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all right. i think we lost sunny s connection there unfortunately. we ll try to get her back on. mark, i want to talk to you about this because you represented a lot of people who ve been accused of some pretty serious crimes facing a mountain of evidence, chris brown, gary condit, scott peterson. if you were representing bill cosby, how would you prepare to defend him? well, i think they ve already started. they ve framed this as a political prosecution. they ve said the only reason and that statement that just came out, the only reason is because this was as a result of a hotly contested election for the prosecutor. and so the prosecutor then files it right before the statute of limitations was going to run. you re absolutely correct. 12 years is a very long statute for an adult sex crime. that s one of the longest in the country. and i think the biggest problem ....
Never told him to stop, that you can be sure is going to be raised at trial, brianna. deborah feyerick, thanks so much. let s get more now on the breaking news with cnn anchors michael smirconish and mark gerragos and sunny hostin joining us on the phone. to you first, sunny. you read the deposition that is cited in this criminal complaint. and it really seems damning. these are bill cosby s own words admitting he gave constand these pills. how strong do you think the prosecutor s case is here? i think it s very strong. i mean, generally i would say this is the kind of case that you would want to see a plea. you would see a plea deal. you re not going to see a plea deal in this case because no one wants to look not only soft on crime but soft on sexual assault given that there are now over 60 people that have alleged that bill cosby has raped them or fondled them or sexually assaulted them. and so really ....
Head of a pin. pin. coca-cola, don t matter. doesn t make a difference. and the girl would dring it and she s yours. hello america. there s a story in there about spanish flies. so i think that everybody, any guy picking it up will just have a ball reading it. okay. mark, respond to that. because at times spanish fly was sort of referred to as an aft t in its time it was a disarming drug. i am as a prosecutor i put that in front of the jury. isn t that damning? you do. but i m going to tell you what s more damning. i ll harken back to what michael smerconish was saying, that deposition transcript, the fact that that was released after he had paid to have it sealed, after he had thought it was confidential and the lawyers knowing that the statute of limitations is running six ....
Months after it was revealed or was out in the public marketplace is going to be the most damning thing of all because that s all the prosecutor needs to tie this up completely and give him what most jurors are going to want. you re going to have a woman testifying, and then you re going to have the words out of his own mouth. that is from a defense lawyer s standpoint that is the nightmare that you face in this case. and that s going to also be the biggest problem when they do a challenge to the pre-filing delay. because they re going to say, hey, wait a second. even though statute of limitations is 12 years, you can t wait until the eleventh hour to file this case. and the prosecutor s going to come back and say, oh, yes, i can, because we didn t have available to us until july 2015 this transcript of his own words. it was under seal. that s where they re going to fight. that s going to be one of the pretrial skirmishes in this case. mark, standby for me. sunny, don, michael, i wan ....
The high points and the flash points are for them to say in order to make it sound like it s, oh, my goodness, there is a common motive. they will set up a standard operating procedure will be the goal of the prosecution. mark, sunny, michael, don, thanks so much. we ll be seeing don tonight at 10:00 p.m. so tune in. he ll have much more on this. next, terror threats against three major u.s. cities as they prepare to celebrate the new year. we are learning new details about that. plus, breaking news, more than 12 million americans under flood warnings. some rivers are forecast to reach historic highs. we ll be live in one of the hardest hit areas. checking out the listing on zillyeah, i like it. ....