it s certainly different from the way we like to portray ourselves, see ourselves. at least, our daytime selves. but roughly 50% of all movies rented in american hotel rooms are adult films. the american porn industry catering to exactly the kinds of dark urges we ve been talking about, but even nastier is a $12 billion a year industry that dwarfs the hollywood product. our own obsessions arguably are at least as crazy, violent, and lurid as japan s. and we tend to actually carry out our violent fantasies more frequently. maybe with that fetishism, that attention to detail comes some kind of excellence in other fields. maybe there s a line from there to here. so, who s crazy now?
he has with prosecutors. if he has anything to tell prosecutors about anyone else that could make an important case for them, tomorrow morning is the time when jeffrey epstein may be more motivated than at any other time in his life to tell prosecutors that information and provide to them whatever it is he can provide about anybody else who may have been involved in these crimes. tomorrow morning. the epstein case has been a lurid and nauseating case. it is made more lurid by the fact that he has ties to the president of the united states. they are well-known, but more about them is coming out every day, including tape un-earthed by msnbc that you might have seen. that s the president and jeffrey epstein socializing. at a party with a crowd of young women at trump s mar a lago club
as he realizes that tomorrow when that judge probably tells him no, you are not getting out, jeffrey epstein may be more motivated than ever in his life to try to change the circumstances of this case, to try to change the relationship he has with prosecutors. if he has anything to tell prosecutors about anyone else that could make an important case for them, tomorrow morning is the time when jeffrey epstein may be more motivated than at any other time in his life to tell prosecutors that information and provide to them whatever it is he can provide about anybody else who may have been involved in these crimes. tomorrow morning. the epstein case has been a lurid and nauseating case. it is made more lurid by the fact that he has ties to the president of the united states. they are well-known, but more
formally nominate mark esper to head the defense department. he ll be one of four to head the department in three years. now is back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. michelle hadley was in jail. accused of multiple felonies, including stalking and attempted forcible rape. had she sent those threatening emails to her former fiancee s wife or was this all a terrible mistake? her parents thought so. and were determined to help. but where to even start. here again is dennis murphy. reporter: the charges, and the headlines, were devastating. in an article in her hometown paper, the shorthand was that michelle hadley was the psycho ex-girlfriend from hell, the mover behind a lurid and devious plot. her parents, michael and suzanne, couldn t, wouldn t
i mean, butina and erickson stuff is the most sparky, most lurid, and therefore i think some of the most heavily covered part of this whole scandal. well, josh rogen at the washington post reports tonight that maria butina also turned up at the wedding of mike pence s national security adviser. what? yeah. this was june 2017. mike pence s national security adviser, a woman named andrea thompson, she got married that summer of 2017, first summer of the trump administration. she s got that awesome new job. she s getting married. maria butina was at the wedding. why was maria butina at that wedding? because u.s. person 1, her boyfriend, paul erickson, he was officiating the wedding. oh. it also turns out the man who mike pence s national security adviser, the man who andrea thompson was marrying at their wedding that day, he had