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Forget sexual assault. have you never been in a car accident or an attempted robbery or watching your kid fall off a jungle gym? i mean, in any kind of trauma, that's how the brain works. and i suspect that all the people that are criticizing her have actually been through some kind of trauma. they just don't want to acknowledge it and give her the same grace that they give themselves. >> when you hear people say, this happened so long ago, and this is boys will be boys, and what 17-year-old do you know that hasn't done that and it's hormones and testosterone? what do you say to that? >> i rem...

>> that's what i think is going on. clearly people including john kelly are walking in to the president saying, one of your signature, one of your signature gains, which the president has repeatedly talked about in political rallies, was the nomination of one chief justice or one supreme court justice already. and the president has to be saying, this will be a huge victory if i get him. i don't want kavanagh to divert attention. pardon me, i don't want rosenstein to divert attention. >> well, here you go. hey, eric, a source is telling cnn that rosenstein overestimated the president's anger ov...

Well, let me tell you. in my life it hasn't mattered if the person was 17 or 70. the pain and the damage are real and it never goes away. i first spoke about it on the air on cnn eight years ago this week -- wow, time flies -- and only because in that moment i was so moved by an interview i was doing with young members of the new birth church in suburban atlanta. they were on cnn defending bishop eddie long who was accused of abusing young men and it was during that interview that it just came out. >> let me tell you what got my attention about this and i never admitted on television. i am a v...

Technology sector so dominated by men one successful computer programmer is determined to help her country's most disadvantaged girls fill that gender gap. and her crusade has taken her to one of the city's poorest slums. meet cnn's hero -- >> when i went interest the first time i was surprised to see the living conditions of human beings. many of them are not thinking education and a plan for the future. what you can't see you can't aspire to. they need to be shown another life. >> to see how one 17-year-old girl is using technology to solve a problem in her community, go to cnnheroes.com. th...

I mean, in any kind of trauma that's how the brain works. and i suspect that all the people who are criticizing her have actually been through some kind of trauma. they just don't want to acknowledge it and give her the same grace that they give themselves. >> when you hear people say, well, this happened so long ago and this is boys will be boys and what 17-year-old, you know, that hasn't done that and his hormones and testosterone, what do you say to that? >> i remember one of the women who was interviewed by somebody on cnn said oh, 17-year-old boys do this all the time. and i thought, lady...