Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers were calling us all through the seven months and never once did I say to anyone, ‘Don’t do it,’” Oppenheim said. “I was ordered to stop on the story,” McHugh said. “Ronan and I sensed that NBC was going down a direction where they were not gonna publish this story.” “I’m the one who launched the fucking story!” Oppenheim said, losing his cool, getting angry. “I’m now being accused widely,” he said, “of being somehow complicit in covering up for a rapist. Okay! As the only person here who gave Ronan a job after MSNBC canceled his show, as the person whose idea it was
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