i'll bring that back to the murdochs because within the murdoch empire, that's also where the clefs. may, i think it's inmaterial whether he's been a fan of bill ocho ray l -- o'reillys or not and bill o'reilly supports his company. >> in a big way. >> he very, very much wants to keep bill o'reilly. it's his sons deeply ambivalent about o'reilly, about fox, about roger ailes who was ousted this summer. it's an interesting thing i've been making calls this week on this and during the ailes issue, murdoch senior said to his sons, you know if we settle this without a fight, we're just going to invite more and more lawsuits. a and. >> which has happened. there have been more and more lawsuits and clearly implied that they accepted these lawsuits and allegations in the lawsuits. when trying to walk up the middle of the road, clearly what you have in any situation like where you have easy money settlements, you're going to get more lawsuits. in any situation where you have lawsuits and "the new york times" basically was looking at these lawsuits as journalism, everyone knows any lawsuit, a

after ailes was out, the murdochs said they had zero tolerance. i think there were a lot of employees, based on the conversations that i've had, who felt like that was a very real promise. low and behold, it's 2017 and they are dealing with it again with bill o'reilly. i think those words matter. i think it's extremely important. a big part of why this decision was made is because it's important to the murdochs, particularly to james and locklin, that 21st century fox proves that it's living in the 21st century and i think there will be some reservations about taking the murdochs at their word. at the end of the day, if you felt uncomfortable, this is a step in the right direction. >> we now have a voice , a woma who has spoken out. wendy walsh is joining us. can you hear me? >> yes, i can. how are you, brooke? >> i am fine. times, you've appeared on fox a number of times and now you have a story to tell with regard to bill o'reilly regarding his advances and ultimately you didn't show up on his show anymore. you chose not to say anything until th

james murdoch, rupert murdoch's son wanted to clean up after aisles was forced out.h resisted. fox news's most profitable asset of their media empire. we're seeing the aftereffects of that where they did not clean house. so we're going continue to deal with this crisis until they really come in and clear out this entire culture that roger ailes built over 20 years. >> angelo, you were part of the movement to push bill o'reilly out. you expressed confidence about that on this show. i have to say i didn't share that confidence because i've seen this guy survive this stuff in the past. so i was sitting here in complete suspense what they were going to do. i would say until the last 48 hours and gabe's report starts coming out and you could feel the end coming, when did you first feel tend coming here? >> about a week ago. there was a shift in the advertising community. and what happened is that advertisers were actually responding not so much to the o'reilly stories, but actually to what gabe had just pointed out and what lisa has so effectively laid out in first segmen

presumably rupert murdoch or his son will be there.l announce tucker carlson will be moving to the 8:00 p.m. slot. i've been thinking about what this means for women who charged o'reilly with harassment or others. gretchen carlson is the woman who started some of this. last july, she sued roger ailes for sexual harassment and retaliation. many people were stunned that they were going up the powerful founding ceo of fox news. gri gretchen carlson succeeded. other women supported gretchen. they said i was harassed by ailes as well. now we're talking about bill o'reilly. but it took one woman, who was laid off by fox, gretchen carlson, to stand up, to sue and to get the attention on this issue. i'm really curious to see what she'll be saying and feeling on a day like today. because there are women at other workplaces, not even tv newsrooms, other kinds of jobs that have been harassed by their bosses in the past, felt like they were retaliated against. sometimes those stories don't have that kind of ending. today it's an ending that those

. >> there's the tension by the way between rupert murdoch and james murdoch and that's really what this> father and son. >> father and son. is it rupert's company or james' company. right now it remains rupert's company and we learned over the weekend he made many of the programming decisions. james is trying to assert himself but he's limited. >> it remains me of president trump and his children. in some cases ivanka trump getting credit for trying to moderate our father. maybe the same thing happening here with the murdochs. >> i think all of us back in july of last year wondered, why the hell, you're getting rid of roger ailes and yet you keep in place his, you know, his right hand man, and then now we're back here, you know, ten months later, nine months later, and oh, maybe we got a problem here. well, maybe, you know. i mean, this is not really very sophisticated management. if you have a rotten, corrupt network which fox is, and you have these problems, then you probably wanted to clean house once, not twice. >> you're convinced it's corrupt? >> i am. i'm very convinced. as i wro

the murdochs wouldn't.ere's a big business deal in the works. 21st century fox, they want to take over all of the pay tv provider in britain skye, and there's a morality clause which the uk regulators look at. >> that's right. it's a feather they'd like to put in their cap. it's a really big deal for them to get full ownership of skye. there are british regulators, offcomw who are going to look, back in 2011, the phone hacking scandal, they don't want to see that happen again. you talk to sources inside 21st century fox and they say, that isn't what's driving this consideration. what's driving this consideration is, are we going to tolerate sexual harassment at our workplace? no. is that what bill o'reilly did? if so -- but the truth is, this skye deal is very much in the mix. >> what i thought was really interesting, even before the details came out, there was i tweet by matt grudge of the grudge report, conservative right-wing reporting. he said o'reilly has had a tremendous run. very few in the business

the murdochs haven't explained themselves in any of this. they haven't explained why they stood by o'reillat the time of our story and then days after it, when they had gotten rid of ailes for similar things, and, you know, why is it now? we know that this law firm found more things. we also know he lost a lot of advertisers. you have an 8:00 hour that has like less than ten ads, you know, running during it. i think that was a real problem for them. >> gabe, you've been all over this story too. let me ask you about this because it seems to me that if you're really cynical, people will say, oh, corporations never make decisions against their economic interests. so how did they weigh this? i know that in the short run, they're losing ratings. they may be able to make it up with tucker. tucker carlson is going to replace him. he's had a good run at 9:00, but they'll probably lose ratings in the short run. they'll probably have to do a big payout with o'reilly. so short term, money goes out the cash register. it's just going out. how do they mak

rupert murdoch is looking to takeover sky news. you cannot separate this out in terms of how this was threatening to imperil that bid. the last time he had to walk away because of the hacking scandal. now the judge napolitano issue in the uk and ths issue. i think there is something broader than advertisers pulling out. this is a bigger thing. this is a crown jewel. >> rupert was the one standing behind bill o'reilly. more than his sons. he could not just stand up. he hates the notion that gave in to the feminists and leftists and media. fox doesn't do that. >> look. i was there for a long time as you all know. i know a lot about the culture and my friends there. there is a feeling that there is more to come. this isn't the end. just bill o'reilly leaving. there is more to come. we know there is still an investigation. a justice department criminal investigation. where do we think that might lead? >> this is pursuing how payments happen to accusers and whether investors were not informed appropriately. the company happens to have a

. >> really there is a split in the murdoch family. murdoch is inclined to keep bill o'reilly. his son is much more skeptical, wants to clean up the culture at fox news and has been pushing for him to go. lachlan murdoch is more in the middle saying let's see what we find. but really the problem is they can't sell the show as your graphic just showed. advertisers do not want to be on bill o'reilly. so this is a long-term problem for them. >> it also seems you've got this problem which is that paul weiss is now investigating. lord knows and obviously o'reilly claims these are all meritless has does fox news, but it seems like there could be other stuff they find. >> i got calls today from people inside the network saying there's actually bad stuff they're finding that could come out. again, rumors are swirling. but, again, the sense inside fox news is that bill o'reilly's days are numbered. >> remember the trajectory of roger ailes was when they started doing the internal investigation, lo and behold they found a huge consistent systematic pattern. >> yeah, and i think maybe the

that rupert murdoch had different opinions than his sons had. talk about that. do you think we are witnessing something of a generational shift? >> i don't think so. i think he's right that this is an economic and reputational question. fox and o'reilly were badly damaged by these revelations. they can't run away from them. they have no alternative in some sense but to get rid of him. if they had kept him around, it could have affected the entire schedule. i don't really buy the idea that the sons are committed to cleaning up fox any more than rupert murdoch is committed to cleaning up the network. remember that last summer they made the same stwhamt they got rid of roger ailes and here we are nine months later back with the same story. either their commitment isn't great or it was a hypocritical statement to begin with will. >> o'reilly is on vacation in italy this week of i believe this is today. bill o'reilly, it is today. bill o'reilly shaking hands with the pope. do you think they wanted strategically to act on this before he got back from vacation? >> well

if you're james murdoch, you really think that you need to clean up the culture there. roger ailes was fired last summer, they said that they were cleaning house. this was a new environment that they were creating and women would never really be disrespected in the workplace there. but since that's happened, they have cut two deals on behalf of mr. o'reilly and learned about a third that he had cut back in 2011. so the question inside fox that a lot of people that we've spoke to have said is, well, has the culture really changed? what's different now than before ailes left. if ailes left, why doesn't mr. o'reilly have to leave. those are questions that the mar do -- murdochs would have to answer to their employees and their employees have expressed angst to us about. >> just last night another former worker of mr. o'reilly came forward. >> she says that bill o'reilly would come by her desk on a regular basis and make offensive comments and sounds to her. she said he would grunt like an animal, he would call her hot chocolate. she's african-american. >> now, bill o'reill

rupert murdoch wants to expand his media empire and the o'reilly scandal risked getting in the way. and there are few things as iconic in america as a harley davidson. it turns out the famous wisconsin bike can teach us a lot about the us economy. hello and welcome to one hundred days, i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser's in paris. us politics has dominated headlines since we began the era of donald trump, but now there's another election that demands our attention. this weekend is the first round of the french election and the latest polls suggest it's a tight race. in the next hour, french television will start grilling the candidates, there are 11 of them in total, but there are five in particular who we are keeping our eye on. each contender will getjust fifteen minutes to convince french voters they should be in the second round run off. a quarter of those who plan to vote say they may still change their minds on who they will plump for between now and sunday. the big question of course is whether the populist trend we have seen in britain and in the united states wi

if you break down rackley and james murdoch, they run a much bigger business.ny if the acquisition happens at almost $23 billion. they tried to do this deal back in 2011. it got held up because of the phone hack scandal, now it's back on the table. they have one more issue of regulation and then it's done. they cannot stand to have dirty laundry blocking them. if you think about what's going on here, don't forget, the murdochs don't own fox. it's a publicly traded company. they have shareholders they have a fiduciary responsibility to, and what the murdochs have are voting rights, so it's he's toy forget the shareholders. but if the shareholders decide to sue the company they can say, all these settlements? why are the sons getting paid $25 million here? what's s left and then reresign bill o'reilly. >> they did have a shareholders' meeting as of this morning so this happened to the lead-up to that when the murdochs would have to face them. >> i think it was a board meeting. >> a board meeting. >> this is why we have you guys. bill o'reilly will get $25 million

but, you know, the real larger issue, this is the murdochs, especially the two sons of murdoch now puttingt will be interesting to see how they make this decision. it seems to me that the decision is pretty clear because you see joe flynn, the great media writer for "the wall street journal" writing about it today and of course the journal is owned by murdoch. so i think that's a pretty definitive story. but you have to remember how much bill o'reilly -- i remember it when i was at cnn transformed what cable television is all about. you have to give him credit for that. >> he's an incredibly effective broadcaster. and speaking of investors i should note, they are doing the math because there will be a financial impact given how , you know, there is another gentleman though named rupert murdoch who is still pretty involved in the day to day there. it's your sense that he's come around to agree with the view points of his sons that o'reilly has to go? >> that's what it looks like wheyed business man and he knows what he has to do. certainly controversies he doesn't need. so there's a lot tha

i have a message for the murdochs, this is not going away.think this is going to blow over, it's not. >> is one of your messages for the murdochs that there will be more women coming out publicly against bill o'reilly either filing lawsuits or doing interviews as wendy walsh has done. >> i think that that is highly likely lawrence. >> gabe, what does that do to the murdoch's contact cue lus? lease audio bloom promising there will be more? >> clearly that will give more ammunition to james murdoch and over sayinthis is going to be a never ending scandal unless we rip the band-aid off. >> what do you say to those saying he is good for our business we can ride this out? >> i say that women's rights mean something, that our careers mean something. because these stories aren't just about sexual harassment. i do these cases every day. most women say i don't care about a comment now and then, i don't care about a guy asking me out and propositioning me. what i care about is my career and bill o'reilly is accused over and over again not just of propo

the murdoch family decided he needs to leave fox news. he returns from italy on april 24th, and the network wants a permanent new host in that seat before he returns from vacation, so they can have a seamless transition. >> so he's out? >> they decided he's out. how he's out and whether he's messy is still up in the air. but they have decided they do not want him returning to fox news. >> according to your reporting a couple of days ago, there appeared to be this battle inside the murdoch family, who had one son essentially fighting for o'reilly, and another saying it was time for him to go. what happened? how did that dynamic change? >> there's been a generational split. the younger generation, especially james murdoch, wanted to move fox news and the parent company into a more modern era with be thor standards and culture. rupert murdoch did not want to bow to pressure, especially from "the new york times." what changed is that james's older brother, who was inclined to side with his father in recent days came around to the position tha

the murdochs, executives, reportly pushed for o'reilly's ouster. their father, rupert murdoch signing off amid a growing scandal. 21st century fox announcing after a thorough and careful review of the allegations the company and bill o'reilly have agreed that bill o'reilly will not be returning to the fox news channel. bill o'reilly releasing his own statement. it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. but tha reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. >> o'reilly's statement comes after the new images showing him on vacation, shaking hands with the pope at the vatican. back in new york, fox executives, clearly were not forgiving. and an advertiser revolt, at least 83 pulling their commercials from his show. new accusers coming forward. including this african-american fox employee, her attorney says this picture shows her calling the company's anonymous tip line. alleging o'reilly would leer and grunt at her calling her hot chocolate. one of the few who publicly defended o'reilly when the

that was the influence of the murdoches, specifically james. i appreciate all of you. breaking news, fox news has decided to sever ties with their top rated host, bill o'reilly. a 20-year veteran of fox news, facing a lot of heat at the moment from a new report from "the new york times" that came out that said between bill o'reilly is that fox news, they had paid out $13 million to settle sexual harassment or other harassment lawsuits too'r. they've had a round robin of substitutes. he has been off the air but again, bill o'reilly will not be returning from vacation. he is in italy. we saw a picture of him and pope francis. my good credit score. i see you've planted an uncertainty tree. chop that thing down. the clarity you seek... lies within the creditwise app from capital one. creditwise helps you protect your credit. and it's completely free for everyone. it's free for everyone? do hawks use the stars to navigate? i don't know. aw, i thought you did. i don't know either. either way it's free for everyone. cool. what's in your wallet? take 5, guys. tired of your bla

>> the murdoch sons want a break from the pass and between rogers als and rupert murdoch, a toxic culture and the sons want to move on. how and whether they can do that is an enormous question. howard kurtz said some female employees inside fox were uncomfortable with o'reilly staying on. there's a gamut of emotions. many people relieved. >> here's what has to happen. here's the problem. they absolutely must change the system they have to have systems in place very specific where the woman is thought to be telling the truth instead of being an adversary when they report and they should be looked into and unless they change it and put new systems in place, it won't change. >> wendy, i want to give you the last word because the president defended bill o'reilly last week saying he believes he's a good person. i don't think bill o'reilly did anything wrong. would you like to see the president of the united states address it? do you think it was appropriate for him to do it in the first place? >> yeah. i mean, does he have better things to do? we have a problem with korea and syria. come on. b

lachlan and james murdoch, executives at fox's parent company, reportedly pushed for o'reilly's ouster. their father rupert murdoch ultimately signing off amid a growing scandal. 21st century fox announcing that, "after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and bill o'reilly have agreed that bill o'reilly will not be returning to the fox news channel." bill o'reilly also releasing his own statement, "it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. but that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today." o'reilly's statement comes after those new images tonight, showing him on vacation shaking hands with the pope at the vatican today. back in new york, fox executives clearly were not forgiving. new accusers coming forward. including this african-american fox employee. her attorney says this picture shows her calling the company's anonymous tip line. alleging o'reilly would leer and grunt at her, calling her "hot chocolate." one of the few who has publicly defended o'reilly when the scandal brok

that is the -- james murdoch has an american accent, too.at's the sell, and that's what they've convinced rupert of. although i don't think that they've convinced him. it's just that i think rupert has decided, you know, they run the company now. he's 86 years old, and, you know what does he need this -- this turmoil for? so that's -- that's what we have here. we have the beginnings of a major change in the television news business. fox which has dominated television news, dominated american politics. we are now very clearly at the beginning of the end of that, of that phase in american life. >> what are you hearing about how this went down? i'm betting that bill o'reilly did not go quietly. >> you know, i think biffle o'reilly was backed into a corner here. you know, they did exactly what they did -- you know, they're getting very good at this, because they did exactly what they did to roger ailes. they -- they called a law firm and told them to have an investigation, and that investigation took you know, functionally a matter of days. they

also, murdoch does not want to be pressured, as you say.mes murdoch, the ceo of 21st century fox, has been aggressively lobbying for o'reilly to go. he wants to move fox news into the more modern era and reform its culture. really the turning point, as i've heard from my used to the network. this is what is. this happened to blen beck. what purpose does he serve, just as glenn beck lost advertisers. his value to fox -- >> as a guy who covers this, the one benefit that he does bring to foxx is that even after this scandal erupted again, and i say again because this happened in the past, his ratings went up. >> his audience is very loyal. his audience stayed with him as well. over two million every night, every afternoon when he was on, but who istizing? who is sponsoring him. they wanted nothing to do with glenn beck. at the moment they want nothing to do with bill o riley. there is a question if they will ever come back, that is part of the calculations they're making right now. >> if you're an advertiser, and he had these issues in the pas

and at the time the our story, the murdoch family was standed by mr. o'reilly. they looked like they wanted to keep him on. what happened is he began to lose advertisers. first he lost mercedes-benz, the first one to go, and dozens and dozens of companies, up to 50. what you had was eight of the 8:00 hour, the prime time on the network, that had just a few ads running on it. and at the same time, fox brought in an outside law firm to do an investigation into mr. o'reilly, and there was a real trickle of women that came in that were saying different things about mr. o'reilly that

rupert murdoch tried to shore up bill o'reilly.there was too much public outcry and they cannot afford to have the sky deal as you pointed out which the regulators will rule on in may fall apart. this would be a stunning blow, the second time that the murdoch family has seen a deal fall apart because of the culture of their company. >> i want to read you a bit of bill o'reilly's statement when the news came out. it read in part, quote, it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. now, i got to get your reaction in my perspective, if claims were unfounded why would i pay out $13 million? >> well that's the first piece, and i want to assure everybody after i called in my complaint to the 20th century fox sexual harassment hotline, i was immediately within two days contacted by four attorneys. i was grilled along with my attorney for more than two hours. i provided them with a lot of e-mail evidence that corroborated my story with four other colleague and friends who i told at the time. they d

and allowed rupert murdoch to survive.infamous phone hacking scandal in which private investigators hacked into the voice messages of people to get stories. this is again, a culture where rupert murdoch looks the other way while companies go to questionable means. >> is this an investigation that you're work on? >> i think it's important to understand that this is the same one that preaka howard was working on when he got hired. it's important to understand that bill o'reilly is a cash cow and that fox news basically placed the interests of this cash cow over that of women. >> you can explain how are you able to launch an investigation into, i guess, a private company? >> i'm a trustee and the board nicis board. i can file complaints with the s.e.c. and do shareholder derivative case if i chose to. the bottom line is they failed to disclose information. and to shareholders who invest in 21 century fox and clearly that's going to have an impact on shareholder s. and people of color, obviously it should have an impact on the

the fox overall family, 21st century fox and murdochs are trying to buyky news over in enand and their government is looking into they call it like the proper clause or something like that -- >> fit and proper. they look into the business practices of the company and whether they find as proper to allow the deal to go through. that's something really big for the company and clearly they thought this type of scandal would not be helpful to that sort of deal. >> how much credit does gretchen carlson deserve for this indirectly? >> a lot of credit for starting the ball rolling against roger ales but the key to o'reilly story is wendy walsh, one of the women named in the "new york times" story back in early april. she was not bound by a nondisclosure agreement and talked and gave press conferences and she was the face and voice of these accusations. and what would have been an otherwise one day story for the murdochs and fox news became a long running media circus they could not get past. >> you saw that video on your screen of those protests that were happening outside of fox news headqua

i'm joined now by a media correspondence for npr, author of murdoch's world. i am astonished that this has happened. >> seismic is right. you would have never said a year ago that, hey, you're going to see roger ailes bounced because women objected to his behavior, and bill o'reilly, ways in which he offended colleagues in the workplace, that's going to get him bounced too. you know why? it's because he's been accused of this in the past. we've known colleagues have accused him of sexual harassment in the past. one of them had them on tape. he paid $9 million to make that go away. we know that there are more. >> well, the numbers, it seems to me, matter. >> the numbers matter. the context matters. at a certain point, fox news has to say to itself, do we want sexual harassment to be one of the defining issues that represents to the public what we are and who we are. and women at fox news were incensed by this, and other executives at other parts of 21st century fox said this is killing us. your public star has been accused by an increasing number of women in th

james murdoch is focused on buying sky tv, a major acquisition in europe.that's an $11 billion deal. they wanted to buy sky in 2011. they had to pull it amid all of the noise around the phone hacking scandal that is now back at the plate. it needs regulatory approval. they don't need noise. so yes, this might be the number one show, a $20 million guy. $20 million versus $11 billion? can't really compare. >> so, steve, we have the business angle. we also have politics. think about i heard a political veteran today say that for years in ways that we kind of stopped noticing bill o'reilly's talking points every night became in a way the surrogate talking points on all of the cable channels and shows that it all spawned into the next day. and then of course when was the last time you heard the president of the united states describe a prominent cable talk show host or cable news host as a friend and defend him? o'reilly did occupy a different part in that politics business nexus. >> bill o'reilly really defined the opinion host on cable news. it used to be when

>> the murdoch family hasn't spoken about it.ert's younger sons really care about the culture of the network and modernizing it. what happens is after roger ails left last summer they said they were going to change the culture and it was going to be different at fox and women were going to feel comfortable there and there weren't going to be issues. but what happened was, over that period of time, they learned about a deal mr. o'reilly had cut with a woman in 2011. they allowed mr. orile tow cut two more deals, and this was exposed and it put pressure on them. there were protests outside of the network. there was a plane that flew a banner around new york city calling for mr. o'reilly's ouster, and there was real public pressure on them. and i think the sons really won out here. rupert has extreme loyalty to mr. o'reilly, who is one of the founding hosts will of the network when it started 20 years ago. >> woodruff: michael schmidt, as someone who has covered network news, covered related stories, is this an earthquake in televis

this is -- this newspaper is owned by rupert murdoch. there's not a person there who would dare type a word about fox news without taking the utmost care in checking sources. and for them to be saying in the headline fox is preparing to cut ties with bill o'reilly, it's hard to imagine the murdochs letting their own newspaper print a headline like that if it wasn't true. >> indeed. and that's just not reflected on the insider side at fox news. it's also reflected on the opposite side because they are hearing an awful lot right now from not just their advertisers. all those that have dropped o'reilly, all those that have refused to ever buy ads on o'reilly going forward. but they're also hearing from the media buyers as they move into their up fronts next month, which is when they actually sell all their 2018 inventory. and what they're hearing, it's not just about bill o'reilly. the advertisers are deeply concerned that this is reflective of a bigger epidemic at fox news and rightfully so given one of the co-presidents was very much invo

the pressure mounting for the murdochs to take action. at least 83 companies pulling their advertising from the "the o'reilly factor" and he said it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded clays but that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. he was supposed to return to his though this coming monday after vacationing at the vatican instead tucker carlson will take over his slot. >> the chairman of the senate judiciary committee says the supreme court justice may soon resign. senator charles grassley expects a resignation as soon as this summer. he did not name a justice but two possible candidates may be justices ruth bairder ginsburg and anthony kennedy both in their 80s. the court is back at full attendance after a battle to replace antonin scalia. neal gorsuch reported to work monday. >>> they blasted it as a failure. >> rex tillerson accused iran of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the middle east. this as tensions escalate with north korea. >> abc's jan

the ouster reportedly pushed by lockland and james murdoch, executives at fox's parent company. a decision that comes just weeks after a "new york times" article reported o'reilly and fox paid nearly $13 million in settlements over claims of inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment dating back to 2002, and wednesday -- >> first mr. o'reilly said nobody ever calls in to our hotline, so we took him up on it and called in to the hotline. >> reporter: attorney lisa bloom sharing this photo of a fox employee calling the company's anonymous tip line accusing riley of leering, grunting and calling the african-american woman hot chocolate while they were alone. [ chanting "fire bill o'reilly" ] >> reporter: the pressure mounting for the murdochs to take action. at least 83 companies pulling their advertising from "the o'reilly factor" and bill o'reilly reacting to the news releasing a statement oversight saying "it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims, but that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today.

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rupert murdoch and his sons who run fox news parent company 21st century fox are reportedly split on o'reilly's future. >> james murdoch is pushing for o'reilly to be taken off the air but his father rupert murdoch is resisting because he focuses on the bottom line because bill o'reilly up until this point has been a terrific boost their bottom line. one sexual harassment charge will be investigated by the network. >> i'm encourage that had they will take this first step and do some kind of investigation. >> reporter: a guest who frequently appeared on o'reilly's show, walsh said the 60-year-old promised to make her a paid contributor and after rebuffing advances o'reilly failed to follow through. >> i'm not here for the money. in fact, my silence is not for sale. i'm here for the future of my daughters and all the daughters of america who are entering the work force in droves, and i want them to have a safe non-toxic work environment. >> a number of substitute hosts are expected to fill in for o'reilly over the next two weeks. >> his strategy has been to keep his head down and try t

rupert murdoch are talking issues and the writing is on the wall including from murdoch's own "wall streetindicating he's on the way out. >> the writing is not just on the wall. when you see it on "the wall street journal," "new york times," with the same language, fox is getting it out there in the way that bill o'reilly's days are numbered. a lot of this was known before and "the new york times" put this together, $13 million between fox and bill o'reilly. there a legal reason that their hand has been forced now or is this bad pr that they're sick of dealing with. >> it could be both, but their hand has been forced for one primary reason when you have gretchen carlson and megyn kelly. when this was an isolated incident and perhaps the employer should not be liable for what they do not know and now there is an issue at being a settlement and it hinted that the culture of a hostile workplace environment was certainly known. it was paid for to some degree and now they have their hand forced because when an employer knows about it and there's any tangible work action related like there is a

>> reporter: pressure mounting for the murdochs to take action.nies pulled advertising from o'reilly's show. bill o'reilly reacting to the news, releasing a statement, saying, it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. but that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. fox news channel has announced that recently hired host tucker carlson will get o'reilly's time slot. >>> moving on now, the trump administration slamming the iran nuclear deal as a failure. even as it acknowledges that tehran is holding up its end of the bargain. >> secretary of state rex tillerson says the deal only delays iran's goal of becoming a nuclear state. he warned an unchecked iran could travel the same path as north korea. tillerson accused iran of supporting terror and destablizing the middle east. but he stopped short of promising to scrap the deal. >> the u.s. is sending a blunt message to north korea, this time from u.n. ambassador nikki haley. "we're not trying to pick a fight, so don't

to define their network. >> reporter: rupert murdoch with his sons lachlan and james told employees we want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environment built on the values of trust and respect. o'reilly's ouster was announced while he was on vacation, a photo yesterday showed him at the vatican shaking hands with the pope. in a statement o'reilly called the allegations unfounded and said, i will always look back on my time at fox with great pride and the unprecedented success we achieved. fox news founding chairman roger ailes resigned after similar accusations. >> this is a tough decision for me. >> reporter: one of his accusers fox news star megyn kelly left the network in january. she was reportedly angered by comments o'reilly made on cbs this morning about her claims in november. >> i'm not interested in basically litigating something that is finished, that makes my network look bad. >> reporter: radio host wendy walsh, a former o'reilly factor guest, who came forward this month, said she, too, was a victim of o'reilly's advances describes fox news i

>> mmm, you think that jerry hall married rupert murdoch because she loves him? knows it. >> he's probably a cool guy, >> uh huh. >> he's like smart, charming, witty. >> okay, you're making a pro- rupert murdoch argument now. >> if rupert murdoch didn't exist, there wouldn't be "the simpsons." >> i'm willing to live with that. >> stephen: please welcome judd apatow! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ hello, judd apatow. >> it's good to be here. >> stephen: how are you? >> i don't know, how do you feel about the suit? >> stephen: oh, it's very nice. ( cheers and applause ) do you normally not suit it up? >> i can't tell what this says about me. who am i? >> stephen: well, the spread collar and the half windsor usually says english to me. >> yes. >> stephen: the spread collar says english. >> oh, because i said, "could you give me a jew knot?" ( laughter ) >> stephen: really? i'm not english! ( laughter ) >> stephen: did someone tie it for you. >> they did. but i guess it looks okay. it's a whole new knot for me. >> stephen: do you have a valet back stage? >> i don't, i h

the murdoch family is debating. there's a split. rupert is inclined to treat him. they do not want to be told what to do by the new york times. there's a sense he doesn't want to be pressured into making a decision. his sons who are trying to take the company in a more forward looking direction say this is a stain on our name. we need to sort of move on. cut ties and try to bring in a new face. that's really the state of play. >> it's hard to imagine that inside of fox news. they do have female employees. is there no internal rumbling this is not a culture we want to portray to the rest of the world? >> there is. fox news is such a profit center and rupert says this is a business that makes me over a billion dollars in profit and some disgruntled employees will not pressure me into cleaning house. >> we have lawn unched two investigations. we file a complaint asking sec to investigate whether they filed loss filings with sec. that settlements were described as compensation. it's a false filing for stake holders. >> the settlement with victims were described as comp

rupert murdoch or carl icahn. trump liked to mention him on the campaign trail.s are patriots owner bob kraft and chris christie the governor of new jersey. then eric and donald jr., his sons. and the story says that fox news host sean hanity behind the scenes gives the president advice and suggest he stay focused on what got him to the white house, not with stray and distracting tweets. the story also says rupert murdoch who runs fox news and owns 21st century fox, has also been on the phone with the president on a weekly basis giving advice and ideas. at one point murdoch called up sean spicer after that hitler incident and gave him encouragement and told him to buck up. that is unusual. you don't have a ceo of a news agency calling of a press secretary and giving them sport. hannity here is one his tweets at the "the new york times" last night when the story came out. ed you don't know who i was talking to. here is what he wrote. hannity, i don't know what hannity is thinking here. obviously, the president does talk to "the new york times" and has given a bunc

this is a prize for james murdoch.tried to do this in 2011, and it didn't go through because of political pressure. they pulled the deal because of the phone hacking scandal. then in 2013, james said, sky tv is the future. that is how they unlock their future in europe. they're just a month away from getting regulatory approval. they do not want to get hung up on an ethics issue with a sexual harassment case here in new york. >> ultimately, stephanie, this issue of culture change, i would think that the last few years, and even the last year, have shown us one thing. there's one swamp that's not getting drained. that is the swamp of culture that considers it acceptable to continue to objectify and harass women in the workplace. i think we're maybe on the same side on this one. i think it was pure economics that forced this. i don't think anybody had a second thought about it at fox or the advertising companies. i think they realized they couldn't financially continue to support bill ro'reilly. i don't think there is a