After a lengthy legal battle against pop star Taylor Swift, plaintiff Sean Hall speaks with CNN on how decades of cultural appropriation have shaped the music.
he and his friends gawked from his suite through binoculars. in another case somebody on the video team said they were ordered to produce a lewd video comprised of outtakes from a cheerleader video shoot showing their exposed body parts without their knowledge or consent for mr. snyder s personal consumption. and further on some people fairly high placed in the organization they gave quotes to this investigation too. one man said the culture was rife with sexual harassment in the workplace and a frat house mentality. and look at this. a woman who worked there said harassment happened every single day that you were on site. of course dan snyder has said has denied a great deal of this as the process has gone forward. and the washington commanders issued a statement today saying that the congressional investigators were not interested in the truth, only in chasing headlines that this was a one-sided approach. tom, according to the
in the sports lead, a damning report from house democrats on the oversight committee revealing a, quote, culture of fear in the front office of the washington commanders football team. the investigation found, quote, sexual harassment, bullying and other toxic culture pervaded that workplace. the report also alleges that the team owner, dan snyder, lied when he appeared before congress back in july. let s bring in cnn s tom foreman. what s also potentially disturbing is according to this report the nfl and the commanders franchise tried to cover up the misconduct for years. reporter: yeah. for 20 years if you believe this report, jake. look, it summed up in one early sentence where they say that mr. snyder endorsed a toxic culture at the commanders in which sexual misconduct, p exploitati of women, bullying of men and other inappropriate behavior was commonplace. what are they talking about? look further in the report where they talked about a time when they say he had the cheerleade
their job? yeah, that s still the culture that we live in. we start this report talking about the commanders. i often say that passing two bipartisan bills into law in the last year was actually easier in the most hyperpolitical time of my generation than changing culture. and that s saying a lot because it is so embedded in the american culture, unfortunately, that we penalize the people who have the courage to come forward and we force them out and they never work again. and then we somehow continue to prop up predators even when they re not the money makers at the company. so we are also working at lift our voices about trying to get to the culture, and we are chipping away at that by passing these laws. and we encourage companies to get on the right side of history with us and change their policies to become more transparent. that s the way that workers want it. and in 2022 they deserve to know that they won t be silenced. you signed an nda when yyou settled with fox. would you
everything that we have always been taught. the key to thanksgiving his thankfulness peer that is what we have to keep in mind. we recognize that there are problems in the past, yes. but at the same time we have so much to be thankful for. let s concentrate on the positive. let s be thankful because we are blessed and we have so much to be thankful for. carley: that is exactly right. it should be noted she s seen growth out the united states of america, the american culture and every country has a history conquest and that is the way it was in one group of people callr the group before them todd: it is how we got to the map that we have. carley: but we do want to ask about this because focusing on covid-19. this moment from whoopi goldberg on the view taking critics at the name of dr. fauci after recovering from covid-19 or so.