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Reported that nbc news general counsel threatened to smear ronan farrow if he continued to report on weinstein. the story also claims that one of weinstein's lawyers threatened farrow saying nbc had assured him in writing that farrow would not use any information he obtained about weinstein while reporting for the network and, of course, both nbc news chairman andy and on oppenheim come under fire for reports that both were involved in the decision not to run farrow's story. former producer rich mchue says something else had to be going on because you never let an explosive story walk out the ...

More quote i want to get your thoughts on rich mchugh telling the "new york times" that weinstein associates were trying to squash the story and he said external liver i had weinstein associates calling me repeatedly. i knew that weinstein was calling nbc executives directly. one time it happened when we were in the room. what are your thoughts on all this, mark? >> yeah, that's how he did it that's how weinstein operated. if it worked for him in los angeles and new york and toronto and rome and london and paris. all over the planet. and i think what we understand from this story and ronan far...

Us, interrupt. women have played second fiddle for way too long. when you have a story so m meticulously reported, for many other women to come up and say "me too" that had a tipping point effect. go back to malcolm gladwell's books. often things happen in the world that don't actually make a change until they do. until there is this tipping point. and so what -- you know, the "new york times," ronan far row, the major newsbreakers have done is create this tipping point. and make it so that it is no longer possible to shut us up. and to disbelieve us. apprehension you've seen a retrial in the ...

Year. it is still a mystery, why did nbc let him walk out the door with one of the biggest stories of the year? we all know how the weinstein story has sparked months and months of reporting about other powerful men, including nbc's matt lauer. when lauer was fired, nbc pledged to investigate itself, and on wednesday, the report came out. nbc's head lawyer said, quote, we found no evidence indicating that any nbc news or "today" show leadership, news hr or others received any complaints about lauer's workplace behavior prior to november 27th. so they say they didn't know. they also say they're...

Wasn't ready. but farrow disagrees, and is going to write about what happened in a new book titled "catch and kill." the book was announced a few days ago and i think it's going to be a doozy. let me bring back christiane amanpour and frank sesno. frank, there has been some skepticism, and one of the women -- the woman who came out tuesdaying tom brokaw of harassment says there should be an independent investigation. where do you stand on the idea of these media companies or newsrooms having to look inward and not always being comfortable doing so? >> it's always difficult. it's always very co...