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Well, its terrible that it happened to her, but what happens to a white celebrity reporter is now going to obscure what happens to egyptian women and noncelebrities. i any thats pretty poor, too. its our job to care about injustice and mistreatment wherever it happens. i know that you and i and ashley care about the plight of egyptian women and we will be bringing that to the worlds attention if we knew about those stories. just because shes white and a celebrity is really no reason to lose comp...

Banfield of abc news. joan, when you first heard what nir rosen had said, what did you make of it? >> well, i thought it was horrible, anderson, and i assumed that he was making light of a sexual assault since i had read the cbs short story as well, and it was pretty clear what happened. so im not going to call him a liar. only he knows what he knew. by it was incredibly insensitive. and talking sexual assault aspect, to be mocking someone you dont like who has been injured and mistreated, i wou...

>> in your defense, subsequent to this, youve said in a couple articles, "i heard that ms. logan was roughed up like many other journalists. i did not realize it was something more serious." thats hard to believe reading your first two tweets. you clearly knew, it seems, what happened to her was sexual. you said she had to outdo me, so clearly you knew i had been punched a couple of times or roughed up a little bit. so you knew the attack on her was worse than that. and then you said it would be...

Funny if i were sexually assaulted. again, what appears to be a clear indication he knew what kind of attack logan has suffered. if all he knew about was the beating, not the sexual assault on logan, wouldnt he have said something like it was funny when it happened to anderson, too? later he sweeted about logan. "at a moment when shes going to become a martyr, we should at least remember her role as a major warmonger. i apologize for being insensitive. im rolling my eyes at all the attention she...

They didnt give her food or water and asked her to imagine different scenarios. >> reporter: there are other weaknesses in the case against her. dna evidence found at the scene pointed at an ivory coast man with a police record. >> we know that his dna is all over the room, in the victims blood, on the victims body, his footprints are in her blood all over the room. his dna is in her purse. after the crime, he all of a sudden had money that he didnt have earlier in the day. he went out partying ...

And to women everywhere. theres no excuse for what i did. ive ruined an eight-year record of taking risks in defense of justice in my own career and people. >> nir rosen, thank you for being on the program. you can decide what to make on his apology. i want to bring in joan walsh and ashleigh banfield. joan, when you first heard what nir nosen had said, what did you make of it? >> well, i thought it was horrible, anderson, and i assumed that he was making light of a sexual assault since i had re...

I would like to see those people come in for a little bit of criticism and examination, too. its not just what nir said on twitter. >> ashley, what do you think the response to all these different comments that have been made online, what do you think it says about the way people view, i dont know if its reporters or female reporters or sexual assault on women? >> i think first of all, people need to cut the crap, because its not doing anything to fix the situation were in here. im trying to get...

Heres my colleague anderson cooper. anderson, whats coming up on your show tonight? >> we have breaking news tonight on "360." escalating violence in the middle east, this time in bahrain. another journalist caught in the cross fire. correspondent miguel marquez roughed up during a military crackdown. well play the audio for you, chilling. also a live report from cnns nic robertson on the scene about whats happening in bahrain. also, tonight why did a teacher at new york university and a journal...

Until i knew the whole story. i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, were using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which were referring. so im simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake hes going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. >> joan...

Boyfriend and another man to assault meredith kircher. >> the prosecution claimed it was an orgy going on and that kind of thing. gradually there was satanic rituals attached to that, but they still link it to halloween and there was craziness going on. >> reporter: what made the story all the more fascinating was amanda knox herself, a fresh faced innocent looking young woman. through all the brutal accusations she seemed poised but admitted she was struggling to deal with her emotions. >> i am...