laura: jodi kantor, me twoheyor, ank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. laura: the duke and duchess of sussex are flying home from their tour of southern africa tonight, with "mail on sunday" pe promising to vigorously lefend itself against legal action by the co the duchess is claiming breach of pricy after the paper published experts of letters she wrote to her father lastear. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports in johannesburg. nicholas: it has often been a fraught relationip between the media and the yals. stories and photographs of them sell papers. sothe sussexes, harry and meghan, visited hannesburg on the final day of their tour, tr, cameras were there iforce. he is particularly sensitive t intrusion, exercised about protecting his family's privac we all know the reason.re there we so many moments in harry's childhood when he came to resent the media for the treatment of his mother, diana.r little surprise, perhaen moments such as thisre recalled. but in last night's statement about the tabloid media, he referred to the tsessive purs

jodi kantor and megan touhy. those reporters would win the freaking pulitzer prize for the stories. for his part, harvey weinstein is current waiting trial on several charges including sexual assault and denied all allegations of non-consensual but the last part of the harvey weinstein story, the part told right now is the story of how the story got told at all. the story of great journalism and how it gets done. and in the last few weeks, we've had two of these journalistic thrillers published. jodi kantor and megan touhy on "she said" and now ronan farrow telling his story in "catch and kill." the pressure brought to bear on him, his sources and employers, really everyone around him as he tried to report this story. the private detectives following him around, the legal threats, constant approaches from people representing themselves as fellow journalists or emissaries from decent-sounding non-profit organizations, people it would later emerge were, in fact, intelligence agents working on behalf of the israeli private intelligence firm. it was also the alliance between weinstein a

in her book, she said, investigative journalist jodi kantor and megan toohey discuss the #metoo movementand the investigation of sexual harassment against harvey weinstein and interviewed by

course to talk about his new book and it's been two years since roman writing in the new yorker and jodi kantor and megan writing in "the new york times" and the two years since they published their separate exposÉs of sexual assault and harassment allegations against movie producer those stories encouraged many other women around the world to come forward with allegations against other powerful privileged and previously protected and hand-held give rise to the need to movement. both the new yorker and the times subsequently shared last year's service which honored [applause] the award honored the courageous breakthrough reporting of ronan, joey and megan. recounting the part in breaking the weinstein story and details the institutional resistance and the intimidation and threats he faced in doing so. the book contains additional revelations in this an it isn'te work of the investigative journalism, but it is itself a humbling and instructive spy story. he writes about not only the extreme tactics taken in the fall on espionage operation that has stymied the coverage but also explains executive

jodi kantor and megan tooey told their story in "she said." we spoke to them on the show last month. now ronan farrow is telling his reporting story in "catch and kill." in his book, farrow describes the pressure brought to bear on him and his sources and his employers, and really, everyone around him as he tried to report this story. the private detectives following him around, the legal threats, the constant approaches from people representing themselves as fellow journalists or as emissaries from decent-sounding non-profit organizations, people it would later emerge were, in fact, intelligence agents working on behalf of this israeli private intelligence firm. there was also the alliance between weinstein and executives at "the national enquirer," which farrow says published smear pieces about him when he broke unflattering news. farrow reported that the "inquirer" had gathered dirt on weinstein's accusers and explored paying at least one of them for her story, not so they could run it, but so they could bury it. and if that sounds familiar

his article was published on october 10h,2017, just days rk s jody kantor and megan twoey broke the storyf 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 non-consensual 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 long-time host of the "today" show, has been fired. >> reporter: coming up, new details about matt lauer's firing and questions about nbc's reason for passing on ronan's

coming up tonight look to be investigative journalist jodi kantor and megan toohey on the new metoo movement and sexual harassment allegations against harvey weinstein. our night of memoirs begins with "justice milk or such on his 30 year career the judiciary and the u.s. constitution. after that disability rights attorney harvard law school graduate using who has been deaf and blind since birth talks but navigated the recited in hearing world. that is followed by ruth bader ginsburg on life and time on the high court. later sharon johnson on her book, child of the dream, a memoir of growing up in 1963 during the civil rights movement. in her book, she said, investigative journalist jodi kantor and megan toohey discuss the #metoo movement and the investigation of sexual harassment against harvey weinstein and interviewed by author and journalist bob woodward at an event hosted by politics and prose at the synagogue. this is one hour and a half. [cheering and applause] >> good evening. [inaudible] on behalf of everybody and those folks here welcome and thank you very much for coming. we had t

we're delighted be hosting jody kantor and megan twohey. they are of course the to two "new york times" reporter who reveals to the world harvey weinstein's extensive sexual abuse. their book "she said" is the rifting revealing account how they developed they're blockbuster story, and it's consequences in spurring the #metoo movement. as they note in their preface, in the wake of the weinstein expo expo say which broke in act 2017, it was as if a dam wall had come down, many, many women not just in country but around the world, spilled forward to tell their own stovers mistreatment. in addition to the pivotal impact the jodie and megan roz recording that the way they went about confirm the story, that others before them had tried to nail, provides a terrific case study of what goes into first raitt investigative journalism. people often say such scoops just fall into the laps of report erred inch realities what is involved is a lot of painstaking reporting. pursuing leads, running into dead ends, coaxing details out of reluck tan sources, f

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we begin tonight with a conversation about investigative journalist jodi kantor, and making chili, on the youtube movement and sexual allegations against harvey. thirty year career, and offers his thoughts on the judiciary and the u.s. constitution. disability rights attorney, who hovered law school graduate who has been deaf and blind since birth. he talks about navigating to a hearing cited world. recounts her live, and time on the high court. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. enjoy book tv this week and every weekend, on c-span two. c-span two. >> negative polarization is that i have less affection for my own side that i have hatred for the other side. for example, even in the obama era, we can't say negative polarization begin with. it didn't. not even close. his been arcing upwards for a long time. if you hold the average republican, their opinion would be the democrat, 82 percent would say they strongly dislike a democrat. people the average democrat there were far more tolerant and 78 percent. aided the average republican. we have an incredibly divided cou

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megan twohey and jodi kantor are the two journalists who first told the world about the allegations againstted. i am fascinated to read about it and to hear where your initial, those initial whispers came to you. because she had to protect your sources, but now, all this time later, famous names have gone on record with you, how did it develop? we wrote this book to take inside the process, the events of metoo have come to mean so much to so many people. this was off the record initially, but we want to share it with you. all the way to our final confrontations with harvey weinstein in the offices of the new york times stopped to answer your question, we only knew about rumours at the start. we did not know what was real and what was not. it was initial early conversations with actresses like rose mcgowan that began to tip us like rose mcgowan that began to tip us off. how long ago was that? that was in the spring of 2017. a months long investigation and when we push the publish button in october 2017, we had no idea what was going to happen. but within hours a day our e—mails and phones we