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Permitted to testify unquestionably had a significant impact on the trial. and that is a huge change from last year's decision. and the argument is that pennsylvania's laws changed slightly in the year since. although as a criminal defense attorney, i would say that the admission of this prior bad abts evidence gets impermissibly close to character evidence. in other words, the evidence that cosby did this kind of thing before may have, to the jurors, allowed them to conclude, hey, if he did it before, he must have done it this time. the evidence is really supposed to be admitted to show a mod...

. >> three years ago i interviewed roughly of the dozen of cosby accusers. it's he said/she said. why didn't they tell anybody when it happened. that conversation is so outdated because they did tell people when it happened, nobody believed them. it's not he said/she said. it's he said/she said, she said, she said. >> the lawyers are saying this new cultural evolution makes it more difficult for them to get a fair trial but if the cultural evolution is toward justice and conversations and behind closed doors, that's actually a different challenge they need to confront. it's a fascinating momen...

Fabricated her story to make money. >> i think she is in for a much more vigorous cross-examination and that mesereau will definitely try to portray her in a most unflattering way. >> as part of that plan, he wants to call a woman named marguerite jackson as a witness. she is a temple employee who claims some time between 2002 and 2006 constand said she could make up a story about a celebrity drugging and assaulting her. jackson says constand told her "i could say it happened, file charges, and get money. >> mr. cosby, what do you have to say? >> she wasn't allowed to testify the first time ar...

You will only hear discussion about this. this is damage to one case. there are six others. >> i'm doing heavily listening on this because i think it is all very interesting. we have lived through this before. i remember when alisyn was knocking on the doors about the cosby accusers. and the numbers became overwhelming. but they weren't always overwhelming. when things happened a long time ago, things are often complicated. i remember all the hand wringing. this one has this and this one. it's all okay. it's about vetting. it is, one, when a woman says something, you should listen. their voice...

Personal sense, she has no reason to want to put herself out there like that, to be torn apart, and -- and put in the middle of a big political fight. >> let me just say -- i have never been in this circumstance but have covered the cosby accusers, we've all lived through the weinstein accusers and when you see -- there is no glory for a woman. i mean it is -- it is reliving the most humiliating, the most debasing moments, days or hours of a woman's life, to put this in the newspaper attached to her name, and as heidi says, the story is in exquisite piece of journalism, because whoever did the...