KELLY CONWAY, TRUMPS CAMPAIGN MANAGER, WAS SPEAKING ABOUT
WHETHER OR NOT WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FIGHT ON THE FRONT
LINES IN THE MILITARY IN 2013.
THAT VIDEO HAS REEMERGED IN THE
PRESS BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION AGAINST TRUMPET.
THEY
FOUND SHE SAID SOMETHING KIND OF CONTROVERSIAL DURING THAT
INTERVIEW ON PBS.
THE CONTEXT OF WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS A
DISCUSSION REGARDING WHETHER OR NOT WOMEN ARE PHYSICALLY
STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT ON THE FRONT LINES.
CONWAY DID NOT BELIEVE SO, THEN SHE SAID THIS.
>> IF YOU ARE SUGGESTING THAT FITNESS IS DIFFERENT, I WILL
ACCEPT THAT EXCEPT TO SAY THAT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE A GIRLS
VERSION AND A BOY'S VERSION OF THAT TEST.
I WANT THE BEST
PREPARED MILITARY REGARDLESS OF GENDER.
BUT IF WE ARE
PHYSIOLOGICALLY AS STRONG AS MEN, RAPE WOULD NOT EXIST.
YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO DEFEND YOURSELF AND FIGHT HIM OFF.
>> EXCEPT FOR WHEN HE APPROACHES YOU WITH A GUN, OR A WEAPON, OR
IF YOU WERE SLIPPED A ROOFIE OR WERE UNCONSCIOUS.
BUT RAPE
WOULDN'T EXIST BECAUSE RAPE ONLY HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE BRAWLING
AND FIGHTING WITH ONE ANOTHER.
>>THAT IS WHY THERE ARE NO MEN ON MEN RAPE BECAUSE THEY ARE
PHYSIOLOGICALLY THE SAME.
THAT'S WHY IMPRISONED THERE IS NO RAPE
AT ALL.
WAIT, THERE IS A TON OF RAPE IN PRISON.
MORE MEN ARE
RAPED THEN WOMEN ON PRISON RAPE ALONE IN THE COUNTRY.
AT THE
SAME TIME I WILL DO A STRANGE DEFENSE, I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE
BROUGHT RAPE INTO THIS DISCUSSION.
OTHERWISE I AGREE
WITH HER, THERE SHOULDN'T BE TWO DIFFERENT TESTS.
>>I AGREE AS WELL.
>>I DON'T THINK SHE MEANT WOMEN HAD IT COMING.
I DON'T THINK
SHE'S VICTIM BLAMING, I JUST THINK SHE USED A STUPID EXAMPLE.
>>FAIR ENOUGH.
WHETHER SHE INTENDED TO OR NOT, SHE IS
SENDING THIS REALLY DAMAGING MESSAGE ALONG WITH TRUMPS SON
THAT MAKE IT SEEM LIKE IT IS ALWAYS THE WOMAN'S FAULT WHEN
SHE GETS RAPED.
FOR INSTANCE IN THE CASE OF ROGER AILES SEXUALLY
ASSAULTING PEOPLE WHO WORKED FOR HIM, YOU HAD HIS SON TALK ABOUT
HOW A MENTALLY STRONG WOMAN WOULDN'T ALLOW FOR THAT TO
HAPPEN.
THE FACT THAT THESE WOMEN WERE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF WAS NOT
REALLY ROGER AILES FAULT, IT WAS THEIR FAULT BECAUSE THEY
ALLOWED HIM TO SEXUALLY HARASS THEM.
>> HOW DOES A RATIONAL HUMAN BEING NOT PAUSE FOR A MINUTE AND
THINK IT IS NOT HIS FAULT?
>>EVEN IF SHE UNWITTINGLY DID IT, IT SENDS THIS MESSAGE THAT
IF WOMEN WERE STRONGER THAN THEY WOULD NOT GET RAPED.
THAT IS THE
MESSAGE IT SENDS.
I DON'T THINK SHE MEANT IT THAT WAY, BUT THAT IS WHY IT IS
IMPORTANT TO THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK ABOUT SENSITIVE
TOPICS, ESPECIALLY RAPE.
>> I WOULD BE REALLY SURPRISED IF SHE INTENDED IT.
BUT AT THE
SAME TIME, SOMEONE ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SPEAKING BEFORE THEY
THINK, IT'S KIND OF WHY SHE GOT HIRED.
THAT IS ALL THEY EVER DO,
IT'S THEIR MO.
WE SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED BY THAT.
>> TRUMP PEOPLE JUST NEED TO STOP TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL
HARASSMENT,
SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND RAPE.
>> ALL IT'S EVER DONE IS GOTTEN THEM IN TROUBLE.
WHEN HAS
A REPUBLICAN SAID THE WORD RAPE IN A SENTENCE AND IT
HELPED?
NEVER.