Tonight at nbc news. Did they bury the story on Harvey Weinstein and why . Trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom with these allegations this evening. Hi, trace. Hi, martha. The accusations come from former nbc producer rich mchugh until this month worked in nbcs investigative unit. In august of last year mccune and ronan pharaoh were working on the Harvey Weinstein story as they were about to fly to los angeles to interview a woman with credible allegations of rape against weinstein rich mchugh told fox news that from the highest levels of nbc i was told quote not to do the interview and stand down thus effectively killing the story that was unethical and a massive breech of journalistic integrity. Nbc says mchues assertion is an outright lie claiming at the time ronan pharaoh didnt have a single on the record victim or witness by any misconduct by weinstein. Going on to say quoting fair ferraro believed his reporting was ready for air. He chose to leave for print outlet that
Information that he may need for yet this new russia investigation, this one yet another investigation into the origins of the russia investigation from the department of redundancy. Does it as someone who spent years in Law Enforcement, are you happy that we are all going to be able to see, hopefully, the classified information and know the truth, or does this concern you . This concerns me greatly. You know, first of all, declassifying information, particularly when it relates to counterintelligence investigations, requires, you know, people who know what the equities involved are. It sounds like hes actually interested in potentially finding out who the cias sources are abroad. That could potentially put their lives in danger if he chooses to dee classify that. Beyond that, alisyn, attorney general barr has a history of Misleading Congress and the American People about what the actual evidence s he has prejudged outcomes and then he cherry picks evidence to support the image that he
Attorney general spear heads the third and latest probe of just how the russia investigation all began. But thats not all. The president also gave barr complete authority to make public any sensitive or classified intelligence that he wants. Even while refusing, ironic, to let congress see any of the underlying intel of the Mueller Report. Our ivan perez our senior justice correspondent joins me to break this down. Irony aside for the moment about the white house calling for full transparency here. Absolutely. What do these new powers mean that bill barr got overnight . Exactly. This is extraordinary, as you said, for the attorney general who is a noted vocal skeptic of the origins of the russia investigation to now have the power to essentially go to the cia, to the director of National Intelligence, to all the other intelligence agencies that were working with the fbi at the beginning of this investigation and have them declassify, have them essentially make Public Information that h
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