Is a [ bleep ] lie. And she has remained mostly silent until now. Why did you decide to come forward now and talk to us . I trust you. Does it feel good to talk about this . Yes. Its time. Ms. Mckinney, come forward please. There were bits of the puzzle i wasnt able to reveal at the time and i was unable to be as truthful as i really wanted to be. So she is telling her story, her truth, and for the first time exerts from the if you areman tapes youve never heard. Vulgar. Sexist. How do you arrest a violent suspect . Have a man do it. Romantic relationship ended. If somebody thinks enough of you, theyll call you a name. The nicknames he gave these women are pretty hash. We have all the female names. Theres one called critter. Theres another one we call hench monkey, like in the wizard of oz. Can i use that . Sure. Critter. What were you thinking when he said those things . Bingo. I feel that often when im working on there will be a bingo moment. Or ill get chills. When i get chills, i c
the trial and how people saw o.j. alisyn, that to me is why the trial matters. it was a celebrity event and obviously the heart break of the families of ron and nicole, that s always going to be the most important thing about the trial, but what made it a major national event was the videos we all saw after the verdict where you saw crowds of black people cheering, crowds of white people stricken and it really was a lesson in how the races view the criminal justice system so differently. i don t think we all realized how profound the divisions were in this country about race and criminal justice. berman, you mentioned the series that i was very proud to be associated with and it was fx not netflix, but the reason why
no one knew. i mean, the tension in that room was so extraordinary. it was like there was no one breathing. i mean, you could just see all the air molecules sitting there not moving because no one was exhaling. the jury talked in and, you know, one of the cliches that i find is true about verdicts is if a jury is going to con difficult, they look away from the defendant but if a jury is going to acquit they look at the defendant. all those jurors were looking right at o.j. simpson. that famous shot you re looking at right there, the camera was right above the jury box, you never saw the jury on television, but they were all staring right at o.j. and i remember, you know, dominic dunn, a lot of people in that courtroom are gone, johnny cochran has died, dom anyone dunn the great reporter for vanity fair who was sitting a couple seats away from me he has
be challenged, they will be challenged in court and if they haven t done the job they being epa hasn t done the job in saying this is why this is no long ever irrelevant you just can t get up and say i think arsenic is okay, go ahead and have a glass. you have to come back with this is why the standard is set at the wrong place, it needs to be high higher, needs to be lower, this is the backup, the scientific data backup that justifies that. so it s fine to look at them, but that means it s got to be to be a deliberate process. thank you for all of the information this morning. former governor christine todd whitman. thank you. we appreciate your expertise on this. john? june 12th, 1994, the day that eventually led to the case of the century, we re talking about o.j. simpson. 25 years after that day he is a free man. we will look back at the case next.
then came the stunning news that nicole s ex-husband football legend o.j. simpson was the prime suspect. stephanie elam is live in los angeles with a look back at this infamous case, everyone remembers where they were that day. no doubt about it. the 71-year-old simpson now lives in las vegas. he tells the associated press that, quote, my family and i have moved on to what we call the no negative zone. we focus on the positives. for anybody who was alive at that time and remembers what happened and then the trial of the century, it s a period that no one will ever forget. a witness discovered the body of nicole brown simpson 25 years ago o.j. simpson s ex-wife and her friend were killed in a knife attack. simpson would become the prime suspect. mr. simpson is a fugitive of justice right now. days after the murder simpson driven by friend al cowlings led