former prosecutor, right? but you re the defense attorney, in this scenario. so, jennifer, you are the prosecutor in this sqcenario an you are a former prosecutor. investigators say they interviewed 179 people, reviewed 74,000 pieces of evidence, as joey just said. but his attorneys are going after two of his 11 accusers on the substance. how did they do? not well, don. i actually disagree with joey on this. i mean, first of all, the fact that they only went after two of these episodes out of 11 tells you something. it tells you that they have nothing to say about the other nine. and yes, they were not given an advance copy of the report but the notion that cuomo and his team didn t know what was coming? i mean, we all knew about these accusations. there were only two new ones. everything else was known to the public, much less to them. he was interviewed for 11 hours, weeks ago. he s known exactly what was coming, in this report. so, the notion that they couldn t cobble together any
harris: i m curious, we had on the congressman from south carolina, learning from us, what senator reid had said that there were strong sticking points that they couldn t cobble together a deal on the senate side and he said that s very discouraging, the last couple of seconds. your response? yeah, that s what people are saying here, they can t believe they re so close in some respects, but they can t get over that hurdle and it kind of has to start in the senate, the message that the house republican leadership is delivering to its members, saying, look, the senator has to go first, we have passed house republicans, passed bills to deal with the fiscal cliff and deal with the spending cuts and later this year, not much else, not much time we have to sort of get out of this so they re saying, if they can get something through the senate, fine, but if not, it s up to them, they re waiting for the senate at least as far as the house of representatives. harris: our senior producer o
harris: i m curious, we had on the congressman from south carolina, learning from us, what senator reid had said that there were strong sticking points that they couldn t cobble together a deal on the senate side and he said that s very discouraging, the last couple of seconds. your response? yeah, that s what people are saying here, they can t believe they re so close in some respects, but they can t get over that hurdle and it kind of has to start in the senate, the message that the house republican leadership is delivering to its members, saying, look, the senator has to go first, we have passed house republicans, passed bills to deal with the fiscal cliff and deal with the spending cuts and later this year, not much else, not much time we have to sort of get out of this so they re saying, if they can get something through the senate, fine, but if not, it s up to them, they re waiting for the senate at least as far as the house of representatives. harris: our senior producer o