roger ailes -- >> the roger ailes' channel. >> yes. roger ailes said you know what, i built this network from my life experience and it's true. in the 8:00 a.m. meeting and in the regular meetings with his executives he monologues about his experience with post-war history and they absorb his world view and everything flows from roger ailes and radiates through that organization. you cannot write about fox news and it does matter what his views are because it ends up on the screen in various forms. >> you know, i think about people who write books come in with lots of goals sometimes. what are you trying to accomplish? i one ker if people are going to look at this, if they don't like fox they are going to dislike fox more. are you going to change minds. >> the number one thing was my mind was changed. i went in to understand this is a phenomenon that has changed american culture and understand how he built -- >> you do have some respect for him. >> incredible amounts. >> incredible amounts of respect. i likened roger ailes one time to

roger ailes surpassed the gop.e 2012 election, he said to his senior executives, we're going to have to do a lot to get this guy elected, meaning mitt romney. and he said to bill kristol, the editor of the "weekly standard," and at the time, a fox news contributor, that he did not think that mitt romney had the spine to, quote, rip obama's face off. so ailes, through fox, took it upon himself to run mitt romney's media strategy. and what was fascinating was that really, for the first time in american history, a republican candidate's war room was being run out of the headquarters of a news channel. mitt romney's war room was being run out of sixth avenue in midtown manhattan. >> we're seeing not much coverage of the christie scandal since it broke on fox. certainly nothing like the coverage that we've seen on something like benghazi, for example. is that an example of roger ailes exercising his power to be protective to somebody he thinks the may well end up being the republican nominee? we know from your book that

ailes called an executive at nbc and said it a jailbreak.ve fast enough to go work for him. so he is a charismatic leader. >> stephen: all right, thank you for coming by. thank you so much. and that's all we hav have-- evidently we have more time, evidently we have more time. okay. charismatic leader. but you also say he's a bully. that he's vindictive. if he ask a bully and vindictive why do people love him? because they love him. >> they love and they fear him. you know, one executive told me in a meeting-- . >> stephen: what is the difference. >> well, love, hate. >> stephen: okay. >> one executive told me in a meeting that the top guys hope that the t-rex won't see them. they hope he doesn't call on them in a meeting because he is so volatile that they don't want to be singled out in front of him. and so that he is charismatic, larger-than-life, citizen kane like figure which is great to work for but it is also terrifying. >> stephen: how much time did you subpoena interviewing roger ailes, was he a good guy, did you like spending all th

roger ailes. >> and unauthorized biography of fox news president roger ailes is out this week, and as might expect, it's caused quite a stir. one of the most fascinating reactions to this book comes to lindsay graham. he wants you to know the provocative new biography does not tell the whole story. he feels so strongly about this, he's coming forward to tell his own roger ailes story and in doing so, reveals just how powerful a man roger ailes is. in the new biography, gabriel sherman reports ailes said, quote, if you were president, he would send navy seals to the border. i would make it a requirement you would have to kill an illegal immigrant coming into the country. he says ailes supports immigration reform. but it's not just his gut instinct at work here. graham reports having personally met with roger ailes on this issue, quote, i met with him three to four times in person, talked to him a lot. graham also reveals that unnamed others met and lobbied on the issue in hopes of toning down what mr. graham described as vocal opposition on fox. graham concludes, the tone was different

and ailes happened to be the person.g about roger ailes that he has some visceral gut connection to what that viewership wants to see that makes it work. >> exactly. and this has been a testament to his talent, that his career spans four decades going back to his work for richard nixon in 1968 as a television adviser. he developed a deep understanding of the frustrations and the resentments of the white middle class audience who felt left behind by the upheavals of the '60s. he uses that to relate stories on a visceral level. that's why fox works. because roger ailes understands that better than anyone else. >> i also thing one of the thing that comes through in the book and other reporting on this. if you were to characterize the modern gop and particularly a certain part of the gop, the 1%, it's a combination of a tremendous amount of power and privilege with a genuine feeling that they are besieged, that they are surrounded, that everyone is out to get them. you put those two things together, you get something near th

ailes changed everything.s main strategies, i remember him saying this, when you're on nationally, when you're across the country, the battle is won in the central time zone. you've got to appeal to the heart zone. that's one reason why cnbc will never catch them. it's very inside the beltway or elitist. he was a blue collar guy. he was a nothing from ohio. there's a picture of him with his lunch box at the factory and to remember who he is and talk to those people directly. >> basically, as far as i can tell, he's got opinion guys at night, opinion guys and ladies at night and he's got good news reporters all during the day. some of whom do appear in the evening. but the thing about the news reporters, they will cover the conservative beat and the liberal beat. i've seen it. you've probably seen it, too. i dare say, many of the mainstream media networks news reporters will only cover the left side of the street. and i think that's where ailes has just slammed them again and again. >> yeah. and he's always car

roger ailes denies a lot of the allegations in the book. but there are stories after stories after stories in this book about how roger ailes is interested in influencing republican politics. and frankly in beating barack obama. there are parts in the book that talk about how he believed it was his duty to defeat barack obama because nobody else was going to. now of course we saw the results of the election. if you look at the results of the election that means roger ailes failed a year and a half ago in that election. but i think the book will get to those roots. and of course, if you're a fox fan, if you're a fan of roger ailes you won't believe a word of it, anyway. >> the thing that's interesting about roger ailes, you can appreciate he's some kind of genius. phenomenally successful. bill o'reilley is a book salesman with a tv show. don't know how he'll react to that. he told his inner circle i want to elect the next president. interesting today that fox has barely touched this chris christie story, maybe trying to protect their man. he

will kaine, sally kohn, thank you >>> another book exposes a man named roger ailes.ormer chairman of fox news. how he wanted to elect the next president of the united states? some allegations that are pretty serious, including offering a female employee an extra $100 a week for sex. a joke? appropriate? all that coming up in a moment. >>> the former chairman of fox news, current chairman of fox news, being accused of serious stuff right now. sexism and racism. and wanting to elect the next president of the united states. again, a news man. it's all part of a brand-new book called "the loudest voice in the room" that hits stores january 21st. and let's just say it is loud, explosive, in fact. and to say that fox news is not happy about it might be considered an understatement. i want to bring in brian stelter, cnn media correspondent and host of cnn's "reliable sources." let's just say right off the bat, this is not a book that roger ails or anyone at fox news took part in, was interviewed or, correct? >> that's correct. >> they interviewed over 600 people for this bo

what makes roger ailes roger ailes? >> charlie he is an american icon.. he is the most unexplored subject and the most powerful man in america that most americans don't know but they should. he controls the american news agenda and he's an unexplored subject and he's citizen cain meets p.t. barnum. he controls the most powerful cable news network whose rating surpass rivals combined and it drives the agenda. >> he is a brilliant television executive, whether you're whatever your political affiliation. >> of course. >> you write about his desire to influence national politics and you quote him telling fox executives in 2010 i want to elect the next president. what did he do to try to make that happen? >> roger ailes has been influencing politics through three decades whether as a political consultant or tv news executive and he knows how to program television to drive a message. in the 2012 cycle with mitt romney, his strategy was rather than trying to build romney up it was an attack strategy over barack obama because he knew romney had lukewarm support

sherman says he made a dozen requests to check with roger ailes. back now with our panel.e you -- what do you make of this book? i have not read this book. i don't know the details of it. >> because i'm a reporter, i have been waiting three years to read this book. people like me have wondered, what has he learned? and "the new york times" leaks last night gave us the first answer, that lead quote saying i want to elect the next president seems to speak about what roger ailes is in a nutshell, that he's always been a republican operative. yet he's the creative of -- >> he's really good at what he's been able to create. >> what the book presents is these two sides. yes, he's created this cable news channel and turned it into a billion dollar success story. but he's running this political machine, running as the de facto head of the republican party. this book puts so much more evidence out there. >> one of the great questions of american politics is why is the republican party more conservative than they used to be? there used to be a moderate core in this party. how much d

news that's a matter of record and roger ailes was and for all of the things he's accomplished roger ailes was an operative for richard nixon's or an expected to say something like this and frankly i don't take it personally don't take it seriously do you agree with the think that the thought that fox news channel is a actual part of the republican party. you know what i'm pausing only because i want to give a thoughtful answer that i understand that argument i think it goes too far which is to say i think ailes is considers himself still a part of the republican party i think in too far as he's able to that he wants his channel to be that way but i don't want to indict everybody at fox news channel because i know some of the pros there who are pretty good i don't want to dance around your question but i do do think that roger ailes would say this about him he is a very good businessman he's very smart about television and he built a network when i for one wasn't at all sure he could do so and has he used to do benefit the republican party yes the record is very clear on that but is

they had to go in the comment and did it under ail yes, sirs. one pr person told me she acquired 20 and another person had over 100. just fake names so fox nation had fans crazy about the thing. they would swarm you. if you did something against them. they had to measures because there was this par now with a which is another trait that people would figure out it was coming from fox. so one person had to buy on her own visa or mastercard a, you know, one of the thumb drives you plug-in for wireless access so the ip address couldn't be traced back. another one had to use -- that was true for a number of people. they had to use reproposed laptops bought from secondhand store napes had to use an aol dial up account. they thought it would be tougher inspect the age of wide spread. they to use aol. it was a fox -- >> at least they only had a few. [laughter] it's loaded down. it's humorous when you stay out loud. >> human trass read as well. >> well. but there's -- they were called at 2:00 in the morning by the boss who is sort the number two pr perso

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join our live conversation on twitter @aj real money @ail ail, and facebook at aj real money. >>> in december consumer confidence surged close to where it was before the government shutdown in october. that end of washington di disfunction helped drop the confidence level index to a seven-month low. in addition to a stronger job market and incredible year for stocks many americans are feeling more confident and wealthier because of the rebound in home values. we have another sign of that. 20 cities tracked 13% in october compared to a year earlier. that's the biggest gain in seven years. but there is a cautionary note. after a hot year for real estate things appear to be cooling off. pricing rose 2% in october compared to september, and 18 of the 20 cities have lower growth month over month. s&p's david blitzer said that we're living on borrowed time and the boom is fading. the question, of course, where does the real estate market go from here? we turn to projections by zillow. the firm forecast that home price also increase 3% in 2014. to put that in con text, prices went un7% this

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the numerous author programs including gabriel sherman for his recent biography on fox news, roger ailes and cia lawyer john rizzo's account of his 34 year tenure at the agency. check our web site booktv.org for the complete schedule. on march 15th-sixteenth look for booktv's coverage of tucson festival of books from the university of arizona. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> begins with a question of the relationship of nature to politics. both claim that their political views are based in an idea that politics has to answer to human nature, a very different idea of what that was and different ideas what nature means in political debate has a lot to do with what follows. so an idea of nature that is an enlightened science idea, understands nature as a source of rules, rules that govern the behavior of individual particles, if you will, and turn society itself, basically a function of particles a little like newtonian physics applied to politics, not in a simple-minded way. he understood politics

the book presents roger ailes tsunami lie one who can defeat barack obama.news. kou s you could see in 2009 how it became more conservative and more polarizing. >> one other thing i want to talk to you about, brian, the supreme court taking up this case of areo, a tiny antenna that streams the broadcast networks, cbs, abc, the broadcasters say we should get some money from this. they are doing something wrong here. what do you think? do you think this is going to change the way that people view television and if they are going be paid? >> this is a fascinating case because right now a broadcast network like abc and cbs and nbc they make money from every person who is watching cnn. every person who pays for cable and satellite pays for those broadcast networks. as areo recognizes you can get those networks for free over the public air waves. it's a start up that has a bunch of antennas. pulls the signals down for free and sends it over networks to paying customers. the networks are up in arms because they don't get a fee. the supreme court decided on friday t

us and much ails us and much of this administration as part of this.can create some people of people in the republican party first, maybe even change the leaders for some of those in the party. and i believe that we can move towards prosperity and pushing back those that are so enthusiastic about every larger government and the ever larger unions. think about it, if you will. the book is a thinking man and woman's guide and i hope you'll pick it out. next i will be talking about tea party congressman whois scared when the chamber of commerce goes after folks like him for representing folks like all the rest of us. he is coming up next. please stay with us. >> the clintons never forget, so says a new book and in says that hillary had a hit list. on it are those who chose the back barack obama in 2008. the establishment leaders declare war on tea party republicans. as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purcha

ou: fox news chairman and ceo roger ailes interviewed by hollywood reporter.e who target may again kelly over her remarks about santa claus being whites are bathetic for try as he claims victory in the cable news wars now that cnn is out of the news business and he says msnbc dodged a bullet by canceling alec baldwin's new show because there would have to fire him eventually because he would not be able to achieve ratings. he likes rachel matt on a personal level and sarah palin? he says he hired her as a fox news contributor because he wanted to give courteous to pass off the people that wanted her dead. hands starting a brand new history channel with bill o'reilly. joining us now the "a team." we talked on your broadcast this afternoon if it is great. john gibson, we are delighted to see you in that you have joined us. let's start with the unemployment insurance and the odd mix of emotions with the republican party about extendi unemployment benefits to people who have been long-term unemployed because of disastrous economic policy implemented by this admini

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