to kill dialogue about them. i think the source that has allowed us to report this say that has national security implications when it is the president at the heart of it. ronan, thank you. thank you. now i want to bring in cnn legal analyst reba martin, the author of make it rain and former u.s. attorney michael moore. good evening to both of you. thanks so much for joining us. what do you think of this new report? does this appear to be part of a larger pattern to catch and kill what federal investigators are looking into? well, you know, don, if something happens once, you can say it s an isolated incidence. if it happens twice, you can say it s a coincidence. but if it happens three times that s enough for lawyers to start arguing there s a pattern. i think what we re seeing here is very troubling. these efforts not by donald trump himself but by these people we can call his operatives working to prevent these negative stories from coming out about him. not during the tim
but, look, i think, politically, one of the impacts of these indictments are to make it, i think, much tougher for the president to entertain the notion that he is clearly entertained before of firing bob mueller. the idea of firing bob mueller, now, when something of this gravity has been laid out and he is in the midst of prosecuting and investigating is more fraud. we have to leave it there. there s a lot that s not in this round of indictments. also, how does this revelation affect the midterm elections? we ll dig down into those things as we push on here. for now, we have to let it go. ron brownstein, reba martin, thank you all so much. still to come here on cnn newsroom, president trump visits victims of the florida school shooting as the fbi makes a strong admission. what it knew and missed about the gunman. also, cnn heads to haiti to
accusers tell their story and here to tell the story is reba martin and alice stewart and angela rye. let s begin this difficult conversation that we unfortunately have to have. i spoke to two of weinstein s accusers and their stories are early similar to what we are hearing in the new yorker trying to convince a model named amber gutierrez to come to his hotel room a day after he groped her. caught on tape in a sting operation by the nypd in march of 2015. listen to this. what do we have to do here. nothing. i m going to take a shower. you have a drink. i don t drink.
call out by name the african-american ceo of merck who quit in protest over the president s response. jeff, we will come back to you. thank you for being with us. i want to talk about the legal angle right now. the person accused of second degree murder is appearing in court right now. page and areba martin. page, tell us what we will see, we don t see it because there are no cameras inside, unfortunately. but what will happen inside that courtroom today? this is the type of initial appearance anyone charged with a crime gets the benefit of. i understand this is going to be by video link. that s not uncommon. the suspect is held in custody at a detention center. a judge will be in a courtroom. they will be able to communicate. there will be a lawyer present. a judge will inform him of what he is being charged with, the rights to a lawyer and all the constitutional rights he has.
however, fox will not pay the full amount. it would be almost $100 million. instead, it would pay tens of millions of dollars. they re not disclosing the exact figure, but honestly, john, it will eventually come out through corporate filings because fox will have to disclose this. it s that big that it will have to show up in their earnings reports. and as you point out, big enough that it is more money than the money we know was paid out to the five women who made various accusations against bill o reilly of fox news. this is the exact scenario roger ailes experienced last summer, forced out at fox news under a similar cloud of accusations, paid $40 million. gretchen carlson, the one who sued ailes, was paid $36 million. ailes bought a mansion on the ocean, near mar-a-lago, actually, down in palm beach, florida. i wonder if o reilly s buying a new house, too. i want to talk about the details and bring in reba martin. you know, bill o reilly had a contract with fox news, a