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please welcome jodi kantor and megan twohey.ly show and congratulations on a book that i think takes us behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories that has ever hit any country. and that is a story of harvey weinstein. you wrote the box and you titled it she said which is oftentimes what people say is oh, this is "he said, she said." we can't figure it out, why use that title. >> well, what we really wanted to do was bring you with us on this investigation. the events of me too have come to mean so much to so many people, that we can finally tell you the truth of what happens behind the scenes. we want you there with us during those first conversations with the, they are very nervous even though they are some of the most famous women in the world to tell us their stories. but there are actually some hes and for example we want to you meet the kind of deep throat of the weinstein investigation, harvey weinstein's own accountant who had worked for him for 30 years. >> trevor: wow. so how do you even begin to convince somebody

it's jodi kantor and megan twohey.k you both. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now, celebrating a unique lens to see life. amna nawaz remembe one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, part of our "canvas" series. >> you know, you're a hunter. you're hunting for a good nawaz: he was best known for vividly capturing america's quirks and spotlighting theco try's social divisions in everyday life. robert frank was born ind switzerl a wealthy european jewish family, but he was decidedly an american, one m who managed ntain an outsider's point of view-- as he documentary about reer,15 "don't blink." >> i tried not to talk to them, and i didn't want them to talk to me. >> nawaz: frank emigrated to new york in 1947, and started work at "harpers bazaar," but he soon came aware of many of the stark contrasts in american society. that perspective was a driving force behind his most celebrated work, 1957's "the americans." starting in 1955, frank criss- crossed the country, snaing 28,000 photos

megan twohey, jodi kantor. >>> and that's it for all in this weekend. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. he attacked the reporting that he tried to change the weather forecast. meanwhile, at a federal prison in upstate new york, inmate michael cohen has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as they investigate if the trump family business cooked the books to pay people off. >>> and ten democrats now just hours away from their next debate. will they go they attack cheeseg

megan twohey, what about harvey weinstein himself?tough of a character are we talking about going up against? >> when we broke this story in 2017, it was just thin begng. we had been able to connect some of the dots about his allegeoi spreaddation back decades and how he had been able to cover it up, but with the additional reporting for this book, we started to pull backai the cuon the machinery that was in place that harvey put many place to silence histr victims anthe halt our investigation. that included amassing like team of very high-powered attorneys, including sa bloom, one of the most prominent feminist attorney, in the country who made the remarkable decision to cross sides to work for him i 2016 and 2017 as he was trying to fight back this story. it also included black cube,iv this pe investigative firm made up of former israeli intelligence agents who were basically promised a $300,000 bonus by weinstein if they could succeed in stopping our investigation. i, how much dood you think things have changed for working women as

twohey, congratulations. it's really good to have you both here. meganto ask you an inappropriate first question. >> okay. >> which is you came back from maternity leave in july 2017. you're given the option of reporting on trump tower moscow or harvey weinstein. was that like close my eyes and pick? i mean, that's two very difficult doors to choose between. why did you pick the way you did? >> well, that's right. i took a day to contemplate that question and consulted with some colleagues. i had colleagues who had been reporting on trump as i had before i'd gone off on maternity leave who said here's the story of a lifetime, you'd be crazy to go off and look into this supposedly sleazy producer. and i did actually have some questions about the investigation in terms of famous actresses. it was hard for me to conceive famous actresses as being victims. as investigative reporters we really want to help give voice to the voiceless. but in consulting with jodi, she had really made the case that like actually if people like gwyneth paltrow and ashley judd ha

megan twohey, jodi kantor. >>> and that's it for all in this weekend.show" starts right now. >> good evening. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour on this the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. it has been sort of an unsettling day in the news. not necessarily in terms of the anniversary, but just in terms of our own c

explosive new book set for release this week called "she said" by "times" journalists jodi kantor and megan twohey, whose reporting helped inspire the me too movement. in an interview on "cbs sunday morning," the reporters discussed paltrow's role in building the momentum, sharing her own story and recruiting other actresses to speak that momentum eventually resulted in criminal charges against weinstein who goes to trial early next year in manhattan. >> she did play a much more active role than anybody's ever known, but it was hair-raising for her because harvey weinstein had been such an important influence. >> reporter: paltrow told radio host howard stern last year that weinstein sexually harassed her in a hotel room in 1995, and how her boyfriend at the time, the actor brad pitt, confronted the producer >> what he did was he leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when i didn't have fame or power yet. >> reporter: another detail revealed in the book, according to the "times," two years before the bombshell accusations against his brother, bob weinstein also confronted him, pleadi

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there's a very different side to each story megan twohey and jodi kantor won a pulitzer prize for their try to encapsulate this. did you ever imagine the impact that one story could have? >> we had no idea. we had hoped that this article would help bring out the truth about this one particular individual but what we realized was that first article was just the beginning. you know, we were able to piece together some of the dots at that time, connect some of the dots and since then, we have been able to bring together so many other pieces of the puzzle and we have realized and we saw these out in the book, we have realized that, you know, we wanted to illuminate the experiences of these brave women, like ashley judd, the back stories of, you know, how it was that they stepped up and went on the record, the gut wrenching decisions they faced behind the scenes. we also wanted to talk about the machinery that was in place to silence those women and block this investigation and we also wanted to bring to light, you know, so many of weinstein's victims, like rose mcgowan were silenced with th

megan twohey, jodi kantor. >>> and that's it for all in this weekend. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. he attacked the reporting that he tried to change the weather forecast. meanwhile, at a federal prison in upstate new york, inmate michael cohen has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as they investigate if the trump family business cooked the books to pay people off. >>> and ten democrats now just hours away from their next debate. will they go they attack cheeses or donald trump as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 965 of the trump administration. september 11th, 2019. that makes it the 18th anniversary of the largest loss of life on u.s. soil since the battle of antietam in the civil war and the day that launched our longest war still ongoing tonight. the president started this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with his own attacks on social media, railing about a poll done "by one of the worst pollsters of them all, the amazon "

megan twohey, jodi kantor. >>> and that's it for all in this weekend. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour on this the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. it has been sort of an unsettling day in the news. not necessarily in terms of the anniversary, but just in terms of our own current national security and u.s. politics news. it is unsettling that it is on this anniversary that we're reporting on the consequences of there being no national security advisor again. no president has ever had to fi hire four different national security advisors in less than three years. but after president trump fired his third one yesterday, or he resigned, or something, today what i guess has been the john bolton wing of the trump white house started emptying out in the wake of bolton's departure himself. bolton's assist at the national security council was fired or left today. the two senior directors for strategic communication at the national security council were also fired or left t

. >> jodi cantor, megan twohey, "the new york times" reporters behind the book. it is called "she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement." you should read it. a lot of people are comparing this to'll "all the president's men." and when it gets compared to "all the president's men," "all the president's men" does not come out on the long end of the comparison. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and we saw of course congressman adam schiff, the intelligence committee chairman, on your program and speaking directly to the whistleblower, as you did too. and i am sure that the whistleblower was watching the chairman tonight. >> well, that makes me very unsettled to think about that. >> i understand. >> but there is this weird situation where the whistleblower theoretically can convey that information directly to the committee. but it's almost impossible to do so legally without the channel being opened for that person. and the trump a

now those two reporters, jodi kantor and megan twohey have written one of the world's great books aboutournalism which is also the story of how they broke that story. i'm going to read a little bit because i want you to have a little idea of what i mean. this is jodi kantor tracking down an internal memo from inside the weinstein organization that details basically weinstein's sexual abuse. "jodi reached into her bag, drew out a printout sheet prepared a few hours before and passed it to the weinstein executive. jodi explained this was an account she heard from a well-known actress. a woman arrived to a meeting in a hotel room with harvey weinstein. when she got there, weinstein was waiting if a bathrobe and asked for a massage. he tried to pressure her into sex by saying he could help her career. she fled. the executive appeared aghast at hearing this. she told him she and the actress -- jodi and megan didn't know how many women had these kinds of stories about weinstein, based on what they were hearing they believed the number might be very high. jodi asked the executive again for the

said," about the revelations involving harvey weinstein and the me too movement, jodi kantor and megan twoheyhere with me. the book came out on tuesday, an extraordinary read about journalism, about business, about the legal world. but we were talking about the eve of publication, your first story about harvey weinstein and his decades of abuse about women, some employees, some not. he makes one last attempt to stop you from publishing, or at least stop you from publishing all that you had learned. what happened in that meeting, megan? some of this we don't really learn until you read your book. you didn't talk about this at the time. >> that was one of the things that we were really excited about with this book, there's so much of journalism and investigative journalism. that takes place in meetings that are technically on background. basically, secretive aspects of of our reporting that are never seen in the articles that are published in the newspaper, but we worked in the course of reporting this book to bring this material on to the record. for example, the day before our story ran, harv

jodi kantor and megan twohey, thank you so much. >> thank you for having us. >> good to have you on., another new polling out this morning showing joe biden with a double-digit lead over his 2020 democratic rivals. those new numbers are ahead. >>> plus, president trump and his allies say the ongoing trade war is not affecting americans, only china. but why, then, is the usda paying billions of dollars, billions, to american farmers for trade relief? we'll talk about the effects of the trade war signs of a possible recession with stephanie ruhle next on "morning joe." h stephanie ruhle next on "morning joe. let's get down to business. the business of hard work... ...hustle... ...and high fives. modernized comfort inn's and suites have been refreshed because our business is you. get the lowest price guaranteed on all choice hotels when you book direct at choicehotels.com. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. they're america's biopharmaceutica