good to be with you. i'm geoff bennett and we begin this hour with breaking news out of pennsylvania. disgraced comedian bill cosby is going to be released out of prison to day after serving two

years of the 10-year prison. he was convicted of sexual assault in 2010, but today, the supreme court overturned that conviction. and now, today, an agreement with a previous prosecutor should have prevented cosby from being charged in the casement tom winter summarizes case saying that the prosecutors said that originally cosby would not be charged so he could testify in a civil case only to turn around and have that evidence against him in two criminal trials. to break it down we have kate snow, and we expect to have attorney wendy murphy with us soon. so kate, remind us of the specifics of what led to this case. andrea constand who accused him

of sexually assaulting her. >> yes, and the judge made the determination then not to prosecute bill cosby because of the length of time that elapsed between the time of the crime and the time she came forward. so he said that he made a deal with cosby that he would testify without the 5th amendment right, and he makes this agreement, and then goes forward without prosecuting him on the case of

andrea constant. and that is the words that were used against him in the criminal suit. so there were five other women whose crimes were not charged, but five other people who testified against bill cosby showing a pattern of abuse of women, and the supreme court said that tainted the jury, and those were the two issues on which they found that the conviction had to be overturned. bill cosby has to be immediately released from prison, and that should happen later today, and that he cannot be retried on the charges can, geoff. >> and kate snow, this has to be a devastating day not just for andrea constant, but for the more than 50 women who have accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior of varying

degrees. >> it is devastating, and emotional for a lot of the women. they say they experienced trauma at the hands of bill cowby years ago, and now retraumatization now learning that he is not going to be convicted of these crimes, and set free. i have not spoken to anyone on the phone, and just texting, and for example, even terrell who i spoke with, from the very beginning the rigid constructs of the statue of limitations did not provide a pathway for the women who came out against bill cosby, and she said that the laws in place protected the men more than women. other reactions were i'm sick to my stomach, and i don't know how to process this. i am still trying to figure out what this means. the thing that i can tell you, geoff, these women in general, and the ones that i have kept in touch over the last couple of

years, they never knew that this would happen. they knew that he was appealing, but their sense was that it was a weak appeal, so today it is a lightning bolt for those who have accused him over the years. so it was andrea constant who took the mantle, and brought the convention, and many of them say they never got their day in court, because of the statue of limitation, and the crimes were so long ago. >> and the watershed moment of the metoo movement. >> and on the phone is kristen gibbons feden who served as lead prosecutor in the case.

so, this is hining on the former bruce castor, the prosecutor's words. so how extraordinary is this to be overturning on the prosecutor's words? >> it is unprecedented. if you are reading through the decision, the d.a. could not think of another case where the d.a. would have made a deal like this where the appellant court would have looked at the notion of a d.a. to make a deal not to prosecute someone who is forever binding into the future. one of the important issues is that there was an attempt by cosby's lawyers to use this

promise that castor had made as immunity for life. and important dissenting important part of this case is that a d.a. may not do this, and bruce castor said that he might change his mind in the future, and so everybody in that case believed that it could be possible that he could change his mind or some future d.a. saying that this could change his mind, and this is a crazy decision, and that is why it is so many pages long. so this is a real remedy in the case like this where it is a deal where if you make a promise, and you should stick to it to be sure, but it is a real remedy never to prosecute him for this horrendous crime, and then to use the statement that he made in the reliance of the deal, and that would have been a more reasonable outcome that

this case is not only bad for andrea constant and all of the woman who were looking for the conviction to be justice for them, too, but it is a bad present generally speaking in terms of the power that prosecutors are going to have moving forward at least in pennsylvania to make the deals that the public may not know about, and the courts don't have to approve, and yet they are binding in a way that is speemingly unjust -- seemingly unjust to me. >> and a note to you that is a picture from our affiliate wcau in pennsylvania, and when he comes out, we will bring that shot back up. and when you were at the time of

the case heavily informed that bill cosby cannot be retried on the charges. >>, i respect all of the judges and their opinions, but one thing they want to point out, and disagree with wendy is that one thing they want to point out is that the common court found no agreement, and the superior court found no agreement, and now, obviously, the supreme court has found that there was an agreement. but i think that also giving a little bit of the stepback, and looking at the factual, at the facts, i think that one of the things that is important to highlight so that it is not going to be lost is that while the court found that there was no agreement, and that we cannot

reprosecute him with the sentence, and the fact that it is completely vacated, and i hope it brings justice to the survivors, and that the court did not say that andrea was not credible, and they did not say anything about her credibility. the jury made that determination, and they believed everything that she said. and the jury said that bill cosby before the ver digit or not that he drugged her. that is the thing that i hope that every survivor out there feels a modicum of justice so that women and men who are sexually assaulted don't take a couple of steps back based on this opinion. i'm happy to get into the facts, but i also wanted to point out that it is agreements like this,

and again, i don't think that there was agreement, but i respectfully disagreement with the findings of the court, but it is agreements like this that have given immunity to sexual predators which has never been seen before, and this is impairing or blocks a survivor's road to justice. what it does is what is happening today, and put another serial predator on the street again to offend today. >> anne thompson, what about the point that mr. cosby in prison is defiant, and he refused to participant in sex offender

classes, and he says in 2009, when i come up to parole, they won't hear me say that i have remorse. >> he never admitted that he assaulted her against her will, and he never conceded that point, and he was defiant about it. i think that what is so about this process that was not written down between bruce castor and cosby's attorney, and it is this kind of, if you will, a almost sleight of hand that is going on, and in fact, that the way that andrea constant found out about it, she was not told out about it from the d.a. is because the reporter called her and asked about it, and it is in the court case. >> and now, we talked about how

this case was a watershed moment in the metoo movement, and can you unpack that and help people understand why this was such a big deal. >> well, texting with her about that point. she and others are very adamant that they should be recognized as part of, and even though they preceded the so-called me-too movement in time, they are the forebearers ash and they are the people who went first in their view taking down a celebrity who had done wrong. this is important to them to be part of the dialogue. the way they see what happened and thinking back to what anne was saying the way that the case had come back again, and the way it had gone away for years, and then back again for a moment, geoff, when we didn't hear from

the cosby accusers at once, and we heard from one woman who heard piece, a washington post op-ed piece, and they snowballed because as one woman spoke, and then another, and another and another, and the list grew, and grew, and one, two, three, five accusers to the more than 50 that we have now, and so there was a power that they felt in numbers. so when i sat with them for a "dateline" special that we did, and we sat in a ballroom that we had and they were sitting in risers and all of them making accusations against bill cosby, but most of them had not met before, and when we sat in the room, and even though they had not met, they had similar stories, and they talked about a pattern of behavior, and they

saw it as a pattern. they alleged that bill cosby groomed them in their words, and made them promises to help their careers, and many of the women were models or actresses to help them make it, and he was at the top of it in hollywood, and he was dr. huxstable, and so then that would turn and become predatory behavior and assault in some cases, and even rape in some cases, and so they felt that when they found these common threads, even though the statue of limitations were limited on their cases because 20 or 30 years had passed when this conviction happened in the

courtroom in pennsylvania, you have to believe it was a watershed moment for them. and today, it is the reverse, and baffling and upsetting to theseaccusers. >> i cannot imagine. you have a statement from him? >> this is from andrea wyatt. we want to thank the pennsylvania supreme court, and this is what we have been fighting for, and this is justice, and justice for black america, and this is the justice that mr. cosby has been fighting for. they saw the light, and waved his fifth amendment right and he was given a deal, and he never should have gone to jail, because he had immunity. >> kristen, i want to go to you with that line of justice for

black america as apparently said in the statement. >> well, many people also forget -- >> kristen -- >> we can hear you. go ahead. >> geoff. >> people forget that part of black america is black women, and guess who else testified liselot lugan and she came in most commonly. so this is not justice for black america, and unless you forget about black women. so to get to the answer of your question, i apologize, because i am very distressed at his statement, and i wanteded to

highlight that the court did not find him innocent, but vacated the conviction. it is a technicality, and the jury still heard from he was guilty and by rendering her without her consent by giving her an intoxicant by giving her a herbal treatment. and so black women not only want dignity and respect, but we want respect as well. beverly johnson and several women were also assaulted by bill cosby, and i am disturbed by that statement. >> wendy, some people suggest

that this is speaking to two sets of systems, one for people of means, and one for people who don't. if bill cosby did not have the means to pay for legal means, would he have gotten this result? >> no. we have had regardless of the color wins you a much better result compared to people of any means of color who wind up behind bars disregard that

ridiculous comment from bill cosby invoking that this is good for black america. so, you have to be ignoring the tens thousands nonwealthy black men. and if i were any black men, i would be condemning that for reason that it was based on class and poverty, and not what he is. he is wealthy and famous first and then black second. i want to say, geoff, more hope than others might see here in terms of the prosecutability of bill cosby moving forward, and yes, the statute of limitations have run in several states, but illinois,ves in, when cosby

leaves the prison. so i hope that people are as outrage as i am, and look in the files to see if they don't have a chance, and some yns that if he leaves jurisdiction, and the statue stops running, he is still to be in that jurisdiction, and now is the time to look at whether another prosecution is to be possible, and 58 women, and no justice. that is impossible. >> so thank you for your

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the number of deceased is at 16. 12 next of kin notifications have been completed. that is four families still waiting to hear. >> sadly, among those confirmed to have died is a beloved mother and grandmother, and just yesterday i spoke with her grandson michael. >> michael, will you tell us about your grandmother. >> she is larger than life, and the most loving person, and she is crazy about her family. she is a woman of faith, and she loves god. she loves jason, and tons of people. fiercely independent, and dearly loved. >> hilda noriega was 92 years old, and our hearts go out to

entire family. as the that family is grieving, there is more excruciating work. despite the absolutely heroic efforts under way, there are questions of why so few people have been found in nearly a week of searching. joining me now from surfside, florida, is ellison barber, and you have been talking to the search and rescue team including a member of the miami-dade rescue team, and it is tough and excrutiating work, and what are they telling you? >> yes, the miami-dade are some of the best. they have responded to a explosion in haiti, and they have responded to help after a building collapsed in barbados, and they have experience of dealing with the catastrophes at this level, but when i spoke to

rescuers as part of task force 1, and never seen anything like this h and one of the rescuers say this is tactically, emotionally and physically draining. >> the family is screaming out to loved ones, and a lot of them told me that it is really hard for them to hear. they feel it, and they feel it on the pile. we are human, too, but we are able to put it a aside a little bit while we are working, because we want to get this job done, and this is what we do. we are going to even if save the people, and the family to have even if it is some small effect of them to have to remember them

by. >> reporter: 147 people still unaccounted for. and rescuers say no timetable for when this work is going to be done, but they are going to be here moving every piece of debris, and every single piece of concrete and rebar until the job is done. until they can bring closure to the families and going layer by layer, and at least eight rescue teams, and range in size from 40 people to 80, and they have come from across florida, and some teams from abroad like mexico, and israel, and the rescuers from florida task force one, urban search and rescue, and she said don't forget about the dogs, and the sonar listening technology, and going layer by layer, but no indication of life

in the rubble since they got there thursday. >> thank you, ellison barber. and now, joining us is carlos gustillo, and pull back the curtain, and tell us what is it like for the rescuers and how does the scope of the work change as we sort of are reaching one week since the building collapsed. >> sure, as we have side here in surfside, we are the best of the best, and they are trying to find life, but in the bck of your mind, you realize that the chances of life there decreases some, but it does not change.

eventually, it will officially transition into the recovery mode, but still they are going to be looking back for those who are alive or lost consciousness, but it is painstaking, because degree is lightly packed and look for voids where somebody could be reached in for the toll, and not physically, but everybody in the pile looking for any sign. >> and this is a pancake collapse where one floor falls into the next to the next, and no easy way to ask this, but that sort of collapse, is that survivable? >> so, you know, there were people who survived, but it is

more difficult, because there are not many more void spaces, and where the people may be trapped, but it is more difficult, and with that, not just collapsed as a pancake, but again, the rubble, and the debris is so densely packed, it leaves little room for voids. but the chances are very slim at some point. >> at some point, it is going to be a recovery effort. what is involved to make that determination? >> so all of the aspects are considered, and the time that it collapsed, the situation now with the rubble, with the fires and no indication of anybody

alive and that is going to go into it, but it does not mean they will forget, and they will remove that rubble a little bit at a time, because that is what is necessary to prevent is secondary collapse or for more injuries for someone who is trapped or for the rescuers and it is more deliberate, and still painstakingly slow, because it has to be because of the potential risk to the rescuers and others there. >> carlos, we appreciate your time this afternoon, sir. this afternoon, the house is going to vote on a bill to create a select committee to investigate the capitol riot, but will any of the republicans support it? and the charge coming for trump org tomorrow. rrow. ♪ ♪ i had the nightmare again maxine. the world was out of wonka bars... relax. you just need digital workflows.

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>> we will take you back to collegeville, pennsylvania, because we understand that bill cosby is released from prison and on the way home to cheltonham, pennsylvania, where he maintains a home. there is a white minivan that entered the facility, and there

is an aerial shot that we see is some white suv of some sort headed on the highway and we believe but don't know for sure that the car has inside of it mr. cosby in it headed to his home outside of philadelphia. and anne thompson, what do we know? >> i know that andrew wyatt who is cosby's spokesperson who issued a statement earlier today said that he was at the prison about to pick up bill cosby when he is going to give us that statement about a half hour ago. but can you imagine what this is like for bill cosby who has been in a state prison in pennsylvania to actually be free, and not just be free, and the convictions have been vacated by the pennsylvania supreme court, and this is a complete legal victory for bill

cosby. he cannot be retried for the alleged sexual assaults of andrea constant, and what a feeling it must be for the former comedian who is now 83, and suffering from some eye disease that has rendered him, and certainly diminished his eyesight, but he is headed to his suburban pennsylvania home, and what a moment it is, geoff. >> yeah, yeah. and we should say, again, we don't know for sure that bill cosby is in that car, but we know that the car went into that facility and emerged and bill cosby has been released from prison. and the drive from collegeville to cheltonham takes about 40 minutes, and so we will continue to bring you updates as we get

them. thank you, anne thompson, for your reporting. meanwhile, half an hour, the trump organization has been e pekted to be charged with tax-related crimes on thursday at around this hour, 2:00 p.m. eastern. and now, the trump organization has not confirmed, and it is not clear who will be charged tomorrow. we know that based on the previous reports, they are looking into weisselberg's private finances. we know that trump is going to be at the southern border later in the hour, and we will see if he gives any comments on this news. and adam kauffman at the manhattan d.a.'s office, and former executive district attorney, and welcome to you both. we knew that this is coming this

week, josh. so what do we know about the potential indictments that we could see tomorrow? >> well, the trump organization has been informed that both the organization, itself, and alan weisselberg will have charges unveiled, but we don't know with what specificity yet, and what the charges are going to be, but we believe they are going to be related to fringe benefits, and other financial crimes, and we know that the former president, himself, he is not expected to be charged with anything or are others within the organization. but talking to multiple people around the organization, the investigation is not over, and one marked over. right now, it looks like charges likely filed against the trump organization based on what the

lawyers have told them about tomorrow afternoon. >> so you have worked in the d.a.'smanhattan, and what are the prosecutors doing? >> they are appearing with the indictment which has to be approved by the grand jury, and they have to vote the charges, and the indictment has to be filed with the court to commence the action before it can be unsealed and revealed to the public. i think it is likely that they are considering tax fraud charge s under the new york tax fraud provision, and those crimes can range from crimes that have no jail time to actually if the threshold, if the dollar amount of the tax fraud is over $1 million, they can have mandatory

jail time. so there is a whole wide range depending upon the extent and the severity, and the dollar amount of tax fraud that we are talking about. >> adam, the trump team says that it is a witch hunt, and that is itself not anything new or noteworthy, because he says that about everything, but he says that the manhattan d.a. office has never pursued a case of malfeasance like this. is that true? >> i don't believe so. we don't know what the nature of the charges are or the nature of the contact that understand lies the charges. it is typical to go for fake deductions or write-offs or payroll tax, and all types of tax fraud that the office has a long

so we have to wait to see what the indictment says to make the assessment of something utterly unique or has this been grown many times before. i think that you spoke to this earlier, geoff, we just don't know if this is to be all and end all of a step in the long game. and the d.a. has a dedicated special grand jury sitting for the next four to five months. there may be strategic reasons why they are bringing this indictment now and then may still be working on the other aspects of the investigation. so we just don't know how it going to play out until we get more information. >> and josh, to adam's step into a long game to determine how long this goes, is if allen

weisselberg cooperates, and why weisselberg may not cooperate. >> he is one of the most loyal employees of donald trump, and they have not gotten the information they have wanted, and he has been in touch with the former president, and he has been coming to trump tower for meetings for work, and spending the days there on the same days that the former president trump is there. in these cases a number of experts told me, and my colleagues, jay jarronthal that you have to prove intent, and whatever happened, and what is behind them. mr. weisselberg is in that area

of the hierarchy that they want to secure information, but the trump organization is not as sprawling as some people are imagining, but it is a tight knit business of employees and nucleus, and his children, and mr. weisselberg and a few have been the linchpins of that for a long time. so without him, it is inevitably going to make it much more difficult to if they are not getting what they want to get through. >> all right. josh and and adam, when those charges are filed tomorrow, we will bring you that news. thank you for your time. meanwhile, former president donald trump is going to be in

texas this morning to look at the border wall. he is raising private donations to see how his politicians are not just surviving, but thriving. joining us at the border, and to talk about the politics of this, and governor greg abbott had a challenger, until that wall started to be built. >> yes, according to a quinnipiac poll, it is very

popular. >> reporter: yes, we are expecting the former president here to speak alongside texas governor greg abbott who came from the department of public safety where he got the officials, and geoff, they are saying that the texas governor has set aside $250 million taxpayer money, and democrats are saying that one, the state of texas and they have no legal authorities to get involved in the issues, and there is environmental concerns, and the biden administration halted the construction of the wall, but so far, the governor has gotten half a million so far in donations to continue building this wall. several other governors, including florida governor and the governor of arkansas have sent law enforcement personnel here to the border, and all part, as you know, geoff, the

gop effort to hammer home the issue of migration as you can see the migrants coming to the southern border. >> and immigration was a focal point of the donald trump america first policy, and we can't mention donald trump and the immigration, and the separation and the dismantling of the process and the demagoguery. so, now, there is a big mystery of this january 6th investigation. but i've seen centuries of this. with one companion that hedges the risks you choose and those that choose you. the physical seam of a digital world, traded with a touch. my strongest and closest asset. the gold standard, so to speak ;)

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buttercup! ♪ yee-haw! go left! i'm gonna go were navigation says. ah! - turn left. thank you navigation. turning back again to the latest on the breaking news out of pennsylvania where bill cosby has been released from prison after the state supreme court vacated his convifnlgts joining us now is nobodies news investigative correspondent tom winters. i understand that you have a statement from the pennsylvania d.a.? >> that's right. we've gotten a statement from district attorney kevin steele, the prosecutor who did eventually bring these charges forward against bill cosby

saying in part that bill cosby was, quote, found guilty by a jury and now goes free on a procedural issue that's irrelevant to the facts of the crime. steele continues saying i want to commend cosby's victory andrea constand in coming forward and remaining steadfast throughout this long or dole as well as all the other women who shared similar experiences. my hope is that this decision will not dampen the reporting of sexual assaults by victim. i think theish you're here, jeff, that we want to kind of key in on is that this really wasn't kevin steele's decision-making that led to pill cosby not being charged in the first place. that goes to former trump impeachment attorney bruce castor who really gets hit hard in these opinions here today. castor was the person in 2005 who said look, you know, i'm not going to charge bill cosby, and that led to him testifying in the civil suit and obviously then a settlement involving andrea constand, and we're

looking at bruce castor now. someone well known to pennsylvanians but not so much the rest of the country unless you were closely following the cosby case. this was as he was on the floor defending trump and his second impeachment, but i think in the concurring and dissenting opinion by justice doherty today it keys in on serious issues and raise serious questions about castor's efforts or lack thereof saying that this idea by castor that he could remotely promote to grant to district attorneys the power to impose on their successors in perpetuity no less the kind of general non-prosecution agreement that castor sought to convey to cosby, essentially district attorneys have the power to dole out irrevocable get out of free jail cards at will and without judicial oversight it would invite a host of abuses. importantly in his footnote, jeff, it says one might reasonable wonder if such abuses were at work in this case, particularly given castor's odd

an ever-shifting explanations for his actions involving cosby, so it really raise some concerns about castor. he also felt that it was on the court to condemn his, quote, inappropriate behavior because he thought that it could only invite additional abuses of prosecutorial power in pennsylvania so a bit more of a spotlight on a prosecutor and later defense attorney for the president who has gotten a lot of scrutiny over the years. jeff? >> yeah, and to underscore an important point, the supreme court, the pennsylvania supreme court is not saying that bill cosby didn't do what he's accused of doing. what they said was based on this technicality because of everything you just laid out that he couldn't be charged for it. tom winter, appreciate your reporting. the house will create a long-awaited select committee on the january 6th insurrection. the measure, which is expected to pass almost along party lines, is the second attempt to create a commission or a committee to investigate the riot. the first try passed the house with strong bipartisan support but got caught up by a

republican filibuster in the senate. so far illinois congressman adam kingzinger is the only republican to confirm that he'll support this bill which is notable because unlike the first proposal this committee would put the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, firmly in charge of the process. joining us now is nbc capitol hill correspondent garrett hake. two big questions. do we know if there's any other republicans that will vote in support of this and do we know which republican the house speaker might appoint to the committee? >> the answer to both is we don't know yet. in terms of other republicans who might vote in favor, there's 35 house republicans who voted in favor of the bipartisan commission who have taken their names out of the running for this. some of these republicans said they supported a commission pause they wanted the process to look into what happened on january 6th to be bipartisan, and they don't think this will do it. now, as for who the speaker

could appoint, i think, you know, if you're a betting person, adam kingzinger is a pretty good person being the republican that the speaker might add with one of her unilateral picks. he voted for impeachment and voted for the commission, and he said in an interview with the local television affiliate while there,was not a first choice as a way to investigate january 6th it needs to be done. the house cannot look away so he's clearly willing to participate in that way. as for the other seats on this. the there's a lot of talk about benny thompson, the chairman of the homeland security commission in the house being picked to be the chair here but pelosi has held her cards very, very close to the vest on this. the only guidance i'm getting is that there won't be any kind of announcement until after the vote but that could mean later today or after they go home for another recess. jeff? >> yeah. and garrett, as you've been speaking, debate has been open on the floor, and the house speaker has been talking about that day, what happened on january 6th. let me ask you this, garrett, in

the minute that we have left. this committee will have subpoena power. there will be a number of high-profile hearings i imagine. has anyone said how long this committee's work will last because before there were republicans that democrats would push this all the way up into the murder terms? >> well, that's an interesting point, jeff, because republicans are no longer involved in the planning of this process, so if you look back at the benghazi select committee and some of other big investigative select committees their work takes months and sometimes years to complete. now without republicans imposing a deadline as they could have done on the commission, this committee could work right up into and through the mid terms if they are so inclined. another reason why we're likely to see most republicans oppose it. >> nbc's garrett haake. my colleague joins us shortly.

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