for things that are simply not presented in the courtroom. and the jury stuck to what they were asked to do and that is to review the evidence before them and there simply wasn t enough. katie, to you. it s hard not to watch bill cosby in the background as she was speaking. is she correct, was the evidence not enough? is that simply what this comes down to? that s not true. you can t say the evidence wasn t enough. the problem is you have to have a unanimous verdict of all 12 jurors so we need to actually hear from those jurors. we need them polled because i wouldn t have that level of arrogance that i feel is coming from the cosby camp right now. the combination of statements made by his wife, camille cosby as well as that of a spokesperson saying go back to law school, what if it turns out, jacob, that it s an 11 to convict to one to acquit vote, then was it really that bad for a prosecution case? obviously not.
someone being accused of having indecemb inda sessions with different women. the district attorney evaluated it and said, you know what, there s not much here to move forward. it was a very big part of the political discussion between castor and the gentleman he was running against, steele, who is assuming office tomorrow really. let s talk about that, midwin. that s what the cosby camp says. these charges are politically motivate because they became a centerpiece of the campaign to win district attorney in montgomery county. a campaign ad is based on whether or not bill cosby could be charged. we ll play a little portion of that ad. kevin steele, first assistant d.a. with a 98% conviction rate. and tough sentences for sexual
and i put this question to the women when i talked to them maybe they were in it for fame and maybe they were sort of making these things up now because they want more fame. now, when i put that to the group, they laughed. they all said that s ridiculous. and you have the cosby camp pointing to the atmosphere of the 1970s and the early 1980s and what hollywood was like. to be clear, we are talking about the atmosphere that included allegations that took place at the playboy mansion. that a celebrity is surrounded by women how want his attention and the cosby camp says perhaps in this fog of drugs and sex and that permissive atmosphere, maybe these women are sort of changing kind of what happened. don t forget that was before the rape laws. that was a different time. we ll go back to this legality moment where he s facing that charge and given the timing of it we are days away from the statute of limitations expiring here. this is more of what the prosecutor had to say earlier tod
in. and the cosby camp attempted to benefit from that. from the disparagement of the character of some of the women. but the problem for the cosby camp has always been the numbers. when it was one or two women, you could make a he said/she said argument, that he may not be speaking, but he only has one accuser. but as the numbers accumulated, i m still surprised and stunned by the utter silence from the cosby camp, not just from his family, but from his media family, his television family. there have been attempts to get former members of the cast of the cosby show to play devil s advocate, what would they say? yeah. marvet, joy, thank you. we should note here, one of the hardest working people at msnbc, because she ll be back in a few hours, hosting hardball at 7:00 eastern. coming up, we ll talk to nbc s kate snow, who spent several months speaking with many of the women, 30 of them almost, many
don t know if we ll see him get out of his vehicle into the courthouse, but we know the domino effect legally when it comes down. but now as i ve heard several times today, this is a game-changer when it comes to bill cosby. it absolutely is. up until now the cosby camp has been able to try to write these women off as either making up a story or in the defamation suit of being unfair to him. now he s going to go from being the iconic america s dad figure then he was the poundcake speech moralizer, who was essentially lecturing particularly african-americans on behavior to a man marching into court to face serious charges. it will be interesting to see if camille cosby is there. she s always stood by him. she s stood by him and has been his supporter throughout. but i think that this figure of this person now being sort of in the docket it s a very very different image of bill cosby. it will be interesting to see how he bears up under it and how it changes the whole story of