is jeff zucker watching any of this?ur guest tonight, i am not attacking jim acosta for bad punditry -- although that is bad punditry -- i'm kind of wondering what the boundaries are. if you are a white house correspondent supposedly committing journalism, gathering facts, bringing them to your audience, how can that person coexist with the person we just saw? >> it cannot, tucker. as far as reporters are concerned, you can say jim acosta is the face of the anti-trump movement. that is fine if he is an activist or even an opinion host like yourself. the problem is, as you've noted, he is a senior white house correspondent from one of the largest news organizations in the world, and what that does to cnn, by extension, fairly or not, because there are plenty of good report is over there, it's labeled us on an objective news outlet that reports not the facts but as the opposition party. if you talk to folks within the administration, and i have, and you ask them, are jim acosta's day-to-day antics in terms of making himsel

jeff zucker over at cnn was the executive producer of "the today show" for many years.ccessful. and he had a ver terse statement through a spokesperson that there was never a complaint filed against him during his time there. >> the complaint part might be true it certainly raises a lot of questions about who at nbc management knew about this. nbc, laura, tried to seize the moral high ground by saying we fired matt lauer as soon as we got this complaint 36 hours. it's true nbc took swift action. clearly this was a preemptive move before the variety piece comes out with allegations about him giving a sex toy to a coworker. exposing himself. >> laura: there is a photo apparently that they have now. >> pretty graphic stuff. and a "new york times" piece talks about a woman who said she did have sex in 2001 with matt laura that she felt pressured to save her job. nbc tried to control the narrative by not giving much detail that shows that these allegations have been out there for some time. >> laura: just going back to jeff zucker though it reminds me of what we were hearing

idid find down, the jeff zuckers of the world.ings in ten years, i am not a cnn employee. all those people who hate cnn or whatever, i worked there one night a year. and i got fired. here is what i see is a paradox... you should see what happens when i tried to get a raise. i dare say many people watching this will have been there themselves. i dare say many people watching this will have been there themselveslj will have been there themselves.” just want women to know, when cheryl sandberg says lingy and, in my case i fell sandberg says lingy and, in my case ifell on my face sandberg says lingy and, in my case i fell on my face and broke the nose. to her. —— says lean in. i fell on my face and broke the nose. to her. -- says lean in. why do you continue, clearly, to have this drive and ambition to make it in showbiz? you have made it, you have 12 emmys. but you got so fired up have 12 emmys. but you got so fired up by have 12 emmys. but you got so fired up by the fact that cnn fired you... no, the cnn thing... let me finish the q

liz: do you believe jeff zucker. >> not for a moment. people can decide for themselves. don't believe him. zucker was a guy always in the newsroom, always around. was well-connected with talent, and producers and intimately involved. if everybody else knew but zucker didn't, come on? liz: we have bill clinton accuser juanita broaddrick weighing in about lauer's firing. andy lack fired matt lauer. why ask andy lack still at nbc. his actions delaying my interview until after impeachment hearings of bill clinton is disgraceful. how much scrutiny is andy lack now. >> the point is well-taken. not just bearing the buries juanita broaddrick interview but killing the harvey weinstein story. oppenheimer or andy lack, both decided not to run it. why? were they covering up for weinstein because oppenheim is sometime hollywood screenwriter? because they feared information would come out about matt lauer? we don't know. but it was an awful thing to have killed that story and ronan farrow ran across the street to the new yorker. this is important. you have plenty of evidence here. they

cnn president jeff zucker have been enraged by that charge and have sought to undermine her credibilitys a result. what does she have to say in response? donna brazile joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> hey, what a great honor to be with you tonight after the democrats did so well across the country yesterday. i'm excited to be here, excited about what happened in virginia and new jersey, and excited to talk to you about my new book. let me say this. >> tucker: [laughs] let me ask a question. congratulation on on your party success last night. >> thank you. >> tucker: i've been watching because i've known you a long time and i've watched to work for more than 20 years, and i'm watching people who know you well, journalists and democratic party officials, go after you, and the one thing i noticed is that the attacks all sound the same. my guess, and i want to ask you as a professional political person, it seems obvious that there was coordination, that someone is doing oppo on you in response to your book. who you think that is? >> i don't really have time to figure out who is sp

and he thinks jeff zucker has like turned on him or is not doing the right thing by him. this whip hand against cnn because of the at&t/time warner merger. this tweeting is going to hurt that effort. that is to say, we already have judges establishing the precep that his tweets can be used as evidence in legal proceedings. i don't think there's any way that this merger doesn't go through as a result of these tweets, by the way. but it won't be the last. i mean, it's not that he'll have any modalities in which to attack the press, he already said during the modalities to attack during the press. he said in the campaign, toughen laws -- there are no federal libel laws. he doesn't make laws anyway, but -- >> stop it. >> you see the balance. the drama that he is a -- he's a melodramatic figure a tv actor and is creating a constant melodrama, soap opera, between him and the bad guy. >> and always needs a foil. the proceed always wants a foil. great for him with the media, highly unpopular and not fighting back. passive/aggressive remarks from "time" but not a full fledge punch

there's a lot of people in the philippines, major market miss jeff zucker should be proud, got -- i wouldike to hear from jeff zooker, keeps his head down. >> he does his work quietly. >> dow took out yesterday's lows by the way >> indeed, russell is now 4% off the october high. >> we're getting into the correction territory for that and i think people should understand that this is a very widespread correction transports are down, a lot of commodities are down, starting to get to these let's say territotiary teh names and amazon, lowers prices -- you know, kroger -- i have been watching kroger thinking maybe they are going to make a comeback, the country's largest grocer, no. no. >> how is ge doing today >> 1776 was -- >> isn't that when the company was started? they are always talking about how old it is. did anybody watch bob wright yesterday? >> we have sound cut i don't know if it's available right now. >> if we have that. >> essentially said one of the most difficult days of his professional life, watching the share price hit these levels, obviously knowing how much bob must own of

so much and it was jeff zucker who understood the appeal of trump to the american public to the american public this is the former producer of trump's apprentice which introduced trump to a national audience now he was the c.e.o. of c.n.n. and he was going to pump trump up and then as soon as trump gets elected c.n.n. decides we're going to tear him down and appeal to this resistance crowd which represents everything to the left of the far right trump including you know neo conservatives were never trump republicans they had a big audience jake tapper who does the primetime show for c.n.n. his ratings are up fifty three percent because he's pushing that resistance model of just anything anti trump while promoting war and rachel maddow is a really fascinating character i mean this is someone who you know i personally almost have a seizure every time i watch or just her it's just very difficult case that equally the audio it's really hard for me to tolerate watching her but a lot of people i think from an older demographic baby boomers they really enjoy her right now but if you actually lo

jeff zucker, the former president and ceo of nbc universal, who led "the today show" when he was just 26, had this to say. >> obviously, i've known matt for 25 years and i didn't know this matt. >> reporter: and nbc's current management doubled down, releasing a statement unequivocally denying any prior knowledge of complaints about matt lauer's conduct. but "variety" magazine is questioning the validity of that statement. >> it is at odds with our reporting. we had talked to dozens of former and current staffers who say that there was general knowledge within all ranks of nbc between staffers, high ranking executives, other anchors that were on air with matt knowing, detailing, speaking about what matt was doing pursuing women. >> you wish me well. >> oh, boy, do we. >> reporter: matt lauer's firing also bringing the tearful departure of ann curry back into the headlines. curry now breaking her silence on lauer's firing, telling "people m "people" magazine she is "still processing it", adding, "the women's movement got us into the workplace, but it didn't make us safe once we got the

the people who kept me down, the jeff zuckers of the world. that sob.e. all those people who hate cnn or whatever — i worked there one night a year. what do i get for it? and i got fired. here is what i see as a paradox... you should see what happened when i tried to get a raise. well... i daresay many people watching this will have been there themselves. we can all relate to that. i just want women to know, when cheryl sandberg says "lean in," in my case i fell on my face and broke the nose. soi so i leaned in and i gota so i leaned in and i got a bloody face for it. why do you continue, clearly, to have this drive and ambition to make it in showbiz? you have made it, you have won two emmys. but you got so fired up by the fact that cnn fired you... no, the cnn thing... let me finish the question. you hate showbiz in so many ways. how dare you, i love it! you have talked about a business that has, over time, it encouraged, if not forced you to get cosmetic surgery, to get so sick with different forms of losing weight because of a particular way they wan

spoken to her -- the reason i'm asking is every democrat i know, theso professional democrats from jeff zuckerall the way to and all the people you've worked with over the years, all seem mad, and i knowwor the clintonse in that group, have they complained to you or people you know? what is the response you are getting? >> first of all, let me just say this, last week i reached out to as many clinton staffers as possible to let them know that my book was finally coming out, excerpts. i didn't have to do that. i also flew down to washington, d.c., to inform my colleagues at the dnc, again, i didn't have to do that. i am a democrat, a lifelong a democrat, and if they choose not to read the book, or they decide to write their own book, i hope they will do that. tucker, i read hillary's book, "what happened." it's a great book because it's historical, biographical, and also, as a woman who has been very, very active in politics, i thought she really examined some of the reasons why she fell short, so i suggest for those who are upset, or not capable of stomaching my book, write their own book. i w

one former boss, now president of cnn, jeff zucker who was vp of the today show from 1992 to 2000 said there was never a complaint about matt, there was never a suggestion of that kind of behavior. there was never even a whisper of it. but many now say lauer's bad behavior was well known around the office and the women who -- the woman who went to hr this week reportedly an intern when she was sent to the winter olympics in 2014 and said lauer began harassing her there. she showed allegedly nbc text messages and photos including one that reportedly left the network no option but to fire him. in a statement, lauer said to the people i have hurt, i am truly sorry and writing this, i realize the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and nbc. some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. sandra, those two words were also used by al franken during his apology earlier this week. >> sandra: interesting similarity. rick, thank you. now to capitol hill, where even

jeff zucker, now president of cnn has known lauer for 25 years. he says he didn't know this match, calling the allegations incredibly disturbing and heartbreaking. "there was never a complaint about matt, there was never a suggestion of deviant or predatory behavior, there was never even a whisper of it. several women state that his behavior was inappropriate. giving another woman a sex toy with a note suggesting how she should use it. the woman who went to hr this week was a young intern, who says he began an inappropriate relationship that continued on their return to new york. she supposedly provided nbc with multiple pieces of evidence including a photo that apparently gave them no choice but to fire him. in a statement, lauer said "to the people i have her, i am truly sorry. i realize the depth of the damage and disappointed i left behind at home and in nbc. some of what is being said about me is untrue and mischaracterized but there is enough truth to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. he said that repairing the damage is now his full-tim

the next day, which was last friday, cnn chief jeff zucker held a conference call with some of his seniorff. he had seen brazile's piece and according to a very good source was "fuming and enraged. brazile is a liar, he said, and suggested that cnn's news show should demonstrate that she has. at least one participant on the cult described plans to have her on cnn and in fact cnn producers did try to book donna brazile. so far she has not appeared on the network. that is all factual. we'll wait cnn's denial of any of it. donna will appear on this show tomorrow night. greenwald has been covering the handling of the brazile story over the intercept and he joins us tonight. i'm not a democrat so i can approach this in a pretty nonemotional way, but i'm watching people cover the story by contrast very emotionally, and it feels like they've got a vested interest in a certain story line. you know much more about this, you wrote a great piece. tell us what's going on here. >> they have a massive vested interest. any of these journalist who pretend to be neutral but are actually loyal to the democ

because he has an immense animus for jeff zucker and cnn.he wants to make them twist and to put them in limbo would be the biggest thing in the world -- liz: could randall stephenson of at&t drop it on a matter of principle? he sounds very unhappy. >> he sounds like he's going to go forward with it -- liz: well, go forward with the lawsuit, but -- >> i just don't see them doing this. i can conjure up any reason -- listen, if the irs wants to investigate anybody, they can find something to ding you for tax fraud. i mean, you know, give me your receipts for all i those newspaper subscriptions you say. [laughter] the trump administration -- you know what i'm saying? the trump administration can make a case that this is anti-competitive, here's why, too much concentration, and we're going to -- liz: can't he make a case to a judge that it's all political? >> and by the way, they're going to be in court for a long time. now, the question is while you're in court, what happens to the business, you know? you're supposed to be -- i mean, the whole c

happened a long time ago, frankly i was well aware of, not that it matters, jared kushner calling up jeff zuckerelling him runs cnn, i can't use what they actually said on tv we're a family show. >> like arthur blank -- >> zucker doesn't like to be told what or that he can do. and he knows the president well, don't forget, very well. >> very true you know, david, on the other side of entertainment, i did not get to talk to you, i like the disney quarter. >> you did >> yes i did. >> why >> because i think this bam tech offering for those of us who like sports, is kind of like individualized sports, going to be very, very significant for people i know that they've been able to shift what people talk about when it comes to disney. that's what i've been waiting for. this was a call about how all of the other properties are doing so well. we have so much cash flow. that was one of my big takeaways, they bought so much stock, the star wars franchise is great, many reasons why they are correct to be up and the number was really obscured by hurricanes but i did think this company has the wherewithal to

jeff zucker, former head of nbc-universal said business insider conference, i have known matt for 25 years. i have never known this matt. there was never a complaint against matt. there was never suggestion of any kind of deviant or predatory behavior. there was never even a whisper of it. neil? neil: tracee, thank you very, very much. they're looking at this in washington as well. remember in washington they have things a little differently. in corporate america you can just fling someone out if you don't like what they're doing or even hinting at but it is quite a bit different right now when in washington where they have a system set up, that will involve hearings, payments, checks all of that stuff. a lot of people had no idea existed. patrice lee is with us, independent women's forum senior policy analyst. the first thing that comes up with all of these cases as they're planning now and more and more hearings into all these varies issues among republicans and democrats, patrice is, this payment system they have had established that cost already north of $15 million. the big diff

they're so busy looking at jeff zucker he's involved. >> yes, he is. he is. >> will he be deposed?. >> me either >> why wouldn't you? >> i don't know. i don't know anything. >> they have already deposed plenty of witnesses. >> we missed a lot because this is a market where a lot of stocks are going up and people are yawning. who cares? paypal up again. who cares? up $2. geez, i care i care >> vix is back below 10. less than a point away from a record on the s&p. >> i got to do all the cleaning and all the cooking. and it's just a nightmare. just a nightmare let's get this day over with, get the leftovers. >> this is the best holiday there is come on. >> the best unless you have to cook i want to eat. i don't want to cook >> all right >> the best holiday and the best pie is - >> pumpkin pie >> of course >> made with libby's hey, by the way. she says to me, should we make the cranberry? no, we get the canned cranberry. we slice orange. remember your roots. remember your roots. and with the onions, the dried onions for the string bean ca cassero casserole. remember your roots. and non

you ran cnn once jeff zucker runs it now.the president well. >> yes, he does. >> they work closely together. >> helped make him who he is today. >> he did. >> and is running cnn well. >> do you buckle in some way or a new corporate parent in at&t, do you think that that raises concerns, as well given they've certainly put on notice they do complete this deal, that well, you know, it could be they're watching very closely. >> cnn is one of the crown jewels of time warner. it was always treated that way you'd be surprised if new owners would somehow want to damage the brand by reining it in any way they've said they have no intention of doing that. you know, the proof will be in the pudding. but i don't know any journalist or news executive most of whom have been journalist who's would tolerate much interference from the corporate level. >> jon, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> jon klein joining us. >> roku a big story. take a look at the stock this morning up 30% in the premarket and still has a gain of now 48%. the comp

it goes back -- he feels bet trayed by cnn president jeff zucker who had his biggest success while herentice, he doesn't understand why his friend has turned on him. i think that that's at the core. >> that may be difficult to prove and the justice department may have been dealt a bit of a blow by randall stephenson coming out saying i never offered to give this up and i'm not negotiating. >> i don't know why this deal can't go through no one has presented that rational for me. do you think this winds fwhup court or will the justice department have to back-pedal? >> they'll have to back-pedal or it will end up in court, there's no question. >> this sounds sort of like a media reporter's take on -- it's sexier and more interesting but like someone that follows it from the business angle would find -- i think it would be hard to make the case that the justice department is going to do something based on the president's personal feelings -- >> the president -- this presidents does what he says he's going to do he said during the campaign i'm not going to let this go through. at the same

no u he's got the job and he's agreeing with trump and it's basically trump doesn't like jeff zuckerthe merger shouldn't go through. >> mike lupica and margaret carlson, thank you both. >>> from star trek to the simpson's, a lot of attempts to humanize the almighty. >> bruce, i'm god. >> not what you expected, huh? i picked a look you could understand. >> oh, don't gravel. one thing i can't stand is people gofling. >> excuse me. i'd like to ask a question. what does god need with a starship. >> sometimes even i'd rather be watching football. >> there's a deeper discussion, people, about the human compulsion to fashion god in our own image. it's the subject of a compellin. joe and mika talk to the author next on "morning joe." [ keyboard clacking ] [ click ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ clacking continues ] good questions lead to good answers. our advisors can help you find both. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. yours. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constit