or increase sexual assault reporting.fifth, sexual assault victims currently have numerous channels outside the chain of command to report incidents of sexual assault and they are not required to report to anyone in their organization or any member of their chain of command. these alternative reporting channels which exist today are well and broadly publicized throughout the military. military personnel in the united states may always call civilian authorities r, healthcare professionals or other civilian agencies to report a sexual assault. sixth, under current law and practice, sexual assault allegations must be referred to and investigated by military criminal investigative organizations that are independent of the chain of command. no commander or convening authority may refuse to forward an allegation or impede an investigation. any attempt to do so would constitute a dereliction of duty or obstruction of justice which would be a violation of the uniform code of military justice. seventh, under current law and practi

a b-day will think that regular assault -- maybe they will think regular assault is a priority. who is going to be setting those priorities? we don't know. here we have a command structure where we know who is owing to be held accountable. we know the person who has made the charging decision. when it is turned over to a ,aceless nameless organization who is making the charging decision? whom do i complain to? whom do i hold accountable? these are very serious questions. while it sounds very good to turn over to trained and experienced prosecutors, i have been there. i had an office of 400 trained prosecutors and i would not say that without a leader setting the priorities and setting the charging direction, that turning it over would produce a result that anyone of us would've supported. each decision might be fine on its own that i have this big caseload and i am worried about my promotion so i am not going to take the stuff he said she said. if i lose that, that is it america for may. don't think that prosecutors demeritve -- that is a for me. don't think that prosecutors won

when a mother struggles to hold down a job after a traumatic assault, or is assaulted in order to keep a job, that matters to all of us. because strong families are a foundation of a strong country. and if that woman doesn't feel like she has recourse when she's subject to abuse, and we're not there supporting her, shame on us. when a member of our military is assaulted by the very people he or she trusted and serves with, or when they leave the military voluntarily or involuntarily because they were rapped, it's a profound justice that no one who volunteers to defend america should ever have to endure. so sexual violence is more than just a crime against individuals, it threat ups our families, it threatens our communities, ultimately it threatens the entire country. it tears apart the fabric of our communities. and that's why we are here today, because we have the power to do something about it. as a government, as a nation, we have the capacity to stop sexual assault, support those who have survived it, and bring perpetrators to justice. that's why last year i was proud to sign the

an accused sexual assault her, we have to remember that -- assaulter, we have to remember that it is not just that individual case that is important. our overall objective as united states military and the united states society is that women feel safe in their community. if they are attacked, they need to know that their community and their environment will rally around them, where they know they have opportunities to advance, where they know this particular issue will not be a potential stumbling block for them. friendly, in my experience, i have seen it be a tremendous stumbling block and i have seen women have two deal with the issue. do i report? what are the indications if i go forward? if i get a conviction, what then happens? how does my unit react to me as an accuser? what does that mean for my long- term career? frankly, early on in this business, i saw most women that came forward. their careers did not survive the process and much of that had to do with the environment in the units and how people identified either with them or with their accuser. -- in the last five to 10

as far as the second part of your question, again. >> if how you define sexual assault. >> sexual assault in the department of deference represents a range of crimes between adults. that range involves unwanted -- illegal sexual touching, nonpenetrating crimes like groping. all the way through penetrating crimes like rape. >> it does not include sexual harass. that's correct. >> colonel -- [inaudible] >> anything that suggests the air force had the most incidents. i believe in the previous year they had the most incidents as well. is in anything that suggests on the focus of group work why this is so the air force academy? >> good question. the air force reporting climate is very positive, and that's what we've heard in numerous visits there, and the doctor participated and can give you some specific examples. >> one of the things that the air force academy does well. they have a sexual assault response coordinatorrer who is well-known throughout the academy. her -- she and her team work overtime in getting in front of the cadet and just as an example of my experience with them, asking a

his audit counted all of the sexual assault kits that were collected, or excuse me, that were taken into custody by the police department, during that ten-year span. 1707 kits were taken into custody by the property control division. of that group, 813 cases were sent to the crime lab for analysis. 894 cases of that group were not sent to the crime lab for analysis. however, in that group, 141 cases were the subject of our asap protocol and asap as you may recall is the department created program for, that the asap stands for the additional sexual assault evidence program. and what that does is there is a separate kit and an asap kit that is collected at the time of an examination of the survivor of a sexual assault, that kit is transported directly to the crime lab within 72 hours of being collected and it is assigned for analysis immediately there after. so, the group of 894, minus the group of 141 asa cases leaves us with a remainder of 763 assault kits that have not been tested. the chief has ordered the testing of these remaining kids and the department will utilize outsourcing serv

i am here this evening to provide a report on the department's sexual assault kit processing. there are three areas that i am going to address. we requested that we address the tests that have not been sent to the lab for testing, we assigned the inspecters to review the files in each case, the review confirmed that the kits in these cases were not sent to the lab based on an investigative determination from one of several categories. one, the suspect identity was known. two, the district attorney's office discharged the case, three, the ada, the assistant district attorney, stated that the dna analysis was not required, and number four, out of jurisdiction incidents where the investigation was conducted by another agency, and in the jurisdiction where the crime occurred, and five, the survivor sought medical treatment only. the second area was an internal audit that was conducted in the property control division. and captain john fenny the commanding officer of the property control division conducted an audit of a ten-year span from 2003, through 2012. his audit counted all o

effective january first of this year, department expanded the asap program to include all sexual assault kits that were collected at mission emergency hospital for both identified and unidentified suspects sexual assaults. and we have partnered with the rape, trauma center nurses at mission emergency hospital. to implement this protocol, and it is being done today as we speak. the department is going to request funding to meet the increased demand that this is going to create for testing of sexual assault kits in our asap program for our expansion. last year at the crime lab we had two super vicers and 13 criminals in the dna unit and we hired two additional supervisors in the unit and we are in the process of hiring three additional analysts for the dna unit in the laboratory. once, those hires are completed, that is going to bring us to four supervisors and 15 analysts in the dna unit. the department also utilized grant funding to restructure our existing laboratory space, in the dna unit, we have added new benches which are work stations for our dna criminalists, and those additions c

. >> and viciously assaulted she was. the public because of her age, stands there with her arms folded while three girls taunt her. then the girl in red comes up, punches her right in the face, tackles her to the ground and pounds on her profusely. another girl joins in the fray and begins to pull her hair all while cursing at her. >> [ bleep ]! [ bleep ]. >> the victim, in agony, crawls up in a ball but is kicked in the head several times. this violent scene takes place in the school yard of a local elementary school. the victim is allegedly lured there by the three girls to settle a dispute one of them is having with the victim on the internet over a boy. >> you see the victim, the girl realizing that this isn't going to be a one-on-one conversation, that she was being assaulted. >> ryan alomar is the 16-year-old videotaping the attack. as it turns out, ryan is not an innocent bystander but a participant in the setup. his job is to record the beating as it happens and then post it on the internet. >> he came with a vide

she's charged with aggravated assault and bodily injury but plans to plead not guilt on assault of self-defensee admits it's hard to control her temper. >> you start to feel the hot anger just boiling inside of you like you're going to explode. and you tell yourself you can control it. you tell yourself i can control this. i am not going to hurt nobody. but when it actually comes time to do it, it is like bam, just like a reflex, just hit somebody. it's like a reflex. they might say one wrong word to you, bam, you hit them. >> officer laura was also a victim of haywood's temper. >> the day that erica assaulted me i was just doing my observation rounds and passing out mail like i would normally do. i told them in the hallway i could feel the anxiety coming on, i knew an attack was coming on, i knew i was going to hurt somebody. >> erica was out in her day room and at that time she was only wearing leg irons. her arms were totally free. >> here's the lady passing out mail and i was like why you trying to confront me. she was like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. >> she took a swing at me, scratched my face, and

joint terrorism task force, jttf and presentation regarding sexual assault dna testing. >> good evening, commissioners welcome back director hicks. concerned public. i am going to keep my report relatively brief because we have the two presentations tonight but very quickly, the tip line, again, every week miss brown does come and it does not go any easier week to week. we feel your pain, you put it out there about as real as it can happen. so if anybody has any information the names that miss brown show are suspects are people that are attributed to this crime, however we don't have a witness that would come forward. if anyone does have information, 757-4444, and no homicide is ever closed. we update miss brown as we can, unfortunately we have not had a lot of updates as of late. one of the other speakers spoke to two event that have happened in the police department and i have spoken and it is unfortunate when clyde talks about the guard and he leaves before i ever hears me respond to what happens and so i will save my comments there, but that case is at the occ. and if the officers w

i been being assault sod i assault people back. i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. >> robertson not only fights with other inmates. he fights with staff as well. >> i was disrespected. i decided to make the guys do a cell extraction. >> days before our interview, the prison's correctional emergency response team had to forcibly remove robertson from his cell for refusing to follow orders. these cell extractions are videotaped by the prison for legal reasons. >> this use the force is authorized by the superintendent -- >> extraction team officers always prepare for anything the inmate might have in store for them. >> we've been advised by the house staff that he has prepared feces and urine for us. >> because they disrespected me, all this cuff up, robertson, see, they want to talk all that mess. attempt to talk all that mess in front of all these prisoners. and may be a little bit like -- and if you want to cuff up. i'm not going to cuff up. you disrespected me. we're going to do this. >> cuff up. >> with rober

assaults on campus. what that mean >> i want every young man in america to feel strong peer pressure in terms of how they're supposed to behave, and treat women. >> the president speaking at the white house, putting a spotlight on what is called an epidemic of sexual assaults a report from a counsel said one in five women, one in five have been sexual assaulted but only 12% report it. a shocking figure. we're live with more on this. that is a stunning statistic. >> emphasis is that there needs to be a change in emphasis. and that is one thing they're already doing. >> advice of university police has been engrained on campus. >> iner never walk alone. i try to avoid dark streets. and always with someone. >> however, the president is urging a new focus to prevent sexual assaults. >> i want every young man in america to feel strong peer pressure in terms of how they're supposed to behave. >> san jose state had three sexual assaults last year message is here. it means registering as an offender. >> they have

assault after uc-berkeley student. it happened saturday at albany village, a campus housing unit in albany. police say the female student told them she was invited to an off-campus bar by a male acquaintance after she says he took her to an apartment in albany village and sexually assaulted her. she was taken to the hospital. the suspect has not been arrested. >> campus police at san jose state reminding students avoid walking alone at night following reports of maybe a fourth sexual assault on campus. this in addition to three others reported saturday night and sunday morning. police are stepping up patrols across campus and urging students to use the university police escort system. >> a follow-up this morning, twin brothers are in jail in connection with the killing of a san jose state student. police say the 18-year-old stab add victim at a birthday party for his -- it happened sunday morning.

an inmate has just assaulted an officer. jail special emergency response team, or s.e.r.t., answers the call. >> put your head to the wall. >> what's your name? >> juan rubio. >> 766399. >> injuries. >> right there to the nose. >> redness -- >> redness around the ear. it's all good. >> i don't have a statement. >> the report will read that juan rubio, currently in jail on charges including aggravated robbery, to which he has pled not guilty, was on his way to the recreation yard when he stopped for a drink of water. corporal odegaard then instructed him to hurry along. >> he turned, threw the water at me, struck me several times in the left side of my face. as he was striking me and i was defending myself, i was trying to deploy my taser. my second officer came running out here to assist. the whole thing lasted three to four seconds. >> three to four seconds that will have lasting repercussions for rubio. >> put your hands on top of your head. you understand? if you resist, rubio, you will be tased. do you understand me? >>

." >> i pled guilty to sexual assault. >> yeah! >> tried to go through everything in the cell, everything from matches 0 to guns. >> i look more female like more than any of the other ones here. >> i guess the sooner i die, the better for me. aside, i don't regret it one bit. i'm not going to lie. >>> the crime rate in the historic town of ft. madison, iowa, is almost nonexistent and yet many of the state's most violent offenders call this small town home, sort of. they live at the iowa state penitentiary. behind this 40-fat stone and concrete exterior is a population of drug abusers, murderers, and the mentally ill. on the west bank of the mississippi river is one of the oldest prisons in the country, iowa state penitentiary. there is a separate facility at iowa state penitentiary called ccu, the inmates who are considered mentally ill are housed here. lieutenant john fedler oversees the correctional staff at ccu. >> the staff have been through specialized training to be able to deal with the mentally ill inmates. >> up to 200 men

there's an opening for the inmate to assault you. officers des moines brittenum and kevin walker, have worked in death row for a total of 12 years. they say they can never be too careful in there. >> an inmate may try to grab your arm, pull it into the cell so he can break it or stab it or, you know, cut it, slash it. >> there's been an instance where a spear was shot out at an officer when the food port was open. he opened the food port, turned and grabbed milk and breakfast items. and when he turned back around the inmate had some elastics set up to shoot out an arrow. >> he wasn't wearing these. but he was wearing a visor. so, we switched to these helmets because the face shield is thicker and harder. >> in spite of the riot gear, attacks at the adjustment center have continued. so prison officials took the extraordinary step of installing plexiglas shields to protect officers while they serve meals to prisoners. the shield has rollers which allow officers to slide it along a pipe running the length of the tier. still, the attacks

proposal, as you know, goes beyond sexual assault and covers other crimes. give would first want to the gillibrand proposal the opportunity for full implementation before i would look at removing other crimes, including sexual assault from the ucmj. it is important to note that some of these other things could occur in a combat environment, which is inherently brutal. it is not the place to apply standards and due process and secondly, it would inevitably be if we had lawful killings in the combat environment, to oversight by civilian courts. and so i think we need to recognize the character and brutality of the combat environment, and retain these cmj buttions under the u bring the objectivity to the convening authority by removing that assignment from the commander, and placing it in the hands of a judge advocate who understands the brutality of war but also understands far better than a commander, how to weigh evidence. what colonel ileman has just authored and think that with the changes that come from the recent passage as well as the changes from the l

she said didn't assault her. don't know, pretty much they knew we were in a high drug zones, they want us to cooperate to help get the bigger fish, let the little fish go away. we wouldn't, so they arrested us. >> 10s. that's ten more. what's the name of this game? oh, my god. you're horrible. >> in jail, bubanas found comfort in passing time with a familiar face from home, his older half brother, ryan. >> this place sucks. >> tell me about it. >> i'm tired of [ bleep ]. you know what i mean? >> yep. >> similar story to mine. just he's ten years older and i'm better looking. like my girls, in 2s. asking him who's winning. >> let you know at the end of the game. >> 34-year-old ryan has been coming to jail since bubanas was as child. being locked up together has made his stay a little easier. >> to see him in here hurts, you know, but at the same time, it's nice to have people around that genuinely care about you, that you know they got your back if something happens. it's good. funny kid. keeps me laughing all day

they assaulted me. i got assaulted. so they're going to see what they can do. what it will come to now. >> as a member of the arian brotherhood gang, todd al rn has seen his share of violence behind bars, as well. >> that's what we was trained here for. whatever we've got to do. we need to pull. grab whatever you can grab and hit somebody over the head with it. i found out there was a child molester in here. man, you don't do that. >> those that have charges against children, they tend to become pray. some tend to make it out of population. they find out that their lives are being threatened and everything like that. we have to separate them. >> laws can only protect a person for so long. you can get to them and kill a person right here in this jailhouse, if you know what you're doing. >> believe it or not, we have individuals here in the facility who, themselves, do not like those type of crimes and they will try to secret ro bugs and get revenge. >> and even though attacking the alleged sex offender in his housing unit could result in additional criminal char

i determined that inmate bullock assaulted allen with a weapon and it was used in the assault. allen sustained injuries to his head above the right eye and required stitches and broke his right hand trying to block the weapon that required a cast. i have here the photos of the scene of the incident that i will share with you. also before me i have a sock with the padlock inside. >> i didn't have nothing to do with the assault. when the assault took place, i was in the stairs and the inmate ran by me. that's where i believe i was mistaken by somebody that they thought by me being pushed aside when he was running that i was the one that assaulted him. >> do you have any enemies in the institution? >> i'm not going to disclose their names. >> i'm trying to help you with your defense. because i read to you is confidential information available that i've read, that i've considered, and those are the statements from the various witnesses to this incident. and it's my responsibility to establish their credibility. i'm giving you an opportunity to provide to me names of people that may

there were 70 reported assaults during 2012-2013 year, down from 80 the previous year. >> sexual assault is a crime. >> last year, three members were accused of sexual assaulting a female student in an off campus party. charges have been dropped, dismissal of charges against one took place today. congress woman jackie speier released this statement. this naval academy case has been miss handleed and is a case study on what is wrong with the justice system and goes on continued mishandling will have a chilling affect on the military academy students watching this. >> here is something is that that doesn't happen every day a woman gave fwhirj a law office. she went into labor in a law office officials say she took herself into the bathroom to deliver because she didn't want to bother anymore. the baby was born before paramedic arrived. mom ask child are doing just fine. >> boy, everybody stayed calm. >> wow. >> let's talk about the weekend forecast. >> it's chilly. i have hot chocolate to keep me warm. >> it's right now we just have high clouds looking north. low clouds is dry. we're going

you're talking about felony cases, not just sexual assault cases. if you have got a team that is supposed to just prosecute these cases, that case that is now in a queue where it might be the most important case at an individual command where they are giving a priority, now it is going to fall into a queue with other cases. it becomes a number. if i try to think about the impact on the victim still in the field, on the command trying to maintain discipline with no input or authority, the victim may see extra delays. i don't see how that helps. the command may have an issue that they can't address and you have somebody who stands accused of an offense whether right or wrong, that person is now having this hung over their heads. there is no evidence to that regard but potentially longer than they might otherwise have. part of me says, we didn't get and the evidence that shows it would make a difference in terms of the decision. we also have no evidence that those potential delays as being part of bureaucracy, that that is not going to cause more harm

the environment with sexual assault happens in the environment where assaults occur. so we have to start with the low continuum of harm and protect the offenders and conduct investigations and hold the offenders accountable. that is for the end state of this department: to prevent the crime by instilling dignity and respect. sticking your neck out and telling someone to knock it off is hard because it creates social retaliation. >> john from "politico." can you talk broader about i implementing everything that was in the law that president obama signed. and you have a december deadline to make the changes, what are you benchmarks to achieving that? >> very good question. i will defer to alan on this particular question. but the first thing, what am i doing? there have been a number of directives that have been put in place. the first think i am doing is making sure i understand, and we the department are taking the appropriate steps to implement them. you alluded to the report and with regard to that we are making sure we understand the requirements of that. and then

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who vacated a conviction for sexual assault -- >> yeah you're right.agree that sexual assault is a scourge that has got to be stopped, but i support senator gillibrand's bill and i have been a commander and i understand what it's like to have those responsibilities. and the system as it is with the commander making decisions about felony crimes is broken. as a commander, i would have everything i need to maintain good order and discipline in my command under senator gillibrand's legislation. i don't have the training however, to deal with felony crimes. and all this legislation does is remove felonies only. felonies aren't discipline problems, they're crimes. and puts them in the hands of trained legal lawyer military people. it strengthens the military justice system that way, it doesn't weaken it, and it lets me ascommander focus on my job of preventing sexual assaults and other disciplinary problems. >> one of the ways you prevent it is give the commander enough authority to make sure it doesn't happen. the commander also has lawyers to help him wit

whether it be inmate-on-inmate assaults, staff assaults, sexual assaults, homicides, suicides, the introductionof narcotics or contraband into the institution. >> relying on everything from informants to surveillance cameras, the isu team has had its share of successes. >> okay. what we have here is actual footage from our visiting area here. we have a suspect attempting to introduce narcotics into the institution. as you can see, he's looking around. there's another inmate. the inmate directly in front of him is attempting to block the cameras. there's another inmate, the inmate directly in front of him is attempting to block the cameras. unfortunately for him we had staff, isu staff in the area. as you can see he's halfway off the chair. that's what kind of piqued the curiosity of my officers. the way the individual is sitting. the suspect is looking around very nervously. as you can see, his right hand there is on an orange bindle. within a matter of seconds that bindle will be secreted in his rectum. the orange package there was approximately one ounce of marijuana. we watched this as it un

obviously, a lot of the sexual assaults are not reported.t what we know about reports is about 3800 are reported in public schools in a year. that is a significant number, but just a small percentage of the total number of sexual assaults occurring at schools. it is vitally important that school administrators and police really understand their obligations to respond to the violence and not turn around and penalize the victim like they did in rachel's case. >> can you talk about how you got involved in rachel's case? >> after rachel and her family started undergoing this terrible experience and she was placed in a disciplinary program, they reached out to us for legal assistance. the aclu, as well as our texas affiliate, work hard to have rachel transferred from the disciplinary program in which she then placed with her attacker into a regular high school so she could graduate on time. after that, we filed a complaint with the office were civil rights at the federal department of education, alleging that rachel's title ix) violated. >> expla

there were several assaults at the academies, down from 80 last year. that does not confirm whether there were fewer sexual assaults or that victims were afraid to come forward. focus groups conducted for the report found crude and offensive language and sexist comments occurred frequently and are an ingrained part in the experience at the academies and contribute to a disrespectful environment which might encourage worse behavior. cadets in midshipment are afraid to report for fear of being ostracized. the rugby club was disbanded for trash talk e-mails derogatory to women. at the air force academy where two-thirds of the offensive sexual assaults occurred, offensive power potato slides. and the most notorious, two naval academy football players are facing court-martial for assaulting a female in mid shipment. those court-martialed were scheduled to begin in the next few weeks but now it appears the prosecutors will drop charges against one of them because the investigators failed to read him his rights. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> a miss

evening, all sexual assault cases at the crime lab are assigned. and in the process of being or in some process of being analyzed. and finally, when i was before the commission, last year, our turn around time for sexual assaults at that time our average was nine weeks. and looking at all of the cases that we have analyzed at the crime lab for the year we actually reduced our average turn around time for eight weeks which is pretty good. >> i should probably say it a little bit stronger than that, it is actually very good. last year, before, appearing before the commission, we had tried to gather information on or from the other laboratories in the bay area about what the average was for sexual assault cases and the information that we could gather is that it was 12 weeks. and so we are at this point, for the year, four weeks ahead of the curve, which is outstanding. >> thank you, captain, and so we have more bodies now working in the lab and we have increased since the last presentation with more to come, correct? >> yes, how many cases are assign

assault in the third degree, assault in the third degree, another assault in the third degree.er assault in third degree. them is all the charges i picked up in the prison system. so now things are different. see, i done growed up. >> while fleece johnson's violent acts are in his past -- >> open number 20. >> -- there is one inmate at ksp who is considered the most menacing. victor hiatt is serving a life sentence for murder. he has the reputation of being the most violent inmate in the state and had to wear restraints for this interview. >> i've accepted my own death so i don't worry about dying. so i don't really have a whole lot of respect for life in general, my own or anybody's. >> victor hiatt has clearly made it known to staff and inmates that he would like to kill a staff member. >> in 2003, hiatt threw books and spit at officers. a use-of-force team was called in to extract him from his cell. >> he's got some, appears to be water or urine in his hands. >> solitude can make you climb the walls, especially long term like i do. i have until 2017 on that walk. it messes w

told them i was assaulted., but i ended up going to the hospital and getting stitches and all that. so on my way out of the hospital they come and arrest me for felonious assault. >> he has a prior felonious assault conviction for which he served time in state prison. now he's eligible for more than a decade in prison. >> my record and my past, it's like a strike against me. i'm not a bad person, you know? i have problems in my life, like everybody else does, but i'm pretty confident it will all work out. >> over in h2-a, the minimum security men's unit also known as the hamptons, sean denbraven's history starts him down a dangerous road as well. >> i don't know. it didn't have a time on there. >> probably a 30 to 90 day program. that's why, bro. >> denbraven pled guilty to aggravated assault. pummelled his father with 20 punches to his face and bit his mother. >> when i drink, i drink too much and get into all sorts of shenanigans. >> he received the sentencing recommendation. they're calling for him to go to

. >> the police report captures the brutal extent of the assault. denbraven punched his father more than 20 times leaving him bleeding from the nose and ear and in need of medical treatment. he bit his mother on the arm and when police arrived he resisted arrest, shouted obscenities and only complied when the arresting officer drew his taser. >> it's like jekyll and hyde. you know, there's the angel sean then there's the mean devil one with the horns. he comes out when i get too drunk. >> denbraven pled guilty to aggravated domestic violence and is awaiting sentencing, but this isn't the first time his drinking led to violence and time at the kent county jail. two months earlier he was arrested then later convicted of domestic violence and sentenced to 30 days. that time the victim was his 18-year-old sister. >> apparently my sister came down to my room and she was mad at me for something. i was hammered. so i grabbed her by the throat and threw her across my room, apparently. the next thing i knew, i was getting put in handcuffs. this is what happe

when a mother struggles to hold down a job after dramatic assault, or is assaulted in order to keep the job, that matters to all of us. are a foundation of a strong country. if that woman doesn't feel like she has recourse just subject to abuse and we are not there to support her, shame on us. of our military is assaulted by the very people he with, trusted and serves or when they leave the military voluntarily or involuntarily because they were raped, profound injustice that no one volunteers -- no one should endure that. thanl violence is more just a crime against individuals. it threatens our families, communities, the entire country. it tears apart the fabric of our communities. that is why we are here today. we have the power to do something about it. ,s a government and as a nation we have the capacity to stop sexual assault, support those who survived it, in perpetuity -- bring perpetrators to justice. that is why last year i was thed to sign reauthorization of the violence against women act. we want to help end sexual assault unit that includes officerso train police and nurses

what are the number of incidents of rape and assault on those college campuses. i know as a parent, i would want my child informed about that before going to college and that's what we are committed to doing. so this is a really important day, andrea, and we're just appreciative that you're putting a spotlight on this issue. >> well, we're appreciative to you to coming out before going inside to launch that. thank you so much, valerie jarrett. >> my pleasure. my pleasure to be with you. >> thanks very much again. >>> and coming up next, acrimony and tension hanging over the syria peace talks under way in switzerland. just moments ago, secretary kerry issued these strong words about the need for transitional government in syria. >> it cannot be about one man's insistence or one family's insistence about clinging to power. [ female announcer ] starting with the cocoa bean, and five simple whole grains, new multigrain cheerios dark chocolate crunch is breakfast... with benefits. start your day with a delicious new crunch. healthy never tasted so good. you may be mud