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[Aldred] From Hollywood, it's The Dinah Show!

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[cheers and applause]

And now, a lady with her own ideas about what a woman is,

here's Dinah!

[cheers and applause]

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Now there's a list of what one husband would want from his wife,

or any husband should want from his wife, when he came home from work.

For instance, one,

have the house presentable.

Be attired in a negligee.

[laughter]

Provide 20 minutes of silence before being presented with the problems of the day.

Four, be attired in a negligee.

[laughter]

Five, have a meal prepared within an hour.

And six, be attired in a negligee.

[laughter]

Gloria Allred, are you...

-Hi, Gloria. -Hi, Dinah.

-Where you from? -I'm an attorney in Los Angeles.

Ah, welcome.

How would you feel if your husband presented you with a list like that?

Well, Dinah, I think we have a uterus and a brain, and they both work,

and I think it's very insulting to women.

[cheers and applause]

Listen.

Well...

Listen, I think you ought to be definite about this.

Don't just tiptoe around it!

[laughter]

[blinds open]

[Allred] I live in a war zone everyday.

There is a war on women.

It's real.

It can be very ugly.

Women depend on me to be strong,

to be fearless,

and to assert and protect their rights.

[engine turns over]

And power only understands power.

["Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" plays]

One woman strikes fear into the hearts of powerful men,

from Herman Cain to Tiger Woods.

♪ Now there was a time ♪

[man 2] A feminist crusader...

[woman] Media hound...

[man 3] And a lightning rod for controversy.

She is easily the most famous women's rights attorney in the country.

♪ Great woman ♪

[woman] Her zeal has put her at the center of countless cases.

[Allred] She did not ask Mr. Trump to view his anatomy

to prove that he is a naturally born man.

[Trump] I think Gloria would be very, very, very impressed with me.

[laughs]

♪ Sisters are doin' it for themselves ♪

[woman] Joining us now from Los Angeles this morning...

Joining us to tell us what's going on...

[man] Joining us now from Los Angeles is civil rights attorney...

Please welcome to our show, Gloria Allred.

♪ Sisters are doin' it for themselves ♪

I first met Gloria on the television screen.

-Stop trying to perpetuate myths... -Nobody...

...about battered women.

I thought of her as humorless and striving...

I want to talk about all this with civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.

I was a little bit afraid of her.

She's Gloria Allred.

I want you to finish.

-I want to play the juror. -Don't talk over me.

Who else do you know like Gloria Allred?

It is a disgrace that these homophobes are allowed to discriminate!

I am taking this case on personally!

[indistinct chatter]

We all have our own disadvantages and advantages.

I mean, for instance, I hate conflict.

I think that Gloria enjoys conflict.

You should be using these resources to arrest these fathers!

The reason you demean us is because secretly

you envy women and you fear them!

[shocked laughter]

Gloria's gone on TV and she's raised hell.

She's been very aggressive,

and it's no surprise that some people don't like that.

Oh, save it for your next book, you little snitch.

That's assault! That is assault!

I don't think Gloria's in a popularity contest

because if she is, well, she lost that one.

Every time some high profile case breaks out,

you jump on television and act like you God.

♪ Sisters are doin' it for themselves ♪

[Barkley] Why don't you just go back to your office, wait on another case,

and shut the hell up?

I think I'm very well understood by many people,

and misunderstood by those who wish to misunderstand

because they have an agenda that is different than mine.

♪ Sisters are doin' it for themselves ♪

I don't really care.

[phone rings]

[woman] Allred, Maroko & Goldberg, how can I help you?

[man] The Bill Cosby sex abuse scandal is growing.

[Allred] Two more women describe

being drugged and sex-molested by Bill Cosby.

[announcer] The Howard Stern Show.

[Stern] You know what? I never found Bill Cosby funny.

I don't know that he's ever been convicted of rape.

-[Norris] He has. -There've been allegations, sexual stuff.

-Yeah. -Roofies and all this shit.

[Quivers] But he's like an icon that you don't touch.

[indistinct chatter]

[camera shutters clicking]

[Levenson] For Gloria, the Bill Cosby case is everything she's looking for.

Hollywood, a celebrity,

race, women's rights,

sexual abuse, power.

I mean, come on. I don't think there's anything better for her.

Last month it was reported in the press

that over 20 women had come forward to allege that Bill Cosby

had either drugged or sexually assaulted them,

or committed both acts of misconduct against them.

Unfortunately, with a rare exception,

I had to inform these women that it was too late for them

to file a lawsuit against Mr. Cosby

because of the statute of limitations.

This statute of limitations is an arbitrary time period

set by law...

...during which a victim must file a lawsuit

or be forever barred from pursuing it.

The public deserves to know

if Mr. Cosby is a saint or a sexual predator.

[Lasha] Mr. Cosby greeted me

and handed a cappuccino telling me that he made me my favorite coffee.

[sniffles] And after I drink it,

I felt dizzy and lost consciousness.

I could not open my eyes.

I couldn't move or say anything.

I felt something warm on my lips,

and I blacked out.

I woke up

to him clapping his hands, saying, "Daddy says, 'Wake up.'"

[camera shutters clicking]

[sniffles]

[man] Not to be insensitive to the women sitting here,

but can you say beyond the shadow of a doubt

that you are 100 percent confident in the truth of their claims?

You can decide for yourself.

[camera shutters clicking]

Any pregnancies involved in all this?

[Allred] Any pregnancies? We're...

We're not commenting on that, but thank you.

[man] Were there any law enforcement actions...

[indistinct chatter]

[woman] Is she not giving last names?

-Who's calling? -Hey, Sara.

[Allred] At first I was reluctant to get involved, only because there was

no legal option for many of these women,

but then I realized that they really do need a voice, they deserve a voice.

Frankly...

...everybody was looking to me and saying,

"Gloria, when you going to do something?" [laughs]

[Rosenbaum] The district attorney can't take these cases

because of the statute of limitations impediment.

So, the only thing she can do

is provide her client

an opportunity to tell the story of what happened,

and turning it into a trial on public opinion.

[Wilmore] How many people think the women are lying?

Do you guys believe the women? You think some of them are lying?

-Absolutely. -Really?

Wherever you see Gloria Allred, you know somebody's lying.

[laughter]

I didn't wanna...

I have to ask about your name coming up in the news recently.

-No, no, we don't answer that. -Okay.

I just wanted to ask if you wanted to respond at all

about whether any of that was true.

There's no response.

And I think you need to get on the phone with his...

-I will, yeah. -...person immediately.

Okay.

[Frazier] Back here in Colorado,

Bill Cosby performed and received two standing ovations

during his run in Denver this weekend,

but outside the venue

Gloria Allred was leading the biggest protest to date

against the comedian.

Rape is not a joke!

Rape is not a joke!

It's important that there be consequences.

Rape is not a joke!

[Allred] And sometimes making someone accountable is a form of justice...

Rape is not a joke!

...even if they can't have justice in the conventional setting

of a court of law.

This is not a free speech area!

[woman] Is this personal?

Is it personal? I...

I don't know. Excuse me. All right.

[Allred] Today, three new women

who alleged that they were victims of Bill Cosby

are here with me to describe what they allege

that Mr. Cosby did to them

when they were young and extremely vulnerable.

[camera shutters clicking]

And for those who will choose not to believe

that I am speaking the truth of what happened to me,

please know that I wish it were not true.

It's always personal to me

if a woman has been a victim of injustice and has been hurt.

...alone with this secret.

It's always personal.

[Allred] My commitment to women comes from my own life experience.

I thought that what happened to me was just my bad luck.

I didn't realize that some of what happened to me

happened to millions of other women.

I was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

So this was growing up,

and in terms of segregation, it was mainly by religion.

This was the Catholic neighborhood.

I lived in the Jewish neighborhood.

Wait a minute, are we at fifty--

-Yes. -Well, here we are.

Looks different.

There it is.

5533 Springfield Avenue.

My mother came to the United States from England

when she was in her twenties.

And my father, I think, was born in the United States.

It's not really a hundred percent clear

because my father didn't like to talk about himself.

He worked six days a week as a door-to-door salesman.

We didn't have much money.

My father would put out just enough every day on a table by the door

for my mother to go and get groceries just for that day.

Sometimes I would go to movie,

and he would wait outside and he would say,

"I don't really want to see that movie."

And I figured out later

it was because he didn't really have enough money for both of us.

I met my best friend, Fern,

on my first day at the Philadelphia High School for Girls,

an all-public, all-girls high school.

Hi, gorgeous.

Hi!

Oh, wonderful to see you!

[Caplan] She sat in front of me,

and could see that I was having difficulty figuring out

the forms to fill out.

And she turned around and said, "You look as if you're having a problem.

Can I help you?"

She was popular with boys,

very popular with boys.

She was kind and inclusive.

And bossy.

[Allred] When I was thinking of going to college,

I said to my father, "I don't know how we're going to afford this."

And he said, "Don't worry, I've been saving.

If you can get in, you'll be going."

At the University of Pennsylvania in those days,

it was about 93 percent male and seven percent female.

It was very easy to meet boys.

I met Peyton, I believe, in about the first week of college.

He was a fraternity boy,

absolutely drop dead gorgeous.

Look, we've all been in college and been attracted to the really cute guy

who's very smart and very funny,

and that was my dad.

You know, he was always such a wit, so I think that was the attraction.

[Allred] I remember thinking

I would have incredible children with Peyton Bray.

Went to a Justice of the Peace somewhere in Philadelphia, and that was it.

I was pregnant at 19,

gave birth to my daughter Lisa at age 20.

I had never cooked,

and I'd never changed a diaper.

And I don't think I'd ever held a baby,

so this was all culture shock.

I used to iron in front of the television and watch I Love Lucy.

Being a housewife is a big bore.

Cook the meals, do the dishes, make the beds, dust the house!

-Cook the meals... -[Allred] Lucille Ball as the character

who always wanted something in addition to being married to Desi.

Hey, what do you know? It says here that Danny Kaye is going to London

to give another command performance for Queen Elizabeth.

I wonder what the Queen is cooking for Phil tonight?

[laughter]

[Allred] Peyton went to boot camp.

At some point I found out that he was in the hospital.

I went to visit him.

It turned out it was for mental health reasons.

And it became increasingly serious.

[Bloom] He was bipolar, so he'd be up and he'd be down.

When he was down, he was very dark and very depressed

and would shut all of us out.

[Allred] Peyton was cooking one time.

Somehow it didn't turn out the way he wanted it to.

I don't know if it burned or what. He took the pan and he just threw it.

And that was very frightening to me.

And that happened more than once.

I recognized that I was not able to help.

That if I stayed, it could present a risk of harm to my daughter.

So I left.

I moved back into my parents' home.

My neighbor's mom said to me,

"Gloria, why don't you try it again with him?"

I said, "I can't."

And I didn't tell her why, 'cause I didn't tell anybody why.

I didn't tell my own parents why.

There wasn't the kind of discussion about mental illness that we have today.

Ultimately many decades later, he ended his life.

It's very heartbreaking.

I was just very, very fortunate to have a wonderful child.

I did not get child support for many years.

I knew that I was the one who's going to have to support my daughter.

I had to be strong and I had to move forward.

["I'll Take You There" plays]

I began to teach at Benjamin Franklin High School.

It's an all-boys, almost all African-American High School.

I was also commuting to NYU for my Master's in English education.

♪ I know a place ♪

I had written my dissertation on African-American novelists at Penn.

At NYU, one of my professors said,

"Now you talk about civil rights for African-Americans.

What about your own rights?"

I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Well, women's rights."

[TV] One of these beauties'll be named Ms. Universe.

[Allred] And I said, "What rights don't women have?"

He said, "You'll find out."

♪ Let me take you there ♪

♪ I'll take you there ♪

♪ Oh-oh ♪

I was at an end in Philadelphia.

♪ Ooh, Lord ♪

♪ All right, now, baby ♪

So I took a five-year-old child,

and got on a plane,

and came to Los Angeles.

I thought, if I was going to be poor, at least I'd be poor in the sunshine.

♪ I'll take you there ♪

♪ Ain't nobody cryin' ♪

When you're in your twenties,

you know, generally, you're optimistic.

At least I was.

[indistinct chatter]

You see, if Cosby had harmed a dog and not a woman,

PETA would be sitting in front of that man's house.

They'd be crucifying him right now.

[man] Some of the ladies would lean in

-to listen to the other lady. -One dog.

And here we have 35 women.

Oh. You got it. Right.

And people are still, like, wondering?

Okay.

[camera shutters clicking]

[Allred] I'm here today with two more women

who will allege that they were victims of Bill Cosby.

Tonight Bill Cosby was scheduled to perform in Bakersfield, California.

But that appearance was quote, "postponed."

Mr. Cosby thinks that this will soon be over

and that no more women will come forward.

He is very wrong.

[camera shutters clicking]

Linda and I had sat and talked about how we were gonna present ourselves.

And that we would be strong women who won't cry.

Every victim that Bill Cosby assaulted

who has been called a whore and a liar

has helped me to become a survivor.

Bill Cosby appears to think that rape is a joke.

Well, let me tell you something, Bill.

I'm not laughing.

[camera shutters clicking]

[Maher] These are women who don't seem to have a reason to lie about it.

-There's no money... -Well, that's not necessarily true

because a lot of them seem to be being represented by Gloria Allred,

-who you know is in league with the devil. -Now.

-Yeah. -[laughter]

No one has convicted him.

He has not been arrested.

And the bottom line is that's the law.

Innocent until proven guilty.

I'd like to know who Ms. Allred's clients were 40 years ago.

What were their morals? What was their behavior like?

Why did they approach Mr. Cosby?

What do they want to get out of the relationship?

This is 40 years later, and suddenly they're all coming out,

making these accusations.

Something seems wrong to me.

Thirty or 40 years ago when this happened,

you went home and you cried,

maybe you talked to your best friend, or your mother, or your sister.

And then, generally, people told you, "Don't don't say anything more about it."

[Wang] Here for the first time and through these press conferences,

the woman owns the narrative and is able to speak the truth

as she experienced it.

He had assured me that it was okay to take the pills,

but obviously, it was not.

[Wang] Although critics might say, "Oh, it's tawdry,

it's rude, it's embarrassing,"

it allows the public

to see what happens in the dark

and to see the abuse that often occurs in secret.

-Did you see my little telephone book? -Yeah.

I think it's a child's booster seat, but I always use it, it's perfect.

-Yeah, it's great. -Otherwise, I'm like down here.

[laughter]

And my clients are up there.

Based on all of her history and what she had experienced herself,

there was no one else to contact.

She understands, she's experienced

something of what we are experiencing,

and she does it every day in her work.

[Allred] I was in my twenties, I went on vacation in Mexico

with a girlfriend.

I met a doctor.

He invited me out for dinner that night.

So I said, "Yes."

And then, when I met him,

he said, "Well, first, I have to go to the hospital

and check on my patients."

I said, "Okay." So I went with him.

And then he said, "Well, now we have to go someplace else.

I have to check on a few patients who are not

any longer in the hospital."

So I went with him,

and we open the door and there's nobody in there.

And...

he pulled out a gun

and he raped me.

I was completely in shock.

I just can't even to this day think about it.

It just was absolutely shocking,

completely unexpected.

And I still-- I can't even understand

why he would do that.

I had no thought of going to the police.

I thought, "Who's going to believe me against the doctor?"

I didn't want to really talk to anybody about it.

[woman] Wasn't it hard not to talk about it?

It's not hard for me not to talk to people about things.

[woman] Then how do you get close to anybody?

Well, I mean, there's a lot to discuss.

[chuckles]

[woman] Was that the worst thing that ever happened to you?

[sighs]

No.

[woman] Then what is the worst thing that ever happened to you?

After I found out that I was pregnant as a result of the rape,

then I had to get an abortion.

So this is before Roe v. Wade.

Literally back-alley abortions.

And I almost died.

I had like a 106 fever, something very high.

And I-- I was hemorrhaging and...

went to the hospital and they packed me in ice.

That was the worst.

That and a nurse saying,

"This will teach you a lesson."

I've known you over the years.

In spite of our political opposition, we've had friendly debate.

I didn't know you'd gone through all this.

Why did you talk about all of that, why did you get so personal?

I take what I believe was an extremely negative experience

and I try to turn it into a positive.

It helps me to understand others.

And I I have represented many women

who have been survivors of violence against them, of rape,

of child sexual abuse.

Thank you so much for taking the time!

Yes, and I think it's long overdue

that the law be changed in Nevada

to protect victims.

[laughs]

One of the things I try to do is help people to understand

how to evolve from being a victim,

to becoming a survivor,

to becoming a fighter for change.

-Hi! Good to see you! -Good to see you, too!

I tell you, when we talked earlier

and Ben and I just-- our balloon burst.

And we're looking at each other like,

"How are we supposed to do this if Gloria is not sitting there with us?"

I mean, honestly, we were broken.

-But we decided to make it happen -I know!

It's so great.

[Levenson] A lot of Gloria Allred's clients

will never have cases against Bill Cosby.

It's just been too long in the statute of limitations.

So she went to her people and said, "Look, this is something we can do."

-Assemblyman Gardner. -Here.

Assemblyman Jones.

"Even though in the Bill Cosby case it's too late for you,

we can change the laws so that if women are victimized in the future,

they won't have that limitation."

Thank you very much for allowing me to testify today in support of AB212,

which would eliminate the statute of limitations

for criminal prosecution of rape in Nevada.

[Rosenbaum] The legal system has very strong preferences

in favor of statue of limitations. Why?

Because legally, they're great.

They limit the number of cases that can be brought

into an already clogging system.

They're legal reasons, not moral reasons.

There's no moral reason why the truth should ever be time-barred.

My story began in 1989,

when I trusted a man

I would never believe would put a drug in my drink without my knowledge,

so that he could use my body for his sick, disgusting pleasure.

We're increasingly understanding better

how people process that kind of abuse.

And how it may take years

for people to really understand what happened to them

and to be able to talk about it.

The law actually is quite a conservative tool,

and so the only way to really

help vulnerable people in particular

is to push the law to its limits and to be creative

in the way that you do your advocacy.

[Allred] My work is my life. It isn't...

just what I do, it's who I am.

It's my identity.

Fighting injustice,

that's not a nine-to-five job.

It's not a sacrifice.

It's the commitment that I made

many, many years ago.

[man] It began with police and rioters clashing on a hot Wednesday night,

but within a matter of hours, it was completely out of hand.

[Allred] It was about a year after the Watts Riots,

or Watts Rebellion, depending on your point of view.

And so, they needed teachers in Watts.

I said, "Are there any jobs available?"

And they said, "How soon can you come?"

[Bloom] She became active in the teachers union.

She took me out on protest marches.

People would scream, "How could you take your daughter out in the picket line?

What kind of person are you?"

Both I and Gloria were born

into a pre-feminist era.

We probably both were rebelling secretly,

hoping no one would notice.

[laughs]

At New York Magazine,

my male colleagues would say, "You write like a man,"

and I would say, "Thank you."

[laughs]

You know, all the things you do when you think

you're just striving to be the lucky exception.

We benefited from other women telling the truth

about what was happening to them,

and realizing that, "Hey, wait a minute, you know,

we are not crazy, the system is crazy."

[Allred] This was a whole new world opening up to me.

A lot of people were afraid to be called a "feminist".

They thought that was somehow a bad word.

I wasn't afraid, 'cause I don't--

you know, I think that's a good thing, to be a feminist.

[Caplan] Through those years, she taught school in California,

she met Bill Allred,

who was a very successful businessman who believed in her.

He loved her very much.

He wanted her to go to law school because she had become a union organizer,

and I think he recognized

that she just-- she had this power.

We had Constitutional Law together, the three of us,

and abortion came in in that context.

The Supreme Court today ruled that abortion

is completely a private matter to be decided by mother and doctor

in the first three months of pregnancy.

[Maroko] Professor Ogren was quite conservative and a devout Catholic,

and Gloria, all 80 or 90 pounds of her,

with her short, little haircut,

she was relentless at challenging Professor Ogren,

raising her hand when, you know,

and demanding to be called upon.

It was like, "Who is this little person?" I mean, that's how I met her.

You know, Gloria's personality was very outgoing.

She had that kind of sense of going out,

and getting business, and interacting with people.

Michael and I are a little more reserved.

For us, I mean, I think I could-- I could have survived these last 40 years

with 100 business cards,

I'd probably still have ten.

She was very confident that we would be successful,

even though, in all candor,

I don't think we had a clue as to what kind of law we were going to practice

or what would be the basis of our business

and what business would come in. We really didn't know.

-What do we want? -ERA!

-When do we want it? -Now!

-What do we want? -ERA!

-When do we want it? -Now!

[Allred] After I started practicing law,

I started going to meetings in support the Equal Rights Amendment.

And then I decided it was time to volunteer

some time to the National Organization for Women.

The history books tell us women were given the right to vote,

and that's not so,

because women fought hard for that right.

[Allred] Jerry Brown had just been elected governor.

They said to me,

"He has promised to appoint

more women judges,

and he's not keeping his promise.

So we want to do a news conference,

and we want you to do that, Gloria."

And I said, "Well, why me?

I wouldn't know what to say, I wouldn't know where to go.

Why would anybody come?"

The governor promised some time ago

to meet with the National Organization for Women.

They said, "Don't worry about any of that."

[Reporter] The governor apparently got an earful.

After an hour and a half, the governor and some of the women

came out for a breather.

We feel we've had an opportunity today by meeting with him

to make him aware of some more specific problems

that perhaps he was not as aware of before.

On the other hand, many of us feel that not enough has been done

in the area of appointments of women.

We only have 30 percent of all of our appointments,

and women are 50.8 percent of the California population,

so we have a long way to go.

[Allred] And it resulted in a lot of attention,

and the governor appointed some more women judges.

And then, after that, the press started coming to me about other issues.

Throughout the years, women's contributions

have not been commemorated on Memorial Day.

[Allred] Sometimes press would come and they would want an interview

on certain subjects having to do with women's rights.

There were very few people that I could identify

as women's rights lawyers at the time.

Actually, I don't think I knew any.

"Okay, well, I don't know who to refer them to,

so I guess I'll just try to learn about the subject.

Then I'll do it."

I thought to myself,

"What should I be like?"

And I decided

that I should be strong,

that I should show no fear.

I started appearing on talk shows.

Let me just say this. Let's think about who the real victims

of denial of federal funds for abortions are.

At that time, that was the only way

that we could even discuss women's rights.

Gloria has a point, she...

I just think that it's so important to these children

the Equal Rights Amendment be passed

so these women can be paid what they deserve finally.

[Allred] Often, my opponent on those shows was Mary Schmitz.

-Oh, excuse me. You, yes? -I'm Mary Schmitz.

And I'd just like to say on that issue again

that this has become really a fraud for women because...

Oh! Mary Schmitz.

And we actually knew the Schmitzes, and they--

they were actually very nice people, but...

very hard right, anti-women's rights, anti-choice.

Why can't we teach these children

and bring some religion back into their lives,

that sex without marriage is not the accepted way of life.

The military has always had regulations opposing homosexuality.

They have these for a reason.

You want to send your best abroad.

This lady over here is sort of sitting in shock at what you're saying.

I think she wants to turn the clock back at least 500 years.

And I think this is the 20th century,

we're going to bring everyone in line with the 20th century.

[cheers and applause]

[Bloom] For my mom to take the stance that she took,

she took a huge amount of heat for it.

Most people thought, you know, she's really way out there on the fringe.

People really would look at her like she was nuts.

I would go to Back to School night,

and she'd look at the books we were reading,

and they were all written by white men, mostly dead white men.

She'd say why aren't we reading anything by women?

Why aren't we reading anything about women?

Why aren't we reading anything by or about African Americans?

I was embarrassed, as kids often are.

I felt, you know, "Mom, why do you have to do that?"

[Allred] So that's my point. You just can't play nicey-nice

You know, you have to make a shock into the psyche.

And I want to ask you,

do you think we've come a long way, baby?

-I can't hear you. -No!

And do you think we still have a long, long way to go?

Yes!

[Caplan] It was the days of women's rights.

She came with Bill Allred to our home to visit.

My husband, Allen, and Bill got along really well.

And Gloria and I took a walk,

and she said, "Fern, you know, you have a responsibility

to women who don't have what you have, to fight for them.

And I remember saying very clearly to her,

"I am very busy teaching,

being a parent to two children, a wife.

I don't have time to fight for other people's rights."

And she said, "You have the responsibility.

You have to to do it."

And we didn't-- we weren't in touch for seven years after that.

[woman] What do you consider to be your most outstanding feature?

Well, I suppose

I feel that it's my commitment, my total commitment

to making social change.

See, I feel that if each one of us

made that sort of commitment

to other women, to supporting other women,

that we would have social change very quickly.

It's the most beautiful oven I've ever seen.

She has a twist-and-turn waist

so you can pose her to serve lemonade to Ken.

♪ Twist Barbie ♪

[Bloom] There was a Sav-On drug store near our home,

and I pointed out to her that there were signs in the toy aisle

that said "girls toys" and "boys toys."

Of course, all the money is on the boys' side.

And all of the toy vacuum cleaners and brooms are on the girls' side.

By the way, why anybody needs a toy vacuum cleaner, I don't know.

We think that children should have the freedom to explore,

to chose any toy.

[Bloom] I think she sued them for sex discrimination,

but she also organized a protest with a lot of moms and kids.

And we marched around and said, "Why don't you just have toys?

Why does it have to be girls toys and boys toys?"

The idea that a boy might want to play with a doll

or girl would dress up as a firefighter,

you know, that was considered fairly extremist

to say that kind of thing.

Let's accept your point that too many fathers

just do not pay child support.

What would you do about it?

I think that the answer is a payroll deduction for child support.

Let that amount be taken right out of the father's check,

like health insurance, like union dues.

The system that's being proposed just isn't going to work.

How good can this law be if it's just one state?

Won't the fathers that are not paying child support move?

I think if we pass this bill in California as I hope and expect that we will,

it will set a model for the whole country.

Explosions of consciousness tend to happen

more or less at the same time.

When we say to ourselves,

"Why does my blouse cost more at the dry cleaner

than my husband's shirt?"

What Gloria Allred was able to do

was to at least begin to bring women's concerns

into whole areas of law that weren't written with women in mind,

that saw women as property in the beginning.

[man] L'Orangerie restaurant caters to an elegant clientele

and provides elegant service,

which includes a menu with prices for men

and a menu with no prices for women.

Now enters Gloria Allred

who says that they are entitled to equal services and privileges,

and that includes paying for a man's dinner if a woman desires.

We contend that since women are always asked to pay for their dates

in one way or another,

that it's only fair that they know what the investment is

before they decide on a dividend.

[Goldberg] We sued ultimately, and we won.

And that was one of the first cases that really got a lot of media attention.

[woman] She sued a department store for charging women

more for alterations than men.

This case is a class action on behalf of all females.

Before we knew it,

we became known as the law firm that did these types of cases.

The settlement of this case

marks the beginning of a more enlightened treatment

of female prisoners and their babies.

They will no longer have to suffer the degradation and humiliation

of giving birth in chains

[Goldberg] We had a woman who

claimed that she had been molested by seven different Catholic priests.

We had her come in.

She seemed credible.

We started representing her.

Once we file the lawsuit, all the priests

literally disappeared overnight. They were like-- they were all gone.

That was the first case where that kind of issue had come up.

It was almost 20 years before we got some justice for this woman.

Gloria just wouldn't give up, wouldn't give up, wouldn't give up.

I got sexually involved with Rita, I admit my fault.

I failed to rescue her from other priests.

I am truly sorry.

When I went off to law school, we had our weekly call,

and we're chit chatting and I'm talking about school,

and I asked her what was going with her,

and she said, "I'm locked into the District Attorney's building

and I've been here overnight."

First of all, why did you not lead with that?

Are you kidding? What are you doing there?

[Allred] Ira Reiner was district attorney.

He didn't show up for a meeting

that he had promised to have with me at a certain time.

If the Los Angeles County District Attorney is not willing to sit

and hear from these mothers what the problems are

in raising children without being able to get their child support,

then he doesn't really care about child support.

She's lying, she never had an appointment--

never did.

Uh, if she keeps up this, chances are she never will.

[Maroko] All the sudden, there's a thing. Gloria Allred's in a sit-in.

I said, "Are you out of your mind?

Are you going to sit there all night until he meets with you?

What happens if it's a week or two weeks?"

The next morning, they decided they weren't gonna lock me in again.

They were gonna just throw me out.

You should be using these resources

to arrest these fathers who are breaking the law.

Supporting their child is part of their responsibilities.

Would you move in there, please?

We want our child support for these children.

We want every law obeyed,

and we don't want innocent mothers and children arrested.

We want those fathers arrested who are not paying their child support.

Ira Reiner, where are you?

Why aren't you taking a lawful responsibility?

Why are you in hiding?

There's certainly sometimes that Gloria, you know, puts herself out there

in a way that, you know, is sort of like, "Wow."

[Maroko] At least every third or fourth hour, we say that. "Oy vey."

[Goldberg] If you're going to be putting yourself out there,

advocating in this way,

you have to be prepared

for the fact that not everybody is gonna agree with you.

[man] Gloria Allred became the first woman member

of the Los Angeles Friars Club.

Their action shows leadership, courage, and good will.

It will require working out problems

such as what to do about the steam room and the famous all-male stag roast.

Oh, that's what I want to talk to you about.

[Allred] Once I became a member of the Friars Club,

I wanted to use the health club, the steam room.

And I was told, "Well, the men are in there naked,

so they don't want women in there."

I'm interested in the bare facts and the naked truth,

but I am not interested in seeing male friars naked.

And I don't intend to go in there naked,

I intend to go in there in a bathing suit.

So I knocked on the door of the steam room.

I said, "I'm coming in."

Men were in there, naked.

And I whipped out my tape measure

and I started singing Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"

♪ Is That All There Is ♪

At that point, I heard a lot of towels being slapped around naked butts,

people running out of the steam room.

That ended the issue,

and women were allowed to use the steam room.

Women like you, you feminists...

You know what she's trying to do? Turn women into men!

[startled reaction from audience]

We don't think that our daughters should have to trade sexual favors

in order to get a raise.

-Why not? We did. -Well...

[laughter, scattered applause]

How do you think we'd get on this show?

[laughter]

I want to see you in my dressing room after the show.

I know!

She talked about sexual harassment

when nobody wanted to talk about it.

Must a woman prove that she has been psychologically injured

in order to sue for sexual harassment in the workplace?

[Levenson] She kept pushing and fighting,

and now more people are talking about it,

but they associate Gloria with the pushing and the fighting.

I have to ask you, why to you put the women down?

The women are taken very well-cared in America.

Women have the best life in the world in America.

Why do you always have to fight so much?

[cheering and applause]

[Levenson] People say, "She's loud,

she's got an ego,

she must just love the camera."

And then I just sort of pause and say,

"Haven't you met any men like that?"

Here's a feminist philosophy I want you to listen to.

"Comparable work".

Come on, Gloria.

I mean, why shouldn't a nurse make as much as a garbage collector?

Fine.

Let the nurse become a garbage collector and ride that truck.

Because we need nurses. We don't want nurses to leave the profession.

We need garbage collectors too.

They need to come and pick up this garbage you're spewing right now.

[laughter]

I think Gloria handles being attacked quite well. I think she expects it.

She sees it as a plus for her overall agenda

of being out there with her point of view.

This whole subject of gays legalizing marriage

and children being adopted by gays is positively disgusting.

-[man] Yeah! -[applause]

Until 1961, sodomy was outlawed, homosexual sodomy,

in all 50 states.

That's not an archaic law. That's our society saying no to sodomy.

Let's dispel this myth of the wonderful traditional family.

That was the family in which women had to obey their husbands,

in which women had no property rights.

We don't necessarily want the traditional family,

which didn't even allow interracial marriages,

which sir, were a crime even up to 30 years ago in this country.

And just because it was a crime didn't make it right.

It meant it was prejudice!

[cheers and applause]

[Allred] Thank you for coming today. I'm attorney Gloria Allred.

Tomorrow, Bill Cosby

will perform his far-from-finished tour in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is performing, despite the fact

that more than 40 women have publicly accused him

of drugging and sexually assaulting them.

In the early 1990s,

during the last season of The Cosby Show,

I guest-starred as Mrs. Minifield.

After he had won my complete trust and admiration,

he drugged and raped me.

-Well, I guess I'm off. -Yes, in more ways than one.

[laughter]

[Bernard] His last words to me were,

"As far as I'm concerned, Bernard, you're dead."

[crying]

[woman] So, how do you feel?

I feel good.

I feel changed.

I feel like I've purged.

Gloria's representing me and I don't know how many others pro bono,

so she's not getting any money

for anything that she's doing.

And she's just giving. She's like, "Auntie."

You know, I call her "Auntie Gloria" sometimes.

I keep telling her, "You're so sweet and kind."

She says, "I can't let them know how really nice I am, you know,

because then they won't be afraid of me," which is true.

It's amazing to me when I read the comments of people who hate her,

you know, because she's out there busting people's balls, you know.

And she's a true hardcore feminist.

She's righteous.

And what this whole Cosby experience has taught me

that women are still so devalued.

We believe the women! We believe the women!

Their voices are so devalued.

I've come to the protest in Atlanta today

to support those who are protesting

Bill Cosby's far-from-finished concert tour,

and to deliver a message to Bill Cosby.

Women are now empowered and they will never be silent again.

-Is that right? -Yes!

-I'm not crying. -Oh, what's this?

Oh, no, no. I'm just tired.

-Oh. -I'm not crying at all.

-Just wet eyes, wet eyes. -Oh, no, no.

I-- no.

-Allred does not cry. -No.

Court documents were unsealed in which Cosby admitted under oath

that he obtained Quaaludes to give women before having sex with them.

"Yes... I give her quaaludes. We then have sex."

[man] Crews cleaned off the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

after someone wrote the word "rapist" on it.

[Goldberg] It looks bad, Bill.

If this is to be tried in the court of public opinion,

I got to say, all of the information that's out there

kind of points to guilt.

How many of you believe you were drugged by Bill Cosby?

[Allred] I do think there was a shift in public opinion

as more and more women came out

and told their story.

The numbers became startling.

You know, there were press saying to me, "What's your end-game, Gloria?"

I really had no answer to that.

I didn't have an endgame.

Speaking out for women in and of itself is an empowering experience.

There doesn't have to be an end to that.

[woman] Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby arm-in-arm with his legal team

as he arrives for his arraignment in Pennsylvania Wednesday.

[man] Mr. Cosby, anything to say?

[Allred] I was in bed in my pajamas.

And the phone rang and it was CNN.

[woman] Prosecutors filed the case before the end

of the statue of limitations in Pennsylvania.

Now Andrea Constand may be the only accuser

to meet Bill Cosby in criminal court.

[Allred] I ran to the television.

I watched it.

And then I did the interview in my pajamas.

I'm very proud of Andrea, I don't represent her,

but I know that her attorney

and she have shown quite a bit of courage.

Took a shower, I got dressed, wrote something very quickly.

So this is a copy of the arrest warrant,

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania versus William Henry Cosby.

For many of my 29 clients,

seeing him criminally charged and having to face a trial

is the best Christmas present that they have ever received.

We're happy that the wheels of justice are turning,

and the courtroom door is now open.

There will be a day in court for Mr. Cosby.

We'll all be watching.

[Lange] O.J., you there? You're listening to me, I know.

You're thinking about your kids right now, aren't you?

-[O.J.] Oh... -[Lange] They're thinking about you.

[Walters] The police were attempting to arrest Simpson

for the murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,

and her friend, Ron Goldman.

It was a grisly crime scene.

[Brown] The very first time I walked into that office,

Marcia Clark's office,

I had to stop at the doorway.

And I looked,

and I just kept staring.

It was the crime scene photos.

It was my sister with her throat cut.

Finally, she looked to where I was looking,

and she goes,

"Oh, my God. It's just like furniture to me."

I just thought, "Am I going to be able to make it through this?"

These are the people that are supposed to be helping us

and being there for us.

[Rosenbaum] In a criminal case, the district attorney

represents the state.

The district attorney does not represent the victim.

It's confusing. People believe,

"Well, I'm the one that's been victimized, so surely that's my lawyer."

That's not your lawyer.

You don't have one.

If you're the victim or you're the victim's family,

you are merely there as an observer.

His whole team of people would be out there in the media,

doing their interviews every single night.

Somebody from his team was always speaking.

-The victim's sister? -We don't want to give her a chance...

Someone told me, they said, "You know what?

The one person that can really help you is Gloria Allred.

[woman] Gloria Allred represents the Brown family,

which has custody of Sydney and Justin.

As grandparents, they've tried to shield the children

from any exposure to the trial.

TVs were turned off, except in my father's bedroom.

He says, "I want to know what's going on,

and I want to keep track of what's happening."

What's your assessment on the defense success so far?

Well, I think the defense is doing extraordinary well

in showing that these officers jumped the gun.

There were no trials that had cameras in them

until about the late 1980s,

so I probably didn't encounter Gloria

until TVs came into the courtroom.

[Allred] Of course, everyone in the courtroom

has been instructed to engage in appropriate courtroom conduct,

so they're trying very much to hold their emotions inside.

[Van Susteren] Gloria, she's smart.

She saw that she could use the TV.

She could use the camera to really fight for her clients.

We believe the family of the murder victim

should also have the right to be present during the judge's inquiry.

You take a high-profile case that's actually in trial,

Gloria becomes running interference,

almost like a PR position for the benefit of the family

Most people could not even be open to the possibility

he might've committed these murders

because he looked like a very affable, nice guy.

But when they learned of his shameful past, heard the 911 calls...

You're making my point, Gloria, about how prejudicial it is.

Let me finish.

[Dershowitz] Some on the defense resented it.

And who thought of her as a "buttinsky." Uh...

"Why is she involved in this case?

She's representing the family, they have no standing."

That's certainly not my position.

I think most reasonable lawyers understand

that there are two sides.

The way they spun everything around,

they turned her into this

party animal,

drug addict.

These ladies would go out two, three, four nights a week

and stay out till 5:00 in the morning.

It was like, "Gloria, you need to understand who she is."

She was a mom.

She had two young children.

She loved life, she loved her family.

Please join us in this candlelight vigil

by saying a prayer, not only for Nicole and for Ron,

but for all victims of domestic violence everywhere.

[Brown] If it wouldn't have been for Gloria,

Nicole would have never been a human being.

She would have always been just that person on the gurney, and just...

nobody.

[woman] So can you talk about William Allred?

You never talk about him. It seems like--

I don't really want to talk about him.

It's been said that you felt very betrayed by him,

but you've never really said why.

And I never will.

[woman] We're wondering if that was a hard time for you?

I've had challenges that were greater than that one.

[woman] Wait. Judge, could you please tell your client she's being non-responsive?

I know. Okay, start again.

[laughter]

All right, here's the answer.

I've had many challenges in my personal life.

And I've met those challenges,

and continue to take care of my clients.

[woman] Gloria...

[Allred] It was about a 19 year marriage.

Well, I kept the name because people knew me by that time.

I didn't want to change my name to a name that nobody knew me by.

I remember thinking,

"Gee, I wish I had a Gloria Allred to take care of me."

Then I stopped for second and realized, "Wait a minute, I'm Gloria Allred."

[Tapper] Gloria Allred is her name.

She represents women with high profile claims

to having been wronged.

Actresses, ex-wives, mistresses.

In the end, he betrayed her,

and has humiliated her in the eyes of her friends

who were aware of the relationship.

[woman] Actress Hunter Tylo won a nearly five million dollar judgment

in a pregnancy discrimination suit against the producers of Melrose Place.

We think that women in this country have a right to work,

even when they are pregnant, as long as they can perform the job.

Hunter Tylo can perform, she can be bold, beautiful,

she can be pregnant and she can be on Melrose Place!

[cheering and applause]

The former girlfriend of Scott Peterson

says she will testify for the prosecution during his murder trial.

Now, Amber Frey has hired an attorney, Gloria Allred.

[Herskowitz] Gloria invented, essentially, a new genre of law,

namely representing victims, primarily women.

[camera shutters clicking]

Our adversarial system requires that everybody be represented.

And so, although I'm often on the opposite side of Gloria Allred,

as a defense attorney, I admire what she's doing.

[Levenson] If you're a woman,

and you have been sexually harassed or assaulted

by a powerful man,

there are not many people you can go to in the phone book.

You go to the person you see on camera.

[woman] She has won a quarter of a billion dollars

just in sex harassment suits.

The problem for Gloria is sometimes it backfires.

People just want to say it's all about her,

she's just doing it for her own glory.

And I've always wondered what that's about.

Is that because if you see a woman who appears that secure,

you got to take her down a notch?

Karen from Boston asks...

"Is there anything you won't do

to push your ugly mug in front of a camera?"

[laughter]

I have to think about that,

but I guess my answer would be "no."

[laughter]

Gloria Allred, anytime you see her,

you know something's going wrong.

Whatever she's bringing forth,

there ought to be automatic doubt about it.

[Mankiewicz] Why do you have to hire Gloria Allred

and have a press conference other than looking for a pay day?

-Okay, everybody's got their copy, right? -Yes.

-How's everybody feeling? -I feel proud.

You feel proud? You should feel proud, you should feel good.

[Wang] I've definitely experienced kind of the blowback of adversaries

sometimes just automatically lump

her cases into, "Oh, it's Gloria Allred."

It's not worthy of attention

or that she's doing something for her benefit

and not for the clients.

And the response to those people is always, "Let's look at the facts,

let's look at why it matters

that we're filing this lawsuit."

Why it matters even for the public to know about this lawsuit.

...victim of sexual assault will be empowered...

[Wang] There's nothing shameful about the fact

that Gloria held a press conference about this issue,

and there's nothing shameful about a woman

describing being sexually assaulted.

We are very proud of our courageous clients

who came forward to assert their rights.

A very large part of our practice is employment litigation.

Somebody was fired from their job,

they were sexually harassed,

they were discriminated against.

The vast majority of those people are not celebrities

by any stretch of the imagination.

And that I would.

[Van Susteren] We know about her high-profile cases.

What we don't know about is the one that she quietly,

confidentially settles to the great benefit of her client.

She does a great job, whether you like it or not.

The question is, how do her clients like it?

And apparently, her clients are pretty happy.

[Dr. Drew] Tell me something about Gloria Allred I don't know and nobody knows.

So, she is wicked good at skee-ball.

Uh-oh. All right, there she goes.

There she goes.

Whoo!

Okay.

Your mother has been through two difficult marriages and divorces.

Would you like to fall in love again?

-Uh, no. -Really?

No, I don't have time.

[Bloom] One thing we have to learn as adults

is to accept our parents for who they are.

I used to sometimes say, "Hey, maybe you should date that guy."

But she does not want to be in a relationship

and she has not wanted it for many years.

Good evening. Thank you, mother and daughter, by the way.

I want to make sure I say that.

Listen, if I never met Lisa Bloom and they walked into a room together,

I would know that they were mother and daughter.

It's like when you see a family of singers

and their voices kind of sound the same, they have the same tone.

We are calling today for an independent investigation

into the culture of sexual harassment at Fox News.

And I felt like my story was so...

[Bloom] My mother and I have very similar personalities.

My mother will be very direct.

She just puts it out there. I do the same thing.

-Okay, but you're just spitballing. -And listening to his voice on the tape.

-[Lemon] He's making things up! -This actually happened.

[Lemon] Both of them have been advocates for victims rights,

but I think Gloria had to do it in a much tougher time

than Lisa is having to do it now.

People may not realize just how tough it was for women and for minorities.

You know, it used to be sort of an all-boys club.

And so, it's interesting to watch

how they both deal with it a generation apart.

And I know Lisa like I know you.

She represents women who have been abused, sexual assault, and so on and so forth.

Why do you think she chose to represent Weinstein?

I don't know, because I never asked her.

She has a general practice, and she's an outstanding attorney,

and she makes her decisions

about who her clients are going to be and who she accepts.

For people of her generation, especially women of her generation,

to have gotten as far as she has, to be successful as she has,

I have the utmost respect for her,

because without her,

I may not be able to sit in this chair every night and do what I'm doing.

-Gloria, how are you? -Hi!

[smooches]

-Love you. -Oh, that's hilarious.

[laughs]

Guys, when you grab your sign and your hat,

-you're gonna go right out here... -Oh, my God.

Did you see the toilet seats right here?

I worked at José Eber in the late '90s,

and they told me, they said, "Dan, Gloria Allred's coming over,

she'd like to get her eyebrows waxed with you."

I said, "Oh, God."

Fast forward I'm gonna say eight or nine years ago.

Don't know how many times we've done the parade.

I said, "Gloria, I just bought a vintage car

and I'd like to get it in the West Hollywood parade."

And she said, "Dan, why don't you just drive me?"

I said, "Gloria, there's only one problem with your entry in the parade."

She said, "What is that?" I said, "Everything."

She said, "What do you mean?"

[laughter]

I said, "Gloria,

I see you drive by year after year,

and you're in the back and you're waving,

and your banner's on the side.

The people driving you are looking at their nails.

You have no music, no color, no drag queens, no strippers,

no float, no balloons, none of the above."

She said, "What are you suggesting?"

"Drag queens, strippers, floats, balloons, all of the above."

-And she said something I'll never forget. -Uh-oh.

Because I was I was shocked that these words came out of her mouth.

-Yes? -She said...

[laughter]

"I'm afraid of what people would think."

Yeah.

I'm like, "Gloria, go with me on this one,

I'm telling you, they will get it.

It's our joke."

She says, "Okay." The next year comes, "What do you need from me?"

I said, "I need a picture of what you're wearing."

She rang my doorbell and I open the door,

and we're standing next to each other, face to face,

absolutely identical,

and she said, "I got to admit, that's funny."

[laughter]

[cheering]

It was phenomenal, the reaction, because people knew it was our joke.

They know her pretty serious, but they got to see a side of her,

that she allowed this to be fun.

When we're together in the car, it's ours. We own it.

For years, every Valentine's Day,

Gloria would have a news conference at the Beverly Hills courthouse

because one of her former clients and friend,

Robin Tyler,

went to get a marriage license

with her partner.

And she would have a news conference just to show the clerk

turning down the marriage license.

This is not state law as we see it.

[Maroko] The first time she did that, I said,

"What are you doing? You'll make a fool of yourself.

Two men, two women getting married.

Marriage is between a man and a woman.

The law says that in California." Every state said that.

"No, it shouldn't. Why should it be that way?

The law should be changed."

We'll be back next year, and hopefully by next year,

you can issue the marriage license to them.

It took me years and years and years to try to intellectualize the situation.

It's ironic that Michael would bring that up because

in the California Supreme Court,

he wound up being the lawyer that actually argued this case.

-One of the lawyers. Wasn't the main. -But you argued it.

I argued it, yeah.

Now to that historic Supreme Court decision

legalizing same-sex marriage across the land,

and it's profound.

The five to four vote in many ways

reflecting the huge societal shift of the last 20 years.

[Allred] I am so happy

they will no longer have to endure the humiliation and the disrespect

that accompanies second-class personhood.

I thank God

that I have lived to see this day

and can share in the joy

that it brings to millions of Americans.

I've never seen you cry at a press conference.

Yeah. I know. [laughing]

-We've been friends for a long time. -That's a first. It's a first.

It's okay, it's okay.

-You know, it's been a long struggle. -Okay.

[indistinct chatter]

The first item is SV813 by Senator Leyva.

Welcome to the committee, Senator.

When I learned late last year

that there was an expiration date on justice

for rape victims in California,

I decided to do something about it.

As lawyers and as legislators, we should ask who benefits

from a relatively short statute of limitations

for rape and sexual assault

and who is hurt.

I am but one of the 50 plus women

who came forward against Bill Cosby

as victims of sexual assault and rape.

Where I once felt powerless,

today I feel empowered to lend my support

for the Justice for Victims Act carried by Senator Connie Leyva.

Thank you, Senator. Thank you.

[woman] Thank you.

Thank you all for your testimony.

Are there other witnesses in support of the bill?

Seventeen, the number of years it took me

to gather the courage to tell one person.

Twenty-five, the age I was

when I was sexually assaulted while unconscious, non-consensual.

I'm 100 percent confident

that you guys will make the right decision,

and you have a zero percent chance that we're going away.

Thank you.

[laughter]

Hi, thank you.

I knew my rapist, but I didn't call him that for over 30 years because...

[woman] These are... You know, we do have committee rules.

And we had four witnesses,

and these are supposed to be add-ons.

-We need to know who you are... -My name is--

...and what your position is.

All right. My name is Janice Baker Kinney.

-My position is in support of this bill. -Thank you so much.

And I'm done?

If I could address the chairwoman...

You know, um...

I understand.

If the committee would like to take testimony from everyone...

-We have rules. -...we will.

We have rules that I know we like to follow.

Yes, we do.

But these are people that have been holding these scars...

...for years, and have been waiting for this opportunity

to come forward,

-and I want to hear their stories. -Okay.

-If we may. I appreciate it. -Thank you.

[applause]

Hi, I'm Janice and I'm back.

It took 35 years and this sisterhood of survivors

for me to be able to say to the world out loud the words, "I was raped"

without feeling the humiliation,

the social stigma,

the guilt, and the shame.

I have not been able to speak about this for 47 years.

It has been a year and a half since I was finally able to go public,

and it has been the most empowering experience of my life.

The path has chosen me at 73 years old.

I no longer have to ask, "What do I want to be when I grow up?"

Now I know.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We do have a quorum.

-Hancock? -Aye.

Hancock, aye. Glazer.

-Leno? -Aye.

Leno, aye. Liu?

-Monning? -Aye.

Monning, aye. Stone?

-Aye. -Stone, aye.

[speaking indistinctly]

That bill has enough votes to pass.

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Yes!

Unbelievable.

-Rolling? -Rolling.

-Okay. -Yay!

The women's restroom.

This is where the revolution begins!

[cheering]

That's right. V for victory.

Okay, we need everybody. One, two, three... girls!

-Congratulations. -Thank you.

It is the nature of movements that they come from truth-telling.

Women united can never be divided!

You know, a few people getting up the courage to say

what happened to them that was unfair,

hearing, often to their surprise,

many other people saying, "That happened to me too."

...will never be divided!

Women united will never be divided!

And If they unite and do something about it,

they can change it.

I'm so happy.

I'm so happy.

[Steinem] The final stage of healing is using what happens to you

to help other people.

That is healing in itself.

[woman] What is your greatest fear?

[Allred] I can't say that I really have fears.

But I guess if I had to name one,

it would be

not living long enough to do everything that I want to do.

It's exciting to be here in my birthday month.

I just turned 75 this month.

I actually was a Hillary delegate

-eight years ago. -[man] Wow.

It's the best birthday gift I could ever have

to be here to cast my vote for Hillary Clinton.

I'm one of the few people who's actually won a battle against Trump.

It was the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned.

There was a beautiful woman in it named Jenna Talackova.

Someone notified the pageant that she had been born with a penis.

Mr. Trump's pageant kicked her out

because they had a rule, you had to be a naturally born woman.

We were successful, but we're going to have to be united

and confront Donald Trump.

-Thank you. Good to see you. -Takes one to know one.

[man] Hi, Senator.

You have no idea how many people have said that.

"How are you, Senator?"

I love being mixed up with Senator Boxer

because I love Barbara Boxer.

-Hi, how are you? -Hi.

-You going to the delegate party? -Yes.

Come on.

-You get a personal helper. -Well, thank you!

I'm excited to be back in my hometown.

A graduate of Philadelphia High School for Girls.

-Me too! -You're Girls' High too?

-Yes! -All right! Girls' High forever!

[Tapper] We are about to see something historic.

For the first time

in the 240 years that this country has existed,

a woman will be at the top of a major party ballot in November.

California, the state with lots of energy, lots of enthusiasm,

casts for Hillary Clinton, the next president of United States,

330 votes!

[cheering]

[Trump] I'm automatically attracted to beautiful--

I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss.

I don't even wait.

And when you're a star, they let you do it.

-You can do anything -Whatever you want.

Grab them by the pussy.

[laughter]

You can do anything.

This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it.

I apologize to my family, I apologize to the American people

Just for the record though, are you saying that what you said on that bus,

that you did not actually grope women without consent?

I have great respect for women.

Nobody has more respect for women than I do.

-Have you done those things? -Women have respect for me.

I will tell you, no, I have not.

[telephones ringing]

[camera shutters clicking]

Today, another woman has courageously come forward to accuse Donald Trump.

Summer Zervos was a candidate on The Apprentice,

on Season 5.

She is now deeply disappointed in him.

The White House is not a locker room.

He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively

and placed his hand on my breast.

I walked out.

He then turned me around and said...

"Let's lay down and watch some telly-telly."

[woman] People are going to ask

whether she supports any particular political party.

The question was, "Does she support any political party?" Uh...

The answer is no, right? Is that right?

No, I'm a Republican.

[Trump] Every woman lied

when they came forward to hurt my campaign.

-Total fabrication. -[cheers and applause]

What incentive would nine women have to come forward?

[Giuliani] At least one is represented by Gloria Allred,

so we know her incentive, money.

"I was sitting with him on an airplane and he went after me on the plane."

Yeah, I'm going to go after her.

Believe me,

she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.

[Bloom] Can I just say something real quick?

The idea that we should be so flattered

by his octopus hands on women,

that that's a great sign of respect because he find us attractive,

I just find that highly insulting.

[King] You have to say advantage Clinton as we head into these final hours,

and this big national lead is why.

A better lead than President Obama had at this point in 2012.

A bigger lead than George W. Bush had at this point in 2004.

Ninety-six years since we won the right to vote.

I know. Can you believe that? That is insane.

-Which means... -That is insane.

...that in the year 2020, if she wins,

there'll be a woman president on the hundredth anniversary

-of suffrage. -Mm. Yeah.

-Hi. Just any booth you like. -Thank you.

Okay, cool.

The only place where women are truly equal is right here in the ballot box.

Women are not equal under the law,

in employment, in marriage, or in any other area yet.

[camera shutters clicking]

To finally reach this day...

...is a very, very special day.

Susan B. Anthony is on the scarf,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman,

and so many more.

These are names that...

...have been the mothers of the women's rights movement.

And we are their daughters.

And we are their granddaughters.

Hi. We're gonna be in that small conference room.

All right, come on in, Margie, okay.

Don't look at the back, the back is sexist.

So we'll keep just the front.

-I have a... huh? -What do you supposed to do with that?

You knock her down and she comes right back up.

You have to seal it.

-Yay! -Yay!

-Ooh, yeah! -Yeah!

Illinois! Illinois won!

-Oh, yes! -Okay!

[man] Oh, these are all...

Boo!

Oh, that's right, no, President Obama said, "Don't boo, vote.

48.9 to 48.2.

-Panhandle is all red. All red. -That is very Republican.

-Panhandle is all red? -Oh, that's bad. Bad.

-That is all Republican. -Let's listen.

Now we look at the real races and find out what happens

in these ones that we have no idea what's going to happen.

Yeah. It could be very, very close in some of those key battlegrounds states...

Okay.

-You all right? -Mm-hmm.

-All right. -I'm good.

Thank you for coming today. I'm attorney Gloria Allred

and this is Summer Zervos.

Mr. Trump has been elected

president of the United States.

He is no longer just a star...

[moans] I'm sorry.

[crying]

He is now president-elect.

After he called me a liar,

I was threatened,

bullied,

and saw my business targeted.

All because I chose to speak out

and tell the truth.

And he has not yet taken back his threat to sue me

and the others who came forward.

[camera shutters clicking]

[helicopter whirring]

[man] In cities across the United States,

protests by those intent on voicing their disapproval

of the election of Donald Trump.

[upbeat music plays]

It is the Stephanie Miller Show live from D.C.

on "Death of America" day.

Why, look who's here, it's Gloria Allred, super-lawyer.

Good morning, honey.

Well, good morning, and it's so great to be with you,

especially right now.

I cannot believe this is about to happen in the United States of America.

You probably saw this out just this morning in the New York Times.

Intercepted Russian communications,

part of the inquiry into the Trump campaign.

I mean, we have a week in which

the president-elect has just settled a fraud and racketeering suit,

been charged with sexual assault by your client.

A defamation case by my client, Summer Zervos,

based on his assertions that, in fact, she lied,

that what she said was fiction.

Our whole plane from L.A. was all people for the march.

Our cab driver said, "I haven't had anybody here for the inauguration."

Everybody's coming as a protester.

-You know, it's a hard moment. -Yeah.

-You know, I feel as though I want to cry. -Yeah.

And I always say, "First we cry, then we fight."

-That's what we'll do. -Tomorrow we're marching.

-We're marching tomorrow. -We are.

["Follow The Sun" plays]

♪ Follow ♪

♪ Follow the sun ♪

♪ And which way the wind blows ♪

♪ When this day is done ♪

Thank you so much for being here!

-This is really important! -Thank you.

[Allred] Thank you for coming today.

I'm attorney Gloria Allred,

and today I'm here in Washington D.C.

for the Women's March on Washington.

I'm honored to be able to be here with the accusers of President Trump,

who were courageous enough

to speak out about what they said was their truth about Mr. Trump.

I'm marching today because it is important to show others

that you can have the courage to stand up to bullies

and to people who are in power.

And I am pleased with the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder

with those who marched for women's rights today.

Thank you.

-Gloria! -All right!

[cheering]

No justice, no peace!

No justice, no peace!

♪ Tomorrow is a new day for everyone ♪

No justice, no peace!

No justice...

♪ A brand new moon And a brand new sun ♪

Why are we all in D.C.?

We're here to honor all those who are marching today,

who care about women's rights,

who care about respect and dignity for women.

Nothing more, nothing less.

-Okay. -Just with the baby.

-Yeah, with the baby. -Yes.

-Oh, thank you so much. -Thank you so much!

Barbara, you're from my district.

The thing about that, I'm not Barbara.

-Oh! -You look just like her!

[laughs]

Wonderful! Do your thing, girl!

Thank you for everything you do.

-We're gonna be okay. -We're gonna do it.

-We sure are. -Even through pain.

Thank you. That's right, that's right. Thank you, honey, for everything.

[Allred] Of course, I went to the Lincoln Memorial

and saw this huge protest

on the steps.

Love trumps hate! Love trumps hate!

[Allred] And...

I decided I wanted to support protesters.

We are the majority! We are the majority!

[Allred] But then, I also saw very strong supporters,

very vocal supporters

of President Trump.

-You know... -We are the majority!

We are the majority!

For four years, you're gonna be very depressed, Gloria.

You're gonna be very depressed, aren't you?

We are the majority!

You're gonna be giving eulogies

because of all your gay friends committing suicide.

Love trumps hate!

You're a sore loser.

God's major courtroom is gonna put you in hell, Gloria.

First of all, I want to thank you for expressing your free speech,

which you and I both treasure.

Even though we disagree,

I want you to know

that you matter.

-Do you know God? -Of course I do. Of course.

Do you serve God? That's the question.

What God do you know that allows same-sex marriage, Gloria?

-Can I tell you something? -Sure. Sure.

Love trumps hate! Love trumps hate!

The God that I know respects all of us.

-Really? -Yes.

[cheering]

[Allred] Suddenly, spontaneously, a number of women and some men

came and got closer to me

and tried to form a space to protect me.

And I could feel their love and protection.

Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!

[cheering]

And then some around me asked me to speak.

Gloria! Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!

Gloria! Gloria!

Individuals who are gay and lesbian and transgender

deserve equal rights!

[cheers and applause]

And women deserve the constitutional right to choose

safe, affordable, legal, and available abortion.

[cheers and applause]

This is a very important weekend.

This is our awakening

and this is our call to resist

anything that's unconstitutional.

[cheers and applause]

[man] Tell it, Gloria!

We together are not going to be silenced,

because as Susan B. Anthony once said,

and if she were here on Earth, I know she'd be so proud of you,

"Failure is impossible." Fight on!

[cheers and applause]

Gloria! Gloria! Gloria! Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!

♪ Follow ♪

♪ Follow the sun ♪

♪ The direction of the bird ♪

[Steinem] There's nothing more important than feeling that you

can make a difference in the world and make it a little bit better.

♪ And breathe ♪

♪ Breathe in the air ♪

[Levenson] Gloria Steinem, the philosopher,

creates the movement.

And then you have the soldier, who's out there in front,

and that's Gloria Allred.

[Kelly] Every day another one.

Sexual harassment, misconduct, assault, even rape.

The numbers are growing so quickly, it's hard to keep track

of all the men who have been accused of predatory sexual behavior.

[Steinem] The offenders have been across race,

they've been across political lines, of all kinds, from right to left.

[Hayes] This moment, this #metoo moment, what do you make of this moment?

It feels different. It feels like there has--

-Does it? -Something has shifted, yeah.

[cheering]

[Oprah] When other people start speaking out,

it makes you feel like, "Oh, now I can speak out too."

You've been part of the case against Bill Cosby, then now, of course, this.

Do you think we are finally at a tipping point?

[Allred] The fight has just begun.

["Gloria" plays]

[cheering]

[cheering]

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ You're always on the run now ♪

♪ Running after somebody ♪

♪ You gotta get him somehow ♪

♪ I think you've got to slow down ♪

♪ Before you start to blow it ♪

See, you guys are not the only ones that God has commanded to repent!

God commands everyone to repent!

♪ You really don't remember ♪

♪ Was it something that he said? ♪

♪ Are the voices in your head ♪

♪ Calling, Gloria? ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ Don't you think you're fallin'? ♪

♪ If everybody wants you ♪

♪ Why isn't anybody callin'? ♪

♪ You don't have to answer ♪

♪ Leave them hangin' on the line ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Calling Gloria ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ I think they got your number ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ I think they got the alias ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ That you've been living under ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ But you really don't remember ♪

♪ Was it something that they said? ♪

♪ Are the voices in your head ♪

♪ Calling, Gloria? ♪

♪ A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha, Gloria ♪

♪ How's it gonna go down? ♪

♪ Will you meet him on the main line? ♪

♪ Or will you catch him on the rebound? ♪

♪ Will you marry for the money? ♪

♪ Take a lover in the afternoon? ♪

♪ Feel your innocence slipping away ♪

♪ Don't believe it's comin' back soon ♪

♪ And you really don't remember ♪

♪ Was it something that he said? ♪

♪ Are the voices in your head ♪

♪ Calling, Gloria? ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ I think they got your number ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ I think they got the alias ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ That you've been living under ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ But you really don't remember ♪

♪ Was it something that they said? ♪

♪ Are the voices in your head ♪

♪ Calling, Gloria? ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ Gloria ♪

♪ Gloria ♪