out there who are unaware this behavior goes on. but i think what has happened with mr. conyers is a chance to talk more broadly about what is happening on capitol hill and the nondisclosure agreements that women who come forward are forced to sign. it is an extraordinarily difficult process to go through if you are a capitol hill staffer and want to file a complaint against a lawmaker. and this makes it particularly difficult for the staffers. and they don t have many venues to speak out. we have the legislation now by jackie spears, a congresswoman from california. one of the reasons it is so needed is, take a look at this, a colorado democratic congresswoman talking to our colleague, katy tur, yesterday about her own personal encounters with a fellow member of congress. when i was a young congresswoman, i was at a diplomatic dinner, and one of the french diplomats tried to put his hand up my dress.
epidemic that was caused by u.n. peacekeepers. i spent a lot of time in the 90s. it has been through war. it has been through corruption. right, and if you think, too, just back a year ago, we were reporting on haitianings that had left haiti to go to brazil. they thought they had more economic opportunity there. a lot of them worked on the brazil olympics in rio. when that ended, the economic opportunity was drying up and we saw a flood of haitians coming to the u.s. southern border. a lot of times people weren t even identifying them correctly. but, again, they re still they re moving from one country to another. if they re willing to go to brazil and then come all the way up to the mexico border, we can bet the conditions in haiti aren t such that they would want to return right away. and a conservative retiring republican veteran congresswoman from miami where there s a large population of haitians is saying this is a bad decision so they re facing criticism on all
the minnesotan democrat is accused of groping and kissing a female radio personality without her consent. during a uso tour during in 2006. jackie spears has aimed legislation aimed at fighting sexual harassment and is calling for officials to look into al franken s past. they need to do an investigation. senator franken has agreed to that as well. i also think that it has to be determined if there is a pattern of sexual harassment. incidences have to be severe or they have to be one that has happened over a period of time. arthel: joining me now is katie. nice to have you here, katie. nice to be here. thank you for having me. arthel: will they want to tread lightly on the way they seek solutions and verify these allegations? there is no doubt that the #
include physical assault to i think it carries changes the way it carries and assault is certainly different than groping and little comments. assault is certainly different than groping, and little comments, but these are all part of the problem. john, how do you feel? she said she hopes it gets out of hand. do you worry the pendulum will swing too far? i don t think we have to reinvent the wheel here. any sexual contact that s not sun sensual is out of bounds. and jackie spears carrying the legislation behind it that would provide training and educational resources for people on how to behave, i don t think we need that. i don t think an hr video is going to get someone to behave. i think if you re a professional and you show up in a professional environment and you don t already know you need to
use of workplace power for sexual gain. it wasn t as a striking example of the genre of misconduct that society has a strong interest in stamping out. that alone should have been enough to pressure clinton out of office. it is certainly true that the left is conscious of not seeing stomach seeming hypocritical now. taking such a hard line on the roy moore issue and did take such a hard line against the president himself during the campaign, but it s important to remember i covered the hill harassment, congressman jackie spears, democrats out there and said i know of a democrat and republican who have engaged in this behavior. in the rank-and-file, they do want to go after both sides, and they both don t like always have. shannon: do you think that we will get names? i m working on it and i know some of the reporters are working on it so i expect so. shannon: we learned a lot this week about the splash barn. july saw it a few days ago on the paper i had never heard of it before