into former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. former vice president mike pence appears before a federal grand jury offering what could be critical testimony about trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. and as pence was testifying the former president took his 2024 campaign to new hampshire. trump ignore his legal troubles and instead focused his attacks on president biden and other potential white house opponents. and also breaking this morning, russia launches new attacks across ukraine hitting a residential building in the central part of the country and killing at least a dozen people. we ll have the very latest on the fighting overseas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with big news from here in the nation s capitol. former vice president mike pence has testified before the federal grand jury investigating the january 6th insurr
new york. we have a lot of news to get to on this busy friday morning including a seismic development in the special counsel investigation into former president donald trump. his vice president, mike pence, appearing before the grand jury probing his former boss s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the matter. this morning, new reaction including this from a member of congress who investigated the capitol attack. i think that the vice president has a lot of information. i have no doubt really that he answered the questions openly, honestly, and fully. plus, russia unleashing on ukraine overnight with the worst strikes in weeks. the death toll still climbing at this hour. we re on the ground in that war-torn country with a live report. and later, extreme weather, the iconic yosemite national park closing over fears a massive snow melt could lead to unprecedented floods. intense flooding also suspected to have caused this train dera
Department store back in the 1990s. trump s lawyer joetack pena asked carroll we she didn t scream for help during the alleged assault. carroll respond this way, i was in a panic fighting, i can t beat up on me for not screaming. tacopina also suggested carroll made up the allegation to sell her memoir, an accusation she has denied. several times throughout the cross-examination the judge admonished tacopina for argumentative and repetitive questioning. the writer is suing trump for battery defamation. she told the jury on wednesday it s had damaging results on her life. carroll is expected to be back on the stand for more cross-examination when the trial resumes on monday. trump has yet to appear in court and it s not clear if he will.
Was questioning carroll on the stand about why she didn t scream for help. carroll responding, quote, i m not a screamer. i was in a panic fighting. you can t beat me up for not screaming. now, tacopina also challenged carroll about not reporting the alleged assault until years later. the fact that a tacopina called, quote, odd, but carroll and even the most updated statistics argue that is not odd at all. in fact, less than a third of all sexual assaults are ever reported according to the rape abuse and incest national network. let s talk about this with katie phang, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show. this is a civil case. not a criminal case. the defense seems to be that the accuser doesn t have concrete evidence. she didn t report it until decades later and is only looking to promote a memoir of hers now. that s what they re claiming. what do you make of this strategy? it s the old stereotypes, and it s disappointing. you would think in the 21st
Questioned about the alleged assault the moment it happened he has walked her through the time they met outside the department store to this moment, and from the dialogue, you were in a battle, and you never screamed for help, he asked her. she says i m not a screamer. i was in a panic fighting. you can t beat me up for not screaming. some women scream. some don t he raped me whether i screamed or not, and she breaks down in tears. so that gives you a sense of the directives of this, the aggressiveness of the questioning, and how tacopina, trump s attorney is trying to pick her story apart he walked her through the entire time she says she was in the store. asked, did donald trump have security with him. she says i didn t see them you didn t see anybody in the store during the whole time you came in and went up the