we had security the whole year. the threat level got to high that it was impossible not to take that seriously. and i m not walking around necessarily believing someone is going to try something but it was high enough. you write about it in the book that a fox executive actually said something to the trump campaign it would not be good for you if megyn kelly is killed. michael cohen, trump s top lawyer and executive vice president with the trump organization had retweeted let s gut her, about me. at a time when the threat level was very high. which he knew. and bill shine, executive vice president at fox called him up to say you got to stop this. we understand you are angry but she s got three kids and walking around new york. and he didn t much care. and what bill shine said to michael cohen, put in terms you understand. if megyn kelly get z killed it is not going help your candidate.
hilarious. a producer probably got fired over that. you re going to make a mistake and hope another network won t pick it up and make fun of you over it. this happened during horrible breaking news. we weren t on. she was. you make a very, very good point. the point being fox executive said let s not put an opinion show that s not used to interviewing people on air and interview breaking news people at the moment. who do you call out on this? that s an executive decision. they should have made a decision that was smart and informed and said listen we re not going to put somebody on without experience with information that s technical and more complicated. i don t know what they were saying in her ear. obviously there was some confusion. doesn t excuse that gentleman s behavior for being rude. this has nothing to do with crystal ball. i m sorry.
politicizing as a wing of the republican party. that interview was cut short and following his appearance, ricks tells politico he saw some surprise faces in the hallway over at fox after that hit. one staff person said she thought i had been rude. my feeling was that they asked my opinion and i gave it. and it doesn t end there. fox executive vice president michael clement tells the hollywood reporter when mr. ricks ignored the anchor s question and it became clear that his goal was to bring attention to himself and his book, he apologized in our offices afterward but doesn t have the strength of character to do that publicly? but ricks says, no, that s not what happened. please ask mr. clement what the words of my supposed apology were. i d be interested to know. frankly i don t remember any such apology. to when clement fired back.
nobody does because nobody cared. i think that the emphasis on benghazi has been extremely political because fox was politicizing as a wing of the republican party. that interview was cut short and following his appearance, ricks tells politico he saw some surprise faces in the hallway over at fox after that hit. one staff person said she thought i had been rude. my feeling was that they asked my opinion and i gave it. and it doesn t end there. fox executive vice president michael clement tells the hollywood reporter when mr. ricks ignored the anchor s question and it became clear that his goal was to bring attention to himself and his book, he apologized in our offices afterward but doesn t have the strength of character to do that publicly? but ricks says, no, that s not what happened. please ask mr. clement what the words of my supposed apology were.
ricks tells politico he saw some surprise faces in the hallway over at fox after that hit. one staff person said she thought i had been rude. my feeling was that they asked my opinion and i gave it. and it doesn t end there. fox executive vice president michael clement tells the hollywood reporter when mr. ricks ignored the anchor s question and it became clear that his goal was to bring attention to himself and his book, he apologized in our offices afterward but doesn t have the strength of character to do that publicly? but ricks says, no, that s not what happened. please ask mr. clement what the words of my supposed apology were. i d be interested to know. frankly i don t remember any such apology. to when clement fired back. i m surprised by the general s utter dishonesty.