i think you re making light of a very serious situation. cosby replied, that may very well be. nbc news reached out to owns and representatives of bill cosby and did not hear back. cosby has never been charged with any crime in connection with sexual and drug allegations, which he and his representatives have continued to deny. that was nbc s kate snow reporting. she joins us now. thanks. give us a sense, for a better understanding, why is this coming to light right now? right. so we mentioned this is all from a 205005 case that s been sealed for a decade now. cosby s attorneys have fought to keep it sealed. they said it would be against his interest and would embarrass him if any of these papers were to come out. but the associated press basically went to court and said, the public has a right to know and the judge came down on that side of things. interestingly, he saids that cosby is often, quote, on a soap box about moral issues and he no longer has the right to keep all these
charged. since the judge released that testimony at least one cosby defender has retracted her support. singer jill scott fired off a series of tweets. one reads in part quote, i stood by a man i respected and loved. i was wrong. it hurts. msnbc has been following this story and it is fascinating now this testimony has come to light. in the lawsuit the deposition the plaintiff s attorney asked, quote, when you got the quaaludes what was in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for? the young women you wanted to have sex with. cosby responds yes. so is this the smoking gun that people have been waiting to find out if cosby is some type of serial sexual assaulter? for some people it is. those who are claiming that they were sexually abuse bid the comedian. they look at this as somewhat of a vindication to the claims that they ve been making against him. and for his constant denial that nothing that they said had any truth to this. they point to this and say this
proves that we were not liars. meanwhile, the comes from the lawsuit in 2005 brought to light a decade later. what is cosby s response if any so far. so far no word from the comedian, no word from his attorneys. there s a lot of we questions being asked about this. those attorneys who tried very hard to keep this information sealed but the judge decided to release this information on what he s been calling the pound cake case. it was from bill cosby s own words. a man who has set him up as someone who stands for morality and moral issues. the judge said this speaks to that and, again, he cited what has been called the pound cake case as reasons for releasing it. listen to this from bill cosby. these are not political criminals. these are people going around stealing coca-cola. people getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake. and then we all run out and we
thank you. closer to home, of course, today we re learning more about the explosive revelations surrounding comedian bill cosby. newly released court papers reveal that cosby once admitted under oath to or training sedatives to give to women he wanted to sleep with. nbc kate snow has that report. reporter: bill cosby in his own words admitting he obtained seven prescriptions for qua lewds in the 1970s and gave them to other people. documents from a 2005 case cosby was being sued by a woman who accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her. before it was settled out of court and dismissed cosby sat through a two-day deposition. when you goat the qauuludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these for women you wanted to have sex with? cosby replied, yes. cosby avoided questions about who he gave the drugs to and when or whether he ever coerced or forced women to take trucks. did you ever give any of these