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Layperson here, you know, listening to lawyers talking about it, it just -- it seems to me inconceivable, right, that this couldn't be used to prosecute somebody. and so, you know, that's -- i think it's just so hard for women because you just sort of wonder what does it take if this isn't enough to prove he admits to it on tape essentially having done this before. >> you know, around son, that's a really good point. i mean, it's a splar point. when you listen to it, viscerally you say to yourself how could this not be a crime. but -- and that's what the disconnect is because the prosecutor --...

And ellen obeyed them. >> you had a significant executive job at a big company. >> yes. >> so you're not some shrinking violet who is home cowering under her husband's direction. >> but when it came to be at home and opening that door, i was that shrinking violet. that's how things were. he ran the show. it was two different -- two different ellens. who different lives. >> detective wilson interviewed ellen's old boss, a man named james cassel. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing her sunglasses. i said, why are you wearing su...

Dennis murphy (voiceover): and the firm is where melissa lewis, earnest by-the-book attorney, found great success for herself and her clients. she was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. [rock music playing] no shrinking violet, either. melissa loved those boozy, splashy office parties just as much as the other lawyers. she'd found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and that's the thing about 38-year-old melissa lewis. even as she raised her voice in class with the senior partners, her sad end wasn't far off. and her unexpected death would get caught up in a chain of ev...

The stakes cannot be higher on the geopolitical stage with regards to north korea. and quite frankly, i think that is why you're going to be seeing president trump perhaps taking yes a critical tone of the united nations as we saw him do on the campaign trail, but also perhaps working with the united nations to again pressure north korea for its brazen, putting it mildly, nuclear military ambitions. >> kevin you bring up tone, and jonathan, that might be a big point because is there a sense for how the president is preparing for his u.n. debut since his last meeting with world leaders? >> i me...

Conversation here. this is a moment for this president, one of those moments that you can't foresee or plan necessarily where the reaction is gauged in how presidential he wants to be is gauge bid this. i'm struck by the republicans who called him out over the weekend so quickly. orrin hatch, not exactly a shrinking violet here. a supporter of his. he said his brother did not die fighting nazis for there to be a comment and action like this here. it is incumbent on the president, he knows that, to speak later today. we'll see how he does. >> jeff zeleny, we may have to come back to you. who kn...