fonda's famous marriage to cnn founder ted turner coincided with a break from acting, but she came backh a bang, most recently starring in the netflix hit "grace and frankie." and in "our souls at night," she reunites with actor robert redford. she is indeed hollywood royalty, and she joined me in the studio just as one of the biggest stories of the year was breaking, the sexual harassment of dozens of actresses by the mega-producer harvey weinstein. joining me now, jane fonda. >> so good to see you again. >> well, welcome to the program. you are really, i want to say, in the full flush of youth. you are doing new films. they're being critically celebrated. what made you want to do a love story now? [ laughs ] >> well, you know, old people can fall in love, too, especially [chuckles] when it's my pal robert redford. he bought the book "our souls at night" by kent haruf. it's a wonderful story, and he was smart enough to ask me to be in it with him -- smart because, you know, we have such a long history. this is the fourth movie we've done together, and this is about two old people in a

in fact, i think ted turner worked really hard at cnn to make us stay factual at the time. likewise, sinclair at the top, the conservative who does head sinclair has not interfered with my program. i've had no interference compared to cnn's -- i'm sorry, cbs toward the end had a great deal of interference. it's been a freshness that i can't describe to be able to go into another independent program that doesn't try to shape the news and put out narratives. these are legitimate questions to be asked. i certainly don't blame people for saying, gosh, sinclair is own by a conservative guy, what does that do for your news, but i would say in fairness, liberal networks send out one-sided information that are seen by more people than the sinclair station. you have to dig in and wonder why only one station owner is getting all this press on comedy talk shows and on capitol hill when the others have existed in that same bailiwick for so long kind of unquestioningly, at least by the same people. >> host: who is the owner of sinclair? what's his name? >> guest: david smith. he's proba

cnn started by ted turner became successful. bought by time warner, now bought by at&t. so these companies, though, usually were able to buy their progeny. now they have no pricing power so rupert murdoch realized that he was in a position where he's not buying netflix. he's not buying amazon and certainly he isn't buying apple or google or facebook. so what is he left to do? what he's left to do is sell. so he played it well. >> he did as he's played a lot of things well. where does it leave the country -- >> the ordinary person? >> the ordinary person, yes. >> everybody is going to work for the man. >> for the man? >> yeah, for sure. because you can't really build -- i don't believe any of these entrepreneurial things are no longer possible in big, let's call it, media. >> what do you make of the trump effect on the media and the business landscape right now. you've got 60 seconds, barry diller, i know you can do it. >> to do that one? what do i make of it? i make bad of it. it's terrible. the question to me is not trump. we'll pass trump. obviously we'll pass him. hop

to reduce nuclear and other global security threat that nti, which he founded in 2001 along with ted turner. and sam, i can assure you, remains an extraordinary source of wisdom, so that's great. i have to add, brent scowcroft, since you mentioned being a d.u.e., he was one of the introducers for my nomination, apparently with great sway in the senate, given the results. but i really -- brent is another really great friend. i have the pleasure in a different role of roaming around the same floor with brent scowcroft also quite a few times each week. i will mention charlie curtis, whom again very, very long , association in government and charlie has dragged themselves out of retirement to help us in this -- help us in these first periods at n.t.i. so you know, last month, i had the pleasure of speaking at the university of chicago. it was the 75th anniversary of enrico fermi's first controlled chain reaction. and that was really the launching of the nuclear age, and really the precursor to the manhattan project, which had already started technically, but his work was critical for the manhat

. >> the reaction of murdoch's idea for a fourth network was like ted turner starting cnn.? >> we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior lineup of stations to our counterparts. it means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> we have to differentiate ourselves from the networks. we have to do things they would not do. >> fox started throwing anything against the wall not sure what was going to go. first shows were things like "21 jumpstreet." joan rivers in terms of late night. >> we have been banned in boston, which is wonderful. wxne, so pick a pinger wxne. >> and "the tracey ullman show"" it was a sketch show. and they needed something to go between the sketches. again they were looking for something different. >> i got to have those candy bars. >> you better not be thinking of stealing those candy bars. >> that's it! >> "the simpsons" would never have come along had it not been for "the tracey ullman show." >> ultimately crime hurts the criminal. >> that's not true, mom. i got a free ride home, didn't i?

it just -- lead, follow or get out of the way, as ted turner said. >> yeah. >> if you're going to tryon, help obstruct the investigation and what happened in the past, at least help us all out by making sure that you're taking steps to see that this doesn't happen again in the future. >> try to remember what this is all about. it's about our country. try. >>> still ahead, vice president mike pence took his last trip to south korea very seriously. the white house just announced he's heading back. this time to lead the u.s. delegation to the winter olympics. "morning joe" is coming right back. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to navigate in-home care, follow that bright star. because brightstar care earns the same accreditation as the best hospitals. and brightst