June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Text by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King
Mr. Stockton is a producer with Opinion Video.
Ms. King is a producer with Opinion Video.
Thousands of service members in the United States military report being sexually assaulted every year, but only a small fraction of those cases end in a conviction.
In the Opinion Video above, three contributors a Republican senator; a former chief prosecutor of the Air Force; and a former Army specialist who said she survived several sexual assaults while enlisted show how conflicts of interest in the military justice system result in so many assaults going unpunished.
By Jeff Angelo
May 26, 2021
Senator Joni Ernst has been sounding the alarm over the past year over taxpayer funds being sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. With discussion now focused on whether COVID-19 leaked from that lab, Senator Ernst took action on the issue. She joins Jeff to discuss her proposal AND offered a straight-forward answer to a listener question about Dr. Anthony Fauci s credibility on the issue.
Click below to listen to their conversation.
About Need to Know with Jeff Angelo
The following is a transcript of the interview with Senators Joni Ernst and Kirsten Gillibrand that aired Sunday, May 16, 2021, on "Face the Nation."