branded a woman hater by his opponent. also, trump reframed from mentioning the marriage in the last debate. now it seems to me that any fair-minded news operation would have included those two facts in the article, or am i wrong? that s everything you know than if you were just watching the o reilly factor. joining us is letitia james. also joining us joan walsh, national affairs correspondent at the nation and msnbc political analyst. and i want to show how donald trump paid that back, how he paid this back with bill o reilly talking to the new york times about o reilly s, the accusations against o reilly recently. let s watch this. i think he is a person i know well. he is a good person. i think he may i think he shouldn t have settled. personally, he shouldn t have settled. how come? because he should have taken it all the way. no, i know bill. bill is a good person. i don t think bill would do anything wrong.
a decision rocking the world of cable news, bill o reilly the long-time host of fox news flagship show the o reilly factor is out. they are yielding to public pressure as years of sexual harassment add up. the capital hill journal the hill and civil rights attorney areeva martin. joe, i will have you walk us through what the final straw was. it seems like this sexual harassment by o reilly was sort of the worst kept secret at fox. was it money, was at this time advertisers or how he made fox appear? was it a pr thing? you are a business gal once, right? you know follow the money. so when 50 advertisers, more than, leave and aren t coming
fox, it s going to take a lot more than these terminations. you know, one thing that is expected to change, the ratings. you look at o reilly, the o reilly factor, that was a ratings monster. it will be hard to match that. how does fox recover from that? they are putting their trust in tucker karlsson, their bench is not that deep. how do they compete like they did a week or two ago? let me tell you how hard it will be to replace bill o reilly, because he has been on the air 21 years there. he has been number one for 16 of those years. he is not only a host that people like. he is a part of people s families. they eat dinner and watch o reilly. i know this i can go back to when i was home. my father sent me a text, just today, tonight, as soon as i got up. he said, here s the difference on o reilly, he s not on tonight. o reilly was must-watch tv. that s the difference. that s what the people have to
stories of the day, we want to address a situation many of you may already be aware of. bill o reilly, who hosted this program for 20 years, is leaving the fox news channel. we know that you, his very loyal viewers will have a lot of feelings about this, and we will talk more about it later on in the program. notice that graphic, the factor. e show is not called the o reilly factor tonight. joining us now, gabriel sherman, the first reporter to break the news of the decision by the murdoch family to fire bill o reilly. he is the author of the definitive book on fox news and is the national affairs editor at new york magazine and msnbc contributor. also joining us now angela carazon. lisa bloom is still with us. what did it? what was the decision made yesterday and what was the final straw? this has been evolving over several days. the murdoch family was divided. this is probably the most complicated decision they ll have made, possibly harder than
we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum hi, i m dana perino. thanks for watching us tonight. before we get to the other big stories of the day, we want to address a situation many of you may already be aware of. bill o reilly, who hosted this program for 20 years, is leaving the fox news channel. we know that you, his very loyal viewers will have a lot of feelings about this, and we will talk more about it later on in the program. notice that graphic, the factor. the show is not called the o reilly factor tonight. joining us now, gabriel sherman, the first reporter to break the news of the decision by the murdoch family to fire bill o reilly. he is the author of the definitive book on fox news and is the national affairs editor