By Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:07 EDT, 23 October 2017 | Updated: 17:27 EDT, 23 October 2017
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When New York Times reporters confronted Bill O'Reilly with evidence that he paid $32million to settle a sexual harassment claim in February, the former Fox News host went berserk.
On Monday, the Times released audio from part of Michael S. Schmidt and Emily Steel's interview with O'Reilly, before their expose was published last Friday.
The reporters had finished their interview with O'Reilly, and had already turned off their main recording device when he went on a angry tirade.
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A recently released recording shows how Bill O'Reilly berated two New York Times reporters when they confronted him with evidence that he paid $32million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit in January (pictured above in 2007)
It appears that O'Reilly may have not known that both reporters were still recording the conversation on their smartphones.
'Why don't you be human beings for once. This is horrible, it's horrible what I went through, horrible what my family went through.
'This is c**p and you know it. It's politically and financially motivated. And we can prove it with shocking information. But I'm not going to sit there in a court room for a year and a half and let my kids get beaten up every single day of their lives by a tabloid press that would sit there and you know it,' O'Reilly yelled.
'This is c**p and you know it!' O'Reilly yelled at reporters Emily Steel (left) and Michael S. Schmidt (right) during their interview. The reporters were recording the conversation on their phones
'It’s at that point that he gets as animated as I’ve ever seen anyone in any type interview that I’ve ever been in,' Schmidt said of the interview, on the Times' The Daily podcast.
'It’s almost like you can feel the vibrations in your own chest,' Steel said.
The Times report published last week detailed how O'Reilly paid former Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl $32million to settle a sexual harassment claim.
Wiehl claimed that O'Reilly engaged in 'a nonconsensual sexual relationship' with her, repeatedly harassed her and messaged her sexually explicit material - including gay pornography.
A month later, Fox News resigned O'Reilly to another four-year contract, despite knowing about the allegations.
But he was fired in April when the Times published a report about the $13million O'Reilly paid over the years to settle similar claims. Wiehl's claims were not reported in that original story.
The new Times report published last week details how O'Reilly paid former Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl (pictured in 2013) $32million, after she claimed he sexually harassed her