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Bill Cosby is being sued by Victoria Valentino in a new civil lawsuit claiming decades-old allegations of s...

On now because suddenly, eight states have opened called windows allowing these lawsuits, it is allowing these victims to file suit. >> trace: these are the eight states and the look back window which means a statute of limitations, there is none and they are new jersey, new york, california, montana, hawaii, north carolina, arizona, but we are talking about billions of dollars. the last thing the catholic church wants is for these cases to go to trial. is that a fair assessment? remake that is ...

Than his predecessors. many public comments. hes met with victims. theres been no official comment from the vatican yet on this case. are you disappointed by that? >> yeah, i am. you know, i think josh shapiro laid it out pretty clearly what needed to happen as far as the support from the bishops, the cardinals here in the u.s., as well as, obviously, pennsylvania. were asking for them to call off their lobbyists, the insurance lobbyists, the catholic lobbyists and let us pass this bill. i think...

Any legal action, even documented legal action, credible legal action against these predators involved. but you and the people youre working with, youre trying to change that now. how can you do that? >> well, our next fight, which will start here in september, were supporting representative mark rozzi and his new bill he just put forth here to change the statute of limitations and actually abolish it. the key point to the whole piece of legislation is a look back window for those people who are...

Against an abuser then the evidence is necessarily going to be more questionable which i think is reflecting society view that generally speaking if someone accuses a priest of abuse, that generally it is true. there is no other conclusion to be drawn from expanding the statusta statute of limitation to a level to a degree where it is questionable credibility because it is so old. >> i assume, mike, you would support expanding statutes of limitati limitation? >> so interesting because there is a...

Pass a look back window. however, the senate stripped it and we know why the senate stripped it. they stripped it because the insurance company got involved and everyone. it came down to the dollar. how much is your child worth? >> thats a whole a lot of questions to ponder. >> it is. >> i will be honest, a lifelong catholic, how could this happen? how did this go on and on and on and i dont even want to hear the excuse that we thought things differently in the 50s and 60s. >> people knew rape w...