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I think there are women who can understand or at least appreciate what she is talking about. >> i actually would draw the opposite conclusion. i think it is possible that some jurors might have sympathy. women jurors are often very tough on women particularly in rape cases. i don't think it is necessarily men -- >> i agree. i think that's why they dressed her down and frumped her up. women are harder on women. there is a developing sense even in the beginning when she was on direct that women were starting to say i kind of understand that. you start to see that. >> her story is that she feared...

Rape cases. i don't think it is necessarily men -- >> i agree. i think that's why they dressed her down and frumped her up. women are harder on women. there is a developing sense even in the beginning when she was on direct that women were starting to say i kind of understand that. you start to see that. >> her story is that she feared for her life and that is why she killed this guy. we haven't heard much about that fear. >> remember years ago with the murder out in california with the twinkie defense that people said was outrageous. it is the vehicle to get in the testimony so that the perso...

>> that's why they put her in the front office. >> i did have a lot of troublesome male students. >> you brought up a good example when you said we don't broadcast terrorist demands. we were talking about the media. exactly. we don't read the ransom notes. it glorifies the terrorists or the criminals, hostage takers, whatever. i think it was bill who said the rape cases, they don't mention the name of the victim. the media is constantly self-censoring themselves. but for some reason they think in terms of in these cases of violent shootings they can't sensor themselves. bill's example of the r...

And republicans are scrambling to contain the damage. in an interview with a st. louis tv station, akin was asked whether he supports an abortion exception in the case of rape. this is how he answered. >> it seems to me first of all from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. i think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. >> it's that phrase legitimate rain that touched a...

The producers of the show to effectively wean her out of the program. now she says she's unemployable in hollywood. >> well, what's interesting is that she says they killed off my character because i complained about the fact that he hit me upside the head. sheridan said she was going to call her co-desperate housewives to testify in the case, eva longoria and the others, but she didn't call them. do we know why? >> well, i think we don't know why. in a lot of cases what they would have said would not have been flattering for nicollette sheridan. it's emerged as part of this case that executiv...