harvey. when yale university press asked if i was interested in writing a biography for the jewish live series, of course i was thrilled and i jumped at it immediately. i was very familiar with randy schiltz wonderful, the mayor, but i already knew from my research for the gay revolution that there were things that i could add that randy was not aware of. there were a number of letters that weren't available to him that had since become available, for instance, his chief correspondent from 1955 until the early 60s was a young woman by the name of susan davis, a heterosexual young woman, that he wrote dozens and dozens of letters to and really bared his soul, and i was able to see a part of harvey that i don't think randy could see in his wonderful book, his feelings about relationships and about who he was, another thing that wasn't available to harvey was these letters at boston university that a correspondence that harvey had with the director of hair and jesus christ superstar, and he was

harvey. so when yale university press when i was writing a a biography series of course i was thrilled t and i jumped at it. i was familiar with the mayor but i already knew from my research from the gay revolution there were things i can add that they were not aware of and those that were not available to him that were available now. for instance his chief correspondent 1955 through five through the early 60s with the young woman a heterosexual woman but he wrote dozens and does have letters to bearing his soul and i could see a part of harvey that i don't think randy schultz could see about relationships and who he was the other thing that was not available to harvey was at boston university and correspondence with the director of hair and jesus christ superstar and was very important in harvey's life. he worked for him and with him a number of years and brought oval new aspect of life to include what i found in the boston university collection and i also interviewed people as there is a lo

harvey: so what happened? what happened was, in boston, at that time there was a guy named whitey bolger who ran the town. harvey: he was a mob boss. dana: yeah, and he had guys under him, and one of the guys was kevin weeks and they showed up at one of my classes one day, him and another guy. they walk right into my class, like, "we need to talk to you. you owe us money." and i was like-- no, no, before he said that he said to me, "you know who i am?" - you knew it was the mob. - yeah. they said, "you got till tomorrow to pay $2,500." and i said, "i don't have $2,500." they said, "you better get it. you better find it." and, uh, i literally hung up the phone, picked it back up and called delta and got a one way ticket to vegas. i left everything, and then maybe, six to eight months later, they started digging up all the bodies at the beach and whitey fled and all that stuff started going down. so you moved to vegas and you become a big hit with aerobics. boxing fitness it was called. so, i taught classes at t

. - harvey: and you kept that. pamela: and he ate a lot of bagels off the crew table. - yes. - huh. i want to take you back to the lions game. - okay. - that changed your life. pamela: i guess so. i'm glad i went. i wasn't going to go. my neighbors were going. they had free tickets to the bc lions game. and they had t-shirts and labatt's beer. they were representatives of labatt's beer. and so we went with my neighbors, and the camera zoomed in on me, and they told me to stand up and show the t-shirt all game. and then they had me on the advertisements. "monday night football," they would show me. and then all of a sudden, i was the blue zone girl. and after that, i did a commercial for labatt. ♪ glad to see that smiling face ♪ ♪ hey, you're gonna like this place ♪ ♪ doo, doo, doo, gonna break out the blue ♪ so tell me what happened after that because it's pretty amazing that you just show up at a game, put a t-shirt on, and you become a star. pamela: phone rang and it was marilyn grabowski from "playboy" and asked

i'm harvey levin. this is the story of the country music outlaw who went against the grain his entire career, a career than spanned more than 60 years. ♪ on the road again ♪ i just can't wait to get on the road again ♪ willie nelson grew up in abbott, texas, dirt poor, and quickly discovered music was his calling. harvey: being on the road was wild. women and parties. you had quite the time, i understand. what do you know? harvey: he soon became a superstar singer, songwriter, musician. but despite incredible commercial success, willie crashed and burned. - you owed a lot of money to the irs. - 32 million. and his personal life-- off the rails. traveling on the road is not healthy for marriages. harvey: there's a story about shirley. somebody sent her the invoice for the birth of a baby. not her baby, but your baby. but willie changed his life and turned things around, save for one indulgence. you had a house that was burning down, and you ran in to save two things. what were they? - trigger. - yeah. a

i'm harvey levin. this is a story about a cuban-american boy who grew up to become one of the most recognizable, and marketable celebrities in the world. ♪ swing your partner round and round ♪ ♪ end of the night, it's going down. ♪ armando pérez grew up in the slums of miami surrounded by violence and drugs. when i was born i was breastfed cocaine. i had to get rushed to the hospital and see if i was gonna make it. but music proved to be his golden ticket to a better life. - you are light-skinned, blue eyes. - yeah. too latin for hip-hop and too hip-hop for latin. till y'all figure it out, i'mma keep rappin'. and soon he applied the same hustler mentality he learned on the streets to business. pitbull's such a household name that it if you google pitbull, i come up before the dog. ( both laugh ) turns out his inspiration wasn't a big celebrity. it was someone who wasn't as lucky. eddie was somebody, that for one, believed in me, but more than anything, loved me and... ...he... way more than a musician,

harvey weinstein was. governor and this broke late right before the debate his debate with cynthia nixon you're the man this looks bad this looks really bad i mean everyone thing is you know they've got this campaign contribution in them you know a few days later you know they overturn their they didn't purchase our investigation but when you got like a letter of being written say i'm back off this and you got things like that that's a big deal but it's interesting because on twenty seventeen journals they would sort of revealed the district attorney cyrus vance had received this ten thousand dollar campaign demotion from david boies after the charges against weinstein were dropped. timing on june twentieth twenty david boies donated twenty five thousand dollars to the reelection campaign of andrew cuomo june twenty sixth cuomo suspended the investigation. right and it's all under this idea of you know how he brought it up and his reason was that they they didn't want to either interfere with the other cri

from harvey weinstein's high powered attorneys private investigators and paid harassers near district attorney cyrus vance jr refused to press charges against weinstein citing lack of evidence which led creative artist association back celebrity stacked anti-sexual arrest movement times up to pen an open letter to governor andrew cuomo urging him to investigate the district attorney's decision on march eighteenth of this year new york state governor andrew cuomo new york state governor andrew cuomo released an official statement regarding the refusal of vance to press charges against weinstein stating quote it is of great concern that sexual assault cases have not been pursued with full vigor of our criminal justice system but the investigation into possible wrongdoing by vance in the manhattan district attorney's office was quietly shut down in juneau this year by governor andrew cuomo but what makes this story true. blood boiling was that this week it was revealed by capitol in maine that just six days before quote was shut down the investigation he had received a campaign donation

i'm harvey levin. this is the story of the country music outlaw who went against the grain his entire career, a career than spanned more than 60 years. ♪ on the road again ♪ i just can't wait to get on the road again ♪ willie nelson grew up in abbott, texas, dirt poor, and quickly discovered music was his calling. harvey: being on the road was wild. women and parties. you had quite the time, i understand. what do you know?

was it risky for you to take on harvey weinstein? turned out to be profoundly risky, you know? really for a time my television career ended when i refused to stop reporting this story. he made devastating personal threats, you know. i had some unsavory characters following me and staking me out. none of that is at all commensurate with the tremendous trauma that these women, these sources went through. but it is -- >> what sort of threats? >> i want to be careful to not become the story. that falls into the category i think there will be time to look behind the scenes. it was not an easy process. and the personal links to it that kept me driven were simply that i had experienced what happens to a family when this devastating issue of sexual violence hits it. it was an emotional understanding of the broad strokes at how important it was to tell these stories. it's not a personal feeling about harvey weinstein. >> indeed. i'm not even suggesting a personal vendetta. i'm suggesting what might motivate and inform a human being when you'r

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our top stories: lawyers for harvey weinstein try to have the rape charges against him thrown out of court. american secretary of state mike pompeo tells south—east asian allies that diplomatic and economic pressure must be maintained on north korea. it is worth remembering this is not just an american security issue. it is clear our partners and allies within asean know how important the denuclearisation of korea is for their own security. the united states calls on zimbabwe's newly re—elected president to be magnanimous in victory, after more violence erupts. and emergency services in spain and portugal are on standby this weekend with warnings that temperatures could reach 48 degrees celsius. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the hollywood film producer, harvey weinstein, is attempting to have criminal charges against him thrown out of court. his legal team is arguing that prosecutors should have shared email evidence with the grand jury that indicted him. mr weinstein denies all the charges. more now from the bbc‘s paul blake in new york. he was once the most famous film producer i

harvey's show got canceled.ou know l.a., you know celebrities, why don't you run this new thing? it was very vague what it was going to be. harvey took it, made the smart decision initially not to do it from the warner bros. tv lot. he moved it elsewhere into glendale, and instead of doing soft celebrity coverage, he used his expertise -- which is really, he knew every single lawyer in los angeles, and he knew that there was a lot of juicy stories half buried in the los angeles legal system if you knew how to get it. taylor: talked to was a little about his relationship with trump, some of the interviews they have done. >> donald trump was a minor figure in the tmz world because he was on open up the miss america pageant. over the time, harvey befriended donald trump's lawyer michael cohen and he would occasionally go on tmz shows and all of a sudden, when trump runs for president, harvey levin finds himself in this unique position where he has close connections to this candidate, and there seemed to be a lot of

i didn't need harvey. harvey needed me. i guess, hired spies so people would not note information so it would be suppressed. what happened to rose will never hatch pen again. there is a net work of women now that is pretty formidable. we all talk to each other. our business has benefited from the fact that we didn't. d this is making -- people in the corporate suites shake in their boots. the agents shake in their boots. it's going to change the face of our industry. because for so many years, we hatch been, undervalued. underpaid, and ex-ployeded. so, that's over. >> do you think i am going to follow that? >> no. i've don't thi i don't think you should. that was great. tom hanks, meryl streep. >> thank you. >> an extraordinary film. that's it for ammanoour on pbs. see you again tomorrow. ♪ >> national presentation of "bbc world news" is made possible by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you.thank you. amy: very warm welcome to bbc news broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the world. my na

. >> in 1997, i was raped by harvey weinstein here at cannes. i was 21 years old. >> reporter: that memorable speech at the cannes film festival in may of this year put asia argento front and center of the me too movement. back in october, argento was one of the first women to accuse harvey weinstein of sexually assaults her. >> there are those who still have to be held accountable. you know who you are. and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer. >> reporter: according to "the new york times," 22-year-old actor jimmy bennett is now accusing argento of sexually assaulting him while in california in 2013. he was 17. argento was 37. the age of consent in that state is 18. bennett played argento's son in the 2004 film "the heart is deceitful." they developed a close relationship where he viewed argento as a mother-like figure according to documents obtained by "the new york times." in 2013, bennett says argento sexually assaulted him in a hotel room. in november of last year, just one month after argento made the accusations ag

harvey swept into texas and stayed for days, swallowing highways, cars and homes. the storm claimed 68 lives and prompted 30,000 water rescues. >> 80-85% of the structures in our city were impacted by the storm. >> reporter: fema sent millions for initial cleanup, but since then any money to rebu the mayor of nearby rose city, where all but two homes were completely underwater following harvey. >> i don't know how much longer people can last really. >> reporter: her strange community has many still struggling to rebuild, hearing money is on the way. >> if it's coming, get it here. i mean, we need it now, not another year from now. >> reporter: fema reports they've put nearly $14 billion in survivors' pockets and more is on the way. fee mma declined multiple reque for an interview but in a state said fee man recently opened a texas recovery office to couldn't the administration's commitment to rebuilding for the next several years. storm victims like charles remain committed too. >> this is mid home, so i want to stay here. >> reporter: to finding help and healing a

max and harvey are some massive singers, they are rehearsing right now. but i tell you what, let's come closer. not only do they have cbbc presenters here, but they also have gunge, have a look at that! it wouldn't be child ren‘s gunge, have a look at that! it wouldn't be children's telly without some of that. max and harvey, how are you doing? you are on bbc brea kfast. are you doing? you are on bbc breakfast. last time you want, you demolished our studio and damage the sofa. so, apologies for that. sorry about that! a festival of the kids, how

, and it's not my harvey. it was this harvey right here, so -- you know, we -- we go way back, and 40 years is a really long time and i feel so honored that i was able to spend my entire career in public service. my three children are here today, my adult children, and they are all continuing the same tradition of public service. i'm very proud of all three of them. many of their friends who i feel like are my children because we were raised them all together are also part of the city family now. it's -- really beautiful and i am -- i should be just like so excited about retirement, which i am, but it's -- it is very bittersweet. and this last job, the last seven and a half years at d.e.m. was the best. i mean, we had very difficult times, but i have to say, my staff is wonderful, a lot of them are here today. talk about the city's first first responders. you know, i could not do the job that our dispatchers do. they have, in my opinion, the hardest job in the city. [applause] and i want to thank everyone at d

harvey pitt, former chair of the sec.t coyou do with the stock in the meantime >> go ahead, david. >> you can't touch the story right now in my opinion. i think the board could react and throw him out essentially and i think there was commentary and tesla made a comment about the fact that they would go after a wide swath of investors. i thought they had funding secured and to me there are too many missing links and i don't think that's a story you can touch. >> look at that chart and it looks like 380 is an area where the stock wants to fail again, and again, i think the news will get better >> semis getting smacked today the charts pointed to even more pain for one name reporting next week we'll tell you what it is. in the meantime, here's what else is coming up on fast. five, four, three, two, one. happy 1999 >> a number of web 2.0 stocks are surging like it's 1999, and one name looks poised for even more gains we'll give it to you plus -- >> it all comes down to a few moments. >> and it will be a key moment for a numb

beginning with hollywood producer harvey weinstein a string of maimed. and held to account over allegations of sexual offenses. unprecedented debate on sexual harassment and. millions of. global movement that's grabbed. me. today we are introducing. from two times we've been calling. my guest tonight is a feminist icon with a reputation for provocation never a stranger to controversy she emerged as one of the most prominent feminist critics and caused outrage with her controversial statement. so how should the issue of sexual assault be dealt with the. revolutionary. and i've come to the oxford union to go head to head with the writer and legendary feminist. why she thinks the global movement against sexual harassment and assault has gone nowhere. tonight i'll also be joined by mina salami a feminist writer and speaker and the founder of the award winning pan african feminist blog politan laurie penny an award winning journalist author and feminist activist and. a columnist and historian of gender relations. ladies and gentlemen please put your hands tog

beginning with hollywood producer harvey weinstein a string of powerful men were named and shamed. and held to account over allegations of sexual offenses. sparking unprecedented debate on sexual harassment and violence yet millions of people around the world. it's a global movement that's grabbed the attention of the power meet in section today we are introducing the congress act from meet two times women and girls are calling buzy behavior my guest tonight is a feminist icon with a reputation for provocation never a stranger to controversy she emerged as one of me toos most prominent feminist critics and caused outrage with her controversial statement on the break. so how should the issue of sexual assault be dealt with. this hash tag me to revolutionary. i'm in the house and i've come to the oxford union to go head to head with the writer and legendary feminist jermain greer to why she thinks the global me too movement against sexual harassment and assault has gone nowhere. tonight i'll also be joined by mina salami a feminist writer and speaker and the founder of the award winn

in the court of public opinion, as it were, harvey weinstein was convicted very quickly.rocess play out. but i think that people feel there was pretty damning report in —— reporting in regards to a number of women, and now we see charges, i think people, a lot of people made up their mind but he is entitled to a fair trial before a neutral jury, entitled to a fair trial before a neutraljury, absolutely. jonathan, thank you so much for talking to us again on breakfast this morning. contributing editor for the hollywood reporter. the time is 6:a5 a.m.. here is chris with a look at this morning's weather. you will start us with a glance across the site averages across europe. yes, today is going to be the peak of the extreme heatwave, yesterday's high of a6 degrees in spain looks set to be passed in portugal, highs of a7 celsius. what does a7 celsius mean? it deems we are potentially going to break the all—time portuguese national temperature record, currently stood at a7.a degrees, 15 years ago. i suspect we might just at a7.a degrees, 15 years ago. i suspect we mightjust m

soledad: this week marks the one year anniversary of hurricane harvey.torm left about 100 people dead and caused more than $125 billion in damages. it's tied with hurricane katrina as the costliest storm on record. when you mention hurricane harvey, most people think of the hurricane hit with deadly and devastating force. including hitting the city of o report aver. port arthur has 55-thousand residents and lies 90 miles east of houston. when harvey hit it dumped more than 60 inches of rain on the city, breaking a u.s. record and damaging 80% of the city's housing. at the time, the mayor wrote on facebook: "our whole city is underwater right now." mayor derrick freeman joins me from port arthur texas. it's so nice to see you, mr. mayor. thank you for being with us. tell me about port arthur. tell us about your city of 55,000 people. mayor freeman: we are a hard-working, blue-collar, resilient town. we are oil and gas. we produce about 40% of the jet fuel across america. but the great thing about port arthur is we have great texas barbecue and cajun food.

this is houston post-harvey. just look at their neighbors. according to a recent survey, 10% of those displaced by harvey haven't been able to return home, and 15% of the homes damaged by the storm are still unlivable. this is where khou used to broadcast. crews knocked down the building earlier this summer. flood waters forced the station to evacuate and find a new home. bill fulton is the director of research at rice university. >> there are many living with mold and living with flood damage. >> reporter: it's been a struggle but some feel blessed. >> you can dwell, but that doesn't do any good. >> reporter: and they hope to be back home by thanksgiving. >>> now let's check our weather here. cooler temperatures continue over the next few days. if you like the cooler weather, you have it into the middle art 3069 part of the week. temperatures are better, oakland 59, 57 degrees currently in livermore as well as san francisco, 58 in san josi and 54 santa rosa. we are tracking this upper level low to our north, ushering in that low for us. we'l

facing trolls are real ask another one of my questions apologies do you support the prosecution of harvey weinstein and bill cosby regarded as two successes. for me too well they're not successes yet one was found guilty and one is now being prosecuted for the first time to say well having the army of people pretend they'll be in the pill in the case of cosby and you want to you want to have him in jail half blind him is a to use after sixty years of doing what he's been doing so they're calling that a victory i think at least belongs there just seeing the guy have to face some sort of justice is a moral victory in itself i think we shouldn't discount that in a way this argument feels incoherent it really does i feel like in the twenty first century we should be living in a sexual culture where we can get beyond let's not rape each other right let's not rape each other should be a baseline you know we can do better we can actually have some sort of understanding of pleasure desire in agency so you want to have a question why don't we in terms of your questions about solutions is there not

steve harvey just turned 61 this year. >> he looks good.he second season here in l.a. for his talk show. he has a new look. the whole new look you have clearly flipped the script. >> well, this year, you know, we launch a new season so every now and then i reinvent myself, you know. i grew my beard out. but last year there was enough grey in the mustache yet. it looked like i had stuff in it. so i had to wait another year. this year, when i didn't color it, it was a lot more grey so i'm flipping the script, come with the different suits and i'm going to see how the beard game goes. >> steve also flipping the script on his show. >> we set the desk on fire. we had a big fire in the parking lot. we found out that i do better with regular people. let's bring on the regular people with the human interests stories. let's put people on. >> expect more matchmaking. steve's track record is solid. he set up with cynthia bailey with my man, fox sports anchor mike hill. >> i love to make other people laugh. >> cynthia was going to pick somebody else. i

harvey: you think you've seen some talented kids? ahhhh harvey: that's the greatest act i've ever seen. yeah! -i'm gonna be a movie star. -aah! -whoa! ♪ ahh wh wait till you see at's coming up tonight, folks. ♪ yeah harvey: this kid has blown up. welcome back, darci lynne. i am so excited, mr. harvey. whoo! your hand is ve. if it's so slimy, why you still hanging on to it? please welcome your host, [ cheers and applause ]

i think what harvey is suggesting and i know harvey pretty well is that there is at least some smokenot saying there's fire. connell: right, we need to know more. >> to a stock manipulation case. that's what he's saying, what he said before that is that we know that elon musk was at war with the shorts. he has a reason to stick it to them. they got stuck yesterday. connell: red flags for you, dan? >> particularly when there's a leak and what he did. very weird. never seen anything like that before. >> this is not normal protocol especially after the 10q gets filed and comes out with an announcement. everything is strange and we're in the early stages of the chapter. connell: what do you want to know, then? >> i want to know about the funding, of course, i want to know why he says he's thinking about it but hasn't discussed it with the board or claumd the board discussed it. why would he come out with a tweet like this? elon is known for speak off the top of his head. we know president trump does the same thing. in elon's mind, i'm trying to put myself in an inventor's mind, thinks of

>>> and a harvey weinstein accuser, is she a hypocrite. let's go outfront. i am poppy harlow, in for erin burnett. outfront this evening, breaking news, a stunning series of statements from the president about bob mueller's investigation. reuters just posting an interview moments ago with the president. here's what the president said, and i quote. i decided to stay out of the mueller investigation, now i don't have to stay out, as you know, i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want. let that sink in. i could run it if i want. an investigation into the president. that's right, suggesting he could run the special counsel's entire probe. now, a probe that is investigating not only him but his campaign and his associates. the president also echoing his attorney rudy guiliani saying speaking to the special counsel and his investigators could be a perjury trap. this comes as sources tell cnn the president is unnerved by the stunning revelation that white house counsel don mcgahn has been cooperating extensively with the special counsel's team.

harvey was the wettest hurricane on u.s. record. that what was hurricane lane isn't going to be in the top five as they continue to see heavy rain. as much as 45 inches of rain it was reported in some areas on the big island, and that's where they have gotten the brunt of it. we have good news, winds continue to die down as the system is falling apart. currently at 50 miles-an-hour. notice the direction. it had been moving closer and closer to the islands, but how the we see it shifting to the west -- but now we see it shifting to the west at 7 miles-an-hour. that means it is leaving the islands and will continue to do so. there are still spots among the island chain particularly the big island where you continue to see showers. as it moves farther west, that does mean we will clear off probably later tomorrow with all the rain. here's a look at how that is going to move. away from the islands. as it moves it continues to weaken becoming a large low pressure system. as i said, it was a huge rain maker. most of that rain did come dow

weinstein. >> [habla en inglÉs] reportera: en un discurso no sÓlo se dirigió a harvey weinstein sinoew york times jimmy bannet alegra haber sido agredido sexualmente por argento en un hotel de california. ambos se conocieron durante la filmaciÓn de una pelÍcula. este es bennet cuando apenas tenÍa 17 aÑos interpretando al hijo de argento. la actriz publicÓ esta fotografÍa en instagram con el texto: el dÍa mÁs feliz de mi vida con jimmy bennett. subsecuentemente ambos llegaron a un acuerdo extrajudicial. argento acordÓ pagarle 380,000 dÓlares por aÑo y medio, segÚn el diario. muchos opinan que es irÓnico que argento ahora es la acusada. aquellos que le habÍan dado su apoyo a esta actriz ahora dicen sentirse desilusionados con ella. sin embargo este hecho no desacredita su denuncia ni las de otras actrices contra el productor harvey weinstein. patricia: gracias, andrea. y despuÉs de haber confesado a las autoridades que asesinÓ a su esposa embarazada y a sus dos hijas, christopher fue acusado formalmente en colorado de varios cargos de asesinato en primer grado. watts dijo que habÍa est