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I think i, like a lot of catholics, wish that the church did a whole lot more to get rid of these people immediately. i wish priests didnt -- took more consideration of the people, their flock instead of each other and the fraternity of the priest hood. i think that would have solved a lot of problems and i hope the church really comes down pretty aggressively on the people who committed these crimes, of course, and those who covered them up. >> neil: thats beautifully put, chris. not just a fel...

That is a lot to get to in one hour. i want to bring in a man who can make sense all of this. he know pwaoutz white house under siege. dan rather the host of tvs "the big interview. ". >> im grateful to be here. >> before we get to the stuff we had ready for you. is this madness? >> well, it is a kind of madness and what goes through my mind with events of the last 24 to 48 hours with cohen and manafort is president abraham lincoln had his team of rivals and trump had his flock of fellows. he ha...

He raped a child. >> do you feel it is not being done here? >> absolutely not. if you steal money as a priest from a church, you go to jail. they prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. if you rape a child, they move you to another parish, to a new flock of unsuspecting children and families that have been groomed to receive it. >> what has this meant, this report, to the folks who you know? i know you know many of them, who have kept this so quiet for so long and have had to live with w...

This little statement before hand. what was absent from the statement was any expression of apology. any expression that what he has done after cardinal mccarrick, his predecessor has come out to be involved with roping seminarians, basically in activity, and that his name for either neglecting or at worst covering up for abusers in the pittsburgh archdiocese, you would think that he would do something to act as if he was somehow trying to keep his flock safe, but he did not look like that sort ...

So we are talking about these old stories, and then you throw in the fact that you need to care about to the victims who want their privacy, and i do think that there has been, and boston, we only got the scandal coming to light because of "the boston globe" doing its aggressive report. >> dana: we had one of the spotlight reporters on the show yesterday, i asked him this question about the pope, we thought that we might hear from the pope today, even during this hour. we have not so far. my las...

Victims. more than 300 so-called predator priests. abuses spanning more than 70 years and they occurred in more than 6 of pennsylvanias 8 catholic diocese. this morning one victim spoke out on cnn saying his abuse started at age 10. the priest was also a teacher at his school. this was of course years ago. but with this report coming out he says he now feels a sense of peace. he had this message for the church. >> when am i going to tell the pope? theyre supposed to tell me the morality. i mean ...

Church as a priest you go to jail. when you rape a child as a priest you get transferred to a whole new flock of kids. >> hmm. my next guest part of the boston globe team featured in "spotlight" who broke the priest sex abuse story in boston in 2002. michael was played by actor mark rufalo and the real life michael with me now. pleasure and honor to meet you. spotlight was 16 years ago. one city. this is an entire state. you heard me rattle off some of the details. when you heard me do that, wha...

Tell a pope, theyre supposed to tell me morality. what do you tell an institution that teaches morality but has none? what am i supposed to say to them, i have to deal with them and the way they treat their organization. theyre not treating it as a moral, faith based organization. so as a business, i own a business, i can give them aud vice on that. you have horrible public relations problems and they understand money. because when a priest embezzles, they prosecute them to the full essset exten...

Transparency. >> i would not say from my evaluation, john, that its been exactly transparent. now, granted thats on the advice many times of legal counsel who as vise against that and the church as an institution follows legal advice but the primary role of bishops and priests is to be pastors of their flock, not administrators, not ceos, not worried primarily about fiduciary concerns. so i think it troubles me to say that there was transparency because i dont think publicly that can be claimed ...

The head or culture of corruption. one of the things that preceded watergate or preceded watergate bringing down nixon, was like oh by the way, vis presidece presi getting bags of cash. in the case of nixon, you have this corrupt president, and it says something about the kinds of people the president selects. >> as they say, birds of a feather flock together and the same thing that happened in the nixon administration where you had a lot of cash flowing overflowing saves in the white house. and...