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   >>> today's professionals weighing in on hot topics, donny deutche chairman of deutche incorporated and dr. nancy snyderman , our medical editor and --

   >> she punched me.

   >> she punches me and it hurts.

   >> and star jones . let's get to our hot topics. we talked about penn state last hour and whether or not jerry sandusky should have granted an interview. a lot of people are looking at penn state 's actions or lack of actions and say this may be a cover-up, conspiracy of silence .

   >> if you understand the essence of a football program, how insular it is, they live together, breathe together, it's unfathomable if you understand that culture to think more people did not know in detail. it's the essence of what they are, like this, how could they all not know.

   >> i think this is the tip of the iceberg and we will hear a lot more. sandusky was allowed to quietly retire and retain all his benefits. who made that decision and when did they make that decision an what return.

   >> you think there will be a civil lawsuit ?

   >> absolutely. penn state and everybody connected to penn state . we don't have a right to see all the documentation yet because penn state is excluded from the right to know law. interestingly enough the former president was the one who testified to make sure penn state was excluded.

   >> what do you think of mike mcqueary ?

   >> i'm mixed. now that he comes out and says, i stopped it. ve verbally stopped but didn't do anything about it. i keep coming back to the fact. he wasn't a kid. he was a 28-year-old man. what he really did, legally allowed to say right now, i don't know. at least to me, he hasn't proven to me he stepped up to the plate.

   >> i see much bigger villains. at least this kid reported it to the police and said stop.

   >> we don't have a police report .

   >> there will be.

   >> i think that there are documents that exist we are not allowed to see. remember, the grand jury said specifically, we find him to be very credible. that's the quote in there.

   >> the board of trustees , i think the ripple effect will be extraordinary.

   >> the next topic, breast-feeding in public. a michigan mother in a criminal courtroom called out for breast-feeding her 5-month-old baby in the court. the judge said it was inappropriate. she said this was not against the law. the judge reportedly said, this is my courtroom. the laws don't apply in my courtroom. star.

   >> the laws apply more there than anywhere. first, it's a natural thing the woman was breast-feeding and clearly the baby needed to eat and she thought this was the least distracting way to keep the child calm. i don't understand the judge. sometimes judges do dumb stu.

   >> it seems to me every six months or so, we talk about breast-feeding in public and women are maligned. folks, this is how babies eat. get over it.

   >> she was doing it tastefully.

   >> i have never seen a woman doing it where they're doing anything other than trying to be discreet. a woman's right. shame on that judge.

   >> if the baby is getting ready to cry and disrupting court.

   >> he's saying his courtroom is above the law . shame on the judge.

   >> i love this one. can women keep secrets? according to a new study, not more than 30 minutes . the average length of time is 32 minutes.

   >> i believe that. i think women are the biggest gossips. we will share anything.

   >> i think you are full of it. i mean, i --

   >> star!

   >> because i'm-

   >> i got to tell you, my girlfriend are broke refrigerators, they can't keep anything.

   >> you don't tell those people. if you told me something and said, don't tell it, that's it.

   >> you know what, you're a doctor, so you're trained to be that way. you're absolutely trained to be. you have a professional ethic to do it.

   >> it perpetuates the sexism women can't --

   >> you disagree with the statistics and think-

   >> yes!

   >> there are differences. by the way, do -- are men less talkative for --

   >> yes.

   >> is it fair to say by nature women gossip more than men? they just do.

   >> they speak and talk differently.

   >> you know it's true that they can't keep a secret and we're stupid in other ways.

   >> some of the most malicious gossipers i know are men.

   >> it's okay to generalize and say women are different in different ways.

   >> star, we need to find you new friends.

   >> i love my friends and have no problems with my friends. i'd rather tell the truth. i'd rather not be a polyanna and tell the truth. chicks gossip.

   >> bottom line, if you have a secret, don't tell it.

   >> to a woman or man.

   >> that's how we catch criminals.

   >> they just tell one person, it's like keeping a secret.

   >> don't even bring up the sexiest man alive. then it will be a whole new controversy.

   >> let's get to our last topic, ex porn star -- wait. i skipped ahead. can men and women just be friends? i don't want to skip this. we will get to the porn star.

   >> my oldest best friend in the world from first grade is a woman. to me, she's like a sister i trust, i'd rather go to a woman. if we had sex, we wouldn't be friends. i don't buy this, can't be friends with a woman. that's dumb.

   >> we've been friends for over 15 years and traveled.

   >> why do people have this perception somebody will have a sexual attraction to he other.

   >> i don't think there is such a thing as friends with benefits .

   >> my closest friends are men and don't have sexual relationships and guided me through good times and bad. we make this too complicated. friendships are friendships.

   >> even friends who touch.

   >> when there's friends with benefits . that's because one or both of the parties really do desire an intimate relationship . if they're really friends, that's all it is. get your hands off me.

   >> don't touch me.

   >> hr talked to me and said, don't touch the women . i don't touch them.

   >> now, donny , you behaved, we'll get to the porn star story. ex porn star reads to elementary school students, sasha gray , chosen by an outside talent coordinator to read to children. any have a problem with that given her past?

   >> not at all. they're first graders, she's volunteering her time. maybe if it was high school kids and they're aware who she is. shame on people.

   >> she's a porn star who's litter at. she can read.

   >> to be honest, unless the parent told the kid, one, what porn is and, two, they don't know what porn stars are.

   >> she's volunteering her time, reading to kids, this is craziness.

   >> any time somebody wants to go into a school and help out a child, we need to let them.

   >> this is the good side.

   >> is bradley cooper the sexiest man alive?

   >> very sexy guy.

   >> since not even in ground swell of today's professionals --

   >> donny , you can't nominate yourself.

   >> it won't happen any other wa way.

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