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And to women everywhere. there's 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. >> nir rosen, thank you for being on the program. you can decide what to make on his apology. i want to bring in joan walsh and ashleigh banfield. joan, when you first heard what nir nosen had said, what did you make of it? >> well, i thought it was horrible, anderson, and i assumed that he was making light of a sexual assault since i had read the cbs short story as well, and it was pretty clear what happened. so i'm not going to call hi...

I would like to see those people come in for a little bit of criticism and examination, too. it's not just what nir said on twitter. >> ashley, what do you think the response to all these different comments that have been made online, what do you think it says about the way people view, i don't know if it's reporters or female reporters or sexual assault on women? >> i think first of all, people need to cut the crap, because it's not doing anything to fix the situation we're in here. i'm trying to get in ahead of mr. rosen here, but from my experience, covering rallies, demonstrations and crow...

Here's my colleague anderson cooper. anderson, what's coming up on your show tonight? >> we have breaking news tonight on "360." escalating violence in the middle east, this time in bahrain. another journalist caught in the cross fire. correspondent miguel marquez roughed up during a military crackdown. we'll play the audio for you, chilling. also a live report from cnn's nic robertson on the scene about what's happening in bahrain. also, tonight why did a teacher at new york university and a journalist verbally attack lara logan after she was beaten and sexually assaulted? nir rosen unleashed...

Until i knew the whole story. i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, we're using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which we're referring. so i'm simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he's going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. >> joan, this wasn't just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was mult...

Boyfriend and another man to assault meredith kircher. >> the prosecution claimed it was an orgy going on and that kind of thing. gradually there was satanic rituals attached to that, but they still link it to halloween and there was craziness going on. >> reporter: what made the story all the more fascinating was amanda knox herself, a fresh faced innocent looking young woman. through all the brutal accusations she seemed poised but admitted she was struggling to deal with her emotions. >> i am not calm. during these days, i wrote on paper in front of me that i am afraid. >> reporter: now wit...