what nbc news is. for more on the broader media efforts to protect harvey weinstein the middle of all this, we are joined by a reporter with "the hill" newspaper. so the red flag for me -- and these are very, located stories and we don't all the answers. but we do know that nbc news, open noah oppenheim and noah oppenheim's agent are refusing to answer questions. asking if they had any relationship with harvey weinstein or his company. they won't answer that question. what is the possible range of explanations for refusing to answer a simple question like that? >> that is what bothers me about that, tucker, that the head of a news organization is refusing to answer questions. he should go to, not the nbc news, obviously, don't keep it in-house, but find some other publication, somebody don't compete with. sit down and answer questions. it's exactly what you would ask a journalist with nbc news to do. you can break this down 100 different ways. two ways that stick out to me, and trace brought up in his