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Comment, to seek comment from harvey weinstein, that process was stopped. the point of this book and the reporting in it and the fact that we fact checked it so carefully is to make it clear this isnt about a tit for tat or me, its a set of facts laid out there was a lack of a firewall. that shouldnt happen at cbs or ami with "the national enquirer" and all the reporting about that thats in the book, and it shouldnt happen at nbc news. i think youre seeing a lot of great journalists asking great...

Information as they participate in a democracy and crucial to holding the powerful accountable and if we want to be a powerful instrument to do that, we have to check ourselves and clean house, as well. we have to make sure we are reporting the truth and not becoming instruments of suppression and in the last cycle, we saw that happen. ami is an instrument of suppression. we seen that at other organizations, too, and they are asking tough questions. >> thank you so much. the book is "catch and k...

Stormy daniels situation where it was brought to ami first by her attorney and ami connected the parties that were involved in that transaction, michael cohen and stormy daniels. look, this is, as you say, bigger than one organization. bigger than one set of individuals. this is about patterns of mutual protection in circles of power and the way in which powerful people are able to sub vert the press, whether it is nbc or ami to bury stories and that is why the title is "catch and kill", as term...

Obviously ami has signed a non-prosecution agreement admitting to potential violations of election law. the actual contents of a lot of the stories they buried were either dubious, maybe not true. i broke that story about donald trump potentially having a love child, which is a story they bought, paid a lot of money. >> and stuffed it in a safe. >> in this case, a similar situation. there were about five affairs discussed on it, some of them which have become public, some that have not. >> five ...

Was sexually assaulted in an attempted rape by donald trump. she told people about it, but nothing ever came of it, and youre saying that was in the file? >> exactly right. so i want to be clear. the headline here is not that there is some super secret piece of evidence that is on that list documented. now, we dont know the exact universe of what was destroyed either. >> heres what ami says about this, about you. mr. farrows narrative is driven by unsubstantiated allegations from questionable so...

>> this is one of the curious narratives of that election cycle, that the "enquirer" became an attack dog for donald trump. they have admitted this was a coordinated collaboration, not only killing stories but actively going after leads to try and bury them. that is where the term catch and kill comes from. this book in addition to stories you might have heard about in the news, this playboy model, karen mcdougal i reported on, stormy daniels, we actually document a brand new case of catch and k...

Biggest revelations in the book and one that you are only now at liberty to talk about this morning, and that is this safe of secrets. we had heard rumors that the "national enquirer" and/or its parent company had a safe of secrets where they kept stories on donald trump who was then a candidate. let me read what you write in the book about this. in june 2016 dylan howard who was the "national enquirer" editor had compiled a list of the dirt about trump accumulated in amis archives dating back d...

To.ch that is our broadcast for this wednesday night, september 11th, what does this mean? 2019. thank you for being with us. >> it means that cy vances team has picked up the investigationn good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. into falsifying business records in the trump organization. it means theyre sort of tugging that piece of yarn in this sweater and seeing how it o unravels.an this is interesting on lots of tonight on "all in." different levels, not only in how th...

Be a witness because you know hes not a very good witness because of his falsifying busi which can be a felony and a serious offense. and it could lead as you tug on that yarn in the sweater from falsifying business to some kind of a criminal tax fraud case. and so we just have to wait and see what they get, in addition what theyve got out of ami. what theyve gotten out of the records from the trump organization. and in the course of their investigation, have people in the trump organization lie...

Stormy daniels, as you and your colleagues in the judiciary committee are planning to hold hearings about the presidents role in alleged push money payments. daniels says shes ready to testify. will your committee ask her to testify? >> the witness list has not been finalized. we do know that michael cohen is sitting in federal prison partly because he engaged in a criminal conspiracy to use hush money payments to silence stormy daniels as well as karen mcdougle when they had negative stories of...