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
because the state of new york recognized women have been failed by the system when it comes to sexual assault. she s able to bring this case with two fresh complaint witnesses who tacopina says are lying, and as was pointed out, his m.o. witnesses, which i think was well described. he has an m.o., in a semipublic ways, you attack a woman, grope her and then you deny it, and then you attack her and saying she s a liar and not your type, she s too ugly to sexually assault. you have to believe that two people who have nothing to gain, jessica leads, and natasha steinhoff, a reporter, who was at mar-a-lago. what do they get out of this? then if you add the other 26
women who have publicly accused him of assaulting them which isn t part of the case, but i think it s a powerful case with five women testifying. jessica? you know, it was interesting when you mentioned sort of trying to establish this pattern that he has. roberta kaplan, the lawyer for e. jean carroll put up a chart. hood jessica s face and the year, 1979, e. jean carroll s face and the year, 1995 or 96, and natasha, early 2000s, and then there was a checkbox, did he grab suddenly? check check, did he do it in a semipublic place? check check check. and in the after mast, saying she was not his type. so a lot of emphasis on that.