| Director | Jay Roach |
|---|---|
| Budget | $32 million |
| Box office | $61.4 million |
After co-moderating the 2016 Republican debate, Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump, who is angry because she asked him about his offensive misogynistic comments. Under pressure from the network, and after receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi attention, Kelly eventually reconciles with Trump.
Meanwhile, Gretchen Carlson is removed as co-anchor of the popular Fox & Friends show, and transferred to a less popular show. Inundated by sexist comments on and off the air, including by Roger Ailes, Carlson meets with lawyers, Nancy Smith, and Neil Mullin, who explain that her contract prevents her from suing the network, but she can sue Ailes personally.
On her first day on The O'Reilly Factor, Kayla Pospisil meets fellow female staffer Jess Carr, and they start a relationship. The next day, Ailes begins sexually harassing Pospisil. She begins to tell Carr about what happened, but is warned not to get involved because it could jeopardize their own relationship.
Carlson is later fired, ostensibly for her on-air support of the federal assault weapons ban, so she decides to sue Ailes. When the news breaks the next day, Ailes denies the allegations, and Kelly reveals to her core team that he sexually harassed her when she started at Fox. In the following weeks, despite a number of other women voicing their public support against Ailes, Kelly conspicuously refuses to make a comment on Carlson's accusations.
After more women accuse Ailes, Kelly starts to find other women at the network. She visits Pospisil, and they confide in each other. Kelly encourages her to come forward, and after consulting with Carr, she does, and their relationship remains intact. Through her attorneys, Carlson later informs Ailes she has recorded conversations to support her claims, deliberately withholding them from Ailes's lawyers in order to undermine his credibility.
Defeated, Ailes is fired by Fox co-creator Rupert Murdoch. He later settles Carlson's lawsuit for $20 million with an apology from Fox, but the settlement contains a non-disclosure agreement. Fox eventually pays the victims of sexual harassment $50 million, while paying Ailes and O'Reilly $65 million in severance.