We re also seeing people like al franken saying it was wrong, i admit it, i m asking for forgiveness and say to the women thank you for coming forward and i accept an investigation into myself. we need to see that emerge in the national culture. men accepting responsibility. joe barton has a choice tonight. does he own this or not? david jolly and tim miller, thank you for joining us. coming up, before hitting the golf course this morning, the president used his precious time to attack the father of a college basketball player on twitter proving that presidential time is no longer precious. when you have a cold
Representative barton on the tape makes a threat to go to the capitol police and to start an investigation. it s not clear what the antecedent is and happened before that. is she threatening to expose a relationship and his is she threatening that she will do that if he doesn t do something else? i m not clear on that part of the story. that is who s extorting whom here. that is something that congressman barton alleges in his comments to the washington post. i m going to read what the congressman said. he said, the woman admitted that we had a consensual relationship, barton said, when i ended that relationship she threatened to publicly share my private photographs and intimate correspondence in retaliation. as the transcript reflects. i offered to take the matter to the capitol police to open an
Woman. if you want to classify his statements as a threat he would have to be doing something illegal. he would be have to threaten her with an illegal act. pressing charges against you if you do something illegal that is not a threat or blackmail. what we see in these revenge porn laws, when relationships end and people are upset and they post pictures of the person they were just with or someone is trying to exploit another individual, you have to protect against this kind of behavior. one way or another. when you see this kind of case. the first time i read it you hear a congressman with a woman. oh oh, not necessarily he is in the wrong here. he does have an expectation to privacy and a right here. the voters at some level may decide if he was in the wrong by sending the pictures or not. he may not be in the wrong as it relates to the incident. ken, according to the congressman, the capitol police
Don t know how he holds on to the seat. yeah. i think it puts him in a difficult position. i think both of these people frankly will find themselves in difficult position. i don t know where this woman is. i assume she might be in texas. texas has a law against what is commonly known as revenge porn. so she could face some legal difficulties. certainly authorities will want to know how those that photograph came into the public eye. but representative barton will certainly be subject to an investigation. and i think it s very difficult for him to stay. we ve got to get a break here. indira, thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. thanks, lawrence. happy thanksgiving. thank you. you, too. we ll be right back. ld on dad. liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat
Wi willing to impose on themselves in the past and the idea of settlements that are kept hidden, paid for with taxpayer dollars is going to be untenable for either party to defend and i think we are going to see significant changes in the transparency, the process of dealing with harassment on capitol hill is also incredibly byzantine and something that is also going to face pressure to change and may be a tougher fight. the question of transparency, i think, is one we are be that the barn door is, you know, already closed. alice we heard from sunlen serfaty in the last block about congressman barton and now apparently a capitol police investigation under way. do you think he can survive his scandal or is it something that s, you know, a scandal or just embarrassing? it is embarrassing. i think he could have, if he would have left it alone right after his apology and gone about his business, but the fact that he s now encouraging capitol police to investigate this is going to be