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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 21 November 2024
1. STILL of Pete Hegseth walking through the halls of Congress
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“Last week, allegations from seven years ago surfaced against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense. A woman in 2017, accused Hegseth of sexually assaulting her during a Republican women’s event in Monterey, California, where he was appearing as the keynote speaker.”
3. Zoom in of police report cover
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“The city of Monterey initially declined to release anything beyond a spare accounting of what the woman said happened during a Republican women’s event at a hotel in Monterey. But the city reversed course Wednesday night. They provided a 24-page police report to The Associated Press and other media outlets that for the first time offered the woman’s side of what happened at this event.”
5. Zoom in of police report
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“Hegseth, through his attorney, has strenuously denied the woman’s account of what she said occurred. He says the encounter was entirely consensual, though his attorney has acknowledged that several years later he paid the woman an undisclosed amount of money in a settlement.”
7. Pete Hegseth speaking to reporters in the halls of Congress
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“The identity of the woman has not been released by authorities, and The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are a victim of sexual assault.”
9. Police report, highlighting Jane Doe
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“The police report details an evening of drinking following an event held by the California Federation of Republican Women. Hegseth and others were at an afterparty in a hotel suite. Later, they decamped to the hotel’s bar. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe in the police report told police that Hegseth was behaving inappropriately towards other women.”
11. Police report with highlighted details
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“But while she was at the bar with Hegseth and others, the woman said she believed somebody might have put something in her drink. She told police that’s when things got fuzzy.”
13. STILL of Pete Hegseth talking to reporters
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“The woman said she got into an argument with Hegseth near the hotel’s pool. Her account is backed up by a hotel employee who told police he was dispatched to quell the disturbance. Next thing she knew, the woman was in a hotel room alone with Hegseth. She says he took her phone and he blocked the door with her body. Then he sexually assaulted her.”
15. STILL of Hegseth speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“She doesn’t remember leaving his hotel room and she doesn’t remember how she got back to hers.”
17. STILL of Hegseth in an elevator in the US Capitol
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press:
“Five days later, she walked into a medical facility to report a sexual assault and the police were notified.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 6 April 2017
19. STILL of Pete Hegseth and then-President Donald Trump at White House Event
STORYLINE:
A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave.
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