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But when you gather every piece of evidence, lets talk to all of those people, bill oreilly said in one of statements he put out, in all of hiss 20 years at the network, not one person put in a complaint at the anonymous phone line. >> i worked at fox for 20 years and this is the first i heard about an mon nice phone line. >> roger ails is doing what he accused of doing, for which he actually left the company, do you really think calling into anonymous hot line within the company -- i wouldnt ca...

Didnt do it. i think weighing in on the specifics of the voracity of the claim wasnt the best. if he wants to be a character witness, i dont have a problem with that. >> but something happened on the phone and it seems like there was reporting on it because there were very specific transcripts that were released. >> but it presumes that somebody if i theyre nice to you that they wouldnt do something bad and thats just not correct. and in fact he said to me oh, roger ails has always been a gentle...

Proposition said. >> when youre putting together a case in court, you gather fact. >> im talking about you repeatedly. >> not one person put into a call to the anonymous phone line. also roger ails is doing what he was accused of doing for which he actually left the company.

And he said roger ails has always been a gentleman with me. youre a man. because someone didnt sexually harass you, kaley, doesnt mean that the man doesnt sexually harass. it doesnt mean it didnt happen with somebody else. it doesnt mean that it did happen. >> you can know someone else, you can many times vouch for their character. >> how would he know what bill oreilly or roger ailes would do in private with a woman? how could he possibly know that? >> someone who you work closely with you can ...

And i suspect were going to see a very, very good defense put forward. >> so this didnt happen, mark, in a vacuum because theres so many allegations at fox news. roger ails, they sent him away after he built the fox channel because of so many accusations. and i think theres others. but does this not point to a culture possibility? >> mind you the prior incidents and the prior allegations if you believe whats printed about it, yes, obviously. and if youre going to make the point if theres current...

>> 12 companies pulled ads from bill oreilly on fox if tn the e of a new sexual harassment scandal. they claimed fox news and oreilly himself paid out a combined total of $13 million to women in the last two decades to settle sexual harassment lawsuits against oreilly. two coming after the dismissal of roger ails from fox. mr. oreilly said the settled suits have no merit and the network continues to stand by the top rated host.

Set up of a legal defense that accusers had some outlet through the company structure but look, theres a reason that a lot of these women didnt want to pick up an anonymous hotline and it may have something to do with the fact that the former chief executive, roger ails had a litany of sexual harassment allegations against him and there was a fear that ales, might have even been monitoring their phone calls. so its not exactly the sort of inenvironment they were comfortable with. >> well, theyre...

The press conference that she gave today. what they have issue issued, and i want to be very clear this is 21st century fox, not fox news. its a parent company of fox news. what they have done is issued a blanket statement saying they take issues like these seriously and theyre continuing to stand behind bill oreilly. both oreilly and 21st century fox in their statements made reference to this hot line, this anonymous hot lines-please can call. what youre likely seeing is the set up of a legal d...

Theyre very uncomfortable with this advertiser backlash, whether or not they do anything about it is the question. >> obviously theyre not uncomfortable with the fact that hes doing that, because theyve been settling these lawsuit force a long time. >> there is an ongoing federal investigation involving payments involving roger ails who stepped down amid his own allegations of sexual harassment. >> just because theres a settlement, doesnt necessarily mean that hes guilty. and i have seen cases w...

Being a target for those who would harm me and my employer, the fox news channel. he says no one ever, ever filed a complaint with h.r., but we know the story with roger ails and what happened then. so i imagine people wouldnt feel comfortable. >> it was an environment where it wouldnt necessarily pick up the phone and try to report something because the boss was allegedly doing it. roger ran that network with an iron fist. hes been accused by many women. >> that failure to report has significan...