miscondukd duct made by a senior military officer. martha mcsally claimed she was raped while serving and defending heighten. sexual assault happens in the military, it just didn t happen in this case. i pray the accuser gets the help she needs and finds the peace she is searching for. but it cannot be by destroying general heighten with these false allegations. that hearing is expected to continue throughout the afternoon. we ll be right back. throughout afternoon. we ll be right back. or could it turn out differently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot. almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didn t experience another. .and eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. eliquis is fda approved and has both.
charges. sexual assault happens in the military. it just didn t happen in this case. courtney covers the pentagon and national security for us. she joins me now. the most jarring statement today was this unequivocal declaration of innocence from senator mcsally, obviously being the lead sound bite on this. can we definitively say that? well, she s privy to some information she haven t seen. last week, the armed services committee got a company of the osi, office of special investigation, this as air force criminal investigation into the allegations against general hyten. the members got not only the report but they got an extensive briefing on it. they were briefed by members of air force leadership and they had a closed-door sessioning with kathy mets have toeser who
not working. here is another statistic from another report that shows that sexual assault at u.s. military academies are up 50% from 2016. is it fair to call this a crisis right now is in the institutions? absolutely. senator mcsally said this is a national security issue. i agree with her 100%. america needs men and women who are willing to serve free and voluntarily in the military. we need women who make up 15% of the services. women are being sexually assaulted and are not going to join and not meet the demands of the nation. the military has been trying to address this for some years now. that s one reason why that increase in reported cases is so alarming, so disturbing. and i wonder why you think that is and is a portion of that
unfair labor rates. i have talked to the u.s. trade representatives and i have talked to the president about it. i m going to fight with him to keep those jobs here. an opportunity for bipartisanship. thanks so much. always good to have you on. good to be with you. that s really interesting. she is right because the new trade deal does mandate that these mexico plant jobs pay i think up to $16 an hour to try to force their hand there. that is an area where you do have bipartisan agreement. she has spoken with the president personally about this. absolutely. ahead, a stunning admission from republican senator martha mcsally, the first american woman to fly in combat says she was raped while serving in the air force. no more excuses with cologuard.
how central her military career was to her identity. when she reported the assault to her superiors. i was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences were handled. i almost separated from the air force at 18 years over my despair. like many victims, i felt the system was raping me all over again. but i didn t quit. reporter: mcsally had survived assault before joining the military telling the wa wal street journal that her high school track coach sexually abused her. the coach denied the allegations. during her unsuccessful run mcsally talked about the hard time she suffered as a younger woman now as a senator she is