and it's signed emily clark and published in the cavalier daily, the student paper. >> jackie is the. this emily clark, she witnessed jackie's intense depression and witnessed her withdrawal from social life. she doesn't know the specific facts even though she was one of the people who did learn something about being assaulted as jackie told her, she does not doubt her story and so while we don't know the details of that night, there were a lot of people who insist this young woman even if rolling stone didn't do her story justice, this woman was the victim of an awful attack. >> thank you for all your work on this. coming up, the british invasion continues. details next on "andrea mitchell reports." i have a cold. i took nyquil but i'm still stuffed up. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. really? alka-seltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. (breath of relief) oh, what a relief it is. thanks. >>> are she is not out of frozen. she is a real life princess. the duchess of cambridge meeting children early th

. >> i want to read a quote from jackie's former roommate, emily clark. cannot prove the validity of her story. i can tell you that this story is not a hoax, a lie or a scheme. something terrible happened to jackie at the hands of several men who have yet to receive any repercussions. how do statements like this factor into any legal story? >> they don't. she wasn't there, it's hearsay. the only way they could factor in is damages in a civil lawsuit. the roommate could say after all this happened and it was proofed to be true, look at the damages that my roommate suffered. she came home crying, whatever those damages are. that would factor in. but in a criminal case shs the roommate wasn't there, it's hearsay. >> another factoid, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men reported experiencing rape at some point in their lives. this is a problem on campus. what is this going to do about women coming forward and more importantly in my mind, people believing them? >> do you remember the duke lacrosse case? all of that was not true. suffered indignities because of the pro

jackie's former roommate, emily clark, has spoken out in her defense, writing -- "while i cannot say what happened that night, and i cannot prove the validity of every tiny aspect of her story to you, i can tell you that this story is not a hoax... something terrible happened to jackie at the hands of several men who have yet to receive any repercussions." and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, , democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting live from lima, peru at the united nations climate change conference known as cop20. it is the 20th annual conference of the parties to the 1992 united nations framework convention on climate change. the summit is being held at the peruvian army headquarters known as "el pentagonito." it is a site with a dark history. it was built in 1975 by the dictator juan velasco alvarado. the army under alberto fujimori later used the base to torture and interrogate political prisons including members of the shining path. this week the base is being used to host representatives from 190 nations attending

. >>> as we said, emily clark insisting that jackie's story is not a hoax, a lie or a scheme but will that help "rolling stone" fight any potential lawsuits? joining us our legal panel, katie fang and ted williams. ted, uva or "rolling stone" face trouble here? >> greta, they could be but it's highly unlikely they're going to face a lawsuit in this case, may mainly as we know in defamation cases truth is a defense. however, even though we can show they acted negligently, meaning "rolling stone" here possibly, the question i reckless and that is the threshold that they may not be able to meet. >> plus we still haven't -- this is shoddy journalism, but we don't know if it's wrong journalism. that's the other problem is there's a difference between shoddy, not checking your facts, and having it right but doing it in such a poor way. >> jackie may very well have been telling the truth in the material situation here. >> katie, there's a big difference between journalism and the law, isn't there? to be a journalist, you just say i'm a journalist. in law, we go to school, we take courses and

writing in the school newspaper emily clark says of the woman known only as jackie, i believe wholeheartedly a traumatizing sexual assault. some time that year. i remember her letting it slip to me that she had had a terrible experience at a party. i remember her telling me multiple men had assaulted her at this party. since admitting to discrepancies in the story on friday, "rolling stone" has come under fire, both for its journalistic practices and for the way the initial apology appeared to some to blame jackie for those discrepancies. separately the fraternity has rebutted several of the article's claims, even the that there was a social event the night jackie claims she was raped. the education reporter at "the washington post" and irin has been following this closely for msnbc. taylor, to your knowledge, is the story, the fundamental account that jackie told are the rolling stone," how much of is that has been verified, in your reporting? >> we've reported so far the fraternity says there was not a party on the weekend of september 28, 2012. in addition, no members of the fraternity we

she says she does not believe her roommate's story was a hoax, over the weekend, emily clark, who saysshe was jackie's suite mate wrote, quote, i believe wholeheartedly she went through a traumatizing sexual assault. she was current funny, outgoing, friendly, a pleasant person to be around that changed by december 2012. sometime that it that yeari remember her letting it schlep to me she had a terrible experience at a party. i remember telling me multiple men assaulted her at the party. she didn't say anything more. the article comes after several kay details have been called into question. the online piece features an extensive editor's note apologizing for discrepancies. the note first read, quote, we have come to the conclusion our trust in jackie was may placed. that line now reads, these mistakes are on "rolling stone," not jackie. the magazine has yet to apologize but have yet to give account which part of the story they confirmed before they went to print and which part they had not. the manager editor says the magazine is trying to demeanor the truth. right now we're picking up

her name is emily clark.hat jackie told about experiencing that assault. she said she witnessed jackie's intense depression and withdrawal from her social life. clark writes specifically this story is not a hoax, a lie, or a scheme. those are her words. meanwhile in a revised apology this weekend, rolling stone appeared to shift some of the blame from jackie back on to itself. >> after kicking up a storm of controversy after the shocking article describing an alleged brutal gang rape of a freshman named jackie at the university of virginia, rolling stone is changing the story again. this weekend rolling stone revised the initial apology after being criticized for seeming to blame the alleged victim when it wrote we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. the revised version deleted that sense and added these mistakes are on rolling stone not on jackie. >>> overnight the cavalier daily, the student newspaper published an editorial arguing it should not disrupt the momentum toward addre

fire in regards to rolling stone's recent statement of misplaced trust in jackie this young woman, emily clarkng stone's statement is backwards as it seems it was jackie who misplaced her trust in rolling stone. as you were noting rolling stone initially on friday put out an apology statement where they said they had come to the conclusion that their trust in jackie was misplaced. a day later they revised that apology. they changed the language and said in their language these mis mistakes are on rolling stone not on jackie. jose? >> how does -- really they go from here? it seems like they have one statement one day, another day they make another statement. where do they go from here? >> it's a good question. there's a lot of folks who decide where they go from here. there's the university rolling stone, of course jackie herself. the university specific on the topic of sexual assault is one of 88 universities that are under investigation for the way they handled sexual assault investigations. that happened before this article was printed. clearly it's not this case specifically but a culture m

emily pope francis intends to come to philadelphia in 2015. you might say i'm excited and this one from someone you've talk to countless times darrell clark very to welcome pope francis to philly. people of all faith can learn from his wisdom and generous spear i you were lucky enough to cover this story when the rumors first started flowing and take a trip to the vatican. tell us how great that was. >> very exciting this was actually my second trip to the vatican and to rome on behalf of fox 29 several years ago. >> lucky you. >> cover the death of pope john paul. this was a fascinating experience. this was a local delegation led by governor tom corbett, mayor michael nutter and other dignitaries essentially putting the formal request in for the pontiff to visit philadelphia. the world meeting of families of course next september, septemb september 22nd through 27th. a massive event for philadelphia. and for the entire region. this was their attempt to say, officially, formally, pope, we want you in philadelphia. one of the more fascinating elements of it was and we knew this at the time but everyone sort of sworn to secrecy it was fairly cle