Page New York Times story saying five people were paid by either oreilly or fox after accusing him of Sexual Harassment or other sorts of verbal harassment. The times says the payouts totaled a staggering 13 million. The first settlement was back in 2002 as you can see here. Two of the payments happened just last year after the sudden departure of fox news founder and ceo roger ales. Ales was sued for Sexual Harassment by exanchor Gretchen Carlson. Then many other women came forward including megyn kelly. Ales was forced to resign. Theres a federal grand jury investigation. Other unrelated lawsuits are pending and oreilly is sort of the center of the fox universe. The biggest star with the biggest ratings on cable news. Responsible over the course of his 20 years on fox for hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. Oreilly says that makes him a big target. He is denying the claims against him. But all of this begs the question, if ales was discussed with numerous harassment claims, th
Federal Law Enforcement official on both sides of the aisle. Hes undercutting anybody that gets in his way or calls his power into question, like when he tweeted earlier this month about former fbi director, jim comey, after years of comey running the fbi its reputation is in tatters. Something that those with actual knowledge of the fbi say simply is not true. When he repeatedly makes the claim that russia gate is nothing but a lie. Theres absolutely no collusion. I tornado madid not make a phon russia. It was a democratic hoax and an excuse for losing the election, and it never should have been this way. It begs the question whether trump will be successful in so duh sporting reality, that even if Robert Mueller finds evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice, trump and his supporters will declare it all fake news and find a way to avoid justice. Joining me now, my panelists. Sarah, i thought of you when i was on hardball the other night and asked by Chris Matthews for my asses
Duterte is a man that trump seems to admire. First here at home, new additions in the russian probe seem to put out from allies that people in the Trump Campaign were nothing but coffee boys. We now know George Papadopoulos, who trump calls a lowlevel volunteer, edited a policy speech that trump gave in april of 2016, according to the new york times. Papadopoulos was also in regular contact with Campaign Aide Steven Miller when he was told that the russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of emails. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty for lying to the fbi and faces prison time. Another figure, carter page, repeatedly told Campaign Staffers about his meetings with highranking russian officials. As the investigations creep closer to trumps inner circle, miller, now a white house Senior Policy Adviser, has reportedly spoken to the special counsels office. And when trump was in russia for the beauty pageant, supposedly a trump body guard offered trump five women, which he turned down. The
Imagination. Good morning, and welcome to am joy. Joy reid is wrapping up her appearance on memeet the press and will join us shortly. The trump show is painfully real and bolstered by his partys congressional leaders and cabinet members all who flanked the president to outline the agenda. Yet his proclamations that hes, like, really smart, underline the prepliomise of the book. What wolff described as some of the most peculiar remarks delivered by a president. I say i had an uncle who did a fantastic job in so many different ways, academically, he was an academic genius, and then they say is donald trump an intellectual . Trust me, im like a smart person. Joining me is Michelle Bernard and perry bacon, jr. , of 538. Com. Yall, i dont know where to begin. Yesterday was pretty incredible with the tweet storm the president delivered yesterday morning and then the remarks yesterday. Lets go around the horn and get your generally actions to that and what we are all dealing with now over th
last minute about the full and truex tent of what have been called highly offensive texts by carlson. rupert mourdock agreed to pay out over $700 million and the people who actually took on fox and won, which is a bit of a rare position, dominion, the voting machine company and their lawyers, they are saying there was no secret settlement agreement or formal written plan to oust tucker carlson. of course, they had also made it quite clear through the process, the a being at thats, the legal clash and the suit that they planned to lit at this gate at trial that mr. carlson, among others, would be inside their bull s eye. if you are wondering was there a secret deal, they re saying no. meanwhile, their stakeholder has told axios, the outlet, this was much more profound than a disingenuous policy. that ousting is exactly what they would like to have happened. the firing is traceable from the