Graydon Carter

And he dropped the case on the steps of the courthouse.

There's probably a million stories I missed.

We did a story on Epstein in 2003.

Not the story that was written in 2017 or whatever it was.

and completely missed him.

Who could imagine somebody could be such a monster?

I couldn't get the story on Harvey Weinstein because nobody would talk in the early days.

Everybody knew that he was... But people just thought Harvey Weinstein's a sexual harasser, but they thought, that's Hollywood, that's the casting couch.

I mean, I'm pretty, I think that I would tell a friend, if you stick your hand in the wood chipper, there's nothing I can do.

We have to do a story.

So there were a number of friends involved in the story.

Yeah, I met a number of friends involved in the story.

Not a lot.

I was careful with my friends.

And my friend John Scanlon, the fellow who had called me about Larry Tisch, saying that he wasn't technically a billionaire.

So he'd gotten involved with Brown and Williams at a big tobacco company.

that was trying to besmirch the reputation of this whistleblower named Jeffrey Weigand.

It didn't reflect well on John, and I had to call him to tell him we were doing this story, and we didn't speak for a year after that.

But the story was an amazing piece about this very complicated whistleblower saying that the tobacco companies knew that smoking caused cancer and that it was addictive, and it became a movie.

It became the Michael Mann movie called The Insider with Russell Crowe.