Cosby For Concern

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court set Bill Cosby free on a technicality after he served part of his sentence for three counts of sexual assault. Back in 2005, when he was a local DA and before he was Trump’s defense lawyer, attorney Bruce Castor promised Cosby that nothing he said in a deposition for a civil case would be used against him in a criminal proceeding, and honoring that promise meant Cosby should never have been charged in the first place. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld died at 88 years old from multiple myeloma. He was responsible for countless war crimes in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, so it’s almost perfect timing that U.S. troops are set to withdraw from Afghanistan this week following his death. And in headlines: counting chaos in the NYC mayoral race, the U.S. State Department adds a third gender to passports, and Nikole Hannah-Jones finally gets tenure from UNC. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 1st. I'm Achila Hughes, and I'm Cleo Stuller in Fergitian Resneck.
0:12.4	And this is what a day the podcast that strives to always be covered in beach sand.
0:16.9	Yeah, this news will always be all gritty and dirt-caped and that's the way we like it.
0:22.1	That's right, this podcast smells like suntan lotion or so I've been told that I'm black.
0:35.0	On today's show, the infamous legacy of the late Donald Rumsfeld, plus we'll have headlines,
0:40.3	but first the latest. And it's a doozy. In a stunning reversal yesterday,
0:46.5	Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that disgraced actor Bill Cosby should be free. This is a headline
0:53.5	that really took almost everyone by surprise, but he walked out of prison after serving almost
0:59.2	three years of a max 10-year sentence for being convicted of three accounts of sexual assault.
1:05.5	Now, I want to clarify that this reversal is happening over a technicality and that yesterday's
1:10.6	news does not call into question the actions that Cosby has been in prison for.
1:14.8	Yeah, super devastating. I mean, I haven't fully processed it quite frankly, but the reasons
1:23.8	why he was released are pretty crazy and it has a lot to do with the lawyer who defended Donald
1:28.6	Trump during the former president's second impeachment trial. We're talking about that a lot
1:32.8	this week on the show, but Cleo walk us through all that. Right. His name is Bruce Kaster.
1:39.2	And during that impeachment trial, he stood out at the time for some just very odd behavior
1:45.0	in presentation. Let's jog your memory with some of his best lines. I saw a headline,
1:51.8	representative so and so seeks to walk back comments about, I forget what it was, something that
1:58.8	bothered her, the floodgates will open. So I was going to say originally it will release the whirlwind,
2:04.8	but I subsequently learned since I got here that that particular phrase has already been
2:08.8	taken. So I figured I better change it to floodgates. Oh my God. It's like the bumble-ing idiot lawyer
2:16.6	from 30 Rock. What is he talking about? I to this day have no idea, right? So we'll let you draw
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