lauer and nbc news, harvey weinstein, this is about a culture of cover-up and one of the ways they were able to get away with it, harvey weinstein in h, according to your reporting, and he had what trump had, which is a friend in the tabloid newspaper empire ami, that is how donald trump was able to get away with stuff and you broke that reporting as well. and it is astounding. as i am attempting desperately to get this story on air at nbc and my producer is attempting desperately to get it on air and being ordered to stop, to not take a single call, to stand down on this reporting. and nbc has now conceded they had at least 15 secret calls with harvey weinstein and i document in this book how promises to kill the story were made in those calls. as all of that is happening, harvey weinstein is huddled with the nationalen choir and the editor and trying to prevent the
enquirer and he openly told me that he used the national enquirer to help donald trump get elected and if you look at the coverage all through 2015 and 2016, it was relentlessly favorable toward donald trump and very hostile to hillary clinton earlier ted cruz and his republican rivals. i did not learn that there was this actual showing of stories in advance but as far as i could tell, there was no need. because the pieces were so favorable that why would they need to bother. donald trump had a long history with the nationalen choir the national enquirer. he was the source and a subject. this is consist ebts with tent treatment. i don t understand what the criminal behavior is the government is looking into. this is shabby journalism. i don t know about crimes committed. i don t quite understand whery