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Nasser on his examining table, and he did with them whatever he wanted, because the fbi did nothing. lets be very clear, the fbis inaction led to victimization of most horrific and hideous kind. >> do you know if they can be charged as conspiracy? >> i have asked director wray about conspiracy, and i will follow up with him and inspector horowitz, so i dont know who will be fired, but i hope that we havent heard of the last of action. >>

Power to make sure it never happens again. now, before i became fbi director, i was generally familiar with the nassar story. shortly after his arrest, in 2016. i remember even then being appalled that there were so many people who had failed to do their jobs and keep these young women safe from that predator. but after i became fbi director and when i learned that there were people at the fbi who had also failed these women, i was heart sick and furious. i immediately ordered a special review b...

I understand that its procedure in the department and has to go into the basis for deciding not to pursue prosecution, but this is, on its face, obvious that these agents not only were derelict in their duty, when it came to these young women, but all did their best to cover up what had happened. that is inexcusable from where im standing. let me ask you this finally, director wray. im going to accept your profession of real caring. i believe it is real caring about what happened in this circums...

Person, whenever possible. weve made it more clear now. were putting mandatory training in place, which has already been completed, to ensure that that occurs. thats a partial answer to your question on that one. >> general horowitz, did any of the fbi employees or agents involved in this case deliberately misrepresent any facts to you in your investigation? >> they did. we found both that the person who wrote the report that ms. maroni testified about, falsely testified to us about what he did ...

-- i suppose a nice way to say it is theyre troubling. theyre damning. theyre horrible. i think of the young women who testified here today, what they went through. i dont see where they can get much solace out of listening to this, and what the american people feel. senator grassley just mentioned mr. horowitz said about jay abbott, named in the ig report. he retired. was that a forced retirement? >> it was not. >> did he ever face any possibility of prosecution? >> we referred our findings to ...

Have there been recommendations -- what took so long to fire him, i might ask? >> well, we waited for the report. one of the things that i want to make sure is we dont have a situation where two wrongs make a right. so we waited until we had the inspector generals independent report. we followed our disciplinary process. hes been fired. >> did he contest the firing? >> i probably cant get into that discussion here. i want to be sensitive about privacy act concerns and so forth. >> mr. horowitz, ...

May not be, you know -- i dont know what you would even offer. think about the coaches that also have been thrown into this, that were running reputable programs. and the young women who then left them as young, young, young, 6, 7-year-olds, to then move into a higher level, and then the exposure to dr. larry nassar and that usa team. think about having raised in your gym a child in your care and coaching, and then to watch this happen. i mean, you talk about collateral damage. there is so much....

Facts. >> senator, im not aware of discussions about referring to state and local authorities. >> director wray, how far did knowledge of the nassar investigation extend within the fbi headquarters in 2015? >> my understanding of the most senior individual involved, based on looking at the thorough and independent investigation of inspector general horowitz was that the most senior individual with knowledge and responsibility was the special agent in charge in indianapolis, mr. abbott. but again...

Offended by this. you saw klobuchar talk about maggie nichols. you saw cornyn talk directly to simone biles. he feels for all of them but particularly so proud of biles. so much that was shared. i gotta ask, is wrag? the horowitz in trouble? somebodys got to pay for this. >> emily: somebody has got to pay for this. allie said one statement that stuck out to me. we knew of the six accusers. he said one of the athletes was abused on film giving our abusers unfettered access to children. that shoul...

To retire in 2018 and evade prosecution even though this report describes misconduct by him and an agent under his supervision. i have asked that the attorney general reconsider the decision not to file charges against some of the individuals involved in the case. i would like you to provide this committee with a list of all disciplinary actions that took place with respect to fbi personnel who were the subject of this investigation. i believe that you owe that, at the very least, to the victims...