Their tax plan. This is about giving Hardworking Taxpayers bigger paychecks, more takehome pay. Now its the senates turn. I just think it would be nice just tonight before we go home to just acknowledge this tax cut is really not for the middle class, its for the rich. Is the tax cut really for the middle class . Ill Ask White House budget director Mick Mulvaney and republican senator roy blunt of missouri. Joining me for insight and a23458sz are amy walter, robert costa of the Washington Post and washington week. Joy reid, host of a. M. Joy on msnbc, and rich lowerlowery, ed National Week in review. Welcome to meet the press. This is meet the press with chuck todd. And good sunday morning, im andrea mitchell. Chuck todd is off today. When the stories about Harvey Weinstein first broke last month, many thought the outrage over Sexual Misconduct would pass like a summer storm. Now it feels more like climate change, with nine women coming forward with accusations against Alabama Republican Senate candidate roy moore, republicans are trying to figure out whether to accept him, disown him, or, if necessary, expel him. Then just as democrats were enjoying republican handwringing over moore came the compelling accusation by a radio host and former model against one of their own, senator al franken of minnesota. And if that were not enough, the national revulsion tarowards th kind of behavior is forcing republicans to confront the fact that the president stands accused of more than a dozen women of Sexual Misconduct and compelled democrats to reexpect their unwavering support for bill clinton, especially how quickly they once dismissed charges against him as pure rightwing politics. Still, this weeks accusations against moore and franken differed in degree and in their response. Yes, i have taken a stand in the past, ill take a stand in the future, and ill quit standing when they lay me in that box and put me in the ground. Roy moore, now facing accusations from nine women, including molesting a 14yearold, assaulting a 16yearold, and unwanted sexual advances. He just grabbed my behind, i mean forcefully grabbed it. I was terrified. He was also trying to pull my shirt off. I thought that he was going to rape me. Moore denies all of the claims and defended by his wife says he will stay in the race. Even after all the attacks against me, against my family, against the foundation and now against my husband, he will not step down. A fox news poll shows moore now trailing Democrat Doug Jones by eight points among likely voters, while Senate Republicans call on moore to get out. I think he should step aside. President trump is dodging questions. Should roy moore resign, mr. President . Leaving responses to the white house staff. He said if the allegations are true, he should step aside. But mr. Trump was quick to weigh in on new allegations against democratic senator al franken, tweeting the Al Frankenstein picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 while she sleeps . The picture is this one, of franken in 2006 before he was in politics. Radio host Leeann Tweeden said he forcibly kissed her rehearsing for a skit on tour with the uso. He stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. Franken has apologized. Dear leeann, i want to apologize to you personally. I dont know what was in my head when i took that picture, theres no excuse, and i understand why you can feel violated by that photo. Many democrats calling for a Senate Ethics commission, which franken agrees to. By condemning franken, the more than a dozen women came forward during the campaign accusing mr. Trump of Sexual Misconduct after this access Hollywood Tape surfaced a yore ago. When youre a star, you can do anything. Grab them pie the [ bleep ] the white house is struggling to make a distinction. I think in one case specifically senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasnt. Also getting new scrutiny, president bill clinton who held a campaign reunion of his Campaign Victory in little rock saturday night. Two days after Kirsten Gillibrand, who the clintons helped elect, said he should have resigned in the 1990s following the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In a radio interview friday, Hillary Clinton firing back. This was a painful time not only in our marriage but in our country, as ive written about. But it was investigated fully, it was addressed at the time. He was held accountable. And joining me now are two members of congress, each of whom has shared stories that they have heard or experienced of Sexual Harassment on capitol hill. Republican Barbara Comstock of virginia and democrat Debbie Dingell of michigan. Welcome both. First to you, both of you, about what youve experienced and seen on the hill. Debbie dingell, youve talked about experiencing Sexual Harassment over the course of your long career. You know, on friday i wasnt planning on going out and doing that me too moment because i know that there are consequences. And the point that i was trying to make on friday was that there are women across the country, restaurant workers, tip waitresses, factory floors, law firms, corporations. So i dont know a woman that doesnt have a story, andrea, in all places all across the country. What are we trying to accomplish from this right now . And that is to look forward. And how do we change the culture and make this not its safer for us to talk about it. But if youre from hollywood or the media or on capitol hill, though i got a lot of ugly comments on friday but also had a waitress that was 21 years old say to me, you spoke for me today. A woman who told me, a 22yearold woman that her boss told her to close the door and get up on the table to dance. Lets really make this a watershed moment that men and women across the country Work Together to look forward to changing the culture. Barbara comstock, weve been here before. I covered the Clarence Thomas anita hill hearings. I was on meet the press that sunday during that horrible weekend. Nothing has changed over these decades. Well, i serve on the committee, the House Administration committee that had the hearings this week and i shared a story that had been relayed to me anonymously. I want to ask you about that story. It was a friend of mine who told me about a victim who wanted to remain anonymous, but a current member, sitting member of congress, i dont know if its democrat or republican, i dont know who it is, but asked this staffer to come over, bring some papers, you know, to his residence and then arrived in a towel at the door. Had the staffer come in and then exposed himself. She left. She then quit her job and has now moved on. But my friend relayed this story to me to understand this is going on right now. I can tell you from the hearing that we had this week, we had a lot of consensus on the changes that need to be made. I got together with congresswoman Jackie Speier and congressman burn and we all went through the items and congresswoman speiers bill and we are on the same page. We are going to get mandatory training, universal, uniform antiharassment, zero tolerance policies in place. We are not going to allow members to have any kind of fund pay for their harassment. That is universally agreed on. And we are also going to have better policies for the victims. So i think this is going to be a change, and i think both debbie and i want to keep the focus on these women who are experiencing this and use our voices in this moment to change this. Weve had a great response from both the men and the women on a bipartisan basis. Like debbie said, people are coming up to us. One of the things that came out of your hearing, congresswoman, is that 15 million was spent over the last two decades to pay off for all kinds of harassment. Thats been incorrectly reported. We dont know exactly what portion that is because this includes the architect at the capitol, Capitol Police and allegations against staff. And its not all Sexual Harassment. I was going to make that point. Age discrimination, wage and hours, overtime, but we are going to clearly say any kind of member harassment cannot come out of any fund. They have to pay that themselves. And be transparent. The other thing theres agreement on is if something is found, it must be transparent. Were going to try to find out. Corporate america has been doing this for years. For years. I mean i also we were talking about how do we make this a movement that makes it across the country. So people do these what infuriates me is these confidentiality agreements. They go and do the settlement and nobody can talk about it. We should be talking about it on the hill and talking about it across the country. Lets look at what happened with uber and silicon valley. Lets talk about politics here. Roy moore, nine women have now come forward. Many people say credibly reporting, you know, actions when to someone who is as young as 14, a molestation, sexual unforced rather forced sexual attention on a 16yearold, congresswoman, do you find these women credible . Yes, i do. Last week i think i was the first woman in the house to come out and say he should step aside. Ive been consistent in all these matters youve talked about. How do you view the fact the president refuses to even comment on it . I appreciate that the president was working with the white house and they have cut off funding to him. The National Senatorial Committee is not funding it. Youve seen people across the board, ted cruz, mike lee withdraw their support and say he should step aside. I still hope he would do that and do the right thing. Roy moore was tweeting for that matter al franken can hit the door with him. Roy moore was tweeting al franken admits guilt after photographic evidence of his abuse surfaces. Mitch, lets investigate. In alabama, according to his tweet, zero evidence allegations, 100 rejected, mitch, moore must quit or be expelled. Is there a double standard here . I dont think theres a double standard. I think weve got to be very careful. Everybody is entitled to be innocent until Proven Guilty. But al franken is going to the ethics committee. Lets see where that goes. Are there more stories . We cant defend any of this. These gotcha questions, there is despicable, ugly behavior across the country. Men and women together. Here we are, a womens panel. This isnt going to get fixed. Men have wives, sisters, daughters, friends, families. Weve got to fix this together and change the culture. By the way, its been going on for too long. Its not just these men, there are a thousand names out there, many of them are dead now. Lets fix the problem. Is democrat lets get the focus back on the women too because they are the victims. Is democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand wrong when she says bill clinton should have resigned back in the lewinsky scandal . Debbie dingell . I have a thousand thoughts on all this. By the way, the names were talking about, you and i both know these stories go back forwar forever. I want to go forward. I think that weve got to focus on what the future is. Doing gotcha questions to People Like Us isnt going to solve the problem and weve got to start moving forward. And i think one of the things that weve talked about too is having these workplace surveys, really understanding the problem. And i think we do. The politics is going to sort itself out, but for the women in our workplace but also women in workplaces across the country, we need to make sure there are really understanding what the problem is, who are victims, and we know predators target people who are weak and cant come forward. So we need to use this moment where those of us who are in a position to do it can come forward and get say theres going to be zero tolerance. We want it enforced in congress same rules as everybody else and we want the corporate world and hollywood one of the things were doing is saying Harvey Weinstein was running all these settlements and payments perhaps through his business. You cannot take a taxpayer deduction for that. That is going to end. Were going to have to leave it there. Well see whether this is a change, a real change or whether its just more of the same. And we are committed to getting the legislation through. We all, all of us, have to bring about real change in this country. Congresswomen, thank you both very much. As we mentioned, roy moore is digging in, refusing calls from fellow republicans that he back down and get out of the race. Moore Campaign Strategist dean young spoke out this week on why his candidate is keeping his campaign going. Whats happening is were watching a coup attempt by the people of washington, d. C. , the elitists, Mitch Mcconnell, Lindsey Graham and all that type. Theyre trying to stop an election of the people of alabama before it even happens because they have already been beaten badly after they spent 31 million trying to beat judge moore. And joining me now is the republican senator from missouri, roy blunt. Senator, great to see you, thank you very much. Good to be with you. So roy moore is accusing Mitch Mcconnell and the rest of the Senate Establishment republicans of trying to drive him out of office. Is he correct . Well, i dont know if hes correct or not, but were at a point now where really alabama voters are going to make that decision. And in the senate, no matter who gets elected from alabama or what happens with anybody else, we need to be sure that weve got an environment where people want to come and be part of that, where women are comfortable being part of that. My chief of staff is a woman, my legislative director is a woman, my press person is a woman. I wouldnt want to have an environment where you couldnt have the best people come, so weve put together a working group, senator klobuchar, and senator capito and senator shelby, we proposed changing the rules so theres mandatory orientation towards these things that shouldnt happen so people know what is perceived to be inappropriate and also to change the law. Going back to the 1980s where it may have seemed reasonable at the time, but in the current law if you report harassment, youre the one that has to go into 20 hours of counseling before you can decide whether you were really harassed or not, thats just totally inappropriate. Politically, are republicans better off if roy moore wins or if he loses . If he loses the seat or whether he wins and democrats think they have an issue Going Forward . Well, you know, i said that i thought the womens story was more credible than his response, that alabama voters deserved a better choice. But theyre going to have to make that decision. They know roy moore a whole lot better than i do. Ive met him once. They watched him in a pretty controversial career for 20 years. Well just have to see what they do. You say that the womens stories were credible. What about the women, more than a dozen, who came out during the 2016 campaign against President Trump. Were they credible . Well, whatever they had to say, people heard that and they elected President Trump the president of the United States, so at some point i think you have to let the voters have a say here. Now, with al franken, republicans are seizing on that. The president has been silent on roy moore since he came back from his trip to asia, yet he seized on al frankens acknowledged misconduct. Franken immediately apologized and welcomes an ethics investigation, not to excuse what he did. But the fact that the president is so quick to jump on al franken but is still silent on roy moore of his own party. Well, i think somebody who i think congresswoman dingell just said youre innocent until Proven Guilty unless you say you did it. Al franken of course said i did this. He said im sorry for it but he also said he did it. I think the president understands you can be accused of lots of things in politics and well see what voters decide. I want to briefly ask you about your own colleague in missouri, claire mccaskill, has talked about the fact that she was a victim of Sexual Harassment when she was an intern. Your own women colleagues have experienced this as well. Well, absolutely, and its totally unacceptable. Back to what i said to start with, in the congress of the United States, you want to have an environment where people are comfortable, wanting to work there, saying they work there, putting on their resume in future years they worked there without feeling like there was an environment that wasnt open and appropriate in both seeking opinions and seeking the kind of advice that the country and the congress needs. Now, after an event on tax reform, which is the big issue facing the senate now, your colleague in arizona, jeff flake, was caught on an open mike saying this. Become the party of roy moore and donald trump, we are toast. What about the political fallout from all of this, and from the impression that this tax bill is opposed by 59 of americans right now according to the latest quinnipiac poll. Well, i think that your comment there after an event on tax