news, the last thing of this consequence was when roger ailes was fired back in 2016 we thought that was a big deal roger ailes architect of the network. in the time since then tucker s show went on at 9:0 in april of 2017, three months into the trump presidency, basically six years it s bee running, now if you think about that period in our history it s been a turbulent, compulsive, dangerous time we talked a lot in the morning about the battle between democratic values an anti-democratic values authoritarianism, autocratic impulses, political violence conspiracy theories by the way, a direct line from washington d.c. to russia to hungary, to all of it the literal battle across th united states and the wester world. a battle between autocrati regimes and democracy. and we think about donald trump, obviously that is the trump era, his presidency the symbiotic relationship
return tonight nbc has reached out to tucke carlson for comment. we have not heard back yet let s bring in right now msnbc and nbc news national affair analyst john heilemann he s also the host and executive producer of showtime s the circus. john, explain for us, if you will, we were talking before why is this one of the mor significant days in cable news history? i find it hard to think certainly in the history of fo news, the last thing of this consequence was when roger ailes was fired back in 2016 we thought that was a big deal roger ailes architect of the network. in the time since then tucker s show went on at 9:0 in april of 2017, three months into the trump presidency, basically six years it s bee running, now if you think about that period in our history it s been a
government and more than once they hoped elevation would come from the gulf nation of qatar. by the spring of 2017, when the kushner companies approaches but qatar directly to try again, jared kushner is nearly in the white house. this time he s the trump administration s point man on the middle east. but wait, mehdi, you are saying, jarred does not work at the kushner companies at that point anymore. he s at the white house. he s put his financial holdings into a blind trust, right? well, not quite. jarred may have been at the white house but he did not put his assets into a blind trust, which is a basic ethical if not legal rule. he transferred ownership of his holdings to some of his mother in charge of his trust fund. according to the washington post s reporting, he kept assets valued between 132 million and $407 million. not really an ideal ethical wall now, is it? in april of 2017, jarred s father, charles, now out of prison, back in charge of the
bringing in $178 million in ad revenue in 2015 alone. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. bill o reilly, though, as early as 2004, had a problem. he engaged in predatory sexual harassment of a number of different people. and fox news knew about his conduct but was willing to turn a blind eye to it. and they renewed his contract knowing that he was a sexual predator. bill o reilly faces questions this morning. a new york times frontpage expose. in april of 2017, the new york times broke a frontpage story that fox news and o reilly have paid out some $13 million to settle claims of inappropriate sexually harassing behavior. bill o reilly issued a statement saying he wishes only the best for fox while alleging he did nothing wrong. the o reilly scandal opens yet another fault line between james and lachlan. lachlan, knowing that o reilly
ad revenue in 2015 alone. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. bill o reilly though as early as 2004 had a problem. he engaged in predatory sexual harassment of a number of different people. and fox news knew about his conduct but was willing to turn a blind eye to it. and they renewed his contract knowing that he was a sexual predator. bill o reilly faces questions this morning. a new york times frontpage expose. in april of 2017, the new york times broke a frontpage story that fox news and o reilly have paid out some $13 million to settle claims of inappropriate sexually harassing behavior. bill o reilly issued a statement saying he wishes only the best for fox while alleging he did nothing wrong. the o reilly scandal opens yet another fault line between james and lachlan. lachlan, knowing that o reilly is enormously popular, wants to