00:00:00.000I mean, it's one thing to have one, you know, to have this first tranche.1.00
00:00:05.860Remember, there were there was an earlier group of women.
00:00:10.060And now this is yet another tranche of allegations.
00:00:13.880And I think that, you know, when you look at the polling on this, I just was looking at a poll that said 75 percent of people said that if there were more allegations, he should drop out.
00:00:25.160And I think this constant stream and even you see the polling for him since the last batch of allegations, his numbers have gone down.
00:00:33.780I do think like, look, I'm baffled that the vet and the vetting process for this candidate.
00:00:40.380Number one, I mean, this is just, you know, the fact that they're just constant, you know, allegations, I think, really is a sign that there just was not proper vetting here.
00:00:50.680And, you know, you may, again, align with him politically, but the truth is, like, this is not a candidate who is ready for primetime on any stretch of the imagination.
00:01:01.940And Democrats have, you know, there's a feeling in the party that candidates like this are not for the party.
00:01:10.260And, you know, there has been a backlash to me, too, but it has not been like this.
00:01:14.780The other thing I would say is, is that clearly this is a person who has who, you know, at least from these allegations that when drinking does not remember their behavior.
00:01:26.520That's what all these allegations say.
00:01:28.600So another reason why how I don't know how we got here, but this 20, this 17th, July, July 13th deadline seems to be key.
00:01:40.860And I think you see a person who is really coming forward when there's still time for him to drop out, which I think is also shows that there's some feeling of like this was just what she had to do.
00:01:54.040And and the fact that there's so much on the women here when clearly this is, you know, multiple women, multiple allegations is just very upsetting.
00:02:06.020Not a police report. Correct. Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:02:10.380And there's not a legal case playing out here for due process to see itself through.
00:02:16.700So my question to you, given the very high standards Politico has before they write something like this and publish it,
00:02:25.260what aspects of this story brought it to the level of publishable?
00:02:33.840There is no police report in this case.
00:02:36.680We spent a lot of time talking to Jenny, asking her for corroborating evidence.
00:02:43.880She shared that she had confided into a number of people, including her therapist, in almost real time.
00:02:53.160And we reviewed email exchanges between she and her therapist referring to what she called the sexual assault and her therapist sort of acknowledging that this had happened to her.
00:03:07.440We talked to people who she confided in in the months after this happened.
00:03:12.300We asked her why she didn't file a police report, and she described sort of the insular nature of where she lives in her corner of Maine that she shares with Graham Plattner.
00:03:25.740And she debated sort of how to handle this, and we found ultimately the number of corroborating pieces of evidence to support her story in a way that we could report it.
00:03:42.300So what are some of those corroborating pieces of evidence?
00:03:46.180So you've got conversations with her therapist and people who she confided in any any conversations with Graham Plattner at the time of it,
00:03:58.900where she said, because apparently as part of this story, she says she even confirmed to him that this was not consent.
00:04:06.340Do you have that? What do you have that actually connects this literally?
00:04:17.060Yeah, she reached out to him the day after via Instagram and essentially, you know, told him that, you know, she didn't want to hear from again.0.90
00:04:31.840And, you know, we looked at messages that she had sent to others in the months after this happened through social media.
00:04:41.040to see those DMs? She tried to recover those DMs. We did not. We were not able to review those DMs,
00:04:50.580but she described them to us. We also long before he was a public before he was a political
00:04:57.380candidate, we saw her essentially explain to others that he was, quote, in her words,
00:05:04.420consensually careless, end quote. Right. But were you able to see the interactions between
00:05:11.320Graham Plattner and this alleged victim? Did you actually physically see them? Did she produce them
00:05:16.920for you? She attempted to uncover them, but was unable to. Welcome back. There are growing
00:05:25.920questions this morning about the health of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.
00:05:30.440The Kentucky lawmaker was admitted to the hospital more than three weeks ago, back on June 14th.
00:05:35.700But his office has only released some vague updates on his condition since then.
00:05:41.500The latest one from last Thursday states that McConnell, quote, continues to improve,
00:05:46.520but it offers no specifics about why he was hospitalized nor the type of treatment he's receiving.
00:05:52.960There's also been no confirmation from McConnell's office as to whether or not the senator is even currently conscious.
00:06:01.100The New York Times reports that on the morning that McConnell was taken to the hospital,
00:06:05.780in their words, emergency responders reported performing CPR on an unconscious individual undergoing cardiac arrest at the senator's Washington address.
00:06:14.920That's according to recordings of dispatcher calls that were widely reported by news outlets last week and obtained by the New York Times.
00:06:22.120The recordings do not name McConnell as the individual.
00:06:26.040We should just note that I think this is a storyline that's going to trigger more and more questions in the days ahead.
00:06:31.340It was the final straw. Enough is enough.
00:06:34.820And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do?
00:06:37.220I could go out and try and make some real big money.
00:06:40.680I could go to the USA where I've got plenty of offers.
00:06:45.580And then I thought, why should I be judged?
00:06:49.680today or in history in the future by Sky News and their ilk?
00:06:55.380Why should they be the people that decide my fate
00:06:58.580when, as I repeat, I've done nothing wrong?
00:07:03.560I've thought about it hard and I've decided today
00:07:06.440today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea
00:16:48.000Okay, we have so much to cover, and we're quite truncated.
00:16:52.100At 11 o'clock, we're going to continue with the continuous coverage on War Room and Real America's voice of the Charlie Kirk, essentially grand jury.
00:17:00.540Wendy Patrick, a criminal lawyer, is going to join me here momentarily.
00:17:04.540But I want to know, we're trying to cram everything to the first hour.
00:17:07.640May not even have a 5 o'clock show or a 6 o'clock show either, as we're going to cover this to its all week.
00:17:15.620You are essentially sitting in a grand jury.
00:17:17.580that this this preliminary hearing evidentiary hearing is taking the place of a grand jury out
00:17:23.360in utah i will get to wendy in a moment i want to thank our sponsors who are bearing with us
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00:18:41.160there's a lot of confusion. This is not a trial. This is essentially our audience is sitting in
00:18:46.420kind of as a grand jury, right? This is what, well, you don't really have cross examinations,
00:18:51.820but explain Utah law. Why are we having this evidentiary hearing that kind of feels like a
00:18:57.340trial, but it's not really trial. And I keep telling people they're not showing all their
00:19:01.560cards right now. They're just trying to get, they're trying to put marks, markers on the
00:19:05.520table that could use stuff in the future, correct? That's exactly right. So yes, Steve, it's not a
00:19:11.600trial. What it is, is a preliminary examination where the judge only has to find, we keep hearing
00:19:17.620the term probable cause, that there's enough evidence to proceed to trial. Now, having said
00:19:22.600that, there's a far less burden of proof is the first thing, obviously. But what you're seeing,
00:19:27.220what you saw yesterday, and what I imagine we'll see all week long, is both sides are really being
00:19:33.100meticulous about the evidence they either introduce if you're the prosecutor or object
00:19:37.980if you are the defense. That's one of the reasons we saw so many objections. But you are correct.
00:19:43.140The prosecution doesn't have to provide everything they intend to provide at trial, but enough. And
00:19:48.500they're going to err on the side of caution because this case has been so widely publicized.
00:19:53.760Charlie Kirk is such a beloved figure. So many people are watching this. They don't want to make
00:19:58.360any mistakes and the defense on their end wants to make sure they don't miss any objections that
00:20:03.500they need to preserve the record for appeal so that's why it's taking as long as it is and i
00:20:08.840would imagine you're going to see more of the same today except steve we are going to see some very
00:20:13.020different evidence today i just want to you know charlie was such an important figure of course
00:20:22.720you know he had the 12 o'clock show here for years which we tossed to but more than that he was such
00:20:27.620an important figure in the American cultural and political scene and obviously a young man who I
00:20:34.140think people said this guy could be president United States one day the we can't have a
00:20:38.920situation I don't believe where we can have kind of doubts you can have we can't do a Warren
00:20:44.460Commission totally gun decked we can't have a situation like with the grassy knoll we have to
00:20:50.680nail this one you have to stick the landing here and so people should be very meticulous now what
00:20:54.760i will say is that on both sides there are a ton of people have gone through and yesterday you heard
00:20:59.580running commentary and i think that commentary is healthy i think it's going to continue on
00:21:04.180um this is going to take at least all week uh wendy remind people there's seven charges here
00:21:09.780and the uh and and the defense is going to go for a sweeping you know hey you really don't have
00:21:15.600anything it doesn't tie together like yesterday in the autopsy correct me if i'm wrong the
00:21:20.660The objection so that it made I think it made it very difficult even for the audience to kind of to kind of to kind of find that, correct, to kind of follow it, correct?
00:21:29.520It does. It makes it very difficult for the audience to follow it, because as soon as they're getting into it and enjoying the narrative and they're anticipating seeing the evidence, there's an objection and the evidence is delayed.
00:21:40.720But, you know, we always say justice delayed is not justice denied in a case like this where you've got all week for the prosecutor to be able to cure any defect.
00:21:50.660that the judge sees. And that's one of the reasons I think you saw as many objections yesterday as
00:21:55.900you did. Because one of the things they're looking at is how do you make every bit of evidence
00:22:01.080authentic? Remember a preliminary hearing, you don't have to show everything. But what you do
00:22:06.340show, you have to make sure it is absolutely acceptable. It has to be relevant, reliable,
00:22:12.500admissible. It has to be something that can be published to the media. Remember, this is televised
00:22:18.080despite and over the defense objection.
00:22:21.300That's what a lot of litigation leading up to yesterday was about.
00:22:24.420They wanted to close the hearing to the press and the public.
00:22:26.840But because it's open, one thing that both sides are very careful about
00:22:31.160is you have to make sure things are displayed in a fashion
00:22:33.580that if they're not supposed to be published to the media,
00:22:36.460they can't be seen on anybody's computer screen.
00:22:39.200Remember, we actually took a break yesterday in the courtroom
00:22:42.040in order to do some staging, some reconfiguration
00:22:45.680to ensure that evidence that wasn't yet admissible to the public didn't inadvertently get to be seen.
00:22:51.540So we are eventually, hopefully starting today, going to be able to see more of a flow of some
00:22:56.700of the evidence, but it's only going to be when we finally get to trial that we're going to have
00:23:01.300sort of an objection-free presentation of the timeline, because the jury is going to hold it
00:23:06.540against the defense if they do what they're doing now and simply objecting to every piece of evidence.
00:23:11.020When you say trial, let's say at least some of the charges go forward.
00:23:18.140A trial here wouldn't be for at least another year, correct?
00:23:21.920I hope it doesn't take that long, but you are correct in that that's the kind of a timeline in a death penalty case like this one.
00:23:30.140However, I would say that we're at a preliminary hearing, maybe in less time than it would often take in a death penalty case of this magnitude.
00:23:38.000So you can see I'm a little bit optimistic.
00:23:40.040But you're right. You know, between now and a year from now, for example, when it goes to trial, there's going to be a lot of strategy, a lot of rethinking strategy that occurs as a result.
00:24:06.300And that's one of the reasons that you anticipate about a year towards starting trial, because
00:24:10.660in the interim, you have time for all of those motions.
00:24:13.660You have time for different case strategy.
00:24:16.060And sometimes you have more motions brought sooner rather than later because the results
00:24:20.320of those motions are going to determine how each side prepares for trial.
00:24:25.140If certain things are inadmissible, nobody's going to spend any time on them.
00:24:28.340You might have a different line of defense.
00:24:30.540If certain things are going to be admissible, you're going to have to regroup.
00:24:34.500So, yes, there's going to be a lot of litigation between now and the trial date so they can hit the ground running and won't need any delays.
00:24:43.500With the text message yesterday, let's talk about the videos.
00:24:46.040There was this controversy and the people that are online and have a lot of skepticism.
00:24:50.480And they have a number, I think, lawyers looking at this, you know, constantly giving constant updates to their commentary and what they're seeing on the on the television.
00:25:02.300Talk to me, what was this issue about the videos, right?
00:25:05.760We had the clip there from mainstream media that showed the judge, I guess, flinching.
00:25:09.120Wasn't there some controversy about the videos that they had doctored the videos somehow to make the suspect clearer, but they had actually destroyed the underlying videos?
00:25:26.160And the whole first part of that is absolutely correct.
00:25:28.400What you have in a lot of cases like this is sometimes you have to, I won't say doctor a video, but you refine a video in order to hear it better, see it better.
00:25:36.740Sometimes you enhance or augment the colors, but that is not meant to change the reality of the video being authentic.
00:25:44.960What they lacked yesterday was somebody available who was able to authenticate the video in its original format.
00:25:50.360You had a video that you had some markings on it, some blurring of audience members, some maybe circles or other ways of designating who was where.
00:26:01.420That's the kind of thing that you do at trial. It's not unusual.
00:26:04.340But for admissibility purposes during the prelim, the judge wanted a clean copy.
00:26:09.580And that is what the prosecutor is going to provide today.
00:26:12.640The video you mentioned in terms of what the judge was watching was when Charlie Kirk was shot.
00:26:18.200And we all remember seeing that it was so triggering, so traumatizing that you saw, as you mentioned, even the judge flinching in his chair as he watched it and then having to recover.
00:26:28.520That's the sort of thing that they're also arguing about, because video evidence is very powerful.
00:26:34.200We just want to make sure that the actual, authentic, real, unchanged video is what the judge sees during this prelim.
00:26:40.000uh ballistic report and autopsy report and a lot of people commenting that normally
00:26:47.140a lot of this stuff is public uh at this stage at the grand jury because this is essentially
00:26:53.000grand jury stage is that correct or incorrect information is not maybe leaked out by the
00:26:58.520media to the new york times or things or papers like that but is it is it standard practice
00:27:04.160to have the ballistics report and the autopsy report uh to be close hold
00:27:08.900it should be closed and these should be the types of things that only come out in the court of law
00:27:14.200and are not mixed to the court of public opinion and that is one of the things that was litigated
00:27:19.300and probably would seem to be a problem because the case is so high present
00:27:22.980wendy can you hang on one second i just want to talk about people understand there's seven
00:27:29.660charges here this is going to take i think right now the people i've talked to is that this is
00:27:35.080going to take all week at least right so strap in i would also keep an open mind particularly
00:27:43.960what a lot of what the skeptics are saying we have to stick the landing here we can't have a
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