bloom contacted the woman's friend.he friend didn't put the woman on the phone because she was in a hospital bed. bloom, according to the report, then took a flight in an attempt to seat woman. all the way to virginia from california. and the next day bloom was able to connect with the woman. and then bloom allegedly sent this text message. here's what is quoted in the hill report. quote: i am confused because you sent me so many nice texts weapons night after my other client wasted so much of my time and cancelled the press conference. bloom texted then on november 5th, 2016 that that meant a lot to me. thursday, you said that you wanted to do this if you could be protected and relocated. i begged you not to jerk me around after what i had just gone through. a little later she added another text. you have treated me very poorly. i have treated you with great respect, as much as humanly possible. i have not made a dime off your case and i have devoted a great deal of time. it doesn't matter. i could have done so much fo

bloom contacted the woman's friend. the friend didn't put the woman on the phone because she was in a hospital bed. bloom, according to the report, then took a flight in an attempt to seat woman. all the way to virginia from california. and the next day bloom was able to connect with the woman. and then bloom allegedly sent this text message. here's what is quoted in the hill report. quote: i am confused because you sent me so many nice texts weapons night after my other client wasted so much of my time and cancelled the press conference. bloom texted then on november 5th, 2016 that that meant a lot to me. thursday, you said that you wanted to do this if you could be protected and relocated. i begged you not to jerk me around after what i had just gone through. a little later she added another text. you have treated me very poorly. i have treated you with great respect, as much as humanly possible. i have not made a dime off your case and i have devoted a great deal of time. it doesn't matter. i could have done so much

bloom said, she did not contact hillary clinton or her campaign, but bloom did not want to tell the hill, of possible misdemeanor case and, had with super pacs tied to hillary clinton. and finally, she added, she never encouraged the women featured in the "the hill" article to say things they do not wantn to be true, and the women confirm that. we also reach out to bloom for comment, and she responded to our request by attacking john solomon and that it is about a right-wing smear. bloom confirmed all the major parts of this breaking story. this includes, bloom securing money for tropic user. she gives donald trump and filed a lawsuit against them in 1997. shesh got that lawsuit. this is what "the hill" is reporting, which she both confirmed. now she says, that in fact, she did not initially ask bloom for money, even though her business, she claimed, was suffering from stories about her accusations. at some point, later in the relationship, bloomio secured wt "the hill" says, a small payment from licensing photos to news outlets. and bloomom also said she has a golf on the page. "the hil

i have to credit lisa bloom for her creativity here.ng donor to make illegal campaign contribution. donation in kind to the hillary clinton campaign and herself personally profiting from that. that would be pretty good if she pulled it off. >> laura: i want to go back to john solomon for a second, john, any progress on the reporting on the donors, who they were, how much they were offering? it sounds like something styer would be up to if you asked me. >> calling lots of people and doing the old fashioned gum shoe work. the motivation can fall under federal election law if in fact they were trying to influence the election with money. >> laura: the question whether there are campaign finance reform violations, campaign finance law violations is an interesting one. because, if your goal is to influence the outcome of an election as john wrote tonight in his original article, that seems like that was a goal. she was flying all over the country trying to get this woman to show up at this press conference and said it's really important that

lisa bloom has finally been exposed for who she really is.he's built a career posturing as a champion of the oppressed, but the only person who seems to be winning in that equation is lisa bloom. last summer, she represented kathy griffin. only to have griffin turn around and for excessive fees. she fought to protect harvey weinstein. actress russ mckellen says that bloom offered her a seven-figure payday if she agreed to call weinstein a changed man. trace gallagher has the full story and he joins us tonight. >> these are nothing more than right-wing efforts to discredit the victim. bloom fully acknowledges that she is trying to get tabloid media outlets and pro-hillary clinton committees to pay these women. one of the women who was offered $750,000 is declining to come forward. lisa bloom says the money of which she takes one-third is meant to keep her clients safe and in some cases, to help them relocate. of lisa bloom's for clients, to decide to come forward and two did not. including one who decided to tell her story to the hill after le

of lisa bloom's four clients, to decide to come forward and two did not.ncluding one who decided to tell her story to the hill after learning that bloom was representing the alleged serial sexual harasser harvey weinstein. bloom and weinstein's relationship ended when rape allegations were in public.no women who did not come forward and say she supported trump in 2016 and does not resent him. lisa bloom says the women who did come forward are telling the truth and the story by the hill is trying to undermine them nowe that they are gaining momentum. >> shannon: emily come at this point, we know that lisa bloom was a champion of women. particularly of women from sexual assault. it took money for harvey weinstein, discredited his victims, tmz reports she recorded one of them in an effort to discredit her and now we learn that she is profiting in a sexual harassmenr claims of this next set of women. why is she still able to do this? how did she get a pass to continue this pretty lucrative career she has, flacking for people like this? >> what i find so distur

why would lisa bloom do this? is it dirty politics at play?t of the larger effort to undermine and destroy donald trump's campaign at the time. and will bloom's actions make it harder for all the real victims of

women rights lawyer, lisa bloom has finally been exposed for who she really is.lt a career posturing as a champion of the oppressed, but the only person who seems to be winning in that equation is lisa bloom. last summer, she represented kathy griffin. following her beheading stunt only to have griffin turn around and for excessive fees. she fought to protect harvey weinstein. actress russ mckellen says that bloom offered her a seven-figure payday if she agreed to call weinstein a an

lisa bloom says let's please do a call.ready reached out to clinton super pacs and they are not paying. i can get you paid for some interviews however. one of the things is worthy donors said we will help relocate the woman. this is on the idea of paying period. we work for free or sharply reduced fees. we add a line in our client agreements that if the client gets paid for media interviews, our law firm gets one-third. this is extremely unlikely so it's in our standard contracts, but rarely invoked. is it standard procedure for people to be paid to do interviews? >> in the television world there are ways to get paid for travel fees. standard journal lis stick practice is you don't get paid for access. for the big tv sitdown exclusives there are work arounds where they will pay to bring somebody into new york city and there is compensation involved. >> i want to bring in our full panel. sarah, what you've seen, this trump accuser and lisa bloom said she still does believe her allegations against donald trump even though --

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bloom and her little cash to trash? >> is pretty horrible.the women of genuine stores who should be heard, this tells everyone come especially with women in the argument is you don't know what a woman's motive is, you don't know what she really wants or she just wants to get money. here you have everything i will make confirming the stereotype come out which harms many women who are seeking real justice. it also casts a shadow one i believe every single accusation against the president. you see this kind of machine. lou:.the other thing. all of this has been litigated. the public knew about it, voters knew about it and now we're watching a desperate for the democrats. >> we are seeing every front, tax on the president to pull back what's really been behind it. this cat is feminism -- lou: who is weak? >> lisa bloom, the feminist movement. that is where been pulled back. we now realize that the machine for money and influence than to harm those and influence and to harm those with whom they politically opposed. that's the reality of it. it loo

bloom represented some of the women who accused him of sexual harassment.from the very beginning that many allegations were false and politically driven. just a few days ago o'reilly hinting to glenn beck he knew info related to the story before it even broke. >> there is a tape, beck, an audiotape of an anti-trump person offering $200,000 to a woman to accuse donald trump of untoward behavior. >> bill o'reilly and i can tangle again. i'm confident that i will win again. but don't go after the trump accusers. >> one of bloom's clients and a trump accuser jill harth issuing a statement saying coming forward was one of the hardest things she's had to do writing of the hate and threats she's had to experience saying, quote, i'm terribly disappointed that anyone would suggest lisa was trying to pay women to come forward. it's simply not true. >> all right. eva pilgrim, a lot there. thank you very much. really appreciate it. >>> let's check back in with meteorologist mike taylor from our baltimore affiliate who is in for rob this morning. mike, what's happening?

. >> i'm molly bloom. do you know about me?a room with movie stars, directors and business titans. they were going all-in, all the time. >> based on a true story, jessica plays the real life poker princess, molly bloom, who was taken down by the feds after running illegal high stakes poker games for a-list celebrities. >> first buy-in, 250,000. >> that's going to make noise. >> play. >> spend some time with molly in preparation? >> definitely. i met with molly in l.a. and i went to some poker games. saw people lose a lot of money very quickly. i'm about to be charged in federal court. >> nobody's perfect. >> out christmas day, kevin costner costars in the film, which is aaron sorkin's director y'all debut. >> not to spoil the ending, but the government raided my game and took all of my money, assuming all of it was made illegally, which, it wasn't. >> "e.t." sat down with the real life molly bloom. >> 17 fbi agents showed up at my house with machine guns and put a piece of paper in front of me that said, the united states of am

in the months leading up to last year's presidential election, the westbound said bloom worked withpaign donors and tabloid media outlets to range payouts for the victims plus a commission for herself. the hill reviewed contracts, e-mails as well as text messages including one exchange between a woman and bloom that suggested put political action committees were supporting hillary clinton were actually contacted for this. bloom issued a statement to the hill and admits payment discussions did takes place. >> president trump is was in quantico to address the graduating class of the fbi's nash academy. the president's speech focused on his agenda but set the stage for a potentially awkward visit because minutes before the apparent he ripped the bureau while speaking to reporters on the white house lawn, they pointed to fbi records that the president claims cite extreme bias against the president among senior leaders at the fbi. >> it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that, is really, really disgraceful and you have a lot of angry people that are seeing

bloom was saying they moved there and recent lehad children.ant to point out they were there before he was there. they had the apartment before there was a club there. mr. diamond is trying to get here. i don't know if he will get here on time by the end of the meeting today. he is trying to come here as well because he found out about the commission hearing today. there is still no improvements. there are additional condition os club hue. i was astounded hue did not reign in the bottle service. after you change the conditions. we changed the hours and the noise. one of the things that i have gone over and over and over again is the bottle service. mr. bennett assured me we have monitors and hosts for this. right before the board of appeals meeting there was an article in the san francisco chronicle. one of the pictures is disturbing, not disturbing but it tells the problems we have seen. under that it says parties with friends early saturday at hue lounge. this is part of the problem. we can say they have bottle service. this is the problem. i

actress russ mckellen says that bloom offered her a

from "crazy ex-girlfriend," actress rachel bloom.eaturing the 8g band with will dorsey jr. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] fantastic. in that case, let's get to the news. the official rockefeller center christmas tree was lit earlier tonight. and it will stand there until early january when i have to drag it out to the curb. [ laughter ] former president obama will meet with the leaders of china and india during an upcoming trip abroad, while president trump will meet with who he thinks are leaders of china and india. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] according to recent analysis, the fcc received more than a million fake comments in favor of repealing net neutrality. it's the most fake comments ever found outside a high school reunion. [ laughter ] "oh, my god, you look great!" [ laughter ] a family in seattle recently called the police after discovering a four-

i'm jonathan bloom with a breakthrough at u.c. berkeley ahead on abc7 news. >> advances in technology takes photography if in a whole new direction. i'm michael finney. i'll give you a picture of what you can expect coming up on 7 on your

couple networks really controlling everything and we'll break it up so that hundreds of flowers are blooming across the internet and there is lots of people who are eating into this pie. well, it's become more concentrated. it's become more concentrated. facebook and google have more of a lock on advertising dollars than anything we saw in the preinternet world. those two companies swallow up and that's more concentrated. it's astounding. you look at twitter or snapchat, the only twa maj two mayor cons that didn't sell to facebook are struggling to be viable public companies. >> it's a huge issue and story

this is michael ray from bloom farms. let's talk to you first. this is a big check when it comes to tt afood it's going to provide. tell us about your company, bloom farms's commitment to the food bank both in money but also helping out. >> it is an amazing organization. and we're committed to social good being a huge part of our mission at bloom farms. that's really what we are he a up to. >> reporter: your employees volunteer and put boots on the ground for the food drive as well, correct. >> absolutely. all of our employees are given up to four hours per month to volunteer. >> reporter: thank you for doing what you do when it comes to volunteering, and also when it comes to the meals. we have a total of meals there not money because it is amaze to go see how you are so efficient to turn this money into so much food and so much help. >> that is correct, paul. it is about being a non profit and to take that money and be efficient with it and turn it into meals. as michael mentioned earlier, the fact that we are getting them to volunteer is a big

>> it is a very -- molly bloom is a very inspirational, aspirational character.ry about doing the right thing when the wrong thing is a lot easier. more profitable. can keep you out of jail. basically she refused to dish on the players who were playing in the game, which is what the justice department wanted her to do. >> seth: the other amazing thing about her story, which is taken care of in the film, is that she was an olympic skier. >> that's right. >> seth: so, obviously there are many poker scenes in the film. directing that requires a level of skill, but i imagine the techincal expertise required to shoot a skiing scene is more intimidating as a first time director. >> we were -- yes. molly bloom came -- she was ranked third in north america in women's mogul, that's a form of skiing which is -- >> seth: yes. [ laughter ] >> it's just -- it looks like a terrible way to die. [ laughter ] and she was ranked third in north america. came about 100 yards from making the u.s. olympic ski team, when, this isn't a spoiler, it happens in the first eight minutes, whe

the hill reports high profile lawyer lisa bloom tried to work out payment deals for some women in theonths leading up to last year's presidential election. the website said bloom worked with campaign donors and tabloid media outlets to range payouts for the alleged victims. plus a commission for herself. the hill looked at contracts, e-mails and text messages, including one exchange between one woman and bloom suggested a committee supporting hillary clinton were contacted. bloom issued a statement to the ill and admits payment discussion took place. >>> republicans moving closer to passing tax reform, marco rubio and bob corker said they would support the legislation. the support button sures the bill will pass on the house side a key side of house republicans came out in support boosting its chan, bill before christmas. >>> these are angry protests in jerusalem and in the west bank over president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capitol. dozens of palestinians scuffled with security force, president trump's announcement last week triggered these violent demonstrat

hill repor lawyer lisa bloom tried to work out payments deals for some women in the month leading up to last year's presidential election. web site says bloom worked with campaign donor and tabloid media outlets to arrange pay-outs for alleged victims and plus a commission for herself. the hill reviewed contracts, emails and text messages including one exchange between one woman in bloom that suggested political action committees supporting hillary clinton were contacted. and bloom issued a statement to the hill and admits payment discussions took place. >> and 16 and a half years in prison that is the punishment for d.c. dentist convicted of sexually assaulting former patients and employee. akmed was convicted of assaulting five dental patients and employee he and inappropriate touching of employee. ak med attacked the men on several occasions between 010 and 014 many were sedated during assaults. >>> northern virginiaoc is in police custody tonight accused of aborting his girlfriend's unborn baby. brook fis being said she met with sakander interim when she was 1 weekends president.

, lisa bloom talk to line up a date for women accusing trump of sexual misconduct during the last final months of the campaign. she worked with the tabloids, was getting a ridiculous cut where she could sell these stories to the tabloids. does this undermine the great ability in some of these field accusers, we've heard a lot about that recently. >> dana: lisa bloom tries to explain all of this as to why she was helping the women because they might have to get security, they might lose their job, be in bad financial positions. if you have a problem that you want to bring to either your boss or to the media, i would not use lisa bloom as representation. i think that she is past her sell by date. >> juan: it's not what you say. it's therefore evidence that somehow these women are not to be believed or they were out there making up stories. >> jesse: i didn't say it. >> juan: you asked the question. what it is his people oftentimes will try to monetize these kinds of scandals. even our president had a relationship with "the "national enquirer"." >> jesse: people shop for paydays. >> greg:

>> plus, katy perry on her on again off again with orlando bloom.t went wrong with amy schumer and her boyfriend? >> yes, somebody agreed to have 76ers kx with me. closed captioning provided by -- . >>> no one will ever forget orlando bloom and katy perry when their romance was paddling along there. it was impossible to miss these two had sexual chemistry to burn ♪ the one that got away. >> the announcement came at the end of february. orlando and katy are taking respectful loving space at this time. >> we saw each other >> she's amazing. proud of the work she does. she's a voice that speaks to so many. >> what went wrong? >> not sure, but katy addressed the rumor that is orlando cheated. tweeting, how about a new way of thinking for 2017? no one is a victim or a villain. get a life, all. orlando felt the same, saying we're friends. it's good. we're all groan up. breakups don't have to be about ha hate. >>> then in august, showed up for a tour together. another source says he sat on his lap and hugged him from behind. remember when orlando posted th

speak with david bloom who says it could be a shift underway.oming up, and exposes interview with the chief executive of moelis company. by the tax overhaul could dramatically reshape the outlook of the united states. 30 minutes away from the end of this thursday session. a little change. we are up by 4/10 of 1% on the stoxx 600. spain is higher, norway is lower, italy is up, luxembourg is down. removed.as been northern ireland remains. we will talk more about that in a second. sovereign bonds, commodities, bus to chat about today including brent crude. the global benchmark closing under the lower band. that green light on wednesday for the first time since june. previous threee times they tested the trend line this year. elsewhere the great credit party that is taken deal premiums in major markets down around the lowest in a decade is probably months away. central banks normalized monetary policy. that's according -- u.s. investment-grade bond premiums will widen next year. european counterparts will follow suit as they price in the economic sl

bloom alleged to sell to tv out help and wanted to pork et cetera a portioner heaven shev self. she paid off one accuser's mortgage and find six figure payment for another woman that climbed to come forward. bloom acknowledged she ep gathered in discussion to get cash for women and was not identifying donors. she had no contact with hillary clinton or her campaign and wouldn't sad address super fact that supported it. >> another politician accuse of misconduct. roy moore. he of course lost that election on tuesday to fill jeff sessions senate seat bested by two points doug joe's and moore refused to admit de feel. president moore said it's time to throw in the towel. >> we needs to have the person running and have the seat and we need the seat and we'll do well the taxi think we're doing very well it's something that will be monumental it it will be the biggest tax decrease or tax cuts in the history of our country. but as far as roy moore, yeah, it's certainly -- i would certainly say that. >> by the way are we talking about election integrity fund roy moore is setting up alaba

abc 7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains how a cop who planned to give him a ticket wound up giving him help instead. >> for years, deputy jacob swalewell had seen a man begging drivers for money and he had finally had enough. >> it was safety issue. more important than the panhandling. >> he stopped to talk. >> got to know him quickly and realized a ticket isn't what he needed. >> he was a truck driver and was disabled. >> when you have a serious back injury, you never really recover from it. >> unable to work he turned to panhandling. >> he does it three times a day. he isn't pan hand ilg for alcohol or drugs. he is panhandling to stay alive. >> he add routine, gathering $5 or $10 then come here to mcdonald's to get something to eat. breakfast lunch and dinner. it had become his entire existence. >> he said, you can't keep doing this. what will it take to get you off the streets? i said, well state assistance would do it. >> so he today get an id. >> i didn't exist according to the dmv. >> he needed a birth certificate. which came to a surprise. >> i get my birther isti certif and

i'm jonathan bloom with the beginnings of the new sales force transit center. >>> cannabis confusion, from buying, to smoking to driving. what you can and can't do. when recreational marijuana becomes legal january 1st. >> it chokes me up, it's heart breaking. >> it's the story of a heart breaking traj by. you're watching a chp escort killed on christmas eve. >> officer andrew camilierri leaves behind a wife and three young children. the suspect too badly hurt to be booked into jail yet. fellow officersess courtsed his flag draped casket -- law enforcement officers and members of the public paused on overpasses to salute the hearse. >> laura anthony begins our team coverage tonight live in livermore, where one poignant tribute was staged. laura? >>. >> just one of many, as it turns out. there were tributes on overpasses, like the one i'm standing on. a lot of regular citizens, many of them holding flags. also firefighters and police officers, all of them standing at attention. >> it's the final journey for a young man who devoted his life to try to make bay area roadways safe for ever

jonathan bloom explains what has changed since then and what hasn't. by facebook could dispel some common myths. >> reporter: 25 years ago, texting looked like this. >> you had to push the button like three or four times to get to the right letter. >> it was expensive. 5 cents a letter, i think. >> reporter: and then along came smartphones. >> it's the dominant form of communication. i don't think anybody talks on the phone anymore. >> reporter: it's changed everything. >> it has made communication lightning fast. >> reporter: but fast on your schedule. versus a phone call where you don't have a choice. now it's full of pictures and emoji. more than half use them instead of words according to a study on facebook. >> 80% of adults and 91% of teens report that they message every day. >> reporter: facebook looked at some of the base he can truths about messaging and some of those things that we thought was fact is pure fiction. >> the truth that we're not reaching out as much as we used to. >> reporter: talking with your thumbs and talking face-to-face. >