you were really the first high profile woman to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment at fox against roger ales. how difficult and complicated is it it come forward when the attacks on you are not just about what happened to you but saying you re a traitor. you re a traitor for all of us with what you re saying. coming forward with something like this is an excruciating choice for women. it s not something that you decide to do overnight. courage is a building process. one of the things i like to talk about in the book is how we can give that gift of courage to young people so at least they have the foundation, but to make a decision like this, biggest professional decision of my life. this week #metoo proliferated on social media as millions of women shared their stories of surviving sexual assault and harassment. amid the allegations of disgraced movie mogul, harvey weinstein. the metoo movement began a decade ago when tyranna burk listened as one of her campers sa
i mean, this is something i don t understand how our culture can change when the president of the united states is just as bad as weinstein and o reilly. you were really the first high profile woman to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment at fox against roger ales. how difficult and complicated is it it come forward when the attacks are saying you re a traitor. coming forward with something like this is an excruciating choice for women. it s not something that you decide to do overnight. courage is a building process. one of the things i like to talk about in the book is how we can give that gift of courage to young people so at least they have the foundation, but to make a decision like this, biggest professional decision of my life. this week #metoo proliferated on social media as millions of women shared their stories of surviving sexual assault and
taking this tact inside a company to pay this many settlements? yeah. i ve heard from women inside fox news who are pained and anguished that the network still has not fully confronted the sexual harassment issue. we saw in several days rupert mourdock said the whole sexual harassment issue at fox news was, quote, nonsense. from the top down women feel even months later roger ales is gone, some of his loyalists are gone and people like shawn hannity go on the air and discredit the accusers. women might start coming forward at fox news to tell the full truth because they re so outraged by the network s position. their aggressiveness attempting to sort of be the arbiter of this issue, it s really remarkable. thank you all. up next, the future of the internet may be in donald trump s hands. ugh. because there are options.
sexual assaulter. it s not very difficult to believe. how does dusting and revolting shawn hannity and fox news really to be peddling basically what is rape culture 101. normalizing men s sexual violence and blaming women for it. fox news is really going to be the network that s going to be peddling more theories for blaming women. this is so disgusting, joy, i don t know what to say about it. i don t think there s much doubt about the sexual assaulter that donald trump is. when it comes to donald trump and fox news, i believe women, end of story. end of story. you know, it is interesting that, you know, there s a thing called gas lighting. you sort of call into question your own memory of your own light in a lot of ways but also the idea of being forward leaning even if your own history involved the thing, leaning into that thing. yes. fox news with all the settlements that were made to the o reilly, roger ales, they
growing list of famous powerful men accused of sexual misconduct. like the man accused before him, rose, who specifically is accused of unwanted sexual advances and groping addressed the allegations of his eight accusers in a statement that he seemed not quite to grasp the gravity of the accusations against him. how are you doing, mr. rose? how are you? do you want to say anything to those accusers? what? do you want to say anything to the accusers, the people accusing you of all of these wrongdoings. it s not wrongdoings. but the allegations are not the only things that it festers in the world of bill o reilly and roger ales and traditional media. white house correspondent glen thrush and mark halperin. joining me is the author of the charlie rose expose, erin