step up and say, oh, my god, we feel for these girls. this is -- this is horrifying. and the same way that they did in defense of people who had been wronged by cosby and -- >> i don't want to put you in a bad spot. >> but you're going to. >> i know you said lawyers contacted you, but did any people -- he had -- has one of the most powerful social circles you can think of. when you were working on this book, did people of influence reach out to you -- >> and in palm beach, look, towns don't want bad stories about their town. nobody -- i've had hundreds of people from that town come up to me and thank me for writing the book. >> really? >> yes. >> but no one said stop what you're doing. >> nobody knew. look, people don't -- i saw somebody on cnn this morning say, well, this he all knew. who would know about that? did people at nbc know about matt lauer? i don't think so. did people know about charlie rose? i don't think so. people didn't know. they knew that he threw parties,