00:00an online lynch mob has morphed into a Democrat talking point and now a malicious prosecution
00:07in New York. New York Governor Kathy Hochul is taking the Cornell case away from the local
00:12district attorney and handing it to a familiar face to determine whether anyone should face
00:17criminal charges. You just heard it mentioned there to President Trump. Now taking center
00:22stage, New York Attorney General Letitia James. In what world would the police learn from a victim
00:29that she'd been literally gang raped while intoxicated by five men in a fraternity house
00:35and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney? I'm invoking the power conferred to me
00:41as the governor of the state of New York to enlist Attorney General James as an independent special
00:46prosecutor in this case. She'll follow the facts. She'll examine the evidence and go wherever it
00:53leads. Follow the facts. Examine the evidence. That's the job. Can she do the job? Will she
00:59do the job? Can she be fair? Here's how James described, as a reminder, the Trump administration
01:07just a few years back. Too male, too pale, too stale. Now this time facts matter. Details matter.
01:30Slogans would not, should not get the job done. So here's how she's framing her role as prosecutor.
01:39We will review the facts, gather evidence, interview witnesses, and if warranted, pursue prosecutions.
01:52I know that you want answers. I do, too. This is now an active criminal investigation led by the
02:03office of the Attorney General. Sounds absolutely serious and prosecutorial. Doesn't sound sloganeering
02:11like too male, too pale, too stale. But just days before her appointment, we saw that old familiar voice.
02:19Here was Letitia James on social media. What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and
02:25unacceptable. I'm holding her in my heart and my prayers to her and to all survivors. You're not alone. We
02:31stand
02:31with you. Doesn't appear to be a prosecutor neutral to the facts, ready to examine the evidence. And because of
02:39that,
02:39she and the governor on that were pressed today.
02:44Why did you affirm her allegations as fact without doing your own fact-finding investigation into the
02:50governor? Why did you appoint an official who made a public statement affirming those allegations as
02:57fact as someone who's supposed to be doing an investigation? I will answer that. I have every
03:02confidence in our Attorney General to do what she has always done. Look at the facts, examine the record,
03:09and draw the proper conclusions. That's exactly what's going to happen in this case.
03:13Attorney General, please. I will not comment on a Facebook post.
03:17I will not comment on a Facebook post? The presumption there is some anonymous poster on Facebook
03:22doesn't dignify the response of the Attorney General. But it's her post on Facebook that demands answers.
03:30Also demanding answers is the litany of politicians lining up Democrats to stake a claim on the so-called
03:37Cornell 7. Michigan Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, he put out a statement, taking the word of Jane Doe.
03:45And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she not only took the word of Jane Doe, she made up words and facts for
03:53Jane Doe.
03:56Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman.
04:03They lured her in to a fraternity house. They drugged her with ketamine. They then
04:10posted to a group chat that she was incapacitated. And seven men took turns gang raping her for seven
04:19hours. Seven men took turns gang raping her. They lured her to a fraternity house. They drugged her.
04:29And again, seven men took turns gang raping her. That's not even in the civil complaint alleged
04:37by Jane Doe. Yes, seven men are named in the lawsuit. But Jane Doe doesn't allege that seven
04:44men gang raped her. What each man did is alleged to be different. Some doing absolutely nothing.
04:51She doesn't allege they took turns raping her. She doesn't allege she was lured to the fraternity
04:58house. She doesn't allege that she was involuntarily drugged. That's pure defamation.
05:04And the only thing saving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the pin she wears on her lapel that she sits
05:10in Congress. Because we all know if congressional representatives were held to the truth, our
05:16jails would be full of politicians. The men themselves, though, have now given their account
05:22of the night. The New York Times has obtained documents from Cornell's Title IX investigation.
05:26Here's what they say. One said that he, in fact, was the victim of sexual misconduct because
05:33the woman had given him oral sex when he was too incapacitated to consent. Another saying
05:40he snorted a line of ketamine off her body and she then tried to initiate sex. And yet another
05:47said he asked Jane Doe for consent before engaging and gave her a chance to stop. Here's the quote.
05:53He recalled telling Jane Doe that if you're uncomfortable with any of this or you won't want to do this,
05:59that's perfectly fine. We can call it a night. To that, he says, Jane Doe replied, we're all
06:06consenting adults here. Another male says, I remember the girl in specific saying something along the
06:13lines of this was normal in medieval times. This was normal in medieval times. Jane Doe is telling
06:23a story, a very different story than what you just heard from the men. A transcript of her interview
06:28with campus police that came out when that happened in the weeks that followed that event says that she
06:34relayed with 100% confidence that she was raped. Of course, that's in contradiction to the statement she
06:42gave under the penalty of perjury to the prosecutor or to the police that she edited over 20 times,
06:48leaving you with a question. What and who do you trust? Which version of Jane Doe? In the law,
06:56when you are confronted with a witness, a witness with contradictory statements, that witness is
07:02impeached on the stand. They are often deemed uncredible. And what you're left with is turned to
07:08evidence outside the words, the contradictory words of the accuser. In this case, you have the text
07:15messages. You have the testimony of friends and roommates. You have the sorority big sister,
07:19all of which do undercut the testimony of Jane Doe. And then there's the law. Back to Governor
07:27Kathy Hochul. She says the law is at fault in New York. She describes it as a loophole that when
07:35someone
07:35voluntarily becomes intoxicated, that person can retain the capability of consent. She wants it
07:42changed. If someone is too intoxicated to consent, it should not matter whether they chose to use drugs
07:50or alcohol. Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang rape, period.
08:01I support closing this loophole and will work with the New York State Legislature to accomplish this.
08:08Suggesting it's a loophole that two people, consenting adults who get intoxicated, can't
08:13then have consensual sex, suggests be careful this weekend. Anyone who would have a drink is incapable
08:21of consent. You could all be guilty if this law were changed this weekend in New York.
