what are you going to do about it? mr. senator, there s no doubt that securing data is the core a value of our company. and i would also apologize deeply to the american public for the breach that we had. we let the public down. did he say he was going to donate his giant exit package? i didn t hear that when he said his apology. other people got exit packages from equifax as well. joining us now is senior editor for policy and politics at recode. tony, we didn t see marissa mayma maier there. she had to get subpoenaed. she definitely refused. her representatives said she stepped away from the company. yahoo was purchased by verizon. so they felt she wasn t the right one to testify. but the senate commerce committee was not having that. for a change, democrats and republicans found a reason to
indefensible. yesterday, rupert murdoch and his sons and company gave up in their 13th year of publicly defending bill o reilly against accusations of sexual harassment. it has been an expensive run for o reilly and for fox news. the new york times reports tonight that payouts related to sexual harassment allegations at fox news now total more than $85 million, the vast majority of that up to 65 million in exit packages is being paid to the men who were ousted from the network because of the harassment allegations. former fox news chairman roger ailes got a $40 million gift as he was ushered out the door last year after being exposed for his constant, relentless sexual harassment at fox news with several women, including episodes that were far, far worse than sexual harassment. bill o reilly picked up $25 million today on his way out the
unfounded claims but that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. cnbc citing a source with direct knowledge of the situation reports that the averager will receive a maximum of one year s salary. nbc says his annual salary is worth about $25 million. he gets that. according to the new york times, for 21st century fox, payouts retotal $85 million, the vast majority of that in exit packages is being paid to the men who were ousted from the network because of the harassment allegations. for more on o reilly s ouster, i m joined by the hardball roundtable. ken vogel, ha das gold, and alfonso aguilar, former chief of the united states office of citizenship under president g.w. bush. i m impressed by your title, but go ahead. why don t you start this, alfonso. it seems we re talking a big corporate decision with a lot of money going out the door, certainly to the women who have
those rankings would have plummeted. right or wrong, top earners would have moved somewhere else or companies would have played illegal games. this was only the latest re referendum. in march a marge majority of swiss voted to end giant exit packages for ceos. another vote is in the works. the swiss are debating a proposal to give every citizen a minimum cash stipend of $2,800 a month for doing nothing at all. basically free money that arrives in your checking account every 30 days. all of these proposals in capitalist and business friendly switzerland no less reveal a larger global anxiety about inequality. no country is immune. not even switzerland which is more equal as a society than many european countries and of course much more equal than the united states. in fact, one reason why these votes are taking place is because swiss law enshrines
democrat to retire before it the 2014 election. he s scheduled to speak today at the university of south dakota. johnson was first elected to the senate back in 1995. he has served three terms. he survived a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, remember, in 2006, and went on to win re-election in 2008. former u.s. presidents cost the federal government almost $3.7 million last year alone. george w. bush got more than $1.3 million to cover his pension, office space, and $85,000 in phone bills, as well. bill clinton cost the government a little less than a million dollars. george h.w. bush is expensive, came in at $850,000. and the least expensive former president, want to guess? jimmy carter. who only required $500,000 in federal funds last year. i m surprised how low those numbers are. when you look at a ceo. even a ceo who doesn t do very well, they tend to get much bigger packages, very big exit packages. so when you think of the president as a former ceo, still