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Identified as a legal analyst said when it comes to sexualin assault, due process plays no role. watchn this. >> after 40 years we finally changed the law. we finally said a womans word is enough. ive taken many cases to trial with just a womans word.. [applause] >> every single woman needs to be heard. more often than not women are correct. but, sonny, you are insinuating that evidence doesnt matter. as a lawyer, evidence should always matter. >> testimony is evidence. you dont need corroborati...

Book "the case against impeaching trump" and joins us tonight. thanks for coming on, professor. >> thank you. >> tucker: you heard specific legal claim that it is now the law in the united states that, and im quoting, a womans word is enough. thats it. is that true? >> technically it is true, the law was changed some years ago, and i think it was a good change, that you dont need corroboration to make a case. so that if a woman, who was raped, immediately goes to the hospital, gets a rape kit, i...

So, as many of you probably noticed, i wasnt here last week. i was on vacation. a bitter/sweet one. im going to explain that in a moment. but while i was gone, the story about brett kavanagh and alleged sexual abuse became the big story. even though i tried to ignore the news, this one was hard to avoid. so, tonight i feel compelled to share with you something that is very personal to me. there is no standard way survivors talk about sexual assault. it isnt always a police phone call and a rape ...

Reporters. he walked out of the courtroom and goes where? does what? >> hes on electronic monitoring so he has to stay within his court-ordered area. in this case im hearing hes allowed go to connecticut as well. he may have a home there or residence or some business that he conducts there. thats not really that unusual, although courts and probation officers are a little bit leery about letting people out of a state as a general rule. but this is no ordinary defend. next rup are prepare the def...

But there has to be work thats done. sometimes that work is criminal investigation. right? and other times that work may be other things but that is dependent upon what the survivor needs. but we cant just say, give it six months and theyll be back. >> so what do we do? what do you do if youre a prosecutor and youre put in this position? look, you still have to have the evidence, right? and you know that this power is behind you, the power of this movement. people are looking at these differentl...

Stairs. because that would be a motive, but the other thing that i think is problematic with this case is that because he claimed that he is the one who cut her down, his dna is going to be all over her anyway. so we dont know whether his dna got there because he was killing their and then made it look like. >> another lawyer said she may have been sexually assaulted. and to the point earlier, where is that dna at this point? the body is decomposed, was a rape kit ever taken, we just dont know. ...

Blitz which is very rare for him trying to apologize and clear up the controversy. but there are so many on the hill that are demanding he come to testify and i think that may be when he needs to do in order to do this. >> and for the first time really this is exposing the layers of the onion the way social media was used during the campaign. especially we are told by cambridge analytica. >> rape kit we have seen a lot of scrutiny on facebook and a lot of other companies since last year. faceboo...

Place to be, but you have been on death row, and there were not a lot of employers who would take that on, and the army had to take him back, so he stayed in. >> after readjusting to army life, tim hennis built a successful 25-year career in the military. >> tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tims supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. >> he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have ha...

The statute of limitations is always going to be a challenge for a prosecutor. now, its true, were in the middle of a modern trend to expand statutes of limitations or get rid of them completely in very serious sex crimes like rape or sexual assault of a child. but for your misdemeanor sex crimes, your statute of limitations is still going to be something tliek two years depending on the state, maybe even less. thats the first barrier that yu have to get over. the other challenge for prosecutors...

Whats the chance hes going to be charged? >> ive tried these cases in a timely manner when the allegations had just taken place. when youre talking about things that are five or ten or 15 years, i cant stress enough how difficult these are. thats why im going to urge all women and men to report them as soon as they happen because the problem is, is its very difficult for a person or an attorney or a prosecutor to try these cases after a lot of time. why? because you cant corroborate it, you dont...