grassley: then i will follow you. sen. blumenthal: ok. sen. grassley: [indiscernible] sen. blumenthal: all set? i'm richard blumenthal, u.s. senator from connecticut. welcome, everyone. welcome particularly to the athletes who testified earlier today, and who were so extraordinarily impactful and impressive in the testimony that they gave. i want to thank my colleague, senator grassley, for joining us, the ranking member on the judiciary committee, and my colleague, senator moran, who could not be with us. today marks another step in a continuing quest for accountability and justice. director wray testified just moments ago that he has run out of adjectives. i suggested to him, we have all run out of adjectives to describe the monstrous, horrific, predatory, criminal conduct of larry nassar. we've run out of adjectives, but we haven't run out of action. that's what the gymnasts deserve. the criminal conduct by larry nassar, unfortunately, was not unique to him, and it was not unique to gymnastics. it was enabled by others, and others have been enabled in this kind of predat

senator grassley. sen. grassley: first of all, i associate myself with all the remarks you made. and i thank these women for being here today. and i don't know whether i can say it any stronger than if you heard senator durbin's remarks immediately after these women testified. he said something along the lines that he's never heard such strong testimony to back up, one, the need for maybe further legislation, further hearings, but also the inadequacy of the enforcement of existing laws. or even if it doesn't involve the enforcement of existing laws, it involves the fbi derelict in what they were doing. so whether it's the lack of what xavier branch agencies didn't do, or whether we need more legislation, is a question that is totally backed up by the testimony of these women, and particularly, their speaking out for hundreds of other people that were affected the same way they were affected. we've been somewhat successful in passing some legislation, but this testimony indicates that we need to do a lot more, and i think we have worked in a bipartisan way in the first instances,

[ laughter ] >> well, senator grassley is here. >> i'm whatever grassley is for. >> did you hear whatsaid? he said he's for whatever grassley is for when it comes to ethanol. >> i think somebody didn't even say ed another, they said something-nol. [ laughter ] >> you're the seventh national leader that we've had up here and asked if they believe iowa should remain, a, a -- state -- first in the nation? >> yes. >> unambiguously? >> yes. >> that was easy. >> no. i actually haven't gone through that process. i'm telling you, it wasn't scientifically designed to do this way, but there's something about our process, particularly the way the early states are structured. and i know when i was speaker of the house i tried to move florida up. but having gone through that process, there is something to be said. and that butter cow, that was a big cow, man. who ate that? [ laughter ] >> i see actually one of the great des moines registered parties. remember, senator rubio cut off kauffmann in order to say, yes, iowa should remain first in the nation. i don't like to write our headlines but i see

[ laughter ] >> well, senator grassley is here. >> i'm whatever grassley is for. i already told you that. >> did you hear what he said? he said he's for whatever grassley is for when it comes to ethanol. >> i think somebody didn't even say ethanol, they said something-nol. [ laughter ] he popped up in the meeting and went bonkers, don't touch the ethanol, it's like don't touch the ethanol, man. so i'm with grassley. what's the other one? >> you're the seventh national leader that we've had up here is dying and is going to die, you have to be there for, them but there are no words to express that people. and to say to them and what can you say in a moment like this and i think -- there are times in public service where frankly, you wonder, if the things you do matter in the end because they have these laws that you are voting on that -- your time might be better spent in another endeavor, and another service. and then you have moments where you are able to help somebody. not only are you able to -- our moment when you're able to pass things where you have been able

let's speak now with david grassley. he's the united nations humanitarian coordinator for yemen, and he joins us from new york. mr. garcia, i believe you took up this post back in february and i know you've been traveling across the country since then. can you talk us through what you've seen? well, i've traveled for the last 6 months in almost all parts of yemen. and what i see is the devastation of the conflict. over the last 7 years, schools destroyed factories destroyed powers. the systems not functioning water systems collapsing, but more importantly i see the impact on, on people themselves. the impact on women who are trying to who are trying to deliver their a child or children who cannot go to school or land mines that block the use of cultivation for fields. and frankly, desperation of a for cries of health, but recently was in the area of who data in an area along the red sea coast, very inaccessible. very few people had been there and met with numerous numerous families. and mainly the mothers who kept coming

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so let me just summarize and then i'll turn it over to my colleague, senator grassley. he'll be followed by whoever would like to say a few words about today among the gymnasts, former gymnasts. they are stars. they really broke through today. they made an impact that i've rarely seen in my decade in the united states senate. their testimony was so powerful and important, and i want to thank them on behalf of the members who participated today for their courage and strength, their grace and daring. not only in the course of their tremendous athletic performance but as role models for so many young women and men in the way they stood up, spoke out, and made an impact today. thank you. senator grassley. >> first of all, i associate myself with all the remarks you made and i thank these women for being here today. and i don't know whether i can say it any stronger than if you heard senator durbin's remarks immediately after these women testified. he said something along the lines that he has never heard such strong testimony to back up, one, the need for maybe further legi

senator grassley? >> please give me a minute before the clock starts to ask unanimous consent to include in the record letters that i have sent over the last few years that show the nonresponsiveness of the fbi to our inquiries on this subject. >> without objection. >> second one would be a little unrelated to this, but deals with the unresponsiveness of director wray in regard to -- so i hope the committee will listen to this as well. i have asked mr. wray to talk to me about a troubling believing that i received from the fbi and was weaponized against my and senator johnson's oversight. director wray and his staff have ignored my requests to meet, mimicking the pattern here at the nassar case, nonresponsiveness. without objection, i'd like to introduce into the record at the hearing today an e-mail thread illustrating the fbi's nonresponsiveness to my request. this e-mail shows the great length that i went to to get a meeting with director wray. now my question to director wray. the inspector general

senator grassley is here. senator rubio: one time somebody said something that sounded like ethanol, and he thought it was ethanol and he jumped up in the meeting. i am with grassley. what is the other one? jeff: you are the seventh, i think, seventh national leader we have had up the asked if they believe iowa should remain a carveout state, first in the nation? jeff: yes. yes. -- senator rubio: yes. yes. jeff: that was easy. senator rubio: i have gone through that process and have seen incredible value in it. it wasn't scientifically designed to do it this way, but there is something about this process, particularly the way the early states are structured. i was speaker of the house in florida, but haven't gone through that process, there is something to be said about the leader of the free world coming to begin their campaign in a rent-a-car dropping county to county speaking to groups of people 10 or 15 at a time. there is very few places you can get that in this country. after that, it becomes about plane

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>> thank you ranking member grassley.ircuit judicial law clerk i dealt with a full range of issues that are presented to the circuit including criminal and he bs manners and i am confident based on that experience as well as others as a litigator that i could quickly get up to speed on any criminal matters presented to me if confirmed. >> you might give the same answer but i will ask this in regard to immigration because the ninth circuit has so many cases. please tell me your experience to handle immigration cases and specifically how many have you been involved in for immigration matters quick. >> thank you again ranking member grassley and as you anticipated i did have a great deal of experience dealing with immigration as well as employment on there is some with immigration law is. >> i will give you a question and then to quotations from something you said or wrote and then i will ask the question again. what is the role of the federal court to make want to catalyze social change? on the panel before the vermont judi

senator grassley. >> yeah. ms.ung, i was going to ask the same question that senator durbin did about the letter you signed. i'm not going to ask you to speak more about it, but i just want you to know why i was concerned about that because i think it doesn't show the temperament that we should expect from judicial nominees. you don't have to comment any further so i am he going to the next questionment your career has primarily involved civil litigation and labor law. do you have any experience in criminal law? >> thank you, ranking member grassley, as a 9th circuit judicial law clerk i dealt with the full range of issues that are presented to the is circuit, including criminal and habeas matters and i'm confident on that experience as well as other experience i have had as a litigator and as a neutral adjudicator that i can quickly get up to speed to any criminal matters or other matters that may be presented to me if i'm confirmed. >> you might give the same, but the same in immigration, because 9th circuit has

senator grassley just mentioned about jay abbott, named in the report. he retired. was that a forced retirement? mr. wray: it was not? sen. leahy: did he ever faced possibility of prosecution? mr. wray: we referred our findings to the department's prosecutors about the false statements he made to us. sen. leahy: by consideration, do you make a recommendation? mr. horowitz: we don't make a recommendation formally. there are informal discussions but the responsibility is the prosecutors' and i have written years ago about the former fbi director's statement to the press about what he would do if he were the prosecutor. i am not about to jump in and take someone else's responsibility. sen. leahy: i understand that. when i was a prosecutor and law enforcement sent me their investigations, i had to make the final decision, of course, but i remember people get charged by fbi agents. i have seen those charges brought in various areas, organized crime. it is troubling to me to see that an fbi agent who lied, broke the law, knowingly broke the law, and nothing happens. i und

>> it's interesting watching grassley at this hearing yesterday with the u.s.e olympic committee in the investigation. as you mentioned, he turns 88 tomorrow. here's what he told you. i think i keep the same schedule as when i was 65 or 40. he is, he does the 99 counties of iowa every year. but 88 years old. run for reelection. there's been a lot of talk over time he was hoping his son would replace him. all indications are leaning forward? >> it seems that way. this would be a crowded primary if he steps aside. he does keep a very active schedule. he sleeps early but wakes up early. he runs almost every single morning. he goes to all 99 counties in iowa and prides himself in that and says he feels as good as he did 20 or even 40 years ago. in taking away from my interviews with the members, he sounded pretty serious that he may do this again. so we'll just have to see. but what decision he makes will be significant. it will shake up republican politics if he steps aside. >>> these retirements not only could impact control of the senate next year but reshape th

thank you and ranking member senator grassley for holding this hearing. i want to compliment all of our witnesses for the stunning clarity and grace of your testimony here. your quest for accountability is 100% justified, and thank you for pursuing it. we will endeavor to help you in that pursuit. it is astonishing and disturb ing how many adults let you down and failed at one of the most basic responsibilities of adulthood, which so to look out for children, take care of them, behave properly and trust them. i guess on behalf of adults everywhere, we owe you an apology. what you've done today is impressive and it will make a difference and i'm grateful to you for stepping up the way you have. >> thanks, senator whitehouse. senator hawley is on via webex. you w'll see him on the screen momentarily. senator hawley? well, perhaps senator cotton is on virtually? we're going to search the ether. senator cotton? well, in their absence, senator klobuchar. >> excellent. thank you very much, all of you. like my colleagues, i want to express my gat tude to you. as

i can tell you that watching chuck grassley and ted cruz -- i've been traumatized by chuck grassley twice, once with the hearings of anita hill and another with the hearing of brett kavanaugh. watching a committee talk about how they are going to do something when there have been critical accusers before, and there's been no sort of recourse . we know for fact that many other people wanted to come forward for both anita hill and dr. christine ford and i would really love for them to walk a mile in some of these women's shoes to know what it is like to sit in those rooms and have people doubt what you have gone through. i appreciate it. host: mary, thanks for sharing your story. brandy, pennsylvania, republican. caller: thanks for taking my call. a question here in regards to masking mandates in schools -- i'm trying to find out, maybe you can better guide me -- our governor implemented a masking mandate. we are having school meetings -- school board meetings and choices not to mask our children where there is no data proving the transmission is higher amongst the school-aged children, and

we had a republican that was grassley. we had democrat, harken, for years. and, you know, you wouldn't always agree with everybody but you could at least believe that they were going there and they had iowa's back. he has changed. he has taken marching orders from his party, from his leadership, and he has left iowans behind and stopped having a backbone when it came to defending our democracy. again, you don't get to lie about our elections, push conspiracy theories, and expect to get re-elected to the united states senate. that is not how this country is supposed to work. again, we won in 2018. we can win, again, in 2022. we cannot give up. we have to do everything we can and hold these folks accountable. the truth does matter. and that's what we are going to prove in 2022. again, we just need everybody with us as we do it. >> you say the truth matters and i want to make this distinction because two of the other candidates running for the democratic nomination at least, they really haven't made the january 6th riots and insurrection a -- a major focal poin

senator grassley was first elected back in 1980 and served seven consecutive terms. republican in the u.s. senate. senator grassley's decision comes after five other senate republicans announced they will not run for the upcoming re-election. >>> house democrats passed legislation that they say protects abortion rights across the country. it does not. the bill states that health care providers have a right to provide and patients have a right to receive abortion services regardless of their race socioeconomic position or place of residence today's vote passed house along party lines in a 218-211 vote. it is really all for show though because that has no chance in the u.s. senate. it will not happen because democrats will will need at least ten republicans to support the bill in order for it to advance >>> the largest fine of its kind ever this one against united airlines it's a punishment for something every passenger dreads >>> the white house wants to boost the amount of solar power we use one of the best ways to do that is solar farms obfortunaty,heco wh >>> updat

more news from washington, republican senator chuck grassley, who is 88-years-old, announced that he'sng for another six-year term in 2022. later, when he saw the news coverage, he said, "wow, good for chuck grassley." [ laughter ] when a reporter asked if he's too old, he said "oh, please, you sound like my great-great-great-great-grandso" [ laughter ] 88, at that age, you don't run for senate, you run for president. [ laughter and applause good for chuck grassley. [ light laughter ] this is fun. i saw that prince harry and meghan markle are here in new york - [ cheers ] they started off their trip by meeting with governor kathy hochul at the meeting, prince harry told new york governor, "i won't ask about your andrew if you don't ask about mine." [ laughter ] cid news. the m.t.a. said that they will start issuing $50 fines to riders not wearing masks yep, it's $50 for not wearing a mask, and $100 for not muting your phone's keyboard when you type [ laughter ] those bitches. [ laughter and applause never heard of that. that's unbelieveable well guys, the f.d.a. has officially authoriz

senator grassley just mentioned about jay abbott he retired. was that a forced retirement? >> it was not. >> did he ever face any possibility of prosecution? >> we referred our findings to the department's prosecutors for consideration about the false statements that he made to us in our interviews. >> by consideration do you make a recommendation when you do that? >> we don't make a formal recommendation. as you know as a former prosecutor, they're informal discussions. but ultimately the responsibility for the decision is with the prosecutors. i will say, having written the report a couple years ago about the prior fbi director's statements at a public press conference statement about what he would do if he were the prosecutor. i'm not about to jump in and take someone else's responsibility. >> i understand that. when i was a prosecutor, law enforcement sent their investigations. i had to make the final decision, of course. but i think a number of people get charged for lying to the fbi agents. we've seen it from organized crime on. it is troubling to me to see that an fb

grassley: then i will follow you. sen. blumenthal: ok. sen. grassley: [indiscernible] sen. blumenthal: all set?

host: chuck grassley, his exchange with christopher wray yesterday. taking your phone calls this morning on the washington journal -- on "washington journal." teresa, you are next. caller: good morning. i am so upset to find out that those young ladies did not get their just due. i feel like those people that did that and covered it up should be charged with human rights -- civil rights. that is a crime against women and they let it go on. that is crime against children. women and children are not valued. we need our human rights stood up for. there is no reason for that. we need to be qualified immunity of these people that take the law into their own hands and junk that. they do not need to be sitting on their retirement. they do not need to be sitting in the backyard wishing they had not done it, they need to be sitting in a cell. it is a crime against women, it is a crime against humanity. the people in the trump administration were the ones who did this. they swept it under the rug just like they keep pushing everything under the rug. they pushed

i'm asking you to give me a briefing, meet with me and senator grassley. we deserve to know the answers. quite honestly, the american people deserve to know the answer. secretary mayorkas, in my 30 seconds left, you say you have gotten numbers on the border. are you willing to finally share them? for example, like out of the 1.3 million people who have been apprehended, again, i get the complications. there have been multiple arrests of the same individual. fine, the relative piece information would be how many people have you dispersed in america out of the 1.3 million america? how many people have been released into the interior either with a notice to appear or even worse, a notice to report, and again, you have to live in a fantasy world to think they're going to report, but go ahead. how many people have been released? >> senator, i apologize. i do not have that data. i was reciting the data of encounters, apprehensions, use of title 42, and use of title 8, expedited removal. i'll provide the data you have requested. i do not have it at my disposal. >

i recognize ranking member grassley. >> thank you, chairman. for a strong and appropriate statement you just made. thank you for holding this hearing. thank you for involving me and others in this hearing. as the former chairman of this committee, i convened a hearing in 2017 on the importance of protecting young athletes against abuse. it took place before larry nassar, the now disgraced team doctor from usa gymnastics was convicted. our committee urged then -- about a culture in competitive sports. that made it difficult to -- for many girls to come forward and report their sexual abuse. that hearing convinced me of the need to champion legislation on which i worked closely with senator feinstein and its enactment means that cultures -- coaches, instructors and others who work with young athletes now are mandatory reporters of child exploitation or abuse. because oversight of the fbi is one of our committee's important duties, i also repeatedly pressed the fbi for more information on its handling of the investigation from 2017 to the present.

he joins us in all the things i mentioned, senator you and charles grassley, you came up with a lot oft of the breeze my side of this but what can you tell us about legal vulnerability that exist here?tu >> actually it is interesting this report came out today the one-year anniversary of of senator grassley and i used a report showing a vast web of foreign financial entanglements and so many different transactions into china. we laid out all the information we had on burisma. so much more has been revealed and quite honestly, our report as a catalyst for more people to comeo forward, the computer repair shop owner he grew impatient and talking to us about the fbi, giving us information so we release that to "the new york post" and they made it public.e tony came forward because of our report. he realized that hunter basically chaffed him out of $5 million. our report was a catalyst for so much of this information coming forward but our report was a big warning. we tried to warn the american public that the elect was very unfit human being. president biden my that he would be compromise

want fo begin by thanking the judiciary committee, including chairman durbin and ranking member grassley for their commitment to seeking the truth for the hundreds, if not thousands who were systemically abused by larry nassar and for this committee's diligence to demand accountability regarding federal law enforcement's misconduct. i want to express my gratitude to my friends and teams to share their stories and continue for justice and reform. over the past fi years it's become painfully clear how a survivor's healing is affected by the handling of their abuse. it disgusts me that we're still fighting for the most basic answers and accountable over six years later. in 2015, it was known that at least six national team athletes had been abused by nassar. there was even one of the athletes that was abused on film. given our abusers unfettered access to children, stopping him should have been a priority. instead, the following occurred. it took over 14 months for the fbi to contact me despite my many requests to be interviewed by them. the records established that steve penny, fbi agent j

i listened to our quality, my friend is senator grassley inc.porters were located in various parts of thehe country. her strongest supporter are one 100% of oregon's united states senators who live in her neighborhood. i got to know her through a variety of conversations. to keep this brief and i was struck the story of this family is much like the story of the whiting family, the son has persecution in china in the 1940s, the nazis in the 1930s the right of u.s. army involved in dropping propaganda on the nazis. both families were ecstatic to come to the freest most open country on earth where we will able to find safety and opportunity. in both families, we were taught to get back to america. helping low income patients who needed assistance with their healthcare but biting patient with senior citizens. i will say when you look as forward at qualifications a memberecond term as of the employmenthe relations board which adjudicates dispute over labor practices and employment law in my home state, she has impartiality to the offer and decided mo

has any of these countries said -- all the things i just mentioned, senator, you and charles grassleyp with a lot of it, short of the burisma side of this. what can you tell us about legal vulnerability that exists here? >> well, it's actually interesting that this report came out today. this is the one year anniversary of one senator grassley and i released our report showing a vast web of foreign financial entanglements, so many different transactions into china. we laid out all the information we had on burisma. but so much more has been revealed, and quite honestly, our report really was a catalyst for more people to come forward. mr. macisaac, the computer repair shop owner, he grew impatient. he has talked to us about his hard drive, gave that to the fbi, they would not give us any information, so we released that to "the new york post," they made it public. tony bobulinski came forward because of our report because he realized hunter basically shafts him out of $5 million per year of our report was a catalyst for so much of this information now coming forward, but our report wa

miss nichols. >> chair durbin, ranking member grassley and distinguished members of the judiciary committeeday. i want to thank you for your commitments to holding those

elizabeth: senators chuck grassley and ron johnson are worried about this.o reportedly these emails, his connections to the treasury department, his relationship with then-secretary of state john kerry's stepson, his ties to the highest level of government in china. hunter biden was moving to work at burisma at this time in 2015. his father was considering running for president. so this is clearly -- reportedly, if you believe this story, it's about access. go ahead. and selling it. >> if you're trying to get low-level clearance in the u.s. government, a lot of your friends will be interrogated do you have money problems, do you have infidelity problems, do you have drug addiction, do you have alcohol addiction. what kind of secrets would make you want the flip for a foreign power, make you a dangerous security asset. hunter biden had every single one of those, and despite that had complete and total access, of course he did to his father, but he had access to his father while on official trips and in an official capacity. to say this is a national security

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i yield the floor to senator grassley. mr. grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: in 2017, republicans reformed the tax code in a traditional sense. we broadened the tax base by reducing tax preferences for special interests in favor of lower overall tax rates. we also had several other goals, including maintaining the progressivity of the tax code, cutting taxes across all income groups, predominantly for the middle class, and making our business tax system globally competitive. we were able to accomplish each of these goals in that 2017 tax bill. on average, taxpayers on all levels saw a tax cut, middle-class taxpayers saw the largest percentage decrease in their tax bills. also we not only maintained the progressivity of our tax code, we made it more progressive. moreover, the bill brought our business tax system and rates in line with the rest of the world. you just heard senator sasse speak brilliantly about that point. it put an end to the practicef corporations moving headquarters offshore to avoid

and right now we're hearing opening statements from senator durbin, senator grassley, there will be more opening statements from other members of congress. and then jerry moran is introduce the gymnasts. as soon as we get closer to hearing from them, we'll come back and take this. we want to get to some other big headlines this morning including one big one in the world of politics. that is california governor gavin newsom holding on to his seat out west, with 63.9% of californians voting against recalling him, 36.1% voting for the recall, almost identical to joe biden's 63 to 34% win in the state in 2020. jacob soberoff, in the end, we talked three weeks ago about how close the polling was and in the end it wasn't that close. what is the big takeaway from governor newsom and his team on this? >> reporter: it was not even close. governor newsom, including yesterday when i talked to him, continued to repeat this mantra, polls don't vote, people vote. he'll head back to work in the state capitol here this morning. not only did he say he was humbled by it and validated by it, he said it is

yes, chuck grassley is running for reelection in iowa. at 88 he's the oldest republican senator announced his candidacy for an eighth term in a tweet this morning. he won his first elected office in iowa in 1958. perhaps in an effort to prebutt questions about his age, the announcement tweet featured a gif of the senator out for a morning run. this is a seat democrats were hoping to flip but with grassley on the ballot, that gets a lot more difficult. >>> up next, a new development in the investigation into the january 6th insurrection at the capitol as four former trump insiders get subpoenaed. poubena. you'd never want leftover food residue on your surfaces. but that's what you could be doing with a used dishcloth. so, switch to bounty for a more hygienic clean. unlike used dishcloths that can redistribute residue, bounty keeps your surfaces cleaner. bounty, the quicker picker upper. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore.

grassley: thank you, mr. chairman. chairman: thank you, my friend, chairman grassley. this is interesting. if you listen to what the witnesses have said and what has been said on the republican side of the table, you wouldn't even know what the nation of s.b.-8 is, for thymitis a routine supreme court procedural decision and has nothing to do with the substance of the bill that was before the supreme court. you have to ignore the statement by sewed sewed this is fragrantly -- soda high ear, you would have to being it would be a merits document, wouldn't you think and to argue it's routine and nothing to see here, move along, the numbers don't tell the story. eight times in 16 years the shadow docket was requested and used by the obama administration , eight times, and the trump administration, 36 times in four years and the trump justice department won in 28 cases. so when justice prior decides to write a book and justice breyer goes to the university of kentucky, no politics, we play them straight, call them as we see them, then you look at this it defies description.

chairman, thank you and ranking member grassley for holding this hearing and giving me a chance to say a few words at the beginning. as these women and countless survivors before them have demonstrated, it takes tremendous courage for victims of sexual assault to come forward and tell their story. whether it's telling a family member, a friend or law enforcement about their abuse, there are fears that their claims will not be taken seriously or they will be ignored or that the victim will somehow be blamed. those fears cause survivors to remain silent for months, years or even a lifetime stop unfortunately, the fbi's mishandling of this case has done nothing to convince survivors that their trauma will be treated with the urgency and care it deserves. when survivors make the difficult decision to come forward, they should be treated with dignity and respect. that is the bare minimum. and it didn't happen here. the allegations raised by well-known world-class athletes are not taken seriously by the f ei, what hope do other victims of sexual assault have? if this monster was able to cont