Who has massacred tens of thousands of his own people. Assad and putin presumably discussed the future of syria with assad, despite rebel efforts still in control of his warravaged region. President trump talking to president putin after which he had once called a bucher. And who killed more than 80 people. Its very disappointing to see. Its disappointing no matter who does it. When you get into the gases, especially that form, its vicious and violent. And everybody in this room saw it all too many times over the last three or four days, Young Children dying. Babies dying. Fathers Holding Children in their arms that were dead. Dead children. There cant be a worse sight, and it shouldnt about allowed. Thats a butcher. Thats a butcher. Thats a butcher, he says, to the white house we go. To my colleague aabby philip. What do you know. Reporter its been an hour, that they talked only the phone the white house says. Mostly about syria which is such a huge issue in this relationship between
allegations are accurate. i always felt that i was pursuing shared feelings even though i now realize i was mistaken. it almost says, amy, he s openly saying he thought some of these women were interested in him. that seems to be the suggestion from his statement. i can tell you from numerous conversations with the women who are named in the piece and unnamed in the piece, that none of them viewed these as any way as consensual encounters. the conduct by him, the physical contact, the phone calls, the nudity, it was unwanted. watching gayle and norah speak at the top of the show where charlie rose was that important third piece. almost like there was that empty seat, like they had to acknowledge what had happened from their heart and how conflicting. how upsetting and how difficult this has been for them and of
anguish of these women. what happened to heir dignity, what happened to their bodies and what happened to maybe even their careers. let me bring in one of the washington post reporters who broke the story wide open, she is amy briton, amy, welcome. thank you for having me. so charlie rose has been fired not a day after you broke the story ending the career of this journalist. what have you been hearing? what s been going on at the scene in the last 24 hours? it s been a whirlwind in the last 20 hours. i can tell you before the publication of our story, we gave mr. rose 24 hours advance notice of every single allegation that was going to be included in the story and offered him an attempt to respond to each and every one of those allegations. we did not receive a statement until yesterday afternoon. so, from that point on, i mean, the aftermath was immediate.
course the women you that write about. what did you make of how they handled it? well, i woke up this morning actually and immediately turned on the tv. and i had filmed a segment last night. and i was eager to see how they were going to proceed with it. i know this was an individual employed by their network who they sat there each and every morning. i don t want to place a value judgment on their statements as a viewer, i was struck by the moment. it seems to be a remarkable moment especially when they encouraged other women to come forward and speak forward, even if they were afraid. amy, in reading your piece and reading it over again, one of my biggest takeaways, once again, no matter the industry, we see this enabling. it s this executive producer of charlie rose who admits for years she heard from these women. she shrugged these women off.
she failed to do anything about it. she helped him get away with this and victimize more people for decades. and she is a woman. and i can just tell you what we learned from our reporting is that numerous women who worked for charlie rose initially felt reassured by the presence of yvette vega who was his longtime executive producer they felt she was a powerful woman and they admired her. they viewed her as a role model and some of them told us that they felt like she did not do anything about the behavior. and they felt like she was aware of it. two women told us specifically that they reported the behavior to her and that nothing happened about it. amy brittin with the