winning reporter Ronan Farrow has uncovered stories of harassment and assault chronicled the decline of America's soft power and explored how powerful people try to track and manipulate journalists.

Farrell was in town today discussing his latest project, a podcast that defies easy categorization reporter Nick Blumberg sat down with them.

>> Ronan Farrow has worked on magazines, books, documentaries and podcasts.

Very Moira rose from Schitt's Creek, all and kind of like that off the wall TV matriarch, this subject at the Heart of Farrow's new podcast.

Not a very good murderer is a little out there.

But as I looked into a C C I discovered that her background was complicated, like really complicated.

I'm accused.

Of trying to kill my husband.

It is a series of true crime mysteries stumble into these cold cases and have to crack It is a character portrait of a really complicated, difficult percent who is problematic in some way is and lovable in other ways.

It's also something of an anatomy of a certain kind of voter imbibing, a certain kind of dis-information, a former pageant queen now living in luxury in suburban Phoenix, CCS.

Complicated story goes beyond the accusations of attempted murder.

There's no one like CC.

She is a one of a kind person and to say for ING what makes her tick, it is a big part of this series.

This project got started because you are vetting a source who made pretty explosive claim about assault.

>> Why was it important for you to come demonstrate to the audience?

Just how much work goes into getting a source like that for an investigative story.

We're in a moment where there are so many forces arrayed against journalism.

>> There's an economic model that is in doubt.

There's political headwinds.

>> And there's a major legacy news institutions who are >> bending the knee a Pharaohs reported for years on abuse, including a recent New Yorker piece on a serial rapist whose predation was essentially an open secret.

I suppose if I had to beat its identifying systemic injustices and trying to put a spotlight on them, you've experienced both working in and reporting on the foreign policy diplomacy, space.

How do you see the state of the U.S. on the world stage right now?

The United States is in the throes of a surge of fascism.

>> authoritarian tendencies.

effort to not only dismantle a lot of basic rights and freedoms and aspects of the rule of law domestically.

But also too >> transition in a direction of.

>> More of a bullying high handed role with absence of either soft power or diplomacy.

As for his new podcast, Farrow says its main subject didn't much care for it.

She called one of the producers on the project and threatened to >> come kill all of you with my bare hands, believe was the quote.

But he has been heartened by the kinds of responses he's gotten from audience members.

I see my mother and this character.

I see someone in my family, someone at my Thanksgiving dinner table in this series and a lot of people have written in to say that it's helped them cope with.

>> Dynamics of abuse and addiction and mental health issues in their families for