roger ailes is never elected to anything but goes on to become the president of fox news. and by the way, works on a bunch of other republican presidential campaigns in the meantime -- >> including h.w. bush. >> exactly. helps get other republican presidents elected. the ailes legacy is so much bigger than the nixon legacy, and we live with it today. but nixon himself is a far more interesting character than i could possibly have thought when i was a high school kid. as is nelson rockefeller who's one of his competitors in this story. the first fifth avenue billionaire to decide he's going to run for president as a republican, but he's running as a liberal republican -- something that no longer exists. and in this book, we see literally, literally the last liberal standing on a republican convention stage. and that is the liberal mayor of new york, republican john lindsay, who has to go up on that stage as part of the nominating process for the vice president, something he was hoping maybe he could get himself. and lindsay not only doesn't get it, but we now know -- we did

but in the mid-90s, a man by the name of roger ailes watched it... and he saw greatness.nd he reached out and said, [as ailes] "come join me at fox, o'reilly, "and together we will build a cable empire "fueled by white christian resentment. "and then, as our master stroke, "we will both be forced to leave "because we couldn't keep our penises "in our white christian pants. allegedly." bill o'reilly talked about a lot of issues over 20 years. but it's important tonight to remember that he had a special place in his heart for black people-- prison. - with african-american youth-- - but how are you gonna get jobs for them, and many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads. - there's an outreach-- i don't even know what that means-- by the obama administration to african-americans. - right. - what does that entail? are they gonna be on "soul train"? slaves did participate in the construction of the white house. slaves that worked there were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government. say you're a cocaine dealer-- and you kinda look like on

she also is very complimentary of roger ailes so all these bad things that were said about roger is allenerated in the media. he was not a bad guy. he had issues, yes and i don't know what happened but in life he gave a lot of money and he was very very religious. everything i know, everything i know for a fact about roger was very positive and very nice and very good. and i know you have heard it and read it and i get people to say this, o'reilly is gone and it's just a matter of time now. i've heard rush say rogers out and there's a new direction. they are not fair and balanced and people made a big deal about that. where is fox going? are you concerned about it? the ratings are fine right now and it's at the same product that we are accustomed to watching? >> a very interesting question because i don't know if there is an editorial directional change. that's something beyond my pay grade and that's something where mr. murdoch resides. i don't know if they are trying to move into the center. i have never ever been told to tone it down and in fact on the new 5:00 special and more conse

so roger ailes has a new issue. and with his to say i want five people and used to be a broadway producer with that broadway production i want somebody like the girl next door i need somebody freddie. kind of like foster brooks type of character may be even bob beckel. [laughter] it was july 11 to launch the big boys show and this is not going anywhere. this is a true story but once in awhile favoring some stuff out right in the middle of the studio. and then there are the cheers from the studio audience. from his old table that would be the set for the summer. but it never went away. and then say duplicated the exact same thing. >> bob would away for a while. >> and then came back. >> if you talk about the wave day put that together it was like that. so if you extract somebody like that don't forget. >> the go to different elections or primaries if you remove them from the family there is a voice so when he came back i will be august i think he was two years. because we had some very hefty political storms. and jok

does he continue to sort of settle scores or is his ambition to be roger ailes? i think it's both.hink he wants to settle scores but if he focuses too much on settling scores his ambition to be roger ailes will be hurt by that. i will be curious to see and watch. if he wants to b can use breitbart. >> we saw a shift in the tone with the president how he responded yesterday with the boston protests. as the debate unfolds over whether or not we should confront or ignore these racists groups, are you finding this is going to be a big conversation, something that we have to talk about? >> look, it's big enough that we decided it was necessary. this anti-fascist, it's a movement that is older than folks may realize but they are a advocating confronting these folks with violence, and hitler was only stopped with violence and not anything else. but veterans of the civil rights movement will tell you, no, violence would have been a setback and andrew young, who is also on the show, he was no there were plenty of folks in the civil rights are not here today and it was their own hate was his

this goes back to the culture roger ailes built from the top down, and allegations that have come outnd, long time friend and colleague woody fraser, a former fox executive told me that around the office, ailes would joke that woody was a quote, walking lawsuit. we have roger making light of the fact that woody fraser's reputation and behavior, alleged behavior toward women was such that it was opening him up to litigation, and he even promoted him. i can empathize for those that worked at fox in this impossible position of wanting to pursue their career but understanding the culture would not tolerate them speaking up. >> is this only coming forward because of the merger, that there's a desire to merge the company and that now they have to clean this out? do you get the sense that's the reason we hear this stuff come out? >> if this is them cleaning it out, what took them so long. what are the murdocks afraid of. dozens of women talking about harassment, being afraid to be in a room alone with him with a door shut. why haven't they cleaned house? what is it that they're promoting peo

by the same law firm, i looked into all the harassment allegations against roger ails.s contributor rod wheeler was defamed back in may. they said that the trump white house knew about the story and there's even a suggestion that the president wrote a draft in advance. allard darcy is hire to talk about what that all meant. wheeler was a former white house detective. and he was hired to investigate seth rich's murder. who is seth rich? >> seth rich was a democratic staffer who was shot to death on the street. right when he was shot to death, there were these conspiracy theories saying that he was the one who leaked thousands of documents to wikileaks. >> that wasn't russian hackers, that it was this disgruntled staffer. >> what happened was the story died down and fox news ran a story back in may which claimed to show evidence that they had a federal investigator who had been told that the fbi looked into this and there was evidence that he leaked the documents. >> what we didn't know at the time, was that fox news story was later retracted and discredited. wheeler was

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been a series of lawsuits, some of which are still pending against the network, against the late roger ailes against some of the executives who were there at the time, some who are still there. i don't think donald trump went on the campaign trail to say i want to loosen the libel laws, i want to take it to the press as way of punishing fox news, which has turned out to be one of his strongest corners of support as his public popularity has eroded. >> david, thank for being here. >> you bet. >> prae breaking news on reliab reliablesources.com. logon for my story about rupert murdoch and president trump, a private dinner they had earlier this month, intriguing because murdoch's "wall street journal" wooj is becoming increasingly critical of the president. details on reliablesources.com. >>> up next, the president unleashing a war of words this week against north korea. is the press taking his bluster too seriously? we'll talk about it. ♪ we live like no one's watching, ♪ laugh like there's no tomorrow... ♪ ...and welcome you... ...to do the same. ♪ the u.s. virgin islands. i found the perfect

and nobody understood that better than roger ailes and donald trump. fox news, there wasn't this massive conservative media complex. and they were much more united around the sense that they were on the outside and had to get on the inside in order to blow up this media accomplishment that was oppressing their thoughts. and their beliefs. now, donald trump may speak for some conservatives, but he isn't a unifying a movement or the party. how far he can ride it to reelection, i don't know. >> listen, donald trump is not conservative in the least, and john hylman, you see it in the twitter feed, in your twitter feed every day. that conservative thought leaders that have always been conservative thought leaders now actually more than ever are rising up and pointing out day in and day out how donald trump is not a conservative. so there isn't really a changing face of conservatism. if you see what jonah gold berg says or david frercnch or rich lowry, or you see what bill crystal says. you can go down the list. charles drought hammer. you look at what they

change instituted the night before or the boss is foul mood there is crisscrossed the rudy guiliani roger ailes and paul metaphor and his deputy jared was not there they were nodding -- on the yacht. but trump and who was doing over chaos in the campaign exploded how can they be allowed an article that says your campaign is all left up? i will solve sensor -- sells sensor. he was the angry that his aides we're going on television in the effort to reach him. if you have to go on to television to talk to me? and my baby to you? mia be effing baby? the room fell silent the was hardly the last time he lost his temper and while demoted he was not fired but now there was a bigger problem to worry about. paul headed home to the condominium on his desk was of a printout of an article set to run the next morning that explained how the ukrainian government anti-corruption team discovered a secret hand written letter of $12.7 million of previously undisclosed from a russian political party. although the times reported he was pressing him for weeks for comment pauls comment advised -- lawyer at the vice mc

mainstream channels but all the cable channels have become thoroughly politicized and in effect roger ailes said listen we've got m.s.n. b.c. on the left we've got c.n.n. out there there's going to be a market for right wing news and so i would much rather have seen mainstream channels that opened a genuine debate from both sides but that's not the america we live in now what went wrong bill. i think what went wrong with the health care bill is that the republicans did not actually expect hillary to lose i didn't expect hillary to lose and so they really didn't do the kind of work not only the intellectual work but also the political work of solidifying their majority and realizing listen we actually are going to have an opportunity to really do this whole health care thing which admittedly hasn't worked out all that well and so the republicans were caught unprepared. but remember the replacing repealing and replacing would be show easy it will be done with no problem that well i don't think that's right and i think in a way you could say that maybe did not anticipate that when you have a f

the roger ails who arguably fought certainly the late roger ails founder of fox news, thought he sort more of a player in the american political world and perhaps from the outside is just as much of an agitator of sorts to some of the conventional republicans here in washington. maybe more so. and so that's going to be fascinating to watch over the next month. >> let me bring in kristen welker for a second. is there a sense that you have -- because there's a republican establishment that still holds much power in washington and much sway even in the white house. is this part of that sense of we're trying to bring order to this presidency? and this is a move that we can help facilitate that in the end of the day maybe the optics are not good for a moment for the president or maybe for some of his followers but for our agenda to get done or accomplished or even the president's that we can do this now with this particular person out of the picture? >> i think that is absolutely a key part of this decision by general john kelly and by president trump. remember, president trump really cut

shame on me that i didn't get it adequately and you will show the week also mentioned the book with roger ailes where he wrote this scathing exposÉ and nowhere in there did he mention the rampant allegations of sexual harassment. while it wasn' that wasn't rampt allegations of news core or fox news. it was we later learned all the settlements of sexual-harassment and the terms of which had been that those people didn't talk about it services of reporting. >> my issue is you couldn't cover fox news without knowing his reputation. did you know about this stuff and not write about it or feel it was nothing or was it an issue of covering silicon valley people turn a blind eye to some really serious things? which you didn't reference with silicon valley venture capitalists don't care anything about it except getting the payoff essentially. >> i interviewed women on the record in the book. i interviewed women off the record for this book and this subject didn't come up so if you are asking if i didn't know, i didn't know. and so if you want to say why are yowere you looking around f, why didn't you p

first the head of the network roger ailes and bill o'reilly who denied claims against him and eric bollinglleged texting of inappropriate images of several years ago. >> we will see where that goes. i want to talk about something else we are hearing from the president via his official statements. now praising the attorney general jeff sessions after a couple of weeks going after him. >> yes. this is very significant. the president on twitter for the first time in many weeks, offering public support, some praise for his attorney general. this after weeks of speculation that maybe sessions was about to lose his job. so here is the tweet last night saying the following. the president must have watched sessions press event on friday when session promised a crackdown on leakers in the government. he said leak investigations have tripled under the trump administration. so far we have only seen one prosecution we are aware of an alleged leaker a reality winter. but sessions is vowing further action perhaps, also targeting journalists, as well as the leakers who sent information to journalists. th

it didn't happen in the past few months in the wake of roger ailes at that scandal. why now?" was able to write about it. fox is taking this behavior in the workplace seriously because it seems for many years they didn't. change in tone by fox here. >> brian stelter, thank you. don't forget his show tomorrow "reliable sources" tomorrow on cnn. >>> coming up, as president trump begins his summer break, the drip, drip, drip follows him. we'll tell you why former national security adviser michael flynn is back in the headlines. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." with avocado, olive and shea oils. it nourishes hair to boost color. from dull brown to our bluest black. nutrisse ultra color. nourished hair. bolder color. mikboth served in the navy.s, i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had usaa for a while, why don't we call and check the rates? it was an instant savings and i shou

carlson, alleging she, too, had been sexually harassed by the former ceo of fox news, the late roger ailes. >> yeah, it turns out there was more than just gretchen carlson. so i wish that we had all reached out to each other. that's the lesson. there's strength in numbers. you don't have to suffer in silence. >> in amanda wakes up, allison's alter ego amanda covers the presidential election, frequently interviewing a trump like candidate naks victor fluke. >> the person i channeled when writing this character of victor fluke, i had in my mind burt reynolds because she's actually sort of a formerly macho tv star, now somewhat past his prime and making this presidential run. >> and this may not be the last we hear from amanda gallo. revealing there is talk of a potential movie deal. and possibly more books. >> i do feel like i have a couple more stories to tell. and some day when i find the time, maybe i'll be able to do those. >> all right, time to get you caught up on the other stars making headlines this week. here's this weekend's -- >> the official kickoff to the emmys and just a month

fox star accused of harassment and improper behavior, whether that was the head of the network, roger ailes this time last year or bill o'reilly in the spring. there's another fox anchor, charles pane who was suspended because of the harassment allegations. >> are these allegations just bubbling to the surface? sounds like he's accused of doing this years ago. >> yes, according to the "huffington post," the number of women at fox news who received these inappropriate messages and pictures from bolling, the difference now is the news outlaw fou outlet writing about it. >> before i let you go, i want tog to get your reaction to the new "newsweek" cover. the picture speaks more than the words really. he's in a lazy boy recliner. in the past six months he's passed little major legislation when it comes to his big agenda that he promised the american people. instead spending time this weekend on the golf course. and he's gone to many of his golf course on the weekends. >> "newsweek" being deliberately provocative here trying to get attention, but definitely getting attention. they make a point t

bannon seems to have the ambitions of roger ails. he wants to be the media mogul, how it's portrayed in america at least as far as the media is concerned. i have to tell you, sometimes i read these statements and sometimes i think he has a major ickerous complex. >> chuck todd. thank you very much. we'll be watching this morning as chuck focuses on the state of the nation. >>> some other headlines this morning, tragic news out of florida where a second police officer has died after he was shot during a suspected ambush in kissimmee. sergeant sam howard died on friday succumbing to the injuries. >>> police in spain are still looking for at least three people believed to be involved in the terror attacks in barcelona and cambrils. one of them a 22-year-old who was the suspected driver of a van that drove into the crowd at barcelona's las ramblas killing 13 people, injuring 100. among the dead jared tucker of california. his wife, hidei nunes spoke exclusively to nbc news. >> i -- i don't want to wake up without his next to me. and i do

steve bannon does fashion himself as a roger ailes like figure.guess is that's his ambition. >> i think that's his examination. and i think while joel was talking about whether or not he trusts the president i started just scrolling through breitbart and the headlines were welcome to bannon the bar bare yon, is trump arnold scharts neglecter 2.0. this idea is bannon is out and now he'll be more powerful than ever. gearing up for what will essentially be a war from outside. he saw him as an embodiedment of all the people that i interviewed while on the campaign trail that really expected donald trump to make concrete decisions about what he promised them. and i don't think donald trump really understands the pressure that he's going to be under now that steve bannon is out of the white house. >> john. >> no question about it and i do think that quality is part of why bannon and charlottesville are connected, even if his departure, his firing was not linked to that. the views that those marchers hold, the alt-right, breitbart's audience, trump base,

bannon seems to have the ambitions of roger ailes, that he wants to be the media mogul that defines whatservatism, how it is portrayed in america at least as far as the media's concerned. we'll see how he does with that. i have to tell you, sometimes i read these statements and i think he's got a majoricer us problem. >> he's expecting big things from his senior adviser. >> chuck todd, we'll be watching this morning as chuck focuses on the state of the nation after charlottesville. among his guests, civil rights icon andrew un morning. tragic news out of florida where a second police officer has died after he was shot during a suspected ambush in kissimmee. sergeant sam howard died on saturday succumbing from the injuries he suffered friday night. officer matthew baxter was also killed. both men were fathers. police arresteded a former marine, everett miller and charged him with first-degree murder. >>> police in spain are looking for at least three people believed to be involved in the terror attacks in barcelona and cambrils. one of them, a 22-year-old, the suspected driver of the van

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there's a long tradition of that, the late roger ailes did it all the time.e ran fox news before he was pushed out in the sexual harassment scandal. rupert murdoch has run media companies. as sort of his portfolio he's advised presidents throughout the world, australia, britain and the united states. he had a relationship with reagan. it is no surprise whatsoever that he is advising trump. the intensity of the relationship as glenn and maggie have reported. is a touch surprising to me, it's just -- it's a weekly thing apparently. i think glenn would know better about that, but it's a very intense relationship and considering all that rupert murdoch has at stake in this particular administration, it's one that we can spend hours talking about. there's a justice department investigation. which is rupert murdoch's crown jewel in the united states. and rupert murdoch has a tremendous stake in whatever media deregulation takes place at the fcc. this is a tremendously fraught relationship. it's also fraught in the sense that reporters for the wall street journal, n

such charges have ousted fox news host bill o'reilly and founder roger ailes, with while the singer knowns kesha has been continually rejected repeatedly lost her attempts to end her contract with a former producer whom she says sexually assaulted her. with an estimated two out of three of all sexual assault cases still going unreported, swift says she hopes to give a voice to "those who feel silenced by sexual assault," and plans to donate to groups that help victims. i'm now joined by maya raghu, senior counsel at the national women's law center, where she focuses on women's issues in the workplace, including sexual harassment. and judy vredenburgh. she is president and c.e.o. of girls inc, an advocacy group that works to equip girls to navigate gender, economic and social barriers in life. ladies, thanks to both of you for join us tonight. maya, i want the start with you. let's talk about our justice system. this was a victory for swift today, but what do we know about any shift in judges and juries in how they look at most victims or most people who bring claims of sexual assault in c

the right, although i wouldn't rule out work -- trying to build a new tv network which is what roger ailes wanted to do with bannon before he died. so trump gets access to this, to the extent that they're printed out and shown to him and there are fewer people frankly that are going to do that and john kelly is now taking charge of the paper flow to donald trump. it used to be that, you know, omarosa could wander in -- it was free-for-all. people would take articles to trump and that's not going to happen anymore. >> phil rucker, i'll let you have the last word in this segment. one, i want to know if you can sort of put this in the contest of general kelly's body of work for the two weeks. these have been some pretty dramatic fridays for the white house. i believe spicer was out on a friday. if not fired on a friday. scaramucci's fate was sealed on a friday when that article came out. reince priebus was fired on a friday, so talk to me about friday, bloody fridays in the trump white house and talk to me about whether it's overly optimistic once again to project on to this white house the n

and josh green's excellent book he talks about bannon having conversations with roger ailes and rupertkind of interactions are standard for this white house and the larger context important to understand is this president and his staff have been relentless -- relentless, in fact sarah was blasting the press for the russia obsession. they had been relentless us of accusing us of being light on hillary clinton or colluding with the democrats. the coordination that's occurred and it's documented over and over again is between the white house, fox news, where they had the interactions and the president tweets every single morning about "fox & friends" and breitbart or over conservative news organizations including sinclair media with whom jared kushner cut a deal. i think that's the dominant news story, sort of the news politics nexus story that people need to focus on and i think example of coordination. >> let me bring in someone to help me unravel the legal side of this story. joining us is carry core der oh, former associate general counsel for the officials of the director of national

in terms of roger ailes, incidentally, i agree with you. i've had a lot of people say the same thing to me, they lost family members of the years because their fathers or mothers or their ons or uncles -- aunts or uncles watched the television all day long and became increasingly angry and bitter and unable to talk to their friends and relatives anymore. i think the way we consume media now, and i think fox is a pioneer of this, has made it impossible for people with political differences to be friends. that's really a shame. when i grew up, i can't remember it mattering what a person's political opinions were and now it means everything, and that's just a weird thing. it's really strange. >> host: did the "rolling stone" assign you the financial beat or did you ask to cover that for many years? >> guest: i believe what happened with jon is after the presidential election of 2008 -- i'd covered that -- they assigned me -- it was jon and me editor at the time, will dana and they assigned me aig and that was difficult because i had to underst

at the landscape and i look at fox news trying to figure out exactly what it's going to be after roger ailesd start a conservative populist network and i mean, the money there would be outrageous. if you do it right. if you do it wrong, you're bankrupt, but the opportunities there are just extraordinary. >> there are two metrics, one is commercial success, more eyeballs and the other is more influence. breitbart was influential before bannon left and influential in his absence. he has the capacity using the experience he gained in the white house, he understands more about the world than he did nine months ago to increase their influence and their influence in the offices of house republican members is bigger on many days than fox news is. >> i would be surprised if he and the mercers weren't trying to figure out a way to start a tv network that competes with fox. we'll see. >>> still ahead, two scathing columns from the op-ed page of the "new york times." we'll read what maureen dowd and frank brooney had to say and "the washington post's" bob costa latest reporting on what we can expect fr