Fox News: Sexual Assault Case Comes To Light | AM Joy

>>> WELCOME BACK TO "AM JOY." IT'S NO SECRET THAT DONALD TRUMP
LOVESVES FOX NEWS. SO IT WAS NO SURPRISE WHEN AN
INTERNAL FDA E-MAIL CIRCULATED ON TWITTER EXPLAINED TO
EMPLOYEES THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAD ORDERED THAT
ALL TELEVISIONS BE SWITCHED FROM CNN TO FOX.
THE FDA CONFIRMED THAT THE E-MAIL WAS SENT BY THE OFFICE OF
FACILITIES TO EMPLOYEES BUT DENIED THAT THERE WAS ANY
DIRECTIVE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION TO SWITCH TO ALL
FOX ALL THE TIME. ALTHOUGH, A SOURCE WITHIN THE
FDA TOLD THE "WASHINGTON POST" ERIC WIMPLE THAT THE TVS ARE
TUNED TO FOX. THERE'S NO DENYING THAT THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RELIES HEAVILY ON FOX NEWS TO
DISSEMINATE ITS ALTERNATE REALITY.
TRUMP IS A PROFESSED FAN THAT HE SPENDS HOURS WATCHING WHEN HE'S
NOT PLAYING GOLF. ON FOX, TRUMP HAS EXCEEDED ALL
EXPECTATIONS. HIS QUESTIONABLE CLAIMS ARE
VALIDATED AND HIS PERFORMANCE IS DESCRIBED AS DECISIVE
LEADERSHIP. IT'S AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY THAT
SERVES AT THE PLEASURE OF TRUMP. MEANWHILE, THE REAL REALITY OF
FOX NEWS IS WHERE A WOMAN ALLEGEDLY WAS BOOTED OFF THE AIR
AFTER SHE WROTE ABOUT HER
INFERTILITY, THUS DECREASING HER SEX APPEAL BY HER BOSSES WHO
REQUIRE ALL THE WOMEN TO BE HOT, WHERE MANAGERS ALLEGEDLY FORCED
BLACK EMPLOYEES TO ARM WRESTLE FREEDOM EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR
AMUSEMENT AND A BLACK RECEPTIONIST WAS CALLED BY BILL
O'REILLY AS HOT CHOCOLATE. STATEMENTS ARE OFTEN REPLACED BY
ALTERNATIVE FACTS. THE QUESTION REMAINS, CAN THIS
ALTERNATE REALITY SUSTAIN ITSELF UNDER A NEW LAWSUIT IN AN
ONGOING INVESTIGATION BY THE FEDS.
BACK WITH ME IS CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR KIRSTEN HAGLAND,
LETITIA JAMES AND TAMARA HOLDER WHO SETTLED WITH FOX NEWS OVER A
SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE,
LADIES. THIS "NEW YORK TIMES" PIECE THAT
TALKS ABOUT YOUR SETTLEMENT REALLY IS UNIQUE FIRST OF ALL IN
THE FACT THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO GET FOX TO INCLUDE THE WORDS
SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE JOINT STATEMENT THAT THEY PUT OUT AND
THAT THEY SETTLED WITH YOU. >> CORRECT.
I REALLY THINK THAT FOX DID THE RIGHT THING HERE AND ARE TRYING
TO DO THE RIGHT THING MOVING FORWARD.
THEY'RE CLEANING HOUSE. THEY OBVIOUSLY GOT RID OF ROGER
AILES LESS THAN A YEAR AGO. THEY GOT RID OF THE TOP GUY WHO
PRODUCES ALL THE ADVERTISING DOLLARS, BILL O'REILLY.
THEY GOT RID OF BILL SHINE. I THINK THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO
SHOW THAT THEY DID THE RIGHT THING IN MY CASE AND JUST AS A
NETWORK AS A WHOLE. >> YOUR CASE WAS MORE EXTREME,
AS BAD AS THESE OTHER CASES WERE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND
UNTOWARD COMMENTS AND LEWD ADVANCES.
YOUR CASE WAS A CASE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
IT WAS QUITETE SERIOUS. THE PERSON WAS FIRED.
AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, YOUR MANAGEMENT, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
YOUR TALENT MANAGEMENT, YOUR AGENTS, INSTRUCTED YOU NOT TO
SAY ANYTHING. >> RIGHT.
AND THAT'S WHERE I REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE
DON'T COME FORWARD, WHY WOMEN DON'T COME FORWARD, WHETHER IT'S
AT FOX NEWS OR ANYWHERE ELSE. IT'S FEAR, IT'S FEAR-BASED.
I WAS TOLD THAT I WOULD BE TOXIC IF I WENT TO FOX.
AND THEN THEY CLOSED THE DOOR ON ME.
THEY STOPPED DOING WORK ON MY BEHALF.
THEY REFUSED TO HELP MY LAWYERS. THIS IS A MAJOR AGENCY.
THIS IS ICM. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME
PEOPLE THAT THAT DON'T KNOW HOO BUSINESS.
>> YOU, IN FACT, DID DISAPPEAR FROM TV, YOU STOPPED BEING ON TV
AND MOST OF THE WOMEN HAVE. >> SURE.
THEY MADE ME TOXIC. AND YES, THE OTHER THING IS THAT
IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE WOMEN WHO HAVE ATTACKED OTHER WOMEN
PUBLICLY, THEIR CAREERS SEEM TO BE OKAY.
THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE STILL ON TV, BUT THE WOMEN WHO ARE
ACTUALLY HURT ARE TOXIC AND NO FAULT OF OUR OWN.
>> DID YOU GET ANY SUPPORT FROM THE WOMEN, THE FEMALE EMPLOYEES
AT FOX WHEN THIS HAPPENED TO YOU?
>> THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION, NO.
>> NOT A ONE? >> NO.
>> EITHER ON THE AIR PEOPLE OR OFF THE AIR PEOPLE?
>> I GOT SUPPORT FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS, JEMU GREEN.
SHE'S A FRIEND OF MINE. OTHER THAN THAT -- AND SHE KNEW
WHAT WAS GOING ON. OTHER THAN THAT, NO, NOTHING.
THE MEN, I DID HEAR FROM SOME OF THE MEN.
>> KIRSTEN, THAT'S SORT OF THE BIGGER PICTURE, BIGGER THAN FOX
AND THE WAY THEY MAKE ALL THE WOMEN HAVE GIANT HAIR AND LOOK
FABULOUS. BUT THE CREATION OF A WORLD IN
WHICH IT'S SORT OF A PLAYGROUND FOR MEN, PARTICULARLY FOR WHITE
OLDER MEN WHO CAN HAVE THIS BEVY OF YOUNG, HOT WOMEN AROUND THEM,
SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT TO THEM, TREAT THEM ANY WAY THEY WANT,
WHERE THE BLACK PEOPLE ARE MARGINALIZED.
IT IS CREATING A RIGHT WING UNIVERSE WHERE WOMEN CAN'T
SUPPORT EACH OTHER. >> IT'S DISHEARTENING AND
HEARTBREAKING TO HAVE SEEN ALL THIS BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE A
LOT OF PEOPLE AT FOX WHO DIDN'T NECESSARILY KNOW THIS WAS GOING
ON. SOME KEPT QUIET WHO SHOULD NOT
HAVE. AS SOMEONE WHO HAS AN
ENTERTAINMENT BACKGROUND AND WAS MISS AMERICA, I SEE THIS ACROSS
CITIES BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY GENERATIONAL.
YOU HAVE OLDER MEN WHO THINK THEY CAN DO THIS.
EVEN POLITICIANS, I'VE BEEN IN THEIR OFFICE ON CAPITOL HILL
TALKING ABOUT EATING DISORDER AND THEY PAT THEIR STOMACH AND
SAY YOU CERTAINLY DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT.
THIS IS A MIND-SET THAT NEEDS TO CROSS GENERATIONS AND WOMEN ARE
FINDING THEIR VOICE TO STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES AND SHOW A
GENERATION OF YOUNG WOMEN COMING UP THAT THEY'RE WORTH MORE.
>> THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. YOU COME OUT OF THE PAGEANT
WORLD WHICH DONALD TRUMP WAS VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN AND WE
KNOW HIS HISTORY THERE OF PREYING ON TEENAGE GIRLS AND
TREATING THEM AS A COMMODITY. >> IT'S AWFUL.
>> ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS, BEYOND THE HORROR FOR THE WAY
THAT WOMEN HAVE TO EXIST IN 2017, THERE'S STILL A LEGAL CASE
HERE. TELL US THE STATUS.
YOUR OFFICE BROUGHT AN ACTION IN REGARD TO THE LYING TO
SHAREHOLDERS ASPECT OF THIS CASE, THE FACT THAT THESE
SETTLEMENTS THAT WERE PAID TO WOMEN, SETTLEMENTS THAT WERE
PAID WERE HIDDEN FROM INVESTIGATORS.
>> FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ANNIVERSARY.
>> THANK YOU. >> THERE WERE 15 CASES AGAINST
FOX NEWS AND ONE CASE WAS A CLASS ACTION INVOLVING 13
SEPARATE INDIVIDUALS ALLEGING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
>> RIGHT. >> SO THE CASES ARE STILL
ONGOING. IN ADDITION TO THAT THERE'S A
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FOCUSING ON THE PAYMENTS, THE ACCOUNTING
OF THE PAYMENTS AND HOW THEY WERE PAID AND WHETHER OR NOT
THEY WERE REPORTED AS INCOME OR SETTLEMENT.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE'S THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK WHICH IS CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THE
CLIMATE AND THE CULTURE WITHIN FOX NEWS.
>> AND I SHOULD READ THE STATEMENT THAT FOX NEWS PUT OUT
JOINTLY WITH TAMARA'S LAWYERS AND THIS WAS PUBLISHED VIA THE
"NEW YORK TIMES" IN THE STORY THAT THEY PUT OUT ON MARCH 8.
IT SAID IN A RARE PUBLIC DISCLOSURE, FOX NEWS RELEASED
THIS JOINT STATEMENT AND IT SAID IMMEDIATELY AFTER MS. HOLDER
NOTIFIED FOX NEWS OF THE ALLEGED INCIDENT, THE COMPANY PROMPTLY
INVESTIGATED THE MATTER AND TOOK DECISIVE ACTION FOR WHICH HOLDER
THANKS THE NETWORK. SO THERE AT LEAST WAS SOME
ACTION IN THAT BUT THE BIGGER QUESTION AT LEAST IN THE FEDERAL
PROBE IS THIS QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE PARENT
COMPANY OF FOX NEWS, WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS LYING ABOUT THE
PAYMENTS. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ARE LOOKING
INTO WHETHER THEY TRIED TO DISGUISE $3.51 MILLION IN
PAYMENTS TO AN EMPLOYEE WHO SAID SHE HAD A 20-YEAR AFFAIR WITH
THE NETWORK'S FORMER CHAIRMAN, ROGER AILES, ACCORDING TO THE
INVESTIGATION. THE FACT THAT THIS GOES ALL THE
WAY UP TO ROGER AILES WHO RAN THE NETWORK SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT
THE CULTURE OVERALL. >> WHEN YOU DISCLOSE TO
SHAREHOLDERS, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DISCLOSE THE RISK.
ALL OF THESE LAWSUITS THAT HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST FOX NEWS
AGAIN CREATE THIS ATMOSPHERE OR THIS NOTION THAT FOX NEWS IS NOT
BEING SUBJECT TO ALL THESE HARASSMENT CLAIMS WHEN WE KNOW
THAT THAT'S NOT TRUE. SO THEY LIED, THEY
MISREPRESENTED AND THEY MATERIALLY FAILED TO DISCLOSE TO
SHAREHOLDERS AND A LOT OF THOSE SHAREHOLDERS ARE NEW YORK CITY
RETIREES AND IN FACT THESE LAWSUITS WERE NOT GOING ON AND
THIS CLIMATE AND CULTURE WITHIN FOX NEWS WAS NOT GOING ON IN
THAT CORPORATION. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, RIGHT NOW
THEY'RE TRYING TO ACQUIRE ANOTHER NEWS OUTLET AND
OBVIOUSLY THAT IS IMPACTING THEM BECAUSE ONE OF THE
DETERMINATIONS IS WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE FIT AND PROPER AND
CLEARLY BASED ON THESE ALLEGATIONS, 15 CLAIMS, RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION, CLASS ACTION, THEY'RE NOT FIT AND PROPER AT
ALL. >> THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT
POINT. I WANT TO GO TO KIRSTEN ABOUT
THE CLIMATE AND BOTH OF YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE CLIMATE.
THERE'S AN INVESTIGATION ALSO BEING LOOKED INTO AS TO WHETHER
ROGER AILES USED PROMINENT INVESTIGATOR BEAU DEEDLE TO
PROBE THE THREAT PERCEIVED TO EITHER MR. AILES OR THE CHANNEL.
THERE'S A QUESTION OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY FEELING THREATENED NOT
JUST BY THEIR AGENTS BUT ACTUALLY THREATENED BY BEING
INVESTIGATED. >> THERE WAS DEFINITELY A
CLIMATE OF CONTROL BUT I THINK THAT THEY REALLY DO WANT TO
CHANGE THAT AND I THINK THAT THE CHANGES THAT ARE SLOWLY BEING
MADE ARE GOOD FOR ALL ORGANIZATIONS.
THIS IS A WIN FOR EVERYONE. AND I DO WANT TO POINT OUT AS
WELL THAT JANICE DEAN RECENTLY CAME BACK AND SHE'S A
METEOROLOGIST AT FOX. SHE HAD NECK SURGERY, PLASTIC
SURGERY THAT DIDN'T GO WELL AND SHE WAS VERY OPEN ABOUT THAT AND
THAT PLAYS INTO THIS WHOLE SEXUALITY AND ATTRACTIVENESS AND
WOMEN GETTING OLDER AND ALL THAT AND THEY HIGHLIGHTED HER OP-ED
AND IT WAS REALLY CELEBRATED. SO I THINK THE RIGHT MIND-SET IS
GOING INTO TRYING TO CHANGE THIS BUT IT'S BEEN FAR TOO LONG
COMING BUT THERE DEFINITELY IS A CHANGE OF CULTURE.
>> I THINK IT'S BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE THAT ACQUISITION
AND THEY WANT TO CLEAN THINGS UP.
THE WOMEN RUNNING IT WAS THE ENFORCER OF THE MINISKIRT P
POLICY. WHAT'S YOUR ADVICE WHERE PEOPLE
FEEL THREATENED? YOU WERE BRAVE, ESPECIALLY
WITHOUT ANY SUPPORT. IN THIS BUSINESS WHERE AGENTS
CAN DETERMINE WHETHER YOU WORK AGAIN AND WHERE YOU COULD JUST
VANISH OFF TV AND THAT'S A PART OF YOUR LIVELIHOOD GONE, DO YOU
THINK THAT WOMEN SHOULD STILL TAKE THAT RISK?
>> ABSOLUTELY. IT'S SCARY.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT I SPENT ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF IN MY
CLOSET CRYING WITH PTSD AND DEPRESSION BECAUSE I WAS SO
AFRAID THAT THE PEOPLE WHO I THOUGHT WERE GOING TO SUPPORT ME
AND HAVE -- THEY HAD MY BEST INTEREST AT HEART WITH REGARD TO
A CAREER, THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN MY CAREER,
TELL ME TO SHUT UP. IT'S A HORRENDOUS EXPERIENCE AND
PLACE TO BE. HOWEVER, WHENEVER YOU GO THROUGH
ANYTHING IN LIFE, YOU COME OUT STRONGER.
AND I HOPE THAT WOMEN OUT THERE LISTENING AND MEN TOO UNDERSTAND
THAT, NUMBER ONE, WOMEN DON'T REPORT FOR MANY, MANY REASONS.
MY MOM WAS DYING AT THE TIME, I WAS TOLD NOT TO.
I'M A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY. >> RIGHT.
>> AND I STILL WAS AFRAID TO GO TO THE POLICE.
>> YEAH. >> SO I UNDERSTAND THE FEAR.
AND ON TOP OF THAT, LAWYERS DIDN'T TAKE MY CASE BECAUSE THEY
SAID I WASN'T GRETCHEN CARLSON OR --
>> NOT A BIG ENOUGH STAR FOR THEM.
>> I WASN'T A BIG ENOUGH STAR, AND THE PERSON WHO ASSAULTED ME
WAS NOT ROGER AILES OR BILL O'REILLY.
SO I UNDERSTAND WHERE IT COMES FROM, WHERE THE FEAR OF I'M NOT
BIG ENOUGH, I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO
ME, IS MY HUSBAND GOING TO BELIEVE ME, ARE MY FRIENDS GOING
TO BELIEVE ME, ARE THE INVESTIGATORS GOING TO BELIEVE
ME. I WANT WOMEN TO KNOW THAT IF I
CAN DO IT THEY CAN DO IT TOO. >> I THINK IT'S A MESSAGE TO
THESE WOMEN WHO ARE THE BIG ENOUGH STARS THAT IT WOULD BE
NICE IF THEY SUPPORTED OTHER WOMEN IN THIS SITUATION BECAUSE
SOMETIMES THE PERSON WITH THE POWER IS THE PERSON THAT CAN
HELP THE WOMEN COMING IN BEHIND HER TO SUCCEED.
YOU'RE A VERY BRAVE WOMAN FOR DOING THIS.
YOU'RE A DEFENSE COUNSELLOR. YOU SHOULD BE ON TV.
I WANT TO INVITE YOU BACK ON TV AND DO YOUR LEGAL ANALYST ALSO.
>> I'M FROM FOX YEARS, I HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF OPINIONS.
>> WE WILL RESEMBLE THESE WOMEN BECAUSE THEY ARE SOME OF OUR
FAVORITES, MY POWER PANEL, YOU GUYS WILL ALL BE BACK.
>>> COMING UP, THE RESISTANCE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DONALD
TRUMP'S DRACONIAN POLICIES. THAT'S NEXT.
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