[Baldwin:] Today, we are learning for the first-time what life is like for Bill Cosby inside side a maximum security prison. Cosby is serving at least three years for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University women's basketball coach, Andrea Constand. He is entered the general population last month and now Cosby spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, is talking to Philadelphia TV station WCAU about how the aging actor is doing. Wyatt says Cosby quote, looks amazing and mentally strong but there is one person he won't allow to visit.
[Andrew Wyatt, Spokesperson For Bill Cosby:] Mr. Cosby had prepared himself. He prepared all of us probably three or four months before sentencing. He said this guy has a vendetta against me. He will throw the book at me. He said so I'm ready. I'm prepared. I'm ready to go in. Don't worry about me. He said wake me up at 3:30 a.m. they wake him up and he exercises. He is in his cell. He does leg lifts. He pushes up against the bed and does pushups. He showers and he waits for breakfast. He puts it in a little cup, walks over to a sink and runs water over the food and shakes it up and drains it. He eats the food. Right now, I'm the only visitors outside of his attorneys. That is the way he wants it.
[Unidentified Female:] So, Camille Cosby has not visited him?
[Wyatt:] She has not visited.
[Unidentified Female:] When you hear him describe how he's surviving, but you think?
[Wyatt:] He is mentally strong. He is just a strong man. He said despite the circumstances he said this is an amazing experience.
[Unidentified Female:] Did you really use the term amazing experience?
[Wyatt:] Yes. He used the term amazing experience.
[Baldwin:] Wyatt tells CNN that Cosby only speaks to his wife three times a day for three minutes but he has been getting thousands of letters. Strangers are even putting thousands of dollars on Cosby's prison account. The Philadelphia affiliate also quotes Wyatt as saying that Cosby has been assigned cell mates to get around. He is 81 and legally blind. CNN's Jean Casarez extensively covered that trial in his transition to prison. My goodness. Amazing experience.
[Jean Casarez, Cnn Correspondent:] I know. That's what you're left with, amazing experience saying he got down to 195 pounds, that he's not eating bread or desert, really focused on healthfulness in his life. You know, I guess that, you know, he became a super star for American television, right through the per sis tans and attitude and everything else.
[Baldwin:] Sure.
[Casarez:] So, he would take those qualities to make the most of this term. I'm sure what a lot of people want to here is how he feels about the crime he was convicted of.
[Baldwin:] Right.
[Casarez:] You're not hearing that. Let's look at the other side. He was convicted of a felony, three felonies, indecent sexual assault. He was and must be a registered sex offender also determined to be a sexually violent predator. He has to take at least one in prison because of that title he has. There is another side to all of this. It is tarnishing to him.
[Baldwin:] Sure.
[Casarez:] This is very uplifting for what he believes are the people.
[Baldwin:] So, he is in general population. They are reporting that he is getting all of these letters. I can only imagine what people may be writing to him and what they are saying. The fact that people are putting money on his prison account, does that surprise you?
[Casarez:] Yes. You have a commissary account and you can't have thousands of dollars in it. It is to someone who should have a lot of money. Right? And another thing. O.J. Simpson became a mentor. We learned this at his parole hearing that he would lead the prison church service. That he would help and mentor the young men in prison to lead a life that was straight and narrow and not go to other way. He focused on helping others. Now, it has only been almost a year for Bill Cosby. But he always wanted to help the youth, right? But we are hearing solely about him right now.
[Baldwin:] He is doing pushups and
[Casarez:] And no deserts and no bread.
[Baldwin:] He wakes up. These are the details. He wakes up at 3:30 in the morning to exercise in the cell he is mentally strong.
[Casarez:] A sexually violent predator.
[Baldwin:] All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate that update. Just a reminder to everyone tonight the big town hall with Howard Schultz, that is happening in Houston this evening. Make sure to tune in. Questions from voters as he ponders this 2020 run. So again, moderating that from Houston. Tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for being with me. "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.