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For almost 40 years and i think most of you know that. i think the federal investigation, if it occurs, we will deal with it when and if that happens. i am hoping to continue my discussions with the southern district and my efforts to dissuade them from proceeding that investigation too has gone on for many months. thank you very much. >> dozens of women say there is 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 be...

Those women, seeing them cry, seeing them beg and say no, there's no way he could not have known. that's my opinion. i'm talking from my only personal experience that he was terrifying people. no, he didn't invent the casting couch, but it's time it ends. >> to your own personal experience, ca okatherine, you'n aspiring actress, take us to the worst of it. >> i had trained and gone to acting school to meet and work with this luminary and that i was given scripts and that he wants to read with me and that it was a ruse and the most

Tremendously. but first of all there was a shocking statement seen shally saying not only that the sexual contact between weinstein and his accusers were consensual, but also that this is how it is in hollywood. that the currency in hollywood is the trading of the casting couch for sex, essentially, it's your career for sex. so that was the shocking part of the statement. and second part of the statement i actually agree with. because look what happened in the bill cosby second trial. in the first trial there was hung jury because the court did not allow the testimony of other accusers to be b...

Of a crime you vehemently deny. and then the interesting part, kate, there was a little bit of a turn when asked the question what does he have to say to all those women who made that accusation -- those accusations against him and brafman, his lawyer, basically says that he didn't -- weinstein didn't invent the casting couch, that he doesn't defend -- his job is not to defend bad behavior, but criminal charges. i want you to hear more about that, it was a very important part of this news conference. >> mr. weinstein will enter a plea of not guilty. we intend to move very quickly to dismiss th...

>> chloe, what message does it send for weinstein's attorney to suggest that weinstein didn't invent what he called the casting couch? >> it's an interesting choice of words, wolf. first of all, nobody said that harvey weinstein invented the casting couch, which has been something that's a term thrown around in hollywood, since hollywood began. but you have 80 women that have come forward with accusations against harvey weinstein. this is not about, you know, old hollywood tales. these are some pretty serious accusations. to make a claim like that doesn't really seem smart to me because it alm...