midterm elections, how are democrats going to play it? are they going to be the party that takes the high road on sexual harassment and assault claims and tries to have some kind of standard for lawmakers when they are accused or when there are credible accusations that they stepped out. is al franken going to be someone who is also pressured into may be stepping aside? 2018 is going to be interesting to see this narrative about this issue plays out politics because as we ve seen with republicans with the alabama senate race, they have chosen a different way of handling the issue. going into juan: i want to hear it. katie: they have chosen, based on how democrats have reacted for 30 years of sexual assault claims like bill clinton, double down, deny, dragged the victims of the mud. they take that playbook and use it and say were not going to give up our power because democrats never do. if were all going to be in the dirt on this, then we are going to have our own people who are
endorsed by his father john conyers jr. is the elder congressman announcing his retirement. he is going to support his son, ian conyers. hez grand nephew also going to run for the seat as well. all right. thank you very much. kasie hunt for us on capitol hill. stick around, everyone. the gop is out in full force now for alabama senate candidate roy moore even though multiple women have accused him of sexual assault and child molestation. even though many of those republicans have previously said they believe the women. all right. and speaking of political candidates that were not taken down by serious assault claims, former today show host billy bush is speaking out about that infamous access hollywood tape that surfaced in 2016. bush wrote, yes, donald trump, you said that in a new york times op-ed. he also made an excuse for why he laughed at trump s grab them by the you know what comment. here he was last night. i think a lot of us were the big word is complicit.
remember the access hollywood tape? you can do anything. grab them by the [bleep]. you can do anything. the president is reportedly questioning whether the tape is real, even though he has admitted that it is real. anyone who knows me knows these words don t reflect who i am. i said it, i was wrong, and i apologize. alex burn, he was part of the story that broke this astounding fact, that he is questioning whether the access hollywood tape is real. has to do with the roy moore story. more on that in a second. explain what he is doing. you re right, it is connected to the roy moore story but broader, and gets to his underlying view of claims against him and of sexual harassment and assault claims.
to gillibrand is the chain of command. only 302 cases went to trial. of those, 238 convictions. removing the chain of command isn t some revolutionary idea. canada, uk, germany, our alleys, have already done this. forget about the statistics. how much this? this brochure from the air force. if you re attacked, may be advisable to submit or resist. this headline from yesterday, u.s. army s top sexual assault prosecutor suspended over assault claims. there s a real problem here. so senators graham, mccain, mccaskill, if you don t think senator gillibrand s bill is a right way to fix it, come up with something better than what you ve already brought to the table. these don t look clean.
of law. they were passed by the congress of the united states before the president got into these wide ranging negotiations. for goodness sake, reach across the aisle. involve some other people, krug democrats like chuck schumer who are deeply concerned about the position that has been taken with these negotiations. all right. thanks very much to both of you. and we ll be speaking to the state department about their deal tomorrow. our fifth story is a texas cop accused of rape. they say he handcuffed, groepd and raped a woman. this is not the first time that he has faced assault claims. we re out front tonight with that story. reporter: the 19 year old sexual assault victim has asked that her identity be hidden. but she says moments after the san antonio police officer raped her during a traffic stop early friday morning, she says he told