And once again, we are live here on cspan2 for the 16th Public Meeting of the defense Advisors Committee on prosecution and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. This meeting is open. Before we get started, apparently in order to speak, you need to hit request. The green, and when youre done that seems odd, in any event, mr. Sullivan, thank you, and good morning. I want to welcome the members and everybody in attendance today on valentines day to the 16th Public Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on the investigation, prosecution and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. Or da krchc. Miss cannon. Here. Miss garvin. Here. Mr. Cramer. Here. Ms. Long. Here. Mr. Markey. Here. Dr. Markowicz. Here. General swank. Present. Doctor spahn. Here. Judge grimm by telephone . Telephonically here. Miss tocash by telephone . Im here. Great. Judge, chief and mckinley and judge walton couldnt be in attendance, but with 11 in presence we have a quorum. It was for fiscal year 2015
Good morning, general. This afternoon with the panels so we will get the perspective of the Service Organization chiefs regarding conviction acquittal rates, case adjudication process and victim declination. I suspect we might hear something slightly different that we heard this morning but staff, could you keep this up, please. Based on the responses we put together questions and i will read the first one. This is the referral process. The defense rfi responses indicate the victim preference may play an outsized role in whether or not a Sexual Assault case goes to trial. What consideration or weight should the convening Authority Given to victims wishes regarding the disposition of a Sexual Assault case . Colonel bennetts, could you start us off . [laughter] obviously, the voice of the victim is something that should be considered but when we get too much weight to it and when the wishes and desires of the victim are going to overwhelm what the evidence should support if you have no k
Day weekend. Were right around 40,000 new cases, thats an unacceptably high baseline. We got to get it down, when you get into holiday weekend, fourth of july, memorial day, theres a tendency for people to be careless. A plea to the people in this country, to realize that we really still need to get our arms around this. Lets begin this hour with nbcs caria lee. And on capitol hill we have politico Senior Writer jake sherman. Karol, lets start with you. The president s focus on law and order, it seemed to play pretty well with the crowd at that world war ii event. Reporter yeah, thats right, joshua. The president here said a couple of things that got applause from the crowd, he talked about the need to uphold the rule of law, he talked about how he stepped in to say that there needed to be stiffer penalties for individuals who were destroying statues, this is something that clearly his base really likes, his supporters, theyre embracing it. Whether or not its showing that its actually
Fall is finally in the air. I hope youre feel the same thing wherever you might be this morning. Were grateful to have your company here at new day, im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor black well. Always great to have you here, martin. President trumps nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sets up a tight timeline for republicans. Who are insisting that they fill the seat before the november 3rd election. Cnns Sarah Westwood joins us now from the white house. With the election so close, the timing has to be considered crucial. Yeah. Good morning, martin and christi. Theres simply no room for error for Senate Republicans who hope to get it done for the white house before election day. Theyre setting themselves up to do this in a little over a month. Lindsey graham quickly released a tentative schedule for that confirmation process yesterday after the president unveiled Amy Coney Barrett to fill that vacancy. They want to do it quickly. Three or four days of h
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