amy: we will speak with sarah ellison about roger ailes in the future of fox news. she recently exposed the existence of explosive audiotapes recorded by multiple women in conversation with ailes . all of that and more coming up. , welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. an official from the u.s. secret service has confirmed the agency has spoken t to the trump cacamn about his comments at a rally in wilmington, north carolina on tuesday, which many saw as a call to assassinate his rival hillary clinton. mr. trump: hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment. either way, if she gets to pick -- if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although, the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. amy: the official told cnn the secret service has had multiple conversations with the campaign. donald trump, however, is denying these conversations have taken place with the secret service tweeting -- , "no such meetiting or conversation ever happened." this comes as hillary clin

if you know roger ailes, roger ailes is someone who has advised presidential candidates in their debates going back to richard nixon, ronald reagan, george w. bush. and of course this is something in which he brings a great deal of expertise. the two of them talk frequently, have talked frequently even before roger ailes left fox news. formal debate prep has not

if you know roger ailes, roger ailes is someone who has advised presidential candidates in their debates going back to richard nixon, ronald reagan, george w. bush. and of course this is something in which he brings a great deal of expertise. the two of them talk frequently, have talked frequently even before roger ailes left fox news. formal debate prep has not starreded for donald trump and the trump campaign issued a very forceful denial of this report which originally appeared in the "new york times." that denial if i can just read it to you now, this is not accurate, he is not advising mr. donald trump with debate prep. they are friends, but he has no formal or informal role in the campaign. what we can say is that there is a sort of gray matter there, they are talking, they are discussing the upcoming debates and mr. trump based off the sources we have spoken with finds mr. ailes' advice on that subject to be invaluable. >> whether it's formal or informal, how does that square with the fact that the "new york times" was the first to report? >> it almost seems like too much of a ful

in those roger ailes' campaigns. they used it to try to get their candidate out of participating in too many presidential debates. >> mr. vice president, jimmy carter has called this the worst campaign ever. richard nixon has called it trivial, superficial, and inane. whoever started down this road first, of negative campaigning, the american people from all reports coming to us, are completely fed up. do you have any solutions to suggest, is there time left to fix it? there are 26 days left. for instance, would you agree to another debate before it's all over, so that the american people -- so that the american people would have another chance before election day to compare you two? >> no, i will not agree to another debate. the american people are up to here with debates. they had 30. we had seven. now we got three of them. i am going to carry this election debate all across this country in the last whatever remains of the last three and a half weeks or whatever we have. and the answer is no, i am not going to have

roger ailes is advising trump on debates according to four sources who spoke with "the new york times." ailes resigned from fox last month after sexual allegations from staffers, including a lawsuit that is still ongoing from gretchen carlson. he has denied those allegations. the trump campaign is saying that report that trump and ailes were working together is false. they say they're long time friends, but ailes has no formal or informal role in the campaign. plenty to debate about this. our own chuck todd did ask donald trump about whether the chairman would take a role on trump's campaign. >> finally, roger ailes, is he helping you? is he advising you? >> i don't want to comment, but he's been a friend of mine for a long time. some of the women that are complaining, i know how much he's helped them and even recently. when they write books that are fairly recently released and they say wonderful things about him and all of a sudden they're saying these horrible things about him, it's very sad because he's a very good person. i've always found him to be just a very, very good person

fox news, roger ailes. who allegedly fired gretchen carlson for not having sex with him. s is a tv set blackmailer. anagram it, black lives matter. boom. right there. got to peel the layers. >> larry: book? >> book. >> larry: no boom. you don't have a single shred of proof the u.s. government is behind this game. >> okay, fine. the company behind pokeman go, niantic labs, is run by john hanke, who worked in the u.s. foreign affairs. then started a company called keyhole, funded by the cia's venture capital arm, in-q-tel, funded in turn by the nga. the national geospacial intelligence agency. is that enough proof. >> larry: wait, mike. is all of that true. >> yes, larry. >> larry: i'm sorry. that's actually the most plausible thing you've ever said. wow, the nga. >> uh-huh. and what kinda intel does the nga collect? n.i.g.g.a. whaaat. >> larry: see, mike? you had me. and now you lost me. mike yard, everybody. we'll be right back. heineken light lets you control people's minds. it doesn't do that. award-winning heineken light is the best light beer you've ever tasted. that's

we're talking more than $10 million, some of it possibly to be paid by roger ailes. en carlson may have been recording ailes, may have recorded their conversations to prove that he was sexually harassing her. >> larry: so these reports claim that while ailes was secretly spying on his enemies, carlson may have been secretly spying on ailes? well, it makes sense. there's plenty of room to hide the recording device in roger's jowl pouch. ( laughter ) ( applause ) wait, hold on a second. what happened to that giant shrub? ♪ ♪ anyway, the news for ailes has gotten worse as there continue to be mounting claims about jabba's mounting. >> fox news host andrea tantaros said that she was demoted and taken off the air in april after reporting former network boss roger ailes for sexual harassment. >> larry: okay, so she reported her boss and was fired. so to be clear, as soon as you do real reporting at fox, you don't fit in. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) but fox, obviously, can't admit she was let go because of the allegations, especially because that doesn't jibe with t

roger ailes, roger stone, steve bannon, they play rough. how do you see this evolving for your candidate? >> i mean, i think hillary clinton and her campaign are doing just fine. they're putting actual substantive policy issues out. they're talking about what the american people care about. they're not resorting to smears and out right lies. let's not forget, i think donald trump's current rating for the number of times he has actually managed to tell the truth according to plit fact is still one in five. you know, donald trump, his whole campaign is based on trust, you know. trust me, i know more than the generals about isis. trust me, i'll surround myself with the brightest and best. the guy can't run a campaign. how do we think he'll run a country. >> larry, do you think this new team will make a difference for mr. trump in the polls? >> not really. that's not a cut for example, kellyanne conway. very able political consultant, and pollster. i've known her for years, and and i'm sure she'll add substance to the campaign. however, in the

time for a quick break and much more ahead with the panel including this, is roger ailes getting readyhelp donald trump to the debate stage and is that the best idea given trump's situation with some women voters? ails having to resign from fox news because of a sexual harassment scandal? we'll get into all of that next. . tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum-tum-tum-tum-tums smoothies, only from tums. the tempur-breeze makes me, not cold, but not hot... it's amazing! ah, it's like a summer breeze cracked window. it's that perfect cooling effect when you sleep. i can sleep the way that i sleep, and he sleeps the way that he sleeps, and we don't disrupt each other. yeah, it's just cool, it's great! my tempur-breeze makes me happy. my tempur-breeze makes me happier! (laughs) discover the new tempur-breeze. to sleep happy guaranteed, and zero percent apr financing, visit mattress firm. america's number one tempur-pedic retailer. no... they feel good? you wouldn't put up with part of a pair of glasses. so when

but first, an update on the fallout at fox news, over allegations that its co-founder, roger ailes, sexually harassed women employees for years. ailes resigned in late july with a reported $40 million severance package.e. that, after a lawsuit by former fox anchor gretchen carlson alleged that her show was cancelled because she'd rebuffee sexual advances from ailes. in the following weeks, a growing number of women, including prime time anchor megyn kelly, reportedly came forward with similar stories of impropriety. ailes has called ms. carlson's accusations "false," and an internal investigation by fox's parent company is still underway. for a closer look, not only at this case, but at the wider matter of sexual harassment in the workplace, we turn to sarah ellison, a contributing editor at "vanity fair" who recently reported on the ailes allegations, and shelley ross, a former network television news executive, best known for her 17-year tenure at abc news. she recently wrote about her own professional experiences with roger ailes, and the news business at large, in "the daily beast." and

and handsy sex ogre roger ailes. >> roger ailes will begin advising donald trump, helping him prep for crucial presidential debates. >> larry: that's right. the man just doubled down on creepiness and (bleep)-i-ness! i mean, why would donald trump hire roger ailes, a bloated, egomaniacal, rich, hate-spewing blonde-stalking, misogynistic husk of a human-- wait! who was i talking about again? trump? i got-- ( applause ) i can't remember! i can't remember! but come on. this is terrible for trump whose numbers with women were already awful before he hired this gropey harass-hole. ( laughter ) but these are just unconfirmed report about ailes working for him. i'm sure trump advisor jack kingston is going to deny this association, right? >> brianna, i don't think any campaign is going to tell everything to everybody. they're under no obligation to say who's going to be speech coaches, who's going to be in the back room. >> larry: no! all you needed to say was "roger ailes isn't advising us"! it's an easy answer, and you blew it. it would be like someone asking, "why is the sky blue?" and you

, targeting roger ailes, not the network at all. ion is if the murdochs knew about the spending. did they know what ails was doing with the money at fox news. there was a settlement over one woman charging that he harassed her for a 20-year period. there was a $3 million settlement in that case. we have been asking the murdochs for comment and they haven't commented. >> just remind us, who is investigating what and whom at this point? >> right now there is a law firm brought in call paul weiss. investigating the ailes sexual harassment allegations. with you don't know for example if they are looking into other executives as well. there is widespread speculation there will be a house cleaning inside fox. we know consultants were left go last week. whether is a question if close close to ailes were also let go. i can tell you andrea hasn't been interviewed by investigators yet. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. >> fascinating developments. >>> let's look at our sports lead. now day three of the 2016 summer olympic games in rio. team u

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in reality, roger ailes was fox news so there wasn't sort of a separating out, roger ailes from fox news were one in the same and i think that's why and how something like this happens. >> the question then is, which is what i know a number of people have been wondering, is when you read about these sexual harassment stories that gabe and others have been reporting on and now this black room it makes you think well, how widespread is this? how far back does it go? >> it will be very interesting from a corporate perspective which is how many cases did they sign off on? >> what do you mean "sign off on"? >> were there other cases where they actually paid someone to keep quiet? they paid for a confidentiality agreement. that's something corporate has to have known about. you can say he ran his own budget, yeah, he called it one thing or another when he ran the special room, but when it comes to actual legal settlements, the legal entity there had to know about it, et cetera. and if there were a number of them, we don't know how many, that's what i'm most interested in because that would rea

let me ask about roger ailes.eporting we have, the ousted fox news chief embroiled in allegations of sexual harassment, just the beginning. the report we have is that roger ailes has been talking with donald trump about debate preparation and other campaign matters according to sources to us. who picks the spokesperson for trump says this is not accurate, he is not viadvising mr. trump helping with debate prep. they're long-time friends. he has no formal or informal role. but it does sound like like there has been some communication. obviously mr. ailes has excellent political jobs from nixon, '68, to h.w. bush, vice president, and reagan in those debates. the question is, bad pr move? or brilliant? >> it's not a move. right? the premise -- there is no move. they have known each other for a long time. >> they've been in contact. >> how much they are in personal contact i'm not going to speak to. they've known each other for a long time. mr. ailes is neither a formal or informal part. neither formal nor informal. t

this gets more than just to roger ailes.s accusing others of knowing what was going on. >> i spoke with her attorney last night. he said tantaros went to other executives to report this harassment and her reports were not taken seriously. she's targeting bill shine as well as diane bran any, the head of rn at the company. there have been reports about whether other executives will be embroiled in this scandal. so far fox has said no. they said it's only ailes, it's all about ailes. there's been a drip, drip, drip of other stories now implicating other executives. we should say clearly, shine denines being told by tantaros that he also harassed her. >> there's also talk that there are recordings, laura, when it comes to a case against roger ailes or any other executive or fox, what does the presence of recording do to a lawsuit? >> it's a game-changer. you have an issue where you have proof. sexual harassment claims are very, very difficult to prove. it's usually he said, she said. now you have documentation or proof of an au

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look what he's done. >> it should be no surprise that donald trump has come to the defense of roger ailes. after all, ailes is the man who has shaped the psychology of the american right and profited off of it for 20 years. he's produced its paranoia, cultivated its attacks, ushered in denial of credibility to anyone outside of his world view as the head of fox news and its approach trump has down to a "t." ailes resigned as chairman and ceo of fox news less than two weeks ago receiving a $40 million plus payout amidst what appears to be now an absolute avalanche of allegations of systematic sexual harassment. it all started with a lawsuit formally filed by former fox news anchor gretchen carlson alleging sexual harassment. that prompted an internal investigation and reporting of at least 25 women coming forward to investigators claiming harassment directly from ailes. ailes, we should note, has denied any wrongdoing. the person who has been chronicling and investigating all of the ailes allegations foremost is gabe sherman. his latest piece details allegation of harassment of a former fo

nonetheless, it opens up another lawsuit for roger ailes and fox news. elations about ailes almost every day. sarah ellison reported that two guns were found when his office was cleaned out, ammunition, too. he had opposition researchers who south out dirt about his enemies. here's an example. two years before sherman's book came out, some people working for ailes produced 400 pages of research about the reporter. voter registration information, funny tweets he posted year ago, et cetera, et cetera. it's a small look at how ailes treated his opponent like in a political campaign. read more at cnn.com/media. "state of the union" with jake tapper starts now. >>> mixed signals. >> no path to legalization unless they leave the country and come back. >> did donald trump reverse and re-reverse a key part of his illegal immigration proposal? the cornerstone issue of his entire, unprecedented battering ram of a campaign? we'll ask his running mate governor mike pence where trump stands in an exclusive interview. >>> plus, race and the race. >> hillary clinton is

there has been a lot of questions about roger ailes. the ousted head of fox news and influence within the trump campaign. i want to play sound from kellyanne conway on roger ailes. >> he has no formal or informal role in the campaign. roger ailes is a genius when its comes to television and communicating with people. so is donald trump. >> that was on state of the union yesterday. >> such an interesting answer. she is threading the needle here. she is saying ailes is not giving advice. he is giving advice personally. not the campaign. ailes is not an adviser to the campaign, but to trump directly. he has been in the arena for decades. given the controversy against him and the cloud of scandal that is above him, it would be troubling working for the campaign. threading a feed thneedle. some suggested some improvements to ads. he would know how to craft the perfect donald trump ad. the one he released friday, felt like roger ailes thumb print. >> thank you, brian. thanks for getting up early for us. >>> president obama is back from summer

supported by hotels.com. >>> roger ailes is at the center of yet another sexual harassment claim.rea tantaros says she was taken off the air for complaining about ailes' sexual advances. one employee saying they believe ailes topped their phones and monitored his workers. >> what we're hearing is actually now from as many as six employees, current and former employees is that there was a wide-spread fear within the organization that roger ailes and senior executives at fox news were monitoring their conversations. i want to be clear about this, none of the sources we spoke to had hard evidence that their phones had been tapped, their e-mails were being read. this was a fear that pervaded the entire network. we spoke to talent at fox news, producers at fox news, people throu throughout the organization as well as people who left the organization, all spoke to the same fear, that their e-mails were being read and phones were being monitored. whenever a media reporter like myself or a colleague wanted to get in touch with the network, they always wanted to either meet in person, talk

yes, this is going on sort of for days based on trump's initial comment about his friend roger ailes and about the allegations of sexual harassment against ailes. of course he resigned from the head of fox news amid allegat n allegations he harassed former employ employees. trum said to "the washington post" trying to clean up the controversy, yesterday he said, i think it's got to be up to the individual. it also depends on what's available. there may be be a better alternati alternative. there may not. if there's not a better alternative then you stay. there could be a better alternative where you're taking care of better. donald trump trying to sound practical, pragmatic there. >> and to his credit, i mean, if you're a woman at a place where you are being self sexually harassed he's maybe saying, if you're in a woman do you want to stay, 0 bo i think that's what he was trying so stay. >> talking through the options. that's how it came across. but megyn kelly has weighed in on this and that's notable because she is one of the women who was reportedly harassed by ailes years ago. now

roger ailes. what does that tell you about the campaign? what conclusion can we draw. >> well look, the conspiracy they are setting of a news network. i think it will be pay-per-view. if people get a real latest message that people out there are ready to rise up and revolt against the elites and the democrats and the whole thing, we will see if they are right in the election cycle. but these guys have no moderating effect. >> let me just ask you -- you don't just see roger ailes as a -- you do not dispute that roger ailes is a savvy political operative. so is he not someone to be -- if you were running the clinton campaign, would you not be worried at all? would you not be concerned about roger ailes? on your campaign mechanics? >> i think he is formidable. donald trump has never had a one-on-one debate. debating against 16 people is entirely different but she has debated president obama a number of times. she has had one on ones with bernie sanders. she does fine and debates. i shouldn't say this but you are supposed to temper expectations

so gloria, you have roger ailes helping donald trump.he campaign says he is not doing this formally or informally. multiple sources say it is going on. what is the campaign doing here just denying this is happening when we know it is happening. >> they understand there is a downside to having this sort of publicly known because of what happened with roger ailes. and they know they have a problem with women voters. putting that aside. this has to be a game changer. he helped ronald reagan at one point point. he understands hillary clinton's weaknesses. and he, i believe, could be very valuable to donald trump, and donald trump knows it, right? so they understand the bad pr, i get that, but this is so important to trump that you really can't overstate that. >> so from a purely political point of view, chris, this makes sense? >> he is making the determination that the news will pass and he can get the help that he needs. look at the poll numbers in these states, he needs a big number to turn it around. you can do it in so many ways. he nee

reporter: the accusation against senator brown comes in a sexual harassment lawsuit against fox news, roger ails and several top executives. brown is not named as a defendant but providing alleged

aile was to brian when he made the transition to cnn. >> is roger ailes actively advising donald trump at this point? >> he has no former or informer role with the campaign. but mr. trump speaks to many people. mr. ailes is a genius when it comes to television and communicating with people. so is donald trump. i think what you saw this week is donald trump, the communicator, the connective tissue between him and people taking his case right to the people, and it working. >> kellyanne conway, thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you for having me, dana. >>> coming up, trump's team says he's already preparing for the first debate. how was hillary clinton getting ready for their first showdown? wiback like it could used to? neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena this just got interesting. why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph,

coyou confirm that roger ailes was in the meeting? >> he was not in a meeting where i was present, but roger ailes and donald trump are old friends and their friendship preceded fox news and a presidential run by mr. trump. mr. trump has been a successful businessman in new york. he knows many people and talked to many frequently. on her show where i appeared earlier in the week. who wouldn't want them giving advice and he was remarking how kind and how helpful mr. ailes was making the transition to c in rk nn. >> is roger ailes actively advising donald trump. >> he has no formal or informal role with the campaign, but he is a genius when it comes to television and communicating with people. so is donald trump. what you saw is donald trump the communicator and the connected tissue between him and tissue taking his case to the people and it working. >> thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, trump's team said he is preparing for the first debate. how is hillary clinton getting ready for t

ed: the roger ailes sex scandal. is this fair to the former u.s. senator? will anything be encompassed in best accomplished -- anything be accomplished in congress in the next month? >> it's labor day. do you know where your presidential vote is going? ed: thank you for joining us on this sunday as we head toward fall. our guest this morning's congressman bill keating. he sits on the house homeland security committee. here. ed: you have your summer tan going. janet: we are winding down, but you are about to go back to work. there is a lot of unfinished business in congress. no gun control legislation, supplemental budget in desperate need for zika funding. what is going on with that? version in the house the other day. yet, was not enough money to deal with it. the senate is stalled. i'm always the glass half full kind of person. because of political pressure in florida in particular, you might see final action on this. we wasted too much time. we never should've left without fully funding zika. there's 200 cases in t 512 as of the last week or so, pregnant

i believe that. >> roger ailes giving him advice. donald trump regaling roger ailes and paul manafort and bill gates and his top campaign guys and how he's made fun of disabled reporters and p.o.w.s and gold-star families and how they worked for every dictator and how he's harassed vulnerable young women. what does a pivot mean when you're a man like donald trump? >> kelly, what does a pivot mean because you are a pollster. trump says he doesn't want to pivot and doesn't want to change. that means more of some things that some people in his inner circle really don't want more of. they want some of the thing, but they don't want other things like his fight with the gold-star family and other ing things that have happened all since the convention. >> you have sacrificed nothing. >> i think i've made a lot of sacrifices. i work very, very hard. i've created thousands and thousands of jobs. if you look at his wife, she was standing there and she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> president obama, he is the founder of isis. she ge

i think if roger ailes really is actually consulting with him, the gender gap is going to be even widern some ways, ailes really created the swamp from which donald trump emerged. he really is the one who created the audience for trump the entertainer to become trump the politician. so i would be very surprised if ailes weren't in fact playing quite a big role now that he's been pushed out of fox news. >> charlie, if you were advising donald trump on how to debate hillary clinton, you saw him up there onstage with all the republicans in the primary season. it would be a different dynamic one-on-one against somebody, he would be facing a female opponent one-on-one. what would your advice be to donald trump on how to handle that debate? >> well, first of all, without commenting on the allegations against roger ailes, he's a good man. he was a terrific entrepreneur and pioneer in the television business. he's not involved in the trump campaign, period. they told you that today. everybody ought to accept it. what donald has to do is talk issues. he has to get prepped on the stage to talk ab

and what we've seen of the allegations against roger ailes indicates that if true, he is exactly the mr. ailes more than he values actually considering what would he do in the face of sexual harassment of the kind that roger ailes is accused. >> this question was indeed asked in the context of the accusations against roger ailes which he has denied. we just saw a tweet a little while ago from gretchen carlson who filed a lawsuit in the whole roger ailes situation, sad in 2016, we're still victim-blaming women. trust me, i'm strong. #standwithgretchen. what is the legal responsibility of a business owner if someone comes and says, i've been sexually harassed? >> the legal responsibility is to immediate ligate sexual harassment is a violation of federal law. the legal responsibility is to investigate, to remove the harasser from the workplace, to ensure that the person whose been harassed is able to get back on track with her job. because, you know, quite a few times harassment is really aimed at throwing a woman off her pace. throw herring off and not allowing her to focus mentally and

jim bakker, roger ailes, david axelrod. not worried at all about the fact that someone put aside steve bannon and sean hannity at the moment, are you concerned about roger ailes and his involvement just as a matter of p are campaign mechanics. james: i don't know about. campaign mechanics, i think he is very formidable. alex: what about in the debates? james: i think she's going to do fine in the debates. trump has never had a one-on-one debate. entirelyeople, that is different. she has debated president obama any number of times. she had one-on-one's with bernie sanders. she does fine in debates. i should not say this, but you should tamper expectations down but i expect, her to do great. john: she's going to clean his clock? there's a possibility of about james carville being the stand-in for donald trump during the debate. is there any truth to that? james: there's absolutely no truth and it would be stupid for me to do it and i will tell you why. in order to do this right, takes about 100 hours of prep. you have to sit

would you not be concerned about roger ailes? on your campaign mechanics?> i think he is formidable. donald trump has never had a one-on-one debate. debating against 16 people is entirely different but she has debated president obama a number of times. she has had one on ones with bernie sanders. she does fine and debates. you aren't say this but supposed to temper expectations down but i think she will do great. she will do great. aboutre is a discussion you being the stand-in for the debate. is there truth to that question? no truth. and it would be stupid for me to do that. i'll tell you why. in order to do this right it takes 100 hours of that. you have to sit there and listen to every cancer that donald trump gives. -- every cancer that donald trump gives. there is no way that i will sit down and listen to what hundred hours of tape with donald trump. i don't know what they will be -- again -- it has to be somebody knows every answer to any question he has ever given at the only way you can do that is to go through all of the tapes and all of the quest

tapes multiple women say they have of rogers ailes speaking to them. >> women taping roger ailes whichnic. >> gretchen carlson allegations came out or over the years? >> inning it's over the years. over the years women including gretchen carlson taping roger ailes and that those tapes have become a part of the settlement discussions because you can imagine that there are multiple people who have an interest in not having those come out. i think that's -- that's sort of a focal point, certainly everyone at the company is curious about those tapes, and whenever there are tapes in a situation like this, everyone sort of wonders what's in them. i think that they're talking about an eight figure settlement. gretchen carlson's attorneys say we're still actively litigating this. they won't comment about any kind of settlement talks. there's a lot of different interests at play here. >> sara, i think from the investment point of view we tend to talk about, fox news so important for the overall profitability of 21st century fox and the question i think is, will they find paul weiss, that there

you do that, the economy works, you're elected president of the united states. >> what is roger ailes the campaign. >> roger, the campaign was clear about this yesterday. roger has no role, whether formal or informal whatsoever. >> isn't he talking to donald trump? they just were at a golf course on sunday together? aren't they having meetings? >> i don't know who was at the golf course. i wasn't there. a lot of people play golf. it doesn't mean they're helping the campaign. maybe it was a relationship. look, i think donald trump has had business relationships with, you know, executives in the media industry for 30 years. >> sure, but if roger ailes gives him advice on how to debate, he'll take it. >> that's not what he said. the campaign was very clear on this. mr. ails hes has no formal or informal relationship. >> always a spirited conversation. thank you, gentlemen, very much for being here. let's get to chris. >>> all right, on the other side of the ball, the clinton campaign, congress has the fbi's report to the justice department, explaining why it recommended no charges in hil

one month after roger ailes resign sexually harassed several current and former female employees. today new complaints against ailes and top management at fox news. andrea, a former host of the show "outnumbered," filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit alleging that fox is a sex-fueled playboy mansion type when she complained to the current warned her that ailes is a very powerful man and she needed to let it g. >> these women are brave. >> reporter: she is a manhattan attorney who specializes in sexual harassment cases. she said the suit following earlier accusations from former anchor gretchen others adds weight. >> certainly a victim alone can prevail, but when you have one, two, three, four people coming forward, it certainly adds creditability. >> reporter: the suit accuses host bill o'reilly of inappropriate behavior. she accuses scott brown of making a number of sexually inappropriate comments and putting his hands on her waist. brown who is now a defendant in in fact, former senator brown tweeted that any actions attributed to him in this lawsuit were, quote, fabricated. a spo

. >> let's talk about the other advisors surrounding trump, it's not pretty clear that roger ailes, the ousted fox news ceo is also in trump's inner circle. dana bash asked conway about this, let me play her comment first, take a look. >> is roger ailes actively advising donald trump at this point? >> he obviously has no formal or informal role in the campaign, but mr. trump speaks to many different people. roger ailes is a genius when it comes to television and when it comes to communicating with people, but so is trump. >> she's threading a needle here, saying ailes is advising trump, the man, but not advising the trump campaign. given the controversy about the sexual harassment allegations against ailes? >> i would say that's probably the least of the challenges for the trump campaign. i mean, what trump is doing i think now is surrounding himself with people who have an instinctively and practiced knowledge about how to communicate with a certain part of the republican public. they are good, they're probably the best there are advising on how to connect with his audience, it may be