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Reasoning for dismissing the other 12 alleged victims here, and only allowing victim six. >> the judge does not provide an answer, and he made a one-page decision, and remember talking about prior bad acts, and they will try to present alleged facts, and it goes to a scheme, and it's imprint, his footprint, allow it in. and the judge has to say a balancing test, and in this instance, it's about what, if anything, he did with this woman and it's not about what he did the day or year or week before that, or ten years before that, and the judge had to identify

At the hands of and aaron hernandez and that is critical. >> let me ask you this. often judges rule that it's admissible of they uncover a letter or email from the defendant in which he makes a fairly oblique reference to the crime that he hasallegedly committed. it's no different . >> they really boils down to the timing.it might be a appealable issue but this is very much down the line. it's really a balancing test. the judge thought it was probative and he hung his hat on the fact that the legal president and the timing is critical. >> there was a california case in which the defendant had ...

You won the popular vote by 500,000 votes. hillary clinton has now one it by a somewhat staggering margin, actually. 2 percentage points, 2.6, 2.7 million votes. you think -- you've come to the belief we should get rid of the electoral college. what got you there and do you think it's possible? >> well, first of all, even after the supreme court decision in 2000, i did continue to support the electoral college for some of the same reasons the founders laid out two and a quarter centuries ago. it binds the states together and it's not a simplistic choice all clear one way, all wrong the other w...

It's not a simplistic choice all clear one way, all wrong the other way. i think it's a balancing test. >> uh-huh. >> for me personally in the last couple of years i've come to the conclusion that the balance has shifted in my own way of thinking about it partly because i do think that we would have a chance to really increase participation in our democracy if we went to a popular vote. we should combine it with action to fix this terrible redistricting. >> yep. >> travesty that biases the house of representatives elections. and, of course, even though it's difficult, we need to get big money ...

He met with hugo chavez several times. chavez died in 2013. the actor said he had, quote, lost a frbd. >> penn has also met with cuban revolutionary leader castro and in 2008 he interviewed raul castro. this was well before the warming of relations between the u.s. and cuba. matthew bellamy executive editor of "the hollywood reporter" joins me now. matt, good to have you with us. what is your take on the ethical issues raised? >> i think this is a debate going on in newsrooms and coffee tables around the country. there's a balancing test. what are you willing to do? what are you willing to a...