Pete Rose's last interviewer reacts to his Hall of Fame eligibility, praises Trump for kickstarting movement

Former sportscaster John Condit joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to share clips from his interview with Rose days before his death as President Donald Trump plans to posthumously pardon the baseball all-star.

John Condit was the last person to interview Pete Rose, doing so 10 days before his death for a documentary to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Rose breaking Ty Cobb's hit record.

In that interview, the Major League Baseball (MLB) all-time hit king predicted that if he were to ever make the Hall of Fame, it would not be until after he died. Condit told Fox News Digital recently that he "began to shake" when he heard of Rose's death, considering what Rose had told him just days prior.

Well, Rose's grim prediction is starting to look like it will come to fruition.

MLB announced on Tuesday that those on baseball's ineligible list will be reinstated after their deaths - thus, Rose is now baseball eligible, along with "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and 15 others.

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President Donald Trump, left, wants Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame. (IMAGN)

In turn, Rose is now eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Condit, a former sportscaster in nearby Dayton who grew up a Reds fan (Johnny Bench was his favorite), said that if Rose were to never be reinstated, the Cincinnati Reds' celebration of Rose at Great American Ball Park on Wednesday night (scheduled before Rose's reinstatement) would have possibly been the final true celebration of Rose.

That is why Condit recently kick-started a petition to get President Donald Trump to pardon Rose, a move the president said he would do "in the coming weeks" back in March, before the Reds honor Rose on Wednesday night.

"I love the fact that President