disclosed. i ll give you the last word, christina. we saw what the other folks did who didn t speak. is there a risk for some of these careers? well, there s actually a risk. it takes a lot of bravery. for presentation of women in positions of power, it does reinforce and create an environment where there s a wiemd balance of power that makes women think that they cannot come forward without hurting their careers. yeah, absolutely. takes years and a lot of these cases for women to come forward and great reporters like gabe to come out and bring these out. thank you very much. gabe sherman, eric bowler, we ll be back later in the hour. up next, the bombshell
to beautiful i am just am. it s like a magnet. you can do anything. and when you re a star, you can do anything. grab them by their [ bleep ]. joining me is gabe, erica bowler, christina lopez and msnbc contributor. gabe, let s start with the weinstein. it s obviously the worst kept secret in hollywood and new york. was it? did people know about this widely? this was something that was whispered about in media and entertainment circles. i see a lot of parallels to the story that i covered last year, the roger ales story. he was a volcanic temper. he ruled through fear and intimidation and he was able over decades to keep these sexual harassment allegations out of the public eye by coercing women allegedly to sign
i think democrats have done the right thing. they denounced him across the board. they sent the money back. they ve sent it to charity. they ve done everything republicans should have done last year whether it was roger ales, bill o reilly, donald trump, nominee for president of the united states. they didn t return a dime, they didn t disinvite trump from anything. nobody said, you shouldn t be our nominee. what weinstein did is completely wrong. who s defending him? is anyone defending him? it s the straw man narrative that a lot of people in the political press are trying to push that this is kind of the both sides, right? yeah. the press loves the both sides approach. they re trying to make this stick. the facts don t support it. that is one of the important points, christina, there is a tick in media to do a both sides narrative and to presume that somehow democrats have to answer for harvey weinstein when literally no one is defending him when literally on the other sid
the window with one tweet. i can understand why morale is low. we are seeing that reported from folks that i talked to that are still there or have left, so it s an unfortunate situation. i think the tweets by diplomacy is reckless and dangerous. because the president is essentially saying that he wants he doesn t want there to be diplomacy, and he sees diplomacy as weakness and wants tillerson to be strong. donald trump did a interesting maybe bizarre is a better description of it, and it was with mike huckabee, and he s talking about the north korean leader using his silly nickname. you have a lot of things out there on the horizon, including north korea and kim jong-un, or as you like to call him, rocketman, which was for almost 30 years, through numerous administrations, i mean, if you look at president
trump. you had in the early 1980s jessica lee, the businesswoman. kristen anderson, former model. jill heart, makeup artist. miss teen contestants who walked in on them naked. temple taggart. karina virginia. it goes on and on and on, mindy mcgill ray, rachel crooks, ninni laaksonen, he s been accused, donald trump, by all of these women, before he was elected. no one is asking that every single republican who s been defending donald trump go through an answer for that. that s the thing, joy. it s interesting to see that a lot of the media that are claiming that people are defending harvey weinstein, it would be hard to find anyone defending this, the same people who are right now propping bill o reilly up, allowing him to do a comeback tour and basically helping him rehabilitate his