former fox consultant woody fraser made numerous unwelcome sexual advances on heldman and other womenho appeared on fox news programs. heldman has also accused former fox news personality bill o'reilly of sexist comments and of blacklisting her from the air after she complained. attorney general jeff sessions moved thursday to cut off federal aid to four cities accused by the justice department of failing to turn over jailed immigrants to federal immigration authorities. the move will deny funds from a program combating drug trafficking and gang violence to the cities of baltimore, maryland, albuquerque, new mexico, and the california cities of san bernardino and stockton. sessions' move follows a series of actions taken by the trump administration cracking down on sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities. in los angeles, a elote -- or roasted corn -- street vendor has become a folk hero in the ongoing campaign to legalize street vending for some 50,000 workers in the area, a large majority of whom are latinos and/or immigrants. benjamÍn ramirez filmed hims

joining me, care line heldman who accused bolling of harassment, lisa bloom, civil rights attorney.eport on bolling and the target of this defamation suit. i want to start with you, yashar. you tweeted it is important to note that bolling's sumness comes after me and not huffington post. were you surprised when this lawsuit was filed that it didn't include huffington post? >> i'm not surprised because this is a suit without merit. he's doing this to try to intimidate me. and of course he is not going to include huff post, owned by verizon, multi billion dollar conglomerate with a fleet of lawyers because he knows he would be demolished by them. i'm not going to bow down with him, he is going to have to deal with my lawyer, and he is trying to do this to intimidate, attempt to intimidate a young reporter. >> and the huffington post stood by you, lydia paul green, editor in chief sent out a tweet of her own in which she said yashar ali is a paid freelancer under contract with huffpost. we have no hesitation about standing by him financially in this case. you feel you're fully supporte

joining me, care line heldman who accused bolling of harassment, lisa bloom, civil rights attorney.one, yashar ali, author of the report on bolling and the target of this defamation suit. i want to start with you, yashar. you tweeted it is important to note that bolling's sumness comes after me and not huffington post. were you surprised when this lawsuit was filed that it didn't include huffington post? >> i'm not surprised because this is a suit without merit. he's doing this to try to intimidate me. and of course he is not going to include huff post, owned by verizon, multi billion dollar conglomerate with a fleet of lawyers because he knows he would be demolished by them. i'm not going to bow down with him, he is going to have to deal with my lawyer, and he is trying to do this to intimidate, attempt to intimidate a young reporter. >> and the huffington post stood by you, lydia paul green, editor in chief sent out a tweet of her own in which she said yashar ali is a paid freelancer under contract with huffpost. we have no hesitation about standing by him financially in this case

this weekend, former fox contributor, caroline heldman, accused bolling of sexually harassing her asriting "once, he took me up to his office in new york, showed me his baseball jerseys and, in the brief time i was there, let me know that his office was his favorite place to have sex." and keep in mind, "bolling's office is entirely made up of glass and the view into it is unobstructed." do not bring grandma on the fox news tour. ( laughter ) all right, everybody this way. okay, this way. come on, keep up, everybody. let's go. keep up. okay. "on your left, there's the news desk with bret baier. on your right, you'll see... is someone pressing a shaved squirrel against that glass? oh god!" ( laughter ) shaved squirrel... now, nobody knows how this is going to end -- i know -- ( laughter ) -- but bollino does have a fallback position, telling an interviewer, "when the lights go down on my tv career, the next step is running for senate." so get ready for bolling 2018. though the lawn signs will have to be blurred. ( laughter ) we've got a great show for you tonight. ( band playing ) lau

. >> on facebook page, this one accuser caroline heldman said, my only surprise is that it took so long people to come forward about bolling's behavior for years. in fact, some of his behavior happened on tv. >> we have the bus boycott. this is part of america's fabric. >> one of the senators thinks this is illegal. eric? >> i'm shocked the great dr. macoti said it's the most american thing you can do. >> dr. macoti? >> clearly it seems -- >> no. not okay. >> it seems like he was joking but that doesn't necessarily mean it's okay, right? i think that clip happened when roger el was still at fox, and that may have been more acceptable back in roger el's era. >> what is fox saying now? >> fox is saying they're investigating whether or not he sent these messages. they're not commenting beyond that. of course, bolling is denying this vociferously. but it does sort of speak to the larger culture at fox. you have roger els who was forced out over sexual allegations, you have bill riley who was forced out. you have fox business and eric bolling on suspension as fox investigates allegations. >>

heldman on air.>> boycotts are the most american thing you can do. >> i am shocked the great doctor said it is the most american thing you can do. >> joining me, former fox news guest who is the accuser i was talking about, accusing him of sexual harassment. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. joy. >> can you tell me how far does this daylight back, this kind of treatment of you. played a clip from 2011. did this begin immediately when you were on fox or over time. >> it began immediately. it was part of the culture, part of the environment. i worked at fox from 2008 until 2011 and it was definitely something that was accepted, so i experienced it from three different men, also frequently experienced it from guests that would come into the green room. as i noted on my facebook post, i think a lot of makeup artists, people who can't speak up who would lose their job because they're contract people, they experienced it pretty routinely. as andrea put it, it was the wild west of sexual harassment

judge testified before a judicial -- house judiciary committee meeting, this is former judge michael heldman, he said why are there so many appeals? how many appeals are there? hang on one second. i have that number here. almost all of the cases that are heard at the ij level, overwhelmingly are appealed. that is not the way it works in the federal court and you would sit there and go why is it 99 percent of cases at the trial level that are. -- that are appealed to the bia? that's because there's no cost to the illegal aliens. the filing fee is very low to file an appeal. it's $110 according to the judge's testimony before the house judiciary committee. however in the majority cases , that fee is waived by the justice department and the bia. second, the alien is in charge for copies of the record or for copy of the transcripts. all of these costs are paid for by the department of justice, and that means american taxpayers. so american taxpayers are , subsidizing the appeals costs of all of these cases, something that doesn't happen in an -- if an ordinary u.s. citizen is involved in a feder

testified before a judicial house judiciary committee meeting, this is judge, former judge michael heldman, he said why are there so many appeals? how many appeals are there? hang on one second. i had that number here. almost all of the cases that are heard at the ij level, overwhelmingly are appealed. that is not the way it works in the federal court and you would see that what is it 99% of cases at, from the trial level are appealed? that's because there's no cost to the illegal aliens. the filing fee is very low to file an appeal, it's $110 according to the judge's testimony before the house judiciary committee. however, the majority, in the majority cases that fee is waived by the justice department and the bia. second, the alien is in charge for copies of the record or for copy of the transcripts. all of these costs are paid for by the department of justice, and that means american taxpayers. so american taxpayers are subsidizing the appeals costs of all of these cases, something that doesn't happen in an ordinary u.s. citizen is involved in a federal lawsuit against the federal gover