Vanna White seeks pay raise with Ryan Seacrest set to join show | Dan Abrams Live

>> WE LEARNED THAT THIS WEEK THAT RYAN SEACREST IS SET TO BE THE NEW HOST OF WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND LONGTIME LETTER TURNER AND CO-HOST VANNA WHITE IS REPORTEDLY DEMANDING A HEFTY PAY RAISE TO STICK AROUND AMID THE TRANSITION TO MANY ARE NOW CRYING SEXISM, CONTRACT ENDING WHEN THE NEXT SEASON WRAPS UP. SHE'S LOOKING TO MAKE AT LEAST HALF OF WHAT SOON TO BE FORMER HOST PAT SAJAK MADE IT TO THAT 7.5 MILLION A YEAR MORE THAN DOUBLE WHAT SHE'S MAKING NOW. >> BUT IS IT SEXIST? >> CONSIDERING WHAT HER ROLE IS ON THE SHOW TO MAKE A FRACTION OF WHAT THE HOST. NICK, I LOVE ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LOVE VANNA WHITE. SHE DOES MORE CLAPPING AND TALKING DURING AN EPISODE. SAJDAK ACTUALLY DOES THE TALKING IN THEIR INTERACTS WITH THE GAS. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE FROM A RECENT EPISODE WHITE SPOKE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW. AND HE GOES AND HE STARTS THE SHOW. TO NEGOTIATE A NEW CONTRACT. WHITE APPARENTLY HIRED A LAWYER WHOSE, QUOTE, HITTING THE PAY DISCREPANCY ISSUE HARD WITH SONY AS WELL AS POSSIBLE. GENDER DISCRIMINATION. RESPECT TO WHITE'S HOUR. SHE'S AN ASSET TO THE TEAM. I DON'T THINK SONY SHOULD GET RID OF A ROLE WHICH THEY APPARENTLY THOUGHT ABOUT. I'M JUST SAYING THAT ON ANY OTHER SHOW WITH THE ROLES ARE NOT REMOTELY COMPARABLE. THE TRUE HOST MAN OR WOMAN MAKE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN THE OTHERS, EVEN IF SHE'S CALLED A CO-HOST. MORGAN IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SOFTWARE YOU ALREADY SAID YOU'RE GOING TO WHY. >> HERE'S THE THING. NEITHER OF THESE POSITIONS REQUIRE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF LET'S BE HONEST. I MEAN, PAT SAJDAK, HE'S THE HOST, BUT HE'S NOT GUIDING A CONVERSATION. HE IS JUST PRESENTING THE TURNING OF LETTER. NO, NO, HE'S HE'S GOT NO. WOULD YOU? IF YOU WATCH THE SHOW, HE IS LITERALLY MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT THE LETTERS THAT WERE TURNED, IT CETERA. IS. THERE IS ED LIVING INVOLVED IN IT, CETERA LOOK ON JEOPARDY. EVEN THE HOST TO SITTING THERE WITH THE ANSWERS IN FRONT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE TO BE A GENIUS UP. BUT THE POINT IS. >> WHATEVER THE SKILL LEVEL, HE STILL THE HOST OF THE SHOW AND SHE IS NOT. I MEAN, THEY CALL HER CO-HOST, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IDEA THAT, OH, IT'S SEXIST THAT SHE'S MAKING LESS MONEY THAN HIM A LOT LESS MONEY THAN HIM. STILL MAKING A LOT OF MONEY. SHE MAKES LIKE 4 MILLION A YEAR. YEAH. HE WAS MAKING 15 AND HERE'S THE OTHER THING SHE'S MOVING NOW BECAUSE NOW THERE'S A CHANGE, RIGHT? I DON'T I DON'T BLAME HER FOR TRYING TO MAKE MORE MONEY. GOOD FOR I'M JUST SAYING THE NOTION IT'S THE IT'S THE ALLEGATIONS OF SEXISM THAT THAT SORT OF STRUCK ME. WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT SHOW IT TO ME ISN'T ABOUT IT'S ABOUT WHAT IS YOUR ROLE? HOW IN TROUBLE ARE YOU? BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS IF RYAN SEACREST COMES IN AND THEY PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN VAN WHITE'S ROLE, I DON'T THINK. AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK I'D AS I SAID, WE ALL LOVE AND WHITE, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THERE WOULD BE A MAJOR UPRISING SO I LET'S WORK OUR WAY BACK. YEAH, I WOULD SAY I WOULD TEND TO AGREE THAT WHY DO WE EVEN KNOW ABOUT THIS IS BECAUSE ITS CONTRACT NEGOTIATION TIME AND IT CAN. WE LOVE NY PEOPLE THAT SHE HAS HIRED A CALCULATED DECISION THAT THE RIGHTFULLY SO THAT THEY CAN USE EXTERNAL PRESSURE. YES, A MOVE, THE NEEDLE IN TURN, RIGHT. SO FOR ALL THESE YEARS HE'S BEEN THIS IS 1982. BEFORE I WAS BORN. >> AND WE HAD NO IDEA REALLY HOW MUCH MONEY SHE WAS MAKING AND TILL NOW, I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT SHE IS MORE VALUABLE TO BRAND TODAY. SHE WAS BEFORE PASSAGE THAT ANNOUNCED HE WAS RETIRING BECAUSE IF WE UNDERSTAND THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL TUNING IN TO A REGULAR TELEVISION EVERY SINGLE DAY ARE PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIKE CHANGE NOT HAVING THAT FACE EVERY TIME THEY TUNE IN FOR HOUSE AND THAT IS THE BEST ARGUMENT. I THINK THAT ANYONE THINKING WHEN YOU'RE UP TO NO, NO, IT WAS. YOU KNOW, I KNOW I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE U.S. PIECE OF IT. RIGHT. THAT STILL DOESN'T ADDRESS THE SEXES AND PEACEFUL THE SESSION. THE SEXES AND PEACE I THINK IS IS IT A CALCULATED DECISION? YES, TRY TO GET ALL ABOUT SUCCESS. BUT LET ME PUT IT MY POINT A DISCREPANCY OF SOME SORT. YES, BUT SHOULDN'T BE DOUBLE. AND THEN BASED ON WHAT WE'RE ALSO SEEING ON SOME OF THE SIDE PRODUCTIONS WHERE IT SOMETIMES 5 TIMES MORE MONEY PAT SAJAK WAS MAKING. I THINK THAT'S THE ISSUE IS. >> SOME DISCREPANCY. YES, BECAUSE HE'S THE HOST AND SHE'S THE LETTER TURNER OR TOUCH OR BASED IN NOT. WHEN YOU GO BACK TO I AGREE SHE SHOULD BE GETTING AS MUCH MONEY AS SHE CAN GET BABE RUTH, ONE CENT. >> ANY MAN WHO'S PAID, I GUESS OR ANY WOMAN WHO IS PAID BY SOMEONE ELSE'S. NEVER MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY, RIGHT, SHE SHOULD GO FOR IT. YEAH. BUT YOU KNOW, JOHNNY CARSON AND ED MCMAHON, RIGHT? YOU TAKE JOHNNY CARSON OUT OF THE EQUATION AND SOMETHING CHANGES. MAYBE IT'S NOT EXACTLY RIGHT. BUT I WILL SAY THE CAUTIONARY TALE FOR WELL, A FORTUNE IS RALPH BOHNER WHO WAS A FORMER SAN DIEGO CHARGERS. PLACE KICKER, WHO WAS THE DAYTIME HOST WHEEL OF