BREAKING: Barbara Walters Passed Away!

Legendary journalist Barbara Walters passed away at her New York home.

American journalist and iconic host of The View passed away.

Barbara Walters, a longtime stable of ABC News has passed away at the age of 93.

President Joe Biden (with First Lady Jill Biden), Vice President Kamala Harris (with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff), Congress, former presidents Barack Obama (with Michelle Obama), George W. Bush (with Laura Bush), Bill Clinton (with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), Jimmy Carter (with Rosalynn Carter) and former vice president Mike Pence (with Karen Pence) will address the passing in some form.

I guess Donald J. Trump might respond but strongly doubt it.

The View, The Talk, Nicolle Wallace, Meghan McCain, Star Jones, Rosie O'Donnell, Raven-Symone, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Jenny McCarthy, Sherri Shepherd and Lisa Lang will respond in due time.

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She was the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93.

Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View."

In a career that spanned five decades, Walters won 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News.

"We were all influenced by Barbara Walters," ABC News' David Muir said in a tribute Friday, remembering Walters as an "extraordinary human being, journalist, pioneer, legend."

"She broke barriers behind the scenes and she broke news on-camera. She got people to say things they never would've said to another journalist."

Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs were the hosts of 20/20 and were cultural icons.

She made her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

"I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she said at the time. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women -- and OK, some men too -- who will be taking my place."

Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston on Sept. 25, 1929, to Dena and Louis "Lou" Walters. Her father worked in show business as a booking agent and nightclub producer, and discovered comedians Fred Allen and Jack Haley, who would go on to star as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."

Growing up around celebrities taught a young Barbara a lesson that she relied upon throughout her career.

"I would see them onstage looking one way and offstage often looking very different. I would hear my parents talk about them and know that even though those performers were very special people, they were also human beings with real-life problems," Walters said in a 1989 interview with the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences. "I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe."

Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi Goldberg with Barack Obama. 

In her 2008 memoir "Audition," Walters revealed that she got her ambition to succeed from her older sister, Jacqueline, who was born developmentally disabled.

"Her condition also altered my life," Walters wrote. "I think I knew from a very early age that at some point Jackie would become my responsibility. That awareness was one of the main reasons I was driven to work so hard. But my feelings went beyond financial responsibility.

She made her on-air debut in 1956, when as a writer for CBS’ "The Morning Show," she and four other young women modeled modest one-piece bathing suits. In 1961, she became NBC’s “Today Girl,” and in 1974, the first female co-host of "Today." In 1976, she was disastrously teamed with Harry Reasoner, as co-anchors of ABC’s "Evening News." Reasoner didn’t think much of her, and he didn’t hide it.

But she “survived,” as she put it, and enjoyed a long career at ABC interviewing celebrities and politicians, including Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin (together, for the first time, in 1977). She had a successful run on newsmagazine "20/20" and in 1997, launched "The View," ABC's daily chatfest aimed at women.

Over the years, she interviewed Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, John Wayne, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro (an hourlong prime-time exclusive that was broadcast worldwide), Barbra Streisand and, perhaps most famously, presidential intern Monica Lewinsky (who drew a record news-broadcast audience of 48.5 million viewers).

Her "Barbara Walters Specials" for years were among the top-rated broadcasts, and included a Who’s Who of entertainers such as Sir Laurence Olivier, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her "Most Fascinating People" special broadcasts, launched in 1993, offered a year-end review of prominent newsmakers of the year.