cnn's senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter broke the story. what do we know now? >> we know moonves has agreed to the terms of his departure. this will be announced either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. it's one of these situations where there might have to be paperwork signed, but it's a done deal. this is sort of two stories at once. this is a corporate boardroom battle that's been going on for months, but this is also a serious #metoo case. it's the first time a fortune 500 ceo has taken leave in the #metoo world. of course, it's ronan farrow that helped bring this to fruition. it was his reporting about harvey weinstein that started this movement. now here we are almost a year later with questions about whether he's going to make a lot of money on the way out the door. one thing is for sure. he is stepping down. >> there's also -- in these new accounts, also coming from ronan's latest article for "the new yorker," which came out today. but you talk about these two stories playing out at once. there's the battle for cbs that was a

i'm brian stelter. we're talking about the fallout from the ford/kavanaugh hearing.ned by katie couric. she needs no introduction. now the co-host of the katie couric podcast. you have a new pod about your sarah palin interview. first, your reactions to this week? >> what an incredible week. >> i find myself still trying to process it. >> what a confusing week. i agree with a lot of things jessica said, brian, that our understanding of sexual violence against women and the trauma, the lifelong trauma that ensues still has not progressed since i covered the anita hill hearings 27 years ago. there is not a process in place. i think that's a huge problem. dianne feinstein should have delivered that letter because now i think dr. ford's story and account has been understandably politicized because of that failure. i think the way some of the republican members of the senate judiciary committee handled this was very troubling. i thought lindsey graham's full-throated defense of judge kavanaugh wunfortunate because t distorted dr. ford's account. i'm very relieved an fbi i

brian stet stelter -- brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> thank you, brian. >>> president trump praisingrea for the lack of missiles in the parade on sunday. he said this is a big and positive statement from north korea. thank you, chairman kim. there is nothing like good dialogue from two people who like each other. in case of military might with the intercontinental ballistic missile, the north's 70th celebration focused on development and future of the people. cnn's will ripley is live in pyongyang. you are live there. what a difference a year makes. >> reporter: it is extraordinary, christine. when you think about the parade i watched here in pyongyang, intercontinental ballistic missiles were on display. and now you have the glowing tweet over the weekend. think for a moment about what kim jong-un has managed to pull off just by not putting his nuclear-tipped missiles on display. he still has them. he hasn't agreed to give them up or agree to be transparent with the united states of how many weapons he possesses. he just did not put them in the parade. by doing that, he gets praise

i'm brian stelter. no one knows bob woodward like my next guest carl bernstein.w by carl as well as patrick healey, the politics editor at the "new york times." i would like to talk about the woodward book and the "new york times" op-ed book that's making waves. we have just heard from woodward for the first time on cbs. he talked about what he hopes people will take away from this book. let's take a look at what woodward said. >> this one was in the belly of the beast. >> and what did you conclude about the beast? >> that people better wakeup to what's going on. >> and to what woodward is saying in this book and what he wants the public to know? carl, do i have you? i'm sorry -- >> i think i couldn't hear you, brian. >> you're a little bit far away from me today. i was asking for your reaction to what woodward was say about t the fact that the public needs to wake up. this needs to be a wakeup call. >> i think that's true because this book is an astonishing book with detail piled upon detail, with memoranda in which people in the administration of the united sta

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it's actually quite the contrary. >> brian stelter, thank so much. atch stelter's show "reliable sources" only on cnn at 11:00 a.m. eastern. >>> this week, there is another sexual assault case in the spotlight. former tv star bill cosby's sentencing begins tomorrow. he is charged of three indecent accounts of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand in 2004. he could get probation to ten years for each count. joey jackson, cnn criminal and defense attorney is bus now. he could serve 30 years or he could serve nothing. what do you make of the fact he might serve no jail time? how plausible is it? >> it's certainly plausible. good morning to you, christi. but highly unlikely. when we talk about sentencing here, as you mentioned, it could be from probation to 30. let's just remind people how we got there. he was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent account and each count carrying ten years but more likely the judge will run any sentence concurrently. what that mean in english, although it could be 10, 10, 10, if the judge runs it cons

. >> they said it was -- brian stelter's said it was edited for stylistic conformity to the "new york times" but not editorially, they didn't change words. >> i would agree with that. they would haven't access to the information that's in there so yes it could be more than one person. but i think this person is worried. i think it corresponds with what we're learning in the woodward book. that might have prompted them to come out because people were trying to throw cold water on the woodward book and that person or this group send hey, this is true stuff and we have to give it cooperation. >> david chalian i think it's interesting when people like chris murphy, democrat from connecticut, and corey lewandowski sort of almost agree on something and they sort of almost agree that this person should not have come down as an unnamed author of such an article, that to do so is either counterproductive in the case of chris murphy or gutless is what corey lewandowski says. unnamed. the identity seems to me that it does matter. it really does. corey is trying to dismiss this as a small low-lev

joining us now is cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources, bryant steal -- brian stelter type of message one would freelance. if you put out the secretary of state to make the message, you're making sure that it comes with an exclamation point. >> a very good point. yes. i think pompeo is expressing what others in trump's orbit are also saying in various way, to various degrees. urging the president to take action against rosenstein. yet we have also seen is a divide among trump allies and among the pro trump media. some of the president's biggest friend and fans on fox news have been telling him, hey, hit the brakes here, don't go firing rod right now just because "the new york times" published this story about him thinking about taping you. there has been a lot of 3d and 4d chess going on people figure you out what is the motive of these leakers and why is the story coming out now? was it essentially designed to tick off president trump and get him to take action against rosenstein? there is this kind of debate playing out within trump world about what to do and when to

our cnn's brian stelter reports. the departure of moonves is one of the most significant moments yet of the me too movement. >> reporter: there has not been one like this. les moonves is the first 500 fortune ceo to leave his post in the year of me too. it's a remarkable turn of events when the first allegations came out, he vowed to fight on. back then in late july when ronan farrow's reporting came out, the cbs board basically stood by moonves. he wasn't suspended. he was not forced to step down. instead, two law firms were hired to investigate the allegations. and all of this was going on amid a corporate tug-of-war between moonves and the controlling shareholder of cbs shari redstone. now fast forward six weeks. farrow heard from more women, more accusers who were concerned that cbs was not taking action, was not holding moonves accountable. farrow published a new story on sunday morning on the new yorker website. just within a few hours, moonves was out. now, the caveat here, the complication is that the negotia

brian stelter explains why this case takes on so much stature. >> reporter: hey, fred. yes, extraordinary developments for the entertainment industry and the business world as les moonves prepares to step down from cbs. we have heard a lot about me too cases this year, but this is the first case involving a fortune 500 ceo. and moonves is the subject of a brand new story in "the new yorker." as you just mentioned, they came six weeks after the original story by rodan farrow in "the new yorker." step back to understand what is going on here. moonves is the subject of a battle, a corporate tug of war between moonves and the controlling shareholder of cbs, sherry redstone, for more than six months now. redstone and moonves are battling over who was really going to control cbs in the future and whether cbs was going to be sold to a bigger company. this has been a battle that has been working its way through the courts. but with that as the backtrop, farrow's story came out at tend of july, the initial story came out at the end of july to create a lot of uncertainty about wh

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. >>> hello, i'm john avalon in for brian stelter.t's time for our look at the story behind the story. how the media really works and how the news gets made. this hour, trump attacks google over bias and threatens to bring in the feds. >>> and how john mccain's legacy presses forward for freedom. >>> and breitbart's founder is here for his first television interview. >>> but first, while we're enjoying labor day weekend, the president is obsessed with lashing out at the media. let's take a look at all the companies and individuals the president berated this past week with terms like fake reporting, fake news, fake books, fake dossier. it seems like everything in critical in the media is fake to president trump these days. should we really be surprised, given that trump said this back in july? >> don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> don't believe your lyin' eyes. these reports are because the news seems nowhere near favorable to him. a ne

i want to bring in our senior media correspondent, brian stelter. brian, i understand you just had a chance to speak with a source at "the new york times." what are you picking up? >> yeah, jim dell is the op-ed page editor at "the new york times." he just told me about how this op-ed came together, this extraordinary document from a senior official in the government. dow said just a few days ago, this senior official contacted him through an intermediary, through a go-between, and expressed interest in writing this op-ed. dow said his response was the same thing he said to anybody who wants to write an on pedestrian. go ahead and write it, submit it, we'll see what it says. an understated response from the "new york times," obviously given the gravity of this situation. now, dow, obviously will not talk about who this senior official was, whether it's a man or a woman, where in the government they work. we all know, there's a lot of people within the administration that could be called "senior" and dow would not go into details about whether this pe

i want to bring in brian stelter. brian, i'm going to get to the "new york times" op-ed and how that went down. because you know the real story. but first, the bob woodward book. that as a story seems like it was so long ago and yet the book hasn't even come out yet. >> we haven't had anything yet. tomorrow he's going to be on tv for the first time . on cbs talking about what he found in his reporting. then tuesday, we're going to see the book. we can all read it. early copies have been circulate ng d.c. and new york and other countries. diplomats want to see what's woodward uncovered. i think the big surprise will be how much woodward has, primary source material. notes from meetings. tape recordings. i don't know exactly what he has, but i know he has notes from staffers from their meetings in the west wing. those are the staffers describing trump. that's going to be important. >> is that going to satisfy him? he's already the president accusing woodward of lying. woodward has a pretty good reputation. he's done this

but brian stelter might accuse me of wanting the paper to close. you tell him a knock knock joke and he looks for the door. the people denying it's them. mike pence, mike pompeo, dan coats, james mattis. flipper. rick perry, ben carson, herbie the love bug, gina haskell. kellyanne conway and crackle from snap crackle and pop. but the big news is some employees don't like their boss. this is pulitzer stuff. a boss who is known for being inquisitive and blunt is inquisitive and blunt. he doesn't say hi in the hallways. he once forgot my birthday. but what kills me, it's so obvious this was written by a pirks ssed off flunky. he' the assistant to the assistant manager. he's the guy who won't do the job he's asked to do and you think he should be pissed, you dumb ass. how is it this piece and the book appeared at the same time? perhaps they are all from that same source. that source is telling you donald trump is a big meany and a jerk. the country is safer and more prosperous under trump. two meaningless variables. trump has done nothing about the rea

here is cnn's brian stelter with more. >> reporter: of all the me too cases in the last year, there is not one like this. les moonves is the first fortune 500 ceo to leave his post amid harassment allegations in the year of me too. it is remarkable turn of events given six weeks ago when the first harassment allegations came out, he vowed to fight on. when ronan farrow's reporting came out, the cbs board stood by moonves. he wasn't suspended for forced to step down. two law firms were hired to investigate. all of this was going on amid a corporate tug-of-war with moonves and shareholder of cbs. now fast forward six weeks. farrow heard from more women who were concerned that cbs was not taking action. not holding moonves accountable. farrow published a new story on "the new yorker" web site. within a few hours, moonves was out. the caveat here is that negotiations for him to leave were already under way at that point. it seems clear the new harassment allegations which included allegations of assault, which were more disturbing than the first set of allegations. all of that is a major f

i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources," our weekly look at the story behind the story.de and how all of us can make it better. new this hour, that incredible op-ed, why journalists are asking the wrong question about the op-ed. >>> plus disturbing developments from myanmar where two reuters journalists have been sentenced to ten years in prison. >>> and later why it's time to stop using terms like active shoote

host of reliable sources, brian stelter is with us.t has been said about "snl" parodies and the impact they have on political careers when you think of chevy chase and sarah palin and this last one with melissa mccarthy, sean spicer. how do you think that impression of frat boy kavanaugh is going to go down. >> the "snl" writers and producers are trying to cement an impression of this nominee as being an angry man, someone not suited for the job. it is no surprise that the mostly liberal writers of "snl" have reached this conclusion. this sketch was 13 minutes long, they went really long on this. they left no mistake on where they stand. some of the jokes later on weekend upda"weekend update" we further. president trump responding on twitter today saying i don't watch "snl" anymore, even though he once guest hosted the show. he said it's no longer funny, it's a political ad for the democrats. a lot of republicans agree with him on that, but he was happy kanye west was the musical performer, wearing a maga hat on stage and he tried to s

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joining us is brian stelter. this is a new ronan farrell article. >> yeah, this is part of the me too movement. he was not escorted out of the building after the first article, that was six weeks ago, and instead an army of lawyers and negotiators came in. this is all about money. it was the second farrow story that came out sunday morning that was the final straw. the negotiations were already having. and the second story had more disturbing allegations, and by the end of the day cbs said he was out not just in a week or two. >> i saw you break that news on your show. six women are named and they have stories and their stories are about being physically accosted. this is not just verbal harassment. according to them, he forced himself on them. >> it's very disturbing. he's a really important guy in the business. it's hard to underestimate, this guy is huge. he made cbs into a powerhouse when it was a joke. these stories are -- well, i have known him for 25, 30 years. they are sickening to read and alarming that

. >>> i'm brian stelter. it's time for "reliable sources". a look how the media really works, how the news gets made and how we can make it better. a blockbuster story from "the new york times" and headlines about rod rosenstein. the sourcing and motives and sean hannity, the president's favorite interviewer but at this point aren't they more co-hosts? the death of the white house daily briefing. there really isn't a daily briefing anymore. what's the press core doing to get it back? first, reading from the front page of the "new york times." the facts are still in dispute about a bitter he said, she said case. a supreme court confirmation drama unfolding but lawmakers are being accused of a lack of sensitivity and some prominent politicians are saying hey, what's the rush? we need a little more time to follow up on the accusations and allegations. all of this playing out in washington, a city where men have always made the rules and the senate is an overwhelmingly male club. this case is sending what one expert called an electric current of

joining us is host of "reliable sources," brian stelter.morning. >> we are looking forward to this interview this morning but important to put this into context when it was taped. our producers tell us this was recorded before the senior. >> yes. >> administration official op-ed was published. >> and before all of trump's criticism as well. so this is just the beginning of woodward's rollout and we will see him on cnn and pretty much everyone else in the days to come and that is why i think for president trump, this is only just begun. this news cycle, these questions about his fitness have been revived in recent days. this is only just begun to play out. there is actually a lot in the woodward book we haven't heard yet even though the excerpts were incendiary the other day and kind of concerning. white aides believing the president is a danger to national security and even more we will hear from woodward and i think we will hear how he was able to pull this off and where he was able to get this information. in some cases, he has notes from

. >>> i'm brian stelter. it's time for "reliable sources".and how we can make it better. a blockbuster story from "the new york times" and headlines about rod rosenstein. the sourcing and motives and sean hannity, the president's favorite interviewer but at this point aren't they more co-hosts? the death of the white house daily briefing. there really isn't a daily briefing anymore. what's the press core doing

. >>> hello, i'm john avalon in for brian stelter.he news gets made. this hour, trump attacks google over bias and threatens to bring in the feds. >>> and how john mccain's legacy presses forward for freedom. >>> and breitbart's founder is here for his first television interview. >>> but first, while we're enjoying

i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources," our weekly look at the story behind the story, hower. today is a special hour on the supreme court fight as brett kavanaugh's nomination langs ma

brian stelter is joining us. you broke this story earlier today. this is something here. million donation to the #metoo movement and equality programs to support equality programs for women in the workplace. >> and it will be a big paycheck. that's right. this is one of the ways that cbs is trying to be on the right side of history. go back six weeks, story comes out in "the new yorker." the company didn't suspend him and he didn't step down. fast forward six weeks, a second story comes out. six more women, even more disturbing allegiances. now 7:30 eastern time, moonves is out. this is effective immediately. it's just been confirmed by the company. one of his deputies will be taking over in acting capacity. let's recognize the stakes here. this is a ceo of a fortune 500 company, one of the most powerful men in media, one of the best-paid men in media all of a sudden out of his job. largely because these #metoo allegations, but also because of a courtroom, court boardroom ba. with regards to moonves, he's potentially going to make a lot of money. that's a big question mar

i'm brian stelter. this is "reliable sources."tory behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made and how all of us can make it better. a new era at cbs. the company searching for a new ceo and new head of "60 minutes." what's going to happen to america's top news magazine? >>> plus, michael avenatti is here live for his first interview about this fight with tucker carlson. and later, an unprecedented milestone. "the washington post's" fact-checker says even he was surprised by how fast trump hit the 5,000 falsehood mark.

. >> brian stelter is not only with me but broke the news yesterday when this happened. no apology. women like that saying he threw me against the wall. >> this is ultimately a story about power, also about money. we'll get to that in a minute. but the power here is extraordinary. two things are true at the same time. moonves was an accomplished, acclaimed television executive. according to these women, he abused that power. he used that power, in some cases, to deny women jobs if they turned him down. and farrow's reporting in the new yorker, posted on the website this time yesterday, was deeply disturbing. there were two in a row, one in july that prompted internal investigations into cbs but frankly a slow investigation. as a result more women, including the one we just heard from, also decided to speak on the record with their own accounts. >> and really articulate exactly what they say he had done to them. >> yes. >> this one is really what turned the page. within hours, moonves was out. >> yes. >> you talk about money and 8k filing. this is a publicly traded company that just

we start with brian stelter and sarah elson, a staff writer at "the washington post."on what you know about the film call that came in to the times. we'll go from there. >> this was an intermediary, someone the writer had known for a long time and trusted who was told several days ago, i have a senior official who wants to go and write this op-ed. the response from the times was, let's wreed it, see if we like it. of course, the paper knew what it had once this is a controversial topic. i still think this is the kind of scoop that anybody would have been excited to receive. the times 24 hours ago published it. it is still the talk of the country. we have the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders telling people to call the "new york times" and complain, call the opinion section. you can see the statement here. in response the times confirms it is receiving a large number of calls. >> the fact that it is of all papers that this senior administration anonymous official went to the "new york times," the president's hometown paper, the paper that he hate reads -- >> there

. >> brian stelter, a senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" is with me and you spokean who had a big part of making the decision to publish this, the op-ed editor from the "new york times." >> jim dow, he received the message through an intermediary saying the senior official wanted to talk, wanted to share this op-ed. here's dow speaking with the "new york times" on their podcast going into more detail about how it happened. >> it began with an intermediary who i trust and know well and they told me there was this individual in the administration who was interested in writing an op-ed. i almost always say yes, i'm interested in looking at these things and we'll take it from there. the "times" editors concluded this was legit, this was who they said they were and it's something unprecedented at the "new york times" to have a senior official given anonymity like this. so now you have the paper's reporters trying to figure out who there is. >> yesterday jody cantor writes basically times reporters must try to unearth the identity of an author that our colleagues in opin

. >> the reason why -- >> what happens here in this interfew a interview that brian stelter pointed oute interview continues and i know by doing so it might make this investigation longer. >> yeah, it did. >> and i think that when sekulow was doing was throw a little dust up in the air, chum the waters. >> specifically trying to throw dust on this issue because it gets to obstruction of justice which also mueller is talking to michael cohen about because that's where he's going to really get hung up. obstruction of justice is what they are worried about. >> this isn't true. this is a claim that the president and his attorneys are making up and trotting his attorney out there to say on national television and it's not true. >> it's parsed. >> well, what sekulow is saying later in the interview. >> it's not parsed. it's the president saying here's why i fired him and jay sekulow, yeah, you can their from the president, why i fired him, the russia investigation on my mind when i fired james comey. you don't need to look anywhere else that came from the president's mouth himself, but we've

. >> our senior media correspondent brian stelter is with me. you broke this story when it happened yesterday, that moonves was out. when norah talks about pervasive, i'm glad she said that. you can't say that enough, from harvey weinstein on down to les moonves, how big is this, and how powerful was he in the industry? >> i think for the entertainment industry, this is the biggest me too earthquake that was imaginable. because moonves until yesterday was arguably the most powerful tv executive in the business, running the top broadcast network and was among the highest paid men in the television business. frankly, one of the highest paid ceos in america, no matter what industry you're in. you'll see here on screen, he was at cbs running the company for about 20 years. and he was making about $70 million a year. so ultimately, this is a story partly about money, partly about power. meanwhile, the company is trying to move on. the new acting ceo sent out a memo to staffers. the title was looking forward. they're trying to turn the page. i'm not s

i'm brian stelter. this is "reliable sources." our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made and how all of us can make it better. a new era at cbs. the company searching for a new ceo and new head of "60 minutes." what's going to happen to america's top news magazine? >>> plus, michael avenatti is here live for his first interview about this fight with tucker carlson. and later, an unprecedented milestone. "the washington post's" fact-checker says even he was surprised by how fast trump hit the 5,000 falsehood mark. >>> as we begin, here's another one to add to the list. on saturday evening, president trump tweeted about hurricane florence, now tropical depression florence saying five deaths have been recorded thus far with regards to the hurricane. he said deepest seems and warmth go out to the friends and families of the victims. may god be with them. he said five people had died but at the time, cnn and fox and the ap were all already reporting the death toll stood at the l

here to break down the mess, cnn senior media correspondent, host of reliable sources, brian stelter. let's start with the threatening text message. what did you make of it when she revealed it? >> absolutely inappropriate and shocking that a news producer would talk that way and act that way but fager had been pretty angry in the messages he's sent to me over the past couple of months. he was defiant. nothing nasty as that but defiant with regards to his job. i think he felt that he was "60 minutes" and by accusing him of harassment and saying he engaged in toxic behavior, it was hurting the news magazine but nobody is irreplaceable and "60 minutes" will go on and be strong without jeff fager. >> and certainly, intimidation is not the way out of this mess. >> right, right. >> why do you think cbs made fager's firing about this company violation policy? >> it's a pre-text for, the real reason of these harassment allegations, these allegations engaged in unwanted touching around the party and offices. there's always that but the allegations piled up and another one farrow's. quick acti

"outfront" for cnn brian stelter.view with the op-ed editor for the new york. and john avlon. he has a opinion piece on cnn, he is not anonymous and it's called "operation contain the president." i'm the only person that didn't talk to or write something about opinions tonight. give me the back story. >> they say this trump official came through the door a few days ago through an intermediary. a go-between. a few days ago? >> just several days ago. they say they don't believe it was linked to the woodward book, oven though the woodward book has us all talking about the president's fitness and what is going on inside the house. >> trump supporters are already raising that. >> thetimes does not think it was coordinated. only a small number of people inside the paper know who this person was. this person submitted the op-ed. we don't know if it was a man or a woman. "the times" will not talk about any of that. but it is preposterous for the president to be out there saying that "the times" has to hand over the source. th