very harsh on people who come forward to talk about having been sexually assaulted. you have to keep in mind, first, i will say, if it was my witness, i would've been proud of how she did on the stand. this case rarely turns on the witness testimony though. or the person who experience sexual assault. normally it turns on the ability of the lawyers to paint a full picture of everything that happened. with that respect, the other women who are going to come forward to support her testimony are critical. you just told the jury can understand the difference between how these cases work on tv, versus how they work in real life. i'll say this also, ayman. at work i've tried dozens of these cases, i've worked on hundreds, i've never had a case where someone screamed. i had cases where third parties intervene to help the person who is being assaulted. it just doesn't work that way in real life. >> molly, joyce vance, a regular on the show, a friend of the show, wrote in an nbc op-ed, quote, the weakness here isn't in her story, it is our society's failure to protect victims of sexual assault from