Were going to St PetersburgInternational Economic forum and the topic of our panel is are we witnessing a paradigm shift in the Global Economic order the answer of course is yes its a matter of degree. Greetings and salutations according to his website u. S. Congressman Duncan Hunter is federal budget and spending principles uncleared reducing spending to live within our means balancing budgets and eliminating government waste however hunter didnt seem to think he had to follow this principles and his own dealings with Campaign Cash last August Hunter and his wife pled guilty close to 60 counts wire fraud falsifying records Campaign Finance violations and conspiracy he was stripped of his Congressional Committee assignments all while saying but i didnt do it i didnt spend any money illegally he went on to claim that the entire case was politically motivated and that his wife was the one responsible for any financial in consistencies that is until margaret hunters june 13th 21000 plea agreement for one count of conspiracy with states beginning no later than 2010 and continuing up to and including at least 2016 there was an agreement between defendant and hunter to knowingly and willfully convert Campaign Funds to personal use in total throughout the relevant period the hunters illegally converted more than 200000. 00 in Campaign Funds to purchase goods and services in addition this week Justice Department prosecutors reviewed new allegations that representative hunters Duncan Hunter used large portions of that money to carry out a number. Extramarital affairs and you ask how could the tale of Duncan Hunter get any worse well this week an exclusive interview with r. T. Americas in question former hill staffer worry tiredly topic revealed that he also has a history of inappropriate sexual behavior while in his capacity and good as a congressman which makes one wonder why so many people in power still seem to think you can buy your way out of anything even making deals with the devil like wayfarer did this week when employees staged a walkout over the furniture distributors work with Detention Centers currently holding Asylum Seekers at the Us Mexico Border and said of actually addressing the concerns or the optics of the deal they instead gave 100000. 00 to the red cross to by the way has nothing to do with operations at the border and has a terrible record of using the funds given to them finally this week our instagram moms influencing stress with their seemingly perfect lives both on other moms and their children stealing cheating in lives must be time to start watching hocks. Told you that the banks are real the results are a liar the power to tell you. What they like you are going to. Sleep. With. Their. Family. We can be held back by the bad choices of others or we can create the options for our own future t. V. Phenol and trail blazer Shonda Rhimes once had a character of hers declare you can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them so lets ignore the boundaries crossed some lines and enter the gallery. Her writing. Today in the gallery or study of news views he use n. R. T. America correspondents armont us to and rachel 11 thank you for joining me thanks for having me so you know we all have these stories about friends or we have our own stories of people leaving jobs women especially leaving jobs because of creepy and hideous men. And i dont think a lot of people acknowledge the fact that a lot of good smart women are not are being driven out of Public Service for it and i want to take this time right now and to listen to the story of health staffer worry the topic on her own story listen. When i was a hill staffer i worked for the House Veterans Affairs committee and in 2014 i was at the n. R. C. See dinner and Duncan Hunter had clearly appeared intoxicated and came up to me and said that he wanted to speak to me about agent orange which was an issue the committee was dealing with at the time and i in response said im happy to reach out to your staff and follow up on that and he leaned into me very closely and said no i want to talk to you and i felt very uncomfortable and tried to back up and he reached around and put his hand on my behind and said let me give you my cell phone number and mediately kind of backed up and pushed him away one of our subcommittee chairman at the time was jon runyan of new jersey who used to play in the n. F. L. For the eagles thankfully and is a large intimidating guy so i went up to congressman runyan and said please get me out of here and we left and i actually left my position on the committee shortly thereafter because it was not an environment that i felt comfortable working in after that 5 years ago i know in my personal experience as a staffer i didnt feel comfortable coming forward i felt like i might retaliate and that it might cost me my job because members of congress are very powerful in this town and you dont want to jeopardize your professional future just because somebody has the potential to reach out to retaliate against you. Let me start with you scott a why are we why i mean i know were sort of in this now sort of post. Me too coming out so now theres this you know she gets to tell her story where 5 years ago she just left her job why are we letting hideous men drive good women smart women out of out of Public Service out of the media why are we doing that when we talk about them or in this case this is with all of the people that are up on the hill that are bad this the elected they keep putting him back in office now Duncan Hunter his last race barely squeaked by but its not like theres been an official formal charges that have been filed against him its actually still up there he could run for reelection and the people of his district and time and time again unfortunately see people the district kind of ignore things like Campaign Finance and they dont realize its kind of like dominoes if theyre willing to cheat when it comes to Campaign Finance if theyre willing to cheat on their grades if theyre willing to cheat in other areas guess what its going to probably go over into other spillover to other areas and its up to the people who elect them to hold them accountable because thats how our constitution is set up as long as there is not an issue with the law and go being a legal which i think there was in this case but it just has not been filed yet i also think often women especially when youre younger are afraid to speak out and tell their stories and say things out of fear that they will then be shunned and that they will no longer be able to get another job i mean ive heard this from people time and time again i didnt speak up because i was young it was my 1st job out of college i thought that i would never be hired again it would be legal fees it would be taking down somebody with so much power i dont have the time or really the nerve to do that because it takes a lot of takes being brave being courageous coming out and telling their story and i think for me to move it has helped in telling getting people out there giving them a voice but i also think that also comes with maturity and went to a womans a different age and a different time of their life that that may help but it also just depends but i mean like what i want to get rachel in on this but let me just point the other side of it is theres also a lot of responsibility. These women that are providing for their family that are taken care of as they get older to to go and if i say this i lose all of the revenue stream for my family going for at least when youre young and thank god this is the one best part of me too its allowing that to say to come out there is cover for down the road but now for those older women that this there at the end they dont need to start from scratch ground 0 either in another career youve grown out of you know youre just entering into this you feel like that youre in a bit of an advantage actually now that maybe women of the past of broadcasting thanks to everything thats coming out absolutely and i think its really great to see women coming out and talking about it and you know like when we look at worries case it really brings up the fact that when women are put in these situations a lot of times we try to rationalize that she may have looked at it and said oh well i was just groped cleared of been a lot worse its easier to just take a step back and get out of the situation instead of trying to draw a lot of light to it so i think that thats going to be the next step in the conversation is ok how do we deal with things and it is important to have you know more women in the situations who can step in or like in her case she so that she turn to another congressman who has been there for her as i think is just another step in the conversation that we need to have but it also is really important to talk about it was really good of her to say i was not defined by that which i think a lot of i dont sometimes struggle with and when she said that it was like hearing like the perfect saying where she didnt she didnt allow that to bring her down of course it affected her of course there are there werent repercussions like there should have been but she did not let that define who she was and look at her now she is doing to raise awareness for exactly i want to move on before we do to the to the wayfarer story a little bit so you know of course wayfair gave this 100000. 00 to red cross because their employees. Had a strike in a walkout. I mean the red cross has enough problems problematic they raise half a 1000000000 for haiti and built 6 houses so im not sure do you think you know which is why worse when corporations. Like wayfarer try so hard to be woke or try to sort of cover it up back it up way fair is a company they have to pay for these employees if they want to so good to the government or whomever it was who are they to say im going to sell you a couch but you can only put your couch here there and other places that you know i guess they have that right the same time that was a business decision for these employees just like these employees had a chance to walk out i dont know if this is a smart move on their part because i think a lot of people are going to go this is your job was to make a couch you dont get to say where it goes or where it doesnt and i think it has the power of the free market too because at the same time its like you may look at wafer and say i dont care what theyre doing with their money im going to buy this couch because its cheaper because i like it but at the same time you can also look at and say oh wait a 2nd theyre involved in a lot of dealings or they have these business ties that i dont like so im going to go buy my couch from target or from a different retailer Something Like that i think it rachel is right and im saying that there are a lot of people who really dont care where the money goes its a business deal its with them here 2 wrongs may not make a right but theyre trying to show this is what im going to do and im trying to make this better by donating to red cross at trying to make some sort of difference at least in their defense but like rachel said markets will be affected oh yes or no people continue to buy and people still trust the cheap furniture for those who want to pay at least some of the kids will get some beds well this is what i guess actual beds it was a good i mean to me it was like oh so theyre actually getting bends down there is some of that if you write this up my question what is what do you think that way for knew that they were selling it specifically to go to these detention facilities you know it was in our government furniture it was just maybe you know let me off the government buys a lot of furniture for a lot of different places so i think its kind of wrong for these employees as they can directly show they went in there and said no were going to hows that you know maybe they did try to give them and who knows maybe they did try to give them good furniture for it if they dont fill these are still going to be there so at least they had bed right everybody so theyre not going to sell them that doesnt mean theyre not going to quit theyre going to close the facilities that just means. People and there does seem to be that sort of need jerk reaction by corporations to jump to the wall was i give this will you not do this and we do this and onto this and i dont know that really how it could be portion isnt it its weird but im not throwing money there like what if we do this is that ok does the money people apparently they think sells i borrow money from all the charities that she want you know what i would check our sort of thank you very much i very appreciate your donation for whatever the reason bakley will talk a little more about the people getting paid i want to talk a little bit about this this sort of viral thing that happened so last week this mom her name is Jennifer Lynch was at a local pool and she saw mom come in set up all the stuff with her daughter and a matching swimsuit put all this stuff out start taking pictures then and then get on her phone and ignore her child. Well she sat on the phone and this is what she said she said the child was saying mama can you come in the water with me she was ignored mama come play with me she asked for more times the woman glanced over but never got off the phone after 10 minutes mama ended her call collected the scar on sunscreen that was never applied the water toys that never touched the water and her daughter left the pool now to be the sort of goes into that sort of instagram mom flew into thursday june and when i started looking into it what we found was you know you have these people promoting like baby is doing things like promoting swimsuit sales claiming their babies are excited for their every play deliveries view though and one person even bragging about it getting for free bikes to right around manhattan you know obviously struggling but we got to have some grace here i understand at least the child was not a safety danger right i think its out of you know was it like going by themselves in the pool and running in the mom was on her phone and i mean this is this is i that we live in theres pros and theres cons to it and this case im not one to judge another mother im sorry because you dont know what her situation might have been granted she may have been distracted for whatever reason but she might have just spent the last 6 hours one on one with a child who knows i am one of those mothers im not one to judge but im also someone who just sent a lot of pieces so that people like my son summer can you know so i might not be the best thing could i you do want to say its a degree and to me its very serious you mention we live in a time where Society Social media where glued to our phones on instagram watching stories people kind of lies they live you dont have to be a mom to see that what about these us or grandma donors are these people who say oh im rich and meanwhile theyre renting clothes from other places are pretending to be right or there are so many false gives from this instagram from facebook from the snap chat from all of these new platforms that we are unfortunately we cant identify whats real whats not and about reality read the polls. Probated todays reality but a brace it i get it well i dont care how our on our social media queen here. Really did interesting because i mean you know 10 years ago you would have thought of child models as being in a studio and doing a certain set up but now all of a sudden it could just be a kid playing by the pool and theyre a child model and they might not even know it and you know i dont remember if you got to remember the way i see it may not be real i know thats hard to. Thank you so much to talk about that thank you for joining me here in the gallery now scott emails here is Sarah Monteith so get ready rachel thank you so much for joining us as we go to break off watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics you covered on Facebook Twitter and you tube and while were out while youre there check out the very 1st episode of the watching the hot typecast available now on spotify apple music and everywhere you go if the broadcast they are full shows that r. T. 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