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Many -- like you said, 60 accusers, does it surprise you, jurors had to know that going in, that didnt sway them with the case? >> well, they were only allowed to hear from one other, other than andrea constand. i think that was a pad decision by this judge. i think more women who had substantially similar stories to andrea constand, similar in time, similar in method, should have been allowed to testify. in other cases more accusers have been allowed to testify. perhaps thats the decision that ...

Morning you said you find surprising, am i correct in that? gloria can you hear me by chance? >> i can hear you. elizabeth: gloria, i want your reaction first this morning to the mistrial, please. >> as i said earlier you can never underestimate the blinding power of celebrity, but justice will come. the prosecutor decided he will retry it case and what i think will be important in the retrial is whether or not the court will permit the prosecutor to you will ka -- will allow more prior accusers...

Sexual activity. i think that defense gets a lot more difficult when you have several women testifying to conduct that looks a lot like what went on in this case. pills and then nonconsensual sexual activity. >> manuel, as youre listening there to what deborahs saying, what do you think might have altered this case in the outcome that we saw today? might have been more accusers coming to again give their testimony. might have been a different location. >> certainly more accusers would have helpe...

The wild card is the jury. are they going to come from pittsburgh again, allegheny county? another part of the state. thats the wild card. a different jury could be a different result. >> whats the headline, the story line now that we have a mistrial. if you had to write for monday? >> i think the big question now, a couple big questions, what does it mean that cosby was not convicted? weve heard from a lot of victims right groups who say this celebrity power that we thought maybe wed kind of mo...

Knows who hes going to help. >> well, you know -- >> john, what would he do? allow mere accusers to testify? >> yeah, he could. he could allow more accusers to testify. i think when you do that, you raise the real question of undue prejudice in a case because then an appellate court could say, look, you really convicted this person based upon the fact there are all these other events when point of fact is the evidence in the case hes accused of doesnt necessarily prove it because of the credibil...

Are actually group based. they are based on gender and other inequalities, and they are not exceptional. so the more -- short of redefining them in the appropriate way, the more real evidence of the patterns that existed with the other alleged accusers that could be brought into this, the stronger the case would be against him. >> what does this mean for the other accusers? they are watching this very carefully. dozens of other accusers are saying, this is the outcome. now what do they do? >> it...

To a verdict that he wants to push forward in this particular case. and the evidence is powerful but there is still a case going forward and will be continuing to push there and work on that. >> it is amazing that we dont know in this.it could have been 11 to 1 to convict, or 11 to one to a quit. we dont know what happened in the jury room, we may never know. we do know that only one to 57 other accusers were allowed to testify. theyre called bad act this is. >> they wanted 13. >> we will see if...

Were several more of these 60 accusers to come into court, tell the story of what happened to them, i suspect it would have made a difference. >> i believe we have some additional statements from some of those accusers after the mistrial was declared today. i would like to play some of those for you and get your reaction. >> it is time for rape and violence to stop so the healing can start. >> he thought he could bury us. he didnt know we were seeds. we are sprouting up, we are looking for refor...

Instruction which is disfavored in many states where you try and attempt to make the jurors really get together and reexamine their thoughts and deliberate. >> anne, good to see you again. thanks for joining us. i want to turn for more on what this means for cosbys career moving forward to social commentator john fuselang. john, two of cosbys accusers spoke out today. lets watch that. >> it is time for rape and violence to stop so the healing can start. >> he thought he could bury us. he didnt...

Acts witness who was allowed to testify. do you expect that if this case is retried, that the prosecution will try to get more of the other accusers testimony in? >> yes, i expect the prosecution to renew their motion to allow the 13 women who they requested to come and testify as to the prior bad acts. there is law that supports the position that if somebody has engaged in substantially similar behavior with other people, that that is relevant evidence that the jury should hear. you know, im in...