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Nominee announcements. >> congratulations. you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. >> tucker: when they mock your lecturing from one of the highest rated shows on television, its not a secret, and indeed it wasnt. mcfarlane now says he heard about weinsteins harassment from one of his many victims at the time. mcfarlane knew and so did everyone else. if they are lying about it. heres a partial list. pretty much every a-list actor who once worked for harvey ...

>> martha: that is our story for tonight. if you have a story we think we need to know about, tweet me at martha maccallum #thestory. wewillbeclose --dashclose -- --dashclose --myr lsoniscomingupnext. wewillseeyou next " you to welcome to tucker carlson site. disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein is reportedly planning to flee the country from france, taking a cue from his longtime friend and director and fugitive child -- his friends in the movie business and in progressive politics ten...

The next part and all that. hopefully this will change and we have to keep fighting for what is right. >> brian: the other thing that comes out, by the way, hes such a huge political donor. all over democratic causes. $56,000 here. big supporter of the obamas. their daughter melia interned for him. at the question is, who knew and when did they know? is it possible not to know? i want you to hear seth mcfarlane and the comment he made and what it did mean then, it was a laugh line. people on the...

Unequivocally denied by mr. weinstein. we have megyn kelly here. where do you stand on this and how could this have gone unacknowledged for decades? >> you know, andrea, one of my main takeaways from 2016, everything that happened in that campaign, is that we as women have a long way to go, a long way to go. and this is further evidence of that. you know, its like how many of these do we have to go through before industries become introspective? why did the press have to break this? why wasnt it...

Forward, though, with strikingly similar and disturbing accounts of their interactions with weinstein over the course of decades. >> reporter: the board of the weinstein company insisting tuesday that they had no knowledge of the explosive allegations against co-founder, harvey weinstein, calling the claims, quote, an utter surprise. this despite widespread rumors that weinsteins alleged abuse was the worst-kept secret in hollywood. comedian seth mcfarlane even knocked weinsteins bad reputation ...

Nobody can pretend to be surprised. you mentioned the expression "casting couch." ive done at least a dozen exposes on the casting couch over the years. in 2013 when seth mcfarlane, the very gifted comic was presenting the nominations for the academy award for best supporting actress, he said of the five nominees, now they didnt have to pretend to like harvey weinstein anymore. this was a generalized -- this was general knowledge. furthermore, to your political point, i dont think the progressiv...

Nobody can pretend to be surprised. you mentioned the expression "casting couch." ive done at least a dozen exposes on the casting couch over the years. in 2013 when seth mcfarlane, the very gifted comic was presenting the nominations for the academy award for best supporting actress, he said of the five nominees, now they didnt have to pretend to like harvey weinstein anymore. this was a generalized -- this was general knowledge. furthermore, to your political point, i dont think the progressiv...

>> some academy members brand the bit sexist but macfarlane finds plenty of defenders. >> i dont think he is remotely sexist. i dont think what he did was sexist. >> with seth as host the oscars see a ratings jump but when the prospect comes up of hosting the next year he says, sorry. im going to be busy. coming up, seth gets super busy. exploring the cosmos. >> weve compressed all of cosmic time in a single year at a glance calendar. >> can i interest you folks to a miracle cure? ♪ so nice, s...

Motion capture technology. >> i am a former celebrity in a minimum wage job. >> the film opens in june of 2012 and becomes an unexpected and gigantic hit. >> let him in. >> let him in, exactly. >> good, okay. >> all of the success with "ted" were you kind of like how did this happen? >> i had no idea what to expect. >> i love you. >> i love you too. >> i wasnt thinking in terms of commercial viability in terms of, you know, what was going to sell. >> but sell, it does. on top of that, seth earns...

>> anything that caught his fancy, he figured out a way to make it funny. a little bit of irreverence but also just innocent fun. >> after high school, he heads to a prestigious art school. >> i was an animation major in college so i had very, very good training from the rhode island school of design. >> part of that training was complete a student film. seth draws and voices the characters. >> hey, about that? another state thats going to abolish the death penalty. >> oh, is that right? >> inst...