A victim is taking the stand in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. Next, the Dobbs case has opened, the Mississippi abortion ban is being presented to the Supreme Court, and what does this mean for Roe v. Wade? Finally, my interview with Charlie Kirk, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Lisa Bloom.
00:01:56.660A victim testified anonymously in this case.
00:02:00.900Now, she's anonymous to us, but in that courtroom, she was there, she went up, she took the stand in front of the judge, in front of Ghislaine Maxwell, in front of the jury, in front of the media.
00:02:15.180Now, the media's not releasing her name, but this is someone who was abused, who was exploited at a very young age, 14 years old.
00:02:27.360She's now coming full circle, and she's taking her power back.
00:02:33.520This actually is a situation where you've got someone who was exploited, and there's more coming, by the way, there's more coming, but exploited by some of the most wealthy and powerful people, not just in this country, but in the world.
00:02:47.460And she's coming forward, and that's courageous.
00:02:50.920And you have to applaud someone like that.
00:02:53.700You just have to sit back for a minute.
00:02:55.580And I know there's a lot going on in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, and we talk about the Epstein Network, and that is our focus on this.
00:03:02.540I've told you before, I believe Ghislaine Maxwell will be convicted.
00:03:08.160But it's only an open-shut case because of the power of the testimony of the actual victims coming forward.
00:03:16.320And they have gone through absolute hell in their lives to get them to this point, and you have to applaud them, you have to praise them, and you have to say thank God that not only did they survive it, but they now have the courage to come forward and do what they're doing.
00:03:32.960Listen to Lisa Bloom, who's representing some of the victims.
00:03:36.160But I do look forward to seeing the prosecution continue to put on their case.
00:03:41.940I thought yesterday was a very strong day for the prosecution.
00:03:45.160You know, as an attorney for sexual abuse survivors myself, I think that the prosecution very clearly and concisely laid out their case, that there are four victims here, that Ghislaine Maxwell knew everything that Jeffrey Epstein was doing, that she trafficked these women, that she was a part of all of it.
00:04:00.740On the defense side, I thought it was a weak opening statement.
00:04:03.960I give them about a C. It was a good start, saying that since the time of Eve, women have been blamed for men's bad acts.
00:04:11.620And by the way, we have a case, first one I've seen, with a female judge, two female lead attorneys, female defendant, and four female victims.
00:04:19.440That was a good start for the defense, but it was all downhill after that.
00:04:22.520And to call Jeffrey Epstein the 21st century James Bond, to go on about how he was so intelligent and charming, really to write this love letter to Jeffrey Epstein, I thought was a very bad move for the defense.
00:04:35.900I'm especially hoping to hear from the victims today.
00:04:38.580Because we do have to remember, folks, that at the end of the day, yes, this is about Epstein.
00:05:31.480And some of the stuff that came out in court yesterday, and it's continuing to come out, it's extremely graphic.
00:05:37.640If you want to go read the court transcripts, they're out there.
00:05:40.860And there's great reporting in the Miami Herald about this.
00:05:44.740Julie Kay Brown is doing some excellent reporting on this.
00:05:47.860But for at least this show, I'll just say the stuff that was going on here, the depravity, the degeneracy that we were seeing among some of the wealthiest and most powerful and influential people here cannot be overlooked.
00:06:03.260And the fact that these people were victims of this crooked and corrupt network cannot be overlooked.
00:06:11.700So we're going to say, and we only know her as, there's Jane 1, Jane 2, Jane 3, Jane 4.
00:06:19.720And I would ask everybody out there to please say a prayer for these victims, the victims of the Epstein Network, the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the victims of Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:06:29.040And remember that if anyone else is ever caught exploiting young women, young girls, young children like this, you need to go after them and you need to go after them hard.
00:07:32.640But talking about life and the right to life, today in the Supreme Court, the opening arguments were held in what's being referred to as the Dobbs case.
00:07:43.420The Dobbs case is all about a Mississippi law regarding a 15-week abortion ban.
00:07:49.860And the state of Mississippi is challenging this all the way up to the Supreme Court.
00:07:53.620And if this is upheld, it may either chip away or completely overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.
00:08:01.100Listen to this video explainer from Live Action, my good friends and our good friends over at Live Action all about it.
00:08:05.920The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization addressing the constitutionality of a Mississippi state law prohibiting abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
00:08:17.180We have a human being 15 weeks old, and people believe that you ought to be able to destroy that life.
00:08:24.260So I'm very encouraged about where we're at.
00:08:26.320I hope at some point Mississippi is free of abortion.
00:08:29.160In the case, Mississippi is defending its law against a challenge by the state's only licensed abortion facility, Jackson Women's Health Organization.
00:08:38.720Many are calling this the most significant abortion-related case before the Supreme Court in nearly three decades.
00:08:44.580That's because Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that required abortion to be legal in all 50 states, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that continued Roe v. Wade's abortion guarantee.
00:09:03.980On March 19, 2018, the Mississippi State Legislature passed House Bill 1510, a.k.a. the Gestational Age Act, prohibiting abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
00:10:39.940Because there is no basis for abortion in the United States Constitution.
00:10:44.360Now, Donald Trump-appointed Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett also signaled that they would be open to overhauling existing precedent.
00:10:54.040Kavanaugh indicated that he thought the Supreme Court should return to a more neutral view on abortion rights,
00:10:59.540while Barrett questioned the need for abortion rights if women could give children up for adoption on birth.
00:11:05.120Upon birth, another conservative justice, Samuel Leto, declared the fetus has an interest in having a life.
00:11:12.520And that's really what it's all about, folks.
00:15:21.140But what's it like behind the scenes or all that?
00:15:24.160Well, how it is behind the scenes, I have my amazing team, Mark, Corey, Natalie, Joellen, LT, Dave, helping me through this and guiding me.
00:15:36.280Because, believe it or not, I'm freaking out behind the scenes.
00:15:38.860Because you don't know what's going to happen.
00:15:40.660And so, to have them to support me, helping me through this and explaining, helped me stay calm.
00:15:47.460And what I'm thinking when I'm just a blank face, potted plant in court, I'm just saying in my head, is this guy serious?
00:15:58.180Referring to Lunchbox and Banger, also known as Littlefinger.
00:16:02.340I'm trying to be, you know, look, you know, I remember watching it that night.
00:16:06.680And I remember seeing, and like, I didn't know the name of Kyle Rittenhouse or Gage or Rosenblatt or any, any, I had no idea who any of you were.
00:16:16.380But I just knew that, you know, the guys that I would work with, like, like Richie McGinnis and Elijah Schaefer, Drew Hernandez, Julio Rosehouse, they were all there.
00:16:39.620And I can see these videos and you guys are lying about this.
00:16:43.240And then so you would have to think that, OK, if I'm an adversarial prosecutor, I'm going to put, I'm going to bring witnesses forward that are going to, you know, help my theory of the case.
00:16:55.200And to your point, in his opening statement, that's what he says.
00:16:58.920He says they were chasing you or excuse me, that you were chasing them.
00:17:02.560But then the very next thing he does is bring on a witness that supports your side of the case.
00:17:09.580Well, yes, actually, that's and that that turned out to be a trend that we saw throughout the rest of the trial.
00:17:13.620Every single one of them, they brought they were the ones who called Richie.
00:17:16.160You guys didn't even have to call Richie.
00:17:19.220During his opening, when he said that, I was one of the things I was thinking, I was like, geez, I didn't know that he watched the videos backwards.
00:17:26.680There's there was a there was a meme of that where it was it was a binger and he goes, well, all you have to do is play the video in reverse and you can clearly see Kyle chasing them.
00:17:41.040Thank you so much to the people who do support me and have donated.
00:17:45.300It means a lot to me and my family helping us pay for these legal bills.
00:17:49.520It just means so much to me and we couldn't have done it without them.
00:17:56.680So it really was great getting to meet Kyle, getting spent time with him, spent time with his dogs.
00:18:03.900I don't know if you can see them on the set a little bit.
00:18:06.760But one thing I also wanted to ask him about was, number one, did he know, was he aware, right, of all the people, the millions of people that had his back and that were supporting him?
00:18:18.080And then I wanted to ask him something else.
00:18:22.500Did he turn to God in those dark moments, in those low moments, in that ordeal that none of us have ever faced before in that situation when it seems like the whole world is against you?
00:18:37.640And I think you're going to find it very interesting what his answer was.
00:18:41.260This is me, Charlie Kirk, Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:18:43.200You know, one thing with that, with these videos and just, you know, being able to support Free Kyle USA and all the other stuff, did you have a sense, you know, both during the trial and beforehand that, yes, obviously there was an entire mainstream media and political, really, establishment that was hell-bent on making you the scapegoat for everything that happened in Kenosha and really a lot of 2020.
00:19:04.260But did you also realize that there were millions of people that had your back, that were supporting you, going through these videos, donating?
00:19:14.320And thank you so much to the people who do support me and have donated.
00:19:18.840It means a lot to me and my family helping us pay for these legal bills.
00:19:22.680It just means so much to me and we couldn't have done it without them.
00:19:31.600And with the whole people who didn't support me, I didn't know, I actually didn't know how much support I really had until I got bailed out.
00:19:41.260I didn't know how much of the world supported the right to self-defense.
00:19:45.500Well, there'll be more details that come out eventually, but you were very close to such bad intervention from forces that it would have been tough to recover from, just with the kind of group of people you were kind of chatting about.
00:20:02.620And I think we have to just put this out, like, he's not sponsored by Under Armour, he's never talked to them.
00:21:08.860And I think you put a lot of people in that situation, and they might not have made it out of there without that kind of support.
00:21:18.060And so whether you're out there and you're someone who believes in something as literal as a guardian angel or just having that intervention come in, whatever the mechanism is, that's the one thing I always see when I watch those videos.
00:21:31.700And then when I saw what happened in that court.
00:21:34.240So not only was he there in the street, he was there in that courthouse, and he was there in that jury room.
00:21:40.420Someone was definitely watching over me that night.
00:21:42.740Thank you so much for watching us on Human Events Daily.
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