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
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
Recall a website paid for Elders Campaign blaming unsubstantiated fraud claims. Elder refused to say whether or not he would accept the results of the election. In a speech to supporters in orange county, elder didnt congratulate newsom for his victory but did concede the race and told his voters to be, quote, gracious in defeat. My opponent, Governor Gavin Newsom come on. Lets be gracious in defeat. By the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war. We said yes, yes, to all those things that we hold dear as californians and americans. Economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environment justice. Reporter in his speech to supporters last night, the governor also said that his victory in the recall is a rejection of trumpism. Reporting live here in pleasanton, Bob Redell, today in the bay. Is it too easy to try to recall californias governor. Good morning to you. When you look at the numbers your first reaction may be its too easy to try. Its not easy to
The governor defeating the recall by almost 30 points. We have Team Coverage at noon. Kit is in san jose where the recall was a good test of Santa Clara countys new voting system. It speeds up Ballot Counting letting the work be done in a fraction of the time. We are here in thy the beast of the Santa Clara registrar of Voters Office where they are processing ballots. Thanks to technology its not how it used to be. It is the day after Election Day in the South Bay and the attention is now shifting to mail in ballots. The slicing, flattening, scanning and sorting is expected to go more quickly than normal. By law they are given time to sort out any issues. For signatures that dont match you have a month to contact voters. And we will certify in about a month. So october 14th. This election also used the relatively now cartridge system. When people vote in person the ballot is scanned counted right there on the spot at the polling place. The tally is loaded onto a cartridge and that data