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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lou Dobbs, the aggressive former CNN programme fix who flirted with the idea of running for president, is back where he wants to be, hosting a broadcasting exhibit and free from his old network.

The stager newsman is hosting an hour-long weeknight information for Fox Business Network debuting on Monday and effort him "back to business," as the promotional campaign says.

Harvard-educated Dobbs began his occupation at CNN as a straight-ahead playing journalist. But by the instance he mitt in 2009 after nearly 30 years, he had become its most populist fix by expressing anger against banned immigration and jobs going overseas, among other topics.

For a instance after his departure from CNN, Dobbs thoughtful the idea of banking on his favourite attractiveness from eld in face of the camera to campaign for U.S. president. But the 65-year-old has definite against that.

"Politics is not what I fuck to do. This is what I'm going to do," he told Reuters.

Dobbs' newborn exhibit on Fox Business Network is titled "Lou Dobbs Tonight," the same denomination as his terminal information on CNN, and it module expose at 7 p.m. orient time.

The exhibit module face bounteous issues of the day, from the debt crisis facing the federal government and states, to the unfortunate of the scheme recovery to generate job growth, he said.

"The issues that play the American grouping are now understandably in focus, because they're hard to avoid: Job creation the creation of wealth, restoring prosperity, restoring the American imagine for millions of Americans."

'MONEYLINE' MAN

Dobbs started at CNN with its start in 1980 as the patron of "Moneyline," which became a execute instruction for playing programme on broadcasting in an epoch before the rise of CNBC.

He later expanded his orbit to deal with more social and political issues, on his program.

Dobbs had a sometimes erosive relation with management, at one instance uncovering himself at ratio with then CNN/U.S. chair Jonathan Klein over Dobbs' programme of the so-called "birther" debate -- the verify by detractors of President Barack Obama that he was dropped right the U.S.

Dobbs did not rule out attractive up the "birther" supply on his newborn Fox Business show, but he heavy that he believes the chair was indeed dropped in the United States.

He also said that he has no holdup regrets about leaving CNN. "I've detected that they're in my rear analyse mirror and effort smaller," he said.

Since its start in 2007, News Corp-owned Fox Business has struggled against the ascendency in U.S. playing TV programme of rival CNBC, a unit of Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal Media.

Fox Business is available in more than 50 meg U.S. homes, compared to 100 meg for CNBC.

Kevin Magee, executive vice chair of the Fox Business Network, said Dobbs' newborn exhibit module be more business-focused than his recent impact at CNN.

"The promo line that we're using is 'Lou Dobbs back to business,' and in fact he is," Magee said. "He has always been a alarming playing mind."

In fact, Dobbs fresh appeared on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," which is hosted by Bill O'Reilly, to discuss playing topics such as labor unions and jobs in the United States as substantially as the scheme fallout from the earthquake in Japan.

Media industry watchers had due that instead of focusing on business, Dobbs might go to Fox News, which features on-air personalities such as standpat Sean Hannity and libertarian Glenn Beck who often express their opinions more than programme anchors at CNN.

Dobbs said he likes the Fox brand, and has for whatever time.

"I hit to admit that I watched Fox far more than I watched anyone else," he said.

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)