i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
court justices and potential ethics violations or at least things that look a little bit fishy publicly and from an optics perspective that s what s prompting multiple senators here, again, to renew calls for reforms on the ethics of the supreme court you re not just hearing it from chairman durbin on the judiciary side, though they are going to be doing a hearing on that, and they did want the chief justice to be part of that conversation, that hearing is going forward regardless, but we re also seeing senators start to coalesce around the idea of insisting, of mandating that the supreme court institute a new code of ethics that could better govern instances like we ve seen become public around thomas and gorsuch and others that s going to be something that again they are pushing forward towards, you see a hearing like this from the judiciary committee in a week or so that would be a catalyst wait to go see it on paper. not making money from someone arguing a case in front of the su