and john little, an attorney who handles many sexual abuse cases and dr mitch abrahams, a sports psychologist working with high performance olympic athletes. >> coach's push athletes to try harder. they yell and put you through workouts. at what point does hard core tough coaching become abusive? >> one of the things about being an elite athlete is you excel on your own, and it's having a balanced relationship between your coach and yourself. if you are in a dynamic, they are pushing. then you have lost your - the equality this that relationship. and then you create a dynamic that is dysfunctional, moving to the extremely abusive environment. >> talk about what the abusive environment is like for you? >> well, i mean for me the abuse was psychologically abusive, mentally abusive, and i had to deal with - my family, my father was an amazing man. he supported me as a swimmer. it was amazing. and to go to him with my - you know, like you're supposed to go to your personalities, with your pain and your hurt to help you through that, and you know to sort of have their way of helping you, don't qui

thrown under the bus, it took you over two years to adjudicate our complaint former health director dr. mitch cats, for two years he collected over $10,000 annually from health management associates, a for profit corporation, working for his department, with his approval. you dismissed that complaint and our retaliation complaint, it took a lawsuit to get vindiation and 150,000 settlement which cost the city an additional $450,000 in city attorney fees. your inadequate investigation and habitual dismissal of whistle blower complaints is a type of official misconduct, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioners, my name is fransico dacosta and i have appeared before you before, and i too want to state to you very clearly that when a ballot (inaudible) was put to create this commission san franciscans, and we are still here wanted the right thing to be done. and so in adjudication given to you, we some of us whistle blowers, some of our advocates, some of us who have experience are retrained and work for the department of defense, serve three generals, so we know from experience the goo

mitch mcconnell on thursday. coming up on the washington journal, we are going to be talking to the president and ceo of the mayo clinic, dr. john noseworthy. he will be up in rochester, minnesota joining us. you will be able to talk with him as well. we will be looking at the new proposal on my-ra's. the local content vehicles travel around the country and go to cities and visit them to get some historical and literary perspectives from those cities. what they are able to find in the cities is on american history tv and book tv every weekend. here's a preview of what you are going to be seeing this weekend from olympia, washington. >> olympia is located in thurston county. it is right at the southern end of puget sound on the western side of the state of washington. anywhere inrom downtown olympia, you can see the capitol dome am a which is a reminder as the state capital. this is in some ways a company town. we have lots of the employment focused on doing the public's business for the entire state. there are pluses and minuses to being a state capital. the plus is that the matter what happens, the public business needs t