at this hour. we are told the shutdown has been lasting for eight hours. we're told the government will not reopen until president trump signs this massive budget bill that lawmakers passed early this morning, and we don't know when that's going to happen or why the president has yet to sign it into law. federal workers are awaiting word on whether they go to work one hour from now. congress has passed this two-year, $400 billion bill. gives republicans a boost in defense spending and democrats billions for domestic spending. >> he's been supportive of the bill -- maybe he doesn't want to cut into his executive time. meanwhile there is growing fallout over the abuse allegations against rob porter. much of the heat right now is on chief of staff john kelly. white house council don mcgahn, communications director hope hicks, they're also under skrutity. the white house insists the chief of staff only learned of

the allegations after the photo of the black eye become public. what does fully aware mean? did he know something about a little abuse? why did he choose not to take action when he was told? the bottom line which the white house spokesman does not deny is that kelly did know something. now we no know mcgann did as well. let's begin with cnn's suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill where the members have fled because they have done their work. >> we saw them flee, yes. they are gone. they're gone back to their home districts. one thing that is quite confusing here. we're going into the eighth hour of the government shutdown. we're told by speaker ryan's offense that that bill, the budget bill has now been sent to the white house, awaiting the president's signature. our white house team, abby phillip, reporting that will happen, that signing, sometime before noon. but there's quite a bit of confusion in terms of federal workers, what they should do, those who normally come in at

9:00, they've been told to check with their agencies. still things up in the air. overnight we saw this drama play out both in the house and the senate. house democrats slow walking their support for this big bill, making some republicans sweat. on the senate side, one single senator, republican senator essentially running out the clock to make a point about hypocrisy. >> the motion is -- without the motion the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> reporter: the house of representatives passing an expansive two-year budget deal, voting to reopen the federal government amid a shutdown that began at midnight thursday. house democrats forcing republicans to vote on the bill first, capping a dramatic night at the capital after senator rand paul prevented the senate from voting ahead of the shutdown deadline. >> my intention has never been to shut down government. but my intention is also not to keep it open and borrowing a million dollars a minute.

>> reporter: the senate ultimately passing the bill easily around 2:00 a.m. this morning, 1-28. the house -- 71-28. the house voting 240-186, overcoming opposition from conservative republicans opposed to the increased spending and democrats demanding a promise from speaker ryan to bring immigration legislation and a potential solution for dreamers to the floor for debate. >> as part of this agreement we have always expected that the house and the senate would address the issue of daca and the dreamers. >> ahead of the vote speaker ryan promising to follow through. >> my commitment to working together on an immigration measure we can make law is a sincere commitment. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell also upholding his promise overnight, teeing up a pivotal immigration debate new england the senate on monday evening. mcconnell unable to prevent the

government from shutting down for the second time in two weeks after senator rand paul ran out the clock, sounding the alarm about the budget deal's $4 o o 0 /* 00 oh despite the massive impact to the national debt. >> when the democrats are in power, republicans appear to be the conservative party. but when republicans are in power, it seems there is no conservative party. the hypocrisy hangs in the air and chokes anyone with a sense of decency or intellectual honesty. >> reporter: many of paul's colleagues openly criticizing the kentucky republican. >> i don't know why we are basically burning time here while the senator from kentucky and others are sitting in the cloak room wasting everybody's time. >> reporter: the 652-page budget deal devotes $165 billion to defense spending and $131

billion to domestic priorities. it raises the debt ceiling for over a year and includes nearly $90 billion in disaster relief. president trump announced his support for the budget deal earlier this week, but amid the shutdown, a noticeable silence from the white house. on tuesday, mr. trump said he'd love to see a shutdown if democrats don't agree to his immigration demands, a statement the white house later walked back. >> if we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown. it's worth it for our country. i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> reporter: house members have left town and will be back on tuesday around noon to reconvene. they come back to outstanding issues, first and foremost for many democrats is what speaker ryan is willing to do when it comes to a daca deal to the dreamers. does this mean a bill on the houls floor? what would that look like? secondly, how will this country deal with the staggering national debt now that this big

budget deal has passed. john, alisyn -- >> stop asking rational questions, suzanne. >> no place for that here. >> no place for that. we'll go to cnn's abby phillip live at the white house. we need to ask the burning question. we are 54 minutes from the government not being open when federal employees show up. why hasn't the president signed this yet? >> that's a great question. a senior administration tells me it's going to be this morning. raj shah put out a statement saying it's going to be this morning. we believe it's going to be before noon, but there's no time specified. i also asked this official, will it happen before 9:00 a.m. when folks are expected to go back to work. i was told that is very unlikely. we are now, as you just mentioned, just about 50 minutes from 9:00 a.m. when most people are expected to be back in their offices. there's no indication they will be able to do that. i have been told by another

official that chous aides are planning to be in this building working as usual today. it's unclear why the president isn't going to sign it immediately. paul ryan's office says that bill has been delivered do the white house this morning already. it is possible, i should say, that the white house could want to do this publicly. the last time the president ended the government shutdown, he signed that bill in private. if he shows a public ceremony, it would involve getting the press in the room. and maybe he might make a statement about the bill, in part because it includes so much of that defense spending that he has been clamoring for for the entirety of his first year in office. a big victory for him to get that level of spending in there. >> abby, thank you very much for that late breaking report. let's bring in cnn senior political anti lift and associate editor for re realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard.

a.b., there's speculation it's because "fox & friends" hasn't ended yet. do you think it's because he wants to do something publicly? why else wouldn't the president have signed it? >> i think it's everything. john berman stole my executive timeline already so i won't use it. basically we know his mornings are consumed with watching many different channels on television and making phone calls to his friends and being in private, executive time. he also loves suspense and loves to keep people guessing which in this case is unfortunate and inappropriate. maybe he wants a public signing. he can't drag this on too many hours more. >> the peril of the public signing will be that he'll have to answer questions about the rob porter issue, the domestic abuse scandal. this is the shutdown clock. the government has been shut

down for 8:08:40 largely while you were sleeping. while this was going on, ron brownstein, this shutdown was brought to you by rand paul, the kentucky republican senator who wanted to make a stand. and that stand was to tell republicans they're being hypocritical here on government spending. >> rand paul was absolutely correct self-intul jent, hypocritical himself. we see situational ethics in the republican party that railed against ethics tooth and nail under the obama presidency, fought the stimulus plan and now is basically an order creating deficits of at least a trillion dollars a year as far as the eye can see. he was self-indulgent because he disrupted life for hundreds of thousands of federal workers for no discernible purpose.

>> he could sign before 9:00 a.m. >> there was no reason really to do this. above all, e's hypocritical. he voted for a tax plan that will reduce federal revenue by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. even with growth you're talking huge increases in the deficit. there are no plausible spending cuts to get you anywhere near that impact -- on on doing that impact on the deficit. it does underscore that eventually, as paul ryan again signaled yesterday, this tax cut is going to increase pressure among republican deficit hawks to go after medicaid, medicare and social security which are programs that are critical to the older white base of donald trump and the republican party. >> yet, a.b., there are lots of things in this spending bill that will make people happy. let's go through it and tell our viewers what's in it. $165 billion in defense spending. obviously so many republicans

have wanted that, they've told us on the show. $131 billion in non-defense spending. $90 billion in disaster relief. we've heard so much about how desperate places like houston and puerto rico still are. debt ceiling hike until march 2019, we get a break from talking about it. $20 billion in infrastructure investment. both parties say they want that. $6 billion for opioid, substance abuse programs. that's so vital. we know how many treatment centers have asked for mon money. then ten-year reauthorization for c.h.i.p. that everybody in both parties say they want. a lot for people to be happy about, but not deficit hawks. >> i think there's bipartisan interest in getting this disaster relief and children's health insurance issues off the table for good. that was extremely toxic, that this government couldn't fund those two needs and do it much, much sooner.

there's a patch for c.h.i.p. this disaster relief argument has really begun to fester and become very problematic. with regard to the other things, those are all bipartisan, not the military spending. that's what got republicans over the line. everyone is in on infrastructure, everyone is in on money for opioid treatment. this also, increasing the debt ceiling to a long time out into the future is extraordinarily important for global markets, for stability. but it's something that neither party could take one more of these cliffs. in a way this is very good. again, this is an indication of how much the republican party has moved and is willing to spend. you would not have believed this if you had told any of us in 2014 when they were still the party of the tea party, trying to clean up the books, that this was going to become under a president who spends so much, a party that was willing to spend so much money. >> sets up immigration as the

next big fight. >> look forward to that. ron brownstein, a.b. stoddard. thank you very much. this morning there are growing questions about who knew what on what date about the rob porter scandal. who is to blame in the west wing for how badly this was handled? . ...to fight back theraflu's powerful new formula to defeat 7 cold and flu symptoms... fast. so you can play on. theraflu expressmax. new power. why create something this extravagant? or make a back seat that feels nothing like a back seat? why give it every feature you could want, along with a few you didn't know you needed? it's simple. you can build a car, or you can build a cadillac. come in now for this exceptional offer on the cadillac ct6. get this low-mileage lease on this 2018 cadillac ct6 from around $549 per month. visit your local cadillac dealer.

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specifics regarding who may have known what pieces of information because they were all part of an ongoing background check investigation. >> the white house insisting the chief of staff john kelly only became fully aware of the abuse allegations against rob porter after a picture of his ex-wife with a black eye became public. cnn has learned kelly and other top officials like don mcgahn have known for months about these allegations. joining us is cnn political commentator and former white house communications director general saki and former communications director for ted cruz, amanda carpenter. jen, obviously it's the photo, the photo that changed it where they could no longer deny it or no longer have their own blinders on. our reporting is the women had talked to don mcgahn. done mcgan the white house chief counsel knew about this and not only let rob porter stay, protected him. >> promoted him. >> that's exactly right, alisyn.

the more we learn about this story the more upsetting and disturbing it becomes. of course, rob porter's background, but the white house handling as well. there's always been a hole a mile wide in their story. the way a background check works is the fbi could signal to the doj who could then signal to the white house counsel any troubling information. that's clearly what happened in this case. as you noted, what changed is that the photos became public. even when the photos become public, the instinct of this white house was to defend rob porter's integrity, his honesty and not fire him, but to fight against his instincts to resign. that tells you a lot about the pattern of abuse they're accepting and the line and par they're accepting in terms of behavior for a white house official. >> this is becoming much more of a john kelly story, don mcgahn

story, president trump story. that said, some of the details we're learning about how porter behaved really tell us a lot and raise even more red flags. jennifer will by, the second wife, did an extraordinary interview with anderson last night where she indicated that rob porter basically told her to lie about this. listen. >> did he ever ask you to deny -- >> no. we were in contact even a couple of days ago as he was asking me to release a statement about my blog post. i went back and forth with him for an hour or so about what language i would be comfortable with and ultimately the language he asked i wasn't comfortable with. he came out with that statement less than an hour later. >> can you say what he wanted you -- >> i don't remember the exact wording, but it was something along the lines of the post does not accurately depict my marriage.

there were other things associated with it. that doesn't feel right. it does accurately depict my marriage. >> first of all, her bravery is inspiring. let's just say that, choosing to speak publicly about this, inspiring. but also pointing out that rob porter was trying to obfuscate and spinning the story. >> the takeaway from the story -- number one, for her to go on television and go against the white house, go against the pressure, she was extraordinary in that interview. but the story here is how it is a job requirement to tolerate, protect and enable abuse when you're associated with donald trump. to work for him on the campaign, someone had to go out and defend him, him talking favorable about sexual assault on the access htds tape. if you want to work in the white house, you work alongside a wife beater. to work on his presidential campaign, you had to work

alongside corey lewandowski who bruised michelle field. to work at the gop today you have to go out and defend roy moore. to be a lawyer for donald trump at the trump organization, you had to say that allegations of rape made by his first wife were not real, and they should not be believed. as a lawyer even in late october, november, working for trump you had to coordinate hush money to be paid to a woman who had sex on camera for money, to prevent her story from coming out about what he did with donald trump. this is a pattern. it comes from the top. it's not a of staing issue. it's a leadership issue. >> that leads us to hope hicks, jen. look, we don't know what the status of her relationship is with rob porter. we did have confirmation that they were romantically involved. his ex-wife, jennifer willoug y

willoughby -- i'm glad you brought up about how brave it is for her to go forward. she wrote why i stayed. everyone says why doesn't the woman leave, why don't they divorce the guy. she wrote this blog post about why she stayed. she has what sounds like a warning for hope hicks. >> rob porter is now in a relationship with the white house press secretary hope hicks. do you think he's changed? >> i don't think he's changed. >> does that worry you? >> it worries me for a lot of reasons. it definitely worries me because, if i'm being frank with you, if he hasn't already been abusive will hope, he will, and particularly now that he's under a lot of stress and scrutiny. that's when the behaviors come out. if he hasn't already, he will. >> oh, my goodness. jen, your thoughts? >> it's really hard to watch

that interview. she's such an extraordinarily courageous woman. the takeaways from that interview were not just necessarily about the white house at all. they were about the patterns of abuse and the fact that abusers don't look like a stereotype. they don't look like a troubled person. they can have an impressive pedigree as rob porter did. as i was watching that, my thought was where ais her mothe, where are her friends? there's an intervention needed here. as a woman and a would woman working in washington, it's troubling she would be in this situation. i hope somebody is going to help her get out of zblit where is president trump? he's close to her, take her under his wing early stages on the campaign. where is he on this on a personal level? also, where is he that this happened in his white house? if john kelly noou and don mcgahn knew and didn't do anything about it, the president should be upset and he should

tell us he's upset. i understand, amanda, your take over this, and i'm not dismissing that for one bit, he can come out today and say i'm really disappointed something wasn't done. it's staggering to me that he chooses to be completely silent. >> we're assuming this kind of behavior would be a disqualification in this white house. we see again and again it is not. what is concerning i think for any woman that works in any kind of workplace, the question of hope hicks, is she -- was she placed in a dangerous situation? this is the reason we have security clearances. even to this day, there are people who have not passed them and they continue to work in this white house. there may be much more going on. >> amanda carpenter, general psaki, thank you very much. the government is shut down right now. lawmakers voted to reopen it. the president has yet to sign the bill. we're told he will do it

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we are more than eight hours into a government shutdown. it could come to an end with a stroke of the pen from the president. it hasn't happened yet. joining us democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio. he voted yes on the huge spending bill passed by the house three hours ago. thanks for coming to spend time with us even though i doubt you've slept in a long, long time. the house passed it, the senate passed it, sent over to the white house. it's at the white house. it's 8:29 a.m. the president hasn't signed it yet. curious he's waiting on this, congressman? >> yeah. i guess this would be where i would make my he's not out of bed yet joke, but i'm not going to do that. i don't know what the urgency is. we were up all night making sure this happened so that as soon as he got it, he could sign it and get things moving. i don't know what the holdup is. >> you were a yes vote. what did you like about this bill? >> it's a much better deal than we had even a few weeks ago. we were able to get significant

investment into, a, the military which is eroding from within. we had a meeting with secretary mattis the other day. we've got huge threats from china, russia, all over the globe, espionage, cyber. they're building submarines, all the rest. we've got to make sure our military has what they need. there's $6 billion in here for opiates. ohio is one of the hardest-hit states with the opiate epidemic. there's no way i can turn my back on pieces dying in places like ohio, new hampshire and west virginia. the c.h.i.p. program, money for puerto rico and the disaster areas down in texas. there was a lot in there. >> what you didn't get, though, and what the house minority leader nancy pelosi wanted was a promise from paul ryan that there would be an immigration vote -- i don't want to use the term clean bill. paul ryan only promises to

introduce something or allow something to be introduced that the president will sign on to which is very limiting. he didn't give democrats what you've been demanding on immigration. >> that speaks volumetion. . we've got to keep heat on on the issue of the dreamers. it has 80-plus percent approval in the united states. i thought the speaker tiptoed around some kind of promise of bringing something up to the floor and having the floor debate about daca. we've got to hold his feet to the fire. >> you just gave up. you just gave up, critics say, a lot of leverage to hold his feet to the fire. >> here is the reality of it. where are we today if the government shut down? in what position would we have with the dreamers if the government shut down? what would have happened is paul ryan would have went back to the freedom caucus who all voted against this bill last night or this morning or a few hours ago.

they all voted against it. he would have went back to them. he would have gutted these programs on the domestic side and the military side to get those right wing votes. then they would pass a bill that wouldn't look anything like. we wouldn't have gotten the opiate money, the health care money. we got a commission started to help with pensions for teamsters back in ohio and kentucky and western pa. so the reality is this is a pretty good deal, but we've got to go back and hold their feet to the fire on the dreamer issue. that's very important to me and a lot of other people, even the 60-some or 70-some that voted for it. >> i want to ask you one question that might make you uncomfort. as nancy pelosi was speaking in her marathon address to the house, we did hear from republicans running campaigns sending us notes saying please, have nancy pelosi keep talking because it helps us in our congressional races against democrats in the fall which gets

to the issue, as you're approaching 2018, democrats have high hopes for take back the house. do you think your chances are better to take back the house with nancy pelosi as the top democrat in the house? >> well, i spoke to this last year. >> things have changed now, and you look at the numbers right now and the chances to take back the house are real and serious, and republicans are champing on the bit to campaign against her. >> they have been since 2010. this isn't something new. the president said it's a secret weapon. not so secret. we all know what's going to happen. they're running ads in western pa and the special election, trying to tie our candidate to leader pelosi. he said he's not voting for leader pelosi. he thinks paul ryan and our leadership should leave. he's distased himself a little bit for it. i'm on the team here. i did what i did a year ago. i ran against the house leadership. i made my case. i lost. so we're on the team now, and i

think our voter intensity is very, very high right now. we just saw us win some huge state districts in missouri that trump won by 25 points. you saw what happened in virginia. democrats are coming out to vote, and that's why i think if we play our cards right, if we look like we're solving problems -- the one point i tried to make to leadership and others in the last week or two, we need a broader coalition. if we're going to help the dreamers, they need to be part of a broader coalition, sharpen our economic message, talk about increased jobs and wages and securing pensions for people. if we do that, we'll have that big coalition that we need to take the house back in the fall. >> congressman tim ryan, we'll let you get some sleep. thanks so much. >> thanks. white house staff secretary rob porter's exit is just the latest scheckhakeup in the whit house. is anyone doing any vetting of

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does the trump white house have a vetting problem. rob porlter's resignation over domestic abuse allegations, not the first time a white house staffer has left under less than desirable circumstances. >> you're reeling coaching this. >> joining us cnn political commentator host of "the van jones show" van jones. we see what's happened with rob porter and yes there are political questions about why the white house behaved -- to me, basic moral human decisions made that were just wrong. i think it's difficult for people who have not worked in the white house to understand. it's not uncommon for someone four weeks, six weeks, nine weeks for someone to not be vetted. you've got a bunch of people. you have the keep the government funded. to go for a year with someone to have that level of access that the fbi is not willing to say is

a safe bet for america, that may be unheard of. that's extraordinarily reckless and dangerous. if you've got those kind of secrets, that kind of behavior going on, that means somebody can knock on your door and say guess what, buddy, you're going to give me all this information, tell me what's going on, give me all the code words or i'm going to out you. that person is a complete threat to the country. if you've got one, you've got two and a big problem in the fire department. >> i don't think jared kushner has full security clearance. >> i think at this point it's a worthy point of inquiry to ask how many people in that building, a year in, still have not been signed off on by the fbi. if you've got more than one in there, you have a major, major problem. >> listen. this isn't the first time just this week they talked about the vetting problem. there's a character problem and there's a judgment problem about

not being good judges of character in the white house. the vetting problem is something technical. they are not vetting anybody. just this week ago, we were talking about the ambassador to barbados retweeting all sorts of conspiracy crap. what are they doing? how can they not be vetting people in the white house? >> i think part of the thing when you have somebody like donald trump, used to running a certain operation, a reality tv show thing where colorful characters help you or the real estate industry, all kinds of shenanigans going on, this is not the real estate business, not a reality tv show. this is a federal government, america's government. the white house should be the best and the brightest. listen, it's a tough standard. getting vetted by the white house is no fun. you can go to the proctologist every day and have more fun than getting vetted by the white house. it's an important part of the process. >> we'll take your word on that. the president did just sign the spending bill.

this is just seconds ago, just signed. our military will be stronger than ever before, we love and need our military and gave them everything and more. first time this has happened in a long time, also means jobs, jobs, jobs. van, a big increase in military spending, also a big increase in domestic spending, also a big increase in the deficit and debt. your take? >> i'm glad this is getting done. the opioid crisis, the addiction process is getting taken care of. i have to say before this blows away as another snowflake in the storm, this is a president who called barack obama lazy every chance he could get. he implied that barack obama was golfing, lazy. real nasty undertones and those kinds of things. you couldn't figure out quicker than 20 minutes before people have to go to work a way to sign the bill that showed up hours ago. what was he doing all morning so he could sign this thing -- people standing here, do i keep my bathrobe on, do i jump in the

car right now? here we are, 18 minutes before people are supposed to come to work. do your job in a responsible way. this is the kind of stuff, technical stuff that drives me nuts about this white house. >> let's talk about meghan mccain. >> oh! >> i feel the same way. this is exciting. as i just described, you have her as your guest. but what i like about meghan mccain is she is totally reasonable. she can see both sides. she's reasonable. right now, to have a reasonable broadcaster on tv is like a unicorn. >> right now, if you come out and say i hate donald trump or if you come out and say i hate these liberals, you have a built-in constituency. she comes out and looks at the facts and rooted in the strongest, healthiest traditions of the republican party, but she's willing to have this conversation and reach across. who else is doing that? you've got another young blond, all she does is get on facebook

and twitter attacking liberals. she's going through the roof. this country is lucky to have the mccains. i vote against them every time, but i respect them every time. generation after generation they produce people good for the republican party and good for the country. >> "the van jones show" is tomorrow, 7:00 right here on cnn. don't miss it. vice president mike pence is taking in the olympics opening ceremony just feet away from kim jong un's sister jack tapper will give us his take next. >> going from paralyzed to para olympian to "dancing with the stars." meet victoria ar land in "turning points." >> i was on season 25 of "dancing with the stars." i learned early on that extraordinary talent can lead to extraordinary victories.

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look at this picture. north korean leader kim jong un's sister is shaking hands with south korea's president. this is before the start of the games. another history making moment playing out in front of the cameras. this just moments ago. this is vice president mike pence sitting feet apart from the dictator's sister as they watch the opening ceremony. let's bring in anchor of "the lead" jake tapper. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> what do you make of what's happening? >> reporter: the tensions between both the united states and north korea are boiling over right now. so this is odd. but by the same token, the sister of kim jong un is having lunch with president moon of south korea tomorrow, so there is a way that perhaps the olympics are leading to diplomacy. and in a more grander scale, this truly is the spirit of the olympics. people are supposed to put -- nations are supposed to put

politics aside and come together in a celebration of athletics and humanity. as odd as it may seem to see the vice president who has taken this hard line against north korea sitting one row and a few seats down from kim jong un's sister, that's what the olympics are supposed to be about. >> hard turn to an extraordinary interview you do with another extraordinary olympic agent lean, aly raisman. really interesting discussion. >> aly raisman obviously was very brave and courageous when she and the other 200-so women abused by dr. larry nassar came forward and talked act what he had done to them. now she's taking a step further, criticizing she thinks the way the u.s. olympic committee, the executives are handling this. she does not have confidence that the independent investigation they have called for is going to truly be independent or even comprehensive, and she's coming

forward for the first time with a detail of a possible time when somebody at the u.s. olympics may have heard about the molestation, all the way back in 2011. >> let's watch a portion. >> gold medalist aly raisman says she'll be cheering on u.s.a. tomorrow. she says the officials at the u.s. olympic committee has betrayed to the athletes. >> they are very, very much responsible for this. >> reporter: days ago the olympic committee hired a law firm to conduct what they call an independent investigation into who knew what about nassar's abuse and when. raisman is skeptical this investigation will go far enough. >> this should have never, ever happened. if one adult listened or had the character to act, we would have never met him. >> reporter: now raisman is revealing for the first time that the man who coached the

2012 gold medal olympic team known as the fierce five might have known about the ab abuse years before it was reported to u.s.a. gymnastics, the olympic committee or the fbi. >> we would talk about it amongst ourselves. one of my teammates described in graphic detail what nassar had done to her the night before, and john get art was in a car with us and didn't say anything. i don't know what he did or didn't do from there. i know he didn't ask us any questions. but that just is why we need the full independent investigation, to really get to the bottom of who knew about this. >> reporter: that coach has since retired. officials are investigating claims against him but refuse to describe the nature of the complaints to cnn. his lawyer did not respond to cnn's request for comment. so who did know about nassar and when? new reporting from the "wall

street journal" reports that the ceo of the olympic committee, scott black man was alerted in july 2015. nassar kept seeing patients and abusing them for more than a year after that. the u.s. olympic committee tells cnn, quote, we learned in 2015 of a doctor potentially having abused an athlete. that was reported to the fbi. that's what supposed to happen scott black man refused to talk to us amid calls for his resignation. >> do you have calls in scott black manman? >> you have to be a good person and do the right thing. and i don't think he is any of those things. >> how are you doing? >> i think every day i cope differently with it. i feel -- i would say i'm very tired a lot. i'm just trying to listen to my body. some days i feel good and i'll do it and other days i get up

and i can't even get through a ten-minute walk. that's crazy for me to say being an olympic athlete. i just think people need to understand that the stress and trauma, it is so exhausting. i would love for usa gymnastics and usoc to hear this loud and clear. since they only care about medals, reputation and money, if we were that successful while we were being molested, wouldn't we have been more successful if we had the right doctor that actually helped heal our injuries, that didn't traumatize us. and if we had people around us that genuinely wanted to help us and we weren't doing well out of fear. >> think about this. aly raisman told me when i interviewed her that she had still not heard from scott blackman, not called her, e-mailed her, flown to boston to talk to her. really quite questionable behavior from the head of the u.s. olympic committee. >> jake, what a remarkable

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