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>> how important are the witnesses here? >> this is the classic example of deciding what the appropriate statute of limitation is in assault cases. on the one hand, there is a long history of folks being discouraged from coming forward for a number of different social or economic decisions and reporting a crime. especially if powerful people is and was then. on the other hand, the law explicit explicitly punishes waiting. there could be some evidence that they waited too long. the modern trend is to recognize that this is something they do, victims do. they wait because of all the social press...

8th of 2016 until the present, to access cell phone messages, the icloud of the victim and his girlfriend. he shared a snapchat video back in december at mr. spacey's first hearing. he said we'll only give you the six months for now, without problems to come back later to modify it to a longer period of time. >> lisa, danny, why might this snapchat video be of so much interest to the defense? >> in these assault cases, this is a great offensive tactic for the defense. you're putting the pressure on the complaintent. hey, we want to see all your electronic documentary. anything you said to your...

Pretrial hearing. the problem ultimately though, i think, craig, is going to be, can you control your client if you're kevin spacey's lawyer? did the lawyers know that kevin spacey was going to do that bizarre frank underwood video that he released after it was determined he'd face this one charge of indecent assault and battery? who knows? kevin spacey may not have said it in court, but he may say something later on on twitter or video. >> it was an odd video spacey posted on youtube, as we watch that suv continue to make its way back to the airport there. if you're advising kevin spacey, dan...

What unequivocally it meant for women is that you are free to speak out. it broke the dam on young rape and young assault cases in the way that harvey weinstein did in the professional front. what you saw was a flood of people trying to get it out of their system, needing to vent and needing to share it, and not feeling shamed anymore, not being silent and wanting to tell their story, knowing that they would be believed, wanting to get it out of their hearts. i think there were victims of sexual assault yesterday who heard themselveses and saw themselves in christine ford, and it was life chan...

Opportunity to speak out and move forward in this process. >> what do you say to those who appoint to the democrats and say the senators had this letter back in july? if they didn't want to appear partisan then why didn't it come up in the public meetings or the close sessions, or the thousands of follow-up written questions of the democrats sent? it doesn't do a disservice to the accuser dr. ford to have this happen late in the game? >> sexually insult is incredibly hard to come forward about and that's one reason why we only see about 60% of assault cases not go reported. we know there is no...