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Arraigned today on sexual assault charges. this comes months after a slew of allegations of misconduct brought down his career and sparked a national reckoning on sexual misconduct. he was arrested, handcuffed and arraigned in new york on allegations from two different women. he faces first degree rape, third degree braip and commission of a criminal sexual act. he has consistently denied engaging in any nonconsensual sex. his attorney spoke to reporters and said his client plans to plead not guilty. >> my job is not to defend behavior. my job is to defend something that is criminal behavior. ...

This criminal case, because, remember, two women involved in the criminal charges, many, many more as we've been talking about have accused him of other behavior. but for these women, specifically one of them, this could be drawn out for years. he says weinstein has powerful counsel and the lawyer we just saw is very aggressive talking about the potential for tactics being deplayed olympi being deployed here. do you believe that's could happen in this case? >> this is an unavoidable risk and consequence of any victim, any complain nant testifying in trial. after all, it's the defendant's const...

Industry, that is not what this is about. bad behavior is not on trial in this case. it's only if you intentionally kmil criminal act. and mr. weinstein vigorously denies that. >> they say that he did commit that. >> i understand that, that's why we're here. people don't get convicted based on accusations. people get convicted only when there is criminal evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and in this case i do not believe that the district attorney has that, nor do i believe that mr. weinstein has intentionally violated the law. thank you very much. >> you're saying a seven-month investigation...

Prosecution's going to try to use one of the other 90 alleged victims of harvey weinstein's bad, sexual, criminal conduct and that basically none of those women should be able to testify against him because it's just bad behavior and it's not criminal behavior. so i think that's a little bit of a foreshadowing that perhaps he knows that that's' possible possibility. it was used in the bill cosby's trial and he knows that's a possibility that the da's office will use those owner victims at his trial if it makes it that far. >> he also bleakly referenced the me too movement, not calling it out b...

Against these charges against him. he says that he is going to plead not guilty to these charges. that he is not -- did not engage in any nonconsensual sex with women. i asked him what would he say to these women who have accused him of bad behavior? listen to what harvey weinstein's attorney. >> thank you i have much. >> dozens of women say that there's a pattern of behavior, a pattern of misconduct by mr. weinstein against these women? >> let me say this without defending behavior. my job is not to defend behavior, my job is to defend something that is criminal behavior. bad behavior, mr. we...