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The fallout spreading from hollywood to corporate america, the media and capitol hill. And knew there would be this incredible flood of people in industry after industry. Women and men coming forward with difficult claims. Senator al franken announcing he will resign. Pressure is going on president Trumps Supreme Court nominee. Matt lauer has been terminated from nbc news. Reporter at the center of the saga that was the me too movement there were the big names. Salma hayek, gwyneth paltrow, ashley judd. I thought no meant no. Reporter rose mcgowan. A nightmare. And i will never be the same. Youre about to hear from the reporter who obtained that secretly recorded audio. Reporter and then there was ronan farrow. Ronan was definitely underestimated by pretty much everybody, i believe. Reporter a reporter and witness to a cultural shift that would define an era. Thousands joining marches and rallies. Reporter it was a movement that swept the country. Demonstrating against harassment of women, demanding equality and change. Reporter from the Nations Capital to the red carpets of hollywood. Why do you think you were able to get so many women to trust you . I was fortunate to come at this story at a cultural moment where brave sources were starting to come forward and chip away at the dam and where people were saying enough. Reporter more than 80 women, according to the new york times, coming forward publicly with accusations against arguably the most powerful man in hollywood, Harvey Weinstein. I thought he was a warthog from hell. I thought he was the single most ugly person id ever seen in my life. I was able to tell this story because people were brave as hell. And they are still being brave as hell and refusing to shut up. Reporter now in his new book catch and kill lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators, ronan farrow adds a new chapter to his reporting in the me too era fch. Catch and kill is about systems and patterns of the abuse of power. Reporter in the highly anticipated book ronan writes in graphic detail an account of an alleged rape by former today show anchor matt lauer. That portion leaked last week and immediately dominated headlines. There are not allegations of unfair. There are allegations of a crime. Reporter but in it he also claims nbc news mishandled accusations against lawyer. This is about what happens when media organizations enshrine in their corporate and Legal Practices a coverup culture. A set of agreements and payouts designed to conceal abuse at a company. Reporter just this morning the president of nbc news fired off an email to all staff with an opening line saying matt lauers actions were abhorrent. He goes on to say, ronan farrows book takes thaun deniable fact and twists it into a lie, alleging we were a company with a lot of secrets. We have no secrets and nothing to hide. There is proof and a paper trail in this book. Just about everyone involved in all these transactions said this was explicitly designed to shut up women with allegations about sexual harassment. Reporter it was early 2017. Harvey reporter and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was still living the high life. Appearing on red carpets at International Film festivals and awards shows. When a cryptic series of tweets from former Actress Rose Mcgowan alluding to an alleged rape by weinstein caught the attention of ronan and his boss. When i released that tweet about why women dont report, that was my like okay, come find me, reporters, lets go. It was time. And thats exactly what happened. My plan worked. Now, ronan for nbc comes to me very, very soon. There was a story that i was developing and id pitched about the hollywood casting couch. Reporter at the time ronan was a freshfaced reporter working for nbc news, a child prodigy who was accepted into Yale Law School at just 15. But his onair resume at that point was limited to a failed msnbc show. Welcome to ronan farrow daily. Reporter canceled after just one season. Scl i asked rho i asked ronan if he could be brave and he said yes. Reporter when ronan first reached out to rose she wasnt even naming weinstein publicly. He turned to his sister for advice. I cared profoundly. My sisters experiences gave me insight into just how important the issue was. Reporter ronan is the son of mia farrow and woody allen. His sister dylan has accused woody allen of molesting her when she was just 7 years old. The drama first played out on tabloids in the early 90s but ultimately woody allen was never charged with a crime. Certainly i never, ever abused my daughter. There was no sexual abuse that ever took place. My own sister was part of the history of women who came forward and refused to shut up even when people around them told them to. Even when you did. Even when i did. I let my sister down. I was one of those many people who our culture saying this is an albatross, this is inconvenient, why cant you just shut up . And thank god she didnt. I loved my father. I respected him. And that doesnt obviously take away from what he did. But it does make the betrayal and the hurt that much more intense. I evolved from thinking she should shut up to understanding she was doing something important. That ultimately was inspiring to me. Reporter in 2017 rose mcgowan was on the cusp of going public with her story, and it was ronan who was urging her to name names. Lets talk about how difficult it was to get rose mcgowan to name Harvey Weinstein. Rose mcgowan deserves a tremendous amount of credit for bringing forward her claim early. And this was a hard process. It was a gradual process. But by the time we were signature down on camera in early 2017 she was telling that story in shocking, painful detail. Reporter over the course of his reporting ronan had started noticing strange things. Like a mysterious car that seemed to be following him. At what point did you say, wow, this is not just in my head, im really being followed . You start to see the same people behind you on the street and youre looking over your shoulder a lot and youre seeing a car parked outside your apartment at all hours. And people are starting to tell you you have to get a gun. Reporter ronan would eventually find out that weinstein had hired blackcube, a firm largely run by former mossad agents, in an attempt to stop the publication of the allegations against him. This is the kind of stranger than fiction spy tactic that was not at all fiction. It was really happening. Reporter despite all the money and power that weinstein wielded, it was the actions taken by some of his alleged victims like Ambra Gutierrez that would ultimately help take him down. She had been shamed, and people underestimated her. They thought shes a lingerie model. And she had signed a milliondollar settlement that Harvey Weinstein and his attorneys felt confident would shut her up forever. Reporter in a move that ultimately helped blow the story wide open, ambra had preserved a secret copy of a Police Recording of her and weinstein. Im feeling very uncomfortable right now. Please come in now and one minute. And if you want to leave when the guy comes reporter weinstein was unaware ambra was wearing a police wire. Why yesterday you touch my breast . Oh, please, im just used to that. Youre used to that . Yes. Come in. But im not used to that. There had been a taped confession of Harvey Weinstein saying this is a pattern of behavior, im used to that. It was a game changer. Reporter even though no criminal charges from this were filed the recording was crucial for his reporting. What was your reaction as you heard it . I knew this was a story that had to be reported urgently. Having the tape kept me up at night. It meant that i had a moral obligation to get this evidence out before someone else got hurt. Ill never forget it. It was chilling. Reporter rich mccue, ronans nbc producer at the time, also heard the tape. We played it for the head of the investigative unit. And his reaction confirmed our reactions. It was like man, if this thing airs hes toast. Reporter with so much at stake ronan got a safety deposit box at the bank of america right across from nbcs headquarters. I put all of my reporting material in there including this precious recording and i put that in that vault and wrote a note saying if anything happens to me you need to get this out and here are people you can contact to do it. Reporter but then a setback. One of ronans strongest sources, rose mcgowan, who had shared her story on the record, began to have second thoughts. Ultimately, i knew it wasnt nbc, it wasnt the right place. They wanted to put it on morning tv. I spiked that interview. It was me. My rape wasnt going to go with your cereal. I sent them a cease and desist. Reporter still seven months into their reporting rhone sxn rich were comfortable they had enough to show the head of the News Division noah oppenheim. Armed with a draft script and a plan for more reporting, they played him the recording from ambra. His reaction was incredibly jarring to me. It was almost like a deadpan reaction. It was other kind of people ive worked with in the News Business who would have been practically ripping that audiotape out of my hands, or our hands, to air it that night. Reporter in the book oppenheim is quoted saying i dont know what that proves. Hes trying to get rid of her. People say a lot of things when theyre trying to get rid of a girl like that. Im not saying its not gross but im still not sure its news. When we left the meeting, ronan and i were in the elevator and i turned to him and i was like somethings up. Thats not right. Reporter by august 2017, in addition to ambra, ronan says they had an accuser in shadow, anonymous corroborating witnesses, and they believed they could convince some accusers to agree to be named. But they say nbc executives told them to stand down completely. They issued a hard stop to reporting. They told me and a producer working with me that we could not take a single call with sources. Reporter in a later memorandum to staff nbc news chairman andy lack said after seven months without one victim or witness on the record he simply didnt have a story that met our standard for broadcast nor that of any major news organization. With nbcs permission ronan would take his work to the new yorker where he got more accusers to agree to be named on the record than he had at nbc news. His article was published on october 10h,2017, just days rk s jody kantor and megan twoey broke the story of other weinstein allegation ppz it was a watershed moment for the me too movement with even more victims feeling empowered to break their silence. Any comment, harvey . Reporter weinstein was arrested in 2018 and now awaits a january trial on charges of Sexual Assault and rape related to two women. He has pled not guilty those charges and has consistently denied any allegations of nonconsensual sex with anyone. Harvey weinstein told abc news what ronan farrow insinuates as factual accounts are actually an amalgamation of unrelated pieces of information that he formed together to tell what is little more than a dramatic fictional tale. It is a huge story and an important one in a way that was bigger than Harvey Weinstein, that was about vast systems that we are still struggling to expose. Matt lauer, the longtime host of the today show, has been fired. 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Brooke nevils hoped she could do the right thing to protect others. Reporter in his book catch and kill ronan tells Brooke Nevils story, revealing for the first time her account of the incident that led to nbc today show anchor matt lauers firing in 2017. The former nbc employee describes having multiple drinks with Meredith Vieira and matt lauer one night while working at the sochi olympics. She says lawyer texted her to come to his hotel room and then pushed her against the door and began to kiss her. She recalled lawyer pushing her onto the bed, flipping her over, and asking her if she liked anal sex. She said that she declined several times replying at one point, no. Thats not my thing. Nevils said she was still in the midst of telling him she wasnt interested when he just did it. Ronan quotes brooke, saying, it was nonconsensual in the sense that i was too drunk to consent. Was nonconsensual in that i said multiple times that i didnt want to have anal sex. Matt lauer fired back, denying any nonconsensual sex and characterizing their relationship as an extramarital affair. He wrote, we engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other. We had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual. Adding i was never told brooke claimed our encounter in sochi was nonconsensual. Had i been i would have defended myself immediately. How did you go about vetting Brooke Nevils . Im an attorney. Im a skeptic. And in every instance where a story is reported in the book it is backed up by multiple contemporaneous accounts. It is backed up by documentary evidence. When she recounts the story to Human Resources at nbc, you said she did not call it a rape. Her attorney stopped the proceedings at one point to make it clear this was a nonconsensual interaction. She ambiguously described a brutal violent assault that injured her. Reporter brooke told ronan she received a sevenfigure settlement and signed a nondisclosure agreement. But he says she wasnt the first woman with accusations against lawyer. Andy lack issued a statement in november of 2017 and he said, qus it is the first complaint about his behavior in over 20 years hes been at nbc news. The evidence in this book, the documentation and paper trail of settlements, reveals that there were multiple arrangements to keep women quiet who had allegations against matt lauer years before this one that got him fired. I personally spoke to executives who heard about those allegations years before. Reporter ronan also alleges that nbc gave multiple women an enhanced severance in a veiled effort to cover complaints about Sexual Misconduct by lawyer. But oppenheim denies that is, writing in that staff email that the separation agreements to which ronan seems to be referring involve employees who made no complaint to management and whose departure agreements were unrelated