN GREEN: Squirming a little bit, because you wanted Trump to really get in the mood of it, because he has a tendency to get a little nasty.

DOOCY: He's a nontraditional candidate. 

GREEN: Nontraditional, and so you expected a nontraditional performance last night as well. And he was really great up until about like a third of the way through and then it got a little nasty and people got a little uncomfortable. 

DOOCY: Why was that? 

GREEN: Because I think people felt that he crossed the line. One of the things that he directly said, that Hillary Clinton did not like Catholics. And I think that was something that just was a little -- 

DOOCY: I think he said she was here pretending she liked Catholics, which is a joke because Jen Palmieri, her communications director, had said in WikiLeaks that the Catholic church was behind the times. 

GREEN: And it was Al Smith IV who diffused that WikiLeaks elephant in the room at the beginning when he said, "Cardinal Dolan said that if I only had dinner with saints, I would be dining alone. 

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