city today. the case was brought by a group of demonstrators who claimed then candidate trump's head of security roughed them up outside the trump tower back in 2015. a live report from outside trump tower with more in new york city. >> reporter: well, john, we're about two and a half hours into this deposition that was scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m., and this all stems from this 2015 lawsuit that you mentioned where protesters were demonstrating just outside trump tower, and according to the lawsuit they allege that they were assaulted by trump's then head of security saying he punched one of the men in the head, so the judge overseeing this case initially said that trump needed to sit for this video deposition in 2019 saying his testimony was indispensable to the lawsuit, but that was postponed because trump was still in office. now he's not and the judge said today is the day that trump comes in and has to sit for this deposition. trump has previously said that