“Fox News has plenty of money, they’ve bought off a lot of women. What they don’t have is accountability.”

In her lawsuit, she alleged that she was taken off the air this spring, “based upon the outrageously false and pretextual claim that Tantaros’s still unpublished book had been written in violation of Fox News’s rules for books authored by Fox News employees.”

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At the time, a Fox News representative said: “Issues have arisen regarding Andrea’s contract, and Fox News Channel has determined it best that she take some time off. She is still under contract with the network.”

Asked this morning why she thanked Ailes, who was head of the network at the time, in the book, Tantaros said, “You had to thank Roger Ailes or your book didn’t get published.”

“You’ll notice, it’s the most carefully crafted non-thank you,” she said. “You had to do that … to get your book published.”

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