ago. the mugshot was taken. he was fingerprinted. he s been charged formally with aggravated indecent assault, a second-degree felony. he s been he had his passport taken and out free on a $1 million bond and back in court on january 14th. but again, there it is for the first time. bill cosby s mugshot. want to bring back trial attorney and legal analyst eric guster. excuse me. eric guster. also salami sentila at the university of pennsylvania and co-founder of a long walk home, an organization to help to end violence against women and girls. let s start with you. what we have seen, again, we should note, charges filed. he s entered a plea of not guilty. we have roughly 50 women who have come forward with similar stories about bill cosby.
pennsylvania and co-founder of a long walk home, a non-profit that works towards ending violence towards women. and joy reed, msnbc national correspondent. nice to have you both with me. were you surprised by the verdict? well, no, because i did think that the case, by the time it got to the prosecution and i thought there was enough evidence, there s enough repetition of this act and the women had come forward. so the issue is sometimes it gets to the what it takes to actually even get to the prosecut prosecutor s desk and for the prosecutor to end up having a guilty verdict there are so many steps to get there. but while the verdict is unprecedented, this act of repeated violence and the repetition of picking on vulnerable women, extremely vulnerable women, black women who are working class, sometimes some may have been using substances illegally, or not. women who are there are all these ways in which we talk about these women. yet that i think is very common.
many levels it s hard to see how those people have benefitted from all the money pumped into the city over the last ten years. what do you think has changed. people will point to the nice shiny things but on the flipside they say it hasn t changed much from those who already had been struggling before the storm. and they say there is some sort of celebration happening katrina is ten that. doesn t sit right for them. and so much progress and so many people left behind. tremaine, thank you for your time tonight. now i d like to bring in dr. howard john webly. and assistant professor of english and african studies at the university of pennsylvania and co-founder of a long walk home. your group has been working on katrina recovery. doing an excellent job i might add. can you tell us about your efforts and what s still needed? we realized a lot of federal
comparing to the infamous rape case last year in steubenville, ohio. they lamented that we have heard daisy s story far too often. the story helped daisy gain national attention, which they have embraced. her best friend has since gone public about the incident as well. i not only survived, i didn t give up, daisy wrote upon the prosecutor reopening the case. she add aid this is a victory for me and every other girl. sonia is the president of the national organization for women and co-founder of a long walk home, non-profit organization that oozes art to end violence against girls and women. and journalist rebecca tracer of author of big girls don t cry: the election that changed everything for american women. this case has blown up, i think it s fair to say. it s blown up in the way no case has blown up i think since steubenville. why do you think it has captured something in the national attention, because these kinds of incidents, it s horrifying to
comparing to the infamous rape case last year in steubenville, ohio. they lamented that we have heard daisy s story far too often. the publicity helped the story gain national attention, which daisy and her mom have embraced. the story helped daisy gain national attention, which they have embraced. her best friend has since gone public about the incident as well. i not only survived, i didn t give up, daisy wrote upon the prosecutor reopening the case. she add aid this is a victory for me and every other girl. sonia is the president of the new york city chapter of national organization for women and co-founder of a long walk home, nonprofit organization that oozes art to end violence against girls and women. and journalist rebecca tracer of author of big girls don t cry: the election that changed everything for american women. this case has blown up, i think it s fair to say. it s blown up in the way no case has blown up i think since steubenville. why do you think it has captu