[Cooper:] In the next half hour on 360, cable star Bill O'Reilly faces sexual harassment charges. How big is the case against him? We'll hear the accusations and the countercharges. All side. Plus, Martha Stewart's days in jail hitting bookshelves? We'll tell you about a possible multimillion dollar book deal. First, let's check our top story in tonight's "Reset." In Atlanta, Georgia, the trial of a crematory operator. Remember this story? He was accused of not burning hundreds of corpses. Well, the trial is now on hold. Ray Brent Marsh was scheduled to have his day in court this month, but that likely won't happen because the state supreme court is hearing an appeal of the many criminal charges against him. And there are a bunch. Two-years-ago, 334 decaying bodies were discovered at the Marsh's Tristate crematory. In Northern California, firefighters are gaining control of a wildfire that has scorched more than 37,000 acres. Favorable weather has helped calmed the fire whose smoke can be seen from the San Francisco Bay Area and that's about 60 miles away. As you can see, they're dropping all sorts of chemicals. Full containment is expected by Saturday night. In San Juan, Tiger Woods' honeymoon has run into trouble with the law. Woods and his new wife had docked their megayacht in San Juan Harbor without notifying authorities, violating U.S. Maritime Security Laws. It's tough when you have a yacht that big, as Lisa Bloom will attest. They could be fined more than $32,000. In Lake Windmere, England, the blind leading the blind wind surfing. Take a look at this, a 71-year-old blind wind surfer and his friend, a speed boat driver, who, get this, is also blind we should say water skier. I'm mixing up my sports here. The guy driving the boat is also blind. They zipped across the lake at 46.2 miles per hour breaking a world record in waterskiing. I didn't know there were records in waterskiing, but there are. It's been broken. Bill O'Reilly is one of the most influential broadcasters on cable TV, no doubt about it, with his "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox news. He also has a daily gig on the radio and a syndicated newspaper column. And he's even got a kid's book out right now that he's promoting, but the print a lot of people are talking about today are the gory details contained in a sexual harassment complaint filed by a member of his staff. As always on our show, we're covering all the sides. First, here's what she and her lawyers have to say.
[Benedict Morelli, Attorney For Andrea Mackris:] Suddenly, without provocation or warning, the defendant, Bill O'Reilly, said to the plaintiff Andrea Mackris quote, "and just use your vibrator to blow off steam" end quote. During the course of Mr. O'Reilly's telephone monologue on August 2, 2004, he suggested that plaintiff Andrea Mackris purchase a vibrator and name it. And that he had one you might have to bleep this, I don't know, shaped like a
[Andrea Mackris, Frm. Fox News Producer:] The last time that I had spoken to Bill, when this inappropriate conversation had happened the last time, he said it was going to be in person. And I felt extremely threatened for many reasons.
[Cooper:] Anyone who has ever tuned in to "The O'Reilly Factor" knows Bill O'Reilly is certainly not a pushover. Here's what he had to say.
[Bill O'reilly, Fox News Anchor:] So, this morning I had to file a lawsuit against people demanding $60 million or they will, quote, punish me and Fox News. $60 million. I really can't say anything else. I don't want to waste your time with this. The justice system has the case. We'll see what happens. But in the end, you should know this is all about hurting me and the Fox News Channel. I knew by filing this lawsuit I was going to perhaps ruin my career and I knew the wild stuff would be in the papers, because the papers love that, you know how it goes. But all of us are targets. You know that. We're all targets. Every famous person in this country is a target. And for the last 5 years I've had threats almost on a daily basis, we're going to kill you, we're going to get your family. I'm going to sue you for this, or that and the other thing. And a short time ago, this came in to Fox and they want $60 million. Now just think about that. The 911 families didn't get anywhere near that. This is the single most evil thing I have ever experienced.
[Cooper:] Covering the case for us, Court TV anchor Lisa Bloom. And from Miami, defense attorney Jayne Weintraub. And by the way, both have appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor." Appreciate both of you joining us tonight. Lisa, I want to start off with you. And I want to read an except from the lawsuit. It's actually hard to find a lot of excerpts you can read from this lawsuit, because so many of them are quite gory and very specific. But anyway, here's one that we can read. It's not going to shock anyone. This person said O'Reilly is alleged to say, quote, "I'll rake her through the mud," talking about any woman who might bring up sexual harassment charges against him. Quote, "I'll rake her through the mud. Bring up things in her life. And I'll make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed and nobody would believe her. It would be her word against mine and who are they going to believe, me or some unstable woman making outrageous accusations." This is allegedly something he said to this woman who is now suing him.
[Lisa Bloom, Court Tv:] Right. And that's in her complaint, I think, to help explain why this went on for a couple of years before she complained. O'Reilly does have a reputation for being somewhat volatile, others have complained, like Al Franken, that they were targets of retaliation when they made claims against him. That's why I think that's in the complaint. But Anderson, I've got to tell you, if this woman has tapes and the complaint I think strongly indicates that she does by doing long block quotes from O'Reilly, including and doing uh, and um, as through it's transcribed directly from a tape, this is going to be a very significant factor for O'Reilly.
[Cooper:] Jayne, let me read to you about another thing from this thing. And I want to talk more about whether or not she does have tapes. And if she does, why they haven't come out and said this. This is another excerpt from the lawsuit. It's an alleged, I guess, phone sex conversation again, part of it, the part that we can read. Quote, "you still would be with your back to me, then I would kind of put my arm into one of those mitts, those loofa mitts, you know, so I got my hands in it, and I would put it around your front, kind of rub your tummy a little bit with it." And we're going to end it there, because it goes on talking about falafels and stuff, which I don't really understand. Why, if this woman has the tape, why haven't they come forward with it?
[Jayne Weintraub, Defense Attorney:] Well, that's a very good question. And I would like to hear the answer to that by Ben Morelli, myself, the lawyer who filed it.
[Bloom:] They don't have to. They're not in discovery yet, that's why.
[Weintraub:] Lisa, you know what? This is a real disservice to sexual harassment victims of any sort walking around. First of all, let's look at the facts here. This woman worked for Fox, and alleges that these all happened to her. She felt trapped. She was so threatened and scared. Why didn't she just hang up? Why didn't she quite? Why didn't she leave? Why didn't she complain? Why didn't she do anything? Even if he did the things she claims, $60 million? What is going to in this country with our justice system? This is not justice...
[Bloom:] You know what the answer to that is, Sandy. Women are not required to leave their jobs. Guess what? We can keep our jobs and insist that we not be sexually harassed.
[Weintraub:] Why didn't she make a complaint about it? Why did she go back to work for him?
[Bloom:] Let me tell you, you expect this woman to make a complaint on her own against Bill O'Reilly, one of the biggest stars at Fox News. She hired an attorney to do it on her behalf. That was appropriate.
[Weintraub:] What are the damages here. I'm sorry, Anderson. What are the damages, $60 million. Even if he did what she claims where does she come off asking for 60 million damages. I say kudos to Bill O'Reilly for having the courage to stand up as a celebrity and say I'm not going to be blackmailed and I'm not going to hush this under the rug.
[Bloom:] ...in the way that it's alleged in this complaint talking about graphic explicit activities.
[Weintraub:] Lisa, why
[Bloom:] ...including sexual intercourse. Why would you give kudos to someone like that. If she demanded $60 million it was to avoid filing the lawsuit.
[Weintraub:] Because she's an adult. Why did she have these conversations?
[Bloom:] ...they said no, the lawsuit has now been filed. The difference is if they threatened to go public without the 60 million being paid that could be extortion...
[Cooper:] So the line between extortion and asking for money is what?
[Bloom:] If you say I'm going to file a lawsuit unless you pay me X dollars, not extortion. That's just pretrial settlement talk, happens every day of the week. If you say unless you pay me X dollars I will expose you, I will go public that very well could be extortion. If her attorney did that, that was an error on his part.
[Weintraub:] We know her attorney very well, you and I, we were both on a TV show with him...
[Bloom:] Outstanding trial attorney.
[Weintraub:] He has quite a theatrical flair. She e-mailed one of her best friends last month. And she said...
[Cooper:] I'm not sure theatrical is all that bad. A little sensitive for you both right there.
[Weintraub:] She e-mailed her friend and she was saying she was happy. She loved the job and couldn't be happier. She's home again and never leaving and that's working for Bill O'Reilly.
[Bloom:] She's got a tape of these comments by Bill O'Reilly of the explicit behavior he wants to engage. It's over for him if she really has that on tape.
[Weintraub:] I think she has to take some sort of responsibility.
[Bloom:] She has to take responsibility for the comments he made?
[Weintraub:] Lisa, you don't know what she was saying to him!
[Cooper:] Is it all one-sided at this point? All of these details. Anybody can be sued these days. All of us can be sued.
[Bloom:] You can be sued but there's got to be some evidence. If she's got a tape of these comments his only defense is that she was encouraging in it.
[Cooper:] It is completely one-sided. The transcripts and the tapes are all from her.
[Bloom:] That's true because I'm sure Bill O'Reilly wasn't taping conversations where he's making sexually explicit comments to his employee. Let's see if he has tapes of these alleged extortion comments. Bill O'Reilly to make these comments when he's being taped not the smartest move on his part.
[Weintraub:] In Florida, it would be illegal to tape record those conversations. I don't know if it is in New York, but in Florida that would be an illegal act.
[Bloom:] Do you think she'll get prosecuted for taping, forget about it.
[Cooper:] Let's leave it there. Thank you very much. The topic for today's buzz. What do you think? Do you believe the allegations against Bill O'Reilly are true? Yes or no. Log on to CNN.com360. Cast your vote. Martha Stewart's prison sentence may end with a book tour. Everybody's got books these days. Reports that the convicted home maven could be working on a memoir of her life as an inmate. Later, puppet masters the "South Park" way. We like to look at all different stories. The guys behind the show "South Park" stopped by to talk about their strange new controversial movie.