Donald Trump's deposition from that civil trial has finally been released, quote,

unfortunately, or fortunately, unquote. You'll know what that means in a second.

The lead starts right now. She's accusing me of rape of raping her.

The worst thing you can do, the worst charge. Rather interesting comments revealed today

from the former president of the United States as the world finally gets to see.

What, Mr. Trump, had to say about E. Jean Carroll's rape allegations then.

A fake warning, the Russian mercenary group Vaughaner says they will leave the war-torn

city of Bakmut in eastern Ukraine. This as a top Russian official, says,

relations with the US are so bad right now, the two countries have never been closer to war.

Plus, we're talking to that 16-year-old who was accepted to more than 185 colleges and offered

more than $10 million in scholarships. He's made his decision.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today in our politics lead,

with newly released footage of Donald Trump's videotape deposition in that battery and defamation

case brought to civil court by writer E. Jean Carroll who accuses Mr. Trump of raping her in a

department store in the mid-1990s. That taped deposition recorded at Mar-a-Lago in October of

last year includes Carroll's lawyer pressing Trump about his comments from that infamous

access Hollywood tape, which I'm sure you remember, in which Donald Trump boasted in 2005 about

groping and kissing women without their permission, grabbing them by the genitals,

and as you'll recall, Trump used some pretty crude language in that access Hollywood video.

They let you do it. You can do anything.

Whatever you want. Grab them by the pussy.

The release of the deposition comes as Trump's legal team rested its case Thursday

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