On Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual abuse of women in his book catch and kill in his book catch and kill. Good evening everybody. Thank you for your patience. I am the coowner of politics and prose on behalf of everybody here we are grateful here at the auditorium thank you for coming. We have been partnering with gw for a number of years now sponsoring the author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in washington we are also grateful for the support for all of you we know you have choices on where to buy books and we like to thank you for choosing to shop with your local independent bookstore. [cheers and applause] especially nice to be hosting ronan farrow this evening talking about his new book catch and kill it has been two years since he was writing in the neww yorker and with his writing in the New York Times since they published the separate Sexual Assault allegations against would be producer Harry Weinstein and that cause