Brooke Baldwin

They're being raped.

I think it's the fact that, understandably, women, when they find out this is done to them,

we don't report it immediately.

We're not like, ah, I'm being raped by my husband, let me call police.

It's like- Denial.

The self-gaslighting, the I don't want to believe it, that I want to protect my family.

A lot of these women have little children.

I don't want them to know that their dad is capable of this and did this to me in the one room over.

So it's a slow process.

And sometimes there's the issues of statute of limitations, but you can file in a civil case.

But it just...

i can't even imagine but it just a lot of these women are now on the other side i talked to zoe and this happened to her for like something like 16 years and she didn't know until her then husband fessed up like after church as if he was ticking off a

grocery list and oh by the way i had an affair when you were pregnant and i've been you know raping you except he's like except i've been you know giving you our son sleeping medication and i've been having sex with you and then the man says but at least i'm not cheating on you or i'm not looking at other women on porn as though that that is some kind of justification for this behavior that's what

And to your point about like, just let's like zoom out 30,000 feet.

It's like you look at this president.

Yeah.

You look at the private island and all that happened there and beyond the lack of any kind of consequences or justice other than like the one woman tied to the whole case is the one serving time.

You know, it's like it goes on and on and on and on.

Members of Congress behaving badly, this code of silence.

And I just hope that through these women speaking up and I know CNN is not done with the story.