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Say what happened and, you know, larry nassar is behind bars, but now the story is shifting to who allowed him to practice medicine for years and continue to abuse people, when they did the right thing, they came forward bravely. the vast majority of people who saw larry nassar weren't olympians, they were little girls who were trying to compete in gymnastics and yet you see these incredible athletes using their star power to bring attention to the hundreds of people, so this case isn't going away, but there is still a lot of unanswered questions. why did the fbi sit on this for so long? that'...

Five to eight minutes here. i want to bring in sports journalist mary pylon, author and host of "twisted." along with kristen gibbons, an msnbc legal analyst. i want to start with you, mary and go back to the live shot of the room. we just saw somebody leave, she was so overcome, the gymnasts sitting here, there is a deep toll mentally and emotionally, mental health was a big focus for simone biles. she talked about this kind of all playing into everything, can you talk a little bit about that piece of it, right? the toll that this has taken on those young women sitting in the room right now? ...

Documented, why their allegations went uninvestigated. they're going to be able to speak and this isn't unique to government. this exists in all institutions. and by bringing it to the forefront, it is going to cause not only changes within the fbi, but hopefully institutional changes as well. >> mary, talk about why these four, why these four women. we got today's hearing split into two parts or two panels. the gymnasts will be first, later on today we expect to hear from the people in the second panel including the current fbi director. talk about why the four specific gymnasts experiences a...

Victims of nassar? >> it gives them a voice. it allows them to speak to the public about how, what happened to them and force some type of institutional change. when you talk about relief, particularly for survivors, sometimes they just want to be heard and so the relief can be unique to each individual person. but the fact that these young ladies and, you know, nassar has been convicted, but the fact that these young ladies are still willing to subject themselves to retraumaization i can only think that the relief they will want is to see change so that no other young lady or no other young c...

Learned overnight is first reported by the washington post was fired from the agency. your thoughts there? >> yeah, so even though christopher wray was not at the fbi at the time of this case, one question i have is what systems and changes happened within the fbi and some of the policies the fbi had weren't even being followed you had evidence being mishandled, interviews not conducted properly, they were arguing about jurisdiction, so it isn't just what policies have changed, so something like this won't happen again, because i think one of the big drumbeats of the survivors is they want thi...