thank you, this week begins with the gun safety conversation after another mass shooting. the crisis is important. it grinds on. we will continue to cover it. we have more on that important story later this hour with some special guests. or top story is what a season of accountability. you can kind of feel it in the air if you follow the news and see how many different issues have hit the court. closing arguments today, time where lawyers for e. jean carroll replayed some of that damning video testimony from trump himself, as well as him watching his solemn and the under-oath admissions. it may be one that they presented him as the evidence, that trump is their case, telling jurors this is who he is, this is his modus operandi, his m.o., the contact they want has been shown through their evidence on more than one occasion, shows, quote, he knows what he did. they also showed the jury trump s reaction of his own admission from the access hollywood segment. they tried t
they argued that showed carroll was exactly his type. this is something that lawyers do in argument. it s hard to imagine kaplan speaking that way in the abstract in court, speaking about whether a woman, an accuser is someone s type. what she s doing there quite deliberately is quoting trump to saying, we ll use your framework for the sake of argument, and she is your typhoon. donald trump s defense focused on carroll s ac, and joe tacopina, a name you may recognize let s go back to the wider shot. here you see. this is joe tacopina, and that is donald trump s lawyer in the other very big case, the criminal arraignment of donald trump. he s also his attorney in the civil case. i mention that. he was the person donald trump
on the law. please at to any of the reporting or quotes that we shared, again on both sides of the case. is it fair to say that the jury will, with the absence of physical evidence, has to boil down and decide more likely that non, based inside this case not what they think of donald trump in general is this time he telling the truth, or is she telling the truth? right. tacopina has to convince the jury that five women are lying, that e. jean carroll is lying, and her fresh complaint witnesses as you described, fresh complaint witnesses can be very important. we recognize women who have been subjected to sexual assault have been failed in our a society. that s how e. jean carroll brought this case. the statute of limitations in 1996 for a civil rape charge was five years. she brought this case usso
thank you, this week begins with the gun safety conversation after another mass shooting. the crisis is important. it grinds on. we will continue to cover it. we have more on that important story later this hour with some special guests. or top story is what a season of accountability. you can kind of feel it in the air if you follow the news and see how many different issues have hit the court. closing arguments today, time where lawyers for e. jean carroll replayed some of that damning video testimony from trump himself, as well as him watching his solemn and the under-oath admissions. it may be one that they
then she has the corroborators, two women who she solid in the aftermay. they re both trying to prove that their client is not lying. donald trump is not there to defend himself, he s one person, and there are many people who have testified on behalf of e. jean carroll. nancy, go ahead. i think the combination of the access hollywood tape and trump s deposition is devastating to him. it shows two things that social science showed us years ago. certainly it s not about whether women are attractive. it s about misogyny. business his misogynist statements, his disparaging women over and over again, it s proving his misogyny. every one of these women is disgusting, as he talks about it. and then it s about power.