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Being able to talk about this. again, if you are roy moore and youre spending more time trying to defendant and discredit women then you are talking about policies or your opponent, is not a great place to be a couple weeks out. >> bret: next up, the longest serving member of the house caught up in a sexual-harassment scandal and now under an ethics investigation. and pharmacists for their own frequent heartburn. and all day all night protection. when it comes to frequent heartburn, trust nexium...

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...

That this becomes a moment of truth. what do you say when someone that you deeply care about has done something that is so horrible? >> bill: rose issuing a statement saying in part im greatly embarrassed. i have behaved insensitively at times and i accept responsibility for that but i dont believe all the allegations are accurate. >> sandra: this comes amid new claims of sexual misconduct in washington including reports of a settlement paid by a high-profile democratic congressman. peter doocy ...

Defense contractors here this afternoon. he will be delivering his open press conference at 5:00 in person. and he is participating in a town hall in madison tonight. roy moore has essentially gone missing and has left his spokespeople to do the talking for him. doug jones is crossing the state doing the campaigning himself. >> von, thank you for your great reporting from alabama. in montgomery for us. the other high-profile case of alleged sexual misconduct we are volg involved the longest se...

Representing people who have brought sexual harassment complaints to members of congress. in this instance, the reporting says that this woman was on the receiving end of sexual advances from this congressman, john conyers, hes actually the dean of the house of representatives, the longest serving member of the body, and that she was fired when she refused them. she received a $27,000 settlement that came out of conyers office, not out of a pot of money thats designed to cover these kinds of set...

Divided about what to do about sexual harassment and misconduct allegation, democrats seem like they dont know what to do, period. today one of the democratic partys most powerful members, congressman john conyers of michigan confirmed that he secretly settled a sexual harassment claim with one of his staffers in 2015. conyers is the top democrat on the judiciary committee. hes also the longest serving member currently in the house. the $27,000 settlement first reported by buzz feed was paid usi...

Unthinkable. this is so far beyond the boundary of whens acceptable in american politics an trump crossed that boundary, just erased it time and again. >> ron, you used to be counsel to the senate judiciary committee and now under oath testimony involving the attorney general. >> yeah. >> is now being questioned as to whether perjury is involved. >> yeah. thats right. and senator pat leahy, the longest serving member of that committee, said tonight that jeff sessions should come back and testify...

This is so far beyond the boundary of whens acceptable in american politics an trump crossed that boundary, just erased it time and again. >> ron, you used to be counsel to the senate judiciary committee and now under oath testimony involving the attorney general. >> yeah. >> is now being questioned as to whether perjury is involved. >> yeah. thats right. and senator pat leahy, the longest serving member of that committee, said tonight that jeff sessions should come back and testify under oath. ...

Elected president of the parliament or better said guardian of the political piece mr short was except in speeches served as a warning to those preparing to misbehave but also as an appeal to political discourse that doesnt aim for something that is lets just say smaller than the least common denominator. it now falls to parliament the longest serving member to keep things under control with the elected president of the bundestag the politician from chancellor merkels party called for calm proce...

>> it is inexplicable to me as someone who has spent my life trying to ensure that people across this spectrum of this nation are treated fairly and equally that the president could not identify fascist nazis and all the other actors who came into charlottesville, virginia where my daughter went to university, jeffersons university and disgraced our nation, why he could not do that is something i think any serving member. armed forces would be asking him or herself continuing on even after the 2...