this is a new low. rape is rape. there is no difference of division between forcible, legitimate legitimate marital slap on before the word rape. it is a disgusting violation and americans fought too long and hard for it to be acknowledged in 2015. in the meantime, another gop contend contender, mike huckabee is in the middle of his own controversy. he does not regret accuseing president obama of marching israelis in the door of an auchb with iran. as president of the united states, would you use the words, march the israelis to the door of the oven? yes. i have been to aus witch three times. i have stood at that place. i have been to israel dozens of times. the one thing i am sure of is for 6,000 years, jews have been hunted down. we need strong words when people
information there. and there was a detail described exactly about what happened i don t know how to characterize it since ivana trump has characterized it as not something criminal. help us parse that out. yeah yeah. well let me tell you a little bit about what happened. during the trumps divorce proceedings, ivana gave a deposition. in that deposition she said, quote, i stated that my husband had raped me. when this book came out a few years later, she walked that back a little bit and said she felt violated during a sexual encounter but that she didn t mean rape in the criminal or literal sense. and now she s stepping back even farther with a new statement, right? yeah that s right. and, look, you know maybe with 30 years hindsight this far after the fact perhaps she s
course understand that by the very definition you can t rape your spouse it s true. you can t rape your spouse. and there s very clear case law. well now cohen is saying this quote, i want to clarify a statement i made to the daily beast. as an attorney husband, and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. they hit me at my core. rarely am i surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against mr. trump truly stunned me. in my moment of shock and anger i made an inarticulate comment which i do not believe and for which i fully apologize. we ll have much more after a break.
another week another controversy for the trump campaign. he is the front-runner in the republican race right now so he s under a lot of scrutiny as are the people who work for him. michael cohen is wrong, setting the record straight on that. marital rape is illegal in all 50 states and nonconsensual sex with a spouse constitutes rape so he s wrong with that. michael cohen didn t want to talk but he will be putting out a statement. the trump campaign is distanceing themselves from cohen saying cohen does not speak for them. in this exchange that michael cohen had with the reporter who wrote this article, he threatened the reporter said he would take him to court, sue him for every penny he has, come after the daily beast, come after everyone the reporter knows. i want to play a little more for you about that reporter talking about that heated exchange. i think it was important to look into especially since donald trump launched his
ultimately she ll serve the balance of whatever sentence and based upon what the parole board does with her once she s in custody in the prison system. all right. randi kaye page pate, thanks to both of you. be sure to join us tonight for the great prison escape airing tonight at 9:00 eastern only on cnn. all right. we just got news just in to cnn on this new donald trump controversy. a new statement from michael cohen, a special counsel for trump s business empire, looking to clarify the first statement he made to the daily beast about a rape allegation made decades ago from trump s then-wife ivana ivana. ivana trump later walked back that rape accusation against donald trump saying wile she felt violated it was not rape in the criminal sense. here is what michael cohen first said in response. quote, you re talking about the front-runner for the gop presidential candidate as well as a private individual who never raped anybody and, of