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Squeaky clean. There were complaints. Meredith vieira says he kept sex toys in his office. Hoda and savanna knew about thi this. And at msnbc, they said it was kind of a open secret. I know thats been a band phrase. Some of it was consensual but a lot of it was not. A lot of it was humiliating, degrading, harassment, borderline sexual assault. It looks like they have a problem because when you combine them spiking the Ronan Farrow Weinstein peace with them spiking the Juanita Broaddrick bill cli...

He did, made his retirement, or as you say his resignation, made public. he was asked about whether or not the books in congress should be open to the public. lets take a listen. >> i think there should be a complete disclosure and revealing to all of the citizens of the country of what your federal legislators, what your federal legislators are doing or not doing. >> harris: thats about the people who have settled with women in congress and its about the money that you were just talking about, ...

Franken, theres evidence to substantiate these claims that it can be independently corroborated. >> dana: do you think conyers will resign by tomorrow? >> juan: conyers is in the hospital. as kimberly said, this is an 88-year-old man under tremendous stress. i think you have to stop for a second. we dont often do this but be sympathetic for a second. the poor guys whole life has crumbled here because he is no longer going to be known as the founder of the black caucus or the longest-serving memb...

It is all becoming a blur? is it muddying the waters about who did what? >> i do not know if i would say a blur but i would think it depends on how you think of that? i think in terms of the amount of information being thrown at a reader, maybe there is a lot to process and digest. i think every day im trying to keep it up with it. >> and we do this for a living! but there are distinctions to be made at the level of conduct or harassment compared to people who have been accused of sexual assault...

Arent there? weve now gone from discussing sexual harassment in some cases, unwanted sexual advances that amount to sexual assault, to now talking about i think kind of bad behavior overall. what do you make of this? >> i mean its clear there is a cultural issue on capitol hill. even in the conyers case. its clearly conduct assuming this is true, was not becoming of a member of congress, let alone a member of congress who has been there for decades who is the longest serving member in the house,...

Are presumed innocent unless and until an investigation establishes otherwise. about the claim he settled, he said "i expressly and vehemently deny the allegations made against me and continue to do so." goes on to say there are statutory requirements of confidentiality that applied to the employee and me. the way this is set up, its not great for either one. if he cant spell out his defense and the victim cant speak publicly, how do we know the truth? >> you are the lawyer here. heres what i kn...

Are presumed innocent unless and until an investigation establishes otherwise. about the claim he settled, he said "i expressly and vehemently deny the allegations made against me and continue to do so." goes on to say there are statutory requirements of confidentiality that applied to the employee and me. the way this is set up, its not great for either one. if he cant spell out his defense and the victim cant speak publicly, how do we know the truth? >> you are the lawyer here. heres what i kn...

And he denies it. it is all becoming a blur? is it muddying the waters about who did what? >> i do not know if i would say a blur but i would think it depends on how you think of that? i think in terms of the amount of information being thrown at a reader, maybe there is a lot to process and digest. i think every day im trying to keep it up with it. >> and we do this for a living! but there are distinctions to be made at the level of conduct or harassment compared to people who have been accused...