former president. his video deposition taken under oath is now public. e. jean carroll s lawyers presented it for the jury and it included a portion where the access hollywood tape is played and donald trump is asked about it. in this video i just start kissing them. it s like a magnet. just kiss. i don t even wait. when you re a star they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ] you can do anything. historically that s true are stars. it s true with stars that you can grab women by the. [ bleep ] if you look over the last million years, that s been largely true, not always, but largely true. unfortunately. or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah. both legal teams have rested their cases, and the judge has given donald trump the weekend to reconsider whether he wants to appear in his defense. joining me now is nbc news correspondent ron allen who has been following the trial with us. also with
former president. his video deposition taken under oath is now public. e. jean carroll s lawyers presented it for the jury and it included a portion where the access hollywood tape is played and donald trump is asked about it. in this video i just start kissing them. it s like a magnet. just kiss. i don t even wait. when you re a star they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ] you can do anything. historically that s true are stars. it s true with stars that you can grab women by the. [ bleep ] if you look over the last million years, that s been largely true, not always, but largely true. unfortunately. or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah. both legal teams have rested their cases, and the judge has given donald trump the weekend
that ms. carroll s attorneys are very glad that that s what the jury is going to see of mr. trump. he insults ms. carroll, he calls her a whack job, sick, a nut job. he even attacks and is disparaging of the attorney, the female attorney who was questioning him saying that you wouldn t be on my list either in the context of someone of who he would want to be involved with, put it that way. i know you re putting it diplomatically. it s very raw, it s very graphic. it s, you know, it s very striking. let s put it that way. and that s what the jury will and of course, mr. trump denies that any of this ever happened he denies that he knows or ever met ms. carroll, and that s his defense. we have two more clips, including the ones you just mentioned, but i want to start with what we just played, the access hollywood tape which we ve all seen a lot of times over the years, and we ve seen donald trump s initial reaction
have you seen anything like this before. in terms of difficult clients? in terms of a deposition like this on tape? nothing like this. there are some crazy depositions. you can find them on you tube, they re out there, but nothing like this, and nothing involving and the reason we re all here, the former president of the united states. the former president of the united states who was accused multiple times of groping, harassment, assault, rape even, who has denied it repeatedly, and this happened during the 2016 campaign. he won in 2016, and he s denied it but he s also the front runner again. ron, wrap it up for us. what do we expect to see on monday? closing arguments, the defense has hammered away on the fact that e. jean carroll and her friends are democrats. they have shown the jury e-mails and speeches where they are very very critical of donald trump. they point out that she can t say exactly when this happened. there s no date. and that s what they have been hammer
this could happen in a downtown department store when there are shoppers around. nobody has come forward, no witnesses. that s the essence of their case. however, we ve seen the other side of this as well. and it s going to come down to does the jury believe mr. trump or does the jury believe carroll, two other women who say that they were assaulted and two friends of carroll s who say she told them about the alleged attack when it happened. we ll find out what happens in this court of law i m sure in a matter of days, what it means for the 2024 election is still up in the air. it didn t mean anything for 2016. i asked women about that access hollywood tape, multiple women and they shrugged it off and called it locker room talk. 2024 is a different time, and donald trump lost in 2020. a lot of people said they were tired of all of the drama, all of the baggage that he was carrying around, and this is just that, and potentially just that for a lot of voters out there, making a poten