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>> can i have the last question and answer? >> what about as an elected official? the answer is no. >> i think you should establish more foundation, mr. keith. >> you had a conversation about what might happen regarding the custody of your son. on january 1. >> yes, that was the beginning of our conversation.
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>> your conclusion and your own experience was that as an american and a politician, your husband is a powerful man and if he wanted he could win custody of theo. >> when i went to talk to library, i was ascared about losing my situation if we get a divorce. what is my decision and in a family court. and after our conversation, she made me feel even more scared because she also said, it she
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used the word all boys' network and they will cover for each other so you have to make evidence and you need something to protect yourself and fight in case you get in a custody dispute. so she told me that of course my concern was right and she used that word old boys' network. >> i move to strike everything after yes as not responsive. >> overruled. please, we need to keep it down in here.
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>> your husband has told you he is a powerful man more than once. >> i think that has been asked and answered. >> overruled. >> are you asking me if he said that more than once? no. actually, he never said that. that was my conclusion. he never said i am a powerful man. that was the conclusion of the 40 minute conversation. he said he is a part -- he is more powerful than me. that was my conclusion. he never said i am a powerful man like a sentence. >> did he ever say he is very powerful? you said in the video that he said he is very powerful.
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>> yes. >> you do not want your husband to take theo away from you? >> i do not want him taking my son away from the in the same way i will never take theo away from him. >> to you have concerns for theo's safety with your husband being the primary caregiver? >> objection. >> sustained.
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>> have you made an agreement with your husband about what would happen regarding the custody of theo in the event of a divorce? >> never. >> on december 31, your husband offered to take you out to lunch for pizza. >> that was the plan. i said i am not going to cook. we will have to go out for lunch. [laughter] >> you are saying it was your decision? >> yes. >> everybody got into the van. while in the van, you try to have a civil discussion about going to venezuela. >> yes.
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>> the discussion you wanted to have was about visiting with theo. >> yes. >> you try to be polite in bringing up that subject? >> i am not sure if i was trying to be polite. i was just saying what i wanted. >> at the time that you raised this issue, he knew that was a sensitive subject for your husband. >> yes. >> when you raised that issue, it your husband was not respectful in response. >> he was nervous, yes. >> he started yelling at you. >> yes, a little bit. for ross to yell, his voice is so strong he does not have to do
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too much. he is too loud all the time. >> you have had the experience of someone yelling at you in an angry way. >> i do not think he was yelling. he was not happy with that. >> your husband was not yelling. >> he was talking with his voice. but he was not happy at all. >> he told ivory madison that your husband started yelling profanities at you. isn't that what happened? >> yes. >> so, he was yelling profanities at you. >> how i recall is that he said profanities' but just one thing
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was the only thing he said. i said do not talk to me that way. he apologized but he was not happy. >> ok. this was happening with your son in a car? >> yes. >> ok. how did your husband's yelling in the car affect your son? >> objection. relevance. >> overruled. >> i have to answer? yes, theo was -- it was his nap time. so, he was sleeping in the car seat. and i don't not recall he was
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crying in the car until the very end. because we were having a discussion, not that he was yelling. we were having a discussion. not a friendly one, but he was watching. he was fine. >> your son did cry during that discussion, but not until the end of it. >> during the discussion he did not cry. >> so when you told ivory madison he cried in the car -- >> he cried after he grabbed my arm. >> after your husband grabbed her arm. >> i got angry and i said stop. it was my reaction that scared my son. >> answer the question. >> at this point in the car, he
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is not crying. >> did you ever say to your husband during the course of this discussion, argument, stop, look what you are doing to our son. do you know wwhat this is going to do to him? >> we are now in the car, right? at this moment he is not crying and i did not say that. >> so in the course of the fight to never said those words. >> when he grabbed my arm i said stop in a very hard way and when we came inside i said, stop, right now. i am going to cook lunch for theo. he was crying because he reacted when i yelled at him. i said stop. he apologized.
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>> your testimony is that -- >> i went inside. >> if you let me ask my questions and answer them. this will be over a lot sooner. so, you testified you told your husband to stop. did you tell your husband look at what you're doing to our son in the course of this argument? >> yes, but the context is -- it is different if you put it in another context. >> your lawyers will have a chance to ask questions as well. there will be an opportunity for other questions from the other side.
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>> it is a fine with us to start tomorrow again. >> let's take a break. miss lopez, let me remind you are still under oath. i would advise you to not to talk to anybody between now and when you appear again tomorrow. >> good. thank you. thank you for being patient. >> let's excuse the witness. is there anything else we need to talk about tonight? mr. keith? commissioners? ok, here is my plan for tomorrow. i would like to finish with miss lopez, we need to talk about the london declaration, we need to talk about the mayor's rebuttal exhibit, and we have to talk
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about the sheriff's request for rabat witnesses to -- rebuttal witnesses. the flores testimony, my understanding is that you want to make oral objections? >> i am not going to go through it line by line. and all encompassing objection. >> we can deal with that tomorrow as well. are there any other issues we need to address? >> in regard to the testimony and the objections, it would be helpful if -- i would like some notice as to what they're going to be. >> was antti -- was there anything you wanted to point out?
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crowd say very much. -- thank you very much. do we need to do the interim boat? -- vote? with that, the meeting is adjourned until tomorrow evening. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org
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