bill o'reilly and sean hannity and megyn kelly. >> there is the upside of this ailes was a guru and heake past personalities like bill o'reilly and reinvent them as the avatar of the working man's right. the downside of that is that ailes required ultimate loyalty from his talent, and it really cult ofld -- a personality. culture oflly this silence that he created that unfortunately led to this pervasive culture of harassment that we only saw come to the public fore after gretchen carlson's lawsuit. i mean, to me -- charlie: he was feeling all powerful? i can do what i want? ofi mean, this was a pattern behavior, unfortunately, that happened throughout his career. i interviewed women on the record who recounted these experiences and you could argue it is a different era, mad men, 1960's era, where public policy in a workplace was different. he thought he was all-powerful, and to me, it is a story of a man consumed by ambition and ofating a cult personality affects where he thought he was untouchable. roger ailes even stood up to rupert murdoch's children. with them. clashed rupert cite

there were timeslots taken by megyn kelly, at 9:00 after bill o'reilly, and he stayed in the later partber that was a big deal. so how does this sort of position him now? how does he feel about the situation? how does he re-tool his presentation to become the fox news bedrock as you say? >> part of it is fox news is fortunate to have him because he has this incredibly close relationship to donald trump, which goes back to last year. he was one of the first conservative commentators to jump on the trump bandwagon. he was really supportive of trump and gave trump had a lot of air time, had trump town trump.lls with trump basically lived on his show. and even when trump was struggling and it looked like trump was going to perhaps lose, hannity never wavered. he really hammered other conservatives who were kind of waffling a little bit about whether they were going to back trump. i think trump has respected the loyalty and given back to hannity. he gave hannity the first cable news interview after he became president. he has given six of his first tv eight tv interviews on fox news. that is

then when trump's feud with megyn kelly lead to death threats, michael cohen reportedly brushed them>> michael cohen, who is trump's top lawyer and an executive vice president with the trump organization, had re-tweeted, let's gut her about me at a time when the threat level was very high, which he knew. and bill schein, an executive vice president at fox, called him up to say you've got to stop this. we understand you're angry, but she's got three little kids. she's walking around new york, really. and he didn't much care. and what bill schein said to michael cohen was let me put it to you in terms you can understand. if megyn kelly gets killed, it's not going to help your candidate. >> michael cohen then went on to claim on twitter that gut meant, quote, to make something no longer effective. then most recently and perhaps most eyebrow raising given current news is that according to "the new york times," michael cohen hand-delivered a russia-ukraine peace plan that would have ended sanctions against russia. it was drawn up by a russian american businessman and a ukrainian lawmaker,

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. >> she's starting a new chapter, we're going to tell you megyn kelly had to say about inviting her arch enemy on her new show as a guest. >>> this kept me up at nights. i pace up and down the streets of washington, dc, will making again kelly and president trump ever get along? despite the past >> they're working it out >> kelly is ready to sit down with president trump. the new nbc star told people she would definitely like to interview president on her new show. she did confirm interviews with vladimir putin, and fox sports host erin an dress >> dealing with cancer, going through what she went through. >> this story just broke a little bit ago. will or won't former vice president joe biden played down speculation he might run for president in 2020 but he's apparently making no he'll remain in the political arena. while it doesn't mean he'll run in 2020 keeps the door open with the 74-year-old former vice president aspires to. " -- harvey: the kathy griffin photo has attracted the attention of the united states secret service. >> i talked to somebody there yesterday. they're looki

that picture out which referred to an exchange between donald trump and former fox news anchor megyn kellyarless girls statue near wall street had a little unwanted company. a new york artist placed a peeing pug statue next to the girl before real moving it a few hours later. the artist behind the pug statue said it was meant to be intrusive in the same way he thinks the girl's statue is intruding otter tour of the bull statue she faces down. >> the phillies wrap up their series with the marlins in miami this afternoon. aaron nola will be on the mound. vince velasquez left last night's game in the second inning because of a right elbow flexor strain. the pitcher heads to the disabled list. the phillies went on to lose yet another game, this one, seven-two. >> i know i'm normally a very big fan of soup. >> you are. big soup man. >> not this kind. >> no thanks. but yes, we are seeing a bunch of soup, a bunch of fog out there this morning, misty conditions. as we look live in wynnefield city avenue at conshohocken avenue not seeing a lot of traffic yet here at this intersection. during the mi

megyn kelly want that too?. >> what do you know? >> there have been positive tests and suspensions and there's been a lot of reporting from credible sources about the existence of drugs in the sport and the question is how prevalent and how effve and it's interesting to look at the testing of other sports where this has been an issue lie cycling and baseball and lance armstrong used to say i'm to most tested athlete on the planet. i've about been tested a thousand times but that's meaningless because he knew how to beat the test. then you flash forward a little bit. he says, yes, i was using it all these years but it wasn't cheating. was leveling the playing field. >> in this particular book you nam the names of real tennis players and you've implied they use performance-enhancing drugses. can you co'do that? if you were writing about tv anchors and you said norah o'donnell is an alcoholic or gayle king or megyn kelly, could you get in trouble for using their names? it's fiction but there is lots of speculation

the center of sexual harassment allegations from fox news anchors including gretchen carlson and megyn kellyd last summer. following his death, president bush tweeted, "he wasn't perfect but he was my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent, loyal help. rest in peace." after roger ailes left fox briefly to assist donald trump in debate prep against hillary clinton. a spokeswoman for trump called the two long-time friends. josh haskell. scott: did you encourage him to back down on the investigation into michael flynn? >> no. next question. michelle: a blunt denial as abc news pushes the president for answers. his reaction to the special council investigating the campaign. jonathan: plus, pure chaos as a car plows in a crowd at times square. the driver led away in handcuffs. what happened moments before and after the crash. >> it was going westbound in the lane of traffic. it was out of control. >> a survivor tells his story at "abc7 news at 6:00" from the devastating crash. 6:00". on your side. jonathan: a busy day of news today. first, though, a

and new video, megyn kelly's take on the front page scandal.merican idol secrets as abc going after kelly clarkson and john legend as judges? >> would you consider being a judge on american idol? >>> dance mom abby lee miller fighting back tears as she faces going to prison for fraud. >> you tried to hide $755,000. >> tracy morgan back and badder

megyn kelly host of her own show went on the record stating ailes had engaged in the same behavior with her. fox news firing ailes and even after his departure the culture of fox news called into question. bill o'reilly forced to resign after accusations of sexual harassment. ailes a medium maverick earning his reputation early on. serving also as a debate coach including to the current president donald trump who always considered him a close friend and defended him until the end. ailes wife released this statement. we want to read a portion. it writes i am profoundly sad and heart broken to report my husband roger ailes passed away this morning surrounded by his family. roger was the most wonderful loving husband and father to our son. condolences. including sean hannity. his cause of death unknown. roger ailes robin was 77 years old. >> tom, thank you very much. a very busy thursday morning and that other huge headline overnight. former fbi director robert mueller is investigating the trump campaign. >> from the capital to the stock exchange, a lot of people have their eyes on wall st

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united states by behaving this way, where everyone told me that you can't say this stuff about megyn kellysay this stuff about john mccain and i am who i am and i'm not going to change. it's worked out pretty well for him so far. >>> coming up the president's threat about the possibility of taped conversations, this is the first time we have heart about white house recording, of course. but take a look at how the white house has ran those recordings and why that was shut down. and we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything. anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues. take phillips' colon health probiotic caps daily with three types of good bacteria. 400 likes? wow! try phillips' colon health. brtr

july after he was accused of sexual harassment by more than 20 women, including fox news anchors megyn kelly, andrea tantaros, and gretchen carlson. fox ultimately paid out $45 million to settle the claims. ailes began his career as a republican party operative as a consultant for president richard nixon. over the decades, he advised other republican presidents including ronald reagan, george h.w. bush and donald trump. , trp has called ailes a frnd a hasefended ailes after the harassment allegations. back in washington, the fcc voted 2-1 thursday, along political party lines, to begin a ocess to rlaceet neutrality rules that were adopted in 2015 to keep the internet open and prevent corporate service providers from blocking access to websites, slowing down content or , providing paid fast lanes for internet service. in response, free press president craig aaron warned the proposal would take away the rights of internet users, saying -- "the federal courts rejected this kind of approach twice when the fcc tried it before." meanwhile, an award-winning reporter is speaking out after he was att

he resigned from fox news in july, accused of sexual harassment by more than 20 women, including megyn kellyhen carlson, and fox ultimately paid out $45 million to settle the claims. as the republican party operative advising many action. spike lee. aahhh! no one's gonna say, "we're gonna take a chance on you." i never thought that would happen. so out of frustration, i wrote "reservoir dogs." hollywood is not very alluring to me. i am not susceptible to swimming pools and porsches. i got a '79 chevy. it's runnin' good. i'm a film outlaw, and i think that's a good thing to be.

sean hannity, shepard smith, bill o'reilly, megyn kelly, neil kabuto, bret baier, martha martha maccallum. the evening shows were built on the views of the mostly conservative hosts but plenty of democrats have found a home at fox as well, including geraldo rivera, juan williams, bob beckel, leslie marshall, ailes was a conservative but those responsible for news coverage were encouraged to play it straight, as on the eve of the 2000 election. >> rogers interest, is it right? are we sure the sources good? are we sure the facts are accurate? after that, there was never a moment's hesitation about whether we should do the story or not, even though it had the potential to derail busch's candidacy. >> fox news ratings climbed. coverage of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, by the end, fox news fox news became everyone in cable news and has remained so ever since. there has always been as scrappy atmosphere. a sense that the work here is a privilege to be enjoyed. >> i tell people, if you're not having any fun, go home. go home. you are irritating me. >> roger never forgot where he came from.

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of the united states by bafrg in way where everyone told me that you can't say this stuff about megyn kellycan't say this stuff about john mccain. and i am who "i" not changing. it's worked out pretty well. >> professor good to have you jeff toobin as well the president's threat about possibility of taped conversation or threat or comment isn't the first time we've heard about white house recordings take a look at how former presidents ran the tape recorders and when and why that was shut down next. from your ph. a few weeks ago, you still didn't know if you were gonna go. now the only thing you don't know, is why it took you so long to come here. expedia. everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. >>> as we've been reporting the cht of the united states has threatened to fired fisher director with possible tapes of ard rowing many something a source tells comey is not worried about if they exist. this is the nirs time secret recordings have been a parts of history. it's a first time the specter of tapes has been raised on twitter. brian todd has more. >> former white hous

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obviously, fox news has while during the campaign, you know, there were some folks at fox news, megyn kelly, who is tough with donald trump, critical of donald trump, maik maybe tucker karlsson until he got his own show, it seems they're now fully on board on the trump train. >> i think rupert murdock has a habit when he gets behind someone being all in. you are seeing that now. i do think there are a lot of good straight news reporters at fox news, there are people who are not sort of appear to be pushing if one direction. absolutely, chris wallace and trump interviews. i do think on the whole you are seeing tonally supportive day in, day out, of the president unquestioning of whether his some of his agenda is meeting what it says it is or whether they are forthright with the facts. >> you three this is appropriate? >> i think as jeffrey said it is not illegal. it's not something i can think offian one else doing. it is, it raises questions about the appearance and it is the question you asked, this i don't know how different this is from the loretta lynch meeting with bill clinton on an a

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john mccain, you know, i don't like prisoners who get captured and he said terrible things about megyn kellyshook our heads and said this is it. he can't recover from this. you know, this is bad. there is no doubt that this is a very bad story. sure looks to me like obstruction of justice, but the forces of of political griffith have not brought down donald trump yet, and i think, you know, we are very wise not to count him out regardless of what seems like very big problems. >> that's a good point he makes. he survived that "access hollywood" video as we all remember as well. everybody stand by. an important note. tune in later tonight for a cnn special report "white house in crisis." that's at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. coming cup, more on the breaking news. plus, new revelations about fired fbi director james comey's attempts to distance himself from the president. i have age-related maculare degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision

the center of sexual harassment allegations from fox news anchors including gretchen carlson and megyn kellyd last summer. following his death president george h.w. bush tweeted, he wasn't tweeted, but roger ailes was my friend and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his great talent, loyal help. rest in peace. after roger ailes left fox news, he returned to politics briefly to assist donald trump in debate prep against hillary clinton. a spokeswoman for trump called the two long-time friends. josh haskell, abc news, new york. >> the coroner in detroit ruled cornell's death a suicide. ♪ >> cornell's body was found in a hotel room following this concert with sound garden last night in detroit. cornell and the band burst onto the rock scene in the early '90s, part of the seattle grunge phenomenon. he fronted the band's temple of the dog and released several solo albums. chris cornell was 52. and we have the gallery of photos of both roger ailes and chris cornell on abc7news.com. >> today marks the five-year anniversary of facebook's ipo and you recall it didn't go quite a

the picture with the caption that referred to the exchange of donald trump and fox news anchor megyn kellyre learning new details about tiger woods memorial day arrest much. his car was running and had two flat tires. woods underwent back surgery in april and told police he takes multiple prescription drugs including vicodin. he agreed to me at a breathalyzer which showed no alcohol. inn his system. woods released a statement saying he didn't realize the medications had affected him so strongly. >> ♪ >> in today's tech bytes milestone for amazon and perhaps soon its founder jeff bezos. >> for a brief time amazon shares were above $1,000 for the first time and that took bezos on track to become the world's richest man. >> the government is forcing amazon to pay $70 million back to parents who's kids made in app purchases without permission. >> eligible customers should have received an e-mail from amazon. and google is revealing which words people most frequently look up thousand spell. >> they break it down by state and including in new mexico where they search how to spell banana the most

going to take a big, big wildfire for the advertising boycott to affect them, meaning fox, so after megyn kelly, bill o'reilly and bill bickle was fired this weekend. >> the worst problem for them are the ratings. we have had how many years of number one fox dominates now we have got a situation where fox is third in the demographics and they have had this massive turnover in their primetime lineups. i think this ratings business is a real problem. here's the danger, the only thing fox has going for it right now is they think to be the place, if you voted for trump and you want to see positive cover raage coverage, you turn to them. if this president goes down in flames, what's left at fox right now? i really think it is a dangerous time. for years i would call them up with stories and i would say this is really bad journalistically, and they would go, the ratings are great, everybody loves us. now they can't explain their journalism away because they have great ratings, they don't have them anymore. that's the thing that has to be frightening t frightening. >> their prime time lineup doesn't a

they wanted, certainly james and laughlin tried very, very hard to keep megyn kelly who was one of theirrs. they failed to do that largely because of the way that she -- well for a variety of reasons, but she also was feuding with bill o'reilly who was in fact the network's biggest star who left in his own sexual harassment scandal not long ago. so i think that they do have an idea of what they want the place to be but they're not stupid enough to want to change the market position of what their father created with roger ailes. and so i think they're stuck a little bit. they want to have a culture change. yes they are, i've heard they are sort of embarrassed by some of what is on fox news. they certainly don't have the same kind of relationship that their father did with the talent at fox news but they also want the profits. they don't want to drive the company that they inherited from their father into the ground and fox news is a big part of that, possibly a bigger part of that than they would like it to be. certainly this is a distraction from other things they want to get done like t

. >> reporter: megyn kelly. greta van susteren and top boss roger ailes.hake-up in the executive ranks. in an internal memo rupert murdoch announcing fox news co-president bill shine resigned. shine, one of roger ailes' top lieutenants helped build the network from day one overseeing fox's fiery talent. so close to sean hannity the host tweeted his strong support last week responding to rumors shine could be the next casualty of the network's growing sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit scandals writing, i pray this is not true because if it is, that's the total end of the fox news channel as we know it. >> those are fighting words from hannity and i would not be surprised if he negotiated his exit over the next week or so. >> reporter: but shine has been characterized as an enabler by those who complained of a culture at fox news that allegedly includes sexism, racism and misogyny named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit against fox news and roger ailes and others filed by former host andrea tantaros where she called the network a sex-f

eamost experienced bapoliticians and t first question in front of the 20-30 hillian people and megyn kelly says, this is the first question -- million -- you referred to women as fat slobs and pigs. he doesn't hesitate a second. he said that was just rosie o'donnel and i said this guy is a fighter and somebody we want. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. .... >> next on "after words" pulitzer prize winning journalist helene cooper reports on the life and presidency of library is first elected female president in her book "madame president: the extraordinary journey of ellen johnson sirleaf."