were quickly replaced by something else rage. rage for courtney andrews, who shared her story and should have gotten justice in return, rage the that judge woodruff confirmed the worst nightmares of survivors who don t speak for fear that we re not going to be heard, rage he could have used his power to protect the vulnerable but chose instead to allow a predator to go free, rage at the failure of a justice system that has allowed austin klemm to be among the 97 out of 100 rapists who never serve a single day in prison. now, i know you understand those daunting odds because as a district attorney you re fighting against them every day and it must feel sometimes like you are pushing a boulder uphill. but i want to tell you, don t stop. keep pushing. because this case has already overcome so many of those odds. 54% of rapes are never even reported, but courtney andrews courageously defied that statistic when she told. only 12 out of every 100 rapes leads to an arrest, but austin
has been an emotional year. actually kind of ridiculous how many times i ve cried on this year in 2013. at this point, i m basically john boehner, but, you know, with braids. look, time and again i have sat at this desk and told you about the struggles of progressive movements great and small. there were the moral monday protests in north carolina which attracted thousands of people to protest a republican legislature s agenda of cutting federal unemployment benefits, making it harder to vote, and refusing to expand medicaid among other things. hundreds were arrested. we visited the statehouse one monday in june, and the movement s leader, reverend william garber, explained why so many were risking arrest. what do you do when you have insurance and you see people making it harder for people to get insurance, harder for children to get educated, harder for people out of work to get some help, but easier for people to die, easier for schools to be reseg regalted, easier for t
clem. just this week there was more progress. an appeals court granted the local district attorney s petition that the sentencing must consider rape as a violent crime which will include jail time. none of this would have happened if it wasn t for the courage of courtney andrews. the department of justice reports that last year only 28% of over 345,000 sexual assaults and rapes were ever reported to the police. that s down from 56% in 2003. for courtney, having the courage and the strength to stand up and tell her story and for my colleague, melissa, for having the courage to speak so openly about her personal experience and help shed light and bring justice to this case, these two brave women are our disrupters of the week. when we come back, over 80% of congress is male. 96% of fortune 500 ceos are men. some folks at fox think there s a war on men? grab your helmets. we re debunking that story when we come back.
jim changed his routine. ask your doctor about xarelto®. once a day xarelto® means no regular blood monitoring no known dietary restrictions. for more information and savings options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. last month my colleague melissa harris perry spoke with 20-year-old courtney andrews about her experience coming forward as a rape survivor and the out rage she felt when her attacker was found guilty but sentenced to no time in prison. because in alabama judges have discretion in sentencing. what do you need to feel safe? i need for him to be in prison. i m not going to feel safe other than that. two days after that interview and a number of other stories, the alabama judge who initially spared courtney s rapist from jail actually agreed to conduct a new sentencing hearing for convicted rapist austin smith
0 popular culture having a clash with politics. by this i mean duck dynasty. this week we learned you can judge a book by its cover. gq. why are you setting people up to try to take them down? there s a new level of bullying on the part of these militant activist groups. the notion this is an argument or debate about free speech is ridiculous. the point here is he s a bigot on many levels. my guess is something people will be talking about over the holidays and more than obamacare. all right. here s your christmas week forecast. we ve got two big debates going on about american values. and who are we really as a country? first traditional values or straight up bigotry. as if comments in gq weren t enough there s new video of phil robertson s bashing gay people more than two years ago. women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. they re full of murder, envy,