allegations were made public so repeatedly we can hope he d be out then again honestly i don t know, the truth is this happens all the time. and the men survive their jobs. and we don t need more proof of that than the fact we had, these are just allegations that were settled. we re talking about when i man who boasted not about sexual hare amount but sexual assault gets elected by half the country to be presidents, what do i tell my daughter. this isn t okay. but you still get to be tv star and be president. that s a problem. here s what you tell your daughter, you tell her we re a country that believes in redemption and donald trump apologized. not only that ben carson said he prayed the night before he went on the debate and asked god for forgiveness we can laugh at that whatever you may but we re a country that believes in redemption and donald trump is not a miss only nift we can
don t have a first amendment, they bankrupt reporters, they put publications out of business. they can keep people in fear of reporting on public officials in a way that you previously haven t been able to do in this country. so to bring on peter teal, this billionaire who is most famous in american life not for the source of his wealth but because he used it to bankrupt and put out of business an online web source that he didn t like because of the way they reported on him, all of those things together, i think it s a reasonable distraction for the press to have right now in terms of how the press will play defense in terms of its own role. in terms of our stance toward trump, one of the things that will be hard is just maintaining the level of newsiness, right? right. of outrage and continuing rejection of stuff that isn t okay, although he s been doing it for a long time by the time we get around to reporting. i found out talking with you last night and you were on air with th
called for british-style libel laws in this country which is a way in other countries that don t have a first amendment, they bankrupt reporters, they put publications out of business. they can keep people in fear of reporting on public officials in a way that you previously haven t been able to do in this country. so to bring on peter thiel, this billionaire who is most famous in american life not for the source of his wealth but because he used it to bankrupt and put out of business an online web source that he didn t like because of the way they reported on him, all of those things together, i think it s a reasonable distraction for the press to have right now in terms of how the press will play defense in terms of its own role. in terms of our stance toward trump, one of the things that will be hard is just maintaining the level of newsiness, right? right. of outrage and continuing rejection of stuff that isn t okay, although he s been doing it for a long time by the time we ge
day to day are working the same way. he said, see, it s okay. but it isn t okay. it s an even number. here s the way you ought to hear that remark. these are tactics. these are bids being laid down in advance of the information about how strong will the respective positions be of the parties. if this turns out to be a close election and if the republicans hold most of their senate seats, they have a position to say, hey, we ve got a mandate too. president clinton, if that s who it is, must negotiate with us. if on the other hand it s a hammering and republicans drop seats, ted cruz may say that for his own internal republican party purposes because remember, he compromised his brand as the purest of the pure. he now has to reassert his brand as the purest of the pure. and he also never thinks very much about what the other senators think of him. you re saying if it s not a close election that basically the supreme court nominees must move forward. well, it s going to be if it s
it s insane that people actually think that any of us would have come together to bring down some celebrity, whose celebrity has already started to fade long before we came forward. we re using our voices to say this isn t okay. amen. really compelling. what s interesting, too, when we were chatting right when this news was breaking, right away you were hearing from these women. they were e-mailing you, they were texting you right away. they are all on facebook and they have group e-mails going and they are all talking to each other. i haven t been able to get ahold of all 29 women, but those that i have talked to today and yesterday are telling me that they are willing to testify, many of them, and that some of them have already been in touch with the montgomery county prosecutor s office even as early as this summer. they were in touch with them when this reinvestigation started. yesterday we had a chance to talk with one of the women who makes accusations against bill cosby,