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cardin: thank you.onfirmed without icde support llyou have 51 republicas -- let's say 50 depending on how senator mccain is able to participate or not. you would have to flip one republican, maybe two. you have three democrats in red states who are up for re-election who have signaled that they'd support kavanaugh. so you might have to flip four people in order to block kavanaugh's being appointed to the u.s. supreme court. what is the strategy right now? sen. cardin: i think first our strategy is to find out more information about judge kavanaugh. it's somewhat shocking in the american people should really be concerned that the republican leadership are shielding judge kavanaugh from producing records while he was in the white house. they are records that are critically important for us to understand his position on national security issues, one privacy, on internal investigations. those type of matters that are important for us to know and the american people to know. so i think our first strategy is

theodore mccarrick, but the pontiff ignored it, allowing the prominent cardinal to serve the church for another five years until he resigned amid a sex abuse scandal this summer. "i will not say a single word on this," the pontiff said when asked by cbs news about the letter on sunday's papal flight. monsignor anthony figueiredo called vigano's letter an earthquake for the church. >> let's be clear, if the holy father knew about cardinal mccarrick on the 23rd of june 2013, as archbishop vigano claims, and did nothing about it, then it's serious, as the pope himself has said. >> reporter: pope francis has called for zero tolerance for church leaders who cover up sex abusers in the ranks. shaun dougherty says he was abused by a pedophile priest in pennsylvania. he says vigano's letter only further erodes trust. >> it is obvious to us that the church is incapable of handling this mess. look where we are now today. it's just, it's like reality tv right here in realtime. >> reporter: high-profile cardinals and church leaders are slamming vigano's letter as untrue. a colleague of vigano's

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cardinal donalduerl normally delivers mass for teachers beginsthe school year but he didn't show up.s 4'sicoleacobs reports from northeast. >>ea asers prepare for a new ear receiving blessings from the catholic church there were controversies cardinal donald wuerl who has in the past led the mass, but in his absence father bill byrn our lady of mercy church attended instead with the controversylurrounding cardi wuerl remains the forefront for many. he finds himself embroil in a catholic debate on what he knew and when regarding hispr ecessor theodore mccarrick as well as his time as archbishop in pittsburgh. accusations of sexual abuse hitting a new high as archbishop carlo vigneault accuses the cardinal of a deeper cover-up claiming the cardinal and pope francis were all aware of the allegations againstccarrick who stepped down last month, calling him a serial predator and the cardinal denies any knowledge of the wrongdoing. the archbishop of washington reading a statement in part that says cardinal wuerl has indicated during his entire tenure his archbishop washington no one has co

tomorrow, cardinal donald wuerl the have a meeting with council of priests. the gatheng was originally scheduled for august 27th, but the archbishop moved the date o. we wanted know why. we're told cardinal donald wuerl changed the date of the meeting after the explosive report from the pennsylvania grand juryle ng widespread priest sex abuse and because of the cardinal mriccarck scandal. mccarrick resigned as cardinal after a seriesl of sexua misconduct allegations. wuerl was a bishop in pittsburgh and was named more than 200 times in that grand jury reportr theort said wuerl covered up the clergy abusing children. wuerl has denied the allegations. >>>ik new tonight, scenes l this playing out on the streets of d.c. and in northern virgini today. a large group of riders on dirt bikes and atvs popping wheelies, weaving in and out of traffic. one rider even crashing. as you know, atvs are illegaln d.c. news4's darcy spencer is live at logan circle with more on the disruption that they caused today. darcy? >> reporter: erika, it really is a sight to see. we were

. >> cardinal donald wurel normally delivers mass to the. teache he was scheduled to do that this morning but did not show up. >> hisbsence comes amidst a pennsylvania grand jury report that accused him of covering up priest sex abuse. nicole is live at the basilica. >> reporter: in previous s,ye cardinal donald wurel delivered the homily to principalsnd teachers here but amid thete last controversy surrounding tm, that is not the case this year. chers prepare for a new school year, receiving blessings from the catholic church, there is controversy surrounding hocardinal donald wurel has in the past led the mass, but in his atabsence,r bill burn of our lady of mercy church attends instead, but the controversy surrounding cardinal wurel remains at the forefront for many. he finds himself embroiled in a he knewc debate on wha and when regarding his predecessorll as s his time pittsburgh.p in accusations of sexual abuse hitting a new high as the archbishop accuses the cardinal of a deeper cover-up, claiming the cardinal, popet benedic and pope

cardinal who arrived here from chicago calls it a catalog of horrors. >> one sectioncrro pri who mar victims with crucifixes to identify the ones that were easier targets. are you worried that something like this could surface where you are? >> i think that if such a ring existed, we have the measures by which we could detect it. >> reporter: cardinal wuerl from washington and cardinal o'malley from boston canceled their trips to washington from those they suspect to be troubled priests. she said the entire church needs reform. >> it is a male, masculine institutional top down dictatorial body. who wouldn't want as a woman to see that collapse? >> reporter: those words from a nunn were once unthinkable. >>> how does the pope survive this pivotal moment? >> this is a virus, and this is not going to be healed over these coming days. >> reporter: whether it's here in ireland or someplace else, he does have to give some specific steps. >> reporter: and that's exactly what the catholic world is waiting for, to see what, if anything, the pope says publicly about church abuse. we are told h

. >> wendy, cardinal donald wuerl has been accused of being part of a cover-up. today he met with his advisers, but we are not told by the church what was discussed or if anything was decided. trinity university in northeast washington has a cse relationship with cardinal donald wuerl, but trinity's president tells me the algations that cardinal wuerl helped cover up cases of sexual abuse by priests in pittsburgh calls for an act of ave tonement on h -- an act of atonement. >> i think the cardinal should step aside, not to say that hs culpable though i think some feel he is, but that's the kind of gesture of ematt that could really help catholics to see that there are teethbe nd the words. >> reporter: steven white is a fellow in catholic studies at the ethics and public policy center. he says it appears to him that cardinal wuerl is trying to soothe parishioners rather than accept responsibility. >> it's not clear to me yet whether cardinal wuerl will resign or whether he should, but i think there's something to be said for the fact that a bishop who has manifes

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that report says that bishops, archbishops and cardinals all couuded archbishops and cardinals all colludedppening. to protect the reputation of the church. to protect the reputation of the institution. 0ne heartbreaking thing was that there wasn‘t a single line in the report which talked about the care of children. the children were com pletely children. the children were completely objectified. these priests dehumanised children so that they could do anything to them. the last line of that report says that a church which is a great religion, and catholicism is one of the world‘s great religions, how could allow so many of its shepherds to prey on its flock? we now need to see this pope stepped up. and if it means that many archbishops and cardinals have to be stepped down, so be it, because nothing will now suffice. what is stopping the church and the pope from doing that? the reputational damage has been done. the pope himself has talked about not only the abuse, but the cover—up of the abuse. he said in response to that pennsylvania grand jury report, we didn‘t protect the little ones.

totight new reac from cardinal wuerl to allegations that he helped with cover-up. let's go to news 4' mark segraves with the latest on that part of the story. mark? [ no audio ] >> reporter: the pennsylvania grand jury accuses 301 catholic priests of sexually abusing children over the past 70 years. up boy was forced to stand on a bed in a rectory, strip naked and posed as christ on the cross pr theests. they took photos of their ctim. adding them to a collection of child pornography. some of tho priests served while cardinal donald wuerl, now the archbishop of washington was the bishop of pittsburgh. the grand jury alleges that then shop wuerl allowed at least one known child abuser to transfer to another parish and wuerl approved hundreds of thousands in a confidentia settlement and that would you recall would refer to the policy hiding the facts from the public as, quote, the circle of secrecy. a spokesperson for wuerl adamantlyenies that the archbishop ever used or came up with the term circle of secrecy. wuerl hasis expressed continued compassion and sorrow fo

former vatican official is now accusing the pope of covering up ovlegations against an american cardinaland tropical storm lane dumps nearly four feet of rain on hawaii, washing out roads and triggering mudslides. we're there with the latest. >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. we begin with breaking news from jacksonville, florida, where there was a mass shooting today at a video gaming tournament. officials say a suspect is dead. tony dokoupil has the latest. >> reporter: the gunshots came one after another. police say three people were killed including the gunman and nine wounded by gunshot the during this video game tournament held in a game bar inside a restaurant in jacksonville sunday. during this live stream of the game madden nfl 19, shouts are clearly heard and shouts and screams as people scrambled to safety. sheriff mike williams: >> we know that the suspect used at least one hand gung gun to committing this act. we are working with our partners at the atf on that aspect of the discretion. >> reporter: stay far away the area is not safe at this time, repeating stay

cardinal donald wuerl was accused of shielding predator priests. as bishop of pittsburgh, he oversaw 32 of the 99 accused. cardinal wuerl spoke with cbs news' nikki battiste the night before the report's release. >> during my tenure, we acted very responsibly. we responded very appropriately toth many times removal from ministry, totally and completely. u reporter: pushing up a meeting originally schedule for next week, wuerl met privately today with priests in the archdiocese's advisory group. he also canceled his attendance at a catholic conference next week in dublin, where the pope is expected to appear. over the years, the u.s. catholic church has paid over $3 billion in response to abuse allegations. some are calling on all catholics to stop donating, at least until cardinal wuerl steps down. about 17 million american 17tholic households donate an average of $10 each week, totaling about $9 billion every year. frances samber the survivors' support group snap. >> as a parishioner, it is your right to ask, "where is my donation going?" you have

cardinal blase cupich joins us.'re mentioned in this letter, what is your take on the testimony? >> i would have to say i was quite stunned that he spoke about me in a scornful way because as i said in my statement when i was appointed, he called and said he had news of great joy, he was here in chicago for my installation and spoke very warmly about my being the archbishop of chicago. so it really came out of the blue. i'm somewhat perplexed by it. >> there are three main allegations. let's deal with the first one. the second and third are specific to you. i'll get to those. the main one is you say in your letter to the archdiocese how can this be happening again? i don't think the concern is that it's happening again, father. it's that it never gets fixed. it never gets addressed by the church. that the proof is consistent in every way that this is an institution like any other, and it protects itself first. do you agree with that criticism? >> i think that there surely was evidence in the pennsylvania grand jury

like cardinal wuerl. it's been proven in the grand jury report in pittsburgh that he's covered up child sex crimes. before the pennsylvania grand jury report came out, he was on national television in the united states and he was saying he didn't transfer in the abusive price. that's the problem. is how credible is this group? they're not credible at all. this, the management team that you want to have after what they've shown and what they're doing and it's around the world? this is a global problem. it emanates from the vatican. guess what, pope francis is part of the vatican. these cardinals voted for him. they voted for him by majority vote. so that's the problem. how do you get at this system -- and there are things that they can do that pope francis -- >> i guess to that point, what -- i'm curious what you might not have heard yesterday. obviously you're in dublin where the pope spoke. again, as i'm looking at the headlines, many people looked at this as an extraordinary mea culpa, the way "the new

years until the cardinal resigned last month. in an unprecedented letter, archbishop claims francis heads a conspiracy of silence. set a good example he urges and resign. there was no evidence offered but he is an arch critic of francis. >> he produced this document when pope francis was the ground zero so it was designed for maximum damage to francis. >> reporter: tonight a prominent u.s. cardinal spoke out. >> my experience with the pope is as soon as he knows about something, he acts on it. >> reporter: it's a church full reeling from pennsylvania's grand jury report detailing sexual abuse of children by hundreds of priests. this weekend in ireland, the pope begged forgiveness for similar crimes amid street protests and a church divided. these have been the most challenging days of francis' papacy with open revolt in the vatican and in the u.s., a church tonight that is still in turmoil. savannah? >> bill neely in rome, thank you. >>> scary moments at one of america's most iconic landmarks. the statute of liberty and island ha

he a former archbishop of washington that was forced to resign by cardinal. recent grand jury rep that there was poor handling over the priests in pennsylvania and protesters say more resignations are needed. >> iis time for him to step down. he knew what he was doing in pittsburgh. here.ows what he's done it's time for him to leave. >> i am not only infuriated but convinced that the institutional catholic church needs to underga ery deep radical reaft reaffirmation. >> he is saying he didn't know anything about prior abus allegationagainst the cardinal. back to you. >> all right. darcy, thank you. >>> tropical storm lane is causingaiig problems in hawi this evening. the storm wasve downgradedr the weekend. but it is still causing concerns of mudslidesn the big island of hawaii. people haveeen floodwaters of up to seven feet, nearly 40 people have had to be rescued from their homes. crews have been working nonstop to remove debris from roadways.s the storm barrelling toward the hawaiian islands as a powerful category 5 hurricane in the middle of the week. >>>

tonight some people with close ties to cardinal wuerl are suggesting he should step down. trinity university in northeast washington has had a close relationship withna car donald wuerl, but trinity's president telels tuerlhe helped cov up cases of sexual abuse by priests in pittsburgh calls for anct of atonement on his part. >> i think theul cardinal s consider voluntarily stepping aside, not to say that he is culpable though some peel that he is, but i think t thatt is the kind of gesture of atonement that could really help catholi to see that there are teeth behind the words. >> stephen white is a fellow in cathtudies at the ethics and public policy center and attended a mass last week at st. matthews where cardinal wuerl presided a gan with a statement addressing the pittsburgh grand. jury repo >> he talked a lot about we and us, but there was very little sense of personal accountability in it. that really stood out and people were disappointed and angry about that. >> i spoke with some of the people who attended noon mass a toda st. matthews cathedral. >> i think he s

this cardinal, the cardinal of washington, was supposed to speak on wednesday and don't let the laste of course it was incredibly inappropriate for him to be here in the first place. pope francis himself has admitted he was wrong when it came to chile. there was evidence of sexual abuse by priests in chile and pope francis didn't believe these people initially, so he has been guilty of it and unfortunately there have been too many holes in pope francis's experience when it comes to this matter. we all thought he would be a bit of a revolutionary and would do his best to support sexual abuse survivors, but we are found wanting and many people have found him wanting to today with his words and lack of action and is continuing apologies. again, words are meaningless without action. and we're expecting to see, perhaps protest is not the right word, but dignified demonstrations tomorrow. to protest at the abuse of children, to remember the child victims, mother and baby institutions and so on. the tying of baby shoes to the railings of the church today in dublin which will undoubtedly be

i want to show you something these are the ten cardinals that are usually considered are the most powerful of the vatican this is the c. nine right it's an advisory board and they hear joe miller director of the congregation of the doctrine and the face among these ten cardinals for our choose to of having covered up pedophile priors you know that of course. what you think of it i have no no particularly knowledge about any of them. i just said to me that you knew it i know that there are allegations but i don't know what what is the the background of these cases i am not the investigator if you want me to be more precise ok george bell so he's here in australia a few months ago in front of the australian royal commission on sexual abuses within the church ear recognised knowing sexual abuses from australian priors but did not denounce them to justice so what do you think of him being in this he nine with that story i have been to australia last year i've travelled i have been in the diocese i met with three survivors from the school where our nepad was at that time the vice director of th

we're talking about two cardinals including cardinal really got a lot of it is saturday who is the archbishop of santiago he has been summoned to testify next week before a port where he has to go as a defendant he denies any wrongdoing but at least one hundred and thirty eight members of the church are being investigated covering more than two hundred and fifty alleged victims ranging will are going back rather for many many decades this is the largest investigation of this type in latin america and certainly in chile which until now until all of that was a staunchly catholic country francis has had to apologize and ask for forgiveness he says for having not only not done enough before having actually ignored but the claims by the victims for years and years and in fact in january saying that they will quote slander. the fraud trial involving u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager is expected to wrap up in the next few hours paul man of ford is accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans prosecution and defense are both due to give their closing arguments soon the ca

i want to show you something these are the ten cardinals that are usually considered are the boss powerful of the vatican this is the c. nine right it's an advisory board and they hear miller director of the congregation of the doctrine and the face among these ten cardinals for our choose to of having covered up pedophile try as you know that of course. what you think of it i have no no particular knowledge about any of them. i just said to me that you knew it i know that there are allegations but i don't know what what is the background of these cases i am not the investigator if you want me to be more precise ok george bell so he's here in australia a few months ago in front of the australian royal commission on sexual abuse within the church ear recognised knowing sexual abuses from australian trius but did not denounce them to justice so what do you think of him being in this he nine with that story i have been to australia last year i've travelled i have been in the diocese i met with three survivors from the school where we are now powell was at that time the vice director of the sc

there is another cardinal in the us who has not been sanctioned for this. a cardinal saying this week that if i was raped at 14 saying this week that if i was raped at 1a by saying this week that if i was raped atili bya saying this week that if i was raped at 1a by a priest, that was not rape. that was homosexual activity with a priest. we heard that frances is on the side of victims. please show me how. because right now, his bishops and others are fighting tooth and nail efforts to change the law to allow those victims's access to justice. if he was on the side of victims, he would not be here right now. he would be in pennsylvania, he would have fired those bishops and instructed the lawyers not to fight the access, but to worked to secure access for those victims. we have lots of words, most of which do not meana lots of words, most of which do not mean a lot, no responsibility and no action. tell me what you are planning for tomorrow. , tamara what we're doing not have a protest, but we're doing not have a protest, but we asked for something from the

claiming he told him in 2013 about abuse allegations against an american cardinal. he failed to act. that cardinal is theodore mccarrick resigned over the decades old abuse allegations. we have dianne gallagher live with more. >> reporter: the items were published by the pope's former enjoy to the united states and re -- envoy to the united states. on the papal plane, the pope addressed the allegations. he told journalists this. i will not say a single word on this. i read the statement this morning. i must tell you sincerely, read the statement carefully and make your own judgment. the pope added he will not speak about it now, but he may some time in the future. this came as the pope wrapped up what was a somber visit to ireland where he apologized again for the church's role in sex abuse. he asked for forgiveness. he met with survivors of clergy sex abuse and met with ireland's mother and baby homes. what we heard time and time again in ireland is that people want action, not words. they want full transparency from the vatican and it is likely that the pope and t

cardinal but did nothing about it.asked about the letter, this is what pope francis shared with reporters. i'll read it for you. he says i will not say a single word about this. i believe the statement speaks for it self and you have the sufficient journalistic ability to mick your conclusions. it's an act of trust. the pope also says he may speak on issue at a later date. father edward beck is our religion kmep tater. nice to have you back on. thinking of survivors ever this abuse they would obviously say a later date is not sufficient. why do you think the pope is not being more forceful about these allegations? >> certainly w this letter, brooke, the writer obviously has a vendetta against this pope and other paroleates that he names in the letter. you may remember that this is the archbishop who put kim davis that county clerk from kentucky who refused to sign a same sex license for a photo op with the pope making it seem as though the pope agreed with her. he was relieved then, by pope francis of his position in w

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i want to show you something these are the ten cardinals that are usually considered are the last powerful of the vatican this is the c. nine right it's an advisory board and here miller trafficked of the congregation of the doctrine in the face among these ten cardinals for our choose to of having covered up pedophile try as you know that of course. what you think of it i have no no particularly knowledge about any of them. i just said to me that you knew it i know that there are allegations but i don't know what what is the the background of these cases i am not the investigator if you want me to be more precise i'm sure ok george bell so he's here in australia a few months ago in front of the australian royal commission on sexual abuses within the church ear recognized knowing sexual abuses from australian priors but did not denounce them to justice so what do you think of him being in this he nine with that story i have been to australia last year i've travelled i have been in the diocese i met with three survivors from the school where our nepad was at that time the vice director of t

same in cardinal o'malley in boston. he's shameful.need to be held to account. >> martha: the investigation in pennsylvania honored the information and it was already in the archives in many cases of the parishes. if only they had taken the time and the attention to look. father jonathan talk to me about the pope going to ireland this weekend. ireland is a country obviously has been very, very catholic devout country over many, many, many years. but it has declined. they also just recently approved abortion in ireland, which was a huge development and change for that country. so what does the pope need to say and do, do you think, when he goes there? >> i don't think one person can say or do anything to make it go away. it -- i love that mark is giving out facts as a layperson who cares deeply about the role of the church in his life. and in this country and the world. he is quoting scripture. there is nothing that anyone, including the pope, can do. the beautiful leter that mark mentioned is a beautiful letter but there is no specific

news4's meagan fitzgerald has o more reaction to the scandal and why cardinal wuerl is being criticized. >> reporter: the attorney general for pennsylvania was asked specifically abo cardinal wuerl's involvement in the investigation since he's mentioned nearly 200 tim in the report. the attorney general says the evidence that the grand jury reviewed speaks for itself. >> this specific investigation was focused on the catholic church. and the more than a thousand victims of child sexual abuse. >> reporter: the scathing investigation led by pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro and turned over to a grand jury alleges that some 00 catholic priests sexually abused at least a thousand children, in many cases grandrs juay church leaders turned a blind eye. >> institutions acros nthis countr just the catholic church, need is to stopng prioriti their own reputations and start focusing n the people they serve and the children that thrve. >> reporter: from 1988 to 2006, cardinal donald trump wuerl was the bishop for t archdiocese of pittsburgh. he was mentioned in the grand jury reporty 170

cardinal. vigano goes on to say that the pope did nothing about it.and call to resign pope francis did say this, quote, i will not say a single word about this. i believe the statement speaks for itself and you have the journalisticable to make your own conclusions. it is an act of trust. the pope also said he may speak on the issue at a later date. paolo sandoval has been following this. talk the me about the history between the pope and the former archbishop. >> there is certainly a history here from this diplomat and the pope. two years ago the pope replaced this archbishop because he allegedly arranged a secret meeting between pope francis and kim davis. vigano is also a leader of a conservative anti-francis faction within the catholic church. many have said that politics are certainly at play here, that they are at the base the claims made in the very lengthy statement. however, there is certainly increased pressure here on the catholic church, brooke. in this statement. vigano claims there are dozens of vatican officials, all the way up to the p

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mccarrick who is a cardinal here in washington just resigned recently he's the first u.s. cardinal to ever resign due to sexual abuse allegations all of that coming right now people really are shaken in a way that they haven't been by clergy sexual abuse in a long time so there's a lot of shock but one of the. action so far there's been only two charges a gets the more than three hundred abusers if that's correct and whose names are known why why is there. well this report dates back all the way to nineteen forty seven so many of these priests are no longer living almost none of them if not nine they're currently in active ministry in the church and as for all of the priests who either have been removed from ministry because of the accusations or that they've retired in the years since most of them can't be prosecuted in the criminal justice system here because the statute of limitations limits how long after the crime takes place the state attorney general's office can bring these charges and one of the recommendations of the grand jury was to raise the statutes of limita

cardinal world was mentored and thus, a bishop of pittsburgh, he was interviewed this past week about predecessor or successor -- predecessor, rathe rather, cardinal mccarrick, and they asked him, is this a crisis in the church? was observed what he said. >> i don't think this is a massive, massive crisis. it was a terrible disappointmen disappointment, for all of us, for you, for me. so we are saying now, well, what do we do in the future? if somebody wants to say something about a bishop, they have a place to go. >> let me ask another question. i think something that is emerging from all of this is the terror of bishops before bishops. i think that is something that has to be addressed, how bishops care for their brother bishops, cardinals from their brother cardinals. >> laura: that is a vatican consultant on communications, worrying about bishops to bishops. what about the victims? here's what needs to happen, laura. we needed an independent, lay run, forensic audit, a financial audit, of every diocese in the united states, and maybe the world, and then you need a late panel, and

that report accused cardinal wuerl of helping cover up the abuse, an accusation the cardinal has denied. e school board of trustees said it was cardinal wuerl who asked to have his name removed so he would no longer be a distraction. >>> arlington national cemetery re-opened to the plic just a few hours ago after shutting down this morning for a bomb threat. that threat involved the entire site, not jt one particular area, so hundreds of staffers and law enforcement had to com through that massive 624-acre operty before giving the all-clear. funerals athe cemeteryal were lowed to proceed. we're told the cemetery has 10,000 visitors everday. >>> the cleanup is still going on after last night's severe storms. eliot high middle school is going to be closed for the rest of theeek because of floods. the damage caused by thera heav and students are going to have class at garnet patterson scol. d.c. schools will provide shuttle busses in the morning and the evening to help kids get from one school to the other. >>> now to virginia. the rain was sontense in the waterford area of loudoun county,

thomas mccarrick, who of course resigned just a month ago as a cardinal in washington, dc.unded the abuse of some seminary students. cbs have obtained this letter, it's 11 pages long, and i want to quote to you from it. it says, "pope francis must be the first to set a good example to cardinals and bishops who covered up mccarrick‘s abuses, and he should resign, along with all of them." the vatican has not responded in any ways to these claims. we've made repeated requests for interviews from a spokesperson. they have said nothing. but, interestingly, a source close to archbishop vigano has said that he has no evidence for this conversation having taken place. there is no documentary evidence or evidence of any sort being presented by either side? there's no e—mails, there is no correspondence. and what's also interesting about it is if the conversation took place in 2013, why did archbishop vigano not do something about it in the intervening five years? again, there is no reference to a continuing conversation. it's also worth saying that archbishop vigano has been part of

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the cardinal claims that to answer to a higher authority.ill he answer on this earth for allegedly covering up crimes against children? i'm jake tapper in washington. >>> and a stunner the russia investigation. a white house lawyer involved in so somef of the most intimate discussions with the president spends a reported 30 hours talking to robert mueller's team. we are on that, but first the state of oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate of women in the united states and has held that record for more than 25 years. that is where we meet this week's cnn hero, high school english teacher ellen stackable who goes inside of the prisons to give some of the women a voice and power to heal themselves. >> i came here when i was 20. i have a 30-year sentence. after i hit the yard, and i kind of got a taste of what prison was, it shocked me that i was here. >> there is a lot of feelings in prison and you don't get to feel them. you not a person and your feelings are not valid. >> many of the women incarcerated have been victims of some kind of

some are calling on all catholics to stop donating at least until cardinal wuerl steps down. about 17 million american catholic households donate an average of $10 each week, totaling about $9 billion every year. francis samber is a member of the survivor group s.n.a.p. >> as a parishioner, it is your right to ask, where's my donation going? you have that right to ask that, and you should. >> reporter: now, cardinal wuerl did not celebrate sunday mass here, and a spokesman told cbs news he wasn't going to the speech in dublin because he was worried it would be a distraction. his office also told cbs he has no plans to resign or step down. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. >>> this morning, nashville police are questioning two men in connection to a string of deadly shootings and armed robberies. one man was arrested at a home yesterday. the other turned himself in. police say they may be connected to two murders outside of a bar last week and another deadly shooting earlier this month. there have been a number of similar attacks across nashville in the last two weeks. >>> l

cardinal william h. keeler had a reputati a for transparency archbishop of baltimore. but yesterday's grand jury report accused keeler of failing to act on priest abuse cases when as bishop in pennsyania. in a statement, the baltimore archbishop says it will no longer bear keeler'sname. >>> a return to the 90s for a lot of us. >> doug kammererot in the storm center today, he's actually out in manassas, enjoying some of one of the best days we've had in quite someme doug. >> yeah, it is a gorgeous day out here. any day iutet o to do backyard weather, i always have a great time. obviously when the wer is like this, low humidity, temperature around 90, and i got a pool, it's prettyod go. it was supposed to be a dive but that did not quite work out. let's show you what'sappening weather-wise right now. we're sitting at the 90-degree mark or at least we were over the last couple of hours, 89 right now, c6 therent temperature in ocean city. richmond, 89 degrees. next cple of days, we'll see the temperatures on the increase. heat and humidity really return tomorrow, but espec