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Ronan Farrow is standing by his reporting in his new book 'Catch and Kill,' despite being hit back with statements from both NBC executives and Matt Lauer.

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00:00I'll let the facts in the book speak for themselves, but I think that is difficult to believe

00:03when you look at the documents and records.

00:04Ronan Farrow is standing by his reporting in his new book, Catch and Kill, despite being

00:09hit back with statements from both NBC executives and Matt Lauer. Appearing on ABC's Good

00:14Morning America, Farrow refuted the statements given by top NBC executives in regards to

00:19Farrow's reporting about his investigation into Harvey Weinstein, and also fired back

00:23at Lauer's open letter in which he defended himself against a sexual assault claim from

00:27Meredith Vieira's former producer that occurred during the 2014 Winter Olympics.

00:32Farrow's new book details NBC's alleged secret payouts and attempts to cover up Lauer's alleged

00:37indiscretions, as well as Weinstein's sexual misconduct allegations. The book dives into how

00:41Lauer may have played a role in the network's decision to kill Farrow's Weinstein expose that

00:46the reporter had originally planned to take to NBC, but eventually published in The New Yorker.

00:51This expose was the catalyst that eventually kicked off the MeToo movement.

00:55Farrow spoke to GMA's George Stephanopoulos, reiterating that NBC News ordered a hard stop

01:00to reporting on Weinstein.

01:02They told me and a producer working on this that we should not take a single call. They

01:05told us to cancel interviews. The question for years has been, why? Because every journalist

01:10at that institution didn't understand why.

01:13Following these claims made about NBC's cover-up, NBC News chairman Andy Lack said in a Wednesday

01:18memo to his staff that they had only learned of Lauer's behavior on the night of November 27, 2017,

01:24after Vieira's producer Brooke Nevels filed her complaint, adding he was fired in 24 hours.

01:29Lack also noted,

01:30"...any suggestion that we knew prior to that evening or tried to cover up any aspect of

01:34Lauer's conduct is absolutely false and offensive."

01:37But Farrow doubled down on his reporting, again refuting NBC's statement, saying his book

01:42outlines a paper trail and documents that show multiple secret settlements and non-disclosures

01:47being struck with women at NBC News, including ones involving Lauer, adding that this was

01:51years before the incident with Nevels. In regards to Nevels' claims, which Lauer called in his lengthy

01:56open letter, false and salacious allegations leveled at me, Farrow told Stephanopoulos that

02:01her claims were extensively fact-checked and backed by documentation and eyewitnesses.

02:06The facts of her case, which are backed by documentation and eyewitnesses, suggest that there was an

02:11encounter here that she consistently has described as non-consensual.

02:15Farrow also discussed that there is importance and significance in his reporting, saying,

02:20"...this is a pattern in media, in law, in politics. Institutions that conceal abuse of this type

02:25let people get hurt, and that's something we should all care about."

02:28For more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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