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To change that, but how could that have gone on so long? >> the process has to be changed and congress will act and it has taken all the allegations to put the spotlight on it. clearly skewed against the accuser. i would watch pelosi, and i think she will act on this whether its getting conyers to step aside. this cant stand. >> theres a lot going on right now, obviously. we are all watching the alabama senate race right now, and roy moore accused of molesting a 14-year-old, which is in and of i...

Questioning the validity but not only the accuser of beverly nelson for example, her own stepson said shes lying, and her own attorney doesnt blefl her. listen to this if i may this was on msnbc and it proves the point, kate snow asked the attorney for one of the accusers if analysis -- beverly nelson, if independent analysis shows that this is not a signature, does that disprove your clients allegations and her answer was, no it doesnt. in other words, even if my client is lying, even if the ev...

Or 40 years ago. roy moore has made a stand in this just last night. he put out a treat again going after one particular accuser. hes bent on the defense now on the offensive really thats what hes got to work with for the next three weeks. allegations that you just heard from her are very graphic and very detailed. roy moore getting on twitter and defending himself. not necessarily stepping out in public eye. keeping low profile alongside doug jones as well. are we thinking were going to see mor...

Cooperate with the investigation. so there hes suggesting that both he and the employees involved are subject to confidentiality, that seemingly sending a message to his accuser in this instance. i think that the important thing to remember and to take away from the statement, craig, is that conyers is expressly confirming that this settlement was made. hes also saying that the allegations contained in those affidavits were not true at the time and his -- the settlement itself did not -- he did ...

His office made the settlement payment to the accuser out of his own offices budget. that is done outside the process where settlement would be paid out by the fund set up by the treasury for these kinds of cases. it gives us new insight into how sexual harassment cases are handled and kept secret on capitol hill. >> reporter: explosive new allegations against congressman john conyers, the longest serving member of the house. confidential documents obtained by "buzzfeed" show a series of accusat...

Harassment allegations but representative john conyers denies them. cnn congressional correspondent is working on that story for us. the ethics committee just announced its investigation against conyers so this is getting more serious for the longest serving member of the house. >> it certainly is. launching an investigation just hours after the congressman today strongly denied the allegations of sexual misconduct. in a statement he does admit that his office made settlements in a payment to th...

Team, where as the accuser has to go out and hire private counsel. they have to sign nondisclosure agreements which essentially keeps it secret. >> there is this everywhere cumbersome process on capitol hill. if you are somebody who has been victimized, harassed by a member of congress, you want to come forward to make this accusation. the victim has to report the incident within 180 days. there are 30 days of mandatory counselling, 30 days of mediation, 30 to 90 days of a mandatory waiting peri...

Really difficult decisions over the past year. of course, theres nothing difficult about going out and doing what a lot of senators have done, and that is criticizing a guy who has been accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl. at the same time, if he gets elected by the state of alabama, if you have donald trump and donald trumps people basically saying we need him for the vote, you really see mitch mcconnells republican senate refusing to seat him? >> no. >> they wont have the courage to do tha...

Worse. how we find the line, i dont know. but we need to find it. and we also need to find a place to say, people should be able to repent. we should find forgiveness somewhere in some cases. we cant simply say, lets throw all of this out and start over. >> if you were at "time" magazine, the way they try to sum up the year with the person or thing of the year. i think this is going to define in large part 2017 before its all over. do you make it the accuser on the cover of the magazine? >> the ...

The time. so the journalism of the moment has sort of risen to the occasion of sort of expecting the skepticism, expecting men like donald trump to not believe women likeigh corfman. is that just about this sort of -- the hurdles that women have to pass if theyre accusing powerful men of something so serious? >> i think if you look at how the accusations against roy moore really started to stick, and it was because when an accuser, when beverly young nelson came out and she had the physical evid...