Bill O'Reilly has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women of which he has vehemently denied. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have come out with new allegations against him, and Fox News has decided to go after him.
00:07:37.420But if they exist, and I don't know if these were presented to the Times or not.
00:07:42.680But it is my understanding that, and I'm going to let Bill talk about this, that he went and offered evidence and said that this is not true.
00:07:53.820The way that it is being presented is absolutely not true.
00:07:58.560And he said they were not interested in any of that.
00:08:02.820It is my belief that there are those that do not want Bill O'Reilly to return.
00:08:12.200And I believe, honestly, that some of those people are the Murdochs.
00:08:15.700And the Murdochs do not want Bill O'Reilly back on the Fox News.
00:08:27.820I think it is interesting that everything was dead and buried with Bill until he went back on Sean Hannity's show and made Fox number one for the first time in months and months.
00:08:42.580That all of a sudden, people realized he's still a threat.
00:13:15.140And if the person who signed the affidavit has said, okay, so we've settled, and these things aren't true, and I've had a good relationship with this snowblower.
00:13:26.340If everyone just says, well, they only signed that because of money.
00:13:32.920Well, wait, then what good was the affidavit?
00:16:40.500Bill O'Reilly will be joining us in hour three today.
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00:22:28.760Well, you know, in this scenario, and as I explained to the gentleman before, you know, uh, that's why we have the whole process, right?
00:22:35.120And we have evidence and reasonable doubt.
00:22:37.200We have to, we have to look at the evidence, but the problem is, and, and, and like we're talking about it is it, it is guilty till proven innocent because the accusations have been made.
00:22:58.720So even in the long run, if he is innocent, he's still going to be looked at in a, in a different light.
00:23:03.960And there's going to be people out there that no matter what are going to say that, well, you know, they just, whatever, you know, they found in his favor because he's rich or because he's this or because he's that, you know what I'm saying?
00:23:13.540And so it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a process that really from the beginning is just totally, it just doesn't work.
00:23:39.600But, you know, you look at King David in the Bible and the effect it had on him, you know, and I still love Bill and I'm praying that he comes back stronger and more righteous than ever.
00:23:48.120You know, he's more, he's a powerful man and he has a lot to bring to the table.
00:23:52.500And, you know, look, Glenn, I'm keeping the faith.
00:24:11.460Um, but I, I believe him that mistakes were made, but they're not Harvey Weinstein mistakes.
00:24:18.720Uh, and, um, you know, people, um, settle for all kinds of reasons.
00:24:26.340And I know that I have gone kicking and screaming to the settlement table a couple of times, uh, cause it was wrong, but you settle.
00:24:35.620There's a serious and sort of thinly veiled accusation by the New York times against Liz wheel as well, which is basically they're saying this attorney filed a false affidavit lying about what actually happened to collect money.
00:24:49.800Uh, if that's true, she should be disbarred.
00:24:53.480And I don't, I, like, it's a weird thing.
00:24:55.500And like, everyone's just kind of assuming because they're, the reported number is large that, oh, of course she would lie to get that.
00:25:00.940But I mean, she's an attorney filing a legal document.
00:25:03.980Like, that's, regardless of the amount of money, that's, that's not something that is, uh, normally just dismissed.
00:25:11.760Uh, so I, I think it seems like, and maybe we can ask Bill about this, but I mean, I, you know, uh, that's a, that's an odd thing because Liz is saying she has no claims against them and that these things are settled and she would not make these claims if asked today.
00:25:23.820That's what the affidavit said that she signed.
00:25:26.180So, I mean, like the legal system takes that seriously as well.
00:26:03.880Um, it's their right to do that in our legal system.
00:26:06.860It obviously, there's a lot of reasons for that.
00:26:08.720It, it, it takes burden off of the legal system for one.
00:26:11.880It does a lot of these things, but if this is, you're right.
00:26:13.840And you kind of mentioned this earlier.
00:26:15.000If, if these things just leak out every time there's a settlement, then no powerful person is ever going to settle one of these things.
00:26:22.320And then you're going to wind up with the other, the other side of that, which is the powerful people who are guilty are going to use every dime that they would have settled with to attack the person who's, who's claiming.
00:26:32.500Bill said, Bill said to me, my biggest mistake is settling.
00:26:35.880He said, I listened to attorneys and I listened to Fox and they said, just make it go away.
00:28:45.920It was November of 2016, the day my memoir was released.
00:28:50.240In it, I included a chapter on Ailes and the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News, something the Murdochs knew I was doing and, to their credit, approved.
00:28:59.920O'Reilly happened to be on CBS News that morning.
00:29:02.660They asked him about my book and about Ailes, who by this time had been forced out in disgrace.
00:29:23.980I'm not interested in making my network look bad at all that doesn't interest me one bit.
00:29:33.120I did something that day I've never done before.
00:29:36.000I wrote an email to the co-presidents of Fox News, Bill Shine and Jack Abernathy.
00:29:39.940An email I have never made public but am sharing now because I think it speaks volumes about powerful men and the roadblocks one can face in taking them on.
00:29:49.700I wrote, in part, perhaps he didn't realize the kind of message his criticism sends to young women across this country about how men continue to view the issue of speaking out about sexual harassment.
00:30:01.060Perhaps he didn't realize that his exact attitude of shaming women into shutting the hell up about harassment on grounds that it will disgrace the company is in part how Fox News got into the decade-long ills mess to begin with.
00:30:14.840Perhaps it's his own history of harassment of women, which has, as you both know, resulted in payouts to more than one woman, including recently, that blinded him to the folly of saying anything other than,
00:30:27.960I am just so sorry for the women of this company, who never should have had to go through that.
00:30:34.200Bill Shine called me in response to my email, promising to deal with O'Reilly.
00:30:38.320By 8 p.m. that night, O'Reilly had apparently been dealt with.
00:30:42.400And by that I mean he was permitted, with management's advance notice and blessing, to go on the air and attack the company's harassment victims yet again.
00:30:52.680If somebody is paying you a wage, you owe that person or company allegiance.
00:30:57.640If you don't like what's happening in the workplace, go to human resources or leave.
00:31:31.880This is about what he said about coworkers.
00:31:35.780And I happen to disagree with him on this.
00:31:40.080I think that it was brave of the women at Fox News to stand up.
00:31:45.800Roger Ailes was an extraordinarily powerful man.
00:31:49.060He was the Harvey Weinstein, I would say, light in comparison to what Harvey really is.
00:31:56.160But he was he was just as powerful on the right and nobody wanted to take him on.
00:32:03.780And it took great courage to take him on.
00:32:06.620And I put Megyn Kelly in that in that camp.
00:32:10.380But you have to remember something else that was going on at the time.
00:32:13.440A political campaign had just been waged.
00:32:17.240And this whole campaign pitted Fox News against Megyn Kelly.
00:32:24.700Megyn Kelly was the darling of the company until she stopped and started asking questions of Donald Trump that I thought were completely fair.
00:32:33.020And Roger Ailes wanted to teach Megyn a lesson and knock her down a notch.
00:32:39.560And and I know this because I worked there and knock her down a notch and and let the political system do his dirty work.
00:33:02.540And so I think the the headline here, the Megyn thing is obviously she felt really strongly about this and did not like she saw the O'Reilly statements publicly as a microcosm of with the way the company treated these.
00:33:16.560And she is not making a specific accusation of harassment by Bill O'Reilly.
00:33:21.420And I will tell you that I happen to agree.
00:33:40.140But I I will tell you there is a lot more going on in that particular story at that particular time than just standing up and and saying sexual harassment.
00:33:52.540You know, you know, and I have to say, well, I disagree with the way he handled it.
00:34:34.000You don't have to quit a company that you like to make a charge against the company that you like.
00:34:39.400If you like it and you think it can be fixed and you know what is going on is wrong and illegal, you have a duty to stick it out and stand up.
00:34:51.040The world is becoming more and more unpredictable and that's putting it mildly.
00:35:06.860None of us have any guarantees on what tomorrow will bring.
00:35:09.900I mean, honestly, I could come to you on the air tomorrow and I'll bet you that a vast majority of the audience would go, huh, if I said to you, you know what, the federal government has come out and said that aliens do exist.
00:35:24.320We had contact with them, you know, 40 years ago and, you know, we've been we've been talking to them and they're going to come out later today with evidence of alien life.
00:35:34.400I think all of us would go, huh, wow, we're 10, 15 years ago, that would have changed the world.
00:35:42.580Yes, it would still change the world, but we're not shocked by anything.
00:35:47.060That shows you how unstable things are.
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00:37:44.940That is how long the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, held the position of goodwill ambassador at the UN.
00:37:53.040The World Health Organization chose Mugabe because they thought he'd be an advocate for fighting diseases such as cancer and diabetes in Africa.
00:38:02.080Well, thankfully, someone at the World Health Organization returned to sanity and rescinded the appointment when two days later they remembered, oh, yeah, that's right.
00:38:15.840To think that somebody who helped spread a raging cholera epidemic in his own country would fight diseases is insane.
00:38:25.640This is a man who has killed thousands of his own people for political dissent.
00:38:30.140He destroyed Zimbabwe's health care program.
00:38:32.820He eviscerated the agricultural system.
00:38:35.100He forced seizure of white-owned farms, collapsed the economy, and has led to devastating poverty and mass starvation all across his country.
00:39:17.460Hitler has only one objective, justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights over resources.
00:39:26.600If that's Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold.
00:39:53.620The title's kind of ironic because Mugabe's been banned from traveling to most parts of the world because of his atrocious human rights violations.
00:40:01.480Not to mention there is nothing to tour in his country except devastation, poverty, disease, and, I don't know, cemeteries.
00:40:11.060If our intergovernmental organization insists on appointing Mugabe to something, it should be to appoint him as the ambassador to the deepest, darkest recesses of hell.
00:40:24.160That is an appointment I can get behind, and that would be the only reason I would send another dime to the UN.
00:41:46.200This, I'm reading this story, uh, from the New Yorker, and it is hard to believe at first.
00:41:54.880This sounds like something that would have happened in Nazi Germany.
00:42:01.360Well, um, that's pretty much what I've compared it to, because I didn't know anything about guardianship.
00:42:07.440And when I started looking on the computer and finding, um, the first video I came across was Dorothy Wilson, uh, Diane Wilson was going in and interviewing her mother in an assisted living facility, and her mom was devastated.
00:42:52.920Um, my mom had suffered for years and years, um, from, uh, CLL.
00:42:58.240Um, and, um, but we had it all under control.
00:43:03.360And, uh, the minute anybody finds out that you have any assets, money, stocks, bonds, um, that you're worth value, you no longer are human being.
00:43:18.140Um, once the guardian takes you, you are now a ward and you have less rights than a prisoner.
00:43:24.460This is, this is truly shocking, and I, I want to set this up right so people can really understand it.
00:43:30.440This, your, your folks lived in Las Vegas, so people understand you would go over to see your mom and dad.
00:43:42.800I would stop in, uh, once a day and then the last couple of months before they got taken, uh, we would call each other and my husband and I have a business.
00:59:24.360You got there at 9 o'clock, and these guardians had moved several people, some of them screaming as they were thrown into a van in the middle of the night.
00:59:36.880When I had brought light to this with the help of Vegas Voice, which is a small senior paper here, I had to go to places because nobody would open the door for me.
00:59:52.760If somebody had opened the door for me, Glenn, I wouldn't be talking to you today.
00:59:59.800And what happened was once this came out and I was going to court pro per se and representing my parents, April Parks, this private guardian, started moving people out of the assisted living facility and taking their animals.
01:00:18.000And what we've heard, rumor has it, is putting them to sleep.
01:00:21.840This is the only thing these people had.
01:00:25.040I knew the majority of them, and the majority of them are no longer with us.
01:00:52.560And she was just taking them, and she was threatening the director there that if she didn't go along with it, she's going to lose her job, too, because she can have her arrested.
01:01:03.420You have to understand, these are people that are walking around on Earth that think they are these mini-gods.
01:01:18.660So this is, in reading this article at least, it appears as though this judge was either incompetent or was turning a blind eye to what was going on or part of it in some way.
01:01:32.900I mean, the way this is, the way I understand it is, you can go and get the financial statements of people and find out who has money, who doesn't.
01:01:46.200Then she would go to, correct me if I'm wrong, she would go to doctors, and she would target people and say, look, sign this because they're not paying or they're going to cost you a lot of money or whatever, and I'll take care of this.
01:02:01.060And the doctors pretty much would sign anything to move on from a patient.
01:02:38.840And your parents, now they are afraid to tell the doctors anything because they're afraid the doctor is going to put them back into some sort of a guardianship.
01:02:52.380I just think that after you've gone through a trauma, as our whole family has, that it comes with leaving you with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
01:04:38.980And at Kasem Cares, what we're doing is we're passing visitation bills from state to state so that the adult children are allowed to see their loved one.
01:04:50.040Okay, so what I would like to do is, first of all, your Twitter handle is at Julie Belshe, B-E-L-S-H-E-1, Julie Belshe1.
01:05:04.000I guess that's what I'm new to Twitter.
01:05:06.440What is the one thing, after you've gone through all of this, what is the one thing that, if you were worried it's going to happen to you or to your parents, that you can do to make sure that it doesn't?
01:05:21.980Okay, well, what you can do is, in January, we've come up with a guardianship nomination form.
01:05:31.960Okay, it's going to be in the secretary's state lockbox.
01:05:36.040So if you went to the hospital, as opposed to them giving you to a guardian, now you can list who you want for your family or a friend to come, and that's your guardian.
01:05:49.560What I can tell you is that to stay out of the court, stay out of probate court, and make sure no one ever gets close enough to your loved ones, or you, to drag you into their clutches.
01:06:03.580And the elder law attorneys, they have three priorities.
01:06:37.080The will, the estate, all the power of attorney, get those all taken care of immediately, and talk to your legislative, your politicians, and bring these subjects up, and go to the meetings, and find out what's going on.
01:06:54.440I'm not doing this just for the elderly and the wards.
01:21:30.080So Bill, I want to ask you a couple of questions.
01:21:32.480The biggest question that is on everybody's mind is, okay, you can settle, but $32 million coming out of your own pocket, nobody does that.
01:21:49.200The only comment I could make on that issue without getting the thing back into a legal arena would be the first article that the New York Times wrote, quoted figures, and added them up.
01:23:55.720But unless I want another seven or eight years of constant litigation that puts my children in a kill zone, I have to maintain my discipline.
01:24:07.080The only reason, I can tell you this, Beck, in 20 years plus at the Fox News Channel, how long did you work there, by the way?
01:24:56.280Bill, on the wheel affidavit, the New York Times fails to recognize here that this is a legal document, and she is a member of the bar, and that if she signs something that was not true, she should be disbarred.
01:25:33.880If any American citizen signs an affidavit that's notarized, all right, it's under the perjury law, so you can be prosecuted if what you're saying is not true, which is why the affidavit becomes so vitally important.
01:25:57.340Then their weasel reporter, their most dishonest man on the face of the earth, tweets out, oh, O'Reilly says we didn't mention the affidavit, and we did.
01:29:18.920It was November of 2016, the day my memoir was released.
01:29:22.320In it, I included a chapter on Ailes and the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News, something the Murdochs knew I was doing and, to their credit, approved.
01:29:32.800O'Reilly happened to be on CBS News that morning.
01:29:35.580They asked him about my book and about Ailes, who by this time had been forced out in disgrace.
01:30:04.120So, her complaint, Bill, that she filed was that you made it tough for people to come out against the network because of statements like that.
01:30:17.780Number one, she didn't file a complaint.
01:30:27.520So, I'd like to see it because I don't believe that's true at all.
01:30:30.960Number two, what she does not say is that there's an anonymous hotline, and there had been for years at Fox News, where anybody could have called up and said,
01:30:41.880so-and-so is doing something to me, and you better stop it.
01:36:59.940I mean, based on everything we know of him and have seen of him, we toured with him.
01:37:04.120How many times we must have done four or five different tours with him and all over the country, all over the country, in hotels, never once saw any indication of that kind of behavior.
01:37:32.780And I I can't help but believe him now because because of what we know of him and he's pretty adamant and he's got some good evidence backing him up like what he just read from Megan.
01:37:43.900Now, if if you've sexually harassed somebody or aided somebody else in harassing somebody, they don't usually write to you about what a good friend you are.
01:37:51.740And Megan is not alleging that, by the way.
01:37:53.800I mean, she's not saying that she was harassed by Bill.
01:37:55.960No, she was kind of saying Roger Ailes.
01:38:58.160But Gretchen, here's the here's the key.
01:39:01.040The ones that are making the rounds today, Gretchen Carlson and Megan Kelly, they're not accusing him of anything, nor have they ever accused him of anything.
01:39:41.240Now, how do you go from that to now on television saying, well, you know what, if he was settling this case, then, you know, you you you got to be doing something.
01:39:55.040Well, no, that's not the standard company settled cases all the time.
01:40:02.120And sometimes they settle them and they're guilty.
01:40:05.280Sometimes they settle them and they're absolutely not guilty.
01:40:08.120You know, I don't know the ins and outs of this case.
01:40:13.360Bill can't tell you the ins and outs of this case because otherwise Bill is is is violating confidentiality.
01:40:20.740So suspend the confidentiality and return the money, but suspend the confidentiality or let him suspend the confidentiality and you keep the money.
01:41:11.140When they saw him, when they saw him, this my my guess when they saw him on on Sean Hannity and he made them number one again for the first time since he left.
01:41:23.160I think he and others realized, holy cow, this guy still has clout.
01:43:02.600Lease wheel being duly sworn deposes in states under the penalty of perjury.
01:43:07.320So, yeah, it's bigger than just being disbarred.
01:43:10.320Number one, I've known Bill O'Reilly for over 18 years.
01:43:12.680We've worked together, we've socialized, and on occasion, I gave him legal advice.
01:43:17.060Number two, at the end of 2016, I hired a counsel who prepared a draft complaint asserting claims against Bill O'Reilly.
01:43:23.840We have since resolved all of our issues.
01:43:26.120I would no longer make the allegations contained in the draft complaint.
01:43:30.040Additionally, over the years, while I was acting as Bill O'Reilly's counsel, he forwarded to me certain explicit emails that were sent to him.
01:43:39.180And any advice sought or rendered is attorney client privileged, confidential and private.
01:43:44.060I have no claims against Bill O'Reilly concerning any of those emails or any of the allegations in the draft.
01:43:49.500So, that goes to, you know, he sent me gay porn, et cetera, et cetera.
01:44:07.580You didn't send it to your attorney, but you have sent it, or at least you brought it up to me and said, I'm getting all of this bad stuff.
01:44:54.180Part two is he said specifically, this is why I pushed him on this.
01:44:58.920He said he had settled three cases in his entire time.
01:45:03.040The New York Times story says it was at least the sixth agreement.
01:45:07.120So, I don't, again, like, this is a very specific fact that, theoretically, they could, I mean, you'd think the New York Times would have to have evidence of all of those, and maybe they do.
01:45:19.080I mean, you know, I'm concerned about the wording of this.
01:45:21.540And let's just take the best case from the New York Times for a second.
01:45:23.820They think Bill O'Reilly's a terrible guy.
01:45:25.380They totally believe all of his claims.
01:45:27.520They say struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst to settle new sexual harassment allegations, that's from last year, according to two people briefed on the matter.
01:45:39.440Seemingly, the way that information came to them would indicate that the possibility that maybe that sort of nuance gets erased if it's multiple people, if it's from the company instead of just Bill O'Reilly's pocket.
01:45:52.820Again, like, they're talking about people who have been briefed on it.
01:45:55.300They're not even people holding the documents in their hands reading it to the New York Times.
01:46:06.180So, even with the best intentions, the New York Times might not have that exact thing right, which I would say is the biggest thing in the article.
01:46:13.220The rest of it, we knew that these cases had been going on.
01:46:16.580And we knew he settled with some people.
01:46:18.940But the thing that's really, I think, convincing people off of this, of Bill's guilt, is the fact that he would take $32 million out of his own bank account and hand it to this one person.
01:46:27.480Which I don't even think that's possible.
01:46:58.240It was at least the sixth agreement, and by far the largest, made by Mr. O'Reilly or the company to settle harassment allegations against him.
01:47:06.020So, again, unless they're lumping other things in.
01:47:08.360So, he said we should call the New York Times for a comment.
01:47:13.300Bill O'Reilly said unequivocally that he has only settled three in 20 years.
01:47:21.340And those are the three that we have known about.
01:47:23.860And are those the $13 million figure we keep hearing about?
01:52:07.920We'll have more on this and so much more, including the latest on the Trump Gold Star scandal coming up today at 5 p.m. on the Glenn Beck television show.
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