there have been tapes alleged by harvey weinstein, not by bill o reilly. but the o reilly story, the harvey weinstein story are all taking a moment for corporate america to rethink how it handles these situations. so you see town agencies, companies all making this. where was the protection for the women that were the victim of his predatory behavior? that s the question i have. and just this week we learned 32 million more reasons why his behavior had lifelong effects for these women. in all of this, based on what s happened on fox news and other places it s shedding a light on a very, very dark problem in this situation. bill o reilly recently was looking for a tv job.
would not be helpful to that sort of deal. how much credit does gretchen carlson deserve for this indirectly? a lot of credit for starting the ball rolling against roger ales but the key to o reilly story is wendy walsh, one of the women named in the new york times story back in early april. she was not bound by a nondisclosure agreement and talked and gave press conferences and she was the face and voice of these accusations. and what would have been an otherwise one day story for the murdochs and fox news became a long running media circus they could not get past. you saw that video on your screen of those protests that were happening outside of fox news headquarters down the street from us here at nbc news headquarters. when you talked to your sources and i know both of you are sourced up within your beats what is going on inside fox news right now and among the women of fox news? you re hearing both senses of
surveillance and leaking. he says, find the leakers. is this an example of two alternate realities. the conservative media is saying obama surveillance and the other side is trump and the russia issue. i think it s two different stories. there are several stories going on. the story of mike flynn and the leak, there s the story of the trump team contacts with russia, what that means and then there is the story that s late breaking about devin nunez and what kind of collection was going on of the trump campaign or of trump family members during the election. the key for me is, you know, trump was elected to be commander in chief, not media critic in chief. when you go and talk to a lot of his supporters, there s some kind of exhaustion with the endless criticism of the media. they want to see the jobs. that s what that s what they put him in office for. i think media critic in chief, it s an attempt to
relationship thinking as a woman that you have full power and authority, but what happens when you want to get out and that person has power over your future, your job, your career. can you? emily, matt, mike, thank you for being here today. coming up, one of the lawyers involved in this story. we re going to ask how many more women could possibly come forward. lisa bloom is the attorney for wendy wass. she ll join me after the break.
thank you very much for being here. good morning. how did you get involved with this case? this is not my first case against fox news. i tonight expect it will be my last dr. walsh had been a client of mine on some business matters. i am very proud to stand with her and represent her. she did not sue. she did not ask for a dime. she has not asked for any money. she simply has told her story publicly and so i wonder what mr. o reilly s response is to her given that his defense is simply everybody s after money but she s not even asking for any money. why is she holding a press conference with you tomorrow? because everybody in the media has come to her since the story broke yesterday asking for more information, and we do have something to reveal at the press conference as to what the next