and i think mark whitaker's an illustration for all of us. make compromises every day, there's a risk that the next morning you're going to wake up and that's going to be the big story and you have egg on your face. >> right. to john's point, mark whitaker, like so many of us, seems like he was a fan of bill cosby's. it's something that we don't want to face. and i completely understand that. if all of these allegations are true, it's horrifying. so it's not that it's not understandable. it's something that journalist responsible to actually ask the questions. >> i have to give you a call out for the reporters that are changing this landscape. making a change in the public krveshz conversations. really appreciate both of your times. that's an important issue here. we're watching change very fast. >>> up next another important story and this is a tough one. the shooter of a 12-year-old boy in cleveland by police. we're getting in right now a video of that shooting. they released that at a news conference and we're going to bring it to you next

much coverage of cosby in the past that didn't touch about it, and there is a new book out about mark whitakerve that is a biography about cosby that did not touch on this story, and then after my colleague david carr wrote about this, he tweeted to david carr and david, you were right and i was wrong not to deal with the sexual assault of cosby and not pursue them more aggressively, a i am following up on the sexual assault charges, and i will address them at the appropriate time. if true the stories are shocking if not unconscionable. what do you say about that, bob? >> well, they are unconsciona e unconscionable, and i was a able to take a look at the whole ball of wax of cosby's career and look at the allegations from the women of the civil suit, a, and there is a litany of stories there in my piece and 13 women who are ready to testify in that civil suit that didn't because that suit was settled. but all of that has been out for a decade, and for someone to write a book about cosby and not get into that is absurd to me. >> and bob, thank you for being here, and i want you to know that we

even though they were high-fiving at "newsweek" i was never called in a room by mark whitaker, are we being too tough on this democrat or that republican? never happened like that. melissa: it is important to note that in my three years now here at fox business, i have never been told once, ever once, what to say or what not to say, not even close. i mean, i don't know anyone here who has. and i think what is really appalling about what happened to me at cnbc is the idea that, i have a degree in economics from harvard. i'm talking about math. i'm talking about simply when you add more people to the system and add more costs that cost has to be born somewhere. you can decide as some of our viewers tweeted me said, i think it makes sense people pay more money for people. fine. you need to understand the math and know the facts to make the right decision and what gruber is saying is that, a lot of folks were counting on people in the audience not to understand the math. i was trying to he will illuminate the math and i was stopped, dead in my tracks. that is why this story is important.

. >> next, mark whitaker talks about the life and grip of bill cosby. including mr. cosby's political activism since the 1960s, it's education, philanthropy and the cosby effect which mr. whitaker says played an important role in the election of president obama. mr. whitaker spoke at the st. louis county library in missouri. this is just under one hour. >> thanks so much out of me. so invariably when i talk about this book, people say bill cosby, he's so funny. are you going to be funny? well, i've got to warn you about a comedian. but i will tell you one of bill cosby's favorite jokes. it takes place at the gates of heaven, the pearly gates on a day when so many people have arrived that there isn't room for everybody. so \saint/st.\{-l}street peter announces to all these people waiting in line that he's going to have a little contest, and that is going to ask everybody to write down the question for god. and if god cannot answer the question, you would get him. one after another come up, right down question, st. peter takes it in, get back, got it should be question