>> woodruff: thank you, michael schmidt, and noreen farrell.appreciate it. >> thank >> woodruff: democrats came close, but republicans managed to avoid a potentially brutal loss in georgia for now, forcing a runoff in a closely watched special congressional election. >> this is already a victory for the ages. >> woodruff: 30-year-old democrat jon ossoff fell just short of an outright win in tuesday's crowded special election. but by capturing 48% of the vote, the filmmaker and former congressional aide easily outpaced the other 17 candidates. >> we've defied the odds, shattered expectations. we will be ready to fight on and win in june. >> woodruff: the seat in atlanta's suburbs came open when tom price was tapped by president trump to his cabinet. no democrat has won here since 1979. and now, ossoff faces a runoff against karen handel, a former georgia secretary of state, and the top republican with 20% of the vote. >> on june 20, we keep the 6th district red and kick a little ossoff. >> woodruff: handel never mentioned president trump last ni

to help us catch up on all this, i am joined by michael schmidt, who reported on this for the "new york times;" and noreen farrell, she's the executive director of the civil rights organization, equal rights advocates. we welcome both of you to the "newshour." willie leemichael schmidt, to y. >> we're up to 14 advertisers. mercedes was the first to go. we're up to 14. fox itself put out a statement saying it's trying to assuage the concerns of its advertisers and the ads have been moved to other shows on the network. they haven't said anything else since our story came out on saturday. >> woodruff: what are the advertisers saying? are they explaining? >> they're not really explaining. they're saying women's issues are very important to us and we need to send this message to our clients, to our customers, and to our employees. but besides that, they don't really want the wade into it. for mercedes, it was a way of getting attention on this issue. they certainly have been praised a lot by groups that are calling for mr. o'reilly's ouster. >> woodruff: and fox news channel you're saying in

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it's up to three dozen. >> michael schmidt, lisa bloom, thanks for being with us.

joining me now, michael schmidt, coauthor of the "new york times" piece. ichael, let me start th you. there has been reporting in the past. i want to be clear about what's new here. there's been reporting of settlements that have been public. there are current lawsuits outstanding. but there are new things that you and your colleagues found in this article previously unreported. >> we reported on five settlements. two of the five have been already out there. one in 2004 and one we reported on in january. we brought three new settlements to light. we told windy walsh's story. we also explained the story of andrea tan tar ross in her piece. allegations that were later backed up by her psychologist who testified under oath that she told her that these things had gone on from mr. o'reilly. >> explain what her position is. it is interesting she decided she's not filing a lawsuit. she's potentially just coming forward to talk about what happened. >> right. intrepid "new york times" reporters apparently went through old tapes of fox news shows. they looked for wom

calling elections i don't think is on their job description. >> michael schmidt, congratulations on thisi don't know anybody that wasn't talking about this story this week. unbelievable researched and written. congratulations. >> michael, thank you. >> your editors took shoo give you like an ice cream cone or something. >> free subscription. >> free subscription to the "times." mark halperin, you were very critical of comey, for good reason. there's so many times where comey's defenders would say, what other choice did he have? he had a chose to act like former fbi directors. either indict her, which i and 55% of americans believe she should have been indicted. but if you're not going to indict her, treat her like everybody else and don't hold a long press conference. and also, if you're worried about hillary clinton winning, you've got donald trump whose people are being investigated for ties to russia during the campaign and you keep that under your hat? yet you're going public with hillary's investigation? how is that not tipping the scales in one candidate's direction. >> he deviated

michael schmidt of the "new york times" who wrote that piece. now with a foreign policy research. thank you. michael, democrats around me, when i talk to them, comey, they say 11 days before the election he changed everything. it was a game changer. she was winning in all the polls. suddenly for 11 days people are thinking what's the fbi got and all the sleez of anthony and all the bad stuff came flowing in and all of this i hear like, i hate hillary. i hate hillary. >> what happened at the fbi is that comey thought if they didn't tell congress, that -- and hillary won, they would be accused of suppressing this information and not telling them about this. what happened is comey told congress the investigation was over. he testified under oath. he said it was done and he said, i have to go back to congress and i have to tell them that we are looking at this stuff again. the fbi thought they had found the holy grail in the e-mail investigation, which was e-mails from the first three months that she was in the state department. they had never found those e-mails they thought they foun

me first are the two reporters who broke this story, emily steel in new york and in washington michael schmidt. they co-by lined the story. and also matthew garahan broke some news this week about fox about the mourdock empire. so thank you all for being here today. emily, let me start with you on the broad strokes of this story here. you have a very detailed story that i believe you've been working on for many months. can you tell me how this story came about? >> this story came about, we were in the middle of the scandal with roger ales last summer and we thought that we shouldn't start looking into what else was happening at the network. there was this case of andrea makris that happened in 2004 where she sued him for sexual harassment. and we were curious to look what was happening there. in the course of our reporting we found that there were other settlements and other women who had made allegations against bill o'reilly. >> makris was the not secret settlement. $9 million back in 2004. you're saying there were $4 million worth of other settlements that were made more privately. >> right

joining me is michael schmidt who co-wrote the bombshell report on all of the settlements paid and my, joe walsh and jason johnson. michael, you have been on this story from the beginning. tomorrow bill o'reilly's fate is going to be discussed and it is a regularly scheduled board meeting. what are you learning about his future? >> well, when our story came out two and a half weeks ago, the murdochs were standing by mr. o'reilly. that support appears to have eroded. the question is how much. and how much is rupert murdoch willing to continue to fight for mr. o'reilly and keep him there. the problem is, is that it's really begun to impact the bottom line. 50 advertisers have left his show. that's an incredibly important hour to the network. and there's some thought they can keep him there because he has such high ratings that he brings in other viewers for other shows, but at the same time can you run a network at 8:00 at night that has less than ten ads. >> is this about generations within the murdochs? rupert murdoch's sons, the next generation, they have to think about the future of

let's go to michael schmidt on this. you brought the story on the front page of your paper. 50 interviews, i remember reading. a big jump. a lot of words, a lot of information. it is interesting that after all the news that we've had about o'reilly over the last several years, all the stories about accusations and settlements and blah, blah, blah, what do you think kicked it over this time? what made it happen this time? >> i think the difference here was that they brought in paul weiss, this outside law firm, to look into these accusations. >> like they did with -- >> like they did with ailes. when they did that with ailes over the summer, they just kept the investigation on ailes. they didn't want it to go any broader than that. what happens here is they bring paul weiss back in. they start looking at these accusations and they start kicking up things and they see there's some real validity to it. the thing that doesn't make sense is everything we wrote in our story, fox had known for many months. so it wasn't really n

. >> michael schmidt, lisa bloom, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that closes out this hour for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow afternoon 3:00 eastern, noon pacific. always find me in the meantime on snapchat, twitter, instagram, facebook, all that stuff. tv kate snow. up next, my colleague steve kornacki. >> thanks for that. good afternoon, everybody, i'm steve kornacki.76 of the first . topping our agenda, the crisis in syria. >> the world is a mess. i inherited a mess. >> president trump casting blame at his predecessor for that apparent deadly chemical attack in syria, but also saying that the crisis is now in his hands and suggesting he may be willing do reverse his foreign policy to address it. >>> also on our agenda, what is going on with steve bannon? >> my hope is that he would have no role in government at all. that he would be completely out. >> a potentially major shakeup here, steve bannon now off the national security council. is this part of the normal growing pains for the new administration or are

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. >> what my colleagues michael schmidt and emily steel reported they had come forward. last month fox news said thigh had cleaned house. >> but they've known about these charges. >> as recently as yesterday another woman went on the record to say bill o'reilly had made a comment about her showing more cleve language, had tried to sleep with her, et cetera, cetera. we don't know what will come out. >> you don't think this is the end of the story. >> there's been a pretty steady stream of women coming out of fox since last summer talking about offensive things that both roger ailes and bill o'reilly have said and done. >> do you think this story both in terms of roger ailes and bill o'reilly will somehow change the client in which the institution of harass mchlt goes >> i think it's changed. there's a much clearer definition than there used to be. 20 years ago, 30 years ago, the anita hill instance, they would say, oh, it's the workplace, you should brush it off. there's usually a common definition of what's right and wrong. >> what do you make of bill o'reilly's comment?

. >> well, what my colleague, micha micha michael schmidt and emily steals were reporting women were continuing to come forward. last summer fox said it cleaned house, solved the problems, committed to different culture. >> they've known about these charges. >> and as recently as yesterday another woman went on the record to say that bill o'reilly had made a comment about her showing more cleavage, tried to sleep with her, et cetera. we don't know what will come out in the future. >> you don't think this is the end of the story? >> there's been a pretty steady stream of women coming out of fox since last summer talking about a sense of things that both roger ailes and bill o'reilly have said and done. >> do you think that this story, both in terms of roger ailes and bill o'reilly, will somehow change the climate in which their institution that harassment goes on and when they are not reported? >> i think it's really clear that work place culture has changed, that there's a much clearer definition than there used to be. 20 years ago, 30 years ago, during the anita hill scandal a lot o

schmidt did 30 years ago today. >> here's the stretch by robinson. the three-zero pitch. swing and a long drive. there it is. number 500. the career 500 homerun for michael have regained the lead at pittsburgh. eight-sick. >> shout out to schmidt. >> good golfer, too. that does it for us. >> live mega millions lottery drawing is next. see you at 11:00. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase allergy relief delivers more complete relief. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. flonase is an allergy nasal spray that works even beyond the nose. so you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. flonase. 6>1 changes everything. you're not taking these. hey, hey, hey! you're not taking those. whoa, whoa! you're not taking that. come with me. you're not taking that. you're not taking that. you're not taking that. mom, i'm taking the subaru. don't be late. even when we're not there to keep them safe, our subaru outback will be. (vo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. hi hey i'll take one of those new fast play games.

. >> steve schmidt, because life imitates art, there's a scene in the american president where michael douglas, playing the fictional president, is being told that an air strike against a radar installation is proportional and it's presidential. and he chooses to think about the guy who is coming on the night shift as part of a cleaning crew and how he's going to lose his life in this presidential air strike. well, the same thing happened tonight, obviously, as these two u.s. navy vessels opened up their tubes and shot off 59 cruise missiles. what in your view, looking at all of it, what happen tonight? >> well, i think it bears mentioning, brian, that today marks the 100th anniversary of america's entry into the first world war. that was the war where we understood for the first time the horror of these types of weapons, of chemical weapons. so we've seen a couple of thing. we've seen wild inconsistency from the administration with regard to syria policy, including the announcement earlier in the week before the attack that it was no longer the policy of the united states to seek regi

schmidt, fox news. >>> forget about man's best friend. a pet cat in texas has quite the gift. 17-year-old michael a diabetic says his cat patches right therelood sugar is too low. the cat has been doing this for years. >> aww. >> animals have very advanced or factory system. this or factory sense can sense many hormonal changes in the human body. >> in isn't that amazing. dogs can pick up on these hormonal changes. this is the first documented case for a cat. you saw the two of them together there. the doctor says he's so convin convinced plans on presents patch's story as a case study at an international conference. >> i wrote up a story on facebook about my cat henry robert who saved our family because he smelled noxious fumes die not smell and he herded us out of the house. >> i need a pet like that. mine doesn't tell me when he needs to go to the bathroom. >> new research shows team trauma as a teen can increase the risk of depression during menopause. >> quite the find. here's dr. oz with more. ♪ >>> women who never had depression before more than twice as likely to suffer from it as they enter menopause. now a new study has found wha