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Commercials you're guaranteed to get four minutes of fireworks because what these guys were doing, it's like the difference between a forest fire and flash paper. >> can you call a winner these debates? >> it depends on how you view it. in the moment when bill lost his cool i think he lost the debate. >> he forever regretted it didn't he? >> it haunted him forever and gore loved it. he loved to replay it. in the years that followed buckley's ideas won out. the -- when reagan was elected and all three the '80s, buckley's ideas were paramount. but now we're almost 50 years out from this moment a...

Of what we do. so it's not surprising that he was sued and not surprising that a city the size of new york settled out of court for $20,000 admitting no fault whatsoever. it's fairly common place. it in no way indicates the pattern of behavior and abuse of the officer. he made a tough decision in an environment quite frankly that is being so critical of law enforcement that i think we'll begin to see the pendulum swing where you have officers -- we're already there i think, questioning decisions and not making tough decisions and going to end up getting themselves or other people hurt. >> than...

Head of the police and the head of the city and religious leaders ought to at least take one peel off this at a time. >> and let them bury the dead. >> of course they should. >> i want to talk about this in a moment but i want to go back to what you said about 9/11. we've been through tough times in new york city. after 9/11 there was no greater hero nationwide than nypd and nyfd. they were lionized. what happened between then and now? or am i missing something? did the black community, did the biracial communities, the hispanic communities, did they feel as endeared to officers after 9/11 tha...

Who are quick to shoot first and ask questions later because there is always an overwhelming burden of presumption of guilt in these stories that these reporters and the editors and the newsrooms go into before they write the story to actually check both sides. >> some say that something happened to her. i didn't we can't let the pendulum swing and overcorrect the other way until we bear this out a bit. you mention bill cosby. that's a great point to make. all of us covering the story no matter what our exact roles are, we have to remember there's no evidence at that point and technically he c...

Initial coverage when these claims first came up with bill cosby. most of the journalism around those claims dismissed all of the women. so actually a lot has happened in the last ten years in terms of how journalists report these kind of stories. the danger with uva and bill cosby case is women are reluctant to come forward when there are actual cases of sexual assault and we can't let the pendulum swing back in that direction. the court system should handle these types of case. >> why would that happen? >> if women are afraid to come forward with these complaints because journalists in this ...