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She was set to testify in a civil lawsuit involving seven women who accused bill cosby of sexual misconduct and who are now suing him for defamation. they are among cosbys 50 accusers. >> we were anticipating her deposition. it will be fascinating to hear what she knows, what she can offer, if she will actually say anything. >> and how that would affect or if it would affect the ongoing criminal case against him, too. >> shes playing two roles, right? shes the wife, this is a civil case, differe...

550 interviews, collected 500 pieces of evidence. the one thing they will not tell you is that if that resulted in a spinoff case, if they identified other possible suspects, not just in this attack but whether they, anywhere in the last couple of years, may have been planning an attack as such -- as marquez may have indicated, that, you know, they may be off on another direction in the investigation in addition to this one that we just dont know about, may not know for years to kol, untcome, th...

Since november 2008. you can see that it is big business and every time there is a mass shooting, people run out, they buy handguns, they buy recreational, the ar type guns and the accessories that go with it. this is the president talking about gun violence. you can see the spike in the stock, the company recently said its sales raised its sales outlook for the year. really remarkable. you look over the past five years or so, you can see what kind of a run these gun companies and ammunition com...

To show emotion. the atf has different case scenarios of who is a gun seller. its vague. ben ferguson, thank you. professor hill as always. these are big issues. thats why theres somuchthat can be said about them. youll get to hear them played out in a way that you probably havent in a very long time. tomorrow night president obama has taken the invitation to join our man anderson cooper for an exclusive live town hall on this issue. guns in america. he will make his case, the president, to a l...

Always holds himself out as being, you know an absolute textualist, every word of the constitution is what you follow. in the heller case it said the opening section was discussing militias. well that was just a prefatory clause announcing the right was coming. like they were playing trumpets or something. and so regardless of what you think of the logic of these are words that really dont matter, you know, that is now the law. when the supreme court speaks thats what the second amendment means....

Much criticized by not just more liberal justices, but also by conservatives. richard pozner essentially said youre cherry picking historical data and making stuff up. he said the range of his tor ral references in the majority opinion is breathtaking, but it is not evidence of disinterested historical inquiry. it is evidence of the ability of well staffed courts to produce snow jobs. so is scalia really using this, you know, very careful process of originalism or is he manipulating originalism ...

>> and in 2008, the supreme court in the heller decision basically -- the argument you make in the book is nra rewrote the second amendment in front of ouri our eyes and got the supreme court to sign off on it. >> they have the second amendment on the wall but they edited out three dots about the militia. that is kind of what the supreme court did -- >> you walk in the lobby and it says right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and got rid of the first clause? >> exactly. ...

Joining us now, josh fox. you did a brilliant job setting that up and its a laughing matter when you have that tape. lets say i didnt have it. >> thats the great question. if you didnt have that tape, the one little bit that they showed sounded like, sure, mysterious saudi oil tycoon. bring it on. >> this is the case. why did i record this? i recorded this because it looked shady. it looked like a scam. it looked like entrapment. there was a website attached. there were fake identities. there wa...

Of the periods since, its much more nuance than that. >> in the dissent, theres a case made that there was tons of regulation and tons of understanding of the second amendment that it wasnt an individual right. >> thats right. to me i think we cant imagine we can go back in a time machine and ask james madison how should we deal with issues of guns or much else in the country these days? we have to consider the original intent absolutely but also how is the country evolved? they didnt have assau...

On for freedom. thats whats new and different. >> and in 2008, the supreme court in the heller decision basically -- the argument you make in the book is nra rewrote the second amendment in front of our eyes and got the supreme court to sign off on it. >> they have the second amendment on the wall but they edited out three dots about the militia. that is kind of what the supreme court did -- >> you walk in the lobby and it says right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and...