and la cass remembers telling reed she should file a police report.didn't do that at the time. this account purportedly told to la cass after the alleged assault is the first time we are hearing about reed's allegation. reed's brother told us there was an incident at the time he was aware of. he didn't know the full details. and a friend has told cnn she was told about the alleged assault at the time, but she is not willing to go on the record. >> so, m.j., do we know why la cass is choosing to speak out now? >> well, la cass said she and tara reed lost contact for many years after the mid 1990s and that that conversation she actually hadn't thought about all those years, a few years ago she got back in touch. last year when tara reed mentioned joe biden, la cass said she remembered the conversation we had in the 1990s and more recently she said she told her ex-neighbor i'm willing to talk publicly about this conversation that we had. notably la cass said she is a democrat and she is opposed to donald trump, and that she plans on voting for joe biden

last year when tara reed mentioned joe biden, la cass said she remembered the conversation we had in the 1990s and more recently she said she told her ex-neighbor i'm willing to talk publicly about this conversation that we had. notably la cass said she is a democrat and she is opposed to donald trump, and that she plans on voting for joe biden come november because she absolutely cannot support donald trump. >> so, m.j., what is the biden campaign saying in response to this? >> so, the biden campaign is not addressing the linda la cass allegation, her account, but they did refer us to the previous statement that they have released from the campaign manager kate buddingfield. vice president dedicated his life to changing the culture and laws on violence against women. he authored the violence against women act. he firmly believes women have a right to be heard and heard respectfully. such claims should also be diligently viewed by an independent press. the claim, it did not happen. all of this, erin, comes as joe biden is preparing to run against president trump in the general electi

the other thing about the neighbor, linda la cass who was reade's former neighbor, she says she is aupporter and still intends to vote for joe biden. >> yes. >> so that sort of addresses the question of, is there a political motivation here, for her, making, for her recalling this, and yes, i think it's a very strong piece of corroborating evidence. and you know, it was persuasive for me, too. >> this point about, obviously, what hangs over this, that joe biden appears to be presumptively the nominee for the democratic party, he has bragged about sexual assault, accused by sexual assault by a dozen and a half women, and another woman has accused raping her at bergdorf and one is currently suing him because he dismissed the story, and of course, that is not exculpatory of the facts with joe biden but in the political context of how progressive and feminists and liberals think about this, it is inescapable and also sort of im be. your thoughts, rebecca? >> and in addition to the claims made against donald trump, the person, there is also donald trump's record of, and promises around go