Have nothing to hide, i am lucky to be on the couch. I am one of those guys that has nothing to fear in america. Harris i doubt that that will get clipped all over. Lets move on, we are learning about more women coming forward with accusations against matt lauer. Yesterday nbc news to announce the long time today show anchor was fired after an accusation of inappropriate behavior. He issued a statement. There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i caused. For the people i have heard, i am truly sorry. New video has surfaced from 2006 where you can hear matt lauer making a lewd remark to his coanchor meredith vieira. It is raising some questions for how long and how much nbc executives knew. Keep bending over like that, its a nice view. Harris Rick Leventhal is live from new york city with more. Rick . Nbc has not yet responded to our request for comment on the new allegations against matt lauer. The network said that the complaint that led to his firing was the firstever against him and one of his former bosses is backing that up. Jeff zucker, now president of cnn has known lauer for 25 years. He says he didnt know this match, calling the allegations incredibly disturbing and heartbreaking. There was never a complaint about matt, there was never a suggestion of deviant or predatory behavior, there was never even a whisper of it. Several women state that his behavior was inappropriate. Giving another woman a sex toy with a note suggesting how she should use it. The woman who went to hr this week was a young intern, who says he began an inappropriate relationship that continued on their return to new york. She supposedly provided nbc with multiple pieces of evidence including a photo that apparently gave them no choice but to fire him. In a statement, lauer said to the people i have her, i am truly sorry. I realize the depth of the damage and disappointed i left behind at home and in nbc. Some of what is being said about me is untrue and mischaracterized but there is enough truth to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. He said that repairing the damage is now his fulltime job. Harris thank you very much. As we talk about this today, it does seem to be that there is a lot more information about matt lauer with nbc than we thought. We said this yesterday, and the lack hadnt said exactly what was leading him to say it wasnt isolated. David obviously as the guy on the couch, this isnt right or left. It is right or wrong. I am so sick of anyone as alleged, i will say that. Obviously there is some evidence in the photo they talked about. But if matt lauer did this, anybody who does this, your apology after your bad actions i am sorry, i am unforgiving on that. Real zerotolerance to never come makes the act. My father, my mother, my family, i was taught as a child where your hand does or does not go. Those are really simple rules to follow. Marie i think one thing, you are right, harris. There are rumors about people, women talk to each other and warn them about men. I think what we saw this week nbc, once i finally got a formal complaint with evidence, they took steps. Maybe this will mean that women feel comfortable enough taking that conversation from dinner with their girlfriends to actually complain. Because companies they will take action, weve seen them take action, i should say. In the last few weeks and months when there is formal complaints and evidence and hopefully women now will come forward and feel comfortable doing that. Congress is another story and i know we will get to that later. Nbc moved pretty quickly. Harris you have to have the reporting apparatus. Talking about this privately, serving the Greater Public on capitol hill, you have to have a place where people feel comfortable going. You cant fault these women for not coming forward when they may have felt the system was against them. Gillian we have this new apology from matt lauer this morning, i wanted to focus on the apology for a moment. To me, so far most of the apologies we have seen from men who have been accused of harassment and assault have a fatal flaw that they share in common. We saw this repeated with matt lauer, that is the apologies focus on how these scandals make the perpetrators feel. A matt lauer the same words charlie rose used in his apology, he said i feel deeply embarrassed. He borrowed a little bit from louis ck in saying all of this has made me reevaluate myself and my behavior. Its too little, too late for my opinion. If the reports from the New York Times are true, matt lauer is guilty of criminal activity. How he feels about that is completely irrelevant and how this forces him to reflect is also irrelevant. Its like a mass murderer saying i am going to go to anger management. The way a lot of these men say they will go to counseling, rehab, that is all irrelevant and it infuriates me when i see this in apologies. They are still missing the mark. Melissa can i go back to what marie said before it gets lost, the reality of how these things work as you do Say Something to your girlfriends and you maybe go to a manager, someone a little bit higher who you trust and i think what weve seen if you read the subtext and all of these stories is whether in charlie roses situation, women claim they went to his female executive producer, or in this case to the women who say they went to someone on the show or went to a manager and they were discouraged from doing anything more. Thats the Chilling Effect and thats where the network can say we never received a formal complaint. In todays day and age, i do think things have changed to the point where people feel like they could call hr and pick up the phone, i feel like that her here. Harris a hotline has helped us here. It melissa in the old days i dont think you felt that way. It gave the network of saying they had a way to complain. When they say it fell on deaf ears, thats what we are talking about. Harris i have heard that from the victims, we had one of them on overtime earlier this week. We know people come out and they are looking for that supportive apparatus and maybe an anonymous fox news has put up a hotline. If we are going to move on. There is a fifth woman coming forward to accuse senator al franken of touching her inappropriately. She is the second to say it happened on a uso tour before he was a senator, she tells cnn she met frank and while she was stationed in the middle east during the iraq war and got in line to pose for picture with him. She says he put his arm all the way around her and groped her but she angled her body away before the picture was taken. Franken has apologized in the past as you know, he says he has taken thousands of photos of people over the years that while he doesnt remember specific pictures of campaign events, any inappropriate behavior was unintentional. You are shaking your head, just a Quick Response . David a lot of us in the Entertainment Industry have known this, he was a creep all along, not a surprise. Melissa i think its really disturbing that he thinks thats a funny way to take pictures. Weve all seen a million pictures of him with his hand on someone, totally inappropriately and i cant believe he ever thought that was funny, appropriate, a way to do things. He still clearly does not think that was an inappropriate way to take pictures with strangers. Harris i think we were about to get to this issue with you marie. We heard it with the al franken news conference, the first reporter i believe, what is the bar for resignation . I think we need to visit that. What is the bar . Marie absolutely. What should the barbie . We all know instinctively as common sense that these are not all the same. Harvey weinstein is not al franken. Harris one is private, one is public service. Marie what they are accused of doing is different. We have to find a way as a culture, i dont have the answer but we have to keep talking about it. What are the different ways men should be held accountable . Firing in cases like matt lauer which seems appropriate, al franken its not quite as far as matt lauer but its not good, certainly. And we are learning more. We have to have this discussion. I dont think any of us have the answer but we have two move through it in a way that is nonpartisan and try to not go to our political gillian i think it is urgent that we find a way to adjudicate this issue in congress. This is an issue that concerns all american voters. David to that point, hr 4458 wasnt traduced by representative tom moreno in pennsylvania. I talked to steve king about it this morning, it is that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay out Sexual Harassment claims. Harris at a minimum. Thats one, how about this put forth, lets find out the names of the people who actually used our taxpayer dollars. We will talk about it later. There is a layering now on congress, you will both pointed out, its been slower than the private sector to respond to this. Big developments with veteran democratic lawmaker right now at john conyers. Refusing to step down amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct. We go from our discussion to al franken to conyers now. What nancy pelosi is saying he must do now. Her tune a little different. Some upcoming changes in the state department, whether Rex Tillerson will depart and who will replace him. 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Until today, we do not seek it and if war comes, make no mistake, the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. Melissa during yesterdays Emergency SecurityCouncil MeetingAmbassador Haley with some pointed words for china as she called for all nations to cut off ties with north koreas regime. President trump calls chinese president xi this morning and told him we have come to the point that china must cut off the oil from north korea. China must show leadership and follow through. China can do this on its own or we can take the situation into our own hands. Melissa we want to talk about both of those topics, lets start with north korea north korea. Gillian, lets start with you. What impact does it make to have her make that kind of statement to the u. N. , what does it mean . Gillian it is a bone chilling statement that we are inching towards war when the adversary as a Nuclear Capable power. Part of me hopes holds on to shred of hope that this is part of the strategy to push the regime to the negotiating table, that something the Trump Administration has talked a lot about in recent weeks, especially on the heels of the asia trip, President Trump was talking about the fact that the europeans are putting a lot of pressure on him to enter into it to set up formal negotiations. Asian allies are putting pressure on us to do that. Part of me thinks that what she was doing here was making a final push and shove to get them to agree. I dont at all know that thats the case but part of me is looking at this as an outsider saying that could be the strategy here. Melissa we have two of the best experts to talk about this. Let me ask you, marie. Sanctions have been cut off, 90 of north korean trade, only 30 of its oil, though. Marie if i had to guess that when nikki haley put china on notice she may have been previewing some possible additional action in the oil sector and china obviously plays a big role there. China has stepped back in some areas, russia has stepped up. I think gillian is right, Ambassador Haley was trying to put north korea and china on notice. Taking it to the other story, we need need a secretary of state who Everybody Knows has the president s ear, and power to negotiate and nobody has thought that Rex Tillerson played that role. Maybe maybe this is all related, right . Harris per john roberts reporting, two different scenarios have come down the track. The less likely one would be Ambassador Nikki Haley stepping in to take Rex Tillersons job. As you said, we have confirmed that is coming down the pipe, tillerson will exit in the next few weeks. We can talk about the intrigue and how it came about but the bottom line is we are dealing with north korea at the time when we are about to move our top diplomats at the state department, what impact do we expect that to have. Mike pompeo was the first idea weve learned about from john roberts. More likely the cia director right now would step into those shoes, senators tom cotton would step in behind mike pompeo. Melissa his statement is that he likes his current job, just throwing that in there. Harris i would hope we would all say that. David as we look at the shift in strategy, we have to consider that we have to shift from negotiation to what is really happening. Now they have access to 8 million people, a seeded underbelly of the inner circle that is coming apart. A defector from the inner circle of north korea. That generational gap from the father to the sun and the general is changing the dynamic. We have to consider that what we do here, we have to look at using a multifaceted approach to take it on the intelligence, the cultural, and the president said something important. He said the endo pacific region, that is because we need to bring leverage into play with china because china will act in its own best interest unless they are faced with more leverage and we are two interlocked economically for china not to be brought into this. Harris i want to bring up one quick point with you as i look at the dow soaring like an eagle. Are we in a place now where financially, economically we can apply some pressure . Maybe not fear so much the backlash of that. Because of the trade. Gillian in a short word i will say yes. Harris House Minority leader nancy pelosi is calling on john conyers to resign after a string of accusations from multiple women who work for him. One of his attorneys is reacting to that at this very moment. New developments over that infamous dossier paid in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign to dig up dirt on then president ial candidate donald trump. Whether the fbi and Justice Department can be hit with contempt citations. Stay close. When heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum smoothies only from tums im living that yacht life, life, life top speed fifty knots life on the caribbean seas its a champagne and models potpourri on my yacht made of cuban mahogany, gany, gany, gany, gany watch this dont get mad bell mnemonic get e trade and get invested House Minority leader nancy pelosi is now calling on congressman john conyers to resign. Congressman conyers should resign. Congressman conyers has served our congress for more than five decades and shaped some of the most consequential legislation of the last halfcentury. However, zerotolerance means consequences for everyone. No matter how great the legacy. Melissa one of conyers attorneys speaking moments ago about that. Its not up to nancy pelosi. Nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman and she sure wont be the one to tell the congressman to leave. That decision will be completely up to the congressman. He has not thought about that, he is thinking about his health, thinking about getting well. Harris wow. Melissa early or his attorney also push back on our report saying he will not seek reelection in 2019. Conyers attorney telling fox news the report is not accurate and no decision has been made at this point on that. One of his accusers spoke exclusively on the story about how he used his influence to keep things quiet. He has been a powerful member of the Judiciary Committee as Ranking Member and at certain times he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee has oversight and also funding. They allow the funding for the entire Justice Department. Thats what he controls. All he has to do is pick up a phone call and destroy someones life. Melissa in the meantime the house passing a resolution calling for mandatory Sexual Harassment training for members of congress and their staff. A bipartisan bill was introduced to name members who use taxpayer dollars to pay off accusers. Harris i believe thats how it works david