embattled congressman, jim jordan, as he faces even more questions over accusations that he ignored alleged sexual abuse while he was an assistant wrestling coach at ohio state. listen to what he told our sunlen serfaty seconds before this house oversight hearing with peter strzok. reporter: there are new allegations that keep coming out. do you intend to respond to each and every one of them? i am sure you ve heard this new allegation. as i said yesterday, six assistant coaches and all kinds of wrestlers are saying the same thing i m saying. the reason they re saying that is because it s true. jean casarez on this story with us. so what else have we learned? well, the head coach of the wrestling defendant, russ hellickson, during the time he was assistant coach, has now spoken out to cnn. and he says things that could be very surprising to some, and my
colleague, sara ganam spoke with him. let s look into what he discussed with jim jordan. he told cnn, quote, we never talked about it. i never brought it up. maybe jim never saw it. so i don t know what jimmy maybe the guy is so focused, we never talked about it. i never brought it up. i never sat in a coach s meeting and said, what are we going to do about larkin s hall, and that is the shower facility where many of the former wrestlers say that it was just so obvious dr. strauss in there and his looks at the other athletes and the other wrestlers. but he s very emotional about it. he said this is agonizing, because he cares about everyone involved. but the pivotal thing that s interesting he didn t say, as the head coach, did he go to the authorities at ohio state university himself. he doesn t mention or discuss that. all right, jean casarez, thank you very much. important update for us.
that at least that he was an assistant coach of at ohio state in the wrestling department knew that they were allegedly being sexually molested. watch. i m telling the truth. look. i stood up to the speaker of the house from my home state, stood up to the irs and have stood up to the fbi. to think i would not stand up to my athletes is ridiculous. now, jim jordan back in the late 1980s early 90s was an assistant coach. one of three. russ hellickson was the head coach and cnn prooeviously reported that he said in a video that he told the doctor at one point, dr. richard strauss that you are too hands on. the doctor responded i m being thorough. russ hellickson went further when you shower with the athletes, they feel uncomfortable. well, he s now telling usa today this morning almost the same thing, that the athletes
was inappropriate behavior. he doesn t believe jim jordan knew and said if he did know, he thinks jordan would have done something. another unnamed former wrestler tells us that coach russ hellickson and jordan had to know because they were in the shower when the doctor was in the shower and the doctor was in the shower for a along time. you know, poppy, in the defense, jim jordan in his own defense is talking about character fallacies in some of these accusers. and it is true that one of the most serious accusations comes from someone who says, he told jordan all about it and said he did serve time in federal prison for dishonesty. unrelated to all of this. it was a crime of dishonesty. but he said, i m now very successful in business and that should not be held against me. please keep us posted as this develops. eight boys now rescued from that thailand cave. we re learning more about their
doctor started taking down his pants. i mean he said that flat out. what are you doing to me? and he told jordan and he says he told jordan and he says he told the head coach, and they both responded. i just want to be clear on this because there s a difference between had to know and a specific recollection of an individual on the record saying i was groped by this doctor inappropriately, i then reported it to my coach and assistant coach, who was jim jordan. yes, that s exactly what the guy what mr. yett said. he said what happened to me happened to me. after i protested, i went out and flat-out told the coaches. i told jim jordan, i told russ hellickson and they went and talked to dr. strauss. now, jordan basically the president and jordan are saying that everyone is lying and that jordan implicated some deep state conspiracy that has to do with his role in going after the