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‼️ CNN Reporter breaks down the Cornell University case... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: This chat touches on themes around sexual assault. So the
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  Speaker 2: Cornell Sevens story has been making headlines around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was about this poor student at Cornell University.
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  Speaker 1: Her name, well, she's called Jane Doe to protect her identity.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. She's accused seven men of raping her in October
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  Speaker 2: 2024 after being plied with alcohol and drugs at a
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  Speaker 2: fraternity house. Right. She also alleges that some of the
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  Speaker 2: men sent messages to a group chat containing.
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  Speaker 1: 57 other members.
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  Speaker 2: Encouraging them to come into the room she was in
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  Speaker 2: and participate with phrases like free and you can just
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  Speaker 2: walk in and whip it out, which is horrific. To
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  Speaker 2: help us make sense of it all, we're joined by
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  Speaker 2: CNN reporter Gloria Pasmino, who's been following every detail of
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  Speaker 2: this story. Gloria, can you help break down this situation
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  Speaker 2: and why it's suddenly the biggest news story in the world?
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Well, look, we are a little more than a
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  Speaker 3: week into this story that has just brought so much
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  Speaker 3: attention to university campus across the United States. And this
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  Speaker 3: all started almost two weeks ago after a former student
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  Speaker 3: here at Cornell University, which By the way, it's an
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  Speaker 3: elite Ivy League institution here in the United States, very prestigious,
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  Speaker 3: very expensive to go to. A former student of the
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  Speaker 3: school filed a civil lawsuit against the university, a fraternity
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  Speaker 3: and several other organizations accusing them of failing to protect
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  Speaker 3: her after she alleges that she was sexually assaulted and
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  Speaker 3: drugged when she attended a fraternity house party in 2024. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What I think is really important to say about this
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  Speaker 3: is that, you know, this incident happened two years ago
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  Speaker 3: and there was an internal university process. But Jane Doe
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  Speaker 3: has said that the university did not take significant action.
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  Speaker 3: Only two of seven accused students were removed from the schools.
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  Speaker 3: Others were allowed to remain. And so she's now bringing
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  Speaker 3: this legal action against the school. And that has once
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  Speaker 3: again reignited all this focus and conversation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you read into the case, it is horrific.
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  Speaker 2: And to think that only two gentlemen were expelled.
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  Speaker 1: And I think.
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  Speaker 2: The other's got an opportunity to write an essay to
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  Speaker 2: write in about what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder she's filing a lawsuit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think that is a big part
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  Speaker 3: of what's driving the frustration and the outrage. That people
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  Speaker 3: feel that not only was there a failure by the
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  Speaker 3: university to conduct an investigation that perhaps should have led
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  Speaker 3: to criminal charges... But the students and the faculty feel
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  Speaker 3: that the university hasn't quite met the mark when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to addressing them, making them feel like they care
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  Speaker 3: about all these frustrations that they're feeling. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's part of the conversation that we're watching play out now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you're saying elite university, many men. Have they
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  Speaker 4: been named?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all seven of them have been named.
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  Speaker 3: We at CNN, the organization that I work for, have chosen,
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  Speaker 3: at least for now, to not identify the seven members.
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  Speaker 3: It's important for what it's worth. that they've been sued,
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  Speaker 3: they haven't been charged, they haven't been arrested. And there's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a long due process here, right? As
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  Speaker 3: we know, there's a lot of facts that I think
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  Speaker 3: have yet to come out. And there's a criminal investigation
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  Speaker 3: that's currently underway by the state of New York.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us more about this criminal investigation?
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  Speaker 3: You know, back in 2024, after the university concluded their
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  Speaker 3: internal investigation, which is not a criminal process, they took
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  Speaker 3: that information to the local district attorney here in Ithaca.
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  Speaker 3: And that district attorney made a determination to not bring charges.
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  Speaker 3: That was two years ago. Now, two years later, the
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  Speaker 3: district attorney initially said he would reopen the investigation because
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  Speaker 3: he considered there was new evidence and new information. But
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  Speaker 3: because there's been so much scrutiny. the governor of New York,
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul, said that she was going to essentially ask
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  Speaker 3: that district attorney to step aside. And she appointed a
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  Speaker 3: special prosecutor. So now the state attorney general of the
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  Speaker 3: state of New York, this is the highest law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: officer in New York, is taking charge of the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: If There is going to be a criminal charge or
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  Speaker 3: charges that comes out of this. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: when that investigation is completed and the attorney general is
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  Speaker 3: now in the process of beginning that.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, there might actually be justice served.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully there is.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Gloria, thank you. You can keep up with Gloria's
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  Speaker 4: reporting for CNN. Find it on YouTube or follow her Instagram,
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  Speaker 4: Gloria Pasmino. Check her out on Instagram there. Gloria, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: We'll keep an eye on it and maybe we'll get
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  Speaker 4: you back on it as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for having me.
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