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For 20 years, best boss ive ever had. straight shooter. always honest with me. i believe over the years hes been in the business 50 years, 95% of the people who work for roger ailes will say the same thing i just told you. i stand behind him 100%. >> sounds like they stuck together without roger ailes was bill oreilly left without his most powerful ally. >> he survived after many, many acquisition over many, many years something happened that was different, not just the accumulation of accusers,...

Keep making it night after night year after year. he didnt mind telling you how talented he was. he would say this is much harder than it looks im a genius at it. in addition to be genius and skillful at it he also had considerable impact. he galvanized people. people all around the country. people who would vote for trump had a significant reaction to what bill oreilly said and thought but the under side is at the same time had a cultural impact and he saw himself as a steward of american value...

Calls? >> no. >> joining me are jeffrey toobin and lisa bloom who represents some of oreillys more recent accusers. lisa, how are your clients reacting to todays news? are they satisfied that bill oreilly will not be returning to fox? >> this is a day of victory for us. i told them weeks ago that if you come out and speak your truth, he is going to be gone. he is going to be fired. they didnt believe me. i said, we are not going to give up. we are going to keep this story in all of the headlines...

The phone? >> yes, both. at dinners and on the phone. i said, no, no, no. when we were discussing and coming back i said it on the phone and at a dinner, eyeball to eyeball, this will not happen. you will not have the saucy talk anymore. he said, right, right, i would be your employer. that would never happen. of course not. i took that as a promise. i took that as a boundary that was explicit. he immediately within three and a half weeks bulldozed that boundary. he didnt just overstep it. he co...

"new york times" investigation. >> theres no question that the murdocks that fox news now about this accusations, they were involved in many of the settlements that were reported by the "new york times," so this was a business decision, like gloria said, and a business decision to let him go, as for what he goes with, all indications point to him going with tens of millions of dollars, just like roger ails exited the network, last summer with $40 million. oreillys contract said to be somewhere i...

Question, i also think part of it is because the culture has changed. i think the culture has changed. certainly when we look at all of the cosby accusers and what is happening with bill cosby and all of the accusers for bill oreilly. i dont think the culture is putting up with this at this moment. may have been instead of one thing a confluns of events had led to this particular moment. he could survive without advertisers, its not like they took the money from fox news they just reallocated it...

Than $13 million to women. ads have been pulled from the oreilly factor. oreilly denied all allegations against him. it is a stunning downfall for the man who anchored the most lucrative broadcast in cable news. >> thanks for watching us tonight. >> reporter: it generates $178 million in ad revenue in 2015 alone. five major players left fox news in what has been a devastating year for the cable network. among them, former fox chairman and ceo roger ailes. he resigned after former anchor, gretche...

It will rub a. lot of accuserins and a lot of advocacy groups away with $60 million if not more. >> the accusers, even the ones who got settlements got nowhere near that sort of money. no, they didnt. and obviously, the idea that hes going to walk over that much money must make people cross stuff. but i think theres also a feeling like this sort of sets a precedent. i mean fox -- if a woman comes forward now, they really do have to respond. in the past, they were clearly burying these things, th...

Message. i dont think he was talking about time in the universe or time is a flat circle sense. were all going to do something, you know, in that way. it was meant to be urgent. it wasnt. the idea that there was no mistruth there is wrong. >> on that metaphysical note, thank you, gentlemen, for all of the insight. now we need to get to the other top story. the bombshell that will change the face of cable news. fox news host bill oreilly has been fired as more accusers come forward accusing him...

Represents several of the accusers here. >> i represent three of the accusers, and i can tell you whats been going down. and that is giving them the evidence ask the witnesses to kraubt the claims brought my clooe clients who have come forward since "the new york times." so we knew that his new contract said he could be terminated if there were new complaints. to vet them, make sure they were good complaints, and then bring them to fox news. thats what we did. the lawyers in my lawfirm have been...