Gretchen Carlson on Sexual Harassment: "The Floodgates Have Opened"
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, the one constant in my life has been that I have always taken on a challenge that's before me. |
| 0:07.3 | Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, a violent prodigy from Anoka, Minnesota, a former Miss America who went to Stanford and studied at Oxford, |
| 0:17.6 | and unexpectedly became a central figure in the fight against sexual harassment. |
| 0:23.2 | After working so hard in my life for more than 25 years in television and getting to the |
| 0:27.5 | national scene when I saw that all ending right before my eyes, I decided that if I don't |
| 0:37.1 | do something about it, who will? |
| 0:39.3 | She weighs in on the Harvey Weinstein allegations and says the floodgates have opened. |
| 0:44.5 | In her words, predators watch out. |
| 0:47.7 | Her mission today and why she says going to HR may not be the answer for employees experiencing sexual harassment at work, |
| 0:55.9 | plus why she hopes to testify in front of Congress. |
| 0:59.7 | Here's my conversation with Gretchen Carlson. |
| 1:03.7 | Gretchen Carlson, I am used to knowing you through the television screen, watching you for years. |
| 1:09.5 | It's a pleasure to be here with you. |
| 1:10.8 | Thank you for doing this. Of course. Well, you as well. It's a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you for doing |
| 1:11.4 | this. Of course. Well, you as well. And of course, we share another similarity. Minnesota. Minnesota. The best. Don't you know. I don't hear your accent. I mean, I still have it when I go home once in a while. You know what happens to me is when I go home and I turn on the radio and I'm like, did I ever sound like that? I mean, I love it. I love it. It sounds so genuine and real and that's how Minnesota people are. And I just think Garrison Keeler and home and I just, you know. See, now he's actually from my hometown. Right. Yes. That's right. So the claim to fame for Anoka, Minnesota, Halloween capital of the world. |
| 1:44.7 | Okay. |
| 1:47.8 | And home of Garrison Keeler as well. |
| 1:50.5 | A great man, a great storyteller. |
| 1:51.1 | Yes. |
| 1:53.0 | And a great place for us to grow up, right? |
| 1:54.3 | I wouldn't trade it for the world. |
| 1:54.5 | Never. |
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