as meg oliver reports, o'reilly defended himself on his friend glenn beck's show. >> reporter: former fox news channel host, bill o'reilly spoke with his friend, glenn beck blasting a report in the "new york times." the times said o'reilly's contract was renewed despite the company knowing he had settled sexual harassment claims against him. >> never one time was there any complaint filed against me with human resources or anybody's legal team. nothing. zero. >> reporter: the report said o'reilly agreed to pay former fox news contributor lis wiehl $32 million to settle allegations that included repeated harassment. a non consensual sexual relationship gay pornography. >> reporter: o'reilly pointed to his website. it says she has no claims against o'reilly. the times reports the settlement was $32 million. >> in 20 years and 6 months, i resolved 3 things. and the only reason i did resolve them was to keep my children safe. >> reporter: fox says o'reilly's new contract included a clause including his dismissal of relevant information came to light. >> today, one of o'reilly's former cow

here's what he said to glenn beck on his radio show today. >> it's frustrating for me, can you imagine accused of everything under the sun, and the end game is let's link o'reilly with harvey weinstein. let's make him that. that's what we want to do. and so we take him out of the marketplace forever. he never gets to give his opinion on issues again. we take him out because we hate >>> and it never comes forward. that's what he said before and that's what he's saying now. >> right. well, i guess the story is that he's telling us he's doing this to protect his family by not going to court and that's why he paid this money out. it just seems like if you have information to exonerate yourself, is this not painful to your family what's happening right now? >> it seems like the only evidence put forward is that, you know, notes were written. thank you notes were written previously. >> yeah. >> it seems not like evidence at all. >> well, i actually don't even understand this attack glenn beck and bill o'reilly are doing against megyn kelly right now or against gretchen carlson and they never

going to have to scale back on their conservative talkers which is going to hurt limbaugh hurt the glenn becks and sean hannity because in and fox news maybe we'll get some some tell of the other thanks a lot i'm really are i kind of hope he stays with it absolutely i do finally got some good news as former n.f.l. cheerleaders win another chapter in their legal battle against the league the new york state supreme court of pellet division up held a decision that certified the women's lawsuit as a class action. the buffalo jills as they call themselves were facing the possibility of having that legal status removed as the buffalo bills and the n.f.l. appeal decision they gave them that status in two thousand and sixteen according to their lawsuit the jills say they work hundreds of hours without pay were wrongly classified as independent contractors and had to endure a jiggle test so that their boss could determine the firmness of their bodies now now that they're classified as employees this is going to make it possible for him to recover wages that they were never paid and i'm sure everyone is

the number one followed in descending order with fox news info war is the rush limbaugh show the glenn beck program buzz feed the sean hannity show c.n.n. huff post and drudge report when i asked if they believed that they had ever been tricked by fake news twenty point two percent of baby boomers aren't sure if they have thirty two point three percent of minute millennialist think they would never offend fold while fifty two point seven percent of us gen x. there's this method that probably or definitely we've been fooled and even though the administration and republicans have been going out of the so-called liberal corporate news outlets the perception by the public is actually that conservative news out so loud let's are more likely to be spreading fake news can a society that prioritizes perception over evidence or lack thereof truly uphold the values of american democracy. as a great question to you but i think the curious thing about it is like think that we are a society based completely on perception though over yeah so i mean i think we pretty much we rather how we will believe the

going to have to scale back on their conservative talkers which is going to hurt limbaugh hurt the glenn becks and sean hannity because in and fox news maybe we'll get some some tell of the other thanks a lot i'm really are i kind of hope he stays with it absolutely who finally got some good news as former n.f.l. cheerleaders win another chapter in their legal battle against the league the new york state supreme court appellate division up held a decision that sort. the women's lawsuit is a class action the buffalo jewels as they call themselves were facing the possibility of having that legal status removed as the buffalo bills and the n.f.l. appeal decision the gave them that status in two thousand and sixteen according to their lawsuit the jills say they worked hundreds of hours without pay were wrongly classified as independent contractors and had to endure a jiggle test so that their boss could determine the firmness of their bodies now now that they're classified as employees this is going to make it possible for them to recover wages that they were never paid and i'm sure everyone is lo

. >> on monday, o'reilly told glenn beck his enemies are behind this, plotting to keep him off tv. >> link o'reilly with harvey weinstein, let's make him that to take him out of the manipulators forever. >> scrutiny on fox news which can't seem to shake these sandals. there are new questions about o'reilly's behavior. >> my conscience is clear. >> o'reilly defended himself on nbc last month. >> you were accused of sexual harassment. you said at the time you did absolutely nothing wrong, do you stand by that? >> i do. >> what we didn't know then that o'reilly struck a $32 million deal back in january. wheal, a regular guest on his show was threatening to sue. >> she made allegations of a nonconsensual relationship and that he sent her pornographic material that included guy pornography. >> in this affidavit, wheal said she had no claims against o'reilly. with the secret safely buried, fox renewed o'reilly's deterioration worth an estimated $25 million a year. fox booted o'reilly in april after "the new york times" investigation revealed other settlements. but he was welcomed back on th

i know glenn beck is talked about doing this and in something that is urgent.i think it would be a commercial market because we do portray america well. it could the propaganda but we need to get over that and say look we have some great things to offer the world. we need to promote democracy against the chinese socialist model and against the russian fascist model and that would be one right to do it. >> host: that brings me to my next point. you mentioned this idea of the hamilton project. obviously that's in response to the hamilton musical and the success we have seen beyond all previous broadway plays. i saw hamilton and earlier in the book separate from his hamilton projects you talk about how our founding fathers understood the importance of information warfare and influence operations. what would the hamilton project look like? i have said i think every number congress should see hamilton because it does highlight the strength of our u.s. republican democratic government and the challenges that our founders faced. what does the hamilton project look lik

i think he's been marginalized in some ways the way glenn beck has been marginalized. and i think if he's going to put his credibility up against "the new york times," he's going to lose. and i think these reports, this hard-nose investigate -- this is the best of our profession. it went after a story here and it's proved it. he's never going to back that down. he can use all the words he likes, like smear and attack and all the words he uses. you know, i have to tell you, i saw him september 22nd in baltimore, his tour that he and dennis miller did. i went to it at royal farms arena because i wanted to see what kind of effect this had on his audience. tickets -- seats 11,000 or 14,000. they wouldn't tell me how many they had reconfigured it for. brian, i posted pictures. if there were 2500 people in that audience, it was surprising. i bought a ticket in the upper tier. they came up before the show and said would you please sit down on the floor so that it essentially looks like we have some people here. bill o'reilly has been marginalized. even his hard core audience.

the glenn beck thing. flurry of conservative web publications that started off in the next few years. no snark intended at all. serious credit to byron york for getting this. even before he got the school, he had done really good spade work this story. he had interviewed tons of operatives and candidates who had opposed him on the primary. he got lots on the record about them not being the republican funder of gps. but after having done all that leg work, he was rightfully first to report, who was that funder? so kudos to him for the scoop. now we know. now only trump dossier, whether or not you care who funded it. i think it is also flown a little under the radar in the last 24 hours that the general counsel of the office of the director of national intelligence, we have director of national intelligence. that's in office. the guy who is the top lawyer there. he has come out and declared in very blunt terms that when the intelligence community put out its assessment that yes, russia did attack our electio

the glenn beck thing. a flurry of conservative web publications that started off in the next few years. no snark intended at all. serious credit to byron york for getting this. even before he got the school, he had done really good spade work this story. he had interviewed tons of operatives and candidates who had opposed him on the primary. he got lots on the record about them not being the republican funder of gps. but after having done all that leg work, he was rightfully first to report, who was that funder? so kudos to him for the scoop. now we know. now only trump dossier, whether or not you care who funded it. i think it is also flown a little under the radar in the last 24 hours that the general counsel of the office of the director of national intelligence, we have director of national intelligence. that's in office. the guy who is the top lawyer there. he has come out and declared in very blunt terms that when the intelligence community put out its assessment that yes, russia did attack our elect

kelly made the remarks after o'reilly denied he'd committed sexual misconduct, telling radio host glenn beck he was the victim of a smear campaign by "the new york times." on saturday, "the times" reported o'reilly reached a $32 million settlement with a former fox news presenter to settle sexual harassment claims just weeks before fox news signed him to a $25 million-a-year contract. it was at least the sixth such settlement during o'reilly's time at the network. in montreal, canada, protesters have begun riding the city's buses and trains wearing traditional islamic face veils known as niqabs, as well as scarves and other coverings, in solidarity with muslim women and in defiance of a new law requiring people to show their faces when receiving public services. protesters say quebec bill 62 is an islamaphobic law aimed at stigmatizing the province's muslim minority. >> throughout the whole bus ride, i had to uncover my face. what is the reason? what did i do? what crime did i commit that i my fundamental rights violated? >> even if you believe the niqab is oppressive and women are strugglin

>> reporter: and fired up on glenn beck's radio show monday. >> i'm not going to run and hide because i didn't do anything wrong. >> reporter: o'reilly slamming a new york times report that he reached a $32 million settlement with fox legal an least lis wheel. >> i've been in the broadcast business for 43 years, 12 different companies, never one time was there any complaint filed against me. >> reporter: one of his former colleagues tells a different story. >> o'reilly's suggestion that no one complained about his behavior is false. i know because i complained. >> reporter: megyn kelly wrote an e-mail to fox news executives last year complaining o'reilly was shaming women into shutting the hell up. >> i wrote in part, perhaps he didn't realize the kind of message his criticism sends to young women across this country about how men continue to view the issue of speaking out about sexual harassment. >> reporter: o'reilly spokes to "times" reporters last week before the article was published. >> we have physical proof that this is bull [ bleep ]. bull [ bleep ]. okay? so, it's on you if

here's what he said to glenn beck on his radio show today. >> it is very frustrating for me.gine me sitting here being accused of everything under the sun, and the end game is let's link o'reilly with harvey weinstein. let's make him that. that's what we want to do. and so we take him out of the marketplace forever. he never gets to give his opinion on issues again. we take him out because we hate him. and "the new york times" obviously hates me. >> back now with the panel. it's interesting because he keeps saying he has all this evidence. that it's starting, and it never comes forward. that's what he said before and that's what he's saying now. >> i guess the story he's telling is he's protecting his family by not going to court that's why he paid the money out. i don't know if seems if you have information to exonerate yourself isn't this painful to your family what's happening now? >> it seems the only evidence put forward is that thank you notes were written previously. >> yeah. >> it seems not like evidence at all. >> i don't understand, with the attack glen beck and bil

. >> reporter: and fired up on glenn beck's radio show monday. >> i'm not going to run and hide because i didn't do anything "new york times" report that he reached a $32 million settlement with fox legal analyst lis wiehl in january. >> i've been in the broadcast business for 43 years, 12 different companies. never one time was there any complaint filed against me. >> reporter: one of o'reilly's former colleagues tells a different story. >> o'reilly's suggestion that no one ever complained about his behavior is false. i know because i complained. >> reporter: nbc's megyn kelly said she wrote an e-mail to fox news executives last year, complaining that o'reilly was shaming women to shutting the hell up. >> perhaps he didn't realize the message his criticism sends to young women across this country, how men continue to view the issue of speaking out about sexual harassment. >> reporter: o'reilly spoke to "times" reporters last week before the article of the settlement was published. >> we have physical proof bull [ bleep ]. okay? so, it's on you if you want to destroy my children further

. >> reporter: o'reilly telling the conservative radio host glenn beck the damning reports meant to silence is let's link o'reilly with harvey weinstein. let's make him that. all right, so we take him out of the marketplace forever. he never gets to give his opinion on issues again. >> but it's wiehl who is reportedly sworn to silence. o'reilly reportedly paying out the massive settlement in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement from wiehl in january. >> it's to protect both parties. protect the company from disparaging comments by the employee and also to protect the employee or the former employee from disparaging comments that might be made by ex-boss or supervisor. >> reporter: harvey weinstein's namesake business is taking a hit for settlements requiring a nondisclosure agreement as the accusations of sexual harassment and abuse against the movie mogul pile up with nearly 60 women coming forward. former weinstein assistant zelda perkins telling the "financial times" her boss would ask for massages, walk around naked and try to pull her into his bed. perkins purposely breaking the agre

never anything filed but in his interview with glenn beck today he did acknowledge at least three settlementsng his time at fox. so, you know, i'm not sure how he gets to make that statement, but that's his claim. >> well, we have some sound. you guys recorded the interview. it was an on the record interview. you recorded it. here's some of -- we're going to play it for the audience and maybe that explains what his defense was about why he wanted to settle. take a listen. >> what do the human beings want this is horrible it's horrible what i went through. horrible what my family went through. this is crap and you know it. it's politically and financially motivated. and we can prove it. with shocking information. but i'm not going to sit here in a courtroom for a year and a half and let my kids get beaten up every single day of their lives by a tabloid press sit there and you know it. >> michael, what he implies and i listened to the blog post this morning or the podcast this morning is that the reason he said all this not because they were true, these allegations, but because he didn't want t

. >> and glenn beck used to sell survival cds.d about it -- >> funny, but it's not. >> survival seeds. >> this has been fed to a group of americans now for 30 years. >> yeah. and definitely for a good decade. >> these are the costs. i'm not saying what happened yesterday was the cost. we're talking about the culture in general, why are people running out and buying these guns. >> joining us now from washington, pete williams. pete, where do we stand in the investigation into las vegas? >> we know a lot about what happened, but we don't know why. invest g investigators say they have found nothing to suggest why he went to the hotel. they searched his house in mesquite, nevada. they say that didn't turn up any notes or e-mails or social media postings. nothing to indicate how long ago he developed this plan. they did find more guns in his house. he owned more than 40 weapons. and they did find a substance that's used for making exploding targets for gun practice but no clues about motive. several gun stores in the region in nevada a