let s get to the news. the washington post is moving the line on these cases that we re seeing with people in prominent positions and allegations of sexual up pro bright. there is a congressman. there is a picture of him on the internet. there is an unnamed woman who tells the washington post that joe barton threatened to go to the police if he released pictures. he said, yes, i am because i am the victim of revenge porn. on the other side, a very different issue we should not lose sight of. an aide for conyers said he harassed her. the congressman is refuse to go resign. there is a house ethics panel investigating a settlement that he did make in 2015 with another former staffer accusing him of
Know, jeff flake when he says the president should do this, should not back roy moore, the reason he has to back roy moore is because if he doesn t then, of course, his own actions come into question. he s saying roy moore denies it. the implication is i donald trump denied everything i was accused of doing with more than a dozen women and you should therefore believe both of us. and, david jolly, we have breaking news at this hour about your former colleague representative joe barton who indira was talking about. the washington post moments ago has added to that story with the headline, congressman told woman he would report her to capital police if she exposed his secret sex life and that is a story about congressman joe barton telling this woman who had these photographs that he is now very embarrassed about that he would engage the capital police to stop her from spreading any information about
And, gene, if that s the truth and that s what he wants to tell the house ethics committee, i 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. really?
And we the details that they did they ever check the background of these women? they don t have any facts. that is basically what roy moore s wife is doing these days in that campaign. yeah. i don t think it s really getting her very far insofar as i think the people that believe roy moore continue to believe him and his wife bolsters that and people that don t believe them, i don t think she s convincing anybody. look. roy moore is at the point in the campaign where he s lost republicans of tim miller and that was an excellent column and i really you know, exhort all of your viewers to read that column. he just went through point by point. you know, he s lost john rogers his communications director. he lost representative joe barton who basically was himself exposed today for having sent
I ve read the story quickly. and so, it s clear that 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.