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According to documents published in buzzfeed, and confirmed in part by the congressmans statement, which acknowledged that he did settle, as you saw there in an attempt to, as he says, avoid litigation, around sexual advances that this woman says resulted in her being fired inappropriately. and she says they did go to the office of compliance, thats kind of a little known agency weve been talking a lot about, that was created back in 1995. at time it was a step in the right direction, but its ev...

Having used dollars from his congressional office to settle the claim. hes now the target of a house ethics investigation. the latest from washington. >> reporter: cnn has not independently confirmed these allegations but according to buzzfeed, congressman conyers has a series of accusations and complaints filed in 2014 against him by former unnamed women on his staff. according to these confidential documents which again were obtained by buzzfeed, the congressman repeatedly asked for sexual fav...

Scenes, in private, in secret, it makes you wonder how they were setting the table and whether people were excluded from that table. >> brian stelter, thank you for your reporting. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> new this morning, accusations of sexual misconduct against a sitting democratic congressman and a settlement payoff two years ago, apparent throw keep it quiet. >> according to documents obtained by buzzfield representative john conyers longest serving member of the house of representat...

Rose has admitted what he calls inappropriate behavior. breaking right now on capitol hill, the house ethics committee has begun an investigation of sexual harassment claims against democratic congressman john conyers. hes vehemently denying any wrongdoing while confirming he settled a wrongful dismissal complaint tied to sexual harassment allegations. sunlen, what are you learning? >> reporter: cnn has not independently confirmed these allegations, but according to "buzzfeed," congressman conye...

Hill. how complaints are made and how settlements are made, and who knows about them, most importantly, clear in this reporting done by buzzfeed and it opens new questions about how the settlements are paid out once they are reached. and this reporting coming from buzzfeed opens up a new area, a fact that that $27,000 worth of settlements reached with conyers office was paid out of his offices budget and not the u.s. treasury, and that opens up many more questions. we have reached out to conyers...

And all of this happening as there are new charges against the most senior democrat on capitol hill. and i want to say, we have not confirmed this and feel very uncomfortable with it. we are struggling with this issue. we are talking about john conyers who denied the allegations, but several democrat colleagues are calling for the ethics investigation. he says there are no settlements that have been paid in the past. and the sourcing of it is frankly a little dodgy. buzzfeed reported it. but the...

The earnings tool from td ameritrade. we are back now with our politics lead and my panel as well. i want to focus on a series of steps the administration has taken, all with a similar undercurrent in common and that is, of course, the immigration issue. mary katherine, if i can begin with you. the trump administration deciding today not to renew protected status for some 59,000 haitians who came here you may remember after that devastating earthquake in haiti in 2010. when you look at a move ...

The investigation bears, which is the case of a colleague that is dealing with this in the house and the senate. this is a moment -- i had a report out two weeks ago talking about the idea that women were so scared of the people that were harassing them. i could only get a few women to go on the record and only one to name someone that was a congressman and former congressman gary miller who forced her to twirl in a blue dress and give her a raise for being pretty. theres an idea that women now,...

Yet another lawmaker on capitol hill. this time michigan democrat john conniers, the longest serving member of the house of representatives. i want to get right to nbcs capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt tracking the movements on capitol hill. kasie, what is the latest as it relates to congressman connyers? >> reporter: what buzzfeed is reporting is that there is a woman that alleged that he asked for sexual favors, she rejected him and was fire in the wake of that. and i want to walk you thr...

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...