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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, this wasnt just one tweet th...

Italian boyfriend. the second man has already appealed once and gotten his sentence reduced from 30 to 16 years. knoxs lawyers hope that on closer review, she looks less like a killer and more like the face of innocence. in the first place, her attorneys raised questions whether knox and her boyfriend were in the house at the time meredith was stabled to death. in a written statement for authorities, knox at first admitted she was there, but made it clear that she didnt kilmer death. she later s...

Chilling. also a live report from nic robertson on the scene about whats happening in bahrain. also, tonight why did a teacher and journalist verbally attack lara logan after she was beaten and sexually assaulted. nir rosen made fun of the assault. he apologized but is he being honest? he continues to claim he didnt know logan was sexually assaulted when he made the tweets. but his own tweets seem to contradict that claim. we confront him with the facts keeping them honest when he joins us at th...

You dont like who has been injured and mistreated, i would rather think that we dont have those responses, that we put down the politics and think wow, i hope shes okay. maybe thats naive of me. >> ashleigh banfield, when you heard his tweets, what did you think? >> i think my first impression was that it was horrifying, but i wanted to withhold judgment 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 ge...

But this man, nir rosen, had a very different reaction. he made jokes on twitter about logans attack. normally we wouldnt pay attention, but hes a journalist who has reported extensively from iraq and a teacher at new york university. he had a fellowship at new york university center of law on law and security. hes now stepped down from his fellowship. rosen has now apologized for his numerous offensive tweets but he continues to claim he did not know at the time that logan was sexually assaulte...

Schlusel who are basically blaming lara logan for what happened to her because she dared to go report on islam rather than treating it as this sexist, brutal religion. and id like to see those people come in for a little bit of criticism and examination, too. its not just what nir said on twitter. >> ashleigh, what do you think the response to all of it -- 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...

>> what people are going to have to decide is whether your apology is real and heartfelt and theyll do that based on whether they think youre being honest in your explanation of what happened. again, i want to ask you, are you standing by the idea that you did not know she was sexually assaulted? because in your first tweet, it makes it sound like you were saying she was one upping the minor assault that i had and that it would be funny if that happened to me. and then you did link to the cbs ne...

Youll hear from her. but first, joe johns has a look at how amanda knox got where she is now. >> reporter: she was painted as a homicidal she devil by prosecutors who claimed it was some sort of perverted game that led amanda knox to encourage her boyfriend and another man to sex aislely assault meredith kircher. the court found that as they held her down, knox stabbed her in the throat with a kitchen knife. >> the prosecution claimed it was an orgy going on and that kind of thing. gradually the...

So im certainly 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 certainly going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. >> joan, this wasnt just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was multiple tweets over time with some very clear arguments being made about ms. logan in addition to the snide comments and in addition to the kind of inappropriate i guess what he would say was a jok...

Frankly, that he didnt read that statement. >> i find it hard to believe. but again, im not going to call anderson, hes written for "salon." hes done some good work. hes done a bad thing here. you know, i continue to hear, even as he talks to you, his final self-defense, which is, 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 think thats pretty poor too. i think that its our ...