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Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. They’re improving the workplace. There are other alleged victims, who worked for him and they should be free to speak openly now, either to the press or to an independent investigator,” onetime NBC correspondent and former Fox News anchor Linda Vester told Fox News. The former TV host told Vanity Fair, “I accepted the credibility of the complaint in [Bassett’s] article.

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Who’s still got a job at NBC? Market data provided by Factset. In the spirit of full disclosure, let me add this… When I did Meet the Press a few years ago, I met Matthews. And why did Bassett suddenly decide to come forward?

U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) sits down for a town hall meeting with MSNBC host Chris Matthews at he Cullen Performance Center at the University of Houston Oct. 30, 2018 in Houston, Texas. He was never forced to apologize. So on a human level, I like the guy. Thanks for contacting us. Former MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews has spoken out publicly for the first time since retiring amid sexual-harassment allegations nearly two months ago. Their son Michael was born in 1983.

04:16. '", Bassett responded to the Vanity Fair interview Saturday on Twitter: "I appreciate him owning up this and respect how he handled it," she wrote. NBC News chief Andrew Lack still has a job despite much worse harassment allegations.

This was a political hit on Matthews, a guy who dared challenge Warren’s chilling fealty to today’s fashionable #BelieveAllWomen tyranny, a guy who dared to give the corporate media’s favorite candidate (after Kamala Harris dropped out) a tough interview. ... Chris Matthews, left, and Oliver Platt, right… “Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were OK, were never OK. Not then and certainly not today.

“People say they miss me, I miss them too,” he told Vanity Fair. “I didn’t want to challenge the person that made the complaint and wrote the article. “The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins,” Matthews said at the opening of his final show. A Look Back at Matthews' Career at MSNBC: Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, How Ritchie Torres, Congress's first gay Afro-Latino, won on 'bread-and-butter issues', Romaine lettuce recall 2020: Tanimura & Antle recalls single heads of romaine for possible E. coli contamination. Don’t you understand, those are the very people we should be defending…. Such a thing will not only result in your termination, but the annihilation of a 30-year career? Bassett listed a series of comments allegedly made by the longtime “Hardball” host that didn’t “rise to the level of illegal sexual harassment” but “undermined” her ability to properly do her job. He was initially planning to exit the network sometime after Election Day, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. This was a political hit on Matthews, a guy who might — and this can never-ever-ever be  allowed — stray off the Thought Plantation if Bernie wins the nomination. Finally, in 1999, we now know NBC paid a woman $40,000 who accused Matthews of sexual harassment. He was subsequently benched for the network’s coverage of the South Carolina primary on Saturday and then announced his sudden and immediate retirement on Monday. “It was only going to get worse.”, MSNBC HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AMID SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES. It was determined the comments were inappropriate and made in poor taste but were never meant as propositions. Back then, Matthews was a talented and capable broadcaster who was always interesting and more human than the others. “You believe he’s lying?” Matthews asked Warren of Bloomberg’s denial.

“What they clearly need at the same time is an independent investigation and a hard look at the top executives, the decision-makers, who have protected people like Chris Matthews for years,” Thomas tweeted Monday. Chris Matthews of MSNBC waits to go on the air inside the spin room at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino after the Democratic presidential primary debate on Feb. 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brian Flood covers the media for Fox News. From there, in 1997, it went to CNBC, and then to MSNBC in 1999, where it has been a part of the cable news fabric for 20 years — until Monday night, when Matthews abruptly announced his retirement. Bassett recalled another incident where Matthews complimented her red dress and asked whether she was going out following their segment.