congressman conyers, as we have learned more since sunday, are serious, disappointing, and very credible, very sad. the brave women who came forward are owed justice. we wish congressman conyers and his family well. but congressman conyers should resign. he has not heeded the calls. joining us is brenda lawrence of michigan. good to have you with us this morning. we have just heard nancy pelosi joinings the chore us calling for conyers to step down. you have not. why? i m the mother of a daughter and granddaughter. and every time i hear me too, it is like a knife in the gut of my stomach. and my other career i have an eeo investigator. what we want in this watershed moment is accountability. we want transparency of this
create an environment and every work industry. whether it is the movie industry, whether it s political, whether it s in the workplace, where women feel and i have to be clear. it s victims. i was eeo investigator. there were men and women with power who would sexually harass people in the workplace. we have to make sure that we create an environment and so we don t ever again have this me too 10, 15, two years later that people are actually coming forward to you. and for me, that s my greatest disappointment about all of this is that i didn t get the opportunity to address it because i was never made aware. understood. congresswoman lawrence, thank you for joining is us with what you plan to do personally and with legislation. thanks so much. also my bill has over 100 signatures on it, bipartisan, male, female, republican and democrat. so we re moving in the right
congress. good morning. thank you so much. as we have learned the last couple of months, awe couple, i guess, it s everywhere. it s not just the media. it s hollywood. it s silicon valley. it s wall street. and of course it has hit capitol hill. your own office, sexual harassment has become an issue. you had to get rid of or at least accept the resignation of your chief of staff as a result of this. can you share with us exactly what he did that was making so many people uncomfortable? the challenge that i had is that i was doing an article, anonymous sources. i was made aware of concerns of inappropriate comments and allegations of unappropriate touching. alisyn, what i was confronted with with my experience of being an eeo investigator is being confronted with knowledge about a concern that i did not know about.