author of "the war for late-night" when leno went early and late night went crazy. gentlemen, thank you for having you in the conversation. richard, i want to start with you. as an ethics lawyer is there anything about this that makes you uncomfortable when it comes to this friendship that we know of and the ongoing investigation? >> well, i don't know how it's going to effect the investigation. this administration's attitude toward women is quite clear. i don't trust them to deal with sexual harassment allegations anywhere, much less fox news. but the second issue is that rupert murdoch is clearly trying to use his relationship with the president to expand his news empire, and the president of course is desperate for positive news coverage, which he's getting from fox news. and this is a relationship that's going to create conflicts throughout the united states government including the justice department in this investigation. but we also have the fcc that may let him acquire more local