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Assault with the respect and seriousness it requires is okay because it's difficult to do. it's something that we simply cannot happen and it's not what we stand for as an organization. >> the latest video or photo of peng was released more than a week ago, taken during a video call as you know, steve, with the president of the international olympic committee which is the only outside organization to speak to her. i know you have tried and others have tried. i spoke yesterday about that call with the longest-serving member of the olympic committee and here's what he told me. >> the consensus o...

Them to us that she is okay, don't worry about her, we can move on, we can brush this under the table, there are ex-athletes, olympic athletes that understand pressure and they spoke to peng. it is a joke when i heard the interviews from people representing the ioc. there is no way that you can -- that anybody can believe that that's reality and multiple chinese experts that i've spoken to said this is right out of the china playbook, and the ioc is complicit in their playbook. >> let me play some sound from dick pound, international olympic committee member, who was talking about that video. ...

Speaking under coercion. can you tell me and everyone watching why you feel confident that that's the case? >> well, they -- they had a very friendly and relaxed call between four of them. for half an hour. and it concluded with a very positive outcome that, you know -- that the president and -- and ms. peng are going to have a lunch or something when -- when he gets to beijing in january. and generally, the -- the consensus of all of those people on the call was that she's fine. she's not -- she's not under any kind of coercion or -- or -- or, you know, confinement. so that's the best evidenc...

>> are not left lying around. >> exactly. so as we're all wondering how wide this ring of coercion or, you know complicitness would be involved in this escape is it possible that this could be you know workers involved multiple correction officers? he's not naming names at least thus far as correction officers just throwing the seamstress under the bus. how big do you think this could be? >> it could be big but right now he's a man in the hospital with gunshot wounds and he's lit up on morphine and he's singing like a bird. >> what he's singing may not be truth. >> after he's recovered he migh...