lisa bloom is an attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. legal sa, lisa, we don't know what the announcement is, but is it normal to have the preannouncement announcement saying we think the announcement is imminent, but no specifics. >> just the way you said that it's highly unusual just like everything else in this case. i don't know if that means we'll get an announcement of a decision or announcement the decision will be revealed tomorrow or the next day. we previously have been told 48 hours' notice. that could be changing. we don't know at this point. but it sounds like it's today. >> we don't know if that announcement is going to be a decision. walk us through so our viewers understand, if a decision is reached, assuming that happens, how does this roll out when a grand jury make this is kind of a decision. >> this will be very simple. there will be an indictment or no indictment. sometimes called a true bill or no true bill. this is all, of course, about whether officer darren wilson will be charged with a crime. not finding him guil

this is your private bank. >> joined now by jim cavanaugh and lisa bloom.im and lisa, i went through that testimony of witness number ten just to give the audience the feel for what's inside this gland jury material. this is just one witness. and that one witness who the prosecutor, the attorney last night quoted was very important to the view of the case. and lisa bloom, i would love to get your reaction to that, but also to any of the other elements you've been digging through this mountain of material, the grand jury report, the police interviews. we've all been working on this and we're all finding different things. >> i've been reading it since about 2:30 a.m. and i've gotten through a fair amount of it. listen, to pick up on what you're talking about, lawrence, which is so important. the words full charge, what the heck does that mean. i know what it mean on my iphone. what does it mean in reference to mike brown. if i'm the cross-examination, and it's the favorite thing i do as a lawyer is cross examining, really getting in there and digging down to

joining me now, lisa bloom, attorney and legal analyst of avvo.com. and msnbc's tremayne lee. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> lisa, one day after the announcement from mcculloch, there's still so much unhappiness about the grand jury's decision. how far did the prosecutor depart from grand jury standards? >> well, reverend al, i spent most of the night reading the transcripts and i was so disappointed. i started with darren wilson's testimony, to see whether any tough questions were asked of him. and in fact, they weren't. he was allowed to just tell his story, the story he was allowed to come up with, with his attorneys, after he was able to review all of the other evidence, without any tough questions being asked of him. for example, he says that mike brown punched him squarely in the face, full force, he said, twice. and yet his physical -- the photos of his face at the hospital that day don't reflect any such thing. they reflect a tiny bit of pinkness or redness if you squint your eyes and hold the photo the right way. he wasn't asked any difficult questions abou

all things being equal. >> i want to bring lisa bloom back in the conversation. we had craig on a moment ago and he said there are some concerns that they've maybe prepared even too much for this decision. you have the governor calling for a state of emergency. you have national guard troops deployed there on the ground. what is your take on that? do you feel like that has caused too much concern at this -- too early on even? >> i think this community has been disrespected from the very beginning. they were disrespected when mike brown's body lay in the street for more than four hours. his blood literally running down the sidewalk. they were disrespected when darren wilson's name wasn't released, instead they released a video purporting to be of mike brown. the police officer saying this was relevant to darren wilson's decision and then saying it wasn't. the police officer not having to do an incident report on the shooting of a citizen. all of these leaks that have come, which have been pro-darren wilson throughout the last few months. no leaks that have been po

lisa bloom, thank you very much.ant to also let our viewers know there will be a press conference coming up from the mayor of ferguson. that will happen at 3 p.m. eastern time. we will bring you that right here on msnbc. let's go to live pictures right now from st. louis where a rally is taking place. as a reaction to last night's announcement, continue to dominate social media. we'll highlight some of the most shared moments after the break. americans drink 48 billion bottles of water every year. that's enough plastic bottles to stretch around the earth 230 times. each brita filter can replace 300 of those. clean. clear. brita water. nothing is better. approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance co

. >>> coming up in a few minutes -- coming up in a few minutes, attorney lisa bloom will weigh in on what's next in ferguson. >>> let's get to the continuing coverage controversy surrounding bill cosby. the comedian's scheduled show next week at treasure island casino in las vegas has been canceled. so have appearances set for next april in virginia. the announcement comes as cosby made his first public appearance last night since additional allegations of sexual assault surfaced this week. nbc's gabe gutierrez is following developments from las vegas. >> reporter: joy, it was a fund-raiser in bahamas for a volunteer service organization made up of thousands of mostly african-american women in business. he got a standing ovation from a few people at the end of his set, despite the growing scandal. looking relaxed on stage, bill cosby made no mention thursday night of the sexual assault allegations. instead, sticking to his comedy routine, including stories about his childhood. >> i'm there to have a good time and laugh at what this guy is being paid to do, make me laugh. >> reporter:

coming up at the bottom of the hour, we'll talk with attorney lisa bloom and local pastor tommy wilson. >>> in the middle east today, there was a break in the violence at a jerusalem holy site that's been at the heart of clashes between israelis and palestinians. for more on these developments we're joined by msnbc news foreign correspondent. >> thank you. >> for they call the temple mount, what is happening there? >> particularly, in the -- it's one of the most important square miles in the world. the noble sanctuary to muslims around the world and for the past several days or weeks sl there have been intense clashes between israeli police force and palestinians. a lot has been driven by a whole host of things that go back several months. some involve the killing of palestinians and israelis. some attacks by palestinians on israelis. more importantly the announcement by the israeli government to, one, build new settlements in occupied east jerusalem. and also the restrictions that have been placed on palestinian muslim worshippers who have been trying to access the mosque. that has le

i want to bring in lisa bloom, attorney and legal analyst for avvo.com. thanks for being here tonight. >> tharks for having me, rev. >> we just learned ferguson schools are planning on closing tomorrow. you know this community. what's the feeling right now? >> well, i don't think shools should be closed. i personally think children should be in school as much as possible and perhaps they should be educated on this outcome, whichever way it goes, they should be enlightened about what's going on in their community. those kids who are not in school, i would encourage them to be out as part of the peaceful protests which i expect to take place. those protests have been 99% peaceful since august 9th when mike brown was shot. >> and i think you're right. bring me inside the jury room, lisa, so people and i will understand how this works. the grand jury is made up of seven men, five men, three of the grand jurors are black, nine are white. take me in the room and how the prosecutor presented evidence and what it was like as the grand jurors deliberated. >> well,

the person who pointed this out earlier today in a series of tweets is lisa bloom, joins us now, legal analyst for nbc news. lisa, you had a series of tweets today about darren wilson's testimony. what struck you about it and the way it was emitted to evidence in the grand jury proceeding? >> well, overall there was not a single tough question asked of him, and as a trial lawyer, so much jumped out at me as fertile ground for cross examination. for example, he says mike brown socked him hard in the face twice. he said, using the full force that mike brown had. mike brown being a pretty big, strong guy, and yet when you look at those photos, you really have to look carefully. this is probably the best photo where you can see a bit of pinkness and redness, but that is not consistent with being punched hard in the face a couple of times. it also doesn't make sense he'd be punched in the right side of his face when he's sitting in the driver's seat and mike brown is punching him right handed. the bigger picture is that darren wilson was not cross examined by these prosecutors. here they ha

. >> joining me now, joy reid, host of msnbc's "the reid report" and lisa bloom, a legal analyst for nbc news. lisa, what do you make of michael baden being called to the grand jury today. >> we have to remember the context. several weeks ago, michael baden spoke out publicly and said i would like to testify before the grand jury and so far i haven't been called. now three months into this proceeding, delatedly,belatedly tail end because one of the grand jurors or more than one asked to hear from him. that's all very unusual and doesn't speak highly of a prosecution team actually wanting to prostitute, actually wanting charges to be filed against darren wilson. >> but joy, it may speak well of the grand jurors, if it is true. and i'm not sure how we could establish this. if one or more grand jurors requested to hear this testimony, because that means you have activist grand jurors. and grand jurors unlike trial jurors can be active. they can ask questions and actually tell prosecutors we want you to bring in this witness, that sort of thing. >> yeah. and it suggests in a sense, as you

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. >> lisa bloom is a attorney and legal analyst for "today" show. in african culture. thank you for being here. lease sashgs i want to go to you because the information that came out over the weekend included this audio that the family says shows the entire encounter lasted only 90 seconds. at the encan you hear presumably darren wilson say, you better get somebody down here, there's going to be trouble. this is what the family said about new video, information was leaked from within the police officer that wilson was severely beaten and suffered an orbital eye socket blowout, indicating the michael brown somehow be shot. they saw the grainy video saying the ability to use this video to exonerate him are not working. >> the video is grainy but you can't see any obvious injuries on darren wilson. that's important. we know there were false reports that came out early in this story that he had an orbital eye fracture. that turned out to be completely true. you can't see anything on him in this video. >> when the grand jury -- we don't even know when it

but now we're just two hours away, we'll see how folks respond. >> lisa bloom, let's just go through range of possible charges here against officer wilson. it's a wide range of possibilities, starting with first-degree murder. that's charged with the suspect knowingly causes death after deliberation. and get death or life in prison. second-degree murder, knowingly causing the death of another person without deliberation. and voluntary manslaughter, a penalty of five to 15 years in jail. unvoluntary manslaughter first-degree, for recklessly causing a death. carries a maximum penalty of seven years in jail. and finally, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree, covering criminal negligence, carries a maximum pent of four years. or, no charges. is there a sense, if the grand jury were to return an indictment, where in that list the charges would fall? >> i would say second-degree murder or voluntary or involuntary manslaughter. this case has never been a whodunnit. he picked up the gun, pointed it at mike brown and pulled the trigger intentionally. the only question, why? did he do it in

and an outside take from lisa bloom. lisa, stay with us. i want to get your reaction in a moment. i want to hear from leslie on this given your personal experience going up against cullo. there is a storm of criticism. hasn't he stayed true to the letter of the law. >> did you stay true to the letter of the law? >> is that your take or not? >> that's an interesting question. we have to know and understand that we don't know what went on behind the closed doors. he is the only one who can present evidence to the grand jurors. he controls the narrative. it's not necessarily what you say, but how you say it. he carries with the favor with the grand jury. there have been reports as they have a history of siding with police and the personal roots for that. his dad was a police officer sadly killed in the line of duty. after losing a leg to cancer, i couldn't become a policeman so the prosecutor is the next best thing. is that allegiance grounds for recusal? should they be allowed to have a loyalty even to police? >> i think there is a fine line that you have to walk. i think obviously

joining me -- lisa bloom, legal analyst and attorney and founder of bloom firm and mark geragos. al analyst on abow.com. >> before the allegations what did you think of her interview, getting a look at social media. people say they don't believe her body language. they do believe her body language. lisa? >> listen, i represent women look her every day. bringing rape or sexual abuse charges against very powerful men. it is all way the same story, don. my prior attorney told me not to go to the police. i thing those attorneys are behaving shamelessly. accomplices to the next rape. if somebody is a rape victim go to the police. my mother didn't believe me. my agent believe me. i was scared. economically depend on him. a typical, sad story. having said that when something happened decade ago and there was no legal adjudication, it's very hard to say now, what's true and what's not true. that's why it is so important that will dune omen do go to th. we don't trust the police to handle our cases effectively. >> as lisa pointed out. allegations not recent. this one is 30 years old. what

. >>> and joining me lisa bloom and also an analyst. lisa, let me start with you. of it being based on things that happened a long time ago. there is never going to be direct proof at this point. do you believe the women that have come forward. >> there is no question about it, erin. when you have six women who have come forward using their name and using their face and 15 total anonymous and public, i think that common sense said there is something here. can you discount one or two, but you can't discount this many women who are not asking for anything. and i would add one other thing. there is a brand new claim against mr. cosby that just arose today and that is janice dickinson could now sue him for defamation because his attorney has now called her a liar. if, indeed, her story is true, all of the rape stuff is time barred and the statute of limitations has expired but she has a brand new claim against mr. cosby and his attorney for defending her. >> fred, an accusation alone is incredible, he's said that himself. i'm not going to let people get on on my celebr

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and i want to bring in chris paul and lisa bloom, who is a legal analyst. have both of you with us again. paul, you saw alena's report. and he's going ahead with the show last night and tonight. last night it was a black women's group and he got a standing ovation. what do you think? >> i'm kind of stunstunned, bec i thought, and having seen these play out in court, there is so much damage to a man's reputation and now we are up to 12 women. it is hard to believe bill cosby can survive the damage to his reputation. so a cheering crowd there doesn't survive me. >> lisa, does it surprise you? it was stunning. >> if you need further proof that we live in a rape culture by which i mean a culture that condone even lapse at rape, it is bill cosby joking that he is an evil man and the audience laughing and giving him a standing ovation. by my count seven or eight women have come out publicly using their faces and names and accusing him of raping them, not asking for anything. up to 15 if you include the anonymous ones. how many women do you need to counterbalance

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joining me now is lisa bloom, legal analyst with abo.com.orney and founder of the bloom firm. also drew pinsky, host of "dr. drew on call". and marc lamont hill, cnn political commentator. we heard from joan tarshis. i spoke to barbara bowman as well. two women who seem credible with nothing to gain, at least if my estimation, by comie ining forw. how damaging is this? >> well, it's obviously very damaging. i had a sort of an expert, interrogation expert on my program, she looked at specifically the sort of indicators on these women, whether or not they're likely to have been telling the truth and felt as though they really met every indicator she knew of. number two, from a clinical standpoint, there's nothing inconsistent in terms of what the women have reported of the kinds of person who get themselves into these kinds of situation. why they don't get help, why they feel ashamed, why they may have taken so long to come forward with this. of course, i don't know whether this is true or not. >> lisa, i have to ask you this, did you hear mic

again, lisa bloom did a great job of literally going through and breaking down a lot of discrepancys and how mccullough did not push back on a lot of his testimony and took it at face value. >> i think those of us who sit in studios on tv are trying to read a man's heart. we don't know. what we do know is what the evidence says, we don't know if he's racist, made a decision based on race. what we can ask, though, is based on the evidence, why did officer wilson do certain things? i think it's fair to ask him if he had to shoot 12 times to take this man down, did he have to kill him, with the threat so great, you had to unload 12 bullets into this guy? >> i guess what we know from the testimony, from everybody's testimony is that there was the altercation in the street. he charged the car. there was a fight inside the car and then he ran away and he turned back around and started chargeing at him again? >> right. >> the question is, when he was charging at him, did he have to shoot him? >> right. >> i guess that's what constitutes a charge, he was 100 feet away. he wasn't in his face.

lisa bloom is "today's" legal analyst. >> good morning. >> let's start with that npr interview, what a moment where he didn't respond. is that the right way to handle it, from a legal perspective, from the pr perspective? >> no. if you're accused of an allegation like rape, i think people expect you to say no way! to remain sigh silent, that's disturbing. >> these are allegations that date back in some cases, decades. there's no legal recourse for the alleged victims here. >> there's no way to resolve this, savannah, because the statutes of limitations have all run apparently. >> either on a criminal case or civil suit? >> that's right. we'll never have these accusers cross examined or mr. cosby cross examined. we're never going to analyze. the evidence. it's going to remain in legal limbo for the rest of his life. >> did any of these alleged victims try to pursue a criminal case? >> one did in canada in 2004. the canadian authorities did not prosecute. they said there was not sufficient evidence. she pursued a civil case,

and then just talking back and forth with lisa bloom, the wonderful legal analyst here as she's goingestioning of the officer. so everything from the lack of a narrative to this prosecutor not talking to the family. i repeatedly have asked lawyers for michael brown's family, have hay that had any contact with the prosecutor? they've had zero. he's done nothing to reach out to the family. typically they are advocates for the victims in the case. they try to talk to the family. they try to represent the the family. this guy did none of that. he's always signaled to the police. everything about him signals that to the police. so what i suz surprised about, though, was that the public policy action of waiting until 9:00 at night, eastern time for something you knew you were going to do. i'm sure he knew at 9:00 that morning. i'm sure he knew a month ago there would be no indictment. to wait and roll this out with a crowd of people weeping in the street at 9:00 at night, when only the people who are the most angry are going to remain in the street and not go home. ch i think it was a recip

in san mateo, jonathan bloom, abc7 news. >> a dreary start to our sunday morning. lisaeing win, some seeing rain, a little bit of everything. >> that's right. heavy rain along the coast, half moon bay, some lightning strikes and thunder from half moon bay and moving into the peninsula right now. you see the lightning strikes in the live doppler hd. these will continue to weaken as they move in. still the rain is coming town pretty good in the peninsula. to the east you see heavier rain from 280 over through hayward, and over into the san ramon valley. further north the line really cuts off. but into watsonville, gilroy, wet weather down through 101, and you will notice that as we take it right on through 580, lafayette here and here very light weather. westward not much going from sonoma to marin. but san francisco, further south, the rain is at a pretty good clip and right on through highway high. slick roadways there. here's a bigger perspective. this will continue to move inland. the sierra nevada, not much going on here with cloudy skies, and maybe a couple more inc

bloom, abc7 news. >> 5:46, the time. some much-needed rainfall across the area. lisag a good amount fell down in san jose? >> yes. >> is there more on tap today? >> there is. a little more in the south bay. they picked up almost three quarters inch of rain in those 24 hours. focus was on the south bay. today the coastal hills and more of the north bay. but also more of a general light to moderate rain throughout the morning hours. light doppler 7hd shows a band of light rain pushing through the bay, right now all the way out toward martinez, concord. but as we take you into san francisco, you see it's wet in the city, the richmond district and just around the bay view. here's the heavier cell out toward vallejo, highway 39 and as you go through veneer shaw and martinez, a little heavier rain taking you back westward and northward through the north bay, yountville, clear lake, santa rosa very light shower activity. and further westward we are looking at scattered showers from the peninsula down through sunnyvale, santa clara and saratoga, some light returns here. final

lisa. among all the situation to get around san francisco, from cable cars to car sharing, you can add one more new way that's actually a very old way. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloomn take that never gets stuck in traffic. >> nearly a century ago rush hour looked something like this. >> this is quite a hustle and bustle. >> now a days it looks like this. >> bumper to bumper. heavy delays there. traffic pretty much stopped at the toll. >> you see back in the day, this didn't exist. there was only one way across the bay. >> in 1928 over 46 million people made this crossing. >> all that traffic was out on the water and there was something else besides ferries, something called a water taxi. >> they were just like a normal taxi. call with as much heads-up as you can. we prefer at least a day's heads-up. >> taylor lewis is bringing the water taxi back. his company quietly launched a year and a half ago with this boat that carries up to six people. well, word has gotten out and the people have spoken. >> you will need a bigger boat. >> one to seat 40 people, to be exact. this is the second boat in their fleet. >> the folks in the port of san francisco said the bay has u

lisa. >>> among all of the ways to get around san francisco from cable cars, car sharing, you can add one more new way that's actually a very old way. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom never gets stuck in traffic. >> nearly a century ago rush hour looked something like this. >> this is quite a hustle and bustle. >> now a days it looks like this. >> greyhound and bumper to bumper. heavy delays there. traffic pretty much stopped at the toll. >> you see back in the day, this didn't exist. there was only one way across the bay. >> in 1928 over 46 million people made this crossing. >> all that traffic was out on the water and there was something else besides ferries, something called a water taxi. >> they were like a normal taxi. call with as much heads-up as you can. we prefer at least a day's heads-up. >> taylor lewis is bringing the water taxi back. his company quietly launched a year ago. the word has gotten out and the people have spoken. this boat carries up to six people. >> you will need a bigger boat. >> one to seat 40 people, to be exact. this is the second boat in their fleet. >> the folks in the port of san francisco said the bay has untapped resources. more

lisa will break down the forecast coming up. >>> cash, credit or debit? this holiday season there's a new way to pay by using your smartphone. but as abc7 news reporter jonathan bloomised if you encounter a few bumps along the way. >> reporter: as retailers swiped card after card, every so often they get one of these. sometimes it even surprises the clerks. >> i found out through watching a customer using it, so i started using it myself. >> now she's hooked on apple pay. >> the fact that i don't have to actually carry my card. like i usually forget my wallet in the car. >> indeed, toys-r-us takes almost every kind of mobile payment. >> we support google and apple. right now we aren't seeing a lot of payments. at this time next year we anticipate a lot of growth in that area. >> people seem to like apple pay. >> it's convenient. take out my phone and it works. >> he said the much older google wallet works in a lot of the same stores. >> apple pay and google wallet work similarly. >> but tapping your phone doesn't work everywhere. some of the biggest retailers you can't use apple pay or google wallet. that's not an accident. notice target has the same credit card te