on with her life in a positive way and to claim that she wasn t upset enough because she tried to create a persona which certainly in her generation, she s 79 years old, was even more expected of women because we weren t allowed to talk about these things. i think the most important thing she has said is i was sick of staying silent, and that s exactly what me too is about. it s about all over the world women have been silenced about sexual assault and sexual abuse, and we re all tired of it. and it s so braive of her to coe forward knowing that this is what s going to happen, that trump s lawyer is going to abuse her for hours and hours and hours, and nitpick when he probably won t even get on the witness stand. nancy erica smith, laura sk coats, thank you very much for joining us. just ahead, the desperate search for a gunman accused of killing five people including a child in texas. and recalibrate your advanced safety system.
their chins up and take our licks. next on the stand according to a source familiar with the trial, lisa burnback, one of the close friends carroll confided in. she ll be followed by lee. alleging trump assaulted her on an airplane in 1979. trump has denied that assault. kara scannell in new york. thank you very much. let s discuss this and more with laura coates, and civil rights attorney nancy erica smith. trump s lawyers grilled e. jean carroll why she didn t report the incident, even asking her about that old law and order episode. do you think that s an effective tactic? well, you know, oddly enough people who are jurors are caught between really the me too era and also a notion where we have as a society doubted those who reported later than the actual time frame when they were actually accusing the person of doing so.
some testimony in this trial that a lot of evidence was excluded in london. i don t know. it wasn t a jury. it was a judge. it is nancy, it is a good point that you make there. nancy, we ll continue this conversation another day as well. nancy erika smith, we appreciate you joining us. thank you. in a series of deadly wildlife encounters, a woman is killed after approaching a bison in yellowstone. we ll have details ahead. millions of calan ifornians about to face sweeping water restrictions as a megadrought intensifies.
ever demanding search for titillation, no matter who the jury verdict favors, be it defendant heard or plaintiff depp, we are guilty. joining us now is civil rights attorney and advocate nancy erica smith, she represented gretchen carlson in a highly publicized sexual harassment case against fox news and roger ailes. thank you for being with us. what do you think about monica lewinsky said. do you agree with it? well, it is complicated. i agree with part of it. there may be an element of scheiden freud, on the other hand maybe we re watching because as a society we re interested in this issue finally, the issue of abuse, sexual harassment and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and it could be a reaction to metoo or also be that as a society we are
officially set for his ally, who was convicted of so many crimes, joel greenberg. the former florida official faces a judge in march, which is pretty soon. he pled guilty to several charges, including sex trafficking a minor, stalking, and wire fraud. now he s been cooperating with the probe, which includes matters that relate to gaetz who was under investigation for some possible crime. he s not been charged. he denies all wrongdoing and it comes amidst news that his ex-girlfriend actually faced this very federal grand jury. i m joined by nancy erica smith. welcome back. thank you. so much of this has centered on the link to this convicted sex offender, greenberg. it s publicly documented their alliance, which was so serious that matt gaetz rather than sort of minimizing or lying about it, which has been a political trick of some, he went on local tv and just said, yeah, we were allies, but i take it all back. i m going to show you just