3 Shocking Revelations From Ronan Farrow's Book 'Catch and Kill' | THR News - video Dailymotion

The New Yorker correspondent writes about his interactions with Megyn Kelly, Andy Lack and lawyer Lisa Bloom.

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00:00Acclaim from Ronan Farrow's new book, Catch and Kill, Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

00:05is making headlines today that Matt Lauer assaulted Meredith Vieira's former assistant

00:09during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

00:12Lauer has since released an open letter denying the allegations, but that's not the only surprising

00:16revelation in the new tell-all that recounts the challenges Farrow faced chasing the story

00:21of Harvey Weinstein's years of predation, first for NBC News and then for The New Yorker.

00:26Here are three other surprising revelations from Farrow's new book.

00:28First, Farrow says he received kudos on the Weinstein story from Matt Lauer.

00:33On October 10, 2017, the day Farrow's New Yorker exposé about Weinstein ran,

00:38Farrow received a congratulatory text from Lauer.

00:41According to Farrow, it read,

00:42In the book, Farrow also recounts his interaction with another Sense Ousted Today anchor,

00:52Megyn Kelly.

00:54At the Time 100 gala in April 2017, Farrow says he bumped into Kelly,

00:57who had recently joined NBC News from Fox News Channel.

01:01He congratulated her on her upcoming NBC show and then apologized for, quote,

01:04the Twitter thing, in which he called one of her comments racist.

01:07He wrote of their interaction,

01:09And Farrow also details lawyer Lisa Bloom's double dealings.

01:20He says it slowly dawned on him that Bloom, while claiming to advise Farrow with his reporting,

01:25was actually attempting to wheedle information about his Weinstein reporting.

01:29Farrow writes in the book,

01:30The last time I answered a call from Lisa Bloom that summer, I expressed astonishment.

01:35Lisa, you swore as an attorney and a friend that you wouldn't tell his people, I said.

01:39Ronan, she replied, I am his people.

01:42For much more on this story and Farrow's new book, head to THR.com.

01:45Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.