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they did act as p.r. agents ford harvey weinstein, the story is crammed with details. the cumulative effect is so overwhelming and so clearly true that nbc hasn t responded to the story, instead have ignored it hoping it will go away. just today, the wall street journal reported that nbc has and this was a remarkable even by their standards renewed noah oppenheim s contract and its expected he will take control of the entire company soon. before that happens we want to speak to rich mccue directly about his experiences at nbc, and we are happy to have him join us tonight. welcome. you open the piece on a great endeavor. one year ago, i resigned from nbc news because they ordered me to stop reporting on harvey weinstein which they clearly did. in the piece, you unearth evidence that weinstein s lawyers, david bois had been assured that you would not do reporting on harvey weinstein. chris: that s correct.
part of this goes to ronan, what he unearthed in his book the piece quotes an incident where that happeneds where david boys who s an an attorney for weinstein at the time on behalf of mr. weinstein went to get assurance from nbc of what was going on with the story and was told that we are no longer doing a story on him. tucker: you ve worked at a number of different television networks, you re a supervising producer at nbc, not a small job. have you ever heard of a network assuring the target of an investigation or the subject of a story that they are not going to report on him? chris: never. tucker: what do you think this was about? chris: i think everybody who has read the book catch and kill and hopefully people who read what i wrote now see what it was
journalists and have it remain this secret? matt: i didn t know this was going on. i think a lot of people in the entertainment industry didn t know it was going on. everybody i talked to in hollywood was shocked. we knew harvey had expensive lawyers. david bois is a $1,000 an hour attorney. they were very powerful and their job was the keep harvey out of the news in a negative contact. but we had no idea david bois who represented al gore in the recount was doing these kinds of thing. howie: david bois also argued the gay marriage in front of the supreme court. they are trying to stop the new
journalists and have it remain this secret? matt: i didn t know this was going on. i think a lot of people in the entertainment industry didn t know it was going on. everybody i talked to in hollywood was shocked. we knew harvey had expensive lawyers. david bois is a $1,000 an hour attorney. they were very powerful and their job was the keep harvey out of the news in a negative contact. but we had no idea david bois who represented al gore in the recount was doing these kinds of thing. howie: david bois also argued the gay marriage in front of the supreme court. they are trying to stop the new