judicial system in effect? now, your colleague, senator jill le brand, also active on this. she laid out the case for taking it to the outside of the chain command, which i believe you disagree with. let s hear from her and get your response. what victims tell us is they don t trust the chain of command. those commanders you showed a picture of, they testified and have said they don t trust us, don t trust the chain of command. the problem is clear. we want to create an objective review by a trained military prosecutor, a lawyer, trained to weigh evidence and make the fundamental decision, does the case go forward. what is the right answer according to you? well, the right answer is making sure these cases do go forward. and here s the problem you have. if you have outside lawyers that are making this decision, sometimes a half a continent away from the unit, if they say no, it s over, and we know for a fact, david, over the last two years almost 100 cases, the lawyers said no, t
now, your colleague, senator jill le brand, also active on this. she laid out the case for taking it to the outside of the chain command, which i believe you disagree with. let s hear from her and get your response. what victims tell us is they don t trust the chain of command. those commanders you showed a picture of, they testified and have said they don t trust us, don t trust the chain of command. the problem is clear. we want to create an objective review by a trained military prosecutor, a lawyer, trained to weigh evidence and make the fundamental decision, does the case go forward. what is the right answer according to you? well, the right answer is making sure these cases do go forward. and here s the problem you have. if you have outside lawyers that are making this decision, sometimes a half a continent away from the unit, if they say no, it s over, and we know for a fact, david, over the last two years almost 100 cases, the lawyers said no, these are tough cases. a lot
know about the current system. so let s get into that a little bit. the big debate here, the core of this, is whether it stays within the chain of command. if you are a man or woman and you are the victim of a sexual assault, do you report it up the chain and then a commander ultimately decides whether that should be followed up on, there should be a prosecution, or do you have an outside prosecutor, an outside law enforcement and judicial system in effect? now, your colleague, senator gillibrand, also active on this. she laid out the case for taking it to the outside of the chain command, which i believe you disagree with. let s hear from her and get your response. what victims tell us is they don t trust the chain of command. even those commanders you showed a picture of, they testified and have said that they don t trust us, we don t trust the chain of command. the problem is clear. we want to create an objective review by a trained military prosecutor, a lawyer, trained to weig
imploding. would it surprise you to know the same newt gingrich was paid more than $1.5 million to help freddie mac make friends. i was glad to offer strategic advice. we did it for a number of companies. the group was very successful. grinning rich sees no conflict. his critics see hypocrisy. we begin with breaking news. a new judge will preside over the case of new penn state football coach jerry sandusky, this change prompted by complaints the first tie had ties to the charity second mile. new changes about whether the changing story of a key witness jeopardizes the criminal case against sandusky who is accused of raping at least eight young boys. the mother of one of sandusky s alleged victims says she s sickened he s free on bail and sickened to broadcast an interview in which he proclaims he does nothing wrong. it makes me really sad my son can t go out and have a normal life, he can t go hang out at the hall because he might run integerry. he gets to go to th
megyn: you say these were political a point he s who made the decision. loretta king and this guy steve rose nba um. they say they are career department of justice lawyers and so it wasn t politics in the mix in making this decision. obviously that is false. under the vacancy reform act they were serving in a political capacity. this is one of the examples of congress not being told the truth, the american people not being told the truth in this case. the truth simply is becoming another victim in the process. megyn: i want to get what was said tow congress and the u.s. commission on civil rights in a minute. when the trial attorneys were trying to convince she s two political attorneys to get the case go forward, you d already won, saying don t reverse our victory essentially. there was a meeting and these lawyers would later testify, the political lawyers would come out and say that they reviewed all the evidence, the department of justice said they looked at all the evidence and m