Jodi Kantor

We've got 25 years worth of allegations ready to go.

But as you know, Tim, it is critical to be fair to everybody with a story like this, including even Harvey Weinstein, who was doing –

Crazy stuff, like not only threatening the New York Times, but he hired this Israeli firm comprised of ex-intelligence agents to try to spy and dupe me and others.

So even to someone treating you that horribly...

You have to be like very fair.

And it's really, these are serious charges.

You have to give somebody real time to respond.

So we have a big debate about how much time we're going to give him because we don't want him to take advantage of us or cause any funny business.

And we finally do it over the phone.

And we scripted it out beforehand.

And I read him most of the allegations that we were preparing to publish.

And he hired a huge PR and legal team.

And when you're being read that, your job is so obviously to stay quiet.

Your lawyers are like,

Don't say anything.

And Weinstein just could not help himself.

He responded a lot in the moment.

He responded like even more in his official statements.

You know, as a reporter, you get statements, right?

Like when you're writing something bad about somebody, they give you a statement.