however, fox will not pay the full amount. it would be almost $100 million. instead, it would pay tens of millions of dollars. they re not disclosing the exact figure, but honestly, john, it will eventually come out through corporate filings because fox will have to disclose this. it s that big that it will have to show up in their earnings reports. and as you point out, big enough that it is more money than the money we know was paid out to the five women who made various accusations against bill o reilly of fox news. this is the exact scenario roger ailes experienced last summer, forced out at fox news under a similar cloud of accusations, paid $40 million. gretchen carlson, the one who sued ailes, was paid $36 million. ailes bought a mansion on the ocean, near mar-a-lago, actually, down in palm beach, florida. i wonder if o reilly s buying a new house, too. i want to talk about the details and bring in reba martin. you know, bill o reilly had a contract with fox news, a
future. however, there s a lot of questions about who knew what when, and those questions don t disappear just because o reilly disappears. great point. great to see you, brian. thank you so much. stick close to this. the fallout from this fox news payout reaches all the way to the white house. it is no secret president trump is a longtime friend of o reilly s, appearing on his program more than 20 times since 2003. just ask brian stelter. he counted them up. watch this. do you respect putin? i do respect him. do you? why? well, i respect a lot of people, but that doesn t mean i m going to get along with him. how are you going to make the mexicans pay? how? how are you going to do it? they ll want you to be specific. so simple. are you ready to do that? so simple. who s your main competition in your opinion going forward? stop, stop, stop. the state of california led by jerry brown is defying you, is absolutely defying the president of the united states. so, whe
pressure on. she made the decision to come out with her name and tell her story and she did that. is she somebody who who is new that s come forward or yes. what is she alleging? she was a frequent unpaid contributor on mr. o reilly s show from 2008 to 2011. there she is. she s feisty and she would get into debates with him as people do on cable news. at one point in one of the pretaped interviews, he accused her of being hysterical. she said to him she thought that was a sexist comment to call a woman hysterical. she said, you have to understand gendered origins of that term. she s a professor. she explained it to him. that part of the segment was cut. she never appeared on the show again. she was completely frozen out. that s consistent with dr. wendy walsh s claim that once somebody really rebuffs o reilly or stands up to o reilly, that s
the phone? yes, both. at dinners and on the phone. i said, no, no, no. when we were discussing and coming back i said it on the phone and at a dinner, eyeball to eyeball, this will not happen. you will not have the saucy talk anymore. he said, right, right, i would be your employer. that would never happen. of course not. i took that as a promise. i took that as a boundary that was explicit. he immediately within three and a half weeks bulldozed that boundary. he didn t just overstep it. he continued that. he did it the night before he spoke to the first lady. he did it a night during the republican convention. the night before he spoke to president bush. on the telephone him calling you up? correct. were these prearranged phone calls? no. joining me are jeffrey toobin and lisa bloom who represents some of o reilly s more recent accusers. lisa, how are your clients reacting to today s news? are they satisfied that bill
what bill o reilly was doing or what the accusations against him were are just not true. that gets to a question of what happens with fox now? is there more talent at the network that might be accused of sexual harassment? then, perhaps most importantly there s a question about who knew what and who tolerated what. some of the women who came forward and accused roger ailes last year also implicated bill shine who was roger ailes right-hand man, has since taken over a as co-president of the network. they brought their complaints to him, they say. he was involved in dealing with some of the stress brought on by one of the accusers. there s a question about how deep this goes in the company. then the question becomes how far can the murdocks go in shaking up the company. you owe, o reilly s contract