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Convicted by a jury of his peers of other lieutenant colonels and colonels in the air force and he was found to have raped a woman. yet general franklin, his superior took a look at the jury verdict and said, oh, i don't agree, i think lieutenant colonel wilkerson is a good guy and set it aside. that's a broken judicial system. it doesn't work. you've got to change that. congress has to act to change that. >> so, congresswoman, there's -- this is where it looks like it's heading in terms of the debate legislatively and policy wise. secretary of defense hagel today seemed unenthusiastic about t...

Boss's boss allows them to step in and make an a decision. there's a case where he was convicted by a jury of his peers of other lieutenant colonels and colonels in the air force and he was found to have raped a woman. yet general franklin, his superior took a look at the jury verdict and said, oh, i don't agree, i think lieutenant colonel wilkerson is a good guy and set it aside. that's a broken judicial system. it doesn't work. you've got to change that. congress has to act to change that. >> so, congresswoman, there's -- this is where it looks like it's heading in terms of the debate legisl...

Standing an dealt later with the collective bargaining issue and perhaps compromising so that was not to be. >> there is no more legislative maneuvering you have left at this point and no reason you see to stay out of state? >> that's right. the bill has passed. legal challenges, as you mentioned, will certainly come. there's not much we can do about that right now until we return to madison today and be ready to be back on the floor at the next scheduled session. >> senator, do you have any regrets about the decision of you and your colleagues to leave the state and sit out the debate legisla...