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What Happened to Christine Morris?; Shocking Video: Ray Rice Knocks Out Girlfriend; NFL: We Didn`t See the Video Until Today

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... as much as we can when it`s for valid reasons.

JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST; Tonight, breaking news in a bone-chilling mystery. In a desperate race against time, a beautiful 23-year-old Texas

woman -- that lady right there -- vanishes into thin air nine days ago, but it takes four days before she`s even reported missing.

Over Labor Day weekend, Christina Morris walked into a parking garage. She has never been seen again. Tonight, I`m going to talk exclusively to her

mother and father. What happened to this stunning, popular young woman?

Good evening. I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell, coming to you live.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The frantic search for Christina Morris.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just want to find Christina.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This parking garage surveillance video capturing the last known images of Morris, walking with a friend at 4 a.m. She was never

seen leaving the garage.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s all I can see. I don`t see anything else going on in the world right now, but her.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Cops say Christina Morris drove about 45 miles from where she lives with her boyfriend in Ft. Worth, Texas, to Plano, Texas, to spend

some time with friends. Christina went to a tavern and then to a friend`s apartment.

Now look at this crucial surveillance video of Christina at the end of the evening, at about 4 a.m., walking back to her car, which is parked at a

shopping center parking lot. She is with a male friend, somebody she`s known since high school.

Cops say Christina and her friend parted ways, the friend drove off, and Christina vanished. Her car was discovered right there in the parking lot,

still locked up. Investigators say they do not consider this friend to be a suspect.

Christina`s devastated family spoke to "Good Morning America."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JONNI LEE MCELROY, CHRISTINA`S MOTHER: Christina, wherever you`re at, I miss you so much.

Please if you have her, I need my daughter back. I need her back. I`m begging you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What happened to this beautiful young lady? We want to help. Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. Join my conversation. Go

to my Jane Velez-Mitchell Facebook page or talk to me on Twitter, @JVM.

Our fantastic Lion`s Den expert panel fired up and ready to help solve this mother`s crisis, but first out to my very special exclusive guest, the

missing woman`s mother, Jonni Lee McElroy.

If I may call you Jonni Lee, thank you so much for joining us. I know this is a hellish surreal nightmare that you`re going through. We want to help.

We want to jog somebody`s memory, get your daughter`s face out there. So let me ask you: how did you first learn, ma`am, that your daughter was

missing?

MCELROY: I first learned -- I started to notice, and it was weird, that I haven`t gotten text messages back to my replies for a couple days. Me and

her always will send messages. I will send her "Good morning, sunshine, hope you have a wonderful day" or "I love you the mostest."

And then about the third day, I get a phone call from one of her best friends let me know that she was very worried about Christina, because she

had not heard from her either. And then her boss was very kind of frantic that Christina didn`t show up for work for two days, because Christina has

never missed work.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let`s give some background to our viewers. Christina lives with her boyfriend. Even though she didn`t go home for

about four days, he did not report her missing.

Now, the day after Christina`s parents reported her missing, he, the boyfriend, posted a plea for help on Christina`s Facebook page, writing,

quote, "I`m worried sick and will do anything to get any information on the last time anyone has seen her or talked to her. Please help and pray that

she`s OK," end quote.

Now, according to Christina`s Facebook page, this young man you`re seeing right there is her boyfriend. I want to stress he is not considered a

suspect, and he has been involved in the search for Christina. We`ve tried unsuccessfully to reach him. He is invited on our show any time.

I want to go back to you, Jonni Lee. There may be a very reasonable explanation, but why didn`t her boyfriend report her missing as day after

day passed?

MCELROY: As he has told us, him and Christina did get in an argument on the phone, a fight, boyfriend-girlfriend fight, that evening. And he

assumed that she wasn`t going to come home and needed to stay a few days with a friend and cool down.

But as I and her father and stepmother, as our loved ones, have told him, we`re very upset. It was a wrong move, plain and simple. He knows it was

an idiot move. Excuse my -- you know, bluntly how we put it. He has really let me know that he knows he has to live with that mistake the rest

of his life now. He`s very hurt and ashamed.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: He has been involved in the search for your daughter.

MCELROY: Absolutely. Nonstop

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Cops say Christina`s phone has been turned off since she was reported missing nine days ago. Her bank accounts have not been

touched at all.

Her last 15 calls were reportedly to that boyfriend of hers, Hunter. That seems like a lot of phone calls.

So my question is -- and I want to go back to you on this, Johnny Lee. She goes to Plano, which is about 45 miles away. Now you have explained why he

didn`t accompany her. They`d had a little falling out.

MCELROY: Correct.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Was she planning on driving back home to Plano that night, because that`s 4 in the morning? That`s an at least 50-minute drive, maybe

an hour. That seems like a long way to go at that hour.

MCELROY: No, she was not, but she did get into an argument on the phone with Hunter, with her boyfriend, excuse me, not too long before that. And

it upset her so much that she wanted to go home and wanted to get her dog and also because she did have to be at work early in the morning.

So she was not planning originally to go home that evening. She was -- already had changed her clothes and was planning on spending the night at

her friend`s house.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, that`s a very interesting point, because can you establish, then, that the boyfriend was back in Ft. Worth, Texas, when

she`s talking to him?

MCELROY: I`m not -- I`m not aware of that yet. The police investigators would be the only ones that know that at this time, and they have not

divulged that information to us at this time.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And again, we tried to reach the boyfriend. We`re not saying he`s a suspect, but you know, I have to bring in Mike Brooks, HLN

law enforcement analyst. In a case like this, you always have to start with those who are closest to the person that vanished.

MIKE BROOKS, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: That`s where you start. I`m sure law enforcement, by now, has hopefully subpoenaed his cell records and

have interviewed him.

But it still bothers me that, even though that there was an argument, Jane, that it took that long for him to reach out to anybody. Because that`s

where she would come and go, and that`s where she lived. That`s where her belongings where. And she was holding down a job.

But the other thing is the person who she was with at 4 a.m., when we see them on the ramp in that parking lot at the legacy in Plano, the Legacy

Shops in Plano, what was discussed between them? You know, and when was the last call that she made of those 15 calls that she talked to her

boyfriend? What time was that and what was said?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, police say Christina`s car never left the Plano parking lot at this mall. Listen to this from "Good Morning America."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We checked around the area where the car was. There was no signs of any foul play.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now I want to go to Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation, who is an expert. There`s three cars here that were

seen on the deck in the area of this garage where she vanished. What I don`t understand is they said they`re having trouble identifying these

vehicles. If they had video of her going into the garage, wouldn`t they have surveillance video of any car that came out of the garage? Shouldn`t

they have other surveillance video that would indicate who else was in the area at the time?

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT/FOUNDER, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION: Jane, I would think in this day and age, particularly given the fact that young women are very

vulnerable in parking lots in the dark of night, that there would be multiple surveillance cameras throughout the lot that would be able to pick

up almost anybody from any angle at any time. At least that`s been my experience in the recent past.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I want to bring in Lisa Bloom, legal analyst, Avvo.com. You and I have covered so many of these difficult cases. We have to

consider possibilities. Is there -- I think that there`s a very good possibility this was a stranger abduction.

LISA BLOOM, LEGAL ANALYST: That is certainly a possibility. We can`t rule anything out at this time.

I have to say I`m a little bit more suspicious of the boyfriend than perhaps you and the mom are. I don`t know him. I understand he`s not a

suspect, but his story doesn`t make any sense. You wait four days. Let`s say that you did have a fight. We know that she was a diligent employee.

She always showed up for work. How is she supposedly getting clothes for work? How is she getting her things? He doesn`t think about that on day

one, on day two, on day three?

He only reports this after her boss calls and is concerned.

Also, if they had a fight, show me the evidence beyond the phone calls. Phone calls only show that there was a call made. It doesn`t show what was

said. Where are the texts? Every person in their early 20s is texting constantly. Show me the texts between these two. So I`d be taking a

pretty close look at him.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I want to give Jonni Lee McElroy a chance to address all this. Again, I want to stress that this boyfriend is not considered a

suspect. He`s invited on any time. We`ve been making attempts to reach him. My understanding is that we couldn`t find his own Facebook page. He

may not have one. And that in fact, he posted his statement on your daughter`s Facebook page, begging for help.

What about some of the issues that Lisa has raised?

MCELROY: That is correct. He does not have a Facebook page. Christina, I know he knew all of her pass codes. She`s always been very open with that

with him.

As of the -- his phone, he voluntarily has taken it to the Plano Police Department, and they have analyzed it and investigated every single phone

call and text messages and conversation. They did find out -- I think they were looking into his whereabouts for certainty on that.

When it comes to the surveillance cameras, absolutely. I`m mad. I need to understand why a nice area like that with high-end shops, high-end

restaurants, high-end town homes -- I didn`t see a problem seeing my daughter perfectly in the camera walking into the garage. There are other

cameras in that area in the garage. I really need to understand why I can`t see cars perfectly, a license plate number. I need answers to that.

Absolutely.

Somebody has taken my daughter and I need answers. I need answers of the vehicles that were taken out of that car -- out of that garage. I feel

like they would be a big start to this investigation.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I understand exactly what you`re saying. In this day and age where once somebody vanishes, money is no object. Throw everything at

it. Caution to the winds. But the cheap technology that`s available, especially in a garage, we should be able to see every second of her

journey in that garage and anybody else who might have BEEN with her.

We`re not done with this. We`re going to take calls that are lining up right on the other side. We want to help this desperate mother find her

precious daughter. We`re just getting started. What are your theories? What can we do? Stay right there.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MCELROY: I miss you so much.

Please if you have her, I need my daughter back. I need her back. I`m begging you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On the eighth day of her disappearance, the search for Christina Morris grew more exhaustive and exhausting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just want to find Christina.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Before she vanished, Christina went out for a fun night over Labor Day weekend with friends. Friday, August 29, she drove about 50

minutes from her home in Ft. Worth, Texas, to Plano. Her first stop was Henry`s Tavern in a shopping center called The Shops at Legacy.

She went to a party there then went to a friend`s apartment. At about 4 a.m. Saturday morning, she and a close male friend she knows from high

school went back to the shopping center where their cars were parked. They were caught on surveillance walking into the parking lot. Then Christina

vanishes. Listen to this from ABC`s "GMA."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were already behind the curve on this, because getting it four days late, so we had a lot of catching up to do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Straight out to Michael Board, WOAI News Radio out of San Antonio, what do you know about the search?

MICHAEL BOARD, WOAI NEWS RADIO (via phone): Well, the latest in the search, Jane, is that the famed Texas EquuSearch, the group that searches

for missing people, have arrived. Today they met with Plano Police, and tomorrow morning, they will bring their massive resources to this search,

which will be a big boon to the area.

One thing specifically that police really need to search in this that`s going to become part of this investigation is around this area there are a

lot of toll roads. Anybody who drives through the Plano-Dallas area knows that there -- you can`t avoid toll roads in this area. If there were other

cars that were in that parking lot and we can look at the license plates on those, that`s going to be part of this investigation. They can check the

toll roads to see if those license plates showed up. That might give investigators a location to start searching.

And one final thing, Jane. This is an area where a lot of young people like to go out, socialize, go out to the bars. We know that she was out at

one bar in particular that evening before she went to her friend`s apartment. I wonder if, at that bar, she was maybe approached by someone

who saw her again later in the evening and went up to her.

Investigators need to look at that bar, see who she was talking with, see if she was approached, maybe by a guy that was trying to pick her up that

evening. If she had spurned them at the bar earlier, maybe that person was coming back at her at 3 a.m. when she was coming back for her car.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Excellent points, all of them.

Let`s go out to the phone lines. Jennifer, Pennsylvania, what are your thoughts? Jennifer, Pennsylvania.

CALLER: Well, my question is her friend that walked her to the car, would he not have waited to make sure that she got into the car and that she was

safe, that the car started, that there were no problems? Isn`t that what most gentleman, most friends do for other people, especially that time of

the morning?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, yes. Here`s the surveillance video again. It`s about 4 in the morning. She`s walking with a male friend that she

reportedly knows since high school back to the parking lot.

And I want to go back to this missing woman`s mother, Jonni Lee McElroy, joining us exclusively tonight. It`s the first thing I thought of.

Wouldn`t a man -- and again, he is not considered a suspect. The investigators made it clear.

But it seems odd. It`s 4 in the morning. We all know parking lots are dangerous for women alone. And yet, he seems to get in his car and leave,

and she`s left there and never apparently makes it into her car.

MCELROY: Absolutely. I think it`s total -- totally unacceptable. I can`t believe it. I`m very, very livid. It`s hard for me to believe that --

that a gentleman at all, friend, whoever, did not sit and watch a young, beautiful, tiny female get into her car and drive off first. It`s just --

I`m baffled.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What has this been like for you? I know that there`s no words to describe what you`re going through emotionally.

MCELROY: Exhaustion. My mind is going 100 miles an hour. I feel like I`m just being tugged and pulled every direction, because I`m just desperate to

find her, as we all are.

As a mother, I just -- I can still feel her touch. I can still see her smile. I can still hear her laughter. It`s -- it`s just -- it`s hell. If

you want to be blunt, it`s hell.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I know you`re in hell right now. And I`m so sorry. I`m so sorry you`re going through this. As many of our Facebook and Twitter

comment -- commenters are saying, why does this keep happening? Let`s find her safely. Let`s find her safely.

We`ve got more on the other side. We`re going to bring in another expert, Brian Claypool. We`ve really got to figure this out. There`s something,

some clue somewhere. Somebody knows something. They need to come forward.

And later, stunning surveillance video of an NFL star attacking his then fiance, now wife, inside an elevator. We will play the video for you. It

caused a firestorm. We`re going to get to the "Naked Truth." The NFL took action, but was it just basically a desperate P.R. attempt to clean up a

huge mess too little, too late?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RAY RICE, NFL PLAYER: What happened that night was something that should have never happened. And like I said, I have to pay for that the rest of

my life, because my daughter is very intelligent. You know? And she`s going to want to know what happened.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just want to find Christina.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Any kind of evidence, maybe an earring or something to say that she was actually here.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: This beautiful 23-year-old last seen on this surveillance video walking with a male friend into a parking lot in Plano, Texas. She`s

never seen again. I want to go to Mark Morris, another exclusive guest, the father of this beautiful missing woman.

Mark, what troubles you about this video?

MARK MORRIS, FATHER OF CHRISTINA MORRIS (via phone): Well, I just don`t know how you can walk into a parking garage with a little girl and not --

not walk her to her car. And I heard you say that they were close friends. They`re just -- they just went to school together. I don`t know that I`d

say they were close friends. It`s not somebody she hung out with. He was just -- he was supposed to be walking her to her car.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, have police told you anything?

MORRIS: They haven`t. No.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Mike Brooks, HLN law enforcement analyst, you`ve been hearing all the evidence. What do you think? Is this a stranger

abduction? Is this somebody who knew her? Is it a guy she might have snubbed at the bar?

BROOKS: There are just too many questions that -- that I want to know the answers to that they have not -- you know, it sounds like law enforcement

is not talking to the parents about it. But keep in mind, law enforcement is playing catch up, because it was four days that she went missing.

So hopefully in this bar where she was -- where she was at the shops, there are cameras there also that will help answer some of those questions.

Right outside there, you`ve got Legacy Avenue. Then the next road over is one of those toll roads, Jane. So hopefully, there is video there.

Sometimes department of transportations around the states will have cameras, but they don`t record. They just monitor.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Right.

BROOKS: So, you know, hopefully, they`ll be able to get something.

But this picture right here just bothers me. Why did he not make sure he got to the car? You know, any real man would make sure that a woman that

time of the morning got to the car safely.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Brian Claypool, criminal defense attorney, your thoughts?

BRIAN CLAYPOOL, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, Jane, you also have to look at interviewing all the people that were at the other party at the

apartment. We haven`t heard from those folks. Find out who she talked to, who she interacted with there, as well, to see if there might be any

suspects.

And then also, you know, I would take a look at the surveillance of cars entering that garage earlier in the evening to see whether you could

possibly detect whether those cars actually exited. Because it`s quite possible that somebody pulled in the garage. Maybe then they saw her get

out of her car, and then they were following her that evening. And so that might be another angle to take.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What I want to know is, if that`s the only exit and entrance to the garage, then what goes in most come out.

CLAYPOOL: Right. Exactly.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And whatever vehicle came out after she disappeared could have her. And they need to track down all those vehicles.

We`re out of time. But I want to go back to Jonni Lee McElroy. My heart goes out to you. We`re going to stay on top of this story. We`re going to

do everything we can to find your precious daughter. We are praying for you and your family. And please keep us posted.

MCELROY: I will. Thank you so much.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: On the other side of the break, a firestorm as TMZ releases video that shows, boom, an NFL star knocking out his then fiancee.

Knocked her cold. Then the NFL acts.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It`s not right. It shouldn`t be tolerated.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: A two-game suspension and no jail time.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I was going to own my actions and be a man about it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, "The Naked Truth" comes with a warning. We`re about to show you something that`s absolutely shocking. Brace yourself.

Fasten your seat belts. Here it is. Just released video of NFL star Ray Rice knocking his then fiancee unconscious with a vicious punch. This

video has ignited a firestorm only now after the uproar over this video that was leaked by TMZ had the Ravens fired Ray Rice. This happened back

in February. Today the NFL suspended him -- self-serving damaged control, don`t you think? Should they have punished him way back in February when

he knocked her out cold?

Until now, surveillance footage of the incident was limited to Ray Rice dragging his then girlfriend out of the elevator. Now, thanks to TMZ, we

get to see the vicious attack inside the elevator. We`re going to go role it again and I have to warn you again, it is disturbing. You see that

couple, we`re going to go back to the beginning here, in the elevator and Ray Rice hits Janay. She lunges at him and then she just socks her. Socks

her. Boom, right there. Boom, she`s down for the count, knocking her head into the metal railing. She appears to be unconscious.

He drags her limp body out of the elevator and callously lays her face down, her leg still in the elevator. She does a check to see if she is

still breathing, doesn`t even pull her skirt down for quite a while. The Ravens start was initially suspended for just two games. He was never

prosecuted. His record will soon be white clean, thanks to an intervention program. The NFL insists, oh, we never saw this before today. Skeptics

say they are either lying or they didn`t wanted to see it. Are you outraged? I want to give you a chance to talk. Call me 1-877-JVM Says.

Straight out to my Naked Truth debate panel. Liza Bloom, legal analyst Avvo.com. Is this basically misogyny contempt for women? Is this the boys

club protecting basically one of their own and then back pedaling only because the leaked video showed what they didn`t want anybody to see?

BLOOM: Yes, the NFL has to explain why they need TMZ to do their investigation for them. Did they see this video when they were reviewing

the matter? How could they not see it? Weren`t they aware that elevators in Atlantic City hotels have videotapes? Come on! So, either they did a

lacks investigation or even worst, Jane, they did see this and they turned the other way. You know, they leaked to some reporters that she was

assaulting him. While you could clearly see from that video that she wasn`t. And lastly, what about the prosecutors? Did they see this video

and failed to prosecute because that`s hard cold evidence they could have used, even though she didn`t want to testify.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: You are so right. Take a look once again at this video from TMZ, seen all over the world today. And I have to warn you once again

it is graphic. OK? You see them going up. This is before the incident. They are obviously not having a good time together. And then inside -- OK,

this is what happens. Now, tell me, Steak Shapiro, host of "Front Row" on 680 The Fan, this video, we all know it existed. We all know that there`s

elevator video. Do you really believe that the almighty NFL, a billion dollar empire, did not manage to see this video, even though TMZ got it?

They had no problem.

STEAK SHAPIRO, FOUNDER AND HOST, "ATLANTA EATS": Well, the access and the investigative power of the National Football League is unprecedented. It`s

the most successful league in the history of the world. And the last thing that they want is this type of publicity for one of their marquee players.

It is so relatively easy for an investigative team as thorough as the NFL to obtain this videotape -- and by the way, there was word a month and a

half ago that the video would come out and you would see that he struck her twice and that she hits her head on the side and was knocked by that bar.

So, if that was out there, we had NFL reporters talking about or somebody in the league office had actually seen and reported that. So, this has

been out there a plenty long time. And by the way, they gave him two games knowing he knocked her out. What`s the difference today? How hard he

punched her? The blow was a cleaner shot? You knew she was unconscious. You knew she dragged her out of an elevator. What was really different

today other than the horrific video that we have to see?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, Zerlina Maxwell, contributor to PolicyMic.com, you wrote a whole article about how there`s a whole blame the victim strategy

here. That the Ravens even tweeted, that she, oh, deeply regretted her role. What`s her role? Punching bag?

ZERLINA MAXWELL, WWW.POLICYMIC.COM CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I think that, you know, we have a problem with victim blaming in this country. Her role is

that she is the victim in this case. She is not someone who provoked him to do this. She is not someone who is seen in the video, not that it

wouldn`t matter, he`s seen in the video doing anything to warrant this kind of behavior. And so, today, this is not new information. So I think a lot

of people are saying, well, this is new, this is new. This is not new.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It is new, though.

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MAXWELL: Well, the tape itself is new.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It`s different to say, oh, he slugged her. To see it -- and I want to show and I want to take it off the box while we show it and

show it full. So people can really see it while you continue talking. Sorry to interrupt, Zerlina. Let`s see. I want to warn everybody this is

upsetting, but I don`t want to see it in that little box. I want to see it full so people can really get the full impact of this punch. OK. Go

ahead.

MAXWELL: Sure. So, what I`m thinking about the tape itself, and what we`re seeing not being new is that the information is not new. So, two

people walked into an elevator and one person walked off and the other one didn`t. They were unconscious. And we saw the aftermath of that and he

admitted to hitting her. And so, what I`m saying is that this video simply just proves and validates and confirms what we already knew, which was

plenty for the NFL take seriously and indefinitely suspend him or fire him forever. And so I think that their cynical approach today to finally say,

oh, well now that we have seen the punch, now we can punish him, that`s a real big problem for me because I think that we already knew all of this

all long. He admitted to doing it and we saw the aftermath.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Let me say something.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Jane, Jane, can I say something, Jane?

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: She could have been killed the way she hit her head against that railing. She could have been killed in that shot.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: That`s right.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I agree with that.

CLAYPOOL: Out cold Jane, this is new evidence. This is new evidence because you see that punch and she could have died. This rises to the

level of attempted murder and the reason that`s important is because I think there`s a conspiracy going on with big sports like football and

basketball where the DA gets involved and they do this little, you know, hand me off with the prosecution, with the lawyers representing Ray Rice.

There is no excuse. This is pathetic. There is no excuse.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And here`s my really controversial question of the day. It shouldn`t be controversial. Isn`t misogyny just as bad as racism?

Donald Sterling was banned by the NBA for life because of making racist comments. Shouldn`t this guy be banned for life for slugging his fiancee?

Then fiancee now wife. And I want to go to Clay Cane.

CLAY CANE, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Jane, you were absolutely right. And here`s the problem that we have right here in this -- with the NFL

obviously. Women`s lives are not valued. Women`s bodies are not valued. This woman, it looked like a horror movie when you watch this tape and it`s

horrifying to watch. And someone like me who grew up in a household with domestic violence, I think it`s despicable that the NFL ignored what

obviously happened. When a woman is unconscious, what happened in the elevator? I mean, they had to have access to this. And one more thing I

want to point out, one of the biggest conversations that we`ve had this year with the NFL is a gay player Michael Sam, a gay player. Obviously,

there should be less discussion about the player`s sexual orientation and more about players were beating their wife and girlfriends.

SHAPIRO: I got to tell you, Jane. There`s a chance that Roger Goodell the commissioner of the NFL doesn`t survive this because if the evidence comes

out the league officer seen the videotape, and remember what they`re saying today, we`re changing our ruling from two-games to an indefinite suspension

because we never saw the video tape. The odds that the police in New Jersey had access to the tape of the National Football League, a multi-

billion dollar league never saw the tape --

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, as has been mentioned numerous times today by other commentators. He, Ray Rice, would have it a de facto as part of discovery

for his defense because he was arrested for assault. And of course, he never really got prosecuted, but he would have had it. So, they could have

easily say to him, you want to get on this field again? You give us that tape.

BLOOM: That`s really the question. The prosecutor is the one who that is supposed to be standing for the victim. The prosecutors suppose to know

that even when a domestic violence victim doesn`t want to testify, which is most of the time, when you have strong evidence, you can still go forward.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: You don`t need her. You`ve got it on the videotape.

BLOOM: What more do they need?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: You`ve got it on the videotape. You didn`t need her cooperation.

BLOOM: They had multiple videotapes.

CANE: The only the reason why they did not move forward is because of money. And what`s really said is right now as we are all talking on

television. Janay is still with this man. And they have a child together.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: She married him.

CANE: And she married him as you just said. Right now as we`re talking, she is still with him.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: On the other side of the break, we`re going to ask other provocative -- is she in some way, shape, or form to blame because she

proceeded to marry him despite being knocked out cold? Stay right there. And we`re exploding. We`ll read the comments --

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JOHN HARBAUGH, BALTIMORE RAVENS COACH: We said from the beginning that the circumstances would determine the consequences. There are consequences

when you make a mistake like that. I stand behind Ray. He`s a heck of a guy. He`s done everything right since. He makes a mistake. All right?

He`s going to have to pay a consequence.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: The Naked Truth is that puncher and punchee, Ray Rice and his then-fiancee held a news conference a couple of months after the

incident and a lot of people were shocked to hear her, that`s right, Janay, the victim, apologize.

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JANAY PALMER, WIFE OF RAY RICE: I do deeply regret the role that I played in the incident that night. But I can say that I am happy that we continue

to work through it together. I love Ray and I know he will continue to prove himself to not only you all but the community. And I know he will

regain your respect back in due time.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: She sounds like a hostage, frankly. But Zerlina Maxwell, here`s the politically incorrect question. Does she share some of the

blame by then, not only refusing to testify reportedly but proceeding to marry him after he knocks her out cold?

MAXWELL: Well, no, I don`t think so. I think that in many of these cases, as you know, more than 70 percent of the murders that happen between

intimate partners happen after the abused leaves the relationship. And so I`m actually very concerned for Janay`s safety tonight because he`s now

been fired and finally punished. And so where is that cash flow coming from, which is I think what led to her going out -- I`m assuming and

speculating that that might have been what led to her going out and taking some responsibility for being abused.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, they have a child together too, a very young child. So you`ve got to wonder about that as well. Rose, New York, you`ve been so

patient. What do you have to say, Rose, New York?

ROSE: Well, my comment is the simple fact I agree with the woman that was just speaking. Is that once the abuse began, it only gets worse. There is

no justice in that because the women are, one, afraid to get the law involved. They are often turned away and told it`s domestic. When you see

somebody that is professional that is getting away with this stuff, such as law enforcement, not just football players, all around the world, this is

telling us and anybody out there we don`t have the right to speak out.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, I agree. Lisa Bloom.

BLOOM: Jane, we have to not blame the victim and we have to not be surprised that someone who is a domestic violence victim in the days and

months following remains a victim, that she hasn`t broken out of that mold. There`s a very powerful hash tag on twitter tonight, #whyistayed where

domestic violence victims are speaking out about the mindset that they think they deserve that -- they think this is love. We need to hear their

voices.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What is wrong with this prosecutor? He wouldn`t be out there today if he had been prosecuted. He could have gotten three to five

years for assault.

CLAYPOOL: Exactly. Jane, you`re exactly right. This is bigger than the NFL, it`s bigger than the Baltimore Ravens. Our justice system failed us

by not prosecuting Ray Rice. Even without this video you have today, he was facing up to ten years in jail for aggravated assault and battery and

he got a slap on the wrist and his record was going to be expunged. That`s the problem. Why is nobody disciplining the prosecutor, why is nobody

looking into the judge?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I think so. I think that the judge and the prosecutor need to step down. I think that this guy needs a lifetime ban. I think

that the NFL needs a complete top to bottom revamp. Steak Shapiro.

SHAPIRO: Well, I think that one of the issues, the prosecutor is trying to get away with the angle that once she didn`t cooperate, they didn`t have a

case. And they tried to get her cooperate. Also she married him so legally she doesn`t have to testify against her husband, like you said. I

mean, you want to talk about blatant, you want to talk about evidence. I mean if you have two working eyes and you can see a video of a woman, and

I`ll go back to the notion that once we now see it, because I`ve been talking about this on sports radio for months. But once you see her head

hit that railing with the violent nature, and I`ve got to tell you, how comfortable does he seem just kind of casually dragging her out, very

calmly, as if this is just a ho-hum, another elevator ride.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Doesn`t render any aid to her.

SHAPIRO: It was like, let`s move her on out of here and clean this mess up. But I`m not here to talk about Ray Rice. Ray Rice may have his demons

or not have his demons. It maybe his first time or not. Let`s talk about the notion that the prosecution had it and the NFL offices have probably

had this videotape. I would argue the NFL had that videotape without 48 hours of when it happened.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Clay, Clay, what do you want to say?

CANE: You know, listen, unfortunately Janay`s story, so many women right now are experiencing that right now at this moment. And it`s very sad that

you have a big corporation, quote-unquote, like the NFL failing this woman. And I just -- I hope that in some way, shape or form that this will inspire

other women, having this dialogue, to know that they don`t have to stay. And also, it`s also very complex.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: We`ve got to leave it right there, but I remind the NFL, women are at least 50 percent of the population. We control the remotes in

a lot of households. Clean up your act or there will be consequences. Nancy next.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Do you believe that garbage can be magical? Well, Steve Trash does. He is #Jane`sGreenTeam to tell us how he encourages people to

go green.

STEVE TRASH, STEVE TRASH, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATOR: I teach kids about recycling through magic tricks. Watch this up close, Jane. I`m going to

take your piece of paper. As we all know, natural resources are valuable. Could you do me a favor? I want you to -- and blow on the piece of trash.

Excellent skills. She got mad game when it comes to transforming natural resources which, of course valuable. There you go.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well done. It`s a fun trick, but how does it make people become more environmentally conscious?

TRASH: Well, how does advertising work? You associate good feelings, positive feelings, with actual things that you want them to associate with.

That`s what Steve Trash does. I talk to kids and get them excited about it.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: But the kids aren`t the problem, they get it. It`s the adults who need the schooling.

TRASH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. They do need the schooling. Here`s how they get it. Teach children the way to take care for the planet.

We`re talking about the interconnections that`s existing in after world. Now they can go out and make smart decisions based on those connections

that already exist. Turning a big ship, lady, turning a big ship, but you and me, we are making it turn just slightly that much faster.

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