>> VANITY FAIR IS REPORTING EXPLOSIVE NEW INFORMATION
INVOLVING THE ROGER AILES SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE WHERE AS MANY AS
20 WOMEN WHO HAVE WORKED FOR HIM HAVE COME FORWARD WITH SEXUAL
HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM.
THE NEW INFORMATION
INDICATES THAT THERE ARE FORMER EMPLOYEES, MAYBE EVEN CURRENT
EMPLOYEES AT FOX NEWS WHO RECORDED SOME OF THEIR
INTERACTIONS WITH ROGER AILES.
THERE IS AUDIO THAT ROGER AILES
DOES NOT WANT TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
IF HE DOESN'T SETTLE WITH
GRETCHEN CARLSON IN THE CIVIL
LAWSUIT SHE FILED AGAINST HIM, THEN IT'S OBVIOUS THIS WILL GO
TO LITIGATION AND THE AUDIOTAPES
MIGHT BECOME PUBLIC.
ACCORDING TO GAWKER, BECAUSE OF THOSE
AUDIOTAPES THE SETTLEMENT FOR GRETCHEN CARLSON IS LIKELY TO
END UP IN THE EIGHT FIGURES
RANGE.
THAT'S ACCORDING TO AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE.
THEY ARE
THINKING THAT IS GOING TO UP THE AMOUNT THEY ARE WILLING TO
SETTLE FOR.
>>IF YOU'RE GRETCHEN CARLSON'S LAWYER YOU ARE THINKING YES.
WHAT WON'T THEY PAY FOR THOSE
TAPES NOT TO COME OUT?
IT WILL BRING UP ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS HE DIDN'T MAKE
IT EVEN MORE PUBLIC.
>> EXACTLY.
>>AND THAT PRICE JUST WENT UP.
NOW NEWS CORP. IS SAYING WE
DIDN'T BILL THAT.
THEY ENABLED ROGER AILES TO DO THIS FOR
DECADES.
YOU KNOW HOW ROGER AILES IS, HE IS NOT GOING TO
WANT TO DO IT.
HE HAS BEEN GETTING AWAY WITH THIS STUFF
FOREVER SO HE MUST BE SEETHING
IN HIS BASEMENT.
MAYBE HE WILL BE SO ARROGANT AND SAY OKAY, LET'S GO TO TRIAL.
>>NO, I THINK HE WILL SETTLE.
HE SETTLED WITH LAURIE LUNN.
HE
GAVE HER UPWARDS OF $3 MILLION
TO KEEP QUIET.
SHE HAD TO SIGN A NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT AND SHE
DIDN'T ACTUALLY FOLLOW THE RULES
OF THAT AGREEMENT, SHE WENT AHEAD AND SPOKE TO THE PRESS.
HE
DOESN'T WANT THE STUFF TO GO PUBLIC.
THERE IS DAMNING
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.
HE WOULD
BE A MORON TO NOT SETTLE.
>> BUT HE SHOULD'VE ALREADY SETTLED WITH GRETCHEN CARLSON.
AFTER 40 OR 50 YEARS OF GETTING AWAY WITH IT YOU THINK YOU CAN
EVER GET CAUGHT.
IT'S THE SAME
THING BILL COSBY DID.
AT THAT POINT HE HAD ALREADY DONE A
SETTLEMENT, JUST LIKE ROGER
AILES.
ALL OF HIS LAWYERS WHEN AROUND THREATENING THE PRESS AND
HE WAS STILL TRYING TO GET SHOWS
ON TV AND WAS STILL TELLING PEOPLE TO PULL THEIR PANTS UP.
>>60 WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD WITH RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
BILL COSBY.
HOW INSANE IS THAT?
>> THAT IS WHY I SAY ARE YOU SURE ROGER AILES WOULD BE
ARROGANT ENOUGH?
YOU GOING TO SAY IT IS ALL OVER THE PRESS.
IT'S POSSIBLE, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT, GENERALLY HE HAS BEEN
SMARTER THAN THAT.
HE IS VERY SMART AND HOW HE DOES POLITICAL OPERATIONS.
>>I THINK THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROGER AILES AND BILL
COSBY IS THAT AS FAR AS I KNOW, BILL COSBY DOESN'T HAVE
RECORDINGS OR AUDIO PROVING HIS GUILT.
IN THIS CASE, IF THERE IS
AUDIO THAT CAN COME OUT AND EMBARRASS THE HELL OUT OF HIM
THAT HE MIGHT WANT TO DO WHAT HE CAN TO SQUASHÖ.
>> I WISH THEY COULD GET WARRANTS, THEY CAN'T.
MAYBE THEY
CAN DO SUBPOENAS?
I DON'T KNOW.
I AM NOT A LAWYER, I AM A
TALKSHOW HOST.
EVEN THOUGH I WAS
A LAWYER.
ROGER HAS TAPES.
>>I KNOW.
>>NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT.
THEY BITE IN THE PRESS AND THEY NEVER
GO BACK TO IT.
WE KNOW FROM
PREVIOUS STORIES THAT BACK WHEN HE WAS RECORDING SOME OF THESE
PEOPLE, THEN HE SAID NOW I'M GOING TO PUT IN A SAFE SO YOU
CAN'T DISOBEY ME ANYMORE.
>>TO USE THAT AS LEVERAGE AGAINST HER AND HE MADE HER
PERFORM DEGRADING THINGS ON CAMERA.
>> HE HAD TOLD ANOTHER WOMAN BACK ON THE MICHAEL DOUGLAS
SHOW, HE SAID I'VE GOT YOU ON
TAPE YOU BUT ARE NOT SAY ANYTHING.
HE HAS A LOT OF TAPES.
HE WANTS TO KEEP THEM FOR EITHER
LEVERAGE OR SEXUAL PURPOSES.
TAPES?
THE AUDIOTAPES THE WOMAN
MADE MIGHT BE THE LEAST OF IT.
IF YOU ARE GRETCHEN CARLSON'S
LAWYER, WHOEVER YOU ARE, HURRY UP, GO GET THE TAPES.
IF YOU
SHREDS THEM AFTER HE RECEIVES A COURT ORDER, HE IS COMMITTED A
CRIMINAL ACT.
THEY SHOULD LOOK INTO IT RIGHT AWAY.
>>ONE FINAL THING, IN THAT VANITY FAIR PIECE, AND IN CNN
MONEY APPARENTLY A BUNCH OF FOX NEWS STAFFERS WERE CONCERNED
THAT ROGER AILES HAD TAPPED THEIR PHONES AND WAS KEEPING
TABS ON WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
BRIAN STELTER SAYS THAT A FOX
NEWS STAFFER DATED HIM A DECADE
AGO JUST TO SPY ON HIM.
ISN'T THAT INSANE?
>>THEY ARE LUNATICS.
WE KNOW BECAUSE THAT PAPER THAT HE HAD
IN UPSTATE NEW YORK THAT HE HAD
TAPPED THE PHONES.
OF COURSE HE TAPPED THE STAFFERS OF FOX
NEWS'S HOMES.
HE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE MALL WAS.
EVEN ALL THE STUFF WE FOUND OUT
ABOUT ROGER AILES, THE GUY WAS DIRTY THROUGH AND THROUGH.
WE
TOLD YOU THAT FROM DAY ONE.
NOW THAT HE IS OUT OF POWER, THEY THINK OH WE KNEW IT ALL
ALONG.
THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING?
>> THEY ARE AFRAID.