testified to corroborate allegations made by her friend e. jean carroll who accuses former president trump of raping her in the mid $190. burn balk testified that carroll called her one night in 1996 and said trump had allegedly raped her just five to seven minutes before the call. burn balk was breathless and hyper vent a little as she described how trump recognized her outside the department store burr doppler goodman. he allegedly asked tore carroll s help shopping. then she followed trump into a dressing room of the lingerie department. burn balk testified i was surprised she did that. i thought it was kind of in they. burn balk then said e. jean said to me many times he pulled down my tights. he pulled down my tights. and in an attempt to bolster carroll s case 81-year-old jessica leads. leads alleges trump suddenly tried to kiss and grope her on the planes in the 1970s. trump denied the allegations by both women.
jury. among those questions, tacopina was asking carroll, protest ammonia is that there was no one on the sixth floor of the department store in the lingerie department where she says she was raped. tacopina was asking numerous questions about that. people have testified at the trial that there was such an emphasis on client services, i m asking how it s possible that there was not one representative, sales rep, on the floor. the judge stated objections that he was argumentative. tacopina saying if you want grant a mistrial, he s asking the judge to correct the record before the jury, or to give him greater latitude in cross examination going forward. john? hard to see a judge declared a mistrial because of decisions that the judge himself has made to this point. we will see how this develops. e. jean carroll back on the stand. where are we in her testimony, kara? tacopina said he was about
way to the sixth floor the premier store in a lingerie department she said they were joking over a piece of lingerie, about whether he should try it on, but then she said that s when things turned violent, she said trump brought her into the dressing room, he shoved her against the wall, him carroll said after, that she contacted two friends, those two friends are expected to testify for her as part of this case. she said that one of them told her she shouldn t go public with this, because trump would, quote, bury her. carl said she didn t suffer harm for this she said flirting led to this terrible event, and she said went on trump came out publicly denied the tax lane was in a type. so essentially awful stuff i t just fighting nature s one point when her lawyer said to
it, he said it didn t happen. he lied. and shattered my reputation and i m here to try to get my life back. carroll alleges trump raped her in a new york city department store in the 90s. it was a fight. it was this i want women to know that i did not stand there, i did not freeze, i was not paralyzed. it was over very quickly and against my will 100% and i ran away. reporter: she spent hours wednesday testifying about the alleged assault trump denies. she told the jury she ran into trump and was helping him find a gift for a friend and didn t picture anything about what was about to happen when the pair were shopping in the new york bergdorf goodman. she said he suggested she try on a body suit in the lingerie department and coaxed her in a dressing room and plagued her
trying to help him get out of the country and they paint a picture of him as somebody whose state of mind was trafficking in violent rhetoric on social media, who is fascinated with guns, who, you know, can t be trusted to keep a promise because he couldn t be trusted with classified information. now, his attorneys push back strongly on that and andsaid, lk he has no prior criminal record. he has many relatives until the community that could watch over him. if he was released, they wanted him to go to his father s house, which is monitored with ring cameras, and they have plans for him not to have access to the internet in cases where national security is concerned, judges give great deference to the government, and the government is saying it would be very dangerous to release jack teixeira. courtney, while the justice department prosecutors him, the military is trying to figure out if anybody else might have been responsible. what s the latest on that investigation? that s right.