don imus said that was socially awkward and i am right.e was right diet deficient if only i was more like a bill reilly. he doesn't care. i want tobe like barack obama he is talented and charming and taller than me but he is black. he is a victim. you get where i am going. everybody can be a victim there are real victims the mentally ill, and children neglected or abused, the people who must try to live on $1 a day. but something odd is going on the most successful country in the history of the world we spend $22 trillion on programs that promise to help those who need help pay yet more people than ever say i am a victim and lots of politicians say that is why i ran for office. and hillary clinton announced her campaign she said. >> i am running for everyone who has ever been knocked down. >> people working to with three jobs. >> watching politics you would think america is filled with victims. kathleen mangu ward writes for recent magazine and david webb talks about that on his radio show. you are a victim you are black. >> i am confused.

this is not where he said something and you know he said it like don imus about the women's rutgers basketballknew he said it. the advertisers turned on him. he was out. >> there were advertiser boycotts in the past that hurt people like rush limbaugh. he is still on the radio. glenn beck. >> he also -- i think the glenn beck one is instructive. he was a huge star at fox. he got great ratings. when advertisers would not go on his show, he was gone afterwards. >> there is a giant open question the myrurdocks who own fox what they think about o'reilly. they renewed his contract and knowing the allegations. >> everybody in the contract has a moral clause and all of these things. >> because they knew doesn't mean they put him on the air. will the murdocks with stand the corporate pressure and keep o'reilly on the air? keep the door open. roger ailes seemed to be invincible last year. then gretchen carlson sued and then more women came forward and he resigned afterwards. effectively money talks. >> brian stelter, thank you. >>> the president's allegation of spying by the obama administration has no

very, very quickly and fired don imus from cbs radio within a week's period of time.hing lingers with the advocacy groups able to speak via social media, fox news is going to have to effectively address this challenge, and again, the up fronts are just around the corner in may. it's going to be interesting to see how advertisers react. >> speaking of social media, i want to ask about this pepsi ad. were you on earlier on "squawk on the street" and i saw what you said about a professepsi ad controversial. pulled by pepsi the last scene a model kind of takes, appropriatates kendall jenner, from a black lives matter protest. critical of that. what struck me when i watched the whole commercial, if you watch it from the beginning, not just the ending, pretty awful, mike, but the beginning, to me, looks like it's anti-trump. i mean, the whole thing is so political, from beginning to end. i'm shocked pepsi would actually wade into this in any way like this. >> well, not just shocked that they would wade into it, shocked they didn't really understand where their brand represe

. >> doesn't even -- i could have played the don imus, 1996 correspondents dinner where people thought far. is there a too far when it comes to the president or should the president man up and take it? >> absolutely not. respect is earned. and from mark twain to tom tolls, a cartoonist, to all of us comedians, colbert back then, it's our job to ridicule, sat arrestize the president. it's the norm. so there was obviously more respect for our last president, president obama, than there was for our current or the guy before him. bush. but that's because you earn that. we find your faults, we find your hypocrisies. i mean, a lot of comedians, including tim colbert hit president obama this week for taking a $400,000 paycheck. >> every president -- can we just say? >> whatever you want to say about that, the point is, if we find a hypocrisy, what we consider hypocrisy, a weakness, it's our job to point that out. that's what we do as comedians and satirists. and we have forever. if you earn the respect, you're still going to get hit at the correspondents' dinner. which is, by the way, a roast

. >> we did see don imus come back after controversy. >> true. would have to findtrue upstart -- i don't think a classic mainstream, dare i say, media company could hire him. >> unless there's more innings to play out and the story changes and evolves. you don't know. >> i wouldn't place any bets on it at this point. we've seen all kinds of people who have come back from getting knocked down. >> being in the media -- >> maybe he can start his own ott network. he has his own audience. he has his own audience. i think that mainstream advertisers won't want to support like that. mainstream networks will not want to get behind that. >> do you think his audience would -- >> maybe. if there was a new -- i don't think netflix would do this, but if there was new netflix, somebody who was a start-up trying to make a name for itself, against a netflix -- >> agreed. >> in a subscription business -- >> i'm not sure his following is that real. >> that's the other thing. >> it's not a digital audience. >> glenn beck's audience finally had to leave. how is the