organization gave them this. that leads to the board. were they complicit. brent: somebody wants harvey out of the company. i don t know if his brother helped with this story. howie: the cable segments on each of the cable news channels. the question is, since when conservatives had gotten in this kind of trouble, we have this big story, harvey weinstein gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to democrats and president obama s daughter worked there as an intern. do you think there would be more outrage if harvey weinstein was a trump donor. this behavior is unacceptable and the era of the casting couch needs to be put to an end.
much. do you think there is a sense of weariness? shannon: we have been through this so many times it s almost like a drill. another story, another mass shooting. i wouldn t say it s routine. but we feel like it s a drill and say how does this become part of our job. howie: a recurring part of the culture. what hillary clinton and the democrats quickly after we learned about this tweeting appeals for gun control. i got beat. you online saying can we wait until tomorrow morning. but in our culture nobody waits. mollie: they go to the gun control after a mass shooting. that s a problem because most of people in the media you can sense is pro gun control which
and one was from sputnik which is owned by the russian government. they need to hire editors, do screening, try to keep out garbage because they maintain this fiction we are just a neutral platform. mollie: also a big problem is there hasn t been that much verifiable news about this situation and people have this extreme hunger. people can launch disinformation campaigns. but particularly on a story with this level of news significance, the hunger for anything is strong. so these media companies need to figure out ways to figure out particularly in important times like this . . . facebook and you see a list of stories from the new york times or cnn or fox alongside these totally fake
to do thatter publications tracking this story for years were not able to do. harvey weinstein was a powerhouse. he was a tyrannical figure. he s a very scary guy, verbally abusive. and i think he scared many people off this story before. howie: one spoke to the huffington post and told about an explicit situation. you know this culture, did you ever experience harassment and unwanted advancement? liz: being in television news, i started in the late 80s. i love this dinosaur defense. maybe i m a dinosaur or people around him said this is what the older generation do. i cannot count how many times over anchors or reports either
howie: joining us, liz claman, host of after the bell. the new york times did have 8 interviews with women on the record about sexual allegations. is this a solidly reported story and any chance harvey weinstein is coming back to this country. it s about as solid as you can get. you have multiple people on the record. you have documentation. you have something of a financial trail. as i look at it today, i don t see any way harvey weinstein survives this scandal. and i think the company he found is in jeopardy. i don t any there is a weinstein company without harvey weinstein. howie: he is apologizing saying he s going to work with