>>NEW EVIDENCE INDICATES HOW AND WHY HARVEY WEINSTEIN WORKED WITH
CERTAIN TABLOID MEDIA OUTLETS IN ORDER TO SMEAR WOMEN AND
JOURNALISTS WHO WOULD COME OUT AGAINST HIM WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT
ALLEGATIONS.
THIS IS SOMETHING RONAN FARROW HAS REALLY BROUGHT
LIGHT TO AND HAS DONE EXCELLENT REPORTING HERE, BUT I WANTED TO
SHARE THE STORY WITH YOU AND OUTLINE EXACTLY WHO HARVEY
WEINSTEIN WORKED WITH AND HOW HE MANAGED TO CREATE THESE
CAMPAIGNS TO SMEAR WOMEN AND JOURNALISTS WHO MIGHT COME OUT
AGAINST HIM --
>>SPECIFICALLY OTHER JOURNALISTS WHO WOULD HAVE THE
AUDACITY TO DO REPORTING ON HIS PREDATORY BEHAVIOR.
>>TWO QUICK THINGS HERE BEFORE WE TELL YOU THE REST OF THE
STORY, ONE IS THAT YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT BE DOING SOMETHING SHADY
IF YOU ARE GOING WITH A COMPANY CALLED BLACK CUBE.
THESE GUYS
HAVE A WAY OF JUST SAYING WHAT THEY ARE, LIKE BLACKWATER,
RENUMBER THEM?
WHO NAMES THEMSELVES BLACKWATER?
THESE
GUYS ARE BLACK CUBE, DULL OR RE-, WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME
SHADY.
THE OTHER ONES ARE PSOPS, LIKE PSI OPS -- OVER HERE, IF
YOU WANT TO DO SHADY, CRIMINAL -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY CRIMINAL,
THEY ARE PROBABLY CAREFUL ABOUT THAT -- BUT IF YOU WANT TO DO
SHADY STUFF, IT'S LIKE NAMING YOURSELF SHADY, INC.
BY THE WAY,
YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT WEINSTEIN IS NOT THE ONLY PERSON DOING
THIS.
FIRST OF ALL, TRUMP HAS USED THESE PEOPLE LIKE THIS TO
SMEAR OPPONENTS, INCLUDING REPUBLIK AND OPPONENTS.
REMEMBER
WHEN THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER RAN THE STORY ABOUT HOW TED CRUZ HAD
FIVE MISTRESSES?
LIKE FIVE WOMEN WOULD SLEEP WITH TED CRUZ --
THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE THAT THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER STORY
ABOUT ALIENS LANDING WAS TRUE.
AND A LOT OF HOLLYWOOD DOES THIS, WHEN JOURNALISTS GO
TO REPORT ON SEX SCANDALS OR ANYTHING ELSE, THEY WILL
SEND THESE GUYS OUT TO THREATEN OTHER JOURNALISTS.
NOW WE GET TO FIND OUT BECAUSE OF THE WEINSTEIN SCANDAL
HOW IT WORKS.
>>LET ME GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT BEFORE I GET TO SPECIFIC EMAIL
EXCHANGES THAT WEINSTEIN IS INCLUDED IN.
ONE OF THE EFFORTS
WAS TO SMEAR ROSE MCGOWAN.
APPARENTLY IT WAS DISCOVERED
THAT ROSE MCGOWAN HAD SOME SORT OF RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
DIRECTOR NAMED ROBERT RODRIGUEZ.
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ WAS MARRIED AT
THE TIME TO A WOMAN NAMED ELIZABETH AVELLAN, WEINSTEIN KNEW
THAT, HE REALIZED THEY HAD DIVORCED, AND DECIDED TO HIRE
OPPOSITION RESEARCHERS AND CERTAIN REPORTERS TO KIND OF DIG
INTO THAT ISSUE AND FIGURE OUT IF THEY COULD GET SOME BAD
INFORMATION OR INFORMATION THAT SHOWED ROSE MCGOWAN IN A
NEGATIVE LIGHT.
AND THEY MANAGED TO DO THAT, THERE WAS A REPORTER
NAMED ANDY WHO REACHED OUT TO ELIZABETH AVELLAN, AGAIN WHO WAS
MARRIED TO ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, THEY ARE NOW DIVORCED, THERE WAS
A RUMOR THAT HE HAD SOME SORT OF AFFAIR OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH ROSE MCGOWAN.
NOW --
>>ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS REPORTER NAMED ANDY, WHO IS ASSOCIATED
WITH ALL OF THIS, GOES TO TALK TO AVELLAN AND STARTS PUSHING FOR
ANSWERS REGARDING ROSE MCGOWAN'S CHARACTER.
THAT INFORMATION IS
THEN RELAYED BACK TO HOWARD, AND HOWARD TELLS WEINSTEIN, I GOT
SOME DIRT.
IN ONE OF THE EMAIL EXCHANGES, HOWARD SAYS THE FOLLOWING --
>>WE HAVE SCREENSHOTS OF THESE EXCHANGES BETWEEN WEINSTEIN AND
HOWARD, HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF IT.
WEINSTEIN RESPONDED TO THAT
EMAIL BY SAYING THIS IS THE KILLER, ESPECIALLY IF MY
FINGERPRINT ARE NOT ON THIS.
AND DYLAN HOWARD RESPONDED THEY ARE
NOT, AND THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND I IS RECORDED.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT'S A GOOD THING.
>>I THINK HE'S SAYING WE HAVE MUTUAL DIRT ON EACH OTHER SO WE
ARE COOL.
THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION.
BUT DON'T WORRY,
YOUR FINGERPRINTS WON'T BE ON THIS.
AS WE JUST NOW TALK ABOUT
IT ON A NATIONAL LEVEL.
APPARENTLY YOUR FIGURE PRINCE
WERE ON IT, HARVEY.
THAT'S THE THING, YOU GET INTO BED WITH
GUYS WHO WERE DOING SHADY STUFF, AT SOME POINT THEY WILL TURN THE
SHADY STUFF AGAINST YOU.
I DON'T KNOW, THEY NEVER EXPLAIN WHO
ANDY IS, HE'S A GUY THEY CONTRACT OUT TO, WHO POSES AS A
REPORTER AND GETS YOU TO CONFIDE IN HIM, AND SHE KEEPS ASKING,
AVELLAN, POOR WOMAN, SHE KEEPS SAYING I DON'T WANT TO SAY BAD
THINGS ABOUT MY HUSBAND, I WANT IT TO BE OFF THE RECORD.
>>TO HER CREDIT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT ANYONE,
INCLUDING ROSE MCGOWAN, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS CLEAR IN SOME OF
HER STATEMENTS SHE'S NOT A FAN OF MCGOWAN BECAUSE OF THIS
ALLEGED RELATIONSHIP THAT HER EX-HUSBAND HAD WITH HER, BUT
NONETHELESS SHE IS LIKE, LOOK, I HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH
MY EX-HUSBAND, I HAVE FIVE KIDS WITH HIM, I CARE ABOUT MY
CHILDREN, I DON'T WANT TO SAY ANY NEGATIVE THINGS.
BUT THIS
SO-CALLED REPORTER, ANDY, WAS SO PERSISTENT, HE WAS RELENTLESS,
THAT HE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF A NEGATIVE COMMENT FROM AVELLAN
AND THAT WAS THE SO-CALLED KILLER.
>>APPARENTLY HE WORKS, "ANDY" DOES, ON BEHALF OF A LOS
ANGELES-BASED PHOTO AND NEWS AGENCY THAT WORKS ON STORIES FOR
VARIOUS TABLOIDS.
BUT REMEMBER, THIS STORY WASN'T NECESSARILY
GOING TO PRINT, THEY JUST WANTED INFORMATION THEY COULD USE TO
MAYBE EVEN THREATEN HER AND SAY HEY, WE KNOW THIS STUFF ABOUT
YOU.
SO THESE GUYS POSE AS JOURNALISTS WHEN THEY ARE
ACTUALLY, IN AN UNOFFICIAL WAY, LOOKING TO BLACKMAIL PEOPLE.
LEGALLY THAT MIGHT NOT BE BLACKMAIL BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO
GET DIRT ON THEM SO A POWERFUL PERSON WHO HAS DONE TERRIBLE
THINGS TO THEM CAN COVER UP THEIR CRIMES, AND IN THE CASE OF
HARVEY WEINSTEIN IT WAS CRIMES.
SO THIS IS HOW IN A LOT OF WAYS THEY RUIN JOURNALISM, AND
THEY USE IT TO THREATEN OTHER JOURNALISTS WHO ARE
ACTUALLY DOING THEIR JOBS.
>>AND BY THE WAY, AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE QUESTION YOU HEAR
OVER AND OVER AGAIN FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE SUSPICIOUS OF ANY AND
ALL ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE MADE, THIS IS THE REASON WHY WOMEN
DON'T SPEAK UP.
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WOMEN DON'T SPEAK UP.
>>THAT'S A GREAT POINT.
>>THERE IS SO MUCH RETALIATION THAT CAN BE TAKEN AGAINST THEM
IF THEY ARE ACCUSING SOMEONE IN A POSITION OF POWER.
YOU ARE
TALKING HARVEY WEINSTEIN, HE HAS EVERY RESOURCE AT HIS DISPOSAL
AND NOW WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF HOW HE WOULD SMEAR PEOPLE AND
THREATEN THEM SO THEY WOULDN'T SPEAK UP, INCLUDING JOURNALISTS.
>>SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT'S A CONSPIRACY THEORY, WHY WOULD
ANYONE WANT TO SMEAR A VICTIM?
BECAUSE THEIR ASSES ON THE LINE,
SO THEY GO HIRE BLACK CUBE AND MY ASSES ON THE LINE INC., SO
THEY MAKE SURE TO SMEAR ANY
WOMAN WHO COMES OUT.
THAT'S WHY
THEY'LL COME OUT!
BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL TRY TO DESTROY
THEIR CAREERS AND LIVES IF THEY DO.
NOW YOU KNOW THE REALITY.
SO
ALL OF THESE GUYS, WHATEVER THEIR POLITICAL PROCLIVITY IS,
WHETHER IT'S WEINSTEIN OR TRUMP, SUCH BAD GUYS.
NOT ONLY DID THEY
DO THE SCUMMY THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN THEY GO
TO DESTROY THEIR VICTIMS.
>>TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, SO THEY CAN CONTINUE VICTIMIZING
OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN POSITIONS OF POWER.
IT'S DISGUSTING.
>>NOW YOU KNOW HOW POWER WORKS.