[ APPLAUSE ] >>> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
AND WELCOME TO THE SHOW ON A
HUGE DAY.
IM MEGYN KELLY.
WE BEGIN THIS MORNING WITH
SOMETHING VIRTUALLY NO ONE IN HOLLYWOOD EVER THOUGHT THEYIN
HOLLYWOOD EVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD HEAR.
WOULD HEAR. ABOUT 90 MINUTES AGO, HARVEY
WEINSTEIN TURNED HIMSELF IN TO
NEW YORK CITY POLICE, ARRESTED,
PROCESSED AND CHARGED WITH RAPE,
CRIMINAL SEX ACT, SEX ABUSE AND
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT FOR INCIDENTS
INVOLVING TWO, SEPARATE WOMEN.
ABOUT 100 WOMEN HAVE COME
FORWARD ACCUSING THE DISGRACED
MOVIE MOGUL OF SOME FORM OF
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT.
AND MOMENTS AGO, HE WAS WALKED OUT OF A NEW YORK CITY POLICED
OUT OF A NEW YORK CITY POLICE PRECINCT IN HANDCUFFS.
LOOK AT THIS.
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LOOK AT THIS. WHAT A THING TO SEE.
HE WAS ESCORTED INTO COURT.
NBCS CRAIG MELVIN IS AT THE
PRECINCT WITH THE LATEST.
CRAIG?
>> Reporter: MEGYN, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.rter: MEGYN, GOOD MORNING
TO YOU. WEINSTEIN WAS FINGERPRINTED AND
HE WAS PROCESSED AND HIS MUG
SHOT IS BEING TAKEN AT THAT
COURTHOUSE.
COURTHOUSE. WE CAN PASS ALONG SOME BREAKING
NEWS.
NEWS.
MOMENTS AGO, WE LEARNED NEW
DETAILS RELATED TO THESE
CHARGES.
PARDON ME AS I READ THEM.
SEVERAL SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH
THE INVESTIGATION SAYS THE RAPE
CHARGE HE IS FACING, THE RAPE
CHARGES STEM FROM A COMPLAINT
FROM A WOMAN NOT PREVIOUSLY
NAMED PUBLICLY.
THIS IS A WOMAN WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT, UNTIL THIS RAPE CHARGE.W
ABOUT, UNTIL THIS RAPE CHARGE. WELL LEARN MORE ABOUT HER AND
THE SPECIFIC ACCUSATIONS SHES
MAKING HERE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR
SO.
SO.
THE SEX ABUSE CHARGES STEM FROM A COMPLIANT FROM LUCIA EVANS.OM
A COMPLIANT FROM LUCIA EVANS. SHE WENT PUBLIC WITH HER
ACCUSATIONS A FEW DAYS AGO.
SHE TOLD A MAGAZINE SHE WOULD BE
FILING CHARGES AGAINST
WEINSTEIN.
WEINSTEIN.
SHE SAID, QUOTE, AT A CERTAIN POINT, YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
THE GREATER GOOD OF HUMANITY.
AS YOU INDICATED, HARVEY
WEINSTEIN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH,
AMONG OTHER THINGS, RAPE.
HE IS IN HANDCUFFS INSIDE A
NEW YORK CITY COURTROOM RIGHT
NOW.
NOW.
>> CRAIG, THANK YOU.
JOINING ME NOW ONE OF THE FIRST
WOMEN TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT HER
EXPERIENCE WITH HARVEY
WEINSTEIN.
SHE SAYS IT WAS NOT A SUDDEN DECISION.IT WAS NOT A SUDDEN
DECISION.
SHE SAYS 20 YEARS AGO, SHE TOLD WEINSTEIN, IF HE DID WHAT HE DID
TO HER WITH ANY OTHER WOMAN, SHE
WOULD TALK.
WOULD TALK. SHE SAYS, HE DID SO SHE DID.
PLEASE WELCOME ROSE McGOWAN.
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WHAT A THING TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY.
TODAY.
>> CHILLS.
IM HONORED. >> WHAT DOES THIS FEEL LIKE FOR
YOU, TO SEE HIM IN CUFFS?
>> ITS SURREAL.
ITS REAL.
ITS REAL. ITS BOTH.
ITS BOTH. AND ITS KIND OF LIKE LIVING IN
A SALVADOR DALI PAINTING TO SEE
HIM DO THE PERP WALK.
TO SEE HIM IN CUFFS ON THE WAY
OUT, WHETHER HE SMILED OR NOT,
THATS A VERY GOOD FEELING.
>> DID YOU EVER THINK THIS DAY
WOULD COME?
WOULD COME? DID YOU EVER BELIEVE THIS WOULD
COME?
COME?
>> I CANTDIDNT BELIEVE THIS DA
WOULD COME.
I DIDNT BELIEVE THIS DAY WOULD COME.NT BELIEVE THIS DAY WOULD
COME.
AND IM SO PROUD OF LUCIA EVANS AND PAZ VEGA.UD OF LUCIA EVANS
AND PAZ VEGA. HE TURNED HIMSELF IN ON A
FRIDAY.
FRIDAY.
THATS A SLOW NEWS WEEKEND,
MEMORIAL DAY.
HE HAS PRIVILEGES, HIGH UP
SOMEWHERE.
BUT THIS IS A BIG STRIKE INTO THE HEART OF ABUSE OF POWER.O
THE HEART OF ABUSE OF POWER. AND IT SHOWS PEOPLE WORLDWIDE,
WHICH IS WHAT I WAS HOPING THE
WHOLE TIME, THAT THIS CANNOT AND
WILL NOT STAND.
>> DO YOU THINK HE THOUGHT THIS
DAY WOULD COME?
>> NO.
NO, HE DID NOT. >> THE SYSTEM WAS CREATED TO
PROTECT MEN LIKE HIM.
>> THE SYSTEM WAS CREATED BY MEN
LIKE HIM.
LIKE HIM. AND HIS ACCOMPLICES, TO PROTECT
HIM.
HIM.
AND I KNOW RIGHT NOW OF A WOMAN WHO IS SEXUALLY HARASSING WOMAN
WHO IS SEXUALLY HARASSING SOMEBODY.
SOMEBODY.
ITS GENDER-NEUTRAL. ITS ABUSE OF POWER.
IF THERE WERE MORE WOMEN IN
POWER, WE WOULD SEE PARITY ON
THAT SIDE.
THAT SIDE.
HE HAD THE NERVOUS TO WALK IN THE WOMENS MARCH DOWN THEK IN
THE WOMENS MARCH DOWN THE STREET AT SUNDANCE WHERE HE
RAPED ME.
RAPED ME.
ITS INTENSE.
>> THE D.A. IN THIS CASE, CY VANCE, WAS ACCUSED OF BEING SLOW
TO BRING THESE CHARGES, DESPITE
HE HAD A WOMAN WHO WORE A WIRE
AND GOT WEINSTEIN ON TAPE.
MY QUESTION TO YOU, THOUGH, IS
DO YOU THINK YOU AND OTHER WOMEN
LIKE YOU SHAMED HIM INTO
BRINGING THE CHARGES?
THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF
THIS.
THIS.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> I DO, TOO. >> COMPLETELY.
>> COMPLETELY. THATS A TRAGIC THICK.
ITS TRAGIC THAT IT TAKES OVER
100 WOMEN AND THAT PROBABLY
MEANS LIKE 1,000.
LETS BE REAL.
HE HAD HUNTING GROUNDS OVER THE
WORLD.
WORLD.
HE HAD ACCOMPLICES AND A COMPLICITY MACHINE.AND A
COMPLICITY MACHINE. HE WAS THE CULT LEADER OF
HOLLYWOOD.
HOLLYWOOD.
A KING.
>> LIKE A GOD.
THATS WHAT MERYL STREEP SAID. >> TO SEE THAT AND TO LIVE IN
THAT TOWN, I WAS THERE BY MYSELF
SINCE I WAS 15.
AND TO SEE PEOPLE LAY WREATHS AT
HIS FEET, EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW,
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.
>> THATS WHAT YOUVE BEEN
SAYING ALL ALONG.
THIS WASNT A SECRET FOR YOU.
YOU TOLD MANY PEOPLE WHO CHOSE
NOT TO BELIEVE YOU.
THATS THE CRITICAL DIFFERENCES NOW.S THE CRITICAL DIFFERENCES
NOW.
YOU WERE BELIEVED, LIKE THE
WOMEN CAME FORWARD.
THIS TIME, THE COSBY ACCUSERS
WERE BELIEVED.
AND A SEACHANGE IS HAPPENING. ITS NOT DONE.GE IS HAPPENING.
ITS NOT DONE. ITS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, RIGHT?
>> I THINK IT IS HAPPENING.
I KNOW THERES FATIGUE.
AND I KNOW ITS HARD FOR PEOPLE
TO SEE DAY AFTER DAY, WHAT?
I THOUGHT HE WAS A GOOD GUY.
WHAT?
WHAT?
IM SORRY.
I WISH IT WERE TRUE.
IF WE CAN GET AT THE ROTTEN
APPLES, GET RID OF THEM, GREAT PEOPLE CAN COME UP AND FLOURISH.
WE NEED THAT AS A SOCIETY.
I WANTED TO SHOW PEOPLE, IF YOU
CUT OFF THE HEAD OF POWER, THAT
IT WILL CLEAN HOUSE DOWN.
INSTEAD OF BECOME ACTIVISTS
BITING ANKLES, I WANTED TO GO TO
THE HEAD.
THE HEAD.
I THINK THIS WHOLE TIME, THIS
MOVEMENT, WHAT IT IS, IS ITS
JUST BE A GOOD PERSON.
BE HUMAN.
TREAT OTHERS WITH HUMAN DIGNITY
AND HUMAN RESPECT.
THERE WILL BE SOCIOPATHS AND
PREDATORS LIKE HARVEY WEINSTEIN. I FIND HIS COMPLICITY MACHINEIN.
I FIND HIS COMPLICITY MACHINE MORE GUILTY.
MORE GUILTY. >> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. ITS BEEN IN PLACE FOR YEARS.
ITS STILL IN PLACE.
NOT JUST HOLLYWOOD BUT
ELSEWHERE.
ELSEWHERE.
AND BIT, BY, BIT, WERE CHIPPING
AWAY.
JUST THAT IMAGE OF HIM WALKING
OUT IN CUFFS IS SO HUGE. WE HAVE TO SAY FOR THE RECORD,
HE DENIES IT, HE DENIES ALL
ALLEGATIONS OF NONCONSENSUAL
SEX.
SEX.
>> WE ALL WANTED HIM.
>> LOOK AT THAT.
LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF ACCUSERS
ON THAT BOARD. THATS THE THING.
THESE WOMENS LIVES HAVE BEEN
CHANGED FOREVER, AS A RESULT OF
WHAT HE DID.
AND TO ME, ITS ONE OF THE
OFFENSIVE PARTS OF WHEN PEOPLE
TALK ABOUT REHABILITATION.
NOT JUST IN THE CASE OF HARVEY,
BUT IN CASE OF ALL OF THE MEN
THAT ARE SWEPT UP IN THE #METOO
MOVEMENT.
MOVEMENT.
MY REACTION HAS BEEN, CAN THE WOMEN GET A MINUTE?N, CAN THE
WOMEN GET A MINUTE? CAN THEY GET A MINUTE BEFORE WE
START SHIFTING TO HOW HARD THIS
HAS BEEN ON THE MEN?
>> ALSO, OH, THEYRE LOSING
THEIR JOBS.
THEIR JOBS. THEYRE CRIMINALS.
THEYRE CRIMINALS. IF THEY WERE POOR MEN, THEY
WOULD GO TO JAIL.
THATS A FACT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO HIM?
IF HE WERE WATCHING THIS TODAY,
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO HIM?
>> WE GOT YOU.
WE GOT YOU.
YEAH.
YEAH. >> YOU DID.
YOU MADE THAT PROMISE 20 YEARS
AGO, AFTER HE CAME AFTER YOU.
AND IT CAME TO FRUITION, WITHOUT
A LOT OF PAIN TO YOU, A LOT OF
DAMAGE TO YOU.
ALL OF THE WOMEN -- WHAT YOU
DONT REMEMBER IS WHEN ROSE
FIRST CAME FORWARD, WHEN OTHERS
FIRST CAME FORWARD, THEY DID NOT
KNOW HE WOULD GO DOWN.
IT WAS THE SAME AS IT WAS AT
FOX, FOR THAT MATTER.
WE BELIEVED HE WOULD NOT GO
DOWN.
DOWN.
WE BELIEVED WE WOULD DO THIS, POSSIBLY AT GREAT PERIL.THIS,
POSSIBLY AT GREAT PERIL. AND TO FIND OUT HE DID, WAS SUCH
A MOMENT OF, OH, MY GOD, WAIT.
MAYBE WE DONT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE
THIS.
THIS.
MAYBE WOMANKIND DOESNT HAVE TO
LIVE LIKE THIS.
>> AND MEN, AND ANY GENDER.
NOBODY HAS TO LIVE WITH ABUSE OF
POWER.
NOBODY HAS TO LIVE IN FEAR.
YOU KNOW, I THINK, ALL WORKED AT
PLACES WHERE IT WOULD BE SO GREAT IF IT WERENT FOR THAT ONE
PERSON, RIGHT?
PERSON, RIGHT? THE TOXIC FROM THE TOP-DOWN.
GET RID OF THAT PERSON.
ITS OKAY.
ITS OKAY. AND BE BRAVE.
YES, WE HAVE TO CONFRONT
UGLINESS AS A SOCIETY.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT IT,
LIKE GROWTH, RIGHT, WHEN YOU GOT
TALLER YOUR LEGS HURT, RIGHT?
WERE IN THE GROWING PART OF
THIS WHOLE THING RIGHT NOW.
I GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS LIKE,
WHAT NEXT FOR THE #METOO
MOVEMENT.
MOVEMENT.
WHERE IS IT GOING?
WHERE IS IT GOING IN FIVE YEARS? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED.E YEARS?
THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED. WHEN I SHAVED MY HEAD, I NOTICED
THE SIDE EFFECT THAT PEOPLE
COULD HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT
OF MY MOUTH.
>> IM VERY INTO THE HAIR
BECAUSE ITS SYMBOLIC ON A MUCH