special victims division to getting weinstein to admit his crimes on tape and to protect. 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 main

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 "the new york times" report and weinstein accuser and actor rose mcgown tweeted that she was heartbroken over the story about argento. jeff? >> jericka duncan with the latest interview with weinstein's attorney, thanks. >>> coming up next, a private resort is the scene of a rare and deadly alligator attack in south carolina. so you just walk around telling people geico could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that's nice. what happens when you catch a fish? gecko: whoa. geico. more than just car insurance. see how much you could save

harvey weinstein was no. governor and this broke late right before the debate his debate was simply a mix and you're the man this looks bad this looks really bad i mean it would be one thing you know they got this campaign contribution and then you know a few days later you know they overturn their they didn't purchase our investigation but when you got like a letter being written say i'm back off of this and you got things like that that's a big deal but it's interesting because on twenty seventeen journalist david serota revealed that the district attorney cyrus vance had received this ten thousand dollars campaign demotion from david boies after the charges against weinstein were dropped. and 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 a wonder 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

the weinstein story would never have broken. and obviously, in the case of ronan farrow it comes because of his particular differences within his own family that he was determined to stick to this story. and for that reason, i think he deserves even more credit. because if he had just been the typical mid level nbc news staff, he would have done what everybody else did and figured it wasn't worth it to his career to go up against harvey weinstein. >> martha: in fact, at least according to this story, the weinstein folks tried to pressure nbc by also saying you know, this is woody allen's relative, essentially. and you guys can't let him run this story because he has a conflict of interest. that was one of the other things they did for fresh presse him. journalistic questions raised and whether nbc should have ran with it here is the tape that they did have by ms. gutierrez who was wired in his conversation she had with harvey weinstein. let's play this just to remind people. this story goes back a ways. >> i'm feeling very uncom

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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accuse weinstein of sexual misconduct. 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 years old, played argento's son in "the

mr weinstein denies all the charges.e 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 say that these emails should have been shown to the grand jury so they could make an informed decision before they brought charges against him. his defence team is att

says that the asportation that they tried to kill the weinstein story is an outright lie instead the network suggests that froze material lacks sufficient evidence and was simply not ready for broadcast. we're now joined live by anthony bryan logan a political and social issues commentator welcome to the program now why do you think mick is just now coming forward with these allegations well i'm not really sure but the timing maybe there was going to be a piece published about him that he knew about we don't know about i'm not quite sure but it does come up for right now because this is pretty interesting information and i think it is a lot about the entertainment industry and how they protect one another and what do you make of the claims that weinstein was actually calling and b c executives directly about the research into these allegations. oh i believe it makes a lot of sense because the president of n.b.c. no oppenheim is a screenwriter and you know his spare time he wants to try to get into hollywood into certain things so maybe he knows no way a maybe he knows other people a

if he continued with the weinstein investigation even after he had left n.b.c. now so she denies this vehemently and says she only spoke to farag to say make sure people know you're no longer working for n.b.c. and you are working for the new yorker and we have nothing to do with this now i don't see why she would have to tell him that i mean if he's not at n.b.c. he's not n.b.c. if he's writing in the new yorker he's writing in the new yorker but this is an accusation that's out there and if that's true that's a whole nother ball game. what do you make of the fact that we're only hearing from mckew at this point and farrow has not come forward with anything. oh i don't i don't think that that's all that unusual again. again and again i don't mean to suggest that pharrell was in this for money but if he starts giving interviews left and right now and starts complaining and in fact he's working on a book then when the book comes out you already heard the story and you already heard from pharaoh so where's the interest in the book so that but that but but using hi

weinsteinuharvey weinsteincharvey weinsteineharvey weinsteinrharvey weinstein harvey weinstein. >> reporterg 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 we don't want to stand this your way when he asked to take the story elsewhere. in october after the weinst

>> 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

mr weinstein denies all the charges.l talks with france's president macron at his summer retreat, to try to push her plan for leaving the european union. it's the latest in a series of british meetings with individual european leaders to try to secure a brexit agreement. now on bbc news, it's time for click.

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

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

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

. >>> now to the latest on harvey weinstein's legal trouble. the disgraced movie mogul is fighting back. >> his legal team is asking a judge to dismiss charges involving two of weinstein's accusers. marci gonzalez with more on why weinstein's attorneys say they should be dropped. >> reporter: this morning harvey weinstein's legal team pushing to have sexual assault charges against him dropped. >> any comment, harvey? >> reporter: saying in one case key evidence wasn't presented to the grand jury. >> i think the integrity of the grand jury process was compromised. >> reporter: in this motion lawyers for the disgraced movie mogul claim one of his accusers maintained a consensual intimate relationship with mr. weinstein and an exchange of more than 400 warm complimentary and solicitous emails for more than four years after the alleged rape. one of those alleged emails highlighted in the court filing sent just a month after she said weinstein raped her. in it attorneys say she wrote it would be great to see you again and catch up. it would mean a l

>>> 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.

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'

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

lawyers for harvey weinstein, try to have the rape charges against him thrown out of court.nd emergency services in spain and portugal are on standby this weekend with warnings that temperatures could reach 48 degrees celsius. welcome to bbc news. i'm nkem ifejika. the united states has called on zimba bwe‘s political leaders to show magnanimity in victory and graciousness in defeat, following violence after emmerson mnangagwa was declared the winner. opposition leader, nelson chamisa has refused to accept the result and claims he can prove that the electoral process was rigged. 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. we were there in the early hours of the morning when the result was finally declared after days of waiting. mnangagwa emmerson dambudzo, of the zanu—pf party, is therefore duly decla

mr weinstein denies all the charges.reat, to try to push her plan for leaving the european union.

. >> reporter: do you remember the first words that harvey weinstein uttered when you called him andm about this "new york times" article? >> i don't remember the first words. i remember the tenor of the conversation was almost relief. >> reporter: wieharvey weinstei attorney said his client was not surprised by "the new york times" report that asia argento was accused of sexual harassment. >> the degree of hypocrisy that this development demonstrates is beyond stunning. >> reporter: in october, argento told the in 1997, a month after making those accusations, "the new york times" reports argento 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. >> no! >> in 2004, bennett, then 7 years old, played argento's son in "the heart is deceitful above all things," a film argento co-wrote and directed. do you think the developments with argento's case call into question the validity of other weinstein accusers? >> i know for certain other wei

. >> [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

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

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

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 alligator attack. the woman pulled under water by an eight-foot gator. >>

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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 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

also accused harvey weinstein of rape. know argento ten months ago. our commonality is the pain of being assaulted by weinstein. my heart is broken. i will continue my work on behalf of victims everywhere. hallie? >> nbc's stephanie gosk reporting for us there from new york. thanks for coming on. >> welcome. >>> coming up, a tale of two wings of the white house. the first lady speaking out against cyberbullying this morning. the president spending the weekend on a twitter tirade. is the west wing distracting from the east wing's message? we're talking about that next. know what? no, what? i just switched to geico and got more. more? got a company i can trust. that's a heck of a lot more. over 75 years of great savings and service. you can't argue with more. why would ya? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. booking a flight doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%. just tap and go... for the best savings on fligh

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

. >>> 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

the president of nbc news says weinstein had no influence on the network's handling of the weinstein. weinstein denied all allegations of sexual assault. >>> we're learning more about the extraordinary rescue efforts after a massive explosion at a chicago water treatment plant seriously injured ten workers. officials say yesterday's blast may have been caused by a build-up of methane gas. a roof collapse trapped two workers under tons of concrete and steel. more than 70 first responders freed the first trapped worker within minutes. fire officials say the other was entombed in the rubble. >> the company had to dig down, six feet down, and then tunnel their way approximately 20 feet to the victim. >> it took about two hours to rescue the man. he was hospitalized with a broken jaw and shattered leg. investigators are trying to determine what ig nilnited the methane gas. >>> people in detroit are saying final good-byes this morning to music royalty. the funeral for aretha franklin isnder way this morning at troit'eaace temple.erform a me speakers are honoring the queen of soul, includin

weinstein were actually vetted. argento is not one of the victims involved in the case against weinstein. our calls to attorneys were not returned. the los angeles county sheriff's department tells abc news their detectives are reaching out to bennett and his attorney. david? >> linsey, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, pope francis breaking his silence after that blitzing grand jury report in pennsylvania. the pope addressing a letter to the people of god, 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 now speaking out against cyberbullying. her spokesperson did address the criticism her husband, the president, has received. first lady promoting her be best campaign, warning about harmful uses of social media. >> let's face it, most children are more aware of the benefits and pitfalls of social media

inif this report is true, weinstein had tremendous power. a case where they got caught in a whole backlash that became a movement, and now it's exposed. but we're going to find out. i mean, it's a report. i don't know that it's true, but if it is, it's bad. elizabeth: you've been great tonight, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. elizabeth: next up, president trump calling out social media last night at that indiana rally, warning that large social media companies should not be allowed to censor conservatives and control what we and cannot see. is that what's really going on? we're bringing in retired lieutenant colonel and former florida congressman allen west. he thinks it's time to investigate. we'll also talk to the colonel about the congress giving the late senator john mccain its highest honor today right after the break. stay there. >> this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. agent beekman was one step ahead of them. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got

weinstein and the woman who is accusingim. the women has not been identified so there's no way to get her side of t story outside of the courtroom. that's the first defense they're putting up. the second defense is to tryheo get case thrown out on technicalities. they say in one of the cases in 2004 the alleged incident has not been givenct an e date, instead there's a three-month range and the defense that's not acceptable. and in the other incident, they say they weren't given enoug time to essentially defend themselves, there wasn't enough notice given before the charges were brought about. anchor: what does this mean for the prospects for the case? paul: that's the big open question now. the next hearing is september 20. we're still in thisreial period but if thisgh goes throu and he's convicted of the most serious charges, he could potentially see himself ilife prison and this case is watched closely. he was one of the hollywood'sie he hitters, one of the most famous film producers in hollywoodhe but when accusations star

mr weinstein denies all the charges.ritain'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. it's the latest in a series of british meetings with individual european leaders to try to secure a brexit agreement. it's little more than 50 years since donald campbell lost his life, trying to break his own water speed record in the lake district. his jet powered vessel was travelling at more than 300mph, when it crashed on coniston water. well, bluebird k7, has since been salvaged and painstakingly restored, and is about to take to the water again. lorna gordon has more. the isle of bute in the firth of clyde has never had a visitor like this. bluebird. the jet—engined hydroplane that held seven world records, restored to its former glory in a journey that has taken 17 years. it's all original material, it has been re—repaired and assessed for strength. modern day rivets, all this kind of thing. just a painstakin

weinstein were actually vetted.he new york times" actor jimmy bennett said he was 17 when argento had sex with him in a california hotel room in 2013, an encounter that according to a notice of intent to sue, quote, threatened his mental health. the l.a. county sheriff's department says it is considering opening a criminal investigation. the legal age of consent in california is 18. the "times" reports that argento paid bennett nearly $400,000, a negotiation that the paper said her then-boyfriend anthony bourdain helped navigate. bourdain tragically took his own life last june amid tabloid reports their relationship was troubled. >> this is difficult i think for people in bourdain's circle to realize how much he knew about this and helped her navigate it. >> reporter: bourdain's attorney did not respond to our request for comment. the news shook the foundation of the #metoo movement. argento has been one of the most public weinstein accusers alongside rose mcgowan who tweeted, i got to know asia argento ten months a

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harvey weinstein's lawyers have filed a motion to have the criminal case against him dismissed.ed between mr weinstein and an accuser up to four years after an alleged rape showed that the two had a long—term insensible relationship. he denies all the charges against him. earlier on breakfast entertainment attorney jonathan handel told us he was convinced the lawyers would succeed with this appeal. there is some duty in new york unlike most states to represent evidence of innocence, but this really isn't that. this is evidence that may tend to undermine the testimony of one of the women, maybe, but doesn't really negate the question of whether a sexual assault happened, sexual conduct with force or threat of force. so it is very unlikely, highly unlikely, that we will see the charges dropped. behaviour amongst rival heart surgeons at a south london hospital has been described as toxic and tribal and could have contributed to an increase in patient deaths. a leaked report into lower—than—expected survival rates at st george's said a strong leadership was needed within the departm

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

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sex he did so i think and this is important to note the age we are in with the despicable harvey weinstein he did by having a standard with gentlemanly behavior. and then with that consumer revolution to take two extremes and that materialism and to be a corrosive thing. but as a whole the rise of the american standard of living after world war ii was the envy of the world and rightly so. it broke the back once in american society a large own large swath of the population with the working class as well not material that existed that allows people to delve into other areas travel and leisure and education and recreation available to lead a richer and fuller life. these things hold a very positive development of course america's consumer prosperity largely defines to societies around the globe that is bull wards of our society so in closing i would contend that hefner played a significant and positive role to redefine the american dream the last half-century or so in the 1950s on the cutting edge of this development and is steadily into the mainstream for perhaps that moved closer to him. an