really this was the combination of the whole snowballing of scandals. bill shine was the subject of negative press reports. and as of the middle of last week, rue pert had decided he would become a distraction. they decided to pull the trigger. the allegations in which he has denied, i should say, in which he was involved in the kind of covers upsetlements, pams pertaining to accusations by both roger ailes. i know he s behind the seen figure. it s hard to over state centrality to right news. he was the right hand man, for years he was in all of the meetings was intimately aware of the operation and the culture. and so the idea he was not aware of this massaging sexual harassment strikes a lot of people as unbelievable. so women i have been talking, how is he still in this job if the murdochs were intent on
respected and liked by everybody at fox news. we will all miss him. the first broke the news, what led to the departure. really this was the combination of the whole snowballing of scandals. bill shine was the subject of negative press reports. and as of the middle of last week, rue pert had decided he would become a distraction. they decided to pull the trigger. the allegations in which he has denied, i should say, in which he was involved in the kind of covers upsetlements, pams pertaining to accusations by both roger ailes. i know he s behind the seen figure. it s hard to over state centrality to right news. he was the right hand man, for years he was in all of the meetings was intimately aware of the operation and the culture. and so the idea he was not aware
and i think it s important to reiterate that fox news and its parent company were aware of many allegations because they were involved in some of the settlements and paid some of the settlement money to some of bill o reilly s accuser. that was $13 million in settlements to five women who accused him of sexual harassment or verbal accuse. the question for the her docks who sit at the top was what kind of company do we want to be and how legitimate are these accusations against bill o reilly? i think what happened is there was so much public pressure and so much public out cry. there was obviously that flight of advertisers and meanwhile, you know, rue pert her dock slowly but surely is handing this company over to his sons who have a bigger
and we may in three or four months get a different review when all is said and done. the captain told prosecutors that he didn t abandon ship but he tripped and fell into a life boat. okay then. the search continues aboard the ship. rescue officials say rough weather could delay attempts to locate the 21 people that are still missing. rue pert mur dpert murdoch s co to pay millions of dollars are to those in the phone hacking settlement. jude law and john prescott. news corp was facing at least 60 lawsuits. all right. we ve got the nbc campaign imbed with the latest news. a lot of chatter about what s going on with rick perry s campaign. there were calls over the last 48 hours for him to drop out before saturday.
press room podium and listen to a tiny bit of what he had to say. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal and, frankly, if you look at the commentary out there, there are a lot of republicans that are puzzled as to why it couldn t get done. in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party up until sometime early today when i couldn t get a phone call returned. my expectation was that speaker boehner was going to be willing to go to his caucus and ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i told speaker boehner, i ve told democratic leader nancy pelosi, i ve told harry reid and i ve told mitch mcconnell i want them here at 11:00 tomorrow. these are body blows in d.c. terms and speaker boehner struck back himself about 45 minutes ago. listen to what he said. think refuse to get serious and making the tough choices. it s time to get serious. and i m confident th