i was doing. howard: that zucker knew everything the andrew cuomo was doing. did they know every single aspect, just go back, this is the point that i made early when chris was fired on your show in december where i said if you think about the one thing that zucker said he did not know that he was asking around about the reporters what they were doing about the sexual harassment scandal. he knew everything else, he knew he was talking to his brother and part of an advisory team he did not really say quit or put them on leave, he knew most of what he was doing even if the one fact he did not know. it seemed to me like a difference without differential, seemed like an odd thing to fire as you know of everything else. that s part of what chris cuomo is fighting back about. by the way i have not met one person that thinks mr. zucker got fired just because of his
affair. howard: we ve all been skeptical of that may be pleading to a lesser offense but we don t know the full story. one of my sources is not sympathetic to chris cuomo said cuomo team that got out there in the notion that zucker and gollust were doing this to pressure the company and giving him a multimillion dollar settlement of his contract but another source who was sympathetic tells me rather than leaking, cuomo was the victim when the new york times comes up with the letter of the allegation from abc with this 11-year-old incident. charles: chris said he knew that way, the minute he s been fighting back, the minute that his side came out with their side of the story that gollust and zucker were doing the same thing on their view with andrew on the pin demo briefings as he was doing with andrew that this letter would pop out and it
senior defense official that 40% of his 190,000 troops on the border with ukraine are now in attack positions. journalist can t blindly accept for the person says pre-also should not dismiss everything as mere politics. i am howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz . . howard: big development in the cnn scandal slamming the company an explosive but strongly denied allegation of past sexual assault by chris cuomo. with the stake sky high in ukraine, the media s reaction to joe biden televise blitz has been decidedly mixed. they put everyone on high alert if they say hey vladimir putin we see what you re doing and we see you coming that might stop him from doing so they also hope it unnerves him.
they were advising and how much chris was really advising andrew and how much was it disclosed, the odd thing about the advisory at least chris cuomo was disclosed, people knew he was talking to his brother. howard: zucker authorized all those in it was a big mistake. we know more about chris cuomo s role from the state investigation were to be found about the other players, charlie gasparino, thank you very much for joining us. after the break we will go live to ukraine and the challenge of covering a country on the brink of war, lucas tomlinson is there next. feel stuck with credit card debt? move to sofi and feel what it s like to get your money right.
called the woman s allegation false, he was never asked about the allegations prior to being terminated or given an opportunity to respond. joining us from connecticut charlie gasparino senior correspondent for fox business network. the former abc staffers allegation and the lawyers was obtained by then your times is pretty chilling cuomo spokesman says they are false. what does your reporting show and why doesn t chris cuomo issue a statement on his own behalf? i don t think he wants to mitigate this right now with the press what i understand for people in his camp if she ever comes public he will take the action and he will sue her especially from what i understand for defamation. what is interesting about this story. the second half at least according to the times and gave it workability, she left abc and went to another company where chris out of the blue called her and offered to do a positive story about the company that cnn