CNN’s Jake Tapper said NBC’s excuse for passing on Ronan Farrow’s bombshell story detailing allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein “seems like a real lie to me.”
Tapper made the comments during an interview with Farrow on Wednesday.
Farrow maintains that he had an NYPD audio recording of Weinstein confessing to groping one woman and had also secured several interviews with three women who said Weinstein made unwanted advances.
Farrow, who once hosted an afternoon program on MSNBC, took the story first to NBC News, but the network decided against running the story.
“An NBC source told ‘The Daily Beast,’ quote, ‘He brought NBC News early reporting on Weinstein that didn’t meet the standard to go forward with the story. It was nowhere close to what ultimately ran. At that time, he didn’t have one accuser willing to go on the record or identify themselves. The story he published is radically different than what he brought to NBC News,’ ” Tapper read on the air to Farrow.
“That seems like a real lie…
