Violent carjacking. A Good Samaritans deed backfiring, the person she saved taking her down, trying to steal her car then targeting another. How this all ends. Im Still Standing and oneonone with elton john as he says goodbye to the road. The legend announcing one last tour. Im determined to go out with a bang. The rocket man on that big decision, his family and what hes calling a leap of faith. Yeah yeah yeah good morning, america. Weve been humming elton john songs all morning long. What a pleasure to sit down with him after he made his announcement at his upcoming tour will be his last. Well have much more on that coming up. That will be a blockbuster. A lot of news to get to. President trump just arrived in switzerland moments ago. Overnight, he seemed to be at odds with his own attorneys on whether he should sit down for a facetoface with robert mueller. But first, we want to get to the gymnastics scandal. Take a look at the headline in this mornings Detroit Free Press summing it up in one word, courageous and listing all women who came forward. With their statements about former team do larry nassar. Those are not victims, those are survivors. And the fallout continuing and msus president resigning and larry nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for decades of sexual abuse. Amy, the story is not over. It is not over. The judge sealing former doctor Larry Nassars fate after hearing statements from 156 of his alleged victims publicly confronting him with their stories of abuse but, as many of them said, this is about much more than just larry nassar. After seven days of powerful testimony larry meticulously groomed me for the purpose of exploiting me for his sexual gain. I have experienced flashback nightmares of the abuse. You seem to have a hard time looking at me now but you didnt when i was half naked on your table. Reporter disgraced former doctor larry nassar apologizing occasionally turning away from the microphone to address his accusers directly. Your words have had a significant emotional effect on myself and have shaken me to my core. There are no words to describe the depth and breadth of how sorry i am for what has occurred. Reporter judge aquilina slamming the 54yearold with 40 to 175 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to seven counts of felony criminal sexual conduct. You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again. I just signed your death warrant. Reporter the judge also reading from a letter nassar wrote to the Court Last Week arguing the victims were seeking money and media attention. I was a good doctor because my treatments worked. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Reporter judge aquilina responding bluntly. Anywhere you walk destruction will occur to those most vulnerable. Reporter olympic champion simone biles and aly raisman who both say they too were abused by nassar praising the judge. Biles writing on instagram, to judge aquilina, thank you, you are my hero. Raisman tweeting, thanks to the army of survivors and you. I am forever grateful that all of our voices are finally heard. Rachael denhollander was the first woman to pubically accuse larry nassar. I was blessed to have other survivors be willing to take that risk with me. The scandal far from over, nassars accusers demanding action against those who may have known about the abuse. I feel that msu was an enabler. Msu needs to be accountable for their actions. Reporter overnight Lou Anna Simon under increasing pressure to resign stepping down from her post. Meanwhile, three Board Members of usa gymnastics have already resigned. That organization suspending longtime coach and close friend of Nassar John Geddert and also severing ties with the Karolyi Ranch where they say nassar carried out some of his sexual acts. I called my parents on the pay phone crying every night asking them if i could come home. Reporter the karolyis nowhere to be found and they are currently being sued in civil court, but not charged criminally. To have the karolyis trust means everything in gymnastics and larry nassar could go down to the ranch in texas and thats where larry nassar preyed on so many of his victims. Usa gymnastics is also being sued in civil court. Michigan State University also in the crosshairs. On tuesday the ncaa opening an investigation into the universitys conduct surrounding this matter. George. Okay, amy, thanks very much. Were joined by one of the champions you saw in that piece, former World Champion gymnast, mattie lawson, and her attorney. Thanks for joining us. When you heard the judge yesterday say to nassar, ive just signed your death warrant, did you think justice had been served . For him, yes. Absolutely. He will never be able to have the chance or the opportunity to do what he did ever again. It just wont happen. Your statement in court was so powerful. What was it like to confront him facetoface . It was like probably the most intense situation of my life, emotionally. I felt every type of way. I felt sick. I felt like i was going to faint at first. I didnt i told john i wasnt going to do it. You werent going to do it . No. I wasnt going to testify. I didnt want to. I didnt want to put myself through it. I didnt think i was capable and then literally on sunday i decided after going over it a lot and talking through it with my sister and a lot of tears and realizing that its what i need to do. Its the least thing i could after all that had happened to me, the least i could do was tell my story so it couldnt happen to other girls. And i decided to leave and we left the next day. How did it feel when you were telling it . It felt like i was beginning to get my power back. Well, it was an incredibly powerful statement. Try to help people understand how Something Like this could go on for so long. I know you every said that he had a kind of charm. Uhhuh. I feel like it was like there were so many contributing factors that kind of made it like the perfect formula, perfect cocktail for someone like him to thrive. Im still im still processing it, but it was a systemic problem and he was just a piece of the puzzle. It was a combination of the wrong people in charge and neglecting things that needed to be done legally and didnt do them. It was a combination of us being abused mentally, emotionally and physically from our coaches and him being the only one that seemed seemed to offer a helping hand to smile, to care. We were desperate for some love, at least i was. I was desperate. And that takes us right to the karolyis. We saw you speak about your time at the ranch there in the piece as well and at one point you even faked an injury or injured yourself. Yes. Yes. So you could be brought home. Yes, it was at home actually did it at home. My flight was the next morning my flight was at 6 30 and i had to get up at 4 30 in the morning, it was 10 or 11 00 p. M. I was crying, panicking, didnt want to go. I was taking a bath. It wasnt even a hard decision in my mind. I just turned on survival mode and i was about 15 or 16 and it happened so quickly, i said to myself there is no way theres no way i am stepping foot there this week. I am not. So you bumped your own head. So i bumped my own head. I made it i tried to make it seem like i had slipped in our familys bathroom and fallen. I did not actually slip. I faked it. I splashed water on the floor, i sat down on the floor and i banged my head as hard as a could to ensure that i got a bump and to ensure that my parents could hear the bang. That sounds so desperate, why couldnt you say anything . I didnt it wasnt an option for me. I didnt know i could like i didnt have a voice. I didnt i would get in trouble if i said i didnt sleep well at night to my coaches. I would get in trouble if i said i wasnt feeling well. The abuse had been going on for so long and i was i was i was a shell of a child. I was empty. Its so painful to hear that, john. I know you think a lot more action should be taken against the karolyis. Well, i think at the very least there needs to be a fullblown investigation. I mean, the ranch is, you know was put forth by usa gymnastics, this amazing place where gold medalists were made but, if you believe the allegations of these women, which i do, it was a house of horrors where, you know, this doctor at the ranch in the evening if you needed something, you called larry. He was allowed to go into their room and molest them in their rooms. He molested these girls, you know, and these are the best america has to offer every day. Sometimes twice a day and literally no one was watching. Mattie, its so great to hear you say youre getting your power back. What do you want to happen next . I want to find out how this could have possibly happened. I 110 should never have met this man he should have never been in my life. Something went wrong. They were there were allegations of him molesting girls in 1997. Its over 20 years ago. I was a toddler. Just crazy. Thank you for sharing your story this morning. Thank you both. Thank you for having us. Much more from his victims 20 survivors sharing their story on a special 20 20 at 10 00 eastern right here on abc. Robin. So proud of mattie and all the young women and girls for their bravery. The latest now on President Trump arriving in switzerland this morning for the World Economic forum, but before he left the white house he stirred up new headlines on the russia investigation. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jon karl. Jon, you had a chance to ask the president again about talking to robert mueller. Reporter i did and the circumstances were unusual. I was with a group of reporters and chief of staff john kellys office here in the west wing of the white house. We were there for a background briefing on immigration when suddenly the door opened and it was the president of the united states. He stood there and took several questions on immigration. As he started to leave i asked him about the special counsel investigation and if he would be willing to be interviewed by robert mueller. Heres what he said. Are you are you going to talk to mueller . Im looking forward to it actually. Do you have a date set . Heres the story. Theres been no collusion whatsoever. Theres no obstruction whatsoever. But i would love to do that. And id like to do it as soon as possible. Reporter as you hear there he sounded downright eager to be interviewed by the special counsel and he went on to say that he would absolutely do it under oath. This all happened, robin, as the president s legal team is actually negotiating with the special counsel resisting doing such an interview trying to do written questions and answers instead and here the president comes out and says hes been absolutely willing to do it so what are the president s lawyers saying about all this . Well, white house lawyer ty cobb actually said that the president said this hurriedly as he was leaving for switzerland and that the details are still being worked out with the legal team but ive got to tell you, robin, i was there with the president. He did not seem to be in a hurry. And how surprised were you by his response . Reporter i was surprised. Although back in june he had told me that he would be 100 willing to be interviewed so now i think it is case closed. He will do that interview. Definitely on the record now. All right, thank you. Lets get more on the investigation from pierre thomas. Pierre, on capitol hill, republicans pressing their case against the fbi investigation. Their focus, Text Messages from two senior officials that they say demonstrate an antitrump bias. Reporter george, good morning, thats right. Those controversial Text Messages from senior fbi officials have led to a barrage of criticism and some Senate Republicans are all but accusing the fbi of engaging in a conspiracy against the president. Republicans on the attack. At issue highly critical biased Text Messages between senior fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page and strzok saying hes an idiot. Page saying she cannot believe he is a serious candidate. I cant ignore this these text or this unvarnished narrative from two individuals very high up in the fbi. Reporter special counsel mueller removed strzok from his Team Immediately after learning of the texts. According to gop fbi critics, they found new Text Messages suggesting a, quote, secret society targeting the president. Abc news obtaining one of those messages overnight. Page writing to strzok, are you even going to give out your calendars . Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society. Sources tell abc news the two had a personal relationship. So the messages referenced to a secret society may have been in jest and some sources speculating it was an insider joke. All im saying ive heard its right in the text. You see the text. They use that. Maybe we ought to have the first meeting of the secret society. Thats not my words. Its their words. Reporter republicans are also suspicious of tens of thousands of fbi Text Messages including those between strzok and page that are missing, sent during the period of december 2016 through may of last year. The president tweeting, in one of the biggest stories in a long time, the fbi now says it is missing five months worth of strzokpage text, perhaps 50,000 all in prime time. Wow. But the fbi says the texts disappeared because of a Technical Glitch and sources tell us that the glitch affected thousands of phones within the fbi, not just those of strzok and page. Democrats believe this is all a republican witchhunt to distract from the Mueller Investigation. George. And we have months to go. Pierre, thanks very much. Michael. All right, thank you, george. Now to a troubling new study linking the flu with an increased risk of heart attack. Dr. Jennifer ashton is here and, jen, this study shows that youre six times greater chance of having a heart attack soon after you contract the virus. Exactly, michael, this appeared in the new england journal of medicine, small study that reinforces what weve known for quite a while now but in a slightly different way that, in the week after someone has had the flu, theyre at six times greater rick of having a heart attack. Two things on the forefront, flu and heart attack. Theories as to why that happens, it makes sense. In terms of the physiology. There is inflammation when we have an upper respiratory viral infection that triggers an increased clotting risk and oxygen demand and supply mismatch that can affect the heart. So, it does make sense. Who is at risk of this . Thats the everybody . No. Thats the important thing for people hearing this to understand. The most of these heart attacks occurred in people over 65 with risk factors for Heart Disease or heart attack, so high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Interestingly, this study found that people with type b influenza were more affected than type a which is interesting because that tends to give a less severe course and the people vaccinated had a slightly lower risk so thats some good news. Vaccinations, important. Amy, you just got yours. I did. Its not too late, everybody, to go get yours, as well. Thanks so much. Now to ginger with more on the ice and cold in the northeast. Ginger, please tell us its changed. It is. 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