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>> the talks have gone very very well. i'd rather not say but the talks have gone well. thank you very much everybody. >> thank you press, we are leaving now. thank you. we are leaving. >> all right, we lost the feed there. we let those breathe a little bit. sometimes the president likes to make news in settings like that so it caught off on us abruptly, the big news joshua halt, the prisoner in venezuelan . taken for two years without a trial and has been brought up. i want to bring in timothy -- a bunch of things stood out to me in this hastily prepared oval office meeting that we thought it...

Asked very tough questions by weinstein's defense attorneys. to a certain extent their background could s could be on . how do you prepare a victim in a case like this for that very difficult job of getting on the witness stand? >> and you're right, because a defense attorney's tactic is often, don't put our own client on trial, put the victims on trial. but here let me just also say that it will not surprise me, again, the similarity between the weinstein trial, if there is one, and he doesn't plead, and the cosby trial, in that in the cosby trial, five what we call prior bad act witnesses, o...

Helped create harvey weinstein or was complicit, as his accuser rose mcgowan claims. >> for now there's only one person on trial, his name is harvey weinstein. if he's trying to put the whole industry on trial, well, i don't think that's going to work. the "oh, everybody else does it so it's okay if i did it" kind of defense is not a legal defense. as to ms. mcgowan, she certainly has been speaking out. she feels very strongly about mr. weinstein as do many, many of the other accusers. and, you know, she has that free speech, she has a right to speak out, anybody does. i don't criticize those ...

It's being called a watershed moment in the "me too" movement, one that so many women thought would never come. harvey weinstein in handcuffs. the disgraced hollywood mogul was arrested and later released on $1 million bail, on condition that he surrender his passport and wear a monitoring device and only travel between new york and connecticut. his attorney tells reporters that hollywood was partly to blame. >> mr. weinstein did not invent the casting couch in hollywood. and to the extent that there is bad behavior in that industry, that is not what this is about. bad behavior is not on trial...