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Legislation that doesnt get at all the problems or false accounts, but at least it tries to guarantee that on political ads, that americans will know the content and the source of those ads. and then three, i think the idea of how much effect can be had by a relatively small amount of money with 40 to 50 trained hackers and 50 or 100,000 computerized bots, you can drive a story that almost any of you would end up covering, even though it may have no relationship to truth. >> reporter: we demand ...

Dont start humira if you have an infection. ready for a new chapter? talk to your rheumatologist about humira. this is humira at work. welcome back, new revelations over sexual harassment allegations against bill oreilly. so the new york times coming out with this bombshell reporting that the network struck a $24 million contract with oreilly after being aware that he agreed to pay $32 million in a sexual harassment settlement. the top execs at 21st century fox opted to stand by oreilly despit...

The court of public opinion to the court of law and is there any legal recourse these women have against the execs in power to whom they reported the sexual assaults but those people chose not to speak out about any of these crimes in this, perhaps, they may have committed crimes of omission or did they? >> yeah, thats a great question. its exactly what i thought about when he saw this contract being reported. if i were advising these women about their rights, they certainly have a right to come...

Its absolutely prominent. thats the problem. the reason it was kept secret for so long is because it was normal. in the entertainment industry, its very, very common for higher upper-level execs to pray on young artists. that is the biggest shock and that, people in the entertainment industry are not shocked at this. >> tucker: when you went into it, did you know that? >> i had heard many stories. ill tell you, i was, you know, a good girl from california. i hadnt heard a lot of stories, enough ...

For so long is because it was normal. in the entertainment industry, its very, very common for higher upper-level execs to prey on young artists. lets look dad, its what they do. boys will be boys, power play and so forth. that is the biggest shock in that people in the entertainment industry are not shocked at this. >> tucker: when you wentd into it, did you know that? had heard many stories. ill tell you, i was, you know, a good girl from california. i hadnt heard a lot of stories, enough stor...

>> thats right. its absolutely prominent. thats the problem. the reason it was kept secret for so long is because it was normal. in the entertainment industry, its very, very common for higher upper-level execs to pray on young artists. that is the biggest shock and that, people in the entertainment industry are not shocked at this. >> tucker: when you went into it, did you know that? >> i had heard many stories. ill tell you, i was, you know, a good girl from california. i hadnt heard a lot of ...

>> correct. >> what did the weinstein company know, if anything? 16 former and up current execs and assistants who knew this happened or heard it was, what legal consequences might the folks face if they did, in fact, facilitate some of the encounters? >> well, the companies definitely have legal consequences if the statute of limitations hasnt passed. it is hard to believe a company doesnt know that many of its employees and potential employees are being harassed. for one thing, there are eight...

>> richard burr today said he knows. >> thats right. richard burr said it is kre clear. they said it was absolutely russia and he refused to give the president the one thing the president he has been asking everyone for. the president wants to be exonerated. when asked the direct question, senator burr said i cant give that you answer. >> when you look at where it goes from here, it does take longer. the other piece, the other disagreement i heard was mark warner saying there are things we can d...

Thats just what these tech companies have found so far. as senator mark warner has said, this is really just the tip of the iceberg. with you and i and the public are hoping is that both face book,twitter, google, other tech companies will be forthcomin with the american pele. >> 100%. dylan buyers, thank you for the reporting. well see what comes out of the meeting with twitter execs and the intelligence committee happening now. joining us david kennedy, cyber security consultant and former nsa...

Not just in terms of geographic targeting but in targeting to demographics, targeting to various interest groups. it also tells us that the goal here was, at least initially, not so much promoting one candidate over another, so much as it was just sewing discord in the american democratic system and, you know, basically amplifying the sort of incivility and hyper partisan culture that were already so familiar with. nevertheless, president trump has come forward and criticized facebook and mark z...