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>> shannon: brand-new allegations of a massive cover-up at a major broadcast network involving one of its top news stars in one of hollywoods most powerful figures. gillian turner has the story for us tonight. >> in an exclusive interview tonight with fox news bret baier, ronan farrow is doubling down on claims in his new book "catch and kill," he talks about harvey weinstein and more recent allegations against former nbc news anchor matt lauer. >> ronan farrow claims when he first brought his w...

Trish regan had been tweeting this letter this evening, i hope your viewers will take a look at it. >> shannon: our viewers can check it out. thank you both. a major broadcast network in the cross hairs of new bombshell allegations. linda esther who says she was sexually harassed at the network as well, joins us next. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look

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In so many ways facebook does not want to be considered a media platform. right? they dont want -- you know, section 230, right, lays out theyre not responsible for whats on their platform differentiates them from us airing something here on cnn. but now, it seems like theyre saying with statement they want to be viewed as a broadcast network. >> exactly. media law experts say this actually undercuts facebooks argument that it isnt a media company and raises big questions about just what are the...

Written in 1996 before facebook was created gives the platform companies that publish third party content immunity from liability for any of that content. >> because they say theyre platforms. >> theyre platforms and not publishers. one of the mistakes i would say facebook made is likening themselves to a broadcast network which has no immunity. you cant come here and defame somebody without being sued but facebook can publish something thats defamatory without being sued because theyre protecte...

On thursday while capitol hill is melting down on impeachment in the testimony of acting director of national intelligence another hearing was happening down the hall. >> its possible to disagree and strongly disagree but to be civil and treat each other with respect. thats on us. there are also steps that congress can take to promote civility. >> that was from the select committee on the modernization of congress holding a panel on promoting civility. the hearing was carried by every major broa...

On profound changes taken place in television news. changes being brought by business, competition and technology. >> there is a variety of reasons why people worked in the broadcast network were freaked out in the 1980s. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new owners spent billions buying the network recently and all of them want their moneys worth. >> people began to find out that news could be a profit center. that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot fro...

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President trump. and make the case against president trump part one. part two the harris folks say shes going to present herself as a unifier. shes going to try to present herself as the one that can bring and stitch the coalition of the country back together. >> i find that interesting because another way of saying that would be biden alternative. >> well, and theres no doubt. look at the -- she is a biden alternative in many ways. if you look at the voter profile, i think part of the reason we...

Since you think what-aboutism is okay. what about the president more than a decade ago was for gay marriage? then when he met with the president, it said on the christian broadcast network, he said it was a bad decision and should be left to the states, and he would go to supreme court justices that would overturn roe and handle traditional marriage in the proper way. what did he do? he appointed two supreme court justices that were able to do that. so i dont want to hear any crap about presiden...