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Donald Trump is continuing to defend his remarks about Megyn Kelly following Thursday's Republican presidential primary debate.  After Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday that Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever," Trump called in to CNN's State of the Union on Sunday to say that criticism of his comment is off-base. { "nid": 814108, "type": "news", "title": "Donald Trump, Strategist Roger Stone Spar Over Campaign Exit", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-strategist-roger-stone-814108", "relative-path": "/news/donald-trump-strategist-roger-stone-814108" } "I cherish women," Trump told host Jake Tapper. "I

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Donald Trump’s campaign strategist Roger Stone — embroiled with his boss in a “you can’t fire me/I quit” hissy fit — says he resigned in part because of Trump’s “diversion to food fight” with Megyn Kelly “away from core issue messages.” After the Washington Post broke the news Saturday morning that Trump had fired Stone, Stone tweeted “Sorry @realDonaldTrump didn’t fire me — I fired Trump,” then cited the Kelly imbroglio as a reason. “Very anxious to see the direction of…...

It's a game of he said he said. On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump's campaign strategist, Roger Stone, denied reports that Trump fired him and is claiming he fired the former Apprentice star. "Sorry @realDonaldTrump didn't fire me- I fired Trump. Diasagree with diversion to food fight with @megynkelly away core issue messages," Stone tweeted. He later added, "Very anxious to see the direction of the Trump campaign from here and the next round of credible polls. #Standby." Sorry @realDonaldTrump didn't fire me- I fired Trump. Diasagree with diversion to food fight with @megynkelly away core issue messages —

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Before the stock market crash was all anyone in New York could think about, one man’s public smearing dominated headlines. Newspapers, primetime news, and tabloids traced Eliot Spitzer’s decline with relish. The man made a significant mark on the face of Wall Street in his career as New York State Attorney General and Governor, and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer offers up candid interviews with the men he crossed and Spitzer himself as his career is mapped out from its prolific start to its finale of public humiliation. Academy Award winner Alex Gibney’s Client 9 is one of the best documentaries of 2010 not just for its well-paced coverage of what could have been very dry material, but also because it got some of Spitzer’s most outspoken opponents to all but brag about their part in his downfall, a descent vastly oversimplified by news coverage.