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Talking to hundreds of thousands of people. >> in your defense, subsequent to this, you've said in a couple articles, "i heard that ms. logan was roughed up like many other journalists. i did not realize it was something more serious." that's hard to believe reading your first two tweets. you clearly knew, it seems, what happened to her was sexual. you said she had to outdo me, so clearly you knew i had been punched a couple of times or roughed up a little bit. so you knew the attack on her was worse than that. and then you said it would be funny if it happened to anderson. meaning i can only ...

Informed? you can decide for yourself. i spoke with nir rosen earlier tonight from the middle east. nir, how do you explain your tweets? >> i don't have an explanation. i was a jerk. 2:00 in the morning and i was being thoughtless, forgetting that i wasn't just talking to a couple of people but i was talking to hundreds of thousands of people. >> in your defense, subquemts to this, you've said in a couple articles, "i heard that ms. logan was roughed up. i did not realize it was something more serious." that's hard to believe reading your first two tweets. you clearly knew, it seems, what happ...

And then you actually did link to the cbs news article that was very clear about the nature of her assault and the fact she was in a hospital? >> yeah, it doesn't look good. but, no, i didn't read the article, and i apologize to her and to women everywhere. there's just no excuse for what i did. i've ruined an eight-year record of taking risks in defense of justice in my own career and people. and embarrassed myself and my family. >> nir rosen, i appreciate you being on the program. >> thanks. >> again, you can decide for yourself what you want to make of his apology. i want to bring in joan w...

Very different reaction. he made jokes on twitter about logan's attack. normally we wouldn't pay attention, but he's a journalist who has reported extensively from iraq and a teacher at new york university. he had a fellowship at new york university center of law on law and security. he's now stepped down from his fellowship. rosen has now apologized for his numerous offensive tweets but he continues to claim he did not know at the time that logan was sexually assaulted. numerous facts, however, seem to contradict that. so we asked him to explain those contradictions. you can judge for yoursel...

So we will need to make return visit. >> nic robertson, appreciate it. he was continuing to report, so we hope he's okay. keeping them honest now on the sickening attack on reporter lara logan. we're not talking about the assault that she suffered on friday. we're talking about an online attack on her made yesterday by an american journalist and fellow at new york university. here's what happened. yesterday, cbs news released a statement and this picture revealing on friday in cairo, lara logan, their chief foreign affairs correspondent was caught up in a frenzied mob. of several hundred men c...