loud today. you want to know what s wrong with the place? i go to work in a hostile working environment every day. if you are a democrat and a republican is up for election, you are supposed to be against that person. these are people you are working with. you have an obligation and responsibility to get something done. i was tempted to say, joe manchin, who are you working with? you have this dream that the republicans will work with you. they have done nothing but oppose. they will do nothing but oppose. what about the infrastructure bill? that was in the making for a very long time on any of the things that the democrats want to own. they won t work with you. wake up. welcome to politics. that s what i was tempted to say. what is that? that s me feeling the fever, right, of this fatal istic notin about government. i m tempted to say, that s how it works. hate them. they are your enemy. that s not the way it s supposed to work.
equation. as my father used to say, any jack ass can kick down a barn. it takes a good man or woman to build one. so the eas here s the problemr the democrats. they re fighting the good fight. that s not me saying so. they said so. that was their pledge. and for months now, while promising that we ll show you government can work to end the chaos, they ve demonstrated that the core of their pledge is a false premise. and if government is not getting things done that help, it is only seen as that which hurts. and senator manchin said that out loud today. you want to know what s wrong with the place? i go to work in a hostile working environment every day. if you re a democrat and a republican is up for re-election, these are people
wrong with the place. i go to work in a hostile working environment every day. if you re a democrat and a republican is up for election, you re supposed to be against that person. if donald duck is running against that person, you re supposed to give money from your pac to help the other person beat the person that you have been working with. and even sometimes they ll say, can you come campaign against so and so, and then we come back on monday and here s the person that we have given money against and here s the person that we re supposed to give basic work against saying, hey, could you sign on this amendment for me, work on this amendment for me. how well do you think that s going to work? i ve never done that. if we do anything to change this place, there should be an ethics law against us campaigning against each other, against us sending money to the candidate, against a sitting colleague. these are people you re working with. you have an obligation and responsibility to get som
lasseter said, no matter how benign my intent, everyone has the right to set their own boundaries and have them respected. he added that he will take some time away to reflect on how to move forward from here, saying, i look forward to working together again in the new year. and tonight, this statement from disney. we appreciate john s candor and sincere apology and fully support his sabbatical. david? linsey davis with us tonight. li linsey, thank you. and michigan democrat john conyers facing an ethics committee investigation. tonight, the longest serving member of congress reported to have paid more than $27,000 to a woman who claims he fired her for refusing his sexual advances. conyers acknowledging the settlement, but denying her claim. that payment, out of his office budget, which is taxpayer money. and tonight, word of a second accusation from an employee, filing a complaint of a hostile working environment. that complaint later dropped. the news coming just one week
much on foreign trips with the president to leading a hostile working environment. today, they say jackson deserve a fair hearing after lawmakers finish vetting all these allegations. i m going to make sure we have an open, fair hearing for the nominee, for the president of the united states and the interest of our veterans. we ll get to the bottom of every claim and make a good decision when it s over. the republican senate leadership furious at the white house, at the president for not conducting its own vetting. instead, the complaints are flooding into capitol hill and the senators now left to sort a mess of the president s making. we re joined now live. tell us about some of the things the senators are trying to sort out, fact or fiction. reporter: the senators have said they ve heard from more than 20 members of the military, active duty and retired, who brought these claims forward. our colleague and i digging into one of those last night.