The eve of big holidays sometimes. Tonight this fourth of july eve is one of those nights. Nbc news has broken a disturbing big story today about alleged Sexual Assault of male athletes at Ohio State University by a doctor employed by the university who worked the sports teams of the school. Specific will you with the Ohio State Wrestling Team. Now, conservative republican congressman jim jordan was a coach on the Ohio State Wrestling Team during the time this was alleged. Multiare exwrestlers have come forward on the record using their names to allege that congressman jim jordan knew at the time about the abuse, when it was happening and he did nothing to stop it or report it. One stunt has gone on the record saying that he specifically complained to congressman jordan about being groped by the team doctor. He says despite direct appeal for help to jim jordan, mr. Jordan took no action in response. He put out a statement denying that he ever knew about any abuse at ohio state during his time there. He then amended his statement on later add an additional sentence supporting an investigation into the allegations. The school has now hired a Major Law Firm to investigate this matter and there are now some expectations that the congressman might be called in to that investigation as a possible witness. A teacher told cnn, ohio state has an obligation to get to the bottom of this with a thorough and fair investigation. Jim jordan has an obligation to cooperate fully that investigation these are serious allegations that have been made by former students and athletes at the school. Theyre very serious allegations. Jim jordan overhappened with the doctors ten youre for i believe eight years. He reportedly had a locker in the locker room that was right next to the accused physician. If this turns out to be a penn state style scandal and expose, he could end up in a very serious matter. It is one thing to be adjacent to a scandal. It is another thing to have multiple survivors say on the record that you knew about it at the time. You were asked for help and did you nothing. He is a favorite of the conservatives, he is a high profile member of the group. The tea party has that he should replace paul ryan as speaker of the house. Outside of far right circles, he has become increasingly famous this past year as he and devin nunes have led the most famous in congress. Congressman jordan said he had nothing to do with anything related to this scandal. Noted idea that any abuse was happening. If in fact it was happening while he was there but ohio state seems to be taking it seriously. There is a big law firm doing an investigation and thanks to this news report today, there are multiple young men on the record saying they are victims and willing to talk about it. Including the congressmans role while it was happening. Just watch that one. That could end up being a very big deal. We also got news today of some important resignations. The head of the public corruption unit and the u. S. Attorney Generals Office in the Southern District of new york has resigned. This is the lead public corruption prosecutor. And resigning somewhere in the country, that wouldnt ordinarily be National News but in this case, this is the Southern District of new york. That means among other news stories, thisprosecutor who has been supervising the investigation into michael cohen, President Trumps personal lawyer. That criminal investigation thus far has not resulted in any charges against michael cohen. But as you know, multiple search warrants have been executed. The government has received millions of documents . Items from Michael Cohens hole. He is talking openly to the press about what his plans are. This case in the Southern District of new york against the president s lawyer does seem to be really ramping up. Now the head of the southern corruption unit, she has left her job. She has left to go make ton of money in the private sector. And sure. The timing seems great. We also learned about an earthquake level resignation retirement at the Justice Department headquarters in washington. This is not rod rosenstein, not Jeff Sessions resigning, but it is someone very senior and somebody intimately involved in the mueller investigation. And also, in every other Justice Department thing that has put up the hair on the back of the neck in the last year and a half. This is a surprise resignation we are learning about today from the top official at the Justice Department. His resignation is a big deal. It is a surprise. Well have more on that depart you are and what it means coming up in a few minutes in the show. Youll want to see that. Also on this holiday eve, weve had a no notice surprise drop. This little bombshell from the Intelligence Committee in the u. S. Senate. The Senate Select committee on intelligence is conducting a bipartisan investigation into a wide range of russian activities relating to the 2016 election. While elements are ongoing, the committee is releasing initial, unclassified findings on a rolling basis as distinct pieces of the investigation conclude. The committee has concluded an indepth review in january 2017 on russian interference in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. They have initial finding to share with the american people. They find that the meddling is a sound intelligence product. Quote, in all of the reviews with those who drafted and prepared the assessment, the Committee Heard consistent reply analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach any conclusions. All analysts express that had they were free to debate, object to content, and assess confidence levels as is normal and proper for the analytic process. As the inquiry has progressed cynic january 17, the committee has seen additional examples of rurks attempts to sew discord. The committee could not occurs with intelligence and open source assessment thats the Russian Influence Campaign was approved by president putin. Quote, moscow did seek to denigrate secretary clinton. So this is a resounding statement. Saying when that report came out from the nsa and the fbi and the cia, in january 2017, as the Obama Administration was leaving and the Trump Administration was about to be sworn in. That Intelligence Community assessment that said russia had meddling in the election, both democrats and republicans are saying that Intelligence Community report, that was sound. And over time it has only been more proven out by what weve learned since. Now, in contrast, this past week, President Trump hliterall quoted him. And now this note, it says it is bullet proof. The committee believes the conclusions of the Intelligence Community assessment are sound and notes collection and analysis consequent to the icas publication continue to reenforce its assessments. This seems important particularly given that the sitting president of the United States keeps denying that russia ever did this. This is an important report. Why did the committee sneak this out the door with no announcement the night before the fourth of july. Theyve released a big report. It directly contradicts the assertions of the president of the United States and the defenders in the house of representatives who have said, yeah, the Intelligence Community, they dont know what theyre talking about. Russia didnt do anything as far as were talking about. This is a big deal. This is controversial. This is big news. But they have timed its release and not announced its release in a way that the s designed to relea release. This is why it is good youre here. It is good to watch the news on friday nights and before a holiday. Any time people are counting on you not to watch the news. Thats when it pays to be here. And that brings us to this. At the same moment the u. S. Senate was releasing this report, affirming and doubling down on the Intelligence Communitys conclusions about russia interfering with the election, at that same moment, look, all these republican senators were in russia today talking to the russian government about how they are o to since were all pulling in the same direction anyway. Its going to be a great day. Alabama senator Richard Shelby telling the russian government today that he hopes the meeting between trump and putin is going to be very big. We know there will be a, we know theres going to be a big meeting. We hope it will be very big between our president and yours in helsinki in a few weeks. We home it is going to be very big. What do you mean by big . Why are you hoping for bigness . Youre meeting with the russian government. Did you plan in advance what you were going to say . Were hoping it will be a very big meeting. I think it will be just those two guys. What do you mean big . But watch where senator shelby really puts the screws to the russians here. So we wont be he will need to begin. We will have to wait and see. The world is better off, i believe, if russia and the u. S. Have fewer tensions. But we dont necessarily need to be adversaries. Go get them, senator. Did you wait until you saw the whites of their eyes . As the meeting went on between all these senators, the Washington Post had a reporter there who says that senator shelby told the speaker of the russian parliament, senator shelby told him, quote, im not here to accuse russia of this or that or so forth. I am saying we should all strive for a better relationship. Thats not what the russians have been striving for, big guy. The list of senators on this trip include Richard Shelby, ron johnson, jerry moran, john hoven, john thune, steve danes and john kennedy of louisiana. Kay granger was also a member of the delegation. You will notice those are all republicans on this trip. More on that in a little bit. Among the russians they all met with was sergei kislyak. He was the Russian Ambassador to the United States during the russian attack on our lex he is now back in moscow and received tons of awards when he got back. He is now an official. The main thing about all this is that our guests traveled here in order to talk. He means you dont need a back channel secure phone line to talk to jared kushner, right . That was a different kind of dialogue he was working on before in his other job. The head of this inexplicable republican only republican delegation to russia, ahead of this inexplicable delegation to russia today, Bloomberg News reported in this adorable headline that the republicans traveling to russia, quote, hope to tell putin election meddling has to stop. Before they went, they hoped to tell putin that. Once they arrived in russia, the russian government said no, sorry, putin wont have time on meet with they will. That was nice. Apparently the whole issue of election meddling didnt come up. Another member of the washing n Washington Post, they said whatever they hoped to do when they got to russia, once they arrive, it didnt quite get that way. Quote, duma member nikonov had met with Many American lawmakers in years past but this meeting was one of the easiest ones in my life. The question of russian interfering in american elections was ended quickly. We did not interfere. So the election meddling conversation was an easy one. One should not interfere. Well, we dont. And the visiting republicans not only didnt pressure the russian government about them monkey wrenching our election, they didnt about anything else either. He says u. S. Lawmakers did not bring up crimea during the moscow meeting. Quote, i did not hear the word crimea once in two hours. This is kind of a weird thing, right . This feels like it might be a land mark moment in strangeness. After russia hit our next 2016, that gave us two big worries as a country, right . One is what that means in terms of of our current president. But also the prospect russia might keep doing it. That russia will keep monkey wrenching our elections if here on out to benefit kremlin and to hurt us as a country. Those are the two. What does this say about trump . Does he now owe them . Concerns about trump but also whether russia would keep doing this in future elections. Now concern a and concern b are coming together. Were heading toward elections a few months out. Trump Officials Say theyve received no direction. The the president is not only not warning the russians to back off, he is now publicly quoting their denials that they ever meddled. He apparently believes them. Now he is on this remarkable and seemingly rushed run of giving russia stuff it wants. Weve had this long string of stuff. He is saying maybe the u. S. Would formally recognize that crimea now belongs to russia cynic they took it. The president talking about u. S. And south korea. It is not something that sounds lying it applies to russia but it is something suggested to President Trump in a oneonone phone call last year. He asked him to do it. We know that President Trump didnt consult with the u. S. Military on that policy change or making the noult. He just did it after trump was asked by putin to do so. Weve learned that President Trump was offered france financial incentives if they, too, would leave the European Union like the britain did. And we learned that the u. S. Might leave nato. The sounds you just hear in the distance was Vladimir Putin ripping his shirt off and pounding his chest in delight. And it is now reported that the big giveaway trump appears to be doing is to let russia have syria. Assad, the dictator of syria, russia has been fighting on the side of assad. The u. S. Has been supporting the rebels who have been fighting against assad. Thats about to change. We are about to switch sides. He said the catastrophic war in syria is nearing what could be a diplomatic end game as the United States, russia and israel shape a deal that would preserve power. He appears toward abandon a Syrian Opposition that was partly trained and supplied by the United States. Quote, trumps willingness to accede to russian power in syria and give up hard won gains. They seem to be losing the argument. We dont i dont know ahead of the mid material elections, President Trump has hastily arranged this one up summit with Vladimir Putin. We dont know why ahead of that summit, he is working to tick off all of our russian annize. Thats what hes doing. And before now, i think you could say there was at least a little awkward know. A little distance between the republican party, between other republican officials, and President Trump on his unnerve and unswerving desire. All through this weird inwho had where the president s ties to a foreign adversary are as yet unknown and the single of a very serious investigation. All through this time, President Trumps inexplicable closeness to russia has been a trump problem. At best republicans were critical of the president. At worst they were awkwardly ignoring it and pretending it wasnt happening. Now look what happened today. A congressional delegation itself is not a bad thing. They happen all over the world. To countries we get along with and those we dont. Heres Richard Shelby and all the other runofthemill senators. Not only visiting russia right now in a partisan visit no, democrats allowed. But really getting on board with trump. He literally that we dont need to be adversaries. He told the head of the russian parliament, im not here to accuse russia of this or that or so forth. That used to be something only trump would say. Now that has been stuffed into the mouth of the cheryl of the Senate Appropriations committee. And everyone else. Whats going on here . Inlaws were coming, a little bit of water, it really it rocked our world. I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. We called usaa. And they greeted me as they always do. Sergeant baker, how are you . They were on it. It was unbelievable. Having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa now thats a privilege. Were the bakers and were usaa members for life. Usaa. Get your insurance quote today. Looking for a hotel that fits. Whoooo. Your budget . Tripadvisor now searches over. 200 sites to find you the. 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