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Legit assault, harassment where there is a systemic culture of bullying, if we stay on it we have such a better chance at change. thats my concern. do you choose the new or do you go deep and go after what really matters? >> i think the reason that the new is important, just looking at it from various vantage points, the new is important because as we have seen, it is such a pervasive issue. it is across industries, it is across continents and it was hidden for a very long time. i do think -- i ...

Women and basically making his personal life more complicated. its not a situation where he said if you dont -- if you dont do something or give me something im going to expose you on the internet. thats not what that was about. thats not what this is about. >> an important distinction. >> its an absolutely valuable point about the settlements and what else has been going on in the house. i will just say that my colleagues and my publication have absolutely been on top of that. weve written nume...

Seeing. the flood gates are opening and perhaps the flood gates are opening every day and all things are coming out but i think that it is an important moment and an important conversation. i dont know that everything needs to be looked at through the precise same lens because everything is not the same. but i think it is more important to have that conversation than to not. >> i think the point that you both made that you brought up about abuse of power and so much of this comes back to that an...

There was the intimidation question. and that is where i think this becomes much more of a story. i mean you can question his judgment, you can question sending the pictures, but in terms of how those pictures were going to be used and him making what appeared to be a threat, what she says was a threat, that he would use his office essentially to silence her. that gets it into a different category. >> abuse of power, no brainer. im just saying mission creep is my concern, that the medias lust fo...

>> glen is really, glenns turned into this pop culture figure because of ""snl"" and "late night." i hope you have an agent. i think there is going to be a one man show on broadway if this continues in like a year. >> if you we heard me sing, joe, you wouldnt be making that comparison. >> yeah, well, we want to hear you talk this morning. i want to hear about that moment in the oval office yesterday when the president actually talked about the fox news settlements. i dont get it. well get there....

Now, this story is one type of accusation. very far on the other side of the spectrum on the other side is what were dealing with with john conyers. a woman says he harassed and verbally abused her. conyers denies the allegations. >> congressman conyers is refusing to resign as well. the house ethics panel investigates a settlement he made with a former staffer accusing him of sexual harassment. the flurry of allegations have lawmakers wrestling with how to handle these controversies, as pressur...

Leave to a congressman, does not give him the right to carry on secretly with women and to intimidate them into silence. thats not what that law is about. the congressman and his defenders are recasting these facts into a situation that is more favorable for him, but it does not undermine the facts of his conduct, which are that he carried on not only with this woman but multiple women according to admissions that he made on that tape over a course of many years while he was still married and st...