Form of government when you find yourself working at the very top of it and knowing youre in some crazy grade School Recess yard where the big skid sticks the other kids with nicknames, brags about himself like some dangerous clown, and you having to take it every day, every minute . Thats hardball for now, thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes, starts right now. Tonight on all in. Did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq comment president president floats an iq test. Senator bob corker called the white house an Adult Day Care Center tonight multiple new detailed reports supporting the Adult Day Care Method of managing the president. And what it means for the country. Senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion. Then blockbuster new Assault Allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Please come in. Im everything im a famous guy. Im feeling very uncomfortable right now. Little bob corker up by Working Recording his conversation, was made to sound a fool and thats what im dealing with. Like so many statements lie this president that claim is false. According to audio cork i could new the Phone Interview was On The Record and had aides on the line making a recording of their own. I know theyre recording it and i hope you are too. Yeah, i am. According to reporter jonathan martin, after they got off the phone corkers aides made sure he had recorded the call. They wanted to ensure his extraordinary charges were precisely captured. As the president s retaliatory tweet today demonstrates twitter remains one of his few unsupervised activities and its apparently one he relishes are according to politico the president has on several occasions walked down to the oval office in the morning and told aides he knew they didnt like the tweets he sent earlier. Theyre not president ial, i know, he said, with a mocking tone on the word president ial. Its one example of how the president chafes to restrain his impulsive outbursts and defuse the ticking time bomb in the oval office. Almost an open secret in washington that bob corkers now saying py want to put in context the conversation i had with a prominent republican who literally was saying they imagine general kelly and Secretary Mattis have had conversations that if trump nunch are lunched for the Nuclear Football, what would they do, would they tackle hill, physically restrain him, from putting the country at perilous risk . That is the kind of situation were in. Wait, thats the conversation you had with a very senior republican musing about what would talking about these are the conversations that they have very good authority, are taking place inside the white house. I would say this maralago strategy is a sort of emblematic of how general kelly does not want the president to be out of his sight. And i think thats a very serious story that all of us should be talking about. The idea being that this is one of the recurring themes, that the president who is its not crazy to sate most powerful person in the world. Yeah. And has the authority to precipitate nuclear war. Kelly speaks to his character. And his stature and his integrity. So yei dont think this is the case behind the scenes theyre egging him on, i genuinely think theyre trying to a daily basis to do the right thing. That said were in a situation where the president thinks of himself as someone who is not beholden to advisers. This again is uncharted water. I think the question will be, going into the sort of Pressure Cooker of trying to get tax reform and others, if the president seems like he has nothing to lose, what does he do next . If he cant get any legislative agenda coming up on the oneyear deadline of his first year in office, what happens . Do they feel that, do you think, in the white house . Oh, clearly, without question, they know the clock is ticking. Thats why youre seeing the drumbeat of stories. The pressure inside is ratcheting up. Gabe sherman, amazing reporting, thank you for sharing that. Congressman dan donovan, a republican from new york
agenda. He set out a very ambitious agenda, chris. He wanted to do health care, he wanted to do tax reform, he wanted to do infrastructure all in the first year of his presidency because he realized in a twoyear election cycle like we run in the house, you get more things done in the first year than you do in the second year. I think hes getting frustrated. Hes using the bully pulpit to try to push his agenda forward. As you have seen, hes seen talking to democrats to see if he can make deals to get more enough people on board that he can get some of these things passed to the American Public. He promised the American Public he would make americas interests first. You think the reporting, you any the On The Record statements by Senior Member of your party in the senate, bob corker, and the constant drumbeat of reporting in which aides to the president speak about him in terms of someone who has to be controlled, a wayward toddler, volatile, you think all of that is wrong and invented, the whole corpus of that is just people with bias or making it up . No i think you said it before, chris. Are we getting spin from insiders, people around . Are we getting Accurate Information . You hear people saying that. You hear people saying that the president wants to move the agenda forward. So chris, youre getting different interpretations. You said before about his tweets. The president does that so he can get his message unfiltered out to the public without anybody interpreting what do you think, honestly, when you wake and up see that he called bob corker little bob corker and he said the New York Times set him up, and thats clearly not true, thats an untrue statement. Its belied bit tape, we can agree on that. I wonder whats your reaction as a republican member of congress . The president has always had nicknames for a lot of people. And today everybodys making a big deal about how hes comparing his iq to other people. Those things are the president s way of making some things just making them down to earth. So i think hes not getting the credit he deserves for trying to
and certainly health care, i dont know that the president you just fundamentally dont buy this whole notion that kelly and tillerson and mattis and all these people are just sitting there trying to mind this man that they fundamentally think is so volatile they might have to tackle him if he goes for the Nuclear Football . I dont think so. I think rex tillerson, general mattis, and general kelly, are advising the president using their years of experience to give him the best advice that they could give him, and that theyre going to carry out his mission. I hope youre right and the reportings wrong. Congress man dan donovan of staten island, appreciate you being here tonight. Betsy woodruff is a politics reporter of the daily beast. Mckay, it seems weve turned a corner. I dont know if its because more things are coming out or because of the Tillerson Battle Or because corker finally said this On The Record. I feel like this perspective is essentially an open secret in washington among lobbyists, hill
an antiestablishment insurgency, gotten into office, then kind of conformed somewhat to the norms of washington. Theyre seeing trump hasnt done that and i think its alarming a lot of people. To the tillerson point about the stakes here, to give people context in case they hadnt seen this quote, forbes asked about the moron comment, i think its fake news but if he did that i guess iq tests can tell you who is going to win. Which the white house later said was a joke. He said he didnt undercut anyone. Thats to me is the thing that its easy to lose sight of the stakes here and the reason corkers speaking out is you heard what gabe sherman said. Ultimately hes threatening north korea over twitter. Hes about to decertify the iran deal. Youve got two massively highstakes Nuclear Issues on the table. The president is treating the way that he treated running against ted cruz in the primary. Right. These are extraordinarily consequential issues. And its kind of easy to talk about the language being used. Corkers tweet about adultdy care. And treat this like a situation thats amusing. Butful the toplevel, longterm republican operatives that i talk to about this presidency dont treat it like its funny. No, theyre scared. Right, grief and keep concern, exactly. I think its important that people recognize that. When it comes to looking at what happened between trump and corker, i had a number of conversations over the course of the day with people familiar with his thinking. And the sense that i get from those conversations is that charlottesville was a really important moment for corker in terms of shifting how he talked about trump. He hadnt been shy about criticizing trump prior to that. But when that happened, thats when corker first said that he thought trump hadnt yet evinced the stability to be president. He really went after trump as an individual in terms of his character, in terms of whether or not he as a human being was able, at that particular moment, to lead this country. And then the tillerson piece is also really important. Corker is one of the few people on capitol hill to actually have a close, productive working relationship with tillerson. He chairs the Senate Foreign affairs committee. When the president goes after tillerson, when he tweets hes wasting his time, when he poohpoohs the work of the state department, my understanding is thats something that very much rankles corker. Corker and staff have put a lot of time and energy into trying to help tillerson, trying to help him manage these really complex issues, including iran and north korea. For cork tore watch the president turn around and just torch all that cant be easy. And part of the stakes here, to betsys point about this sort of the kind of policy vacuum, whether its daca, which Steven Miller is basically destroying by himself on the hill, like you just get the sense that theres total vacuum about what the agenda is and what the governments going to do, and its filled by the impulsivity
of the Man At The Top who at any moment could careen off course based on whatever stimulus he receives. This is i think also one of the reasons that youre starting to see republicans like corker more willing to speak out. I mean, also lets be clear here. Corkers also retiring. Thats a big reason that hes able to speak out. Right. But that doesnt mean the substance of his critique doesnt matter. I think the thing thats happening, though, you mentioned it earlier, the legislative agenda is a disaster. Its entirely boss that i believe well get to the end of this year without a single legislative accomplishment from the Trump Presidency and this republican congress. And republicans on capitol hill who were willing to hold their nose, bite their tongue, for months when it came to donald trump, because they wanted their tax cuts, because they wanted their obamacare repeal, are starting to say, look, if were not going to get anything done, then i have a lot less incentive here to hold my criticism to
myself. Mckay, betsy woodruff, thank you. Thank you. The explosive Sexual Assault and rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the Audio Recording of a police sting, and the Household Names coming forward. Attorney Gloria Allreds client said she left the industry after encountering wane stein. Repeatedly asking for a massage or initiating one himself. Today in The New Yorker more than a dozen accusations against weinstein, three that go beyond Sexual Harassment to allegations of rape. Farrah, a nbc news tributer, calls weinsteins behavior wellknown among colleagues 16 former, current executive asks assistants at Weinstein Companies told me they witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching associates with weinsteins films and in the workplace. They and others describe a paper of professional meetings that were little more than thin pretexts for sexual advances on young actresses and models. One of the women is ambra gutierrez. She was 22 when She First Weinstein in 2015 and went to nypd after she says he groped her in his office. The following audio obtain the by The New Yorker and published was reportedly recorded the next day as part of a spring traition. Ambra agreed to meet weinstein
and spoke to him about the hallway of his hotel as he tries to pressure her to go to his room as she repeatedly refuses. Im not going to do anything, i swear on my children, please come in. On everything, im a famous guy im feeling very uncomfortable right now. Please come in now in one minute, when you want to leave why yesterday you touch my breast . Please, im sorry, just come on in, im used to that youre used to that . Yes, come in. No, but im not used to that. I wont do it again, come on, sit here. Sit here for a minute, please . No, i dont want to. If you do this now you will [ inaudible ]. Never call me again. Okay . Im sorry. Nice i promise you i wont do anything. I know but yesterday was too much for me. I will never do another thing to you. Five minutes. No criminal charges were ultimately filed in that case. A spokesperson for weinstein says he denies any allegations of Nonconsexual Sengs and says
he never retaliated against women who rejected his advances. In yet another blockbuster story the New York Times revealed more accusations against weinstein including On The Record alist Oscarwinning Hollywood actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow and angelina jolie. A 91 of outlets, more than 20 women have now accused weinstein of everything from harassment to flatout rape. The women range from paltrow and Jolie To Women who left the Entertainment Industry entirely, in some cases they say because of weinstein. Attorney Gloria Allred is representing one of weinsteins accusers, the mother of attorney lisa bloom, who had been Individualing Weinstein before resigning from that role saturday. Your client is no one. Someone tell me the accusations she has against weinstein. What she reported in her News Conference today was that he invited her to pitch a screenplay that she had done to him, that they started out in
the restaurant, that the restaurant then said, well, theyre closing, and that he indicated that she should come up to his office. And the office was in the hotel. This was at the sundance film festiv festival. And that she had heard rumors and she said that she asked mr. Weinstein in front of a camera at the hotel to promise and swear that he would not do anything, essentially, to her, if in fact she went up to his office in the hotel room. She indicated that he did do that and that she went up to the hotel room, to the office, and they continued to discuss her pitch. For her screenplay. And then she reported in the News Conference this morning, she alleged that he came out in a bathrobe. In her words she said buck naked. And her allegation was that he wanted her to watch him masturbate. Which she did not want to do. She was able to get out of there. But that was a very disturbing situation for her, very upsetting. And she spoke out today because she knows there are many others still who have allegations against mr. Weinstein. But who do not want to go public because it may be that theyre afraid of retaliation, or to other reasons having to do with the industry. And so she felt that she wanted people to know that we have a process that weve invited mr. Weinstein to participate in. Because in addition to the therapy that he indicated he would be getting and the pain that he has acknowledged that he has been responsible for, for
some women, wed like to invite him to help to provide justice for any person who is alleging that shes a victim of mr. Weinstein. So were inviting him to waive, in other words give up and agree not to assert the statute of limitations which is an affirmative defense, in other words, saying its too late to file a claim if this happened years ago. Right. And to agree with us on a retired judge who could then conduct a trial, thats an arbitration, and then decide after the alleged victims can present their evidence, mr. Weinstein can present his defenses, who the judge finds should prevail. If they find that the victims have presented a preponderance of the evidence and should prevail, the judge can decide damages according to proof at trial. If, in fact, the judge finds in favor of mr. Weinstein, then, in fact, he can announce that publicly. So hell have due process. The alleged victims will have due process. And then thats a fair system to have these allegations resolved. Not the court of Public Opinion only. But in an actual legal process. He seems like he has retained attorneys and is going to fight this. Even if he expressed contrition in that first statement. And had retained your daughter, who has parted ways with him, i know you were asked about that this morning and said you guys have different decisions on different cases. It seems to me like hes going to fight this tooth and nail. Is that your expectation . Well, my daughter is with a separate law firm. And so shes not representing the accusers, i am. And i love her and respect her and she can represent whomever she wishes because thats her own law firm, not mine. And i know shell make good judgments about that. What do i expect him to do and through his lawyers . Well, this is actually a very reasonable process, as far as were concerned. Very fair. Right. To everyone involved. And i think it would help him to restore his reputation. Because i think, chris, its likely that Harvey Weinstein is going to want to come back and produce films in hollywood. Even if its not through the weinstein company. Yeah. And so this will be an important positive step forward where he can reach, we hope, a positive outcome on these numerous claims against him. And its good for many of the alleged victims too because some of them dont want to speak out publicly. Some of them just would like to have access and this help. I anticipate were going to hear from more of them. Gloria allred, thank you for joining me. Kellyanne conway and others bizarrery trying to score political points on the Harvey Weinstein scandal but have they forgotten who was elected president . Steve bannon, former white house chief strategist, breitbart chairman, went online to level threats against the Republican Party. On the heels of a Senate Victory in alabama, bannon says hes going to support primary challenges to almost every single republican senator next year with one very notable exception. Remember, i said im going after the republican establishment. And were going to go after them. Were going to challenge as a coalition coming together thats going to challenge every republican incumbent except for ted cruz. Huh. Except for ted cruz . Why does ted cruz get an exception . And why incidentally are you again wearing two buttondown shirts under a blazer . You mean this ted cruz . Lyin ted. Youre a liar, whoo. Bible high, bible high. Puts it down and then he lies. Donald, youre a snivel coward, Leave Heidi The Hell alone. This man is a pathological liar. He doesnt know the difference between trues a between truth and lies. Why is ted cruz of all people getting the glovesoff treatment . People familiar with bannons plans told Bloomberg Cruz is considered conservative enough and is thought to be moving toward the populist Approach Bannon favors. Bannon and cruz share a pait criterion, someone who bannon appears utterly unwilling to cross. The reclusive conspiracymongering billionaire behind ted cruz, steve bannon, and the trump agenda right after this. Me right now, isnt he . Yup. butch barks at man butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. laughs vo you can never have too many faithful companions. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Our guests can earn a free night when they book at choicehotels. Com and stay with us just two times . Fall time. Badda book. Badda boom. Pumpkin spice cookie . Im good. Book now at choicehotels. Com
daughter rebecca redirected the super pac, run by kellyanne conway, to support donald trump instead. The mercer connections to trump, the breitbart movement, and the altright go deep. They reportedly funded Milo Yiannopoulos last seen by all in singing America The Beautiful at a White Nationalist bar with White Nationalists giving nazi salutes. Cambridge an lit ka, a Research Firm that worked for the trump campaign. Robert mercer is quite the character. The new yorker reported people who know him say he believes bill and Hillary Clinton have been involved in murders and that black people are better off economically before the Civil Rights Movement and that humans have no inherent value other than how much money they make. According to one former employee, bob thinks the Less Government the better, hes happy if Theme Dont Trust the government, if the president s a bozo hes fine with that, he wanted it to all fall down. Im joined by the former
spokesperson for Breitbart News, kurt bardella. How instrumental are the mercers as sort of a force behind breitba breitba breitbart. Theyre the life blood of it. At the end of the day what matters in politics are outcomes of elections. The way you get there is with resources and money. The reason why people are taking Steve Bannons attack and assault against the republican establishment so seriously is because they know its not just steve bannon. Its steve bannon with a benefactor that has very deep and unlimited pockets and resources to put into these type of elections and races and make them at the least competitive, if not to outright have enough money on win them. Its one thing when you have a lunatic like steve bannon and breitbart at the fringes putting up ridiculous headlines, its another when they have enough money to build an entire Political Action network that can be incredibly effective in the political process. Theres also the fact going back through the sort of reporting today, i guess i didnt quite grasp or i did but had forgotten how crucial they
were financially to bright wart going from essentially a collection of blogs to being a Media Company. They were the sort of they staked it, the money and capital it needed to become the platform that it would become. Right. Remember, in the wake, immediate aftermath of Andrew Breitbarts passing are there was a lot of questions what would happen to breitbart, would it survive, is it a viable platform without their namesake behind and it active . All of a sudden here come the percent is with Deep Pockets Giving Breitbart that second lease on life, and in fact giving them the resources that made them even more impactful having even more of an audience, being able to use social media to grow their following. They are so much more impactful because of this money. Were seeing now them deploy that. Theyre not just a Media Company really functionally, theyre a Political Action network. Thats the key point here. This is the the Percenters Made A variety of investments that are all sort of working in concert. Youve got reporting that Rebecca Mercer would call up someone at breitbart and say she wants them to do a story on a
conservative whose app has been kicked out of the itunes store, and lo and behold there it is, bannon writes an email being like this is a victory. They have avenues for their political intervention, whether its a super pac, bannon, breitbart, money the candidates, came bridge anylytica, a diverse portfolio. It creates a selfis staining ec echo chamber. To reaching the president of the United States. One of the most terrifying anecdotes so far in the new kelly regime at the white house is trump had asked, wheres my Breitbart News . Think about that. The commander in chief wants to get his information from platforms that are basically selfsustaining propaganda machines. Thats terrifying. Let me ask you this. I followed your career for a while, watched you go through various iterations. When the way youre talking about breitbart is hard to square with you working there. How do you come to youre talking about this place as sort of this contemptible hornets
nest of conspiracy theories, deleterious actions to the country. When did you realize that . So im sure a lot of your audience right now is wondering, how can chris have this guy on who worked at breitbart in the truth is this. When i first came across breitbart, it was after andrew died, steve had talked about wanting to build a platform that told and chronicled the story that was going on on the center right. There was a lot going on there and i thought, yeah, that story should be told, thats interesting. What i didnt sign up for and didnt realize i was getting into was someone that was as frankly crazy as steve is, who also had this political saegd and wanted to build this ecosystem to prop up someone like donald trump. When i saw that happening i decided i need to get out of this, this isnt right for me, i dont want to be a part of this, i dont feel good about this. So i made the decision to resign and become a to speak out and tell as much of the truth as i can about who these people really are. Do you view bannon and breitbart and the sort of trump
world as essentially a kind of united front mercers . Yes. Bannon has said his goal is to destroy the establishment, to destroy the pillars of the establishment that keep this republic going. And the fact that it goes from bannon to people that are as funded with mercers and the resources all the way to the white house, that is an incredibly Dangerous Alliance that can do a lot of damage to this country. Kurt bardella, thank you. Next, a very quotable thing 1, thing 2. By listening to an thiaudiobook on audible. Ame and this guy is just trying to get through the day. This guy feels like he can take on anything. This guy isnt sure he can take it anymore. Unwavering selfconfidence. Stuck in a 4door sedan of sadness. Upgrade your commute. Ride with audible. Dial star star audible on your smartphone to start listening today. Jimmys gotten used to his whole yup, hes gone noseblind. Odors. He thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this. Luckily for all your hardtowash fabrics. Theres febreze fabric refresher. Febreze doesnt just mask, it eliminates odors youve. Gone noseblind to. And try Febreze Unstopables for fabric. With up to twice the fresh scent power, youll want to try it. Again and again and maybe just one more time. Indulge in irresistible freshness. Febreze unstopables. Breathe happy. So we created the only bed that adjusts on both sides to 9 out of 10 couples prefer a different mattress firmness, your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. You can even see how well youre sleeping and make adjustments. Does your bed do that . The most amazing part is they start at 699. Thats 200 off our queen c2 mattress during the final days of our fall sale. Ends sunday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Thing 1 tonight, the president s use of punctuation. You may have seen the president tweet that he launched at bob corker in which he called the Tennessee Republican little bob corker. You may have noticed in addition to the nontraditional spelling of little, theres a spray
apostrophe after the e. Thats not a big deal but we spotted another trump trend. You have lying ted cruz. I nicknamed him lyin. How would you spell that . Lyen. With a big apostrophe. Thats thing 2 in 60 seconds. Its not just a car, its your daily treat. Go ahead, spoil yourself. The es and es hybrid. Experience amazing. All right, one of our favorite Internet Things are sites that collect unnecessary Quotation Marks seen out in the world. Some examples, a sign written please use caution on the stairs. Smart lipo by a real plastic surgeon. If you are pregnant please inform the technician. Good for what laugh, no harm done. If you are looking for unnecessary Quotation Marks we found the mother lode. The twitter guide of the president of the United States. Donald trump quoted just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. Theres no need to put the phrase wires tapped in quotes
unless he meant something necessarily. When i say wiretapped, those words were in quotes that really covers. Wiretapping is pretty oldfashioned stuff but that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes but thats a very important thing. Im not sure thats what Quotation Marks are for. But wait, theres more. If the ban were announced with a oneweek notice the bad would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad dudes out there. I would have far less reason to tweet. And Intelligence Agencies should never allow this fake news to leak into the public. So with all of the people coming in, well have problems like you wouldnt believe. She wants 550 more coming in from syria than the thousands and thousands that our president has coming in. Than our name suggests. Were an organic tea company. A premium juice company. A Coconut Water company. Weve got drinks for long days. For birthdays. For turning over new leaves. And we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. We are the cocacola company, and were proud to offer so much more. Over the past year arguably the most powerful men in media, in homtd, and in pollties have all been accused by multiple women of various degrees of predatory sexual behavior. Roger ailes, chairman and ceo fox news channel, roger ailes was forced out after multiple ak sigsz of misconduct. Harvey weinstein was fired from his own company over the weekend over further accusations of Sexual Predator taking surfaced which he dnlz. And then theres the president of the United States, almost exactly one year ago the famous Access Hollywood was released which we dont need to play because everyone remembers that taip, but what is not always remembered is what happened right after that tape was released. Woman after woman came forward, noorl a dozen all, accusing donald trump of inappropriate behavior and Sexual Assault. The New York Times spoke with accusers who said donald trump groped her during a flight in the early 1980s. It wasnt until they cleared the meal that somehow or another
the armrest in the seat disappeared and it was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me. I hesitate to use this expression, but im going to and that is he was like an objecting toe pus. It was like he had six arms. He was all over the place. When he started putting his hand up my skirt and that was it. That was it. I was out of there. The other thing we seem to have collectively forgotten is the way the president ial candidate who denied all the ak sigsz, attacked the women who accused him. When you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said i dont think so. I dont think so. Whoever she is, wherever she comes from, the stories rl total fiction. I was sitting with him on an airplane and he went after me on the plane. Yeah, im going to go after you. Believe me, she would not be my first choice. That i can tell you. Man. You dont know. That would not be my first choice. Mere is what trump said about other women who accused him of Sexual Assault. Shes right. Shes a liar. She is a liar. Shes writing a story. Check out her facebook page. Youll understand. Hey, one came out recently where i was sitting alone in some club. I was sitting alone by myself like this. And then i went wa so somebody. Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over. [applause] what do you how are you processing or thinking about the Weinstein Story A year after that story about the president . Yeah. Watching those clips was toughment i havent seen those since. Theyre pretty bad. I remember that week on the campaign. That was, i think, the hardest week psychologically on the campaign. And it was funny because you would watch snl that night and they would cut to us partying and popping champagne. That was not the mood. There was a lot of women in that office and listening to the cheers as that man suggested that these women were too unattractive to assault. There was no political upside to that. The fact that we didnt even know he was going to win at this point, but the fact that somebody had come that far with that kind of backing making that kind of statement already showed that we were much farther gone as a country than i had previously realized. I think at this point aside from the perpetrators, for the most
part believe there are decades of women who all come forward with the staple story at this point thank god we tend to believe them as a story. Yeah. When he said in that access Hollywood Tape he said Something Like when youre a star, they just let you do it. The women in the the 53 of white women, the majority of men who voted for him proved that right. Up thats why i think its so extraordinary we see these latent consequences now finally. For weinstein. Jess said they believed him or didnt care. I think for the most part they believe that that is how men behave. Yeah. Even harvey wine sustain, no one would say its okay to do what hes alleged to do. They knew he was a creep. They knew he liked pretty girls. This is such an entrenched part of the culture that this is the way men behave towards women that i think weve normalized it. The weinstein story sent me
back to a gq profile of ted kennedy because ive been thinking about this. Theres On The Record ak sigsz of him sexually assaulting a waitress there. Shes kaultd up into a room. She is tackled on to a table. This is published in gq. And for years conservatives have screamed bloody murder about ted kennedy from chap akwid particular to that and there is some part of people who think but i like ted kennedy and i like his politics and im willing to look the other way. I feel like trump, there is some impulse to be like, wait, but hes no. It cant be true about him. Excuse away the worst parts of it but then say well, fine, nobody is perfect. This is not about the moral character. Thats the Classic Bill Clinton conundrum and ironically the only person who paid the price was Hillary Clinton. Obviously systemic miss on the ground any thats why you call it systemic. But there is in fact a partisan point that i think needs to be made. With we talk about roger ailes or bill oreilly or donald trump, these men who have these values who treat women this way have become somehow the bloodstream of the modern Republican Party and it is seen in the policies that they enact that are also intended to make women feel powerless. But the argument from conservatives about weinstein and they have been running because they think it val dates him this guy gave a hundreds gave a few million yon collars. Roger ailes became the architect of the modern Republican Party, the most important piece of infrastructure that they have is fox news. I would also invite these conservatives over to feminine land in this universe weve been critiquing its the same to say that liberals have excused ted kennedy and bill clinton. If you look hard enough and listen to what fem nisz are saying, present Company Excluded you can hear there is a critique. Its not a male female thing,
but in a society where men have a monopoly on power and especially in television, in entertainment where very far people have the power to decide whether somebody gets work or not and its a very subjective assessment where looks are a part of the game people talk about Casting Couches like this cartoonish thats going to happen. But the question is, again, the commonality here is male abuse of power, male monopoly on power. And maybe one party has policies to address that, but no party is immune from that kind of abuse. Thats very well said. I should say that the sort of feminist writers that i follow, no one is apologizing for Harvey Weinstein. I think the sangt money of hollywood. There is a lot of people implicated in this in hollywood who knew what was going on and who can be very selfrighteous about i just want to make sure that we turn to the men in hollywood. Yes. Thats right. Because im hearing all of this where is the actresses that
hes worked with, why arent they saying anything. I dont want to hear from women about the abuse of male power. I want to hear from the men that are most complicit in allowing that kind of thing to happen. I want to get your reaction to kellyanne conway. It was sort of bizarre to watch. This was a year ago. I remember when the tape came out. I remember the accusations of the president of the United States, person after person, again. He is accused of Sexual Assault. He boasted about Sexual Assault. This is kellyanne conway. It took hillary about five minutes to blame batmans rampage but five days to sort of kind of Blame Harvey Wean Steen for his Sexual Assault. Sister, you are working for a Sexual Predator. I dont know where you can get off criticizing anybody for anything in this realm and still look at yourself in the morning. Its just not its so far beyond the pale. I cant even imagine the kind of mental shutting down that she has had to do to be able to comments on a story like thoo while working in a white house for that man. Well, this is the thing. Nobody does this in a vacuum. So many people didnt come forward is because they owed harvey something, they want something from him or they blamed themselves. Or they thought would happen to them is what happened to the bem who accused the president of the United States. She wore a wire, right. The women who went to the police on the Harvey Weinstein case, they declined to prosecute despite the fact that he basically admitted on tape that he assaulted her. She did everything that you ask of a victim, why didnt you if to the police. She did. She went back to him wearing a wire. And his legal team smeared her so badly that the cops wouldnt prosecute the case this they understood they already had. We went back to look at those rally take place. The president of the United States these women are are liars. Exact same playbook we hear time and time again. Thank you for your time today. All right. That is all in for in evening