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

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

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

in november of last year, just one month after argento made the accusations against harvey weinstein, bennett threatened to sue the italian actress over his allegations. five months later, argento allegedly arranged to pay bennett $380,000. jodi kantor has been covering weinstein for "the new york times" and is a cbs news contributor. >> she did not comment on "the new york times" story, and so i think people today felt very much like -- you were so vocal, such a proponent of me too. how do you address this seeming contradiction. >> the degree of hypocrisy that this development demonstrates is beyond stunning. >> reporter: ben brafman is harvey weinstein's attorney. weinstein denies assaulting argento. do you think this calls into the question the validity of what asia argento said happened to her? >> my guess is no law enforcement agency and no legitimate media outlet will ever again take her seriously. >> reporter: we reached out to argento's attorney and have not heard back. the x-factor show in italy is considering dropping argento from that show. they say, if they can confirm "th

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

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the case you started with harvey weinstein this it was pretty brutal with a lot of these women what are you supposed to do you're saying i'm just wondering what were they supposed to do. when behaving as if susan brownmiller had never written her book on rape and then she argues that men use the threat of rape to keep us all in continual submission and that just isn't true we are all made afraid ripen god knows why because we most likely to be mugged in raped this strays were not afraid of being mugged or afraid of being raped and the chance to be i was right by a stranger and the funny thing was that i'd i wasn't even annoyed with a mass of the bad stepped in the path of the bus idea i still don't know his name or else are suppressed and it was nice to you know us being half unconscious and ice so that's about as bad as it gets that would i want him put away for seven years ok what this is this is where we get into territory where you being in trouble recently some of the remarks people think you're downplaying the crime of rape. well yes you said recently the hay festival shouldn'

they clearly don't want to talk about this right now. >> again, argento says she was raped by harvey weinsteind weinstein's lawyer is capitalizing on this tonight, responding in part. this development reveals a stunning level of hypocrisy by argento. two things can be true at the same time. important to point out what she's alleging many other women allege happened to them as well. >> right. police argento is not part of the six charges harvey weinstein is facing, and this is -- the thing that seems essential here is one person doesn't make an entire movement, and we don't know what argento's side of this was, so i think there's a lot to be considered. but, you know, the idea that this one incident would somehow unravel an entire case against harvey weinstein and this young social movement we find ourselves in the middle of is kind of crazy. >> really important reporting. thank you for being with me. >> you're welcome. >>> breaking news in that gruesome murder of a pregnant young woman and her young daughters. the father tonight claiming his wife strangled their children. new details that inve

the hollywood film producer, harvey weinstein, is attempting to have criminal charges against him thrown 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 in hollywood. but outrage over harvey weinstein‘s alleged crimes have left him infamous and kicked off the me too movement, leading many women to speak out against sexual misconduct in the workplace. harvey weinstein has already appeared in court accused of sexually assaulting three women, which he denies. but now, his lawyer is trying to get the whole case thrown out, saying in part that the jury thrown out, saying in part that the jury has not been told the full story. the defence says that dozens of emails, dating from weeks up to four years after an alleged rape in 2013 that were exchanged between weinstein and an accuser, show that they had a long—term, consensual, intimate relationship, and at no point reference and assault. they

lawyers for the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein are trying to have criminal charges against ing three different women. jonathan handel is an american entertainment attorney and joins us now from los angeles. i'm looking at some of these e—mail exchanges, going back apparently to 2013, harvey weinstein's lawyers seem to think, the impression we are getting, that this might be enough to drop the charges. what do you think? pleasure to be back with you, no, this might be enough to drop the charges. his lawyers are alleging in a 159 page legal brief that the grandjury a 159 page legal brief that the grand jury was only provided with one side of the story and it ought to be provided with this evidence, that he says is evidence, of innocents. but in general, grand jury innocents. but in general, grand jury is in the united states do not have to be president had with evidence of innocents. there is a saying that you can get a grand jury to indicta saying that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, if you want. that is probably the reason england dropped it after having i

. >> [habla en inglÉs] reportera: en un discurso no sÓlo se dirigió a harvey weinstein sino a todos loss 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 estrangulado a

the case you started with harvey weinstein this it was pretty brutal with a lot of these women what are you supposed to do you're sorry i'm just wondering what were they supposed to do. where behaving as if susan brown miller had never written a book on rape and there she argues that men use the threat of rape to keep us all in continual submission and that isn't true we are all made afraid of rape and god knows why because we're more likely to be mugged than raped but isn't it strange we're not afraid of being mugged were afraid of being raped and the chance of being i was raped by a stranger and the funny thing was that i wasn't even a lord with the amount of zeroed stepped in the part of the bus i still don't know his name or else i suppressed it and it was nasty you know i was beaten half unconscious and i said so that's about as bad as it gets but what i want you put away for seven years ok well this is this is where we get into church or where you get in trouble recently some of the remarks people think you're downplaying the crime of rape. well yes you said recently the hay f

lawyers for harvey weinstein, try to have the criminal case against him alleging rape, thrown out ofourt. despite the numbers falling of people trying to cross the mediterranean into europe, the un warns the journey has become deadlier than ever before. and britain's theresa may visits the french president at his holiday retreat, to push her vision for brexit. hello and welcome to bbc news. zimbabwe's president emmerson mnangagwa has called for peace and unity after being accused of winning a "fraudulent and illegitimate" election. opposition leader, nelson chamisa, has refused to accept the result and claims he can prove that the electoral process was rigged. the us has said its observers are reviewing the election‘s outcome and called for "graciousness in defeat". our africa editor fergal keane reports from the capital harare. "open for business", the newly elected president's voice, as the the police order people back to work. this a day after the army pushed them home. who really runs this country and what kind of zimbabwe is it becoming? questions on the morning after victory. w

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the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein is trying to have criminal charges against him of rape dismissedcted him. mr weinstein denies all the charges. britain's prime minister, theresa may, has held informal talks with france's president macron at his summer retreat, to try to push her plan for leaving the european union.

harvey weinstein built a fierce reputation in hollywood as tough guy. l assault arges to put himn prison for life, weinstein is playing tough again using an accuser's wordst agai hers to get-he case against her to get the case dismisse in court papers, weinstein says he had a ng-term consensual intimate relationshih we woman who claims he raped her in march of 2013. offering e-mails to prove it. e-mails weinstein's attorney says the grand jury did not see. >> we are not involved in what people say is victim shaming. >> reporter: e-mails start m less thanth after the alleged attack in the new york ho tow -- new york hotel. i appreciate all you do for me. it would be great to see you again and catch up. in all, more than 400 e-mails exchanged in the four years following the alleged rape. the final e-mail from february of 2017 reads, i love you. always do. i hate feeling le a booty call. >> i don't think any of that is consisnt with the conversation you expect to read between a real victim and the real rapist. >> reporter: weinstein's attorney wants the ora

hoo dharvey weinstein hollywood harvey weinsteinpharvey weinsteinrharvey weinsteinoharvey weinsteindharveyy weinsteincharvey weinsteineharvey weinsteinrharvey weinstein harvey weinstein. >> reporter: nbc news saying he tried to stop the harvey weinstein actual ssment story is an outright lie. the claim comes from producerorommer nbc news producermmer nbc news producerer nbc news producer toich mchugh who worked on the in 2017. mchugh says nbc was resistant througut the reporting process and three days before going to interview a woman with a credible rape allegation, wa mchugh says ordered to stop, not to interview this woman and stand down on the story all together. in a statement, nbc news says it supported farrow's reporting for eight mont while furrow believed his story was ready for air, the network disagreed because he did not have a single ssvictim of or wit to misconduct by weinstein who was willing to be identified. the network calls the malicious distortion anonymous "daily beast" report that sus susan wiener threatened to sue. he never made any threats and nbc says it was texted

coming to hollywood with harvey weinstein. said sunday night.verybody was wearing black in protest of what is going on. are we teetering on an abyss. is there a direction. is there a second wave. other than a few trophy scalps. >> will i think someone said, we are building the airplane, we are taking off. you know. at the same time. we are taking off. the me too movement started ten years ago in response to abuse of young women of color in the south. she worked. and continues to work on the issues. i mean, in oprah's speech, she mentions, reecie taylor. who was raped. refused to shut up about it. and she was warned. and rosa park's part in that. i did not know that story. we all screamed it at the table. this is a very old battle. a battle of dominance. same with, with freedom of the prechlts who is going to get, to be top dog. weird thing is, we -- we elected the -- the silverback. because people want that clarity. some times an outmoded way of governing. >> where do men come into the fight. i know you talked abumt this before. where do men com

they've protested circuses for decades. >>> harvey weinstein, asia argento, one of the first women toe weinstein of sexual misconduct. she's become a prominent figure in the me too movement. the attorney spoke on cbs news. good morning. >> so many layers here. claims he didn't leak any documents for the story about asia, but he believes this is a win for him in the court of public opinion but nothing to do with the criminal charges weinstein is currently facing including predatory sexual assault. do you remember the first words that harvey weinstein uttered when you called him and told him about this "new york times" article? >> i remember the tenor of conversation almost relief. >> harveystei att said his client was not surprised by "the new york times" report that asia argento was accused of sexual assault. >> forced on her after making the accusations, she arranged a $380,000 payment to 22-year-old actor jimmy bennett. after bennett accused her of sexually assaulting him in 2013. at the time, bennett was 17, a year younger than california's age of consent. in 2004, bennett, then 7

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we should say though, however, harvey weinstein's team has jumped on this.er conduct should give everyone pause and it should show everyone how poorly these allegations against mr. weinstein were vetted. her allegations have nothing to do with the current charges against him. nothing she has said stems from any of the charges that he is facing right now. >> also when you talk about the movement as a whole, the me too movement as a whole, i did speak last night on erin's show with the reporter who broke the story, these encrypted e-mails sent to her with documents, were sent to her personal account. not just "the new york times," to her account. she was digging on all of this. here is what she said about the bigger picture here. >> one person does not make an entire movement. we don't know what miss argento's side of this was. the idea this one incident would unravel an entire case against harvey weinstein and this young social movement that we find ourselves in the middle of is crazy. >> she was cautioning against it. >> the feedback i have been hearing afte

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 millions of people around the world. a global movement that's grabbed the attention of the power meet. today we are introducing the congress act from meet two times women and girls are calling. 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 need 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 ask her 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 af

dominated by a particularly vision of sexuality in a similar way once unleashed takes you to harvey weinstein masturbating into flint because it is complicated and unpleasant it actually requires a certain kind of constraint and control for men and women to get along together and without getting into the debates about playboy parties in the 70s and caused you have to was no harvey weinstein but that revolution by placing sexuality and sex itself and the orgasm so close to the heart of what the good life was supposed to be a wasn't a coincidence that led into directions that has many women all over america sitting up and wondering if this was all cracked up as it was made out to be. [applause] that we can take one question from the audience. we have five minutes left by with your last point and talking about philosophy, one thing that i took away from the ayn rand interview in playboy was that she was talking about a proponent of hedonism she said even with the doctrine of good is whatever gift that you pleasure that is your standard of morality that the good must be defined by a rational stan

so is well is was one of the first to publicly accuse super producer harvey weinstein of sexual assault now she's on the receiving end shocking really a shocking turn around here i think many of her fellow me to activists are also shocked by this they're trying to make sense of it and really trying to figure out what does this mean now for their me to movement and many of them are speaking out online about that including the writer and activist syl la abrams she accused the record producer russell simmons of rape and she says when she saw the news she felt like she'd been sucker punched she says i was shaking with anger of what she did to her victim and frightened about the potential implications her actions have for the need to movement overall actress rose mcgowan who also accused weinstein of assault she writes i got snow argento ten months ago or commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by harvey weinstein my heart is broken i will continue my work on behalf of victims everywhere and the founder of that me too hash tag that's toronto burke she released a series of tweets sa

so, if you have al franken and the allegations here of what happened and you have harvey weinstein wayp here, including alleged rape, that's a huge difference. so i think we need to be cognizant of that and not try to lump men all together. but i think it shows that this can be going on behind the scenes to any and all people. and one of the biggest myths about this issue is, "oh, he's such a great guy. he could never do that." and that happened when my story came out. "well, i never heard about that. she must be lying." and i think we need to be very aware that there can be two sides to people, even when they're proponents of the very issue that they might be doing behind closed doors. >> yeah, i mean, there are people who wish that the process, at least in his case, had been adjudicated more fairly. but what we've seen is, as you mentioned, it was in the heat of this moment with harvey weinstein, and the #metoo movement was sort of cresting in its influence. and in that circumstance, there is no judicious process in the court of public opinion. there is no court. it is just -- there

their oversight committee was harvey weinstein. to which of course there was the powerful will say well justice was eventually people often have to just wait quietly and they had a hand and. quantum even so they all know you know he knew about me he said in an interview. you know they say the complicity machine is huge there. there's talk about an industrial complex is one of complicity. and it's one of continually protecting people that aren't even that great in the first place so they're not. just clean out the crap so great things can come just cut off the head of the rot and let other things florus because we know it's all there we've all worked in those places where it would be so great if it weren't for that one person get rid of that one person. the attitude comes from the top down and the attitude of permissiveness imagine if your boss is a known rapist where you get to get away with pretty much everything right which is something of the malcolm x. in this targeting of the talk because obviously you talk about hollywood fun

." >> i was raped by harvey weinstein. >> reporter: bennett goes on to say, "i was underaged when the event took place, and i tried to seek justice in a way that made sense to me at the time." tmz also released text messages allegedly sent monday between argento and another person. argento writes, "i had sex with him. it felt weird. i didn't know he was a minor until the shakedown letter." cbs news has not been able to confirm the authenticity of those texts. bennett did not mention anything about a payment in his statement. and jeff, argento's attorney, we reached out to her several times and have not heard anything back. >> troubling to hear details about. all right, jericka, thank you. >>> the president today presented the medal of honor, the highest award for valor, to the widow of air force technical sergeant john chapman. he gave his life protecting fellow troops in one of the ugliest battles of the war in afghanistan. >> john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice john helped save more than 20 american service members. >> we have more on all

anchor: lawyers for white house tose -- harvey weinstein try have rape charges against him thrown out of court. the u.n. warns that the journey to europe isie dea than ever before. britain's theresa may visits the french president at his holiday retreat to pushor her vision of brexit. hello and welcome to the program. zimbabwe's president, emmerson h mnangagw called for peace and unity after being accused of winning at fraudul and illegitimate election. the opposition leader, nelson chamisa, has refused to accept the results and says he ce pr that electoral process was rigged. the united states has said its observers are reviewing t election's outcome and called for graciousness in defeat. our afric editor reports from the capital, hariri. reporter: the newly elected president's voice as the police order people back to work a day after the army pushed them home. who really runs this country and what kind of zimbabwe is it becoming? questions on the morning after victory. we were there in the early hours of the morning when the result was finally declare after days of winning. >> emmer

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 mchue's assertion is an outright lie claiming at the time ronan pharaoh didn't 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 was willing to publish immediately. of course two months later the story ran in the new yorker. so far ronan far row has last october fa farrow did go on members talking about why he left nbc. >> you would have to ask nbc executives 'the details. i'm not going to comment on any news organization story that they did or didn't run. i will say that over many years, many news organizations have

harvey weinstein and all the things that came out about him also the harvey weinstein of public educationas the school year started late 2017 in investigative reporter broke a story about a portland public school pe teacher with this the subject of sexual harassment complaints and not just the straight kind with the columbia journalism review to find unbelievably shocking accounts and in 2,008 a student came forward that in the early '80s she and another female student were allegedly asked to perform oral sex. and his former student it's almost like you cannot make this up become a substitute teacher to report that again in 2013 to teach at the school at which she substituted. and eventually played on those females and in 2,001 he made a high school student according to the reporter spending the year making sexual advances onto rose. talking about her pants to sadie know why they are so great with the zipper in the back just unzip them. also allegedly pulled up to her in his sports car as she waited at the bus stop in said rose i really need a girl like you in my life get in. she mustered

wasn't nbc who had that whole thing about harvey weinstein, we don't want this story. it is not ready. this is not something we are interested in. why? they were owned by harvey weinstein in the figurative sense. and then you got nbc with matt lauer. there was a man who sat on the second floor who told me about matt lauer years ago and if we knew about it, i'm sure nbc knew about it. you've got all the other issues at nbc that they are the first ones to criticize us. look, nbc and cnn, devoted to every three seconds donald trump should be impeached, impeached and if we can impeach him, how can we indict him? the office of legal counsel says we can't indict the president. let's get a state attorney general to indict the president. americans are kind of fed up with this since i was the president for good reason. lou: and the american people are fed up irrespective of the polls that you choose. it is my personal opinion that president trump is at least 10 points greater than the numbers being reported at 44%, 46%. the american people are going to make themselves heard in

>> reporter: ben brafman is harvey weinstein's attorney. weinstein denies assaulting argento. >> the degree of hypocrisy that this development demonstrates is beyond stunning. >> reporter: do you think these allegations call into question the validity of what asia argento said happened to her? >> my guess is that no law enforcement agency and no legitimate media outlet will ever again take her seriously. >> reporter: we reached out to argento's attorney and have not heard back. the "x factor" show in italy is considering dropping argento from that show. they say, if they can confirm "the new york times" report and weinstein accuser and actor rose mcgowan tweeted today that she was "heartbroken" over the story about argento. jeff? >> glor: all right, jericka duncan with the late interview with weinstein's attorney tonight. jericka, thanks. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," a private resort is the scene of a rare and deadly alligator attack in south orrolina. kids and parents don't always agree. but they both love digestive advantage k

so far only harvey weinstein has been charged with a crime.e movement moves closer to its second year, many are asking, should the accused be shunned forever? >> as a country, we believe in redemption. but at the same time, the "me too" movement was something new, something we had never seen before. when somebody like louis ck comes out and does this performance, he's changing the rules. he's testing the waters. and he's saying, i'm ready to come back. will you accept me? >> reporter: louis ck himself has never been criminally charged for his actions. >> make no mistake about it, louis ck is not harvey weinstein. he's not charged with rape. in fact, there's no accusation that he ever actually touched a single one of these women. but what am i supposed to do, give him a gold star because he didn't rape somebody? he masturbated, stripped down naked, and masturbated in front of women. >> reporter: although louis ck won't be tried in a court of law, he is being tried in the court of public opinion tonight. the jury is still out on whether or not h

in a statement tonight, harvey weinstein's lawyer says these revelations demonstrate to everyone how poorly the allegations against mr. weinstein were actually vetted. argento is not one of the victi victims involved in the case against weinstein. the los angeles county sheriff's department tells abc news detectives are reaching out to bennet and his attorney. david? >> thank you. >>> overseas tonight, pope francis breaking his silence over the grand jury report. condemning the atrocities in the church sexual abuse scandal. more than 1,000 victims, spanning 7 decades. the pope saying, we showed no care for the little ones, we abandoned them. and vowing never again. >>> back here at home tonight, first lady melania trump is speaking out against cyber bullying. her spokesperson did address the criticism her husband is facing. warning about harmful uses of social media. >> let's face it. most children are more aware of the benefits and pit falls of social media than >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. the plane falling from the sky. >>> and the alligat

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hold other men accountable and to change the culture of manhood in america that enables the harvey weinsteins of the world to do what they do. >> you're right, because i was looking at a stunning eeoc statistic, and 82% of sexual-harassment charges filed are by women, made by women, against men, and 17% were filed by men. how do we begin to change that, both on a family level -- the way we raise our boys, perhaps -- and then how do we reshape that on a corporate, cultural level? >> well, i have a young, 16-year-old boy, and so i'm around these 16-year-olds all the fose, rse years ago -- she said, "you know, women need to stop complaining about how men treat them when they stop raising sons that do that." now, i'm not saying that it's all on the mothers, because i think the fathers have to have something to say there, too. but i also have a young african-american boy who is -- it's doubly important for me to teach him how to be cautious in how he interacts in the world. >> yeah. there's a great gloria steinem quote which is that "it's all fine and good that we're raising our daughters right, b

any journalist would be proud to go after a villain like harvey weinstein.so many so that ronan farrow had to leave the network and go to the "new yorker" to publish it. they were stopping them from doing interviews. they weren't even allowed to do the interview with the sources they were looking to pursue. nbc reported to have threatened ronan that he wasn't able to take his reporting with him when he left nbc. this is bad news all around. and further evidence there is a culture of corruption at nbc that is negatively affecting their ability to do good journalism. david: neil armstrong, i just reported on it before. the movie that avoid planting the american flag because it was a worldwide achievement according to the lead actor. >> what does ryan gosling know. he has no stake tonight. he's a canadian. it was placed there by an american to flew on an american ship paid for by the american taxpayer. you want to create an inspiring moment and a film with incredible imagery. one that brings a tear your eye, show neil armstrong landing on the moon, stepping on

lawyers for harvey weinstein try to get rape charges thrown out based on emails from one of his accusers. tackling the stigma of autism. for the first time a study examines the stress and isolation facing mums, dads and carers. the first test is in the balance after england bowl themsleves back into the game, but they still need to deal with india captain virat kohli. good morning. our weather is looking hot and sunny towards the south—east but it will look like cloudy for north—western parts of the country where temperatures should be closer to normal. talking about temperatures, we will also be looking at the extreme heat across spain and portugal. more details coming up in the next 15 minute. it's saturday 4th august. our top story — the majority of household plastic waste is still ending up in landfill despite efforts to increase the amount we recycle. the local government association says manufacturers are to blame, as the types of plastics used in many yoghurt pots, ready meal trays and other containers limit the ability of councils to recycle them. breakfast‘s jayne mccubbin repor

up next tonight on the cbs evening news jericka duncan interviews harvey weinstein's attorney as one of his accusers is now accused. >> we're on the scene of a rare and deadly alligator attack in south carolina. >> and firefighter even after risking their lives in california still finding other ways to help come thing up in just a few seconds -- coming up in just a few seconds on the cbs evening news. >> thanks for watching us at a stop fare cheats on b.a.r.t., but it won't come cheap. we'll see you at 6:00. >> good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: on the "cbs evening news" this monday: news just coming in out of colorado. a father has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after his wife and children were found dead. and the pope issues an unprecedented letter on abuse as more questions swirl about a powerful cardinal. but first, the headlines in 60 seconds. >> pope francis issuing a letter condemning crimes of sexual abuse by priests. >> in this letter, pope francis admits the catholic church has delayed implementing a zero- tolerance policy. >> it's coming

. >>> news tonight concerning the harvey weinstein scandal. former nbc news producer accusing the network of trying to kill the story. farrow blocked from reporting. here's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: tonight, a former nbc news employee is accusing the network of killing a groundbreaking story of harvey weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct. reporter ronan farrow worked at nbc until last year. his then supervising producer, rich mchugh, now says, "as we were about to interview a woman with a credible allegation of rape against weinstein, i was told not to do the interview. effectively killing the story. those orders came to me from the highest levels of nbc." but nbc calling the accusations an "outright lie" and that at the time, farrow "did not yet have a single victim of -- or witness to -- misconduct by weinstein, who was willing to be identified." of the seven women who eventually went on record with farrow at "the new yorker," including asia argento, mira sorvino, and rosanna arquette, nbc says, "not one of these seven women was includ