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Aren't conspiracy nuts. and i think for the last couple of years, people have become very comfortable about what is said on "duck dynasty" and what's said by certain politics. oh, it's politics, this, that, or the other. but america is changing. and this is not what the american consumer wants to seattle. i think that the quick response of firing roseanne so quickly is not just financial, but it's also realization on the behalf of this network that, hey, this is a blue wave coming. america doesn't want this. they don't want this kind of behavior. they're not all conspiracy nuts, and we shouldn...

Even look at roseanne. i called her yesterday. look at her ratings. look at her ratings! they were unbelievable. over 18 million people. >> that was right after roseanne's first show. this morning roseanne barr, the star of the abc hit show "roseanne" tweeted a vicious, racist statement about a highly accomplished black woman, and this afternoon another highly accomplished black woman announced that roseanne was fired. while valerie jarrett was working her way up in the corporate world in chicago and then in politics with her friend barack obama in whose white house she served for eight years,...

People as a whole. you're talking about black women as a whole. and that means if euros anne, you're also insulting your boss. you're insulting your fellow coworkers who are also employed by abc, perhaps disney at large. and that presents a real problem. >> eric, i can't wait if there is going to be inside reporting on how this all played out today. but channing dungey is in the center of this as the president of nbc -- abc entertainment, the first black woman in that position, and she's obviously in the middle of this discussion today about what do we do with roseanne. she herself knew that i...

For roseanne barr. i hope this is a lesson for abc. hope this is a lesson for every network out there that this behavior is inappropriate. it will cost you money. it will cost your reputation and it will make it impossible for you to continue to produce. i hope that's what people get out of this, not just some sort of free speech argument. >> jamil, donald trump, after the first episode aired this year and got a huge rating, donald trump told his rally audience, as we just saw, that it was about us, that the show was about us. he didn't have any words about the show tonight. >> that is a reall...

Matter who was president of the network. but when you make racist comments like that, when you're comparing valerie jarrett to an ape, you know, in a sense you're not just talking about valerie jarrett. you're talking about black people as a whole. you're talking about black women as a whole. and that means if euros anne, you're also insulting your boss. you're insulting your fellow coworkers who are also employed by abc, perhaps disney at large. and that presents a real problem. >> eric, i can't wait if there is going to be inside reporting on how this all played out today. but channing dunge...