>> Harvey Weinstein has officially been sentenced to 23 years in prison in his New York trail
following decades of sexually assaulting and raping women.
Now, Weinstein was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the attack on Miriam Haley.
And another three years to be served consecutively for the rape of Jessica Mann, so there were
two women who came forward.
Prosecutors took Harvey Weinstein to trial over what these women went through.
He was, of course, convicted and luckily sentenced to a lengthy period of time.
Now, the sentence in Manhattan state court was less than the maximum 29 years requested
by prosecutors.
But could amount to an effective life sentence for the 67-year old Weinstein, who has been
in apparently frail health.
Now, just to give you a sense of how ridiculous the defense lawyers were in this case, they
had asked for five years following his conviction.
Luckily the judge didn't go along with that.
Judge James Burke is the presiding judge who sentenced Weinstein in this case.
>> Okay, so first of all, small note.
It's funny how frail people's health gets when they're going to court.
So, like with everything Harvey Weinstein says, I don't believe him at all.
So, I don't know if that's controversial, but I don't care.
So, the mobsters do the same thing.
When they're pushing people around and attacking people, they seem in perfectly good health.
And when Harvey Weinstein was in Hollywood, he was the biggest bully in America, right?
>> Mm-hm.
>> The minute he gets arrested, I need a walker.
Poor little me.
And nonsense excuses after excuses lawyers said that the Donna Rotuno called a sentence
obscene, obnoxious and cowardly.
>> Please.
>> How is a rape sentence cowardly, that doesn't even make any sense.
>> She's ridiculous and we did a story about her.
>> She had an interview with The New York Times, their podcasts the daily and she is
quite a character.
But the story isn't about her, it's about justice.
And keep in mind that Weinstein is likely to be extradited to California where he also
faces criminal charges.
So that 23-year sentence is for this particular case, but he could be serving even more time
in prison.
Now he's older, let's keep it real, he's likely to serve the rest of his life in prison.
>> That would be fantastic.
So, here's two good parts of this that I enjoyed, one, they took him into custody immediately
upon his conviction.
Look with wealthy folks, you get the sense the never actually go to jail.
>> Right.
>> So I don't know if he was surprised by it or if his lawyers had already told him
but I like that idea.
But, yeah, no no no, you're under arrest brother.
It isn't just for poor people anymore.
And, you know where he's going?
Rikers.
>> Yeah, so as soon as he was taken into custody though, he immediately needed medical attention.
So they actually took him to a hospital and then immediately after he-
>> I don't believe him.
>> You can call controversy if you life.
He is one of the biggest liars in America, I don't believe a word he says.
>> So I wanna make sure everyone is fully aware of what he was convicted of because
these were serious charges or convictions I should say.
Weinstein was convicted at trial of rape and committing a criminal sexual act.
Jurors found him guilty of committing a first degree criminal sexual act by forcibly performing
oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
By the way, there were some charges that he was found not guilty of.
He was found not guilty of the most serious charge which was two counts of predatory sexual
assault for which he could have been sentenced to life in prison.
He also was acquitted of first-degree rape.
And one of the things that I thought was good to see was just the women who had been victimized
by him for decades finally seeing some justice, right?
Because think about what Harvey Weinstein would do to intimidate them, he would hire
researchers to follow them around and then threaten them with all sorts of nonsense.
Like if you tell anyone I'm gonna come out with this and that.
I'm gonna destroy your career.
Think about the power-
>> And he did.
>> And he did, yeah, the power he had over these women
>> And there was one short video that I want to show you guys because the victims who testified
against him, the women who got justice here, were applauded as they were walking out of
court following the sentencing.
Let's take a quick look at that.
>> Okay, so there they are, walking out, and you can hear people applauding, some of the
reporters asking them questions.
But it feels good to know that there is a day of justice for not just the women who
were part of this particular trial, but all the women who came forward.
All the women who didn't feel comfortable coming forward, who thought that there wouldn't
ever be a day of justice.
They finally got that day.
>> All right, the one part of this trial that I loved was the judge did allow other women
who were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein to testify.
A lot of times in our legal system, they don't allow that.
They say, okay, we're trying you for this crime, not for those other crimes.
I actually it's very wrong, and the reason is, and, yes, there is a law that says you
can show a pattern and I think judges too often do not allow that pattern.
But in this case, the judge did allow the pattern and allowed many actresses, including
one from The Sopranos, who testified that he burst into her apartment and raped her
26 years ago.
And he allowed five of those women to testify, so the jury got a full sense of what Harvey
Weinstein's pattern of sexual assault throughout his whole life was.
So that's a great decision, I applaud that.
And if you're wondering if all this wasn't overwhelming enough already, if you need any
more reasons to despise Harvey Weinstein.
He told the judge well, look, I think men are confused about these issues.
No one's confused about bursting into someone's apartment, attacking them and raping them.
No one has ever been confused about that.
Let alone all the other things that you did.
And when asked about these two particular women he got convicted of assaulting he said,
I had wonderful times with these people.
>> He's disgusting.
Just a disgusting human being.