I dont know. Thank you. Could the witnesses please stand to be sworn in . Please raise your right hand. Do you affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record show the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. Director wray, proceed with your Opening Statement please. Mr. Wray good morning. On behalf of the entire fbi, i want to begin by thanking the brave women who testified here this morning, ms. Biles, ms. Moroni, ms. Nichols and ms. Raisman, among the many who nassar kurt. I am deeply and profoundly sorry to each and every one of you. I am sorry for what your families and you have been through. I am sorry that so many people let you down over and over again and i am a specially sorry that there were people at the fbi who had their own chance to stop this monster back into thousand 15 and failed, and that is inexcusable and we are doing everything in our power to make sure it never happens again.
P. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. U. S. Gymnast simone biles and others testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about abuse they endured from former u. S. Gymnastic Team Doctor Larry nasser. They accused the Fbi Agent Test with the investigation of covering up their claims of abuse. Following their testimony, Fbi Christopher Wray and general Michael Horowitz spoke before the committee about the investigation. This is about four hours. The story blew the whistle on decades of nasser psychos abuse. Unbeknownst, the federal had received investigation about his conduct 15 months prior to the article. It failed to take any action to protect victims or investigate the abuses. Since then, numerous reports of sexual assault have highlighted athletes special vulnerability to abuse. Lastly, an article published in the Chicago Tribune spotlighted the former chicago blackhawks close to pled made clear that sexual abuse of Young Athletes is
To be clear, take your time. To be clear, i blame Larry Nasser and also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. Usaid domestics and be u. S. Olympic committees Olympic Committee knew i was abused before i was aware of their knowledge. In may 2015, the former head of Usa Gymnastics womens program was told by my teammate Maggie Nichols that she suspected i was a victim. I did not understand the magnitude of what was happening until the Indianapolis Star published its article in the fall of 2016 entitled former usa Gymnastics Doctor accused of abuse. Yet, while i was a member of the 2016 usa lepic team, the fbi nor the committee contacted me or my parents. While others have been informed that investigations were ongoing, i have been left to wonder why i had not been told. This is the largest case of sexual abuse in the history of american sports. Although there has been a fully independent investigation of the Fbis Handling of the case, neither u. S. Og nor uscp hav
22yearold, beautiful kid, going around the country. Im confused by this south Carolina Situation with this family. And im confused how the senators believe they can get righteous about milley for deciding to do something about an obvious risk that they ign ignored, that he worked with the secretary of defense. They want to say he went rogue. You want to misrepresent what did he when he did the right thing and you did nothing . And you think youll be the righteous agent . Well, two things, i hope the families of the young people, i hope they figure out what happened to everyone. I hope theres a resolution to all of it. You cant bring people back. Moving on to the political part, there have been so many people who have been an apologist for this president. Pretty much the entire campaign, once he became the nominee and then became the president , that it was time to really call people out on their you know what. On their bs, including him and including the folks around him who were apolo
Good morning to viewers here in the United States and around the world, im Brianna Keilar along with John Berman. It is thursday, september 16th. U. S. Capitol police are asking the pentagon for support from the National Guard ahead of a planned right Wing Protest at the capitol on saturday. Overnight, temporary fencing around the Capitol Square was reinstalled. Capitol police also say they have been in touch with the military. The Justice Rally is being thrown in support for insurrectionists charged. You heard that right. This demonstration is in support of the January 6th insurrectionists. Both chambers of congress will be on recess this weekend, meaning far fewer lawmakers and staff will be in the area. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to democrats saying, quote, theres a wish for some to continue the assault on the u. S. Capitol with misinformation and malice. The leadership in congress has been briefed by the Capitol Police board on the nature of the threat and the unprece