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Call us fake news anyways. he's already laid that down. on the ratings question, i'm not sure. he's a wild lily unpopular president. the show that's on tonight at nbc is "ellen game of games." who is a better tv draw, ellen or donald trump? >> i love ellen. i'd watch that. >> something that enraged the president during the campaign, we had higher ratings with bernie sanders and chris christie. this is a circus i think americans have seen enough of. i'm not sure if it's going to drive the ratings. i think you have a responsibility if you're a lawyer not to let somebody testify on the stand if y...

An ad-free environment? >> the tolerance is very simple, check the ratings. i remember when the first time the accusations came out against him, i had a friend who was very high-level position in that company and the day of, that first crisis, you know, where they had audiotape of him on the phone, where he was apparently -- >> the loofah. >> i said this is a ratings question, right? he said, yeah. meaning when o'reilly goes back on the air. we're going to watch what happens to the ratings. if they go down, he's gone. if they don't, he's not. he went back on the air, the ratings did not go dow...

>> the loofah. >> and, so, i said, so this is a ratings question, right? he said, yeah. meaning when o'reilly goes back on the air, we're going to watch what happens to the ratings. if they go down, he's gone. if they don't, he's not. so he went back on the air. the ratings did not go down. in fact, they went up. because there was interest in what is this guy going to say. if the ratings went down, that would be the end of o'reilly. that would be the end of this. in the meantime, we're wait for hannibal burris. >> and promos. thank you my friend, lawrence o'donnell coming in on the weekend. ...