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After cbss lara logan was beaten and sexually assaulted in cairo, neil rosen who has written for "the new yorker" and others, lost his job for tweeting the following. lara logan had to outdo anderson, meaning anderson cooper, would have been funny if it happened to anderson too. heres what he had to say. >> how do you explain your tweets? >> i dont have an explanation, i was a jerk. 2:00 in the morning and i was being thoughtless, for getting that i wasnt just talking to a couple of people but t...

>> so essentially, douglas, you lost a good amount of time that you could have been on the transplant waiting list, right? >> that is correct, sir. >> and kim, time is of the essence? >> it most definitely is. i will be very blunt in stating, okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help. if ...

And its troublesome. i really cant say that i dont know a lot of my female colleagues who havent had something happen. ive had stuff happen. its disgusting. but weve become complacent to it because we love what we do and its part of the deal. just like you got knocked in the head. youre not going to stop doing it. it was unpleasant but you know it can happen and we sort of think it can happen, too. mr. rosen has heard it happen a lot, too. perhaps he was thinking it was one more of these episode...

>> uh-huh. and i wouldnt say the italian justice system, i would say a few people definitely it feels very personal. it feels like youre after our daughter and after us. someone commented on the radio its almost like they try to wear them down. maybe if we keep at them theyll go away or go bank result or whatever. but its not stopping us. >> will you? >> probably eventually. >> go bankrupt? >> well, i think weve mortgaged just about everything we can mortgage. >> they could face jail time if the...

So we asked him on tonight to explain those contradictions. you can judge in a moment for yourself whether he is being honest. heres what he said on twitter yesterday. his first tweet about logans attack was this, "lara logan had to outdo anderson, where was her buddy, mcchrystal?" hes referring to the much less severe attack i and my crew experienced in egypt. in this tweet, he also provides a link to the cbs news statement announcing the attack on logan. by saying she had to outdo me, he clear...

They told me this was their tahrir square, their liberation square like cairo. this is what they were emulating. they were well organized. they had a place for people to charge their mobile phones. they even had a media center with media center signs and an internet hookup. so this was well organized and they said they were planning to stay. they had only been there a few days. but clearly after a day of the police leaving them alone, the government decided with a very firm hand to crack down an...

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 would rather think that w...

Talking to hundreds of thousands of people. >> 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 wo...

Okay, this holiday season, our family collectively, okay, we embraced it, not knowing if douglas would be around for another holiday to spend with us. there is no way that i would have put forth the effort to reach out to the community and ask for help. if we knew that, you know what? hes got coverage. this is absurd. >> the state medicaid official told us its their policy to make phone calls, not send letters because they have over a million patients and its a cost issue. but youre saying no on...

Informed? you can decide for yourself. i spoke with nir rosen earlier tonight from the middle east. nir, how do you explain your tweets? >> i dont have an explanation. i was a jerk. 2:00 in the morning and i was being thoughtless, forgetting that i wasnt just talking to a couple of people but i was talking to hundreds of thousands of people. >> in your defense, subquemts to this, youve said in a couple articles, "i heard that ms. logan was roughed up. i did not realize it was something more seri...