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funeral. today the third of six baltimore police officers charged in the death of freddie gray went on trial. the only officer charged with murder. gray's neck was broken while he was being driven in a police van last year. jeff pegues is covering the trial in baltimore. prosecutors say officer caesar goodson jr. the police van's driver intentionally took freddie gray on a 45-minute rough ride to jail. michael scatzow blamed goodson
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for not ensuring the 25-year-old was not wearing a seatbelt. no good reason not to belt him in he told the judge except to bounce him around. after a number of injuries, suffered by people in transport vans, baltimore police had been reiterating to officers that prisoners be seatbelted in. prosecutors allege goodson ignored the rule. but officer goodson's attorney, andrew graham told the judge, prisoners are virtually never belted, saying gray's death was a freakish accident. and that convicting a good officer to satisfy a desire to have someone to blame will just make a tragic situation worse. gray's arrest and subsequent death last year exposed long simmering tension between baltimore police and the community. riots erupted after his funeral. more than 200 police officers were hurt. more than a dozen buildings and businesses were torched. >> officer goodson. >> the state's attorney decision to charge the officers brought some measure of peace to baltimore. so far, marilyn mosby failed to
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prove guilt and office's tactics have been maligned. officer william porter walked free after a hung jury. last month in a bench trial, judge barry williams found officer, edward nero not guilty. both officers face lesser charges than officer goodson. the same judge will decide goodson's guilt or innocent. today he scolded prosecutor for failing to turn evidence over to the defense. about another prisoner in the transport van with freddie gray. the pressure is increasing on prosecutors to get a win here. scott, the state's attorney in the city is feeling the heat from members of the community who say they want justice. and many in law enforcement who don't see this as justice at all. >> jeff pegues in baltimore. thank you. france is on high alert with the european soccer championships kicking off tomorrow. for europeans this is as if the
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super bowl and the world series were being played every night for a month. 2.5 million visitors are expected. elizabeth palmer is in paris. unprecedented security for an unprecedented threat. less than 7 months ago, isis attacks against a paris soccer game, caves and a concert ended with 130 dead. [ gunfire ] now the french government knows isis wants to strike again. so it has put the police through anti-terrorist training with mock attacks. this one staged in one of the huge so-called fan zones where thousand will gather to watch the soccer games on big screen tv. that's just asking for it says leon city counselor denis
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broliquier. why take the risks he says when all intelligence services say the threat has never been so great. this is the new normal, soldiers are just part of the scenery at french tourist sites like the louvre museum. the sergeant tells me three years ago he was fighting terrorists in west africa. if somebody told you then you would be patrolling france against terrorism, would you have believed it? "not a chance" he says, "but that is the reality." in a command center outside paris we saw police across europe tracking threats to the soccer tournament. a mega event that france is determined to go ahead with even though it is a perfect target. jean francois martin is paris' deputy mayor. >> if we want isis to win we just have to cancel it and say "you won." >> reporter: tonight the celebration has begun with a massive concert beneath the eiffel tower.
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that will be the first big test for this massive french security operation, scott. and after that, 30 more nerve-racking days until the soccer tournament is finally over. >> liz palmer in the city of light tonight. liz, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ beautiful day in baltimore where most people probably know that geico could save them money on car insurance, right? you see the thing is geico, well, could help them save on boat insurance too. hey! okay...i'm ready to come in now. hello? i'm trying my best. seriously, i'm...i'm serious. request to come ashore. geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance.
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contaminated food some times remains on store shelves for months because of the fda is slow to order a recall. that's according to a report released to day by a government watch dog group. anna werner spoke to the investigator in charge. >> reporter: government investigators focused on two recalls from 2014 where they said consumers remained at risk of illness or death for several weeks. after fda knew of potentially hazardous food. one was a salmonella outbreak, linked to nut butter that caused 14 illnesses in 11 states. investigators found it took 165 days from when the product was identified to the date of the firm's voluntary recall. in a listeria outbreak later that year, linked to cheese products. auditors determined a series of
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recalls took 81 days to complete. nine people became ill including an infant who died and two pregnant women lost their fetuses. george netter is lead auditor. >> unless you get all the product off the shelf. people are at risk. if you are playing russian roulette. took all the bullets out of the gun and put tight your head, no risk. if there are a couple bullets in there you are playing russian roulette aren't you. >> reporter: the fda doctor says, thousand of recalls are handled quickly, effectively. the cases investigators selected were outliers. >> i think we have traditionally done ape very good job. >> you sound as if there is nothing went wrong in those two cases. 81 days and 165 days. >> there are situations in which it is very challenging to be able to take the actions that need to be taken as quickly as possible. but netter says fixes are needed immediately. it is too long. how many days would america expect them to take to figure
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out and get this product off the shelf? >> reporter: alerts are highly unusual. netter says he issued three of them in the hundreds of cases he has worked on over the past 27 years. and scott, the fda is already responding to this saying it is setting up a new internal review group to push for quicker action on recalls when needed. anna werner, thanks. when we come back, the vice president's strong support for a victim of sexual assault.
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today the federal aviation administration said it will not require psychological testing for airline pilots. there was a call for it after a
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german pilot deliberately flew a jetliner into a mountain last year. but the faa says the tests only reveal a pilot's mental health at the moment that they're given and can't predict to kmur problems. in titusville, florida, a 3-year-old girl likely would have drown in the pool if not for her 9-year-old cousin. he spotted her underwater and pulled her out. the surveillance videos shows her coming out of the pool right there, the girl had stopped breathing. a teenager, used cpr training she learned at school. and saved the child's life. >> today, vice president joe biden praised a sexual assault victim whose written statement in court drew sympathy from around the world. the six month sentence given to her attacker, a swimmer at stanford university, drew outrage. in an open letter to the anonymous victim, biden wrote, "your words will help people you have never met and never will. you have given them the strength
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we end tonight with the sharpest air traffic controller we have ever seen. good under pressure, thinks on his feet, reacts quickly. and, he is only 8 years old. here is kris van cleave. >> well i don't think there is any denying it he has got the
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cool factor down to a tee. >> reporter: easy to spot in these pictures why piper the airport canine has a global following on social media. the 8-year-old border collie sits tight with the coast guard hovering only feet away. or, as the the blue angels taxi by. but those goggles and ear guards he is wearing aren't just a photo op, he is on the job. piper protects aircraft at the traverse city, michigan airport from bird and wildlife. here, he hoenz nes in on geese the main runway the they take off. bird strikes can be catastrophic but often lead to costly repairs and forced landings. piper has been on the job two years. the coast guard pilot, charlie wilson is one of piper's biggest fans. >> honestly, at a number of airports. they usually, shotgun blanks.
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birds get used to that. just a sound. when you deploy a dog that chases. they have fight or flight instinct. they go running and remember it. brian edwards is piper's partner. what's the best part of having piper here with you every day? >> get to work with my best friend every day. brian had piper for three years. despite not being previously trained it took this old dog about a year to get comfortable on the tarmac. >> the airport is his home. i have to drag him out of here whenever we leave. >> reporter: it was edwards' idea to post pictures on instagram. now piper has 10,000 more followers than traverse city has residents. that's nothing to shake a stick at. and honestly, piper would rather you throw it. kris van cleave, cbs news, traverse city, michigan. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news. and, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "cbs overnight news," i'm michelle miller. president obama formally endorsed hillary clinton for president. the thumbs up came in an online message that appeared on hillaryclinton.com. >> i want those of you who have been with me from the beginning of the incredible journey to be the first to know i am with her. the presumptive democratic nominee the first woman to head a major party ticket and the president urged bernie sanders supporters to get behind her. trouble is sanders isn't quite ready to get out of the race. the vermont senator made a whirlwind tour of washington, d.c., a rally at rfk stadium, meetings with top senate democrats and a sitdown with president obama at the white house.
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>> let me begin by thanking president obama and thanking vice president biden for the degree of impartiality they established during the course of this entire process. what they said in the beginning is that they would not put their thumb on the scales and in fact they kept their word. and i appreciate that very, very much. our campaign has been about building a movement. which brings working people and young meem into the political process. to create a government that represents all of us and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. we will continue doing everything that we can to oppose the drift which currently exists towards an oligarchic form of society where a handful of
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billionaires, exercise enormous power over our political, economic, and media life. this is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. we should not be having millions of senior citizens and disabled veterans struggling to put food on the table because of inadequate social security benefits. we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty, of almost any major country on earth. we should not be having americans in inner cities, in rural communities, on native american reservation whose have life expectancies lower than many people in third world countries. we should not be having many of our young people leaving college deeply in debt.
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we should not be having in this great country an infrastructure which is crumbling when we have millions of workers prepared to rebuild that infrastructure and in the midst of all of that, we should not be having a situation where wall street, corporate america, and billionaires are failing to pay their fair share of taxes. these are some of the issues that many millions of americans have supported during my campaign. these are the issues that we will take to the democratic national convention in philadelphia at the end of july. donald trump would clearly, to my mind and i think the majority of americans, be a disaster as president of the united states. it is unbelievable to me, and i say this in all sincerity, that the republican party would have
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a candidate for president who in the year 2016 makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign. in my view, the american people will not vote for or tolerate a candidate who insults mexicans and latinos, who insults muslims, who insults african-americans, and women. needless to say, i am going to do everything in my power, and i will work as hard as i can, to make sure that donald trump does not become president of the united states. i will, of course, be competing in the d.c. primary which will be held next tuesday. this is the last primary of the democratic nominating process. the major point that i will be making to the citizens of the district of columbia is that i
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am strongly in favor of d.c. state hood. the state of vermont which i represent has about the same number of residents that washington, d.c. has except we have two to nighted states senator and one congressman with full rights while d.c. does not. that does not make any sense. also, i look forward to the full counting of the votes in california which i suspect will sho show a much closer vote than the current vote tally. i spoke briefly to secretary clinton on tuesday night. and i congratulated her on her very strong campaign. i look forward to meeting with herren the near futurity see how we can work together to defeat donald trump. and to create a government which
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reps all of us and not just the 1%. thank you. >> sanders' candidacy already had an impact. senate democrats revealed a reform agenda that among other things calls for new curbs on campaign finance spending and ban former members of congress from becoming lobbyists. overseas, funerals are underway for the victims of the latest terror attack in tel aviv. four people were killed. and five others badly wounded when a pair of terrorists from west bank opened firen a packed restaurant. the shooters are in custody and the israeli army is going house to house, in the west bank, looking for accomplices. the story from london. >> reporter: the attackers dressed in dark suits just ordered dessert before beginning a deadly assault. shooting diners at point-blank range. surveillance cameras from inside show people scrambling as the two gunmen calmly, cyst mattically took down their targ else. at one point, pistol-whipping a
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victim. >> five second later. looking around. i start hearing shooting. seven shooting. boom, boom, boom. i leave everything. start running out. police were quick to respond. shooting down one of the gunmen. a few block as way. the second shooter was captured. the attackers have been identified as cousins from the west bank. overnight, israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu visited the scene and called the attack a savage crime. >> we will take the necessary steps to attack the attackers and to defend those who need to be defended. >> reporter: retaliation was quick. israeli military teams went door to door in the village where the attackers lived questioning family. work permits for more than 200 of the gunmen's relatives were revoked. >> the crackdown will affect more than just relatives of the gunmen.
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in his latest cbs news investigation, jim axelrod exposes a multimillion dollar insurance scandal. the victim is you the taxpayer. the scam centers on duping u.s. service members into helping pull off the fraud. >> with its pulsing music, this club in west hollywood might not seem like the ideal location for a business meeting. but this was where we were invited by dustin warren, a salesman working with a lab that conducts genetic testing and drug screenings. we recorded the meeting undercover. warren gave us a test of the hardball pitch he uses to get doctors to order the tests.
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>> reporter: with the right contacts, he told us, we could expect to make big money. thanks in part to genetic tests that assess cancer risks. he said military insurance, called tricare, reimburses the most for a single test. >> reporter: the tests are conducted and billed by a lab in dallas, cockerell where offers another test, a drug screening and that made the lab more than $5 million from tricare last year. to entice soldiers to be screened, so tricare could be build, others working with cockerell lab, set up a make shift clinic in this stripmall a
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mile from the gates of fort hood. we learned beginning last summer, and running all the way through this past february, soldiers would line up by the dozens every day in this parking lot. and provide their dna, urine, and tricare id numbers in exchange for a $50 wal-mart gift card. >> it was a lot of people. full. >> reporter: linda boseman, wife of a soldier, told us she visited the clinic a few times last year to make extra money for christmas presents. >> they told us they had clinical research going. and they paid you by walmart cards. you give your urine. >> reporter: it wasn't for research. documents show cockerell dermatopathology, unneeded screenings for drugs, pcp,
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cocaine, methadone. nearly $7,000 at taxpayer expense. and this wasn't the only place near fort hood where soldiers lined up. this storefront ape few blocks away. but they were only there a little while before setting up shop at a mr. pore professional looking site. they moved down the road to this location. from the looks of things, they're no longer in business here either. we found plenty of evidence in the trash that they had been. soldiers social security numbers. medical information. dna specimens. and more than 60 photo copies of military ids. including linda boseman's. which left us with a lot of questions for cockerell dermatopathology. >> i run a laboratory for well over 20 years. >> reporter: our producer caught up with him outside the lab. >> there is a genetic testing
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lab. >> i will have to take off. that's not my laboratory. >> that is your lab, using your contracts. >> i'm not running that one. >> they're using your contacts and license. >> reporter: and lick that. the doctor was off. declining to answer any more questions on camera. in a writer statement, remts for cockerell confirmed it was his lab. and they said "there is a possibility, individuals were operating outside of the organization strict compliance requirements. the lab said it is voluntarily refunding significant amounts of money. it wouldn't say how much or to whom. we asked the pentagon if their investigating, they told us, they can't discuss it. jim axelrod, krks news, new york. president obama has made climate change one of the top priorities in his final months in office. the president told a crowd in new york, the country has to start taking the issue seriously because "we don't want manhattan to be underwater."
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mark phillips continues the series "the climate diaries. "the latest installment is a tiny island in denmark making big progress against global warming. >> reporter: an out of the way place that takes some getting to. on the little danish island of samso, a 20 mile squiggle of farms and villages they're providing answers to some of the biggest questions facing a warming world. here they have already foud way to reduce their green house gas output to effectively zero. they haven't done it using any maj cam new technology. they used what they have. power from the wind. power from the sun. and power from waist. but here, it is not what they have done, it's huh they have done it that caught the world's attenti attention. >> soren hermanson led the climb
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to heights of clean energy sustainability. you have how to go a long way up to understand how it works. these wind turbines weren't put up by a conglomerate in search of government subsidies and profit. they were erected by farmers and shareholders who saw the island's economy could be improved and that they could cash in by investing in the environmental action. things do look different from up here. >> definite king of the world moment. >> we like the turbines belter now. we own them. don't have the discussion. they're ugly, landscape. we don't have nice problems. the bird for some reason, don't die around these. >> good-bye. >> farmer, jorgen tranberg one of the first to do well out of doing good. half his income comes from the power he sells from his wind turbine and from the solar cells which cover his barns. >> in the winter, i help pay
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back, two, three times. >> reporter: that turbine repaid itself two, three times over. >> yeah. that's good news. >> yes. >> the good news for the fewer than 4,000 people who live on samso. goes back all most two decades to when they started this project. it seems unlikely, a speck of an island off the cold northcoast of europe could keep itself warm and prosperous on renewable energy alone. but when weep first visited here, nine years ago, we found the plan was already working. that despite the lack of fossil fuels, the morning shower was what it was supposed to be. >> hot. >> it is still hot. but much has changed here including shower curtain color. samso once is considered at the radical edge of the response to climate edge is now considered the model of how it should be
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done. politicians and environmental scientists from across europe, asia and the u.s. now come to the energy academy here to study the samso model. they're not done here yet. that new ferry that runs on natural gas. they have a plan to power it. with the methane that comes out of the back end of these guys. >> in japan they call it viking leadership. >> viking leadership? >> yeah. viking leadership? . >> new kind of welcome invasion. this time. samso instituted that fact into projects from, colorado, to south carolina and even to hawaii. olay regenerist renews from within... plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation -without the need for fillers. your concert tee might show your age...your skin never will.
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metal detectors are the must-have tool for any kid or grownup out hunting for buried treasure. luke burbank tagged along with two treasure hunters who take their quest very seriously. ♪ >> good to go? >> good to go. >> look around this tree. >> sure. watch for snakes by the rocks. >> reporter: a sunny saturday in the foothills of the sierra nevadas near sacramento, california. [ beeping ] >> something trying to hide right there. >> reporter: ron swenson and mark dayton are on the hunt.
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>> good! >> yeah. >> always find a shovel. >> got a shovel? >> back in the 100s this was gold rush country drawing thousand of dreamers, a few of whom each managed to strike it rich. >> something here. >> these days though -- swenson and dayton's finds. >> barbed wire fence. >> nail. >> reporter: are usually more down to earth. >> junk. >> guys where are we right now? >> we know this house site dates to at least 1861. >> reporter: swenson and dayton are metal detector enthusiasts. between the two of them they have over 50 years of experience, swinging their coils. when you are watching "star wars" do you know what r 2 d 2 is saying at this point. >> i don't know. he would be a good metal detector. >> reporter: detector machines,
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some one from 25 to 10,000 dollars. send a magnetic field into the ground. the sound and tones it brings back vary according to what might be buried there. >> it is like the language of the metal detector. you learn what the tones are. high tone would be a silver coin or something. low tone will be iron. so then all of the metals in between have their own tone. >> see if we can pop something out of here. >> reporter: the sweetest tone of all. >> oh, oh, dude. >> the sond of gound of gold. >> was! >> dayton estimates he found two pound of in the last year. that's almost $40,000 worth. and before that, they found this -- >> holy cow! >> that is huge! >> jeez! >> a 4-ounce nugget. >> oh, dude! >> wow. >> this is my treasure hall of fame. >> in swenson's home office located in believe it or not el
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dorado hills, california. >> u.s. >> union belt buckle. >> wow. >> ron likes to show off some of his favorite finds. >> the gold coins we found. if you are looking this is what you are looking for. before detectorists like ron and mark can dig up gold coins or other stuff they have got to put in time at the library. >> go through the old maps. >> reporter: studying where mining camps are, old houses might have been. and they have got to get permission from the land owners. >> you get a lot of comments. you guys are so lucky. the response is the more research we do the luckier we get. so. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: what surprised me about our treasure hunt how little treasure we found. this is considered a really good day. and how little that seemed to matter to these detectorists. >> for me when you dig something up, the value is really irreleva irrelevant.
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yet another grammy winning song is at the heart of a copy right case, this time ed sheeran's hit "photograph." >> reporter: the lawsuit alleges the chorus of "photograph" and "amazing" share 39 identical notes. in court, a side by side comparison of the composition of the two songs. see how similar they are in places. ♪ i won't ever let you go ed sheeran's photographs topped music charts and video viewed on youtube more than 200 million times. ♪ wait for me to come home >> reporter: the two songwriters now suing sheeran say the 2014 hit is a ripoff of amazing,
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written for matt cardle's album "letters" part of the claim focuses on the similar choruses in the two songs. ♪ so you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans ♪ ♪ how did you find me ♪ came out of nowhere like lightning ♪ >> reporter: their complaint filed in los angeles court wednesday said sheeran and writing partner, copied active songwriters on a breathtaking scale. unabashedly taking credit for the work of these songwriters. >> you have to show access, there was some exposure of one song to the other. and the substantial similarity will be established by listening to the song and looking at how it lays out as a composition. >> on wednesday, the prosecuting attorney, richard bush, released a statement on behalf of the clients. saying their work is their life.
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bush famously helped marvin gay's family win a $5.3 million copy right lawsuit over the 2013 "blurred lines." >> i think that that case has been very influential in getting attorneys interested in pursuing these claims. >> reporter: several high profile copy right claims followed, led zeppelin, sam smith, and justin bieber. >> big names equal big money. >> reporter: sheeran's album sold 10 million copies worldwide. >> cited it as the song that really made him. if it is very similar to another song by song writers who may not be as successful as him there is a real incentive to assert their rights. >> reporter: ed sheeran's represent couldn't be reached. and led zeppelin suit includes stairway to heaven expected to go to trial later this month. >> that's the "cbs overnight
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news" for friday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for the it's friday, june 10th, 2016. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, june 10th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news". >> i'm with her. i am fired up. >> leading democrats endorse hillary clinton's run for the white house and waste no time dissing donald trump. >>ine that-skinned racist bully. >> i find donald trump's conduct in this regard reprehensible. >> trump wasn't biden's only target of the day. the vice president writes a heartfelt letter to the victim of the stanford sexual assault and has a message for her attacker.

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