is not a license for harassment. i commend the brave women coming forward." congressman conyers said he looks forward to vindicating himself before the house ethics committee. he stepped away from house judiciary because he said he didn't want to have a conflict of presence, paraphrasing him there. jessica, did you see twitter and pelosi? >> jessica: even liberal twitter wasn't happy. the follow-up statement should have been what she said on "meet the press," that there is no excuse for this. if democrats want to maintain the high ground on this issue which is something that we pride ourselves on, we are the party for women, that our policies are better for women. you can laugh, but we say that. she should've lead with, it puts her in a terrible position when there were a lot of people. >> harris: why do you think she would say something like that? >> jessica: she's known john conyers a long time, there's a mutual respect there, they've been colleagues, there was a mistake. it puts the al franken situation into more of a precarious position as well. at the end of the day, john