““The next day, Ailes called back, less sure of himself. He had tried calling the elder Murdoch, who was vacationing with his wife in the South of France and didn’t take the call. “It’s too hard to get through; he’s on a boat,” Ailes ventured. Bannon told him to get as much money as he could in a settlement and face up to the truth. “If somebody called him about a merger, he’d take the fucking call,” Bannon told Ailes. “You’re done.””
