penney store on main street. at three years old, i could not read or write, but i was amazed at the atmosphere in that building. i was fascinated by the stores themselves, but as i begin to study the stores, i began to know more and more about the man behind them, j.c. penney himself. rural america was always part of my childhood in my formative years. i did not realize the degree to which he was also part of j.c. penney's and his stores as well. this gradually became an academic interest of mine, the more i discovered of the rural connection i had not known before, and most people had not known, either. that's what made the book come about the way it did. >> his business model was similar to what the golden rule merchants had started. he didn't open the store entirely on his own. his mentor tom callahan and another mentor, guy johnson, partnered with him. what was different about the stores is they were partnerships. an employee that came to work, penney preferred to call them associates, they had an opportunity

our look at american business leaders continues with james cash penney and his contribution to rural america. >> like most people in wyoming at the turn-of-the-century, he was a transplant. he was born and raised in missouri. i think jcpenney was a country boy at heart. there is an old expression, you can always take the boy out of the country, but you can never take the country out of the boy. i think we see that in terms of the life that jcpenney lived. even though he was in wyoming for roughly 10 years and spent the balance of his life in new york city, he never lost that essence of who he was as this country boy who liked small towns. when you look at where he started here in wyoming, a lot of these communities were relatively young. even as they branched into neighboring states. host of these towns hadn't been incorporated until the late 1800s and some not until the 20th century. in many cases, he became the first department store that was operating. >> tell me about his early life. how does he end up here in wyoming? parts he was born in missouri. born and raised and spent his

steve penney arranged with the fbi to conduct my interview at the olympic training center where i was under the control and observation of usa gymnastics and the united states olympic and paralympic committee. the day of my interview steve penney flew to the olympic training center and he made sure i was aware he was there. i felt pressured by the fbi to consent to nassar's plea deal. the agent diminished the significance of my abuse and made me feel my criminal case wasn't worth pursuing. special agent in charge of investigating nassar met steve penney for beers to discuss job opportunities in the olympic movement. another fbi agent worked with steve penney to determine jurisdiction without interviews the survivors. i watched multiple high ranking officials at usag, usopc and fbi resign or retire without explanation of how they may have contributed to the problem, some of whom were publicly thanked for their service and rewarded with severance or bonus money. my reports of abuse were not only buried by usag usopc, but federal law enforcement officer failed to follow their most basic

. >> o'donnell: lieutenant general marc sasseville and heather penney flew f-16s for the air national guard. on september 11, 2001, they

her name is heather penney and she was just in her 20's back in 2000. one. >> and unbeknownst to her in everybody else. the passengers and crew well, they were becoming heroes that day as they tried to take over flight 93 so it would not make it to its destination. likely washington, d c this. well, heather penney was still on the ground trying to get clearance to go up in the air on what would become a suicide mission. >> i'm just your. average ordinary american. >> but when lucky as she goes by, started her day on that crisp and cool tuesday morning of 9/11/2000. one, she could never have imagined. should be asked to willingly. take down a passenger plane in the process of possibly taking her own life. >> that tuesday morning was an absolutely ordinary morning you see lucky penney was one of 2 f 16 fighter pilots with the air force that scrambled to find take down flight 93 before it hits likely destination. the u.s. capitol in washington, dc. >> they were in a meeting when they heard the second tower being hit we knew immediately that we needed to ge

well, from the very beginning when i was reporting my abuse to steve penney, from the very beginning, penney kept telling my mom and i that the most important thing was to keep things confidential, the most important thing was, know, to give mckayla maroney breathing room, that we weren't talking about it it seemed his biggest concern that it wasn't going to get out. never how are you feeling? what can we do to help you i remember one time i asked steve penney, just making sure that nassar wasn't going to be at a competition and steve penney said something back like, can you just sign your agreement already? like it was -- there was never any concern for how we were doing, and it's the same feeling with the fbi i followed up so many times. my mom would follow-up i was -- so triggering to me i was so afraid. so my mom has been a warrior and big support system for me and kept following up asking if the fbi would interview me and always told i'm working on it, i'll get it to you don't worry about it i'm handling it. unfortunately we thought gymnastics usa was doing the right thing. so th

the fbi, jay abbott and his subordinate, steve penney, usa gymnastics, u.s. olympic and paralympic committees. the burden is ours in the u.s. senate to see that there is a full investigation, that there's personal accountability and institutional accountability for abuse, enablement of abuse, neglectful and improper law enforcement conduct and i think compelling evidence of potential obstruction of justice and official corruption in this case as well. so thank you again for your testimony. i'll make sure that each of you and your families' representatives have contact information for me and my office and continue to work with my colleagues to ensure that justice is done. thank you. >> thank you, senator osoff. miss biles, miss maroni, miss nichols, thanks for your testimony today. it was historic and it will make a difference in the lives of many people who are witnessing it. you don't have to wait for the judges to put numbers up on the board. you all were gold medallists today in the cause of justice. so thank you for joining us. you're discussed. >> thank

c. penney's. today everyone agreed. it was a miracle. only 2 people were killed in me. so this is my mom typewriter. she used this in college and kept it all these years and you know, took really good care of it and i used to play with it when i was a kid. these are just 2 hiking bucks that she loaned me. i plan de la hiking this summer and i don't know like having them here. they definitely so a little piece a her this painting. i don't know. i actually how many little things around here kind of way i've heard that makes me sad just going through the fast but yes patent because she you know, she is gone. she's dead now, but i don't know. i think of hers being here and like and alive. but i don't know, i find me. oh, i found out about the shooting actually running on twitter as things were coming in i called my mom. i didn't hear an answer from her, which was typical called the house and talked with my step dad robert. he also said he hadn't heard from her, but that she had gone shopping. so i knew she would be a clock, but i just figured, i have never happened to your

. >> o'donnell: lieutenant general marc sasseville and heather penney flew f-16s for the air national guard. on september 11, 2001, they watched two planes hit the world trade center. >> we knew, immediately, as soon as we saw the images, that we needed to protect and defend. >> o'donnell: protect and defend the nation's capitol, as commercial airliners had become weapons of war. what did you understand about the rules of engagement, heather? >> we understood what the threat was. we were looking for a rogue airliner, flying low, that was not communicating with air traffic control. >> o'donnell: the pilots had no time to spare. the country was under attack. they knew of at least one plane still in the sky, flying low. it was united flight 93. ( shouting ) >> mayday! >> you got united 93? >> o'donnell: they didn't have time to load missiles. so you two were flying f-16s that weren't armed with missiles. so, how were you going to take down flight 93? >> we were going to have to hit the airplane and-- and disable it somehow. >> o'donnell: a kamikaze mission. >> our only choice was going t

there are multiple scenarios as to what can happen today, so the judge, judge brenda penney could terminatefor all, but also move to suspend her father, jamie spears. we're waiting for the free britney movement that will hold a rally on the streets outside the courthouse later today. >> chloe, we'll look for those updates, thank you. >>> we're staying on the breaking developments as democrats try to pass two critical pieces of president biden's agenda. senator kyrsten sinema headed back to the white house for a fourth meeting with the white house today. nancy pelosi frustrated by moderates who are blocking a deal. you founded your kayak company because you love the ocean- not spreadsheets. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire (vo) how do you know when you've found your team? whether you're winning, or just doing your best. when you're on the lanes, they're right behind you. reunite with your team. go bowling. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuros

so at the very least, it is judge penney's duty as an honorable judge to remove jamie spears from thisntirely from this conservatorship which is fraudulent and unjust. but getting rid of her father is an excellent first step. >> but just out of curiosity, if that doesn't happen today, what would the free britney movement do? >> we're going to have to brainstorm. i don't want to give away any of our tactics. this is a social justice movement. this such bigger than britney at this moment. we are continuing to uncover a lot of unsettling e ing facts a the probate court system. we're going to get louder, keep screaming and won't give up until we effect change that helps britney and conservatees. >> if britney were to be freed from her conservatorship today after 13 years, what would you do? >> i think we might pop some champagne. i think there will be celebrations. everybody will hug and cry and we'll just be really proud as a movement. we fought really hard for this and our end goal is for britney to have her own voice and freedom. i don't know if it's today, but i do hope that it's soon.

situation where at least two fbi agents engaged in corrupt behavior, having dinner and drinks with steve penneye asking the question of what needs to be happening with criminal charges and how we help those over 100 little girls molested after the fbi knew exactly what was going on and chose not to investigate it. but we have to start asking what does accountability look like in the bigger picture? because the reality is what we saw in the senate hearings just a couple days ago, that's a story almost every sexual assault victim would tell you who tries to report. it's very difficult to get law enforcement and prosecutors to take sexual assault seriously. and that's why we have a situation where on average out of 300 reports to police, only 16 go to jail. sexual assault victims are fighting the justice system as well. >> to that point, i want you to take a listen to this moment from this week's testimony from mckayla maroney, detailing a 2015 phone call she had with an fbi agent. take a listen. >> i began crying at the memory over the phone and there was just dead silence. i was so shocked at th

penney, k-mart or other no longer existing retailers, that real estate has to be repurposed.uptcies in the mall space that are extremely attractive where one is creating these pretty attractive discounted values. and the value tends to be located the core of a city we're not in a target-rich environment for distressed and bankruptcy the way we were, say, a yerpg. that's for sure. >> looking through some of your portfolio positions, tell under the circumstances why such a big position in dell. >> well, dell is an arbitrage situation that has to do with the separation of the vmware and the dell entities. that's really one where you have to determine what you think the value of underlying core 2ke8 is versus vmware. i think michael dell proved to be smarter than the market in terms of where the business was going longer term, and did an excellent job at playing the transition to the cloud. we think that's an arbitrage that will play out when the spin-off occurs. >> what about xilinx it's a risk ash that this that will take place. risk arbitrage is like this, while they look like

and as i said last time it would help if they all walked the supermarket aisle or the aisle at jc penneylicies are having on the american public. neil: what big companies do provide a lot of this stuff like your own kraft heinz giant, obviously they change the packaging or put fewer in each package. i don't know quite how it works but they find ways to deal with that in the sticker shock. >> typically, we do, neil. this time is a little different and in fact i'm starting to see price increases, the likes which probably we as an industry haven't taken maybe since the early 190s, late 80s. i'm chairman of a food company right now that looks like we're going public and we've raised prices on some items because the market is bearing it and we don't have any choice. i mean, the reality is you can cut labor, problem is labor costs are going up not down and you can cut it but everyone has supply chain constraints so you need labor. you can diminish we call it value engineering products in terms of removing pieces from the product or changing the packaging and so forth but consumers are not stup