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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. ...

Federal investigation? >> -- plan in on if you get to that point. >> what? i anticipate a vigorous defense, that's been my professional job for almost 40 years and i think most of you know that. >> what has been explained to you about a federal investigation? >> 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. >> there are dozens of women who say there's a patter...

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...

Happened. but number two is if it did happen, it was consensual. so by referencing a casting couch in that harvey weinstein didn't invent it, that creates sort of this haze of, well, this is sort of what was going on at the time. and i think prosecutors are going to seize on that position. it signals that the weinstein defense is going to use consent as a defense. and that say ve-- is a interestg development. a delay in reporting has evidentiary significance. that may not jive with what we think socially, which is that victims delay reporting for a lot of very good reasons, and that's true. bu...

Police, especially when they are intimidated, when they're threatened, when they're coerced by the defendant this case. so i'd be curious to see the legal grounds for the motion to dismiss that he said he's going to bring to see whether or not it survives that stage. >> daniel, let me bring new and just a reminder that there are two wane at the center of accusations, the charges that weinstein now faces. but in sum, 90 plus women have accuse him of what his attorney described as this bad behavior. one of things that his lawyer said moments ago that was striking was the comment that weinstein d...