nothing about the ways of matt lauer. as unbelievable? they are best buds for three decades? this is a tough one. matt lauer the jokes were funny, not all. joe scarborough said he had to leave because even for new york roast it was bad. the.you have to connect is to say that some old soccer or anti-lacquer anybody over at nbc was an enabler of harassment. they knew he slept around, they know he was a morally bad guy, but to say they know about the bad things he was doing, possibly illegal, i can t make that connection. laura: what about the whole galaxy of these media stars? obviously this network has been affected, charlie rose is gone. matt lauer is gone. weinstein is gone, brett ratner and hollywood. ben affleck, kevin spacey. louis ck. then hollywood puts out movies of, and there s a new movie, come see my name, what s the name of it.
other thing about sexual harassment. this whole notion that is just, it s politicians, celebrities or media stars, that s not just the case. it s pervasive across all industries, in every aspect, and we need to have zero tolerance. i was in alabama the other day talking to be people about sexual harassment. look, it s up to you to send a strong message to washington, d.c. and you can do that december 12th. it s up for speaker ryan and leader mcconnell to also open up all of those allegations so that we can see everything and not just a small part of it. i want to ask you, if the democrats stumbleed a little bit? they had a clear hit at donald trump, accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct, standing behind, having his own metoo movement with a guy name the roy moore, standing behind someone who preyed on girls as young as 14 years old. did democrats stumble from terns of not getting their house in order more quickly to have a
those sorts of issues at breitbart have caused bannon to be so scrutinized so criticized by some democrats. i ll leave it to max inwaters if she wants to provide proof he s a white supremacist, i wouldn t use that term to describe him. but yes, there are many trump fans who feel bannon is their voice in the white house, that bannon channels their anger and their frustration. so it s a risk for president trump to consider removing bannon. i want to ask you about matt drudge, the man behind the news site the drudge report. an ardent entiretier of the president. lately he s been covering white house in a different way. take a look at the front page of the drudge report today. it says make america hate again. how much influence do you think he has with this administration and coand the drudge report end up being as much a risk for this president as it has been a help in the past? well, the thing about, if you have someone like bannon who leaves the white house, someone like that can be
destroyed themselves because they went too far. instead of being subtle and smart, they used a hatchet. and the people saw it right from the beginning. that was a veterans event over the weekend, by the way. not long after the president accused of media of using a hatchet, he showed himself a video as part of the escalating war on the media. how far is too far? ben ferguson, media stars in their own right as far as pro wrestling officials. i ll start with this question, ben. how does what the president is doing, these tweets about the media, wrestling video, how does it make america better? i think, one, you ve got to
i think one of the things adl has been proud of is we have made it so that leaders, media stars, you know, if they engage in racism there is consequences. they will lose their job, be rebuked something. we saw sort 06 a free for all. it kind of gave signals that it s okay to endwaj in that kind of rhetoric. that s what we are seeing now, people actually acting out. it s so awful. disheartening sant strong enough word for it. can you put the jeannie back in the bottle? of course you can. there is not one way to fight anti semitism and other forms of hate. we always tell people you have to do a multi-pronged approach. you litigate, legislate and