TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES
RELEASED A REPORT DETAILING
ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
BY COMEDIAN LOUIS CK.
THEY SPOKE TO A NUMBER OF WOMEN.
WHEN THE TIMES REACHED OUT TO
LOUIS CK'S PUBLICISTS THEY SAID
THIS.
ALSO THE THURSDAY PREMIERE OF
HIS MOVIE, WAS ABRUPTLY
CANCELED.
THIS ALSO RAISES QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE ANECDOTES HE TELLS
ABOUT IN HIS COMEDY.
THERE IS QUESTIONABLE MATERIAL
IN THIS MOVIE THAT WAS
PREMIERING IN THIS MOVIE.
ONE OF THE STORIES COMES FROM
COMEDIAN REBECCA QUARRY.
REBECCA TELLS HER STORY OF
WHEN SHE WAS ON SET IN 2015
ON A PILOT, AND HE APPROACHED
HER SAYING IF HE COULD
MASTURBATE IN FRONT OF HER.
WHEN SHE SAID NO, SHE SAID HE
HAD ISSUES.
THIS IS WHAT SHE SAYS HAPPENED
NEXT.
A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE HEARING
IN THIS REPORT IS WOMEN
EXPERIENCING FEAR OF SPEAKING
OUT.
ALSO REPRESENTED BY A VERY
POWERFUL MANAGER IN
HOLLYWOOD, CERTAIN WOMEN SAY HE
TRIED TO SILENCE THEM FROM
SHARING THEIR STORY.
WHEN THE TIMES REACHED OUT TO
MR.
BECKY HE SAID HE DID NOT
RECALL THIS CONVERSATION, BUT HE
DID KNOW THAT HE DID NOT
THREATEN ANYONE.
HE RIGHT NOW REPRESENTS KEVIN
HART, AMY POEHLER, AS WELL
AS A NUMBER OF OTHER COMEDIC
PERFORMERS.
A COMEDIAN WHOSE AMAZON SERIES 1
MISSISSIPPI LIST LOUIS CK
IS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, SHE
HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAINST LOUIS CK.
SHE SAYS THIS.
I THINK IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO
KNOW THAT SHE IS COMING OUT AND
SPEAKING BECAUSE THE COMEDY
COMMUNITY IS SO PROTECTIVE,
AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO STAND
WITH THE WOMEN COMING FORWARD.
PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHAT IS
LOUIS CK SAYING?
SOME WOMEN ARE
SAYING THAT AFTER THE FACT HE
DID APOLOGIZE TO THEM, BUT THOSE
APOLOGIES OF SOME TROUBLING
IMPLICATIONS.
MISS COREY SAID SHE RECEIVED AN
EMAIL FROM LOUIS CK WHICH
THEN FOLLOWED UP WITH A PHONE
CALL APOLOGIZING FOR HIS
BEHAVIOR IN 2005.
I KNOW THAT'S A LOT OF
INFORMATION, I WANT TO
BREAK DOWN THE ARTICLE.
I WOULD URGE YOU TO PLEASE READ
THE FULL ARTICLES YOU CAN
GET THE FULL CONTEXT.
WHAT WAS YOUR RESPONSE IN
READING THIS?
>> WERE YOU SURPRISED?
>>IT HAD BEEN OUT THERE?
>> YOU HAVE HEARD SOME OF THESE
RUMORS IN THE PAST AND I WANT TO
MAKE AN INTERESTING NOTE ABOUT
THAT.
GAWKER UNCOVERED THE MAJORITY OF
THE THINGS IN THE NEW YORK
TIMES DISCUSSED BACK IN 2012 IF
I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
AT THE TIME YOU THOUGHT THEY
WERE UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMORS
AND THAT THEY WERE POTENTIALLY
ACCUSATIONS.
AND GAWKER ALREADY HAD A
TROUBLED HISTORY.
PEOPLE GENERALLY DIDN'T PAY
MUCH ATTENTION TO IT.
PEOPLE KIND OF CAPTAIN ON THE
WRAPS FOR A LONG TIME.
>>ALSO PUBLIC OPINION HAD NOT
SWAYED THAT WAY.
ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS WAS ALSO
AN AUTHOR ON THE HARVEY
WEINSTEIN PIECE.
I THINK WHAT WE HAVE SEEN
RECENTLY IS THE SNOWBALL EFFECT.
IF HARVEY WEINSTEIN CAN BE
TAKEN DOWN, WHO ELSE HAS BEEN
ABUSING THEIR POWER?
I THINK IT'S GOOD TO BRING UP
THE GAWKER PIECE, I HAVE
SEEN THAT ON TWITTER.
UNFORTUNATELY NO ONE BELIEVED
THESE WOMEN YET.
THEY WERE STAYING AWAY WAS A
RUMOR.
LOUIS CK ALWAYS DISMISSED THIS
AS A RUMOR.
NOW YOU HAVE WOMEN THAT ARE
SPEAKING ON THE RECORD WHO
FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE TO BE
BELIEVED BECAUSE IF HARVEY
WEINSTEIN CAN BE TAKEN DOWN,
THEN WHY CAN'T WE TAKE DOWN THE
BIGWIG OF COMEDY WHO HAS BEEN
ABUSING HIS POWER FOR YEARS.
>> IT WAS JUST A CRY IN THE
NIGHT BEFORE, NOW THE WHOLE
CULTURE IS SWINGING IN THIS
DIRECTION.
IT FELT VERY COSBY-SIH BEFORE.
COSBY WAS KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME.
AND EVEN THAT ACCOUNT YOU READ
WITH THE YOUNG ACTRESS ñ
BACK IN THE EARLY COSBY STORIES
YOU HEARD THAT SAME THING.
BUT NOW IN THIS CULTURE AND
CLIMATE IT IS SAFE TO STEP
FORWARD.
ALL THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE
HEARD OR READ NOW GET SOME
AUTHENTICITY BECAUSE SO MANY
PEOPLE ARE COMING FORWARD NOW?
>> AT THIS STAGE LOUIS CK HAS
NOT RELEASED A STATEMENT
ALTHOUGH HE HAS CANCELED
APPEARANCES.
I'M WONDERING WHAT YOU THINK IS
THE MOVE FROM HERE?
WILL HE BE
RELEASING A STATEMENT?
WHAT
HAPPENS HERE?
>> THERE IS A STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS WHEN IT COMES
TO THIS SORT OF STUFF.
DEPENDING ON THE SEVERITY OF THE
CRIME ITSELF ñ
>>DO YOU THINK THERE WILL BE
MORE WOMEN COMING FORWARD?
>>THERE IS ALWAYS A CIVIL SUIT
THAT COULD BE LAUNCHED.
AND I HOPE THERE ARE SOME
PUNITIVE MEASURES.
WE NEED TO HAVE A SYSTEM OF
DETERRENCE.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THE
FUTURE PEOPLE DO FEEL SAFE.
ANYONE WHO ABUSES THEIR POSITION
OF POWER TO GAIN SEXUAL FAVORS
FROM UNWANTED VICTIMS OR EVEN IN
CERTAIN INSTANCES ABUSING
THEM PHYSICALLY, IT SHOULD BE
PUNISHED IN SOME CAPACITY.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THEY SHOULD
BE FEARFUL THAT THERE COULD
BE SOME SORT OF WIDESPREAD
MOVEMENTS THAT OUT THEM.
HAVING SAID THAT, THERE ARE A
LOT 
OF ACCUSATIONS BEING
LAUNCHED AT THE MOMENT.
WE ALSO MUST NOT FORGET WHILE WE
SHOULD BELIEVE WOMEN BECAUSE THE
MAJORITY OF 
THE TIME THEY ARE
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT ñ
THEY GET NOTHING OUT OF COMING
OUT.
THEY HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE
WHEN THEY COME OUT AND TALK
ABOUT THESE THINGS.
WE SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS DUE
PROCESS AT 
THE END OF THE DAY.
BUT IF THERE ARE 20 PEOPLE
IDENTIFYING IDENTICAL INSTANCES
WITH ONE PERSON, AND THAT IS
USUALLY A PATTERN THAT WE HAVE
SEEN WITH BILL COSBY.
PEOPLE USUALLY SAY THE EXACT
SAME THINGS, SAME WITH LOUIS CK.
THEIR ACTS ARE USUALLY SIMILAR.
THERE IS A PATTERN THAT WE CAN
OBSERVE TO ASSESS WHETHER OR NOT
THERE IS VALIDITY.
BUT LET'S NOT FORGET THAT THERE
IS SUCH THING AS DUE PROCESS.
THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT
HAVE BEEN ACCUSED AS WELL WHERE
THERE IS ONLY ONE VICTIM.
BEFORE AN ACTUAL CASE IS
LAUNCHED AGAINST THEM, THEY
ALSO COULD POTENTIALLY BE
PROBLEMATIC DOWN THE LINE.
>>THERE HAS BEEN NO PRESUMPTION
OF INNOCENCE IN MANY OF
THESE CASES.
THERE HAS BEEN NO LET'S WAIT FOR
DUE PROCESS TO TAKE ITS COURSE.
FOR PRECISELY THE REASON THAT
HASAN HAS IDENTIFIED THAT IT IS
THE SAME MO WITH ALL OF THESE
WOMEN AS THE STORIES COME
FORWARD AND THIS HAS THE
ADDITIONAL ELEMENT WHERE SHE
ACTUALLY WENT TO PRODUCERS AND
SAID HEY THIS HAPPENED, AND
THEY CORROBORATED ALSO.
>>MANY OF THE WOMEN IN THE
ARTICLE HAVE CORROBORATED THEIR
STORIES.
THIS IS JUST WOMEN COMING
FORWARD.
THE NEW YORK TIMES REALLY DID
THEIR DUE DILIGENCE TO GET
STATEMENTS FROM OTHER PEOPLE ON
THE SET OR OTHER PEOPLE
THEY WORKED WITH.
>>THEY MADE CONTEMPORARY US
COMPLAINTS TO THEIR FRIENDS.
YOU NEED THAT TO CREATE A
SITUATION THAT CLEARLY POINTS
LEGITIMACY OF A CLAIM.
THE REASON SO MANY COMPANIES ARE
CLOSING DOWN PRODUCTION AND
RESHOOTING MOVIES RIGHT NOW WITH
KEVIN SPACEY NOT IN IT ANYMORE
IS BECAUSE OF WHAT HASAN IS
TALKING ABOUT, THE STORIES
ARE CREDIBLE BECAUSE ALL THE
ELEMENTS ARE THE SAME.
THE MO IS THERE.
AND THOSE
PEOPLE TOLD OTHERS AT THE TIME.
