on tuesday after benjamin netanyahu gave his speech millions of americans tuned into the news. they did not tune into msnbc. the ratings for them were catastrophic. at 8:00 p.m. the factor had five times as many viewers as a program on msnbc. at 9:00 p.m. megyn kelly slaughtered her opposition three to one. slaughtered rachel maddow he says. now, it was not a coincidence o reilly followed up nor was it a coincidence maddow returned the volley right here. well i don t think we have the bite basically she went on and on about the o reilly story. eric she said until fox addresses this matter it shouldn t be treated as a news network. but am i right to think we shouldn t expect fox to say more about the o reilly controversy. well they are not addressing the controversy. if you say, if you re charged with lying and you say our ratings are up you re not answering the question of
netanyahu could have the opportunity to break all records and make a fourth address as a sitting prime minister but first he has to win the israeli elections later this month. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. xxxx surprising information about brian williams. this just came out. a magazine article that says williams thought about moving from late night tv to comedy pitched himself as a successor to david letterman a big story. we ll have all of that coming up. let s begin with a guest who has never been on cnn before and a story you have never heard before. it is about the biggest star on cable news bill o reilly. we ve been talking a lot about him recently because the fox news host has been at the center of controversy for weeks now over allegations he misled or even lied about his experiences as a reporter many years ago. now nuns are weighing in. yes, nuns.
how a discredited story like his iraq anecdote got on the air. where were his executive producers, the people fact checking brian williams? they were not there. he doesn t have fans internally right now. i heard many stories. he suppressed stories, suppressed isikoff s story on drone program, justification of killing american citizens with drones rational behind that. brian williams did not want that on nightly news. brian williams also did not want tough lisa meyers on obama care. saying you have the biggest platform at the network for news and you don t want our tough reporting. that s doing to be a really tough bridge for brian williams to cross, come back and say not only did it s a story wrong but now i m going to roll up my sleeves and welcome tough reporting on the show. they are not commenting on the article. they are going tolet it speak
network. there was this case of andrea makris that happened in 2004 where she sued him for sexual harassment. and we were curious to look what was happening there. in the course of our reporting we found that there were other settlements and other women who had made allegations against bill o reilly. makris was the not secret settlement. $9 million back in 2004. you re saying there were $4 million worth of other settlements that were made more privately. right. that s what our reporting shows. what is o reilly saying about this? what o reilly has said is because of his prominence, he s a target of suits and allegations. does that stand up? is that true? well, what we ve seen is that there has been this pattern where a number of women have come forward to make complaints about him and as a result of those complaints there have been settlements that were made. let me turn to michael as well. michael co-bylined this story.
him, their careers would stall. did you find other than the five, other women that you didn t write about in the story perhaps for legal reasons? well, what we wrote about in the story was the information that we felt comfortable with. in the story along with the five are two other women who have made allegations against mr. o reilly but have not received payouts. one is wendy walsh who says mr. o reilly reneged after she rebuffed a sexual action against him. and there s another woman. she describes some harassment that she had received from mr. o reilly during her time and that had been backed up by a statement signed under oath from her psychologist who said she had contemporaneously to when she said this behavior had occurred had told her therapist about this. wendy walsh, her lawyer coming up later this hour. matthew garahan, let me bring you in here from the financial