claims are untrue and terribly unfair. we intend to fully cooperate with the investigation so that it can be concluded and eric can return to work as quickly as possible. bolling is star. he has been a rising star at fox news. he is also one of the most pro trump commentators on the channel. a well-known for his staunch defenses of the president. he has a new book out called the swamp for example. he is the centre piece of the 5:00 p.m. show and someone will fill in for mime. we have seen a number of fox news benched and removed from the channel due to harassment claims. first the head of the network roger ailes and bill o reilly who denied claims against him and eric bolling is suspended because of his alleged texting of inappropriate images of several years ago. we will see where that goes. i want to talk about something
welcome back. a stunning admission today from cnn s allison camerota. the anchor of new day claims she was sexually harassed while at fox news by roger ailes, the network s ceo who was ousted amidst harassment claims. allison opened up for the first time about this telling her very personal story to cnn s reliable sources host brian stelter. it felt like there was a tipping point this week. when roger ailes was ousted in july, there was a lot of talk about what the culture was there. and now with bill o reilly having been fired, it feels as though, if i take the murdochs at their word, they really want to know what was wrong there and what the culture was like, and i don t know how you get that from silence. so it feels like this might be the right time to just have this conversation, let some daylight in. you said on the air bill o reilly never harassed you.
president weighing in on controversy like this coming to the defense of someone who is not receiving much support from anywhere else. especially because of his new role. it is one thing to say he is my friend. if he said he didn t do anything wrong, i believe him. this is an awareness month that we re in right now. that was announced by the president and he can t know the truth of the matters asserted. we know he is comfortable with that, bill. he is come foffortable going ou saying i m proven later. he is comfortable with saying someone is a criminal with no evidence. he is saying this guy did nothing wrong. the harassment claims. i have seen them go both ways. it is all about credibility. these women don t want to come forward. they think this is what will happen. they will say something happened. they will say you are lying.
owned. all right. thank you very much for that. still to come, not even the teller ratings can keep advertisers are fleeing the bill o reilly factor. the fall-out continues over harassment claims. there s a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening.
welcome back to the le the . our money lead, as of monday afternoon, 11 companies are pulling ads from the top rated o-riley factor on fox news. they spent at least $13 million to settle various harassment claims. let s bring in cnn media and politics reporter dillon buyers. they very much are organically pulling their ads. very often in cases like this you do see outside pressure from liberal wash dog organizations. that s not the case here. they came to the network and they said we are reassigning the ads, not pulling the ads