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Morning. I'm Taylor will say today

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is Wednesday, March Thirteenth. Twenty twenty

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four. This is the

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answer. Today

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Trump. And died and secure enough delegates

0:41

for their respective nominations. was we take

0:43

a look at new polling around. the

0:45

two candidates in the U will send

0:47

more money to Ukraine. For.

0:50

The third time former President Donald

0:52

Trump has earned enough delegates to

0:54

win the Republican presidential nomination. That.

0:56

Comes after wins yesterday in

0:58

Mississippi, Georgia and Washington State.

1:01

You. Will not officially become Menominee until

1:03

the Republican National Convention delegates vote

1:05

this summer. With. No debate.

1:07

Appearances trump steam over more than

1:09

a dozen G O P competitors.

1:12

His. Victory comes after the Republican National

1:14

Committee laid off more than sixty people

1:16

this week. Last. Friday Trump installed

1:18

allies including his daughter in law

1:20

to or and see leadership positions.

1:23

Meanwhile. President Joe Biden clinched

1:25

the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday

1:27

after winning primaries in Georgia,

1:30

Mississippi, Washington State, and the

1:32

Northern Mariana Islands. You'll. Also

1:34

have to wait until the summer to become the

1:36

nominee. Former

1:40

President Donald Trump has edged out

1:43

President Joe Biden in an exclusive

1:45

Usa Today Suffolk University poll, but

1:47

things are tight. I. Spoke with

1:49

Usa Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page

1:51

for the latest. Susan always get a

1:53

here for new. It's always good

1:55

to be heard from. So season there's new

1:58

pulling out. What did we learn? The

2:00

presumptive Trump biden rematch. You.

2:02

Know this is really the starting

2:04

gate. We now have to nami

2:06

third nominee since all but guaranteed

2:08

by the outcome. A Super Tuesday

2:11

and they're coming out of the

2:13

game really close. Donald Trump at

2:15

forty percent, Joe Biden at thirty

2:17

eight percent, and electorate that is

2:19

still pretty fluid. And on a

2:21

major issue the economy out of voters feel

2:23

about this right now. We've. Taken ten

2:25

Usa Today suffolk polls since Biden moved

2:28

into the White House and this one

2:30

shows the Rosie as view of the

2:32

economy said he had since he became

2:34

President. So this is good news for

2:36

Biden. We've seen over the past year

2:38

or so people's view the economy getting

2:40

better. It is now better than it's

2:42

ever been during his presidency. that's not

2:44

rebounding to a lot of his benefit

2:46

right at the moment, but the white

2:48

Us believe that will. You know Biden

2:51

held his State of the Union address last

2:53

week. Susan is that having any impact on

2:55

the numbers were seeing and boy. Not much

2:57

impact. Most about fifty six percent of Americans

2:59

say they watched some or all of it

3:01

about a third of them so that make

3:03

them think better of him. but almost three

3:05

and ten said it made him think worse

3:07

of them. So I don't think the seeds

3:09

of the union had a big effect. The

3:11

fact that we did see and talking that

3:13

respondents after we pulled them was it didn't

3:15

we Serious and democratic voters that Biden was

3:17

up for a campaign that he was vigorous.

3:19

That is a wouldn't be the terrible problem

3:21

that. Some. People have been predicting and

3:23

as for a former President Trump the

3:26

as a busy legal calendar coming up

3:28

to say the least. what impact or

3:30

is legal issues adding on voters. You

3:32

know, some Democrats have been hopeful that a

3:34

conviction and any of these trials a former

3:37

President Trump places would prompt a lot of

3:39

his voters to take a second look at

3:41

this race. That's not what we found in

3:43

our poll. Eighty four percent of Trump voters

3:45

say it won't matter if he gets convicted

3:47

in the trial. A New Yorker in a

3:49

future trial. And. Among that fraction

3:51

of said it would affect them, less than

3:53

one percent of them said it would prompt

3:56

them to switch to Biden. for most of

3:58

them stay would either go to us. Third

4:00

party candidate or they just wouldn't

4:02

vote. The and Susan pulling also

4:04

touched on circled double heaters. Folks

4:06

are disliked both Biden and Trump

4:08

what numbers that we see her

4:10

as a sissy. Person: the electorate.

4:13

Twenty. Five percent support Trump, eighteen percent

4:15

Biden, and interestingly, twenty one percent support

4:17

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. more than are

4:19

supporting Biden. So people think this is

4:22

a key voter group because maybe you

4:24

can convince him to hit. The other

4:26

guy, more sources and we're talking in

4:28

March. November still feels a ways off

4:30

few months away. What is pulling? Tell

4:32

us at this point about how many

4:34

voters might change their minds between. Now

4:36

November, you. Know this was I think a

4:39

little bit of a surprise and a reminder

4:41

that we shouldn't be too sure. we know

4:43

what's gonna happen in November because one out

4:46

of for voters said. They. Might change

4:48

their mind. They might switch from Biden. They

4:50

might switch from Trump. They might drop their

4:52

support for a third party candidates. So this

4:54

is a race it is not settled. Not

4:56

by a long. Sought. To today's

4:59

Usa Today Washington Bureau Chief there

5:01

just isn't. Thank you. The

5:07

White House yesterday announced a three

5:09

hundred million dollar military aid package

5:11

for Ukraine. The. Package will include

5:13

ammunition, anti aircraft missiles, and armor

5:16

piercing weapons. According to senior defense

5:18

officials who were not authorized to

5:21

speak publicly. The move comes

5:23

as Russian forces make battlefield gains. And.

5:25

A much larger a proposal for ammunition

5:28

and armor. Remain. Stuck in

5:30

Congress. The. White House and

5:32

Pentagon have been warning that Ukraine's

5:34

defenses are weakening under sustained Russian

5:36

pressure. Since. Russia invaded in

5:38

February Of Twenty Twenty Two, the

5:40

Pentagon has provided about thirty billion

5:42

dollars and military aid to Ukraine.

5:45

The. Main way of providing aid as

5:47

then for transferring billions worth of

5:49

equipment and ammunition from existing Pentagon

5:51

stocks. Congress. Has approved funding

5:53

outside the normal Defense Department budget

5:56

in supplemental spending to buy replacements.

5:58

That supplemental money. The run out. But.

6:01

Lower than expected spending on replacement

6:03

equipment has allowed the Pentagon to

6:05

fund the three hundred million dollar

6:07

package. Meanwhile, the first humanitarian aid

6:10

ship using a new maritime court

6:12

or departed Cyprus yesterday bound for

6:14

Gaza. Or. Than two million

6:16

people, their face and increasing threat

6:18

of starvation and reports of malnutrition

6:21

related deaths are rising according to

6:23

health officials and aid organizations. The

6:25

ship is telling a barge with

6:27

two hundred tons of food collected

6:29

by World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit

6:31

founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres,

6:34

It carries the first seven evade sent by see

6:36

to the territory. Since. The war began.

6:43

The. Police Chief and you've all the

6:45

taxes Resigned yesterday. The move comes less

6:47

than a week after a City Commission

6:50

report absolve department leadership and responding officers

6:52

of wrongdoing and the Twenty Twenty Two

6:54

Elementary school mass shooting in the city

6:56

cheap. Daniel Rodriguez had led the department

6:59

since twenty a T and he was

7:01

out of town on vacation when a

7:03

gunman killed nineteen children and to adults

7:06

and state and local law enforcement officers

7:08

waited more than an hour to confront

7:10

the shooter. In. A news release

7:12

Rodriguez did not explain his decision to

7:14

leave the post. The. City Commission

7:17

report was conducted by former Austin

7:19

Police Detective Jesse Prado. In his

7:21

findings, he suggested that no individual

7:24

officer was responsible for the delayed

7:26

intervention during the shooting. The report

7:28

instead identified broader faults in law

7:31

enforcement communication, a lack of access

7:33

to the school site, poor police

7:35

equipment, and for swat training. The.

7:40

Case of a registered sex offender

7:42

on a Wisconsin college swim team

7:44

is raising questions about where universities

7:46

to draw the line when it

7:48

comes to sex crimes committed as

7:50

minors. I. Spoke with Usa

7:52

Today investigative reporter Kenny Jacoby for

7:55

more. Can. He likes wrap on the excerpts it

7:57

I. Thank. You for having me sick any can.

7:59

just start telling us a bit about

8:01

Annabel Boudreau and her story. Yeah,

8:04

Annabel is an 18-year-old. She lives

8:06

in Minnesota. She's planning to attend

8:08

the University of Nebraska for college

8:10

next year. Starting when she was 11

8:12

years old, she was sexually

8:14

abused by her cousin. She ended up reporting

8:17

the abuse to her parents a few years

8:19

later after it had been going on for

8:21

about three years. And it

8:23

prompted a juvenile court case in

8:25

Minnesota where her cousin was the

8:28

defendant. He was charged with three

8:30

counts of criminal sexual conduct in

8:32

the second degree, or actually four

8:34

counts. He was convicted of three of

8:36

them. As part of his sentence, he

8:38

was required to register as a sex

8:41

offender. And Annabel

8:43

thought that this sentence would effectively

8:45

end her cousin's college sports career.

8:47

He is a swimmer at the

8:50

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. But

8:52

just over a month after the sentence

8:54

was issued, she saw that not only

8:57

was he still competing, but

8:59

he had just been named athlete of the week

9:01

by his school. At that point, she

9:03

and her parents knew that something

9:05

was wrong, that the school

9:07

must not have been fully informed of

9:09

what he had done to her. Yeah,

9:12

so at issue here, Kenny, really is

9:14

this NCAA rule, right, that requires schools

9:16

to annually vet athletes for incidents of

9:18

sexual or violent misconduct. What

9:20

is this and what are its shortcomings

9:22

as it pertains to juvenile cases? So

9:24

the rule was adopted in 2022-23, the

9:26

academic year, by the NCAA's highest governing

9:28

body. And

9:34

there are about 1,100 schools across

9:36

the NCAA. And this policy applies

9:38

to all those schools. It essentially

9:40

says that each school

9:42

has to take reasonable steps

9:44

to look into the backgrounds

9:46

of both new and continuing

9:48

athletes to see if

9:50

they have any incidents of sexual

9:53

or violent misconduct. But the NCAA

9:55

took a really hands-off approach to

9:57

enforcing this policy. where

10:00

they allow each school to kind of come

10:02

up with their own questionnaire

10:04

forms that they give athletes.

10:07

There's no centralized vetting process

10:10

and schools can define what

10:12

reasonable steps mean. So most

10:14

schools, the only real step they

10:17

take is they have athletes self-disclose

10:19

these incidents in their past on

10:21

a form that they devise.

10:23

But the forms often ask these

10:25

really narrowly worded questions and most

10:27

of the forms that we reviewed

10:30

for our reporting did not

10:32

include any question about juvenile

10:35

conduct. The problem with that is that

10:37

most college athletes you know are 18,

10:39

19, 20,

10:42

21 years old and so really the

10:44

only venue for any

10:46

criminal behavior that they would

10:48

have engaged in early in

10:50

adulthood would have been juvenile

10:53

court. So to not require schools

10:55

to ask about juvenile cases really

10:57

ignores a lot of potential issues

10:59

in their past. Kenny, have we

11:01

heard from schools or the NCAA

11:03

itself on this issue? Yeah,

11:05

so we did reach out to the schools

11:08

mentioned in the story and they've all had

11:10

a similar response when they did learn of

11:12

these cases for the first time which was

11:15

in all of those instances they allowed

11:17

the athlete to continue playing. Some of

11:19

them acknowledged that the athletes had not

11:21

disclosed the incidents to them when they

11:23

were recruited or when they first completed

11:26

their forms but they sort of gave

11:28

the athletes an out because they said

11:30

well they answered the forms truthfully. We

11:32

just didn't ask you know the right question. You

11:35

might think that after that they would update

11:37

their forms to add those questions but

11:39

that's not something that they've done. These

11:41

issues come up when a news

11:44

outlet finds out about them and reports on

11:46

them but rarely it

11:48

seems do the athletes status

11:50

on the teams change afterward.

11:52

Kenny, juvenile delinquency records usually

11:54

don't prevent people from enrolling in

11:56

school. Do advocates and victims

11:59

feel sexual violence? violence should be different

12:01

and really functionally what improvements

12:03

do they want to current policy? Juvenile

12:06

court, it has more of a

12:09

focus on rehabilitation than the adult

12:11

criminal justice system, which is more

12:14

focused on retribution. We

12:16

do give as a society more

12:18

grace to juveniles who commit these

12:20

sorts of offenses. But

12:22

some of the experts we talk to

12:24

say that it's one thing to allow

12:26

the juvenile to go to school and

12:28

get a job, but that college sports

12:30

maybe deserves a little bit of a

12:33

different treatment because of the way that

12:35

these athletes are really celebrated

12:37

and uplifted in our society

12:40

to put an athlete on a pedestal like that

12:42

who has a past like this to

12:45

have them represent your

12:47

institution. Some experts say

12:49

that cuts against efforts to reduce

12:51

sexual violence on campus because it

12:53

sends a message that the

12:56

behavior is tolerated and that success

12:58

on the field takes precedence

13:00

over campus safety and the

13:03

way that victims feel about what happened to

13:05

them. People on different sides of the aisle

13:07

see differently about this. Some say, well, it

13:09

was a juvenile case. We'll give them a

13:12

second chance. But I think the

13:14

advocate community and the psychology

13:16

communities are often very split

13:19

on this issue. Kenny Jacobi with

13:21

some excellent investigative reporting and insight

13:24

on this story. Thank you, Kenny. Thank you. And

13:27

today is National Good Samaritan Day.

13:29

A chance to recognize the kind

13:31

and selfless actions around us every

13:33

day and maybe just do something

13:35

nice for someone else. And

13:38

be sure to stay tuned to the

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