transparent report. that s a good idea. can t argue with that. gloria, phyllis, thank you for being here. it s not just about moonves. the law firms are looking into the allegations against charlie rose, jeff fager and others. there s an allegation that don hewitt was engaged in harassment and cbs had to pay off an accuser for many, many years, more than $5 million over time. so there is a lot here and hopefully more information will come out later this week because the cbs board is having its annual meeting on tuesday. more to come on this. of course, moonves denies the allegations, denies environment ever engaged in a cover-up. there are more than a dozen women who say otherwise. quick break here on reliable sources. then a turn to news, media business models y more and more web sites are making you pay. we ll talk with one start-up founter rig founder right after this. capital one is anything but typical.
new allegations, even more allegations about shocking behavior by former ceo les moonves. abuse and a cover-up reported by the the new york times which obtained a draft of the report delivered to be cbs very soon. hanging in the balance here is a huge amount of money, $120 million that moonves was owed according to it contract. but if the board can conclude he was fired for cause, they won t have to pay him this money. but we need to know what happened at cbs, what went wrong and why it was able to be kept secret for so long. so let s get into the thereat now with my next guest. she is one of the women who has accused les of sexual assault and harassment. moonves denies all of it and
law firms to conduct the investigation and a draft report is extensive. more than 21,000 words saying less moonves engaged in multiple acts of serious nonconsensual sexual misconduct in and out side the workplace both before and after he came to cbs in 1995. the report goes on to say the lawyers had spoken with moonves four times and found him evasive, untruthful and he repeatedly lied. they interviewed 11 of the 17 women that accused him of sexual misconduct and found their accounts to be credible. the big take-aways of the investigation include that a cbs employee was on call to perform oral sex. the employee was not identified. a cbs board member who has since passed away knew about an alleged assault and took no eggs and a secret resignation letter was drafted for moonves but he refused to sign it. bottom line here is the report
howie: that phrase from the river to the sea echos hamas. he says. howie: that speech cost him his cnn news contract. howie: moonves allegedly assaulted an across stress 23 years ago, then tried to buy her silence. she says he ruined her career by promising movie parts, then briefly forcing her to perform oral sex. but moonves was so desperate for fighting for his job. he says if bobby talks, i m finished. the episode prompted cbs board
sea. howie: that phrase from the river to the sea echos hamas. he says. howie: that speech cost him his cnn news contract. howie: moonves allegedly assaulted an across stress 23 years ago, then tried to buy her silence. she says he ruined her career by promising movie parts, then briefly forcing her to perform oral sex. but moonves was so desperate for fighting for his job. he says if bobby talks, i m