Corroborating E. Jean Carroll

Published: June 27, 2019, 10:01 a.m.

b'Note: This episode contains detailed descriptions of an alleged sexual assault.\\n\\nThe writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with explosive accusations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Today, the two women she privately confided in after the alleged attack go on the record for the first time with our colleague. Guests: Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, spoke with Ms. Carroll, Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin. For more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\\xa0\\n\\nBackground reading:\\xa0Read more about why Ms. Carroll, Ms. Birnbach and Ms. Martin went public with the allegations against the president.Ms. Carroll alleges in a forthcoming book that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.The president denied the accusations by resorting to a familiar insult: \\u201cShe\\u2019s not my type.\\u201dThe Times\\u2019s top editor, Dean Baquet, acknowledged \\u201cwe were overly cautious\\u201d in our initial coverage of Ms. Carroll\\u2019s accusations.'