white house, somebody who worked for roger ales and who was part of keeping in place men who have mistrusted women over many, many years and it s just showing that there is accountability in the me too movement and stopped at the water s edge coming to republican politicians and donald trump somehow is impermible to the criticisms and the party does not hold him accountable and it s unbelievable that he can make it red meat and he can wave it around like a flag in front of a rally as though it s no consequences and this kind of behavior doesn t make a real negative lasting impact on women s lives. yet here we are. that is to your point the remarkable thing, john. look. you can dress it up and say it hangs a lantern on the problem. it s really self comedy. it is not a coincidence. but this president does seem to be teflon coming to his base.
of holding himself back, and it s not a subject that s helpful to him given there are more than half a dozen women who have accused him of sexual misconduct and more. so to hear him bring up that subject when he is part of it, was a surprising turn. the attacks on pocahontas, liz loving it. i think the democrats are all like waiting for their turn to be trump s winuata that day. and the attacks on the nfl, the white house officials have explained this is his 2020 strategy and mid-term strategy to run on culture wars. that part of it was kind of the trump play book. but to bring up me too especially on the same day they officially announced that bill shine will be a deputy chief of staff, a former fox executive who was involved with cover ups for roger ales was probably the most eyebrow raising moment.
journalist. you re not supposed to yeah. obviously do that. sean hannity s claiming that he s not really a journalist, he s a talk show host. right. he s an entertainer. so i think that s the cover, that s the fig leaf. nevertheless, not everybody that s channeling surfing that gets sean hannity up until recently knew he was working that closely with the trump white house, that he would put out all we re now finding out that was his source for things. shawn hannity would talk to him daily. he is a hot line into the white house along with roger ales being able to strategies how fox and the white house can work in synchronicity together. they told donald trump don t watch cnn, don t watch msnbc,
his mandate but the media, while they re obsessing over michael cohen, yeah, there are really important stories to bring to you. gabe, fox news tolerates essentially him being an advocate for the president. he sort of straddles the line because he s an opinion journalist but back in 2010 the new york times warns that he got rebuked for activism. in 2010 he was yanked from a tea party rally after they objected to his appearance. in 2016 he was at a area and they rebuked him there. as crazy as this may sound, back when roger ales was running fox he would occasionally make examples of people, not because he fundamentally disagreed with their decisions but he was a smart enough political strategist to know that you needed to have somewhat of the optics if you re going to have the lower bug in the corner of your screen that says news, you ve got to give something to
from a very famous press conference. schiller also punched a reporter outside trump tower. i m joined my the former council to new york city who s covered these stories a lot and also by attorney nancy smith as he represented gretchen carlson in the sexual harassment lawsuit against fox news ceo roger ales. welcome to each of you. this is an unusual story to be covering, and it is important to be clear it is an explosive allegation but as i say not one with a ton of detail about that.