We begin tonight with the former president, campaign politics,
his legal troubles and lies. He finished his day
in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Fraternal Order of Police
endorsed him and he had this to say about a violent attack
on Nancy Pelosi's husband. You know that Nancy Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house. Of course,
it didn't help too much was the problem she had that it. That's the former president
speaking to members of law enforcement, making light of the first time, I should point out, of the violent attack
against Pelosi. A home invader beat Mr. Pelosi with a sledgehammer
and fractured his skull. The man admitted that he was planning
to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage and, quote, break her kneecaps and, quote, If she did not confess
to whatever he wanted to hear. Now, that's what the former president
was talking about to police the near killing of a political rivals
husband. Donald Trump
came close to being shot in the head and had a near-death experience
and got a second lease on life. And this is what he's doing with it. Earlier today,
he was in New York in federal court, appealing his sexual abuse and defamation
judgment. Afterwards, he talked about it. Take a look. His lawyers were behind him
as he talked about aging, Carol. And the jury determined
he's sexually abused and defamed. He said, and I quote,
I never met the woman other than this picture,
which could have been air generated. I don't I don't know, show up
out of nowhere, but it's fine. Nice picture, though. Keeping Them Honest. The photo that he was talking about,
this photo is real and the president knows it's real
because he discussed in detail under oath during a 2022 deposition, mistaking Carol
for his wife at the time, Marla maples. Now, in addition to Carol, he also lashed
out at several other accusers, including Jessica Leeds, who says Trump
groped her on a flight in the 1970s. It couldn't have happened.
It didn't happen. And she would not have been
the chosen one. She would not have been the chosen one,
he said. Remarks like that
have earned this assessment today from former
Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney. Dick Cheney
will be voting for Kamala Harris. You know, my dad believes
and he's said publicly that there's
never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy
as Donald Trump is. I was Liz Cheney today. Yesterday, she announced she'll be voting
for vice President Harris. Today, she said that her dad, former Vice President Dick
Cheney, will be doing the same. And we'll have more on that shortly. There was one other thing that Donald
Trump said today that I want to point out, because it kind of involves me
and he seemed to imply something that is unfounded. He was talking,
as he has before, about an interview that Carol did with
me back on June 24th, 2019. Then there
was an Anderson Cooper interview where she said essentially, no, he didn't rape me. She was selling her book. She wrote a book. The book would have been a total failure. Probably was anyway. They'll probably sell more recently. Again,
this is a woman that wasn't doing well until she came out
with this stuff about me. And that's happened to others,
too, by the way. She's not the only one. But then the Anderson Cooper tape and and the Anderson Cooper tape, it's an interview of her. And Cooper says something to the effect
Did he rape you? Did he rape you? He was so happy. How did you feel? And she gave a very good answer for me, but a bad answer for CNN, for Anderson. And he said,
we're going to commercial break right now. We're going. Then she came back from commercial break
and she was much more hostile. But this man wouldn't let us use the tape
or the proper questions having to do with the tape wouldn't let us the judge,
Judge Kaplan, wouldn't let it be used. We wanted to get the outtakes. In other words, what did Anderson Cooper
talk to her about during that intermission for a commercial
that he called for immediate? Why do you say this? I mean, some of you have seen it.
Some of you haven't. We're going to a commercial break
right now. And so what happened is we weren't able to use it. Okay. So this is not the first time that Trump
has seemed to suggest some nefarious plot by me to manipulate Aegean Carol
into saying something. He actually brought this up
in a deposition for trial. Now, I normally don't respond
to when Trump says something about me. I mean, what is the point? He recently referred to me using a female
first name, which I guess is like a third grade
gay taunt. I think he called me
Alison or Ashley Cooper. I don't really recall. It's not worth replying to, but this time
it's kind of different because it's just kind of just demonstrably false. First, I just want to show you what it is
he's rambling about. This was part of my interview with Jean
Carroll that took place on my show on CNN in two blocks, two segments
separated by a commercial break. Now, this is what you would have seen
if that night you were watching at home or wherever. And we went to commercial
and then came back from commercial. We're not going to actually play the entire commercial break
You would have been watching. Take a look. I was not thrown on the ground and ravish, which the word rape carries
so many sexual connotations. This was not this was not sexual for. It just it hurt. It just it just, you know,
I think most people think of rape as a I mean, it is a violent assault. It is not. I think most people think of rape as being
sexy. Let's take a short break on the fantasies. We're going to take a quick break. If you can stick around,
we'll talk more on the other side. You're fascinating to talk to. Cancer is the ugliest disease mankind has ever faced. We're now in my conversation
with Jean Carroll and the president's latest denial of her sexual violence
allegations against him. He said, quote, She's not my type. He's also said previously he did not know
her, had never met her, even though they had, in fact, met. She's the one on the left,
along with her husband, a local news anchor at the time,
and the president's wife at the time. Ivana. The president has also said
flat out that she is lying. Okay. So that commercial break, which we only just played a snippet
of the commercial, ran 4 minutes long. So the former president
seems to be suggesting that something we discussed
or that I discussed with Jean Carroll during a four minute long commercial break
that you would have been watching at home made Miss Carroll
change her tone toward him. Not sure her tone actually changed after
the in the second block of the interview, but that's besides the point. The problem with this conspiracy theory
is that this interview was actually prerecorded
and we had to prerecord a toss to a commercial break and then welcome viewers back
after a commercial break so that the entire two parts of the interview
would fit into my show that night. So when you do that, when you interview
someone for however many minutes and then you toss to a break that will
later be inserted into the broadcast, you don't sit there for the entire
4 minutes of the commercial break with the guest just waiting to then come
back to the show because it's prerecorded. You don't have to sit there
during commercial break. You just take a few seconds. You make sure the control room
is still recording. You welcome viewers back as if you've just
come out of a commercial break and you continue with the interview. And that's exactly what I did
with the engine, Carol. And I know this because we have the tape. So while Trump is apparently suggesting
I sat through a commercial break on live TV with Jean Carroll
telling her to be angry or whatever. We actually just paused in
a prerecorded interview for a few seconds. And if you don't believe me,
here's the raw, unedited video of what was actually being recorded
and you will hear exactly what I said in the few seconds
it took me to resume the interview. We've got to take a quick break. If you can stick around,
we'll talk more on the other side. You're fascinating to talk to. So we could be coming back. Okay. So before the break, you said you don't use the word rape. So that was the entire break. So when Donald Trump said it was a four minute break,
I'm that I'm talking to each. And Carol, you just saw the break. And that weird look I have
is how I could talk to my control room when I'm saying, okay, we good? We coming back? Okay. I'm talking to a producer
in the control room who's talking to me in my earpiece right here,
making sure that we're good on time. We're still recording and
I can immediately resume the interview. That's what happened in this break,
in the interview that Trump was once again talking about today.