Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for The Senate Project, a diverse new coalition between the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Most recently, Baier moderated a one-hour policy debate between Sen.
He joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter in the Atlanta bureau and is now based in Washington, DC. “Unfortunately, it is actually worse.”įox says it takes all claims of harassment and misconduct seriously.Bret Baier currently serves as FOX News Channel's (FNC) anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier (weeknights at 6-7PM/ET) and chief political anchor of the network. “Fox News would have the public believe that it is a different place from the Fox News that was run by.
The network said it moved aggressively to change its ways after former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and star Bill O’Reilly lost their job because of accusations by women. Fox said there were no sexual harassment claims against Henry until they learned about Eckhart’s allegations last month.įox said Eckhart’s case is with Henry, since the network moved swiftly to fire him.īeing targeted again by Douglas Wigdor’s law firm, well known for its pursuit of sexual misconduct cases, is an uncomfortable rerun for Fox. The lawsuit said that Fox knew that Henry - who took a four-month leave of absence in 2016 following published reports of his affair with a Las Vegas cocktail waitress - had engaged in sexual misconduct as far back as 2017. Nothing could be further from the truth.” “This is not one of those cases.”Įckhart’s lawyer, Michael Willemin, accused Foti of trying to “slut-shame” Eckhart and suggest “that she was asking to be violently raped. “The Me Too movement has helped to bring to light a number of injustices in our society, and everyone that has suffered deserves to be heard,” Foti said. She said that he had asked Eckhart to be his “sex slave” and “little whore” and punished her when she did not comply with his demands.įoti said Henry had received graphic photos and suggestive messages from Eckhart. Her allegations weren’t made public when Henry was fired.Įckhart, who was 24 at the time, said the 49-year-old Henry restrained her with metal handcuffs, took nude pictures of her and raped her in a hotel room. But it was the accusations made by Eckhart, a former employee, that led to the anchor’s dismissal. Areu said she was also propositioned by Gianno Caldwell, a Fox contributor.īased on an outside law firm’s investigation, Fox said it found all of Areu’s claims “false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit.” Fox said it would defend itself vigorously.Īreu also said she got several lewd messages from Henry. In the cases of Carlson and Kurtz, Areu believed the men were making sexual advances, the lawsuit said. When she instead invited him to dinner with her and a friend, he declined, she said. In 2019, she said Kurtz invited her to his hotel room to discuss her hope of getting a full-time job at Fox. She said she was a guest on Carlson’s show in December 2018 and that after it was over, he told her he was staying in a hotel room in New York that night without his wife and children. The lawsuit filed in New York describes Areu’s discomfort with a March 2018 incident on the set of Hannity’s show where the host allegedly put $100 on a desk and challenged the men on his staff to take her out on a date. None of the men have been mentioned before in any misconduct allegations at Fox until the charges were made by Cathy Areu. Hannity and Carlson represent two-thirds of Fox’s lucrative prime-time lineup, while Kurtz hosts the weekend “Media Buzz” show.