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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.
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