where was christina morris?ant's trunk. >> you think she was alive when she was in the trunk? >> i think she was dying or dead. >> tell the defendant you got your day in court and you're guilty. >> reporter: but enrique arochi had maintained his innocence throughout the investigation. now his defense attorney keith gore was going to try to pick apart the case against him. >> the only thing that matters in a criminal case is can the prosecution prove the words in the indictment. >> reporter: lorraine caceres covered the trial. >> the defense concentrated on the fact there was no body. they concentrated on the fact there was no video of christina getting into the suspect's car. >> reporter: gore told the jury enrique had been cooperative, and as for the injuries on his arms and hands, enrique told detectives he'd been working on his car. >> when the tire landed on me because i took it off. and it was too heavy, so just landed right on -- >> oh. oh, okay, okay. it makes sense -- >> it landed where all of this -- ye

we have courtney morris, the national affairs education reporter and producer at pbs. we have christina reynolds, vice president of kinematic ash communications a emily's list. we have senior political reporter at -- third skipping of our speaker for only a moment, we have the executive director of the women in politics institute at american university and cochair of the national press club's headliners team. thank you all for being here today. [applause} >> i would also like to acknowledge some of the additional members of the headliners team who are responsible for organizing today's event. lisette matthews, linda ross, and the national press club staff, lindsay under word, and executive director bill mccarran. now, onto our guest. edge of what she hopes is a political heat wave with the midterm elections, just 49 days a way. 256 women have won their party's house and senate primaries. this election year that is a huge new record or it stephanie is here to help is reviewed the field in democratic pro-choice candidates and explain what she believed that women can shift the balance of p