senator carl levin. senator, you have betrayed me and all other survivors of sexual violence. this week, you took out the essential provision in senator gillibrand s bill, the military injustice act that would move sexual assault outside of the chain of command. you blocked this provision and we demand answers. senator, why have you taken the side of the rapists? there is plenty of evidence that shows that the status quo is unacceptable and victims are revictimized by a process that sweeps the rapes under the rug and refuses to hold the rapists accountable for their crimes. senator, rape is a crime. it is illegal. this is not about someone being too sensitive or being harassed. this is about an act of violence that inside and outside the military should be dealt with in a serious manner. as senator gillibrand has said, when a victim of sexual violence
the news this week that he won t release the full transcript of his interviews with irs officials interviews he selectively quoted from to imply white house complicity, suggests that what they contain may, in fact, exonerate the administration of the very charge issa is laboring so hard to prosecute. in theory, issa could be building a case against the white house to rival watergate that he just isn t quite ready to unveil but that s highly unlikely. it seems like there might be a power with issa in situations like this. i remember the cable from the state department that he was, you know, holding up and i think on cable news, calling out the administration and the secretary of state for signing off on things and that was like a stamp that goes on every letter. when republicans took over the house two years ago, issa was expected to be this great star, real power as a chairman of the oversight committee. we ve seen chairman like henry
keep it in the chain of command and why senator claire mccaskill agrees with him? huh? and a storm moves through the midwest and mid-atlantic. bill karins tells us what a derecho is. what s a derecho. i have no idea. that s why he s going to tell us. you re watching morning joe brewed by starbucks. [ man ] on december 17, 1903,
about rs versus ds. trent franks and todd akin saying these outrageous things but it s not just a product of that, it s a product of this attitude that, in fact, we can solve these problems in the old way. this is the most extraordinary thing about women of both parties now attaining a really significant number of seats in the senate, not enough, but that debate was run was just the beginning opening shot and i think women are not going to put up with this anymore. carl i mean carl levin doesn t have the same agenda that a richard murdoch or a todd akin has. how do you know? i know him. he s not a let me ask you this he s not a hate monger. who does more caddamage in ts of women s lives? this was a big mistake when you are in charge like chuck hagel or carl levin in running an organization where there are tens of thousands of sexual assaults every year you have to hold people accountable. this is like going to the boss of the corporation that sinned
reporter: new york democrat kristen gilley brand took on the old guard as what began as a dramatic showdown. we violated that trust. reporter: between the pentagon s top brass and a record number of women on the armed services committee over the failure to stop military sexual assaults. the victims have said i m not reporting because it s within the chain of command. reporter: despite what had looked like the service chiefs being taken to the woodshed. this isn t about sex. this is about assaultive domination and violence. reporter: the plan backed by gilley brand and two dozen other senators that would have taken the prosecution of these serious crimes out of the military chain of command failed. defense secretary chuck hagel. i don t personally believe that you can eliminate the command structure in the military from this process. reporter: the top democrat chairman carl levin sided with the pentagon. it is harder to hold someone accountable for failure to act if