maryclaire dale is a long-time associated press legal affairs reporter, currently on leave for a neimanin journalism. she has been in the courtroom throughout both trials, and joins us now from philadelphia. maryclaire, thanks for being here. now, several women have testified during this trial and have accused cosby of usig his celebrity status and drugs to sexually assault them. walk me through what might havee powerful moments in them, courtrnd what are they saying? >> right. this trial is different in that the judge allowed five other women who accused cosby of drugging and molesting them to take the stand. last year when the crur deadlocked, only one other woman was allowed to testif support constand's accusations. these women include the former supermodel janice dickinson, a colorado music teacher, heidi thomas, and three others, testified to very similar patterns of alleged behavior. they say they went to meet cosby sometimes in a hotel suite or a home that they had gone to to perhaps have an acting lesson or they were hoping that he migh introduce them to other people in the musi