couldn't call their publicists, we couldn't call their agents and so even if we managed to get ashley juddat first minute, here's an argument for trusting us, here's an argument for telling us a really private story, and the line that we hit on, and this really became the kind of basis of our partnership is that there's a line that megan had used previously in her reporting in chicago, and we said to victims, look, we can't change what happened to you in the past, but if we work together, we may be able to takehis in some sort of constructive direction. >> when you look at the book and see the various accounts and it's all called together now, you do see what you came to see what you call yourselves in the reporting a pattern. it appeared there were women that had never met each other, flung across the globe, different companies, different time periods and yet they all seem to tell such a similar story. >> we traced allegations that stretched from 1990 to 2015. so these were decades of predatory behavior, and often times women who didn't know, in some cases women had come forward. they wan

it came from assistants and celebrities like ashley judd and gwyneth paltrow. >> since then more thanomen allegations against the media oesnstein conts to deny wi the allegations. nd the book "she said, broward county broward county goes behind the scenes of reporting the investigation. us beok's co-author and cbs news contributor, jodi kantor joins us. savo. i started the book and thought what more is there to say about the story. let me tell you, a lot. you took us behind the scenes. brilliant reporting by you and by megan. su told us some never-before-things like -- i have to say, bravo, too, to gwyneth paltrow. she played a much bigger role i wink than many people realized. >> i barely thought we should call her because she was harvey's biggest star. she's not going to talk to us. h fact, when almost nobody else yneth tywood would pick up the phone, when only a few other people like ashley judd were talking to us, she talked of her se-dation with weinstein, how thoses afraid she would lose the early roles. weinstein was obsessed whether or not she was speaking to us. nt ine point

from sexual harassment, even the most famous, shiny women and celebrities, including people like ashley judd this themselves. >> reporter: weinstein has consistently said all the encounters were consensual. in a new book, they go into detail about what they uncover and how difficult it was to get women who said they were victimized to go public. >> gueweneth paltrow was a sour early on. >> it was hair raising for her, because harvey weinstein had been such a big influence. >> reporter: it began with a meeting with weinstein in a hotel room in her early 20s. >> she had a fax saying here's where you need to show up. she went to the hotel room. the meeting was pretty unremarkable. at the end of it, he put his hands on her and said let's finish in the bedroom. >> reporter: paltrow says she refused and later confided in her boyfriend at the time brad pitt. after pitt confronted weinstein, he became enraged. >> he essentially said you are going to screw up your whole career if you tell people about this. it was so uncanny because so many of them would tell the reiterations on the same story. >> al

company memo, and it was really being having thaevt idence that we were able to make the case to ashley juddet on the record, becae we said, we're not putting you into a he sad/she said situation where you're standing here alone. we have 25 years worth of allegations documented b that becomesis that you can stand on for coming forward. >> woodruff: i saw that was part of the argument you wereo making to any women, you were saying, we owe it to theset r women, because of what they have gone through, to talk now. megan twohey, what about harvey weinstein himself? how 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, o

and then there's the question of, if you do get um taurman or ashley judd or gwyneth paltrow on the phonet do you tually say to them in the first 45 seconds of the phone call the try to earn that trust. but actually, things ended up workina little diffe yntly th describe, which is essentially we realized that the hollywood silence over harvey weinein was holding. we were accumulating this stack of off-the-record disturbing hotel room stories, but all of these actresses we very afraid to go on the record, so what we started doing was building a mountain of other evidence, and that mountain consisted of internal records, the legal and financial tra the settlements, a very important internal company mem and it was really being having thatce evid that we were able to make the casase to hley judd to get on the record, because w said, we're not putting you into a he said/shsaid situation where you're standing here alone. we have 25 years worth of that becomes a basat you can stand on for coming forward. >> woodruff: i saw thatas part of the argument you were making to so many women, you were sa

consulting with jodi, she had really made the case that like actually if people like gwyneth paltrow and ashley judded, if they'd been victims of sexual harassment, nobody is immune. and if we can help get to the bottom of this and bring this to light after so many years of silence we may be able to make a difference. >> and there is this story about getting people to put their names to the story. finding the victims. once you found the victims, once you're hearing the story, once you're recognizing the similarity between all the stories, getting people to put their names on them. but that's not it. that doesn't get you to where you need to be. and jodi, i feel like the decision to write this essentially as a journalistic thriller is to put at the center of the story this idea of provable fact. it's not just accusation. it's not just coming out. it's about telling the story in a provable, objectives way. >> absolutely. in part because these events have come to mean so much to so many people, we realized that people did not know the true surprising story of how this unfolded behind the scenes. and so

clearly we've got 70 women, names you know, ashley judd, salma hayek.gations. how you do respond to that, and does that matter to you? >> sure, i think it matters. it might matter to me in my analysis of the whole circumstances but if i look at the criminal case, frankly, those allegations don't matter in the context of the criminal case. >> how does harvey explain those allegations? >> i don't think it's about explaining them. any time we talk about men and women and sexual circumstances i think we have to look at the fact there's always an area of gray. so there's these blurred lines and i think sometimes one sidewalks away from an event feeling different than the other and how do we reconcile that. >> it's not uncommon for a woman who has been involved in a traumatic engage management to still be engaged with that man. >> that's her choice. but to come forward -- who knows years later if your memory is exactly the way it was at the time it did. i get frustrated when i hear these types of situations and i hear women say, i didn't have a choice. well,

when only a few people like ashley judd were helping us, gwyneth told us her story of pre-dation withd us how he threatened her, and she was afraid she was going to lose those critical early roles. and also, tween was obsessed -- weinstein was obsessed with the question of whether or not she was speaking to us. at one point i got a panicked phone call. she was hiding in her bathroom from harvey weinstein because he showed up to her house. she had showed up -- she knew he was coming to the party, but he showed up early, and that was scary. >> that's an extraordinary moment. another thing you reveal for the first time is harvey weinstein's brother bob wrote a letter to him two years earlier in which he said "you have brought shame to the family and your company through your misbehavior." >> one of the lingering mysteries that we wanted to dig deeper on is what was bob weinstein's role? he was his brother, he was his co-founder of these two companies. and megan twohy, my partner, sat down with bob for reflective interviews. we also were able to publish this very long searching letter tha

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