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Cornell confrontation video

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On October 1, video surfaced of Cornell student Gillio Lopes being confronted on campus over his role in Jane Doe's lawsuit. The discussion has moved to the district attorney's account that key evidence Jane Doe gave Cornell interviewers never reached him, and to a six-page Cornell police summary that omitted her explicit rape allegation. New York State Police will investigate the sexual assault claims as part of an independent review, while the DA reviews charges for a grand jury and one defendant has left the country. Cornell has banned fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year and will add experienced sexual assault investigators to its police force.

How 9 podcasts covered it

  1. Consider This from NPR, 2026-09-28 (2:45 to 6:14)
    Reports the DA reviewing charges for a grand jury
    NPR's Brian Mann reports the DA reopened the case and is now reviewing criminal charges for a grand jury, after declining two years ago because the woman described much of the incident to campus police as voluntary, conscious, and consensual. Adds the university's denial and the viral reaction.
    New angle: Van Houten is reviewing criminal charges to present to a grand jury.
  2. Consider This from NPR, 2026-09-28 (6:10 to 10:57)
    Lays out the student paper's demands
    The Cornell Daily Sun's editor-in-chief lays out the paper's demands after the reopened investigation: publish standards for lifting interim suspensions and anonymized misconduct data each semester. She says Jane Doe has been in touch with the paper and other victims have come forward.
    New angle: The Daily Sun says Jane Doe has been in touch with its staff and other victims have come forward.
  3. Global News Podcast, 2026-09-29 (9:19 to 13:29)
    Recaps the Cornell allegations for a global audience
    Recaps the Cornell case for a global audience: the lawsuit's ketamine and Snapchat allegations, the Title IX investigation, the DA's initial decision not to charge, and the grand jury now weighing the case. It stays inside the facts already on the record.
  4. Start Here, 2026-09-29 (3:07 to 9:54)
    Walks the reopened case and the group chat
    ABC's Ithaca correspondent walks through the reopened investigation: the DA's three-part legal test, the Snapchat group chat inviting fraternity members to join, and the Ithaca PD's statement that it was never told about the alleged gang rape in 2024.
    New angle: Ithaca police say they were never told about the alleged 2024 gang rape until this year.
  5. Start Here, 2026-09-30 (10:14 to 11:35)
    Recaps the Cornell case in two minutes
    Recaps the Cornell case in two minutes: the ketamine allegation, the seven accused men, the DA reopening the investigation and Hochul's call for an independent probe. All of it is already on the record.
  6. Start Here, 2026-09-30 (11:35 to 13:09)
    Adds the pressure campaign on Cornell
    Adds the pressure campaign around Cornell: Ithaca's threat to clamp down on permitting and alumni threatening to withhold donations, alongside Hochul's call for outside counsel to run a transparent, independent review and Cornell's pledge to work with state officials.
    New angle: Ithaca threatened to clamp down on permitting and Cornell alumni threatened to withhold donations.
  7. Start Here, 2026-10-01 (11:29 to 17:25)
    Reports the early documents and Hochul's review
    ABC News obtains the early documents - the November 2024 police report and text messages - and reports the DA is reopening the investigation and will weigh new evidence before a grand jury. Adds Hochul's call for an outside review of Cornell's handling, which Cornell agreed to.
    New angle: Hochul called for an outside review of Cornell's handling; Cornell agreed to initiate one.
  8. The Headlines, 2026-10-01 (0:43 to 4:17)
    Walks the Title IX file the DA relied on
    Walks the newly obtained Title IX file: the six-page summary omitted her state of mind and her 100% confidence statement, and the DA now says that summary was the main evidence behind his decision not to charge.
    New angle: The DA says the six-page summary was the main evidence he considered in declining charges.
  9. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-01 (1:50 to 3:45)
    Plays the video and brings on his attorney
    Plays newly surfaced campus confrontation video of a named Cornell defendant and brings on his attorney, who says she has been on the case since the university's Title IX notice of allegations.
    New angle: Lopes's attorney Tara Davis says she has represented him since Cornell's Title IX notice of allegations.
  10. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-01 (4:43 to 51:36)
    Interviews the attorney on the 1,500-page record
    Long interview with Tara Davis, Lopes's attorney, who goes well past the confrontation video: the January Title IX notice months after the October 19 incident, the roommate's account that Jane Doe never said rape, the November 3 text that 90% was not consensual, the Chi-Fi disinvitation, and the roughly 1,500-page investigative record.
    New angle: The Title IX investigative record runs about 1,500 pages, with 50 witness interviews and 12.5 days of hearing.
  11. The Daily, 2026-10-02 (1:13 to 2:50)
    Walks the timeline and the DA's evidence gap
    Walks through the case's basic timeline - the October 2024 allegation, the declined prosecution, the September civil suit against seven men and the fraternity, sorority and bar, the Cornell Sun's naming of the seven, and Monday's reopening. Adds the DA's stated reason: key evidence from Jane Doe's Cornell interviews was never provided to him.
    New angle: The DA says key evidence Jane Doe gave Cornell interviewers was never provided to him.
  12. The Daily, 2026-10-02 (2:50 to 4:36)
    Adds the DA's reasoning for reopening
    Adds the DA's stated reasoning for reopening: Jane Doe's Cornell interview evidence was never handed to him, and her 2024 sworn statement differs from the 2026 lawsuit - which he says may reflect a victim's changing understanding rather than a changed story.
  13. The Daily, 2026-10-02 (4:36 to 6:15)
    Recaps the divided public reaction
    Recaps the fierce, divided public reaction to the Cornell case - some calling Jane Doe a victim failed by Cornell, others a liar who changed her story - and notes that many commenters barely know the facts. Stays inside the reaction frame rather than adding to the record.
  14. The Daily, 2026-10-02 (6:15 to 7:24)
    Adds the Campus Health visit two days later
    Walks through the Times's review of over a thousand pages of Cornell's internal investigation, including interviews with Jane Doe, her roommates, her sorority and six of the seven accused men. Adds the Campus Health visit two days after the incident, where Jane Doe called the UTI traumatic.
    New angle: Two days after the incident, Jane Doe told Campus Health she contracted a UTI in a traumatic way.
  15. The Daily, 2026-10-02 (7:24 to 9:39)
    Walks the transcripts up to the forum post
    Walks through the night of October 19 from the Cornell investigative transcripts: the morning robbery, the fraternity house, the consensual encounter that grew, the ketamine she says she took to numb herself. Adds the Greek-life forum post calling it a gang rape as the moment her account shifted.
  16. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-02 (4:03 to 5:32)
    Reads the Times report on investigators' interviews
    Reads the New York Times report on what the Chi-Fi brothers told Cornell investigators: four of seven admitted sexual contact, three threesomes involving four men, and most said Jane Doe did not appear intoxicated. Lopes says she initiated contact without asking.
    New angle: Four of the seven admitted sexual contact; three threesomes involved four men; most said Jane Doe did not appear intoxicated.
  17. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-02 (16:28 to 23:00)
    Reads the accuser's own texts
    Reads the accuser's own texts from the days after the alleged assault: she tells her sorority big sister the slut rumors are true, tells John Newell none of the sexual stuff was illegal and she liked being with him and Matt, and tells Matthew Ingalls 'I love you, King.' Kelly argues the narrative shifted only after the Chi Phi president…
  18. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-02 (31:53 to 35:51)
    Reads the leaked Title IX statements
    Reads the leaked Title IX statements in detail: which men were in each of the three threesomes, Lopes's claim that Jane Doe initiated without asking his consent, Lee's account of asking consent and her reply, and Sarabia's 2:30 a.m. entry.
    New angle: Winston Lee says he asked Jane Doe's consent and she replied, 'we're all consenting adults here.'
  19. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-02 (35:51 to 41:06)
    Breaks out the Title IX panelist reporting
    Ahmari walks through Jane Doe's own drinking sequence - the sorority's no-hard-alcohol rule, the X on her hand, the underage bracelet - and then breaks out UnHerd's Title IX reporting: a Cornell panelist driving and web-surfing during Scott Kirchmar's hearing, and a conviction on a charge he was never notified of.
    New angle: Cornell panelist Savannah Bowle was driving and web-surfing during Scott Kirchmar's Title IX hearing; he was convicted of attempted sexual exploitation without notice of the charge.
  20. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-02 (41:06 to 45:52)
    Debunks the one-in-four statistic
    Recaps the New York Times daily podcast's sympathetic framing of Jane Doe and its use of the one-in-four campus assault statistic, then reads a City Journal piece debunking it. Reaction and argument, staying inside the case's existing record.
  21. The Fox News Rundown, 2026-10-02 (2:01 to 3:13)
    Recaps the allegations and the special prosecutor
    Recaps the 2024 allegations, the Title IX investigation, the absence of charges and the cover-up claims, then frames Hochul's appointment of Letitia James as special prosecutor. Background retelling that stays inside the record already built.
  22. The Fox News Rundown, 2026-10-02 (6:26 to 8:58)
    Adds the written statements and their contradictions
    Van Houten's Monday interview adds the shape of what he did see: a six-page written statement, signed with 20 corrections, that described the sex as consensual, and a second statement alleging rape that he says never reached him. The segment then walks the contradictions a defense attorney would use.
    New angle: Van Houten says Jane Doe's six-page statement, with 20 corrections, described the sex as consensual.
  23. Start Here, 2026-10-05 (1:37 to 9:54)
    Walks through the Cornell disciplinary outcomes
    Walks through the disciplinary outcomes for the first time: two expulsions, a two-year and a three-semester suspension, reflection papers, a campus ban and sexual-harassment study orders. Adds the six-page summary the DA passed on, the memo showing Cornell PD said his office declined more evidence, and Kotlikoff's video promising an outside law firm.
    New angle: Cornell police sent the DA a six-page summary that omitted Jane Doe's explicit rape allegation.
  24. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-05 (1:24 to 2:09)
    Recaps the condemnation and the shift to criminal court
    Opens the episode on the Cornell case, recapping the public condemnation of the accused men and the shift toward criminal court. It stays inside the framing already on the record, with no new document or source.
  25. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-05 (3:21 to 9:21)
    Adds the three recorded calls and the DA's account
    Adds the ABC News tape to the Cornell file: Jane Doe's lawyer says she recorded the men on three calls after the October 19 incident, and ABC aired only Ingalls's audio. Also the DA's account that he told campus police to give her his contact and heard nothing for two years.
    New angle: Jane Doe recorded three post-incident calls with the men; ABC aired only Ingalls's audio.
  26. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-05 (9:21 to 12:31)
    Cross-checks the ABC audio against the lawsuit
    Plays the ABC audio and cross-checks it against the lawsuit: Jane Doe says she did 10 shots, Ingalls says she told him she was sober, and the hosts walk the drinking timeline against the complaint's own account.
  27. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-05 (12:31 to 20:49)
    Reacts to the Cornell case and the consent law push
    Thirteen minutes of reaction to the Cornell case: Jane Doe's drinking, the Tridelt and bar details, the push to change New York's intoxication-and-consent law, and the online pile-on against the accused. It stays inside the record already set by the week's coverage.
  28. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-05 (20:52 to 25:05)
    Adds the lawyer's Lake Cuyahoga claim and the deleted names
    Adds two new fronts to the Cornell case: Jane Doe's lawyer Thomas Giffra tells CNN more fraternity members may have been involved and that photos and videos were disposed of in Lake Cuyahoga, and activist Amy Siskind posts then deletes the names of all 57 men on the group chat while calling for Letitia James to interview them.
    New angle: Jane Doe's lawyer says photos and videos were disposed of in Lake Cuyahoga and more men may be involved.
  29. Start Here, 2026-10-06 (12:33 to 19:58)
    Goes inside the audio and the Cornell file
    Goes inside the ABC audio and the Cornell file: Ingalls messaging fraternity members to 'whip it out', a photo of him and Jane Doe sent to a group chat, and his approach to a potential witness asking for 'proof she lied'.
    New angle: Ingalls asked a potential witness for 'proof she lied'; the witness said there was none and sent Jane Doe a screenshot.
  30. The Intelligence from The Economist, 2026-10-07 (9:57 to 17:03)
    Adds the Title IX machinery and its numbers
    Turns to the Cornell case's Title IX machinery: Hochul's disclosure that Jane Doe told investigators she was 100% confident she was raped, and that the words never reached prosecutors. Adds the 2020 rule's origin, the 14% investigation rate, and the Office of Civil Rights' collapse in resolutions.
    New angle: In 2025 the Office of Civil Rights reached no resolution agreements in campus sexual violence cases despite more than 1,100 pending.
  31. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-07 (54:02 to 57:57)
    Adds Ingalls' return to Dubai
    Reads Jane Doe's six-page statement to Cornell police line by line, arguing it records conscious yes-and-no decisions during the first threesome. Adds that Ingalls is from the UAE, has returned to Dubai, and that the UAE has no extradition treaty with the U.S.
    New angle: Ingalls is from the UAE, has returned to Dubai, and the UAE has no extradition treaty with the U.S.
  32. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-07 (1:00:07 to 1:02:16)
    Reads the sworn statement line by line
    Reads Jane Doe's sworn statement to Cornell police line by line - the threesome she agreed to out of attraction to Ingalls, swatting Newell's hand away, letting Lopes in because it was his room, refusing a foursome over anal sex, the 3:05 a.m. text to her roommate. The first pass at the statement's actual contents.
    New angle: Jane Doe's sworn statement says she rejected a foursome because it would mean anal sex.
  33. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-07 (1:09:25 to 1:15:32)
    Argues the intoxication rule is sound
    Cooke argues the case has no legal standard and that New York's voluntary-intoxication rule is sound, then recaps the third tryst and Jane Doe's 'I love you, King' text. Reaction and argument over the record, with no new fact about the case.
  34. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-07 (1:28:48 to 1:31:30)
    Reads Jane Doe's account of the third threesome
    Reads Jane Doe's own account of the third threesome with Ingalls and Lee, arguing it shows no physical helplessness, and lands on the district attorney's decision as the right call.
    New angle: Jane Doe rated her own intoxication an 8 out of 10 and said she needed to turn in at 5:45 a.m.
  35. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-07 (1:35:50 to 1:42:20)
    Plays Woods' reaction to the Cornell case
    James Woods, promoting his album, spends a few minutes on the Cornell case: he says Letitia James has already decided it, recalls his father's advice about intoxicated dates, and criticizes campus alcohol culture. Reaction, not new reporting.
  36. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-08 (10:03 to 53:20)
    Plays the second tape and questions ABC's edits
    Long segment on ABC's rolling coverage: plays the newly released Jane Doe-Winston Lee call and argues ABC withholds her voice while airing only material that damages the defendants. Adds the Lee tape and the network's editorializing around the Chi Phi witnesses.
    New angle: ABC released a second tape, Jane Doe's call with Winston Lee, and again did not air her voice.
  37. What Next, 2026-10-09 (0:59 to 7:18)
    Adds the suit's full defendant list
    Recaps the civil suit and the alleged October 19, 2024 night, then adds the suit's full defendant list: the fraternity, Jane Doe's sorority, a bar and Cornell itself. The rest is parenting and group-chat reflection, not new case facts.
    New angle: The civil suit also names a fraternity, a sorority, a bar and Cornell as defendants.
  38. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-09 (38:46 to 50:59)
    Reads the full Newell text
    Reads the full October 21, 2024 text to Jonathan Newell, which adds 'our body, our choice,' the word 'gang bang,' and 'I really do love you and Matt,' and argues the New York Times ran only half of it. Also works through her voluntary police statement and Lopes's Title IX interview.
    New angle: The full Newell text adds 'our body, our choice,' calls it a gang bang, and says she loves him and Matt.
  39. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-12 (4:47 to 7:52)
    Attacks the podcast framing of the case
    Opens the Cornell block by attacking Alex Cooper for devoting a Call Her Daddy episode to the case and casting herself as women's advocate; calls the guest, a Cornell misogyny professor, absurd. Reaction and framing, no new development in the case itself.
  40. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-12 (16:05 to 18:15)
    Argues physical helplessness is the only question
    Argues the only legal question left is physical helplessness, which she says New York case law defines as unconscious, and that Jane Doe's sworn statement describes consent throughout. A legal-framework argument built on the record already on the card.
  41. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-12 (18:15 to 22:25)
    Rejects the himpathy frame and plays a clip
    Plays a clip of Cornell professor Kate Mann defining himpathy and rejects the frame because men were punished; walks through the physical-helplessness standard and the six-page sworn statement. Retells the case's legal core without adding to the record.
  42. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-12 (31:01 to 34:21)
    Argues the sworn statement shows consent
    Argues Jane Doe's sworn statement describes consent throughout and that this is why the case collapsed, adding that the statement was given after she was disinvited from a Halloween party and was cut from about 120 pages to six. Retells the consent record already on the card.
  43. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-12 (39:32 to 46:21)
    Recaps the texts and the outlets that cut them
    Recaps TMZ's publication of the Jane Doe texts and the outlets that left the 'gang bang' and 'our body, our choice' lines out, then spends most of the segment on Alex Cooper and Call Her Daddy. Reaction and retelling, no new development in the case.
  44. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-13 (52:56 to 1:01:33)
    Adds the roommate testimony from TMZ
    Goes to TMZ's new reporting on the roommate who lived in the room and his girlfriend, both of whom told Cornell investigators Jane Doe was coherent, rated her intoxication a 1 or 2, and did not look distressed. Uses their testimony to argue she cannot meet New York's physical helplessness standard.
    New angle: The roommate and his girlfriend testified Jane Doe was coherent, rated her a 1 or 2 on intoxication, and did not look distressed.
  45. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-13 (1:01:33 to 1:21:33)
    Plays old clips and demands an apology
    Plays old Call Her Daddy clips of Cooper celebrating group sex and threesomes, then argues Cooper's messaging shaped Jane Doe and that Cooper owes an apology for weighing in on the Cornell case. Reaction and opinion, not new reporting.
  46. Global News Podcast, 2026-10-14 (9:35 to 11:43)
    Adds the state police review and faculty vote
    Adds the mechanics of the outside review: New York State Police will investigate the sexual assault claims, and Cornell faculty have moved toward a no-confidence vote against the administration.
    New angle: New York State Police will investigate the sexual assault claims as part of the independent review.
  47. The Headlines, 2026-10-14 (5:32 to 6:48)
    Reports Cornell's party ban and new investigators
    Reports Cornell's response to the lawsuit: a ban on fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year and new experienced sexual assault investigators working with campus police, plus the president's personal apology for not following up with Jane Doe.
    New angle: Cornell banned fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year and will add experienced sexual assault investigators to its police force.
  48. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-10-15 (1:01:56 to 1:04:44)
    Plays Hochul's debate clip and argues prejudging
    Plays a debate clip in which Hochul says the evidence seemed very clear the fraternity boys were trying to cover up what they had done, and argues the governor prejudged the case and poisoned the jury pool. Also floats speculation that Jane Doe moved to Manhattan to file in New York Supreme Court.
    New angle: Hochul said on a debate stage the evidence seemed very clear the fraternity boys were covering up.

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