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Stay Tuned with Preet

Pardonpalooza & #MeToo (with Ronan Farrow)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Pardonpalooza & #MeToo,” Preet and Anne Milgram, his CAFE Insider podcast co-host, answer your questions about the numerous pardons and sentence commutations issued by the White House this week. The guest this week is Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators and the host of the accompanying “The Catch and Kill Podcast.” Both works recount Farrow’s difficult journey to publishing game-changing sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Farrow is currently working with HBO on a documentary about the threats journalists face around the world. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider. Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis of politically charged legal news, and updates from Preet. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS THE Q&A Office of the Pardon Attorney Derrick Bryson Taylor, Heather Murphy, and Mariel Padilla, "A Complete List of Trump’s Pardons and Commutations," NYT, 2/18/20 "U.S. attorney launches criminal probe of Rich pardon," CNN, 2/14/01 THE INTERVIEW Farrow’s First Appearance on Stay Tuned, CAFE, 4/26/2018 Ronan Farrow, The War on Peace, W.W. Norton & Company, 2018 CATCH AND KILL Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Little, Brown, and Company, 2019 Ronan Farrow,“The Catch and Kill Podcast,”Pineapple Street Media, 2019-2020 Kara Scannell and Mark Morales,“National Enquirer company chief David Pecker talking with New York prosecutors,” CNN, 11/25/2019 Rachel Maddow, “NBCUniversal Offers NDA Releases Over Harassment Claim Concerns,”MSNBC, 10/26/2019 Jeff Bezos,“No thank you, Mr. Pecker,”Medium, 2/7/2019 Sarah Ellison and Paul Farhi,“Publisher of the National Enquirer admits to hush money payments made on Trump’s behalf,” Washington Post, 12/12/2018 Joe Palazzolo, Michael Rothfeld, and Lukas I. Alpert, “National Enquirer Shieldd Donald Trump From Playboy Model’s Affair Allegation,” WSJ, 11/4/2016 Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O’Connell, and Russel Adams, “How Tiger Woods Protected His Image,” WSJ, 12/18/2009 Anna Louise Bardach, “The Hush-Hush Deal that Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor,” LA Magazine, 9/1/2004 NEW YORKER STORIES Ronan Farrow, “The Black Cube Chronicles,” The New Yorker, Parts I, II, and III, 10/9/2019 Ronan Farrow, “How an Élite University Research Center Concealed its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” The New Yorker, 9/7/2019 Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, “A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress,” The New Yorker, 9/14/2018 Ronan Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct,” The New Yorker, 7/27/2018 Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, “Four Woman Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse,” The New Yorker, 5/7/2018 Ronan Farrow, “The National Enquirer, A Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence,” The New Yorker, 4/12/2018 Ronan Farrow, “Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity,” The New Yorker, 2/16/2018 Ronan Farrow, “Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies,” The New Yorker, 11/6/2017 Ronan Farrow, “From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories,” The New Yorker, 10/10/2017 WEINSTEIN TRIAL Ronan Farrow, Tweet on Jurors, Twitter,1/9/2020 Michael Levenson, “Who’s Who in the Harvey Weinstein Trial,” New York Times, 2/19/2020 Jeremy Barr, “Why the Weinstein Trial Jurors are Deliberating Slowly,” The Hollywood Reporter, 2/19/2020 Alyssa Rosenberg, “Harvey Weinstein is on trial. But #MeToo is in danger,” Washington Post, 2/18/2020 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9

From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune.

0:58.9

I'm Pete Barara. Harvey Weinstein is one person. The reason the story was so significant

1:05.7

is partly because so many of the tactics he used to evade accountability were emblematic

1:10.8

of a larger set of systems, which are alive and well today and require more tough reporting.

1:19.3

That's Ronan Farrow. He's the author of Catch and Kill. Lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect

1:24.7

predators. It's an account of his game-changing investigation into film producer Harvey

1:29.3

Weinstein's history of sexual assault and the difficulties Farrow faced trying to get

1:33.7

the initial story published. According to the book, NBC News killed the Weinstein story

1:38.8

so Farrow took the expose to the New Yorker, where he has since published a number of articles

1:43.1

implicating powerful men in sexual misconduct and exposing the systems that kept them from

1:47.6

justice for so long. Farrow's Weinstein reporting earned him the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public

1:53.1

Service, which he shared with reporters Jody Cantor and Megan Tuey of The New York Times.

1:58.5

Farrow also adapted the book into a riveting nine-episode podcast, The Catch and Kill

2:02.4

podcast, in collaboration with Pineapple Street Studios. We'll get into all of that, plus

2:07.7

his thoughts on the Harvey Weinstein trial, the role of the national inquire in protecting

2:11.7

powerful men, and the complicated responsibilities lawyers face in the Me Too movement.

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