and host of a sirius xm show. let me start with you john, and talk about this strategy for a moment, which is to defend the qualude use, even though cosby himself was not taking them. talk to us about that as a legal defense strategy. basically, he s saying he did not commit the crime, the fact that he committed and bought quaalude in and of itself that doesn t mean he injected them for purposes of having sex with them. i mean, it s sort of you know, a defense, the other side of it is that the kind of evidence can be used against him, as evidence of a common plan or scheme to those women who think that s happened to them. as a challenging evidence for him to overcome for him of course, he s basically saying i didn t do, i didn t use these bye these drugs for purposes of
welcome back to the ed show. a lot of workers are going to be getting a raise. the living wage battle has paid off in new york. workers should get $15 an hour. new york has the fourth largest fast food workforce in this country. the panel said taxpayers were subsidizeing the workforce with food stamps and welfare between fits. janet napolitano says uc is joining in the whole country should be moving in this direction. in washington, d.c., the $15 an hour battle is now moving to the
ridiculous. allegedly rape. he hasn t been charged. the thing is, he hasn t been charged, i believe women when they say these kinds of things happen to them. the benefit of the doubt usually lies with men. we ask women to justify what s happened to them, i work from the presumption they re telling the truth. he has a lot more to lose than they do. being the fact that he is america s favorite father. the cosby show really changed a lot of america s understanding what it meant to be a middle class african-american family here in the u.s. is that going to be tarnished what the show did? not what he s done, what the show did in terms of the understanding in america is that going to be tarnished by what happens to bill cosby one way or the other? i think bill cosby s tarnished forever, you don t think comedian cosby show, you think rapist, you can say alleged rapist. i believe the women as well. i interviewed the first victim on the time line, i believe her
mean it costs us the love and joy we get from watching that show. finally, one last question in terms of the impact that this has had right now on the discussion we re having here. these women alleged victims victims, whatever you want to call it, what is justice for them going to look like going-forward? when i interviewed christine for the daily beast what do you want? i want people to know what bill cosby did to us. we want him to be remembered as the rapist, not the comedian. it s about power and powerlessness, the idea that the power is being taken away from him and given back to the women, that s where it belongs. thank you for all of that. coming up, fast food workers are about to have it their way. big news in the fight for living wage, that story is just ahead. i already feel like we re the most connected but i think this solo date will seal the deal. sure! i offer multi-car, safe driver,
100% on this case. we used to say we need an arab cosby show so people will like us. now, you say, we need an arab cosby show people are like no we don t. bill cosby s legacy will be forever tarnished. the show s legacy was groundbreaking. it showed the black community, an image they had not seen. they were not portrayed as mads clowns or criminals. it s groundbreaking, it will never be lost. cosby is gone forever. let me talk to you about this strategy, we were talking about a legal strategy there s also the pr strategy the public image strategy component to this. is this a point cosby could come out and make an apology as part of the pr strategy? would that change any dynamic on the ground right now? absolutely not. no, there s no apology that he can give that would have any particular meaning. now he s in a position where he s caught up in a legal case,