mr. o'neill you're reckless for. mr. o'neil you are reckless for five minutes. >> chairman, thank you. >> the microphone on please. >> is it on? put you as close as possible. >> thank you. okay. so mr. chairman. we like to begin if we may with a soundbite, 30 seconds from doctor n mckee which follows on many comments heard earlier this morning. doctor mckay is one of our colleagues, these were her comments two months ago. >> is not about concussion, it's about limiting head injury. head injury that occurs on every single play of the game at every single level of this game we have to eliminate somehow the cumulative head had impact. to me, what our job is as american citizens is to maintain the health of these young athletes for the entirety of their life. if there something we can do to limit this risk it needs to be done immediately. >> thank you. >> immediately mr. chairman. the word chairman. the word we heard this morning as well that his arm meet middle name. immediately. let me begin by saying here's where we starte

mr. o'neill, you are recognized for five minutes. neill: chairman, thank you. 30 seconds from doctor n mckee which follows on many comments heard earlier this morning. doctor mckay is one of our colleagues, these were her comments two months ago. [video clip] >> it is not about concussion, it's about limiting head injury. head injury that occurs on every single play of the game at every single level of this game we have to eliminate somehow the cumulative head had impact. to me, what our job is as american citizens is to maintain the health of these young athletes for the entirety of their life. if there something we can do to limit this risk it needs to be done immediately. >> immediately mr. chairman. the word chairman. the word we heard this morning as well that his arm meet middle name. immediately. let me begin by saying here's where we started with our chase for immediate results. the national football league, 32 teens, 2000 players as you know, practicing for 5 months in regular and postseason. there were 271 total concussions

mr. o'neill, same question. how can we won vince players and coaches to report concussions and treat them seriously? >> ms. clarke, it is great question. when we do clinics around the country we hoe showeded 19 cases of suspected second impact syndrome and we tell the stories in detail with video of the players involved and tell the stories of catastrophic injuries in an effort to scare straight through the coaches these young boys who need this information. i show my son's concussion as an example. i show how he lied about his symptoms, did everything to stay on the field, and only when confronted with an impact test that showed he had failed the cognitive test only did he then admit he was suffering from a concussion. it is a huge problem in high school football. we think it is a subject which we need to be direct with players. we tell the stories to the coaches, give them the video, and encourage the coaches to tell the players the story of what catastrophic injury can be in their lives if they don't self-rep

mr. o'neil.e see many different rule changes being implemented across sports, across leagues, prostate. there have been some criticism that these rule changes upset the integrity of again. what do you think about the recent announcement that pop one is eliminating kickoffs nccic returns? without prevent brain injuries in your opinion? >> good question, mr. pallone. my reaction is, this is pop warner's way of saying that gradeschool boys are not capable physically of playing the game the way it is designed. they are making our argument. they are making the argument that these boys should be converted to flag football until they reached a physical maturity of 14 or 15, to play the game infrastructure. we advocate the basic changes in the game. ..

mr. o'neill, my 10-year-old tried to tackle football, when my 8-year-old was seven he played for flag football. because they are not ready to tackle that they actually drop out of the sport? >> we haven't but it's a good point. football loses any number of good candidates for the fact that we throw them in unprepared physically at a younger age. there is a soundbit soundbite sm adding sound bites i would like to play when we finishe finish i have one minute from the coach and broadcaster who tells the story where his son coached ninth-grade football at a school in california and john said to him if you take a boy that didn't play contact football and match hi them up against a boy t did play through grade school, how long would it take the boy that didn't play to catch up with the skills of the boy that did. his son said to him one week it would take him to catch up to what supposedly had been learned by a contact player in those eight years that he took all of that head trauma from age five through 13. >> i was intrigued in the testimony of young women having more concussions than young men.

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mr. ornstein: those that listen to my colleagues should compare it to the drivel that dominates most of cable television dialogue, and i want to give a shout out to karlyn, heather sims, carolyn -- eleanor o'neill these sessions together and work to decide what we're going to talk about. we are very proud to be part of this election watch series. so, with that, what is going to happen down ballot? obviously, this is a really difficult year for republicans in the senate. we knew that going into it and we know the rhythm of senate elections. it was up -- it was who was up six years ago, the numbers work very much against republicans this time, 24 senate seats, 10 democrats. because of the wave that occurred six years ago that means you've got a lot of republicans who are naturally vulnerable. they are in blue states. there are seven of them and then there are others. and it means the democrats survived a difficult election and you're not going to find many vulnerable there. what has happened now with trump and with the discord inside the republican party is that the number of seats that are now in play on the republican side has expanded. and it has expanded for a number of reasons. it was striki