Overload expelling him from the economy, its the lead story in this mornings los angeles times. More women coming forward with assault allegations. Actress just spoke with London Police and said weinstein raped her in the 1980s. Nypd looking here in new york city. While weinsteen is laying low in rehab his brother is trying to keep it afloat. It may not be possible. The board of directors is bracing for lawsuits from accusers who believe his behavior was covered up. This statement really underscores the gravity of this scandal. The message of shapeful complicity and sexually predator behavior is over. Thats what they say. But before looking ahead we have to look back. Entertainers all have soul searching to do. Will it be a catalyst for meaningful change . Why did it take so many years for these stories to be published . Joining me now is the former editor and chief who is now a consulta consultant. What does it feel like in the hollywood universe in the wake of this scandal . People are obsessed here but also theres a huge sense of relief. Its a dam that has been holding back clearly a flood waiting to invade the town. So this is people are relieved. They are saying its about time and also truly mystified it took this long for all of this to come out. That includes both media and executives in town. Tell me about your attempts to break this story years ago. We heard a lot about legal threats that were made about weinsteins team. Sure. The Hollywood Reporter has one of the finest, toughest entertainment journalists who have worked really hard to break this story. When i started one of the first things she ever told me was an off the record conversation she ever had. The question she had said to him over a lunch was he had asked her i believe what do you know about me . She said i heard you raped women before. The whole lunch was off the record. I cant tell you what his response was. From that day it was one of the stories we knew we wanted to get to the bottom of. Separately others we still have white boards with names of actresses, names of executives trying to figure out how to crack the silence. We came really close once. How recently . Last year. So one of the actresses who has confirmed she was raped to speak at our women entertainment breakfast. Breaking that wall of silence, you can see how powerful it is to get someone to go on the record. We didnt have it. So the main thing is women unable to speak on the record. That was partly because of legal threats or settlement payments . Yes. I think one of the things that was so state of the unioning to me is how relatively small. The highest was around 100,000. For that price they were able to sbie the silence of scores and scores of women for some times decades. It was really the fear of what he could do to you if you broke that agreement that kept the town in fear. We talked about these legal teams and legal settlements. I confirmed david is no longer working directly with weinstein. You have more information . Yes. Charles darter is no longer working with weinstein. It is an interesting pivot where he has gone from media attorneys with an hiring of criminal defense attorneys. He clearly sees he is not winning the moo ya war and he has a lot of sorting out to do on that end. When you go back and read it lets remember he released that. And charles is the leader of a lawsuit who took down gawker. Lets take a look. This was talking about prison time. Weinstein is reportedly going to europe for sex rehab. He needs a specialized facility where there are no women, no contact with the outside world, metal bars and its a prison. [ applause ] given the possibility of investigations by the police here in new york and london. What about nbc here . That is a clip from snl. But nbc news has been working on this. I remember they asked me about weinstein back in february. I was shocked he was looking into harassment allegations. I know you talked to him while he was working on this as well. He was sewing the whole thing up as far as he related to me. I asked him repeatedly i said its going to run. I am told right now it is. Something obviously went awry. I believe it will come out in full. It is an organization filled with journalists and many people who im assuming touched that decision. I can tell you the power that these attorneys are a menacing group of people. I think just in the experience we saw that and was let go. You know, kim masters went through and wrote about it the other day. She went through the wringer trying to not only get her story to see the light of day but to preserve her reputation. There was an a lot of invention of things that cast doubt on her unfairly that harmed her in the pursuit of the story. She was writing this, working on it. He is now on a leave of absence. That is another one of these after shocks as a result of the weinstein scandal. He tries to report on this. The Network Denies that comcast owners were involved. Takes it to the new yorker and is able to publish the story. Is this sort of a Success Story after many disappointing eras that there is enough diversity that eventually the truth will be published by somebody . I think its hard to call it a Success Story because i think you can look and see the Chilling Effect that charles has had on media in the past few years. I think kim said something so well that in all of her years washington post, vanity fair, lots of different time magazines she had never had one successfully kill a piece. That is true. In this case it was a level of intimidation and fear. You could also think about how all of the First Amendment attorneys that work for these outlets, they most often have one obligation which is to protect a company against risk and also publishing is not a vibrant industry right now. You have to also look at the companies that or the Parent Companies of media organizations and think how much risk are they willing to absorb against you know, i think he doesnt have one backing him as far as i know. In the case you saw what happened when you have billionaires who can outspend the media organization. Its not pretty. This is really unpeeled. It is peel back the curtain of how people try to keep stories from coming out. Last question real quick. I think what everybody is wondering, are there weinsteins in hollywood . Yes. There are. Probably no one more considered to be in that capacity than weinstein. I would say there are Different Levels of predators. Sure. This is an industry built on powerful men who control almost every aspect of the town. One of the things i said is that techb Hollywood Reporter does this 100 most powerful women in hollywood list. All of the statistics in this town for the past 20 or 30 years were unchanged in terms of women in front of the camera, women behind the camera, producers. Directors. Yes. And let me just state this also, hollywood is not unique in this. The gender problem which is sort of getting hopefully well be discussed as an outgrowth of all of this is provasive everywhere. Look at our house, look at our senate, look at our white house. So hollywood is systematic. Thank you very much. He remained on trumps latest tweets but his colleague, well join it right after this break. How much money do you think youll need in retirement . Then we found out how many years that money would last them. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . 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Lets talk about this in depth. You have to talk about what this really means. She is a current commissioner, one of the five commissioners for the federal communications recently reappointed. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me. Youre a democratic commissioner. I know you dont see eye to eye with President Trump. Tell us how it works. They are not giving out to networks. They are giving out to local stations, right . Right. They are not given out to networks, just local stations. We have about 1,800 of them and they have licenses for eightyear periods. When those licenses are up the agency assesses those stations and makes sure they have complied with fcc rules and policy and makes sure it has served their community. Do you look at a station and says its got to go off the air waves . Absolutely not. I think all that it does is careful to abide when it engages in any kind of policies involving broadcast licenses. Is there any precedent for a president saying we should take a look at those licenses . You know, i think we have to go back to early 70s when nixon showed some displeasure with stations owned by the washington post. Yes. And some of his allies sought to get those licenses revoked. It was not ultimately successful but thats useful precedent in this case. So it is incredibly unusual. Does it worry you that the president is talking about maybe possibly having licenses ve voeked . I think the Supreme Court characterizes as a profound National Commitment to having robust and wide open debate. You know, that debate can some times be hard hitting for public officials. It is absolutely essential that we support the First Amendment and everything that the fcc does. If thats the case where are your other commissioners . Why hasnt your chairman spoken out about this . I cant speak to what he is thinking. I think it is important for all of the commissioners to make clear that they support the First Amendment and that the agency will not revoke a broadcast license simply because the president is dissatisfied with the licensees coverage. How will it go down . Licenses are renewed every eight years. I would call it normally a rubber stamp process. Licenses are almost always renewed. So what happened in two years if one of trumps friends decided to challenge a license . Is it possible we could see trumps words turn into actions . I would hope no. I think we have to honor the First Amendment and our democrat democratic norms associated with it. And since i have you here a lot of concern about sin claire taking over tribune, trying to buy more tv stations. Are you involved . Is the fcc reviewing this . I certainly expressed some concern. My concern is primarily this. It would be unprecedented to allow a broadcaster to get this large and reach more than 70 of american households all across the country. I think with that large size we lose something about the quality of broadcasting. I think thats something we should be worried ability. Thanks. Well have you back soon. Michael cox and tom wheeler, tom was the chairman of the fcc until trumps election. I think jessica is trying to be poe lig p polite to her colleagues. Why hasnt she weighed in . I wish i knew why she hadnt. It is the silence of the lambs. He is making himself comply sit. He was saying we are watching and we control your right to be alive and the failure of the narm of the fcc and the other republican commissioners to stand up and say no. We took an oath to protect the constitution and the First Amendment and this will not be allowed, that failure is shocking. Michael, you and tom are both dem kra democrat democratic former commissioners. I suspect a lot of Republican Former fcc commissioners are just as horrified as trumps. It doesnt stand regardless of party. I hope youre right. Trump is just not a reliable source when you come to this question. He doesnt understand the role of the presidency ceaand he doet understand the licensing process. You cant take a license away from nbc. They have 28 owned and operated stations. You have to act against each one of those stations. And they have many many more affiliates. If you dont like nbc programming you would have to take their license away. The fcc wouldnt be doing anything but looking at licenses for the next few years. I think trump is grasping at levels of power. Hi says maybe we with should have equal time rules . Is that your impression as well . He is trying to figure out ways to poke at the media . I have a lot of gripes with big journal and less enjournalism and fewer news rooms and all of this con sal dags. Big media helped make this guy president of the United States. Billions of dollars of free air time to extend he said i dont know if trump is good for america or no not. He said he appreciated the ad revenue then. Yeah. Last word to you, tom. Jessica brought it up, the issue of the sin claire merger. He has gone out of his way to rapidly change all of the fcc rules that could possibly be used to question the validity of that merger of a protrump b broadcaster. Now when you have trump trying to intimidate other broadcasters theres absolute silence. The interesting question is what went on in the Oval Office Meeting between donald trump when he was summoned to the oval office that they wont talk about and were any of these kinds of issues. So the American People ought to know that the fcc is standing up for freedom of the press and the American People ought to know whether there is Something Else going on here to promote protrump broadcasting and be silent on the threatening of others. 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It just seemed like a fascinating thing to me that maybe we were in the middle of something and didnt realize it. And so thats what i try to unravel in this book. And using mobile devices are probably making this worse. It is something we all feel but rarely talk about, the effect of phones on our daily lives. Is it really there is more news or more access to the news and thats whats messing with our minds a little bit . Whats happening