Ep. 534 — Gretchen Carlson

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued the network’s longtime boss Roger Ailes for sexual harassment in 2016, catapulting her into a broader fight for women’s rights. Since leaving Fox News, Gretchen has become a force in advocating for safer workplaces for women and other marginalized groups through her organization, Lift Our Voices, which has helped enact legislation banning forced arbitration and non-disclosure agreements. Gretchen joined David to talk about her early days as a violin prodigy, competing in Miss America as a Stanford undergrad, her decades in television news, suing Roger Ailes, and her mission to make it impossible to sweep workplace sexual misconduct under the rug.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.6	your host, David Axelrod.
0:19.0	Gretchen Carlson has lived many lives, the small town kid who became Miss America, the
0:24.2	local and national broadcast journalist who threw in with Fox News, but wound up tearing
0:29.5	down its creator and exposing a toxic work environment there, and since, as an activist leading
0:35.3	the battle against sexual harassment in the workplace, here's my conversation with Gretchen Carlson.
0:49.3	Gretchen Carlson, it's so good to see you.
0:51.9	Thank you for making the time to join me.
0:55.2	I've been looking forward to this.
0:56.6	Thank you for having me.
0:58.1	I know I was born in New York.
0:59.5	I've spent most of my life in the Midwest, where fellow Midwesterners, it tell me about
1:05.2	growing up in the, you grew up serving an exerb of Minneapolis St. Paul, a small town.
1:12.2	Tell me about your family and your life there.
1:15.4	Yeah, well, it was ideal, really.
1:17.8	I grew up in this small town called Anoka, which it's only 14 miles north of Minneapolis,
1:22.8	but it felt like we were pretty much in the country.
1:25.9	The claim to fame of Anoka is that it is the Halloween capital of the world.
1:29.8	I saw that, yes.
1:31.5	Yes.
1:32.5	And so as a kid, that was just so spectacular because we felt like we lived in like a
1:38.0	celeb town.
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