analyst heidi przybilla and daily news columnist, also, the media reporter for the "washington post" is with us. paul, let me start with you and the latest that we are learning. we've got this statement that fox news has put out officially so we know he is definitely gone. how do we get here? >> this goes back to the beginning of the month as you mentioned with "the new york times" report. it exposed five settlement that's bill o'reilly and fox had made to settle sexual harassment claims against hf the since then advertisers have left o'reilly's show. the publicity has not stopped and the murdoch family which controls fox news decided that the bleed hg to stop and that's where we are right now with bill o'reilly's long career at an end. >> surprising to you or not, given discussions you've learned about in recent days? >> very surprising since fox news knew all about these sexual