if she walked back, it s because she s inartful about it. she supports resources to investigators and supports nondisclosures going away and supports the public funds shouldn t go to settle lawsuits. that s the important things. laura: congressman, nancy pelosi never talked about this shush fund as we called it her, the settlement for the bad actors. don t know who these people are still. now it s getting traction. we talked about it first on cable and now it s everywhere. john conyers has been in there 52 years. this is like a lifetime appointment in congress. that s a separate issue, obviously. nancy pelosi is willing to give iconic status to him. if you re an icon, you can get away with this stuff and resign away your ranking position?
private sector. we need to have something victim s council so they can come forward. jason, a fund that pays for this. correct. and as we now know 17 million has been paid and we as taxpayers who fund that fund, that hush fund, if you will, don t even know who the the alleged perpetrators of the sexual assault are and you look at the fact that the senate passed very quickly as they should have the sexual assault mandatory training and yet did not include provisions to get rid of this fund or at a minimum make it open so that those of us who are funding the fund will know who has committed these acts, it s ridiculous and i believe as we go forward into
out, melissa did make an effort to say something. but in the structure that exists in congress now as you listed on the screen, it takes time, leads to frustration. and i don t think it s designed to deliver justice. it s designed to protect congress and the congress members. melissa: kelly, another astonishing thing i found out during interviews today there is no mandatory sexual harassment training in congress. i have never worked somewhere where you didn t have to do that. all companies have that today where it works or not can be debated. but the idea that they don t even have a structure at this point and it s volunteer that seems astonishing to me. does it shock you? melissa, it s absolutely astonishing. they are not representatives of the people. and when donald trump spoke about draining the swamp, everyone had this feeling that congress operated under a different set of rules. we certainly saw a lot of that during the obama administration. but then it find out about this h
transparency on the hush fund which i think we can and that s important. we also have to look how many claims may have been diverted to where members are using their office budget. i think that should already be illegal. if it s not, we have to bliss that. that s an abuse the funds we get to represent our constituents with. griff: that s a great point, congressman. i think the the american people will agree with you. happy thanksgiving. i hope you have a wonderful time with your family. and we appreciate your time. happy thanksgiving to everybody. griff: thank you, congressman. all right, democrats are lining up to take on president trump in 2020. so, how many running to hillary clinton for her advice? we will give you one guess. and do you remember him? the houston businessman who turned his furniture stores into shelters for hurricane harvey victims? well, he is not done. mattress mac. there he is. he has a huge thanksgiving plan. that s coming up next. what a hero he was in housto
even interviewed. before other key witnesses were interviewed. so now, we have absolute proof of what you ve been saying for a long time, laura. and that s that hillary clinton was treated differently than any other american would be treated and as a member of the judiciary committee, i want answers from the f.b.i. about how we can stop this type of special treatment for politicians in the future. laura: we ve been talking about the special treatment that politicians get when it comes to issues of harassment, other types of discrimination with that shush fund, slush fund on capitol hill, $17 million paid out to victims. all confidential and that s just absolute outrage. but in this case, we re talking about the former secretary of state, she s running for president. has a white hot spotlight on her and on this question of her e-mails, the ones that were destroyed. the intent to set up that private server. when something is designated as special investigation, one could hear that and