rolling stone now says it s article act an alleged gang rape at a university campus fraternity was wrong t. retraction comes from the columbian journalism school cowles it a journalism failure when reporting on this story. let s turn to our cnn media correspondents they have both been following this story very closely. great to have you both in studio here. sarah, was there any part of this rolling stone story that was true? well they retracted the whole thing, but there was a big clunk of it in the middle of the story the overarching theme the university of virginia historically did not respond well to victims of sexual assault, they never expelled a student, but they did expel them for cheating. that part is true. the gang rape which was the
learn from this. and i think you know that s what uva s going to do if they go through with that that could be great. a lot of questions about uva and how they responded because even before rolling stone they were aware of what jackie was saying and take jackie completely the of the picture, there was a huge clunk of the rolling stone story that was about how uva - historically handled sexual assaults and whether they did that correctly. and that s probably going to get lost in this. that s unfortunate. there is a state investigation into how that s going to go. we ll wait and see how that is. stay on that story for us. thank you very much. next hour we ll discuss this with our senior media corner brian steltering speaking with his sources close to the investigation into this review of the rolling stone article that s right at 6:00 eastern right here. as the investigation into the germanwings crash continues, search crews off the coast of australia still face the mammoth ta
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a late-break chain of event bringing you up to date on what has been happening. shortly before 4:00 eastern time the g.o.p. released new plan for getting rid of this gridlock. a clean cr and a clean raising of the debt ceiling. that s clean. no strings attached. moments ago former speaker pelosi emerged from a meeting with the president at the white house, saying she is now optimistic to senior white house correspondent ed henry. as an observer, seems to me the president and the democrats have gotten what they wanted. reporter: you re right, they have gotten a good clunk of what they wanted but i m not sure there s a deal yet. on the positive sid from the white house perspective, basically you re right, now
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