linda la cast was tara reed's neighbor in 1990s in california.her yesterday on the phone. this is after business insider first broke this story. la caw said in the mid 1990s, 1995, 1996, she had a conversation with reed outside of her homes and reed told her details of the assault two years earlier. when she was telling the story she was crying, she was emotional, she was sort of grappling with what she said happened to her. and la cass remembers telling reed she should file a police report. reed said she 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 c

what were you able to confirm and not confirm about what tara reed told you. >> tara reed had a friendspoke to at the time who confirmed most to have the details. she said she told her mother. heother is deceased. r e told a friend many, many years lame of the details and also told her brother some of the details. both of thse people confirmed what they heard which was not the full extent of the story but t me version. also texted dozens of people who worked in biden's fice both withara in 1992 and 1993 and the years around that period, and none of those people recall seeing anything like thior even rumors of any kind of sexual assault. they said, infoation, the office was considered a really great place for women to work on capitol hill and at a time when not all offices were hos hospite to women and the were women in inferior roles and many wwaomen felt thiout of character with the joe biden they knew then and now. >> reporter: you'vepoken to her almost a year ago and she didn't share this allegation with you then. obviously, we know women don't come forward at e time of their assaul

i respect the will of the voters new information emerges supporting tara reed's. e accusations are disqualifying or we have no moral standards. reed claims in 1993 biden sexually assaulted her when she was working as an aid in her senate office. it's an allegation that biden's campaign is denying saying women from the right to tell their story and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. we encourage then to do so because these accusations are false. reaction is come in from both conservatives and democrats alike including some bernie sanders supporters like this tweet from todd if only there were alternative to joe biden a candidate without any sexual assault allegations a candidate who has been shown to beat trump in head to head polls in years. bernie 2020, #drop out biden. another writing terror deserves a blasey ford. more to come on this one for sure. we will be following it all. rob: packed beaches in orange county, california, right? carley: yeah, the weather is beautiful in southern california this weekend. and thousands of people did w

ago about inapproprie touching, him making women feel uncomfortable, that was over a year a, and tara reed among the women you talked to back then. this am ges we're talking about now is different k it's a much more serious allegation. i'd like you to lay out what is the incident that s alleges happened back in 1993? >> so heration now is that, basically, when she was a young staffer working in then senator biden's senate office in the spring of 13993, sheas asked by a supervisor to bring the senator an athletic bag. she tracked him down in the capitol complexld bg, she doesn't remember what day or exactly. >> whe she handed him the bag, and biden pushed her up againstd the wall basically started sawedgs her and sexually her.this is not something she td about a year ago when i and other reporters taed about her and she spoke publicly, then i was more sexual harassment. so this is a new and quite serious allegatior. >> rr: we should note in response to previous reporting, kate bettingfold from the biden campaign responded to say the claim is absolutely untrue, it absolutely did not happend

>> katy, tara reed, as you mentioned, worked as a staff assistant in joe biden's office from late 1992at time, she says she was sexually harassed and now that's expanded to include sexual assault. and this story happened in two parts. reed came forward in proil apri 2019, saying that they were touched inappropriately and felt uncomfortable by joe biden, at the time, you'll remember he said he was going to be more cognizant of people's personal space. but in march, tara reed expanded her story to say that she was sexually assaulted by biden in a corridor of the capitol complex in the spring of 1993 the, when she brought him a gym bag. now, i've spoken with reed multiple times since she made those allegations and mike memoli and i, who also reported this story with me, a also spoken with five people -- >> i'm so sorry, ali, i do have to interrupt you. we're seeing -- ali, i'm sorry, i have to interrupt. the president of the united states has taken the podium. it is now one month since he declared a national emergency. let's listen. >> all across our great south, who have endured deadly t

whole book about the kavanaugh accusation said what she read tara reid account her gut told her that tara reedt telling her the truth. so this really just sort of blows open a lot of these notions and should remind everyone about the importance of due process in approaching these cases. these cases are very sensitive. they deal with people's lives. and we've seen people get raked over coal in them enjustly and that's devastating. >> they're very hard to handle, and you want fairness, that's what everybody wants fairness and due process and even handedness. do you think that the way that media and even some of the democrats like elizabeth warren, harris, they've been asked about this and they went totally silent. do you think this really hurts the women's movement, the me too movement? female democrats running for president when they go so stone called silent like this? >> well, it just make it is clear to e me that they understand that there's so much hypocrisy in way that caseses are treated and if you can't hold everyone to the same measure, and so yes, of course, if you're going say believe

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

and that is the case with the accusations by a woman names tara reed against joe biden.iefly worked as a senate aide in biden's office and last year she told a california newspaper that in 1993 joe biden touched her several times making her feel uncomfortable. at that time, reed was one of several women who came forward around that moment with accusations against the former vice president of inappropriate sort of over-physicalness, touching kissing or hugs that they say made them feel uncomfortable. thaft month she made a much more serious allegation first telling the podcast and "the new york times" in 1993, joe biden pinned her to a wall in the senate building, reached under the clothing and penetrated her with the fingers and reed told the times she filed a complaint with the senate that same year about what happened with biden. quote, she said she did not have a copy of it, and such paperwork has not been located. reed says she complained to biden's executive assistant as well as to two ton aides about harassment by mr. biden not mentioning the alleged assault. all t

tara reed says she's extremely frustrated and disappointed because she went public with her accusationse then, joe biden has done nearly a dozen tv interview s but not once has he been asked about it. she tells fox news i think it's shocking this much time has passed and he is an actual nominee for president and they're not asking the questions and so that tells me there may be a political agenda behind that, and that's gross. i am a survivor, i would like the question asked. reade claims joe biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 while she worked for his senate office and other former staffers don't recall hearing anything about it but reade called her mom afterwards to tell her what happened. a new clip appears to support that with an unnamed california resident calling into cnn larry king live in 1993 to talk about her daughter's experience on capitol hill. reade confirms to us that that caller was her late mother. >> i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left thereafter working for a prominent senator and could not get throug

. >> in march, former biden staffer tara reed accused biden of sexually assaulting her in 93.er story has escalated since last year when reed first told a local newspaper then senator biden touched her and made her feel uncomfortable. reed told the "new york times" she didn't initially claim sexual assault because she was scared, having faced a wave of criticism over a series of posts and tweets she made in years prior, some praising biden's legislative efforts on ending sexual assault, others praising russian president vladimir putin. reed appears to have multiple twitter accounts and has also gone by other names. it is unclear what the incident the caller in that clip was referring to, but reed also described biden's staffers as having bullied her in an interview with the washington post, even saying biden is less to blame than they are. still, it spurred outrage among former staffers rather for senator bernie sanders campaign. his former press secretary tweeted progressives didn't make this happen. corporate democrats chose biden. biden's campaign denies the allegations whi

tara reed says her mother made this phone call in 1993 referencing her encounter with the then-senatoraffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left thereafter working with a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all and the only thing she could have done was go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> she had a story to tell but out of respect for the person she worked for she didn't tell it? >> that's true. pete: the former vice president denies the allegation, but has yet to be asked by anyone in the national media about it. wonder if they're covering up their favorite candidate? >> miami's homicide rate plunges during the pandemic, police say there hasn't been one in one week, and overall crime is also down including domestic violence all being attributed to the stay-at-home order, los angeles and baltimore have also seen a drop in crime and those are your headlines. jillian: all right, thank you, pete. still ahead, president trump tou ting the first fda- approved at-home test for covid-19. how si

and more news about the evidence that supports claims of terra reed, accused joe biden of sexual assault, what tara reid now demands, joe biden did, if he does not do it why critics war it will under cut biden's credibility, i am elizabeth mack donald, the "evening edit" starts right now. >> welcome to the show, i am elizabeth macdonald, fox business exclusive, robert wilke . >> thank you. elizabeth: i want to get your take on what it happening now. the push by white house to send all 50 states, enough tests to screen 3% of their residents. federal government should be last resort for needs test kits is what president says, what is your reaction. >> i support the president's action. standards that some are trying to impose on us are probably impossible, the president said in his last conference, he could test everyone and someone would ask why he didn't test the second tranche. at v.a. we have a smaller population went the hospitals we have tested all of our veterans inn -- in nursing homes, that is about 7,000, we conducted over 80 thousand tests, we focus on most vulnerable veterans, we found, of

allegation by a former senate aide to biden, tara reid, who said that biden allegedly assaulted her in a senate building in 1993. "the new york times" read quote, reedorked in the office and said in 1993 biden pin herd to a wall and sexually assaulted her. a spokesperson for biden said the allegation was false. the times reported, quote, no other allegation about sexual assault sebastiurfaced. the times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by biden. the biden denies the entire account stating quote it is untrue, this absolutely did not happen. while biden himself has not publicly addressed the allegation. what is the conclusion of what the "new york times" found? here's how times reporter lisa layered described her own reporting. >> tara mentions to me is that at the time she had called a friend and told her the whole story. i tracked down the friend. in large part she corroborates the story tara told me. she tells me, she told a friend in 2008, after joe biden had been picked as barack obama's vice president. and she confirms that account and some of the things that tara tells me. >> where does that leave you? >> i would leaves us with something,

reed back in 1995 and 1996 in california. they were raising young kids and they lived kitty cat corner across from each other. tarashe told her this story pretty much verbatim of what we heard before back then. i said, i asked her, i did a series of interviews with her. i said, tell me the story. she told me that she recalls her telling her about the assault, she had worked for senator biden and that all the details of the story matched up with what i'd heard from others who were corroborating. this is the first one who is putting her name, she is going on the record and saying, i have no problem going forward with this. what's even more interesting to me, when i was in the process of asking her a series of questions, i said, do you have an ax to grind? is there something about the timing of this? >> tucker: good question. >> no, in fact i may lifelong democrat. i still plan to vote for joe biden, but this needs to be heard because this happened. >> tucker: she said i still plan to vote for joe biden, but she put her name on this. that's amazing. >> she did, she is very vocal about not want to vote for donald trum