legislation, but this is something that i think has a real possibility of getting all the way through. senator durbin, my dear friend and our senior center in illinois, is chair of the judiciary on the senate side and he will help us get this through. but ali, we had senator lindsay graham, i m the lead sponsor on the house side, and i have the republican out of indiana, we we are all there saying that we stand together, democrats and republicans, and say this is bad business. and i don t care what the size of your business is, this is bad business to force your employers to sign off on this typically as when you are a brand new employee, you go down to the human resources department, you are all excited, but this is taking away your rights to say, hey, you know what, if there is a sexual harassment problem, we want to be able to deal with this in a way that makes sense
that s what bernie and i are fighting for. and that s not the only challenge for bernie 2020. a group of women and men who worked for him in 2016 voiced concern that the campaign had a serious sexual harassment problem. sanders met with those accusers but refused to talk about their discussion describing it as private. he has promised in the past, though, that if he runs in 2020 things will be different. i certainly apologize to any woman who felt that she was not treated appropriate and of course if i run we will do better our next time. amid the ongoing impact of the me too movement, new hampshire primary voters wonder if there s room for a second sanders run. i think with the me too movement especially it will be something that s going to come newspaper campaigns and it s going to come up in the 2020 election. so i don t think that we should run a candidate like that with that much risk. sanders has already made changes implementing new human resources standards for his
vert r veteran lawmaker. for sanders the environment in 2020 will be much different than it was in 2016. in an already crowded field of candidates he is no longer the clear eyed candidate. brown of ohio were considering runs occupy a similar space and create obstacles. that s what bernie and i are fighting for. that s not the only challenge for bernie 2020. a group of women and men who worked for him in 2016 voiced concern that the campaign had a serious sexual harassment problem. today he met those accusers and refused to talk about their discussion describing it as private. he promised if he runs in 2020 thic things will be different. i apologize to any women that
confidants and knew about his dirty tricks and harassing private investigators. he knew about the extent of the sexual harassment problem at the network and didn t help either clean it up or cover it up in some instances. this is a hire that has a lot of baggage and it opens up donald trump to his own women problems. clearly this white house does not matter does not care about that. he was not named communications director. that position still sits vacant. sarah huckabee sanders doing that on an interim basis as she is also press secretary. as donald trump became president, five individuals have held that position of communications director. you see them there. bill shine, not communications director, but filling a role of that capacity. he ll oversee communications as chief of staff. i think it s clear the
[phone ping] with esurance photo claims, you could have money for repairs within a day. wow! that was really fast. that s insurance for the modern world. esurance. click or call. mike: the state capital in california allegedly has a sexual-harassment problem. two lawmakers have resigned and two more are now on leave over suspected improper conduct and now we are learning more about the allegations against one of them. trace gallagher joins us live with the story. these complaints read like a lesson in hypocrisy 101. california democratic assemblywoman christina garcia, elected in 2012, has carved out a name for being a champion of the #metoo movement. not only is she a leader in the states antisexual harassment campaign, she was also featured in time magazines person of the year issue for being one of the silence breakers on sexual harassment.