at the start of this hearing on sexual assault in the military, senator martha mcsally, the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat said she was raped in the air force by a superior officer. here s that three-minute portion of her opening statement. so, like you, i am also a military sexual assault survivor. but unlike so many brave survivors, i didn t report being sexually assaulted. like so many women and men, i didn t trust the system at the time. i blamed myself. i was ashamed and confused, and i thought i was strong but felt powerless. the perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways, and in one case, i was preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer. i stayed silent for many years but later in my career, as the military grappled with scandals and their wholly inadequate responses, i felt the need to let some people know i, too, was a survivor. i was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences were handled. i almost separate
on current u.s. relations with his country and recent cross border violence between india and pakistan in the disputed region of kashmir. he spoke at the u.s. institute of peace for about an hour and a half. i think we ll go ahead and get going. thank you for coming. my name is andrew wilder, i m the vice president of the asian center here at usip. thank all of you for coming. thanks to those of you who are joining online. a word of apologies. you ll not be surprised to hear that over the last week, we ve had a surge of interest in this event, so many of you have maybe ended up in the overflow space, so apologies for that. for those of you who are new, usip was founded in 1984 by congress as an independent national institute dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible, it s practical, and it s essential for u.s. and global security. usip has been working in pakistan for many years. we have a focus on trying to increase tolerance for diversity in pakistan, working wi
tomorrow. her see julie if they do vote tomorrow, it would take a minimum of five days before the floor of the senate could vote on kavanaugh s confirmation. they have to introduce it on the floor, they had to give a certain period of time. democrats are not going to do anything to speed up the process so we are looking at a confirmation vote in the middle of next week on wednesday. whether they decide to do more investigation, ithink wednesday. whether they decide to do more investigation, i think a decision to do more investigation is the kiss of death for the nomination. i think that they won t decide to reopen this up, slow it down and stick with brett kavanaugh. if you do get answered quickly or abandon him entirely because what they gain from slowing it down, they don t gain anything they couldn t also half from just going with a different nominee and starting the process over from scratch. stay with us process over from scratch. stay with us because we re just looking
charges mean for other trump world figures. then another big day for the january 6 committee. i ll talk to adam schiff about today s new subpoenas as liz cheney calls out kevin mccarthy for engaging in a cover-up. plus, ted cruz tries to redeem himself with fox conspiracy theories, yet another harbinger in the matt gaetz investigation, and the shocking opinion that the pandemic is not an occupational hazard. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the charges filed today against a plotter in the january 6 election are not only the most serious we ve seen, they are the strictest actions that took part on that day. today a man named elmer stuart rhodes iii, working class hero, became the first to be arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in an indictment by the department of justice. he is a leader of a gang called the oathkeepers. first, here s how the law defines seditious conspiracy. if two or more persons conspire to overth
little capacity to mitigate risk. covid-19 in short is a men as in work settings. the proof is all around us. since the disease s on set most american americans have seen workplaces transformed. so the administrative agency charged with ensuring health and safety in work places did what congress commanded it to do. it took action to address covid s continuing threat in those spaces. observera, the occupational safety and health excuse me the occupational safety and health administration issued an emergency temporary standard requiring either vaccination or masking and testing to protect american workers. the standard falls within the core of the agency s mission, to protect employees from grave danger that comes from new hazards or exposure to harmful agents. osha estimates and there is no ground for disputing that the standard they proposed would save more than 6500 lives and prevent over a quarter million hospitalizations just in six months time. yet today the kwort issu