the ohio state university is the largest employer in the state of ohio.s immensely powerful, local economy is based on the success of the athletic program. the brand is build on the success of the athletic program and frankly it just was an unfortunate situation. >> mike, i think everyone knows that a genital exam isn't necessary to measure body fat. i think everyone knows it's not necessary you say this happened to other wrestlers, other athletes at the school while you were there. congressman jim jordan was a wrestling coach. do you believe he knew about this while he was there? >> i know jim knew about what i call the deviant sexual atmosphere we were exposed to. >> how do you know? >> we all had conversations. jim was more like a big brother than a coach. he was 23, 24 years old when i first met him in 1986. i've known jim for over 40 years. his family and i -- i've been close to his family. i've stayed in touch with jim over the years. we talk once a month. >> do you remember specifically talking to him about this back then while it was happening? >>

ohio lost two. new york lost two.losing a seat or picking up a seat is where the map is going to have to be drawn with the most changes. so that creates opportunity for whoever is drawing that map. >> the republicans realized that 2008 might have been an important election. but that 2010 could be even more consequential. essentially, they are able to plot a path back to power by using redistricting. if you wanted to lock in control of congress, the way to do it was by winning all of the state legislative races around the country and tipping control of these chambers in your direction. republicans target 107 key state legislative races in 16 states. by targeting those handful of state legislative races, they calculate that they can control drawing more than 190 of the 435 u.s. house seats. >> we explain to national donors who otherwise really didn't care about any of this, invest in the down ballot races and you will have a national impact on congressional control. congressional races are very expensive. a single congr

district court in columbus ohio and claims that coaches and higher level officials knew of the abuse but did nothing to stop it the second lawsuit was filed by an unnamed former wrestler claiming he was abused by strauss on twenty occasions in the one nine hundred eighty s. strauss worked at ohio state for over twenty years as medical stuff and retired as a professor in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight soon after his retirement strauss moved to california and committed suicide in two thousand and five the university held a hearing on the complaints in one thousand nine hundred seven but according to the lawsuit they did not take legal or disciplinary action according to the associated press more than one hundred fifty former athletes and witnesses have been interviewed so far ohio state university issued a statement on tuesday saying they have received report of the sexual misconduct by straus for male student athletes in fourteen different sports it stated we are aware of reports that individuals at the university did not respond appropriately during that era they go on to say

he was, you know, he was there when we got to ohio state. continued to work at ohio state when i left. yes, knew the doctor. there's no truth that the fact that i knew of any abuse or i talked to other coaches, they didn't know of any abuse. they just -- that's just not accurate to say that we knew and didn't report it. not true. >> i have with me, mike disabato, former ohio state wrestler, who says he was abused by that team doctor and that then-assistant coach jim jordan knew all about it. thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you, brooke. >> i want to get you to respond to the congressman in a second. first i want to focus on you, mike. so take me back. you were -- first when you were 14, in high school when you first met dr. strauss. and it's my understanding he told you needed to undergo some ser sort of body fat evaluation. can you tell me what happened? >> actually, doc was conducting a research study in conjunction with the university, the ohio high school athletic association and the catholic diocese. he had access to our hig

more people were crossing the ohio river. refugees from bondage, willing to grow their own liberty, even if many whites in the nation seemed intent on expanding slavery. so i'll have her get up and read a quick quote am quote from a speech given by an african-american equal rights activist in ohio in 1849, one of the degrees farmers did witch their land and their health and their success was start convention movements that would meet annually in the states to overturn engines, to end slavery and some in ohio were effective. this is a speech that one of them gave 1849. and >> we didn't form our -- we are coming. coming for our rights, coming through the constitutional of our common country, coming through the law, and relying upon god and the justice of our cause, praying ourselves never r to -- would i be the iron manacles or the slave or in the injust written manacles of the free? [applause] >> so, questions. >> what got you started on this journey, the first that that caused you to say, i have to write a book about this? >>

and i want to say there's a reason why illinois has half the number that indiana and ohio do. i mean it should have more. because at the time waterways are the ways that people are getting into the land. >> yeah. >> it is surrounded, mississippi river, ohio river. but illinois almost became a slave state in 1823. they actually had something called the illinois wars of 1820s where whites -- pro slavery whites were trying to push a new constitution which would legalize slavery in that state. let me tell you, they were not interested in having any more of those successful african-americans coming in. so they were creating these unbelievable anti-immigration laws. it was like if you came in and you didn't have free papers and you couldn't pay the 500 or 1,000 dollar bond to settle in that state, then you would be like -- i think it was like no less than 28 -- but no more than 35, they were really specific. then in the 1850s, they passed another law saying if african-americans came into settle, or found without their free papers, couldn't pay the fine, then they could actually be l

pages from the journal of the ohio senate and from the ohio house of representatives and mail thosees to me? a few weeks later, i get the envelope. i open it up and i am saying oh, my goodness, not only did the ohio senate ratify this amendment, in point of fact, so, too, did the ohio house of representatives, when the amendment would have been over eight decades old at that point in time. so now i know about ohio having ratified in 1873 and maybe the only one that ratified during the 1800's. brian: we're talking about eight states after maine? gregory: there was another one that i found out in 1997, five years after the amendment was incorporated into the constitution. it turns out that kentucky, during its first month of statehood ratified the entire package of the bill of rights, all 12 of them. i had no clue. that meant maybe it was nine states at that point when maine ratified it. brian: did you have any money when you started doing this? gregory: no, 1983 and 1984 were very lean years for me. of course, i was doing this by mail, just mailing letters. my mother was gracious eno

the -- at ohio state university years ago.s investigating allegations that richard strauss abused members from the late '70s to the late '90s. strauss has died, but his tenure there overlapped with now-congressman jim jordan, at the time the former assistant wrestling doech school. listen to what the ohio lawmaker said a short time ago -- >> no abuse, never heard of abuse. if we had, we'd of reported it. and if, in fact, there's probably, we want justice for -- there's problems, we want justice for the victims. we're happy to talk with the folks who are doing the investigation. nothing -- i mean, things they said about me just were flat-out not true. >> reporter: the comment was yesterday speaking about the conditions in the training facility, open showers, things of that nature. can you comment on any of that? >> a fact, yeah. it was a fact. >> reporter: did you remember dr. strauss? does any of the accusations being made against him, by anybody, have any credence at all? >> i did know dr. strauss. he was, you know, he was th

stormy daniels arrested at a strip club in ohio. michael avenatti tweeting his client taken into custody for allowing a customer to touch her on stage which is a sigh legislation of -- violation of an ohio law. cnn has reached out to the columbus police department for additional information. >>> china vows retaliation of the u.s. tariffs. looking to hit back. the trump administration drew up a new list of $200 billion of chinese goods. slapping 10% tariffs on thousands of items. china plans to hit back, but doesn't buy enough from the u.s. to match dollar for dollar. about $130 billion of u.s. goods. beijing will use qualitative measures. that could be bad news. china is a huge market for many american markets. it means stricter inspections and hold ups at customs. consumer boycotts or the chinese government could block expansion plans. walmart and gm have plans to grow in china. tesla announced it is building a factory there. china could hit the u.s. economy by selling u.s. treasury bonds. china holds $1.2 trillion in american debt

ohio state university, through an independent investigator that was appointed by the ohio attorney general'sice into alleged

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coached at ohio state. i have two boys that wrestled for the badgers, four nephew how fast wrestles for ohio state and never for iowa. conversations in a locker room are a lot different than people coming up and talking about abuse. no one ever reported any abuse to me. if they had, i would have dealt with it what bothers me the most guys saying these things i know they know the truth. i know they do. yet, he wrestled -- we trained with these guys every day. sometimes twice a day. and for -- i know what -- know they know what they're saying is not accurate. >> bret: what do you think the motivation is now? >> you would have to ask them. i would tell with you mike di sabato has a vendetta against ohio state. he lost a licensing agreement with ohio state. is he out to get ohio state. he has a vendetta against our family. he was arrested just five months ago threatening chris spielman's lawyer and chris spielman. he has all kinds of lawsuits against him. and what bothers me more than that is the fact that cnn

edward sutland is editor in chief of "the lantern" at ohio state. good to see you.ut this latest accusation and lawsuit? >> so in the latest lawsuit filed against ohio state basically comes from a number of different plaintiffs. each of the three previous ones have all been class action. this one has been led by someone named steve snyder hill who claims that when he was a student at ohio state, he went to a physical with dr. strauss. during the physical, he was abused by strauss. he then went and complained about these accusations. he said there was no action taken after that. now, the lawsuit also cites that ohio state knew as early as 1978 when strauss was first hired that complaints had been made suggesting sexual abuse from the doctor. so in a number of these allegations, it's always claimed that ohio state had knowledge of and had received complaints of the sexual abuse from the doctor. these are ones that go into more specific detail. >> so how is that documented? i mean, how does the university or how is it able to reflect, you know, what its response was at

>>> coming up here live, the ohio republican congressman, jim jordan, today announcing that he is running for house speaker. it comes as he stands accused by wrestlers that he coached at ohio state university of ignoring allegations of sexual abuse. something that he denies. we'll have more on that after the break and what he's hoping to accomplish even if he doesn't win. you're watching msnbc. i could. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. for afib patients well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke.

ohio's coal industry.said he was sitting in his law office monday watching the trump/putin news conference when he saw trump siding with vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence community. then he said, quote, something just snapped. chris geoghan is with me now. let me hear it from you. why did you resign? >> well, i was sitting in this very seat, book. rememb remember the news cycle. we had the run-up to the nato summit. problem with theresa may in the united kingdom. the breached protocol with the queen. mueller dropped the indictment on the 12 russians just before the meeting in helsinki. and i'm sitting here watching this and there just cannot be any confusion. when the president of the united states, who has the sworn duty to protect and defend the united states is there on swoforeign s, three feet from vladimir putin and he is openly taking the position of the russian president over our intel community. it was a point at which, as i said, something snapped and i don't hold a political or policy pos

ohio state needs to get down to business and find out what these victims experienced.lieve their stories, i want the full picture to be painted so we know exactly what jim jordan did. >> let me just drill down on that a little bit more. that's what's actually happening. we hear from the university one thing -- two things are happening here. one, we are getting different stories. we are hearing from some of these wrestlers. this doctor interacted with athletes across more than a dozen sports, i understand it, worked with the wrestling teams for about two decades. there are a lot of people to talk to here as the university continues this investigation of a man who took his life, by the way. i believe it was in 2005. we are look at all of this. we're not getting straight answers. why are we not getting straight answers to jim jordan, is that still giving him the benefit of the doubt? >> that's a fair point. we need those answers. any investigation -- i know this isn't a lant investigatiow enfo investigation, this is one the university is conducting. the public will know m

the small industry town of freemont, ohio concerned. ght behind me i the nation's largest ketchup plant whichuc pr 2 million bottles of ketchup daily. we are opposed to any change that impacts our ability to seamlessly move our products across theserd bos. slapping tariffs on ketchup was highly symbolic on canada's park. not only does kraft/heinz dominate 70% of the canadian ketchup market, but they closed a factory in canada years ago. in ohio most of its product is produced is a political swing state, which often determines who wins the u.s. presidency. over 51% of constituents back president trump in 2016. >> heinz ketchup is an american product. >> patrick toomey from pennsylvania. kraft/heinz home state. this could have an advse impact on kraft/heinz and its projects. >> the solution for them, to be able to continue to sell their oduct in canada, would be to shut down their u.s. factory and move to canada, t they wojedn't be sub to these tariffs. >> resident thes of this small working town says this ketchup plant is a big source of

now congressman jim jordan represents a very republican district in ohio. he does have a democratic challenger for his seat this year, a woman who is a former kindergarten teacher. she told cnn today, quote, ohio state has an obligation to get to the bottom of this with a thorough and fair investigation. jim jordan has an obligation to cooperate fully with that investigation. again, these are serious allegations that have been made by former students and athletes at the school. they're very serious allegations. the doctor in question worked in athletics department at ohio state from 1981 to 1995. jim jordan overlapped with the doctor's tenure for i believe eight years. he reportedly had a locker in the locker room that was right next to the accused physician. if this turns out to be a penn state style scandal and expose, congressman jim jordan of ohio could end up embroiled in a very serious matter. again, it is one thing to just be adjacent to somebody else's scandal. it's another thing to have multiple alleged survivors of this kind of abuse say on the re

he was a wrestling coach at ohio state.telling politico overnight if he had known wrestlers were being abused by the team's doctor he would have "done something about it." one former wrestler, however, is pushing back saying that's not true saying not only did giordano what was going on, he repeatedly turned a blind eye. jean casarez spoke with one of those wrestlers. there's a lot of back and forth with one of this. >> let's start at the beginning. ohio state university is in the midst of a massive independent investigation about their team doctor for the university. he was there for two decades, the team doctor in the athletic department from 1981 through 1995. he's now deceased but the investigation is because of allegations he sexually molested and abused male athletes during the time he was there. and the university has interviewed over 150 people at this point. in comes michael desabato, a former wrestler at the university and this investigation covers 15 major sports at ohio state but it is wrestling where jim jordan

he was there when we got to ohio state, and was continuing to work at ohio state once i left. so, yeah, knew the doctor. but there's no truth to the fact that i knew of any abuse. i talked to other coaches. they didn't know of any abuse. that's just not accurate to say those things that we knew of it and didn't say anything. >> here with me to talk more about this, cnn political commentator lauren berg. and david chalian. so, david, this really comes down to who do you believe here because you have a former wrestler who says that everybody knew in effect about this doctor who i understand has now passed away, but his abuse. and jim jordan saying, listen, it's just flat out untrue. i didn't know anything about it. >> more than one former wreftsle wrestler. the former story had three. hard to imagine that everyone working there would have some knowledge. this clearly isn't over yet. you can hear the other thing congressman jordan was saying. this wrestler speaking out was contacting them in a way that he felt was in a bullying way and might involve the capital police. you'll hav

of ohio is today. this is a much larger area it is the whole ohio river trainage had is what is today ohio, i didn't know, illinois, kentucky, tennessee, west virginia with a lot of virginia, pennsylvania, huge area. and you know it is basically a region of size of france a wilderness to white europeans although indian tribes hunting there for industries. so the message that governor din white to the french who was at a fort way back in the wilderness, in the ohio wilderness was essentially stay out all of these lands belong to king george. so i won't get into the long history of war between england and france you know, we have in europe there's 700 years or however long it was intermittent areas of peace at this point there's a few years peace between two countries. so if you think of seskly the french were up in canada with what is canada today -- was then too and the british had their colonies down in where our 13 colonies were on the atlantic seaboard. in between was that huge chunk called the ohio

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio reserves. the gentlelady from north carolina yields. mr. evans: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 2655 the small business innovation protection act of 2017. i want to thank my colleague, congressman fitzpatrick of pennsylvania, for working with me to help america's small businesses via this critical piece of legislation. h.r. 2655 directs the small business administration and the undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and the directive of u.s. patent and trademark office to enter into a partnership agreement. one to develop high-quality training for small business concerns related to domestic and international protections of intellectual property and how much such protections should be considered in small business' business plans and strategies. number two, to leverage existing training material already developed to educate inventors, as well as small business concerns. in addition, section 4 of this bill provides that the agency's must use the training material th

i want to commend my colleague from ohio on his legislation. the national parks means so much to us and alaska. i'm looking forward to getting on that bill as a cosponsor of a very important piece of legislation. so once again, senator portman is leading the way in the senate on so many issues. but, mr. president, what i want to do this afternoon was say a few words about the president's visit to nato and the nato meeting that we just had and talk about the importance of alliances and our allies. i think if you read in the press now, i think overall you see this trip, you see the meeting. the president met with all the nato leaders in brussels, that overall was a good trip. there's been this commitment by nato members since at least 2014, but it really goes way earlier than 2014 for each country to spend 2% or more of their g.d.p. on defense spending. so we share the burdens of defense. now, the united states has slings always -- -- has essentially always, always, met this target, easily met this target, but a lot of other countries haven't. an

in ohio, it is a really big deal.e house will have an event today where they take a product from every state and it will have it on the south lawn. hopefully the rain will hold off for that. they are proud and want to have an economy that will allow them to continue to manufacture here. are you seeing that in ohio? >> absolutely. since the tax cuts, ohio is growing and we have current pennies that are investing their employees, they are adding employees. this is an opportunity to grow that business in ohio. pick up one of the leaders on the house side democrats said today about make it in america again. watch this. >> i have always said that if democrats want to be the party of workers, we also must be the party of employers. however, with the current congress and top administration, workers are not only missing a seat at the table, they aren't even in the run. we must restore balance. and have a congress that partners with both labor and management. to grow businesses and make sure workers share in the rewards of suc

the congress member continues to deny knowing any abuse at ohio state. the freedom caucus is taking a wait and see approach. >>> president trump sued by the former personal driver. claiming he was forced to work thousands of hours of overtime without fair compensation during the two decades on the job. the complaint said mr. trump acted with a sense of privilege when he denied a raise to the driver. the lawsuit refers to trump as purported billionaire. the spokesperson tells cnn mr. cintron was paid in ooaccordanc with the law. >>> a 5 month old partially buried in the mountains following a 911 tip. the sheriff followed the sound and discovered the baby alive face down under a pile of sticks and debris. the affiliate kpax reports that the baby is in good condition. 32-year-old francis crowley has been charged with criminal endangerment. >>> let's get a check on "cnn money." global stocks higher. dow and s&p 500 with the best day in a month. the trade war is on the back burner and investors hope for another strong quarter. profits should be 20% higher tha

i also want to make sure that ohio state conducts the review of this doctor and what he did.t's important so that campuses are safe. i'm glad jim is supporting that review. >> he's pretty staunchly standing on jim jordan's side. what does that say to you, garrett? >> reporter: well, katy, it's consistent with what we've seen from the rest of the republican party which has really closed ranks around jordan at this point. first it was his colleagues in the house freedom caucus who made a unanimous decision that they would back him, saying as much in a tweet that they sent out i think it was just last night. and then you had numbers two and three house republicans also saying that they would stand with jordan and that they believe his denials. right now i think it's a pretty consistent position here in the house, that republicans have closed ranks around one of their most visible and at times outspoken members, at least pending the results of this investigation, which the speaker alluded to here. that's where we're going to get the facts here is from ohio state's and the sort of

this time in ohio. jackie has more on that story. >> that's right.hipotle closing down one of its restaurants in a suburb of columbus, ohio at least two customers posted on the food safety website i was pois poisoned.com that they experienced nausea, vomiting and fever after eating there in a statement a chipotle spokesperson said we acted quickly and closed this single restaurant out of an abundance of caution business insider reporting during an inspection last week that the local health department found the restaurant was not storing lettuce and beans at the proper temperatures. food safety is a top priority for brian niccol who took over in march a series of high-profile incidents in 2015 bruised the chain's reputation and stock price. last year they retrained kitchen crews after identifying a sick employee as the cause of a nur nu nurovirus outbreak >> that stock is down just under 2% now cmg a name we're watching all day. jackie, see you in a bit >>> cbs appointing an outside law firm to handle an investigation into misconduct, allegations agai

i think house and some random cop in columbus, ohio.e random cop in columbus, ohio. i think that stormy daniels's lawyer, who is all over the news all the time in the united states and really just a the news all the time in the united states and reallyjust a great advocate for her, was initially trying to spin that narrative, that this was politically motivated. not only that, he said it was set up, a sting operation. i don't think that there is any evidence to support that, but i think it is a little more interesting is if you look at the ohio law that they used to arrest stormy daniels, some of the motivations behind that law reminded me an awful lot of some of the motivations behind the trump team's campaign to discredit daniels. so when you said tried to discredit her, in what way? exponent you mean by that. sure, so of course the trump team has been denying in the first place that stormy daniels and trump had an affair, although it has been admitted that hush money was paid, so what for, is the question. the denials are looking a l

the gentleman from ohio time is expired. mr. strzok can answer questions. >> mr. chairman, before mr. gaddy start, may i respond? >> there is an appropriate time for over sight and you know it is at the end of the investigation once it is concluded. i am certain that congress will have the opportunity to look at any investigation once it is closed and ask all these questions and i would love to answer each and every one of your question. >> mr. strzok. we know the answer from you and you advised that you can't answer the questions. that's what he's not cooperating with and we should not do it. he is not cooperating with us. >> these questions are table setting questions regarding the formation of this and he can answer those questions. >> he can't answer those questions. >> he's advised from the fbi that he can't. >> gentleman from ohio has 15 seconds. >> agent strzok, who's being square here? you say in your e-mail we got a copy of the dossier from d simpson's. >> we'll have regular order and we'll revisit that question. the chair recognizes the gentleman from so

he was there when we got to ohio state. and was continuing to work at ohio state once i left.h, you know, knew the doctor. but there's no truth to the fact that i knew of any abuse. i've talked to other coaches. they didn't know of any abuse. that's just not accurate to say those things that we knew of it and didn't report it. >> is that uncharacteristic for dr. strauss? how do you characterize the accusations against strauss, against him? >> you know, all i know is i never knew of any abuse from dr. strauss, plain and simple. the conditions as you described? yeah. a separate locker room but, you know, the shower facility was in the general area. yes, he would do that, but faculty staff, students, just the nature of how the arrangement was. >> can you comment on the timing of this, three decades later and your name has been brought up as possible -- >> you know, look, the timing makes you wonder. all i know is it's not true. nothing that was said about me was true. and if there is any type of abuse of these folks, we want them to get justice. but it's interesting that the timi

but investigators, investigating all of these accusations against the doctor at ohio state, they sayng different. >> exactly. independent counsel, the attorneys, have told cnn that they actually reached out via e-mail and phone to congressman jordan's office and got no response. they wanted him to participate in an interview in this massive investigation that is under way right now at the university. but jim jordan's office told cnn last night, "we have searched all of our communications. we find nothing from you." so this supposed communications, send it to us. let you know when you send it and we are ready to assist you. but there is a massive investigation at ohio state university going on right now about the team doctor, now deceased, but he was there for over 20 years. he allegedly molested and sexually abused male athletes during his time at the university. and it's 14 different sports that they are interviewing witnesses and former athletes from, including football, baseball, soccer, gymnastics, and wrestling. and that's where jim jordan is sort of intertwined, because he was

but ohio? what did he do in ohio? it turns out he was born in ohio. he left ohio when he was 13. whatever. we still had fight. even i was amazed that tonight you put up a picture of the committee when it was called the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. you had a picture of john before the rayburn building was born and what is now the resources committee. i didn't realize they used to meet and resources because both john and i at one time were on the fisheries committee. i asked if that was the case and he said that they met there for years. we learned some history tonight. waldenwant to thank greg and fred upton. joe barton is here. most importantly, john dingell. without john the committee would not be what it is today. he fought for the jurisdiction and made it a committee. 60% of the bills and the house of representatives get referred to the energy and commerce committee. when we say it is important, we really mean it. i wanted to tell a few stories tonight. butll probably be brief probably longer than you, greg. forgive me. elected, myirst predecessor was jim h

look at a place like ohio, bonnie smith, that county voted for democrats all the way back. you can look back and typically they vote by 55%. trump pulls in 50s on the other side. there was a swing voter waiting. that person was west of philadelphia and east of denver. >> talk about how integral the great recession was in helping to create this coalition? you both make the point several places throughout the book that this is a coalition that trump, not to take credit away but in the sense that trump tapped into and exploited and recognized that was forming regardless of him emerging on the scene. i feel it is why you believe the coalition is more durable, talk about the role the recession created fueling the coalition and what does it take for it to stay together? >> i will focus on that, in ohio, a county of 98,000 people had 98,000 people in 1970, the country has grown by 59% in that time. the workforce is the same as it was in the depths of the great recession eight years ago. the rest of the country bounced back. things are not good everywhere in america. we found in ou

. >>> allegations that jim jordan knew about the sexual misconduct at ohio state 30 years ago. jordan was assistant wrestling coach 30 years ago. telling cnn he and his teammates spoke openly about how the doctor would shower with with the athletes and -- shower with the athletes. the ohio law make anner deny -- lawmaker denying any allegations much sexual misconduct. >> i was never told of abuse. if i had been, i would have dealt with it. >> the chairman of the house freedom caucus calling on members to support jordan. the ohio republican is expected to return to washington this week to fight the allegations. >>> soybean farmers and au automakers stand to lose in the trade war. the u.s. says it is combating china's years of unfair trade practices. beijing is responding to the trade bullying. china tariffs hit cars which hurts ford and tesla. both export cars to china german automakers -- both export cars to china. german automakers ship cars overseas and it will force them to absorb costs or pass along to customers. and china is a huge customer for dairy farmers and soybean fa

at ohio state.ne from june 15 to congressman jordan and oliver luck which reads, reverend james, wants to be speaker of the house despite his lack of knowledge of the systemic abuse. and it was concluded a may 6 e-mail with #rapecoverup. a way of life. >> something needs to be done to protect students, not just athletes. students across campuses at ohio state and across the country. sexual assault is a systemic problem. >> the doctor accused of sexual misconduct died in 2005. ruled a suicide. disabato said it was a joke that the male athletes would want to give them a genital exam every time he saw them. trace? >> trace: meantime, jordan is talking about the investigation. >> that's right. congressman jordan has denied any wrong doing or knowledge of sexual abuse. he said he will cooperate with the investigation until the allegations made by ohio state athletes. jordan's office said the law firm tried to contact the congressman on a nonexistent account. >> we're happy to sit down with the firm doing

ohio state university, through an independent investigator that was appointed by the ohio attorney general's office into alleged impropriety. and according to nbc news, athletes were he molested during examinations, that there were showers that were inappropriate. and one former athlete has spoken with cnn and says that jim jordan had direct knowledge of the molestation going on and he did nothing about it. jim jordan has responded, he says, quote, congressman jordan never saw any abuse, never heard about any abuse and never had any abuse reported to him during the time as a coach at ohio state. he has not been contacted by investigators about the matter. but will assist them in any way they ask because if what is alleged is true, the victims deserve a full investigation and justice. and brooke, the doctor involved in all of this, dr. vaus ostrau died in 2005, but there has been a referral to the local criminal investigation prosecutors unit to see if there should be an investigation at all. and it is interesting to note, i've covered so many of these cases and the investigation itself is on

jordan was a coach on the ohio state wrestling team during the time this was alleged. multiare exwrestlers have come forward on the record using their names to allege that congressman jim jordan knew at the time about the abuse, when it was happening and he did nothing to stop it or report it. one stunt has gone on the record saying that he specifically complained to congressman jordan about being groped by the team doctor. he says despite direct appeal for help to jim jordan, mr. jordan took no action in response. he put out a statement denying that he ever knew about any abuse at ohio state during his time there. he then amended his statement on later add an additional sentence supporting an investigation into the allegations. the school has now hired a major law firm to investigate this matter and there are now some expectations that the congressman might be called in to that investigation as a possible witness. a teacher told cnn, ohio state has an obligation to get to the bottom of this with a thorough and fair investigation. jim jordan has an obligation to cooper

last month he rescued a family of four and ohio before their band caught on fire.or inviting us into your home on this independence day. i am jon scott, good night from washington. have a happy and safe fourth of july. ♪ speak of the press had to scramble to get these shots. just after 6:00 p.m. on may 29th, 1988, president ronald reagan and first lady nancy emerged from the limousine. they were in moscow.ow where does the american president had come out to meet them on announced instantly spread and thousands of russians surged onto the streets. despite their worry that things could spiral out of control, the 77-year-old reagan climbed to address the park. his press secretary thought, this will be a disaster or be the greatest performance

at least 100 new allegations of sexual abuset ohio state university. iraq and afghanist war veterans exposed to toxic particles. plus, much more. >> woodruff: president trump has made waves on thworld stage an here at home over the last ten days. as foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports, from nato to helsinki, many are asking, what happens now? >> schifrin: in moscow tay, russia's coordinated and consistent message machine crafted its rsion of the helsinki summit, from russia's state tv... to a phalanx of sissian generals... to rusa's top diplomat in the u.s. the message: presidents putin and trump are on the same page. >> ( translated ): they went over the whole cycle of bilateral connections, as well as the problems in regional and global security. schifrin: russian ambassador to the u.s. anatoly antonov called the summit pivotal, and called u.s. criticism of president trump a sign oys americanria. >> ( translated ): as president trump said, a witch hunt is what it is. >> schifrin: in the u.s., senior officials were idatially in the rk

the pioneers in the ohio territory and they were coming after. this is something that commentators in the area are noticing. they're probably coming in to find african-americans. already established. already successful. i'm originally from central illinois. how exactly did you go about fighting these specific towns. how do you find these micro- communities. was any connection from one locale to the other. especially as you look at this mess. i want to say there is a reason why illinois has the number the indiana and ohio do. it should have more because at the time waterways are the ways that they are getting in there. they almost became a slave state in 1823. where the post slavery whites were trying to push a new constitution which would legalize slavery in that state. they were not interested in having any more of the successful african-americans coming in. they were creating these unbelievable anti- immigration laws. if you can pay the 500 or $1,000 bond. no less than 28 lashes. but no more than 35. and then in the 1850s they pass another loss

in a race like ohio's 12, the candidates have to do a dance. they would love to get donald trump out here to energize the rural areas that have lots of trump supporters in them, but they also risk energizing some of the places that are heavily democratic as well. i think the president can do good for republicans, especially in some of these republican districts. but in the democratic-leaning districts or the swing district, i think you will see candidates avoiding him, just as candidates avoided barack obama in swing districts during his presidency. host: as you go to your site, the generic ballot giving , explain a 7.3% edge to our audience what that means. very expensives to pull individual congressional districts because you have to pull something on the order of 100,000 people. where theyo instead as people, hey, who do you want to win congress, or who do plan on voting for in the next election? can people give their answers. as of right now, on average, people are saying by a seven point margin, they prefer democrats than republicans. this

and coach of the ohio state wrestling team.her former wrestler claiming jordan is not being truthful when he says he did not know the scene dr. was sexually abusing athletes. here's what jordan was saying. >> all i can do is tell the truth. we will be happy to sit down with the firm doing the investigation. i find it interesting they can't tell us who they talk to when they call our office but will tell the press they reached out to us and didn't respond. that is ridiculous. ed: talking about emails to break it down. these kind of accusations are very serious and i wonder on the substance of it what is jim jordan saying? sean daily saying he was groped by the team doctor and they talked about it. >> they are denying this all the way through. we have these emails, wrestled under jim jordan at ohio state, the reason he started to send these emails, they are peppered with emoji's, the pros is hard to understand but he says i want to reach out to jim jordan who is in high profile position and he started to do this, followed up in m

but ohio law does not allow touching a nude or partially nude dancer. the attorney michael avenatti announced the arrest on twitter calling it a setup and politically motivated. and saying it reeks of desperation. columbus police did not immediately confirm the arrest. daniels has been, of course, at the center of a legal and political firestorm over her alleged affair with the president. >>> also breaking overnight, the founder of papa john's pizza has stepped down from the company after he was accused of saying the "n" word during a conference call. john schnatter's resignation as chairman of the board came just hours after his admission and apology for using the racial slur. abc's stephanie ramos has the new details. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: linsey and kendis, good morning. we've seen him in the commercials for so many years now, but papa john's founder is stepping away from his role as chairman after using a racial slur. it's official. when you hear about papa john's pizza, this familiar face won't be behind the brand anymore. >> every

stormy daniels arrested at a strip club in ohio. michael avenatti the adult film stars attorney tweeted his clin was taken into custody for allowing a customer to touch her while on stage. that appears to be a violation of the an ohio law. he calls daniels arrest politically motivated. cnn has reached out to the police department for additional information. >> america trade war with china is hurting american farmers. slashing 25% tariffs of on soybeans. after u.s. hit china with tariffs worth $35 billion. a ten year low. down 13% now since the beginning of the year. china is the largest buyer of american soybeans. about a third of the harvest. they warned this will hurt them at an already rocky time for the farm economy. the tariffs are designed to hurt them. 18 states grow the majority of soybeans. all but two voted for trump. they haven't provided details. agriculture secretary wrote there are laws to protect the losses. that's a tactic the wall street journal editorial board slams. trump wants taxpayers to bail out farmers hurt b