and roy $21.00 soldiers were reprimanded in the case at fort hood but fort hood is no stranger to sexual abuse reports sex ring sex trafficking you name it one of bays has a history like that one how can you restore trust or faith. well i think it's very hard because again cultural issues are just they run so deep and the fort hood in particular just has a very challenging culture with regard to sexual assault sexual harassment all of these things and disciplining those $21.00 soldiers is a good start it sends a message that that would be tolerated however we think about it took over a year for them to be disciplined that action wasn't taken right away she wasn't relieved right away it literally took her death for people to start taking this seriously and so i think hyung to ask ourselves how many more women have to go through what the next again went through before people start to take this more seriously so when the discipline is a step in the right direction i don't think it is a not at this point i think they've had a change in leadership in command now that's something that we see i

and rory 21 soldiers were reprimanded in the case at fort hood but fort hood is no stranger to sexual abuse reports sex ring sex trafficking you name it when a base has a history like that one how can you restore trust or faith. well i think it's very hard because again cultural issues are just they run so deep and the fort hood in particular just has a very challenging culture with regard to sexual assault sexual harassment all of these things and disciplining those 21 soldiers that's a good start it sends a message that that won't be tolerated however we think about it took over a year for them to be disciplined that action wasn't taken right away she wasn't relieved right away it literally took her death for people to start taking this seriously and so i think to ask ourselves how many more women have to go through what the next again went through before people start to take this more seriously so i mean the discipline is a step in the right direction i don't think it is another at this point i think they've had a change in leadership in command now that's something that we see mil

indeed sexually harassed by her own supervisor the report said leaders of the nest against unit of fort hood texas did not take appropriate action after she stepped forward to report 2 incidents of harassment as the investigation into the murder of a message he had wrapped it bipartisan coalition pressured the department of defense to move prosecution of sex crimes out of their chain of command. center kristen gillibrand released a bill last week addressing military sexual assault the bill has already 6 co-sponsors 10 of them are republicans don christensen president of protect our defenders and former chief prosecutor of the air force said for years senior military leaders have acknowledged that sexual assault and harassment are a cancer ripping up the fabric of the force the passage of this critical legislation will increase our military's readiness and ability to bring the fight to the enemy and will finally provide a real opportunity for justice for survivors this past week in also marks the 10th anniversary of operation. more commonly known as the raid that killed osama bin laden a semi

so really we can focus on fort hood but we have to have a conversation about military culture at large and across the country particularly because soldiers and officers are all moving across from those the base so frequently and like that you continue to bring up culture because it seems like this is a pervasive problem and the military for its part at least because of the advocates and everybody on the frontlines right now who is speaking out post the vanessa good situation are now being heard calls to move military sexual assault cases out of the chain of command have been going on for years but as a result of the game case they've gained a lot more scenes and bipartisan support what would it mean for sexual assault victims to have an independent commission review their cases instead of rank and file military leadership. well really it would hopefully mean that justice would be served stop that goal and i think it is interesting to know we think about the military we think about the uniform code of military code of justice do you see m.j. and do you see m.j. legislative history

en la base fort hood continÚa la investigaciÓn sobre el caso.cho altos mandos de la base de fort hood, en texas, donde estaba estacionada la soldado vanessa guillÉn, asesinada hace un aÑo. las acciones disciplinarias incluyen a 21 soldados y suboficiales de esa base. las sanciones son la Última respuesta a la desapariciÓn y muerte de guillÉn que sacÓ a la luz fallos generalizados en una base con altas tasas de agresiones sexuales, acoso y drogadicciÓn. >> son igual de culpables que quien que hizo el acto. reportero: aunque las sanciones suponen una condena generalizada a los militares en la cadena de mando de guillÉn, no se ha presentado cargos penales contra ninguno. los no despedidos fueron relevados o recibieron cartas formales de reprimenda que formarÁn parte de su historial militar o ambas cosas. en muchos casos se supone fin a su carrera en las fuerzas armadas. eso viene tras un informe en el que el ejÉrcito finalmente admite que guillÉn sÍ fue acosada sexualmente. >> ¿un aÑo despuÉs que decir que sÍ fue acosada sexualmente? ¿tanto les cos

obviously with the fort hood reports the army has not been -- in this regard.the current assessment of command climate and how to intend to improve it? >> thank you, senator gillibrand, and thank you for your leadership on this issue over the years as well as a number of others on this committee. i know this has been something given passionate about. as a woman i particularly appreciate that passion and focus. i read the report of the independent fort hood review commission back in february cover to cover, and when i was done i was extremely angry and frustrated. i think the commission's report makes plain that the army has real issues when it comes to this topic. and i think there's quite a bit of work to be done. i think it was very prudent of the previous secretary to fully accept all 70 recommendation of independent review commission. if confirmed i would be completely committed to fully implementing those, not just at fort hood but across the entire army where applicable. i think, you know, the army has started to take some steps that i think will improve

however, a trip i took to fort hood deepened my concern about the cohesion of the force. military shows the strain of two decades of continuous deployments. the fort hood report showed too many commanders do not know their troops and too many trips do not trust commanders. issues such as racism, extremism, sexual harassment and sexual assault have gone unchecked. ms. warmuth, these will require your direct and immediate attention. i would ask you share with the committee this morning how you plan to address these issues. historically the army has struggled to effectively modernize the establishment of the future command and associated reorganization of related commands injected tremendous energy into modernization efforts and congress provided the service wide latitude to make structural changes and has supported the army's efforts. however, creating such authorities has created tensions between civilian and military acquisition officials. as secretary of the army you will face difficult decisions on these modernization efforts. you will need to be clear eyed and define t

however, a trip i took to fort hood with senator inhofe deepened my concern about the cohesion of the force. our military continues to show the strain of two decades of continuous deployments. the fort hood report shows that too many commanders do not know their troops and to make troops do not trust their commanders. issues such as racism, extremism, sexual harassment and sexual assault have come into many instances, gone unchecked. these are issues that will apply to your direct and immediate attention and i would ask that you tell the committee how you would plan to address these issues. historically, the army has struggled to effectively modernize the astonishment of army's future command in the associated organization of related commands injected tremendous energy into modernization efforts in congress has provided a service latitude to make problematic and structural changes and has support of the army's efforts. however, creating such new authorities has created tensions between civilian and military acquisition officials as sector of terry of the army will face physical decisi

as i mentioned, --it was recommendations from the fort hood independent commission. they have good recommendations to implement across the army and the other services. i would suggest looking at ways to continue to build community and finding support for those military families, because there is a place to go. often the communication they get is from service members and that is the person who perpetrated it. they are not going to get good information. that is a good place to start if they have the resources and know they have a place to go. >> i wanted to add my support for finding a way to harmonize data to ensure we are standardizing the way -- i was fortunate enough to be on the trip with the chairwoman to fort hood and i found an increased awareness of the fact that --needs to be better communicating within the base to talk about things like soldiers who are awol, wondering what the analog is making sure we are communicating across baselines, to the police. [indiscernible] >> i was talking in terms about the duck -- are you talking in terms about the data or in t

supervisor la acosÓ sexualmente antes de que ella perdiera la vida violentamente en esa base militar en fort hoodÉn: muchos nos preguntamos. ¿serÁ posible regresar a la normalidad? los expertos creen que es improbable que se logre la unidad colectiva en estados unidos ya que las variantes del coronavirus que circulan, y los temores de muchos sobre las vacunas, hacen difÍcil ese objetivo. parece que el virus estÁ aquÍ para quedarse. el vacunar a los mÁs vulnerables por su avanzada edad, estado de salud o exposiciÓn podrÍa ser suficiente para restablecer la normalidad. carolina: hay bastante preocupaciÓn despuÉs de que se detectara otra variante de covid en el laboratorio de la universidad de texas. a la que denominan pp1, muestra signos de resistencia a los anticuerpos y afecta principalmente a los jÓvenes. para entender un poco mÁs acerca de esta variante nos acompaÑa el doctor marcel ubruna, bienvenido a noticiero. cuÉntenos desde esta variante por quÉ afecta mÁs a los niÑos. ¿quÉ debe saber un padre de familia a esta hora? >> esta variante fue detectada en estudiantes de 20 aÑos sin ningÚn prob

i think you have reached a point in time where between the fort hood report and movement in terms of the viewpoints on capitol hill and new leadership in the department, we are ready to take these challenges on. agnostic on the solution set that we arrived at as long as it delivers. >> ok. on extremism then, you say you weren't surprised that the sexual assault issue was such a big deal and that continues at the depth of the building or in the building at military bases around the world. what about, i remember january 6 covering the capital riots and watching, there were many number of marine flags out there, and there were many number of military. do you know how many military and former military enlistees and service members took part in the riot and this is the riot. the pentagon sort of has reacted in, you know, the number of generals and officers that i talked to about this, and it's been very interesting looking at their reactions, and we did not realize it was such a big problem. is this something we all sort of knew was there within the military, and how do you go forward fro

what also recently happened was there was a report out of fort hood because a young woman was murderedt place was like, and they found it to be a toxic climate. so toxic that sexual harassment and sexual assault was not only rampant, but it was a permissive atmosphere for that type of behavior. >> dickerson: senator ernst, you were a commander in the national guard. how has this been since you've been working on it? >> this has been a very, very concerning issue for a number of years. i do believe that, of course, that within the command -- the chain of command -- there needs to be some oversight because of the fort hood report, the horrible behavior, the bad command environment. it has really been obviously to me that we need to make a very different change. a large part of that is prevention. we know it is necessary to focus on that because by the time we have a perpetrator and a survivoren we've failed. >> dickerson: senator gillibrand, you have always pushed for taking the investigative power out of the chain of command. why is that so important in this legislation? >> well, it is

indeed sexually harassed by her own supervisor the report said leaders of the nesa guinn's unit of fort hood texas did not take appropriate action after she stepped forward to report 2 incidents of harassment as the investigation into the murder of a message he had wrapped it bipartisan coalition pressured the department of defense to move prosecution of sex crimes out of their chain of command sooner kristen gillibrand released a bill last week addressing military sexual assault the bill has 46 co-sponsors 10 of them are republicans don christensen president of protect our defenders and former chief prosecutor of the air force said for years senior military leaders have acknowledged that sexual assault and harassment are cancer ripping at the fabric of the force the passage of this critical largest.

army is releasing a scathing report saying leaders at fort hood in texas ignored complaints of sexual harassment from vanessa guillen, a specialist who disappeared last april and was killed by a fellow soldier. more officers are now facing discipline for failing to act. here's mireya villarreal. >> justice! >> reporter: it was the #metoo movement for the military, exposing a pattern of violence and sexual harassment. >> it's not fair that my sister was murdered the way she was and that she had to be murdered for everyone to realize all these issues. >> reporter: tonight, new details on the murder of armyec, legedl the hanf solnd a pmise o some accountability. the new report confirms, for the first time, that guillen verbally reported that she was sexually harassed on two occasions in 2019, including being asked to participate in a threesome. in both instances her supervisor failed to report the harassment and other leaders failed to take action. commanding general michael garrett has directed 13 leaders be relieved of duty or reprimanded as a result of their failures, bringing the tot

i was fortunate enough to be at fort hood with an awareness that outside of the base they need to be better communicating to talk about things like soldiers that are awol and wondering what the analog is so we are communicating across the baselines. are we talking in terms of the data or more about the coordinated response? >> the data is an aggravation of a lot of individuals for the law enforcement and spouses of military families and that's one thing but also the aggregate for the fort hood throwing information over the wall and wondering what happened to it after would be the same kind of concern with this information as well. >> there needs to be better military civilian coordination. it is known that it is an effort on both sides in the prevention and response and there are numerous examples along the lines that we are talking about especially with protective orders that has come out earlier. that is something that should be corrected with the services and the army, the navy and air force putting in the regulations as it is required across the process to punish violators both m

duty station with an eye toward i don't want to go back to that place so chose the duty station, fort hoodxas which wasn't sending troops to afghanistan. it was sending troops to iraq for a diskind of war, but -- different kind of war and then the afghan surge happened and the armi' dash new unit at fort hood went to the same valley and he wound up there in the valley 16 months after he left and this was a devastating experience. his presence was helpful to soldiers in his unit but a he didn't have the same learning curve they did. heed been there before. but it was horrible. he wound up being on a helicopter out for his mid-tour leave on the second deployment that was shot down and he survived the shootdown, and essentially during his mid-tour leave the army judged him unfit to go back, and the intervening years for him have been a lot of ups and very serious downs as he struggled with the things the went through in the valley and he struggled with on substance abuse and all things. he is a fairly unique story but the war has certainly damaged a lot of lives very seriously. now, there are

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we are still getting reports like the one we got from fort hood which found that the world's largest army base was quote, permissive environment for sexual assault and sexual harassment. we are right where we started. nothing has changed. i've heard from too many survivors who have barely come forward in search of justice only to have their cases outright declined by the chain of command and then faced more harassment and retaliation for reporting their assailants. we owe it to our service members to do more to prevent these crimes and properly prosecute them when they occur. our bill, the military justice improvement increasing prevention act, would ensure that when these crimes are committed, justice is delivered. it does so by taking the same approach to these cases that the military takes in almost every other area of operations. it puts highly technical workers in the hands of work in the hands of trained specialists. this bipartisan and common sense reform moves the decision on whether to prosecute serious crimes to independent, trained and professional military prosecutors whi

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disciplinary action in relation to the response to the disappearance and murder of a specialist soldier at fort hood. she was missing in in a of last year. her dismembered remains were found another later. here are the details. >> reporter: it was the me too movement for the military exposing violence and sexual harassment. >> it is not fair that my sister was murdered the way she was and that she had to be murdered for everyone to realize all these issues. >> reporter: new details at the hands of a fellow soldier and a promise of some accountability. the first time it shows she reported she was sexually harassed on wo occasions in 2019 including being asked to participate in a three-some. in both instances her supervisor failed to report the harassment and other leaders failed to take action. come minding general michael garrett directed 13 leaders be relieved of duty or reprimanded bringing the total to 21. there was no evidence her sexual harassment was by the specialist, but there was evidence that he harassed another female soldier. >> guillen's mutilated remains were found in june. she was all

the army announced today it has punished 21 people at fort hood in connection with the death from a yearpecialist vanessa guyen was missing for two months before her remains were found. in december, an independent -- they were not adequately addressing high rates of assault , drug use, and other issues. israel is reeling tonight after a stampede at a massive religious festival that left at least 45 people dead and hundreds of others injured. >> it was the first major religious gathering in israel since the lifting of covid restrictions. some 100,000 ultra-orthodox jews praying and dancing when it became clear that something was wrong. >> [speaking foreign language] >> urgent announcement on the sound system. >> [speaking foreign language] please clear the area, get out of here. hundreds crowded down a tunnel leading to an exit. scenes from just before panic set in show how restricted it was. then some slipped, others fell on top. men try to get out through the gaps in the corrugated iron sheets that formed the walls. rescue workers struggled to reach the injured and it has been alleged t

so in 2009, an army major named nidal hasan went in fort hood, texas, shot and killed 13 of his fellowoldiers and injured 30 more. now that is the deadliest terrorist attack that has ever happened on a u.s. base in history, right? so this is a person that was radicalized by radical islamic terrorism. that is the kind of extremism that we used to have to keep keep an eye out for and root out in the american military. now the kind of extremism that they're defining right now bishop impair son and people like him, this is not extremism. this is the -- what they are using to sort of purge political enemies. what they are defining as extremism the sort of patriot extremism, white nationalism, whatever, this is nothing of the sort. these are pretty much milk toast center right republican leaning people who may have voted for president trump. may have voted for other republicans, and may have said as much on social media. so they are only using this right now to pretty much purge the military of any political enemies and to them, a political enemy is anybody who is not a liberal or on the lef

having when they were delivering children and amongst those problems this bill addresses and i was in fort hoodact that 20% or so of our armed services or people wearing uniforms are women and we want to make sure that we're welcoming and inclusive of them. that's a growing population is and we anticipate that it will be 30% and it is my hope that it will become 51% which is the number of people who are women in our general population, at large. >> congresswoman, chrissy houlahan. thank you. >> thank you. >>> thank you for joining us this hour, and we'll see you back tomorrow. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. "andrea mitchell reports" is next yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. this is andy, my schwab financial consultant. here's andy listening to my goals and making plans. this is us talking tax-smart investing, managing risk, and all the ways schwab can help me invest. this is andy reminding me how i can keep my investing costs low and that there's no fee to work with him. here's me learning about schwab's satisfaction guarantee. accountability, i like it. so, yeah. andy and i made a good p

. >> reporter: the nearly 300-page report said leaders in guillen's unit at fort hood, texas did notld accountable. >> reporter: the report also says two soldiers reported the harassment to vanessa's unit leadership who failed to initiate an investigation. guillen describing the soldier who harassed her as disgusting, and a creep. the army in this report leaning into the fact that they failed to act when vanessa reported being harassed. >> people reported it. she reported it to her fellow soldier, and yet it all fell on deaf ears. >> with the 21 service members including those senior officers within her brigade being disciplined or reprimanded, do you think that's enough for right now? >> everybody that was part of this, covering this up and trying to sweep this under the rug. >> reporter: the army saying harassment had no link to vanessa's murder specifically by robinson. they detailed how poor communication by military criminal investigators with enlisted soldiers enabled robinson to escape their custody. he later died by suicide. >> i mean, this is not a bunch of housewives making

we are still getting reports like the one we got from fort hood which found that the world's largest army base was, quote, a permissive environment for sexual assault and sexual harassment. we are right where we started. nothing has changed. i have heard from too many survivors who have barely come forward in search of justice only to have their cases outright declined by the chain of command and then face more harassment and retaliation for reporting their assailant. we owe it to our service members to do more to prevent these crimes and properly prosecute them when they occur. our bill, the military justice improvement increasing prevention act would ensure that when these crimes are committed, justice is delivered. it does so by taking the same approach to these cases that the military takes in almost every other area of operation. it puts highly technical workers in the hands of work, in the hands of trained specialists. this bi -- this bipartisan and commonsense reform moves the decision on whether to prosecute serious crimes to independent, trained, and professional military pr

there are cases and i think fort hood has been a recent example in the army where investigations reveal that there is some significant problems. but i can commit to you is if i am confirmed, i will take command climate and the culture that is created within the air force extremely seriously in this regard. i think it is frankly at the root of the problems that we have with sexual assault and sexual harassment. and if we can't address that, we're not going to be successful at prevention. >> thank you. the irc will be recommending that sex crimes such as sexual assault and harassment be taken out of the chain of command. the irc did not review whether all serious crimes should also be taken out of the chain of command because it was not within their purview. the bill i authored with senator eernst and have 63 other co-sponsors on, the increasing prevention act will take all serious nonmilitary crimes out of the chain of command. and there are many reasons for doing so, but one of the important ones that recent studies have shown that there are significant racial disparities in the militar