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That and stallone and michael j fox. We have over 80 people working italy. You go to florence, we a guide there. Sicily and rome. Oprah likes him so much, she did a whole story about him in her magazine. Saying that some of her best trips have been with angelo. She decides to write about her favorite guide, and im proud to be her favorite guide. And always by his side, wife ava and sons marco and simon and also on the agenda, showing you italy at the highest level. We are here on top of the mayors palace . Yes. On the roof, its the best view of rome. If you want to come up here, you have to call angelo. And the best view in the world, down the block. The vatican, one of the most famous places in the world, right here. Yes, yes, who are all the people . That is the line to get in. With access italy, you do not do the line. We are allergic of lines. No lines, just filled with tourists and like myself, grasping on to three coins and a dream. You take the coins, from the right hand to the Left Shoulder and make three wishes. The first wishes would be health. The second wishes, i suggest love. The third wishes, Warren Buffett suggests money, i suggest come back to rome. Or both, have to money to come back to rome. Yeah, a twofold one. Good. Im set. Our next stop, one of the worlds most recognizable cities. London. Oh, actually, hollywoods home away from home. From classics like clock work orange. To instant classics such as the kings speech and the film that highlights perhaps britains most famous citizen ever. Also showing off the beauty of the land she loved. You are so good at giving love. The hard part is receiving love. They are the iconic england sets. You see them in movies time and again. And now, we are checking them out in earn. With britt movie tours. All of the tours have got tv and film location scenes. You can go on a harry potter tour or a Sherlock Holmes and do downton abby. We chose the most iconic of them all t place where they rallied the troops in les mis. The funeral of le marc and the funeral and the rightots. It was a college, and its open to the public, you can walk in for free. Or if you are johnny depp, you can walk in here under a bit of durress depp shot pirates of the caribbean throughout this place. When captain jack sparrow was dragged to meet the king, that was filmed inside the painted hall. It does not take much to transform this area to the 1700s. It transformed in to a completely different world. They used both of the buildings on either side of them and they cgied it to make it look like a different universe. The patriot games. The mummy returns and Sherlock Holmes all got the royal treatment. Want to feel like you are inside your Favorite Movie or ten . This is definitely the britt site to see. All right, now to hong kong, how do celebrities and the uber rich get around a city large . They take to the skies. The best way to experience hong kong is to walk the streets and be among the locals. The best way to see the stunning landscape . By air. You look at cities like new york, toronto, and chicago, and hong kong, it has that kind of sky. Alisters like tom cruz and David Beckham have taken flights from the peninsula rooftop to get the allstar metropolitan view. Operating off of the Peninsula Hotel has to be one of the most unique opportunities as a pilot. Starting here at the china clipper lounge. Located on the 30th floor with the views of the harbor. Its 3, 2, 1, takeoff with michael wong at the helm and n mansion and millionaire style, he is a celebrity. I did a film with jean claude vandam. When he is not on a set, he is in the air. Its his passion. And we are lucky enough to get the one on one tour. Im looking forward to it. Okay. Its exciting. Get up in the air, lets do it. Views like this can only be seen by chopper. You get up to 2,000 feet, you can pretty much see most of the territory. And for the raw video of my site seeing journey. Go to extra tv. Com many. Up next, the pristeen sea meets the white sand in this mexican oasis. We are right in the middle of cabo. My tour of the fivestar bay resort and residences from its tiered pool. It looks like it flows right in to the sea of cortez. To the lavish villas. Our homes are dinee t our homes are designed where the walls disappear. That is next. Okay, now its time to take you inside this los cabos mexico exclusive resort. With the pristeen beaches and contemporary design and gorgeous villas and endless amenaties, you want to own your own stunning villa and all the options of a fivestar hotel . We know the place. We are right in the middle of cabo. Its the perfect balance of private villas and a stunning beach side resort hotel. The private waters are swimmable all year round. If salt water is not your thing. 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When you are not here, should he ele you elect to offset the cost of ownership, we will rent it out on your behalf. K s it has a private pool and rooftop terrace and three bedrooms. This is a sixbedroom ocean front residence that has a value of 16 million and rents for 25,000 a night. That includes the arrive amenitie and jerry. 11 thorou 11,000 square feet and a beautiful view of the reef. And it all about taking the outdoors indoors. Our homes are designed where the walls disappear. Take in this view. Or just go ahead and walk down to the water. We have chipped stairs in to the cliffs so you can walk down to the really than this. Closed captioning and other consideration provided for extra by well that is it for this edition. Im Michael Corbett and i want to say thank you to our incredible hosts. Now, i hate to leave this amazing place, but i got to throw it back to universal. Thank you, michael. All right, know what im going to do when i go to cabo, thank you, that will do it for us. Here is our weekend outtakes. Mainly mario. Have a great weekend. My shoes will last 30 more seconds. Lets do it. All right. Because i had a dog he lived for 26 years. My interview with twotime oscar winner sorry. Her new album went another story going viral. Go ahead. Cyou can clone your dog now. Christmas came early. Doctor jones. You remember oh. Inside. Its okay. Wait. I did a mario. That was such a the worlds top i dont want harassment, a point or is it . After refusing to back Alabamas Roy Moore the president said if the allegations are true then that roy moore should step aside. President trump decides to stand by his man. I can tell you one thing for sure, we dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat. While democrats face their own crisis, do they force out a popular senator who admits to inappropriate behavior . And he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. As well as their longest serving house member. And what message are they sending to women if they dont . My guest this morning, House Minority leader nancy pelosi and anita hill, whose treatment nearly three decades ago is being reexamined. Plus, do republicans really want to go into the 2018 midterms having raised taxes on parts of the middle class . Ill ask republican senator rob portman of ohio. And did former National Security adviser Michael Flynn just cut a deal to cooperate with the Mueller Probe and what could that mean for the russia investigation . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent katy tur, hugh houston, host on the salem radio network, Heather Mcgee and Washington Post columnist michael gerson. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longestrunning show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. I hope everyone is having a safe and healthy thanksgiving weekend. There are moments in the past half century when as americans weve been forced to reexamine our attitudes and ourselves, vietnam, civil rights, gay rights. In politics, were facing the crucible of Sexual Harassment. Our revulsion at what weve learned and our uncertainty about what to do about it going forward. Is it time to demand the renation of all politicians accused of Sexual Harassment. Than to have the other party win an election . What should a party do about one of its own who has been a supporter of women but now accused of sexual behavior we are how closely should we reexamine a former president whose party supported him despate multiple charges of misconduct and worse. How do we reckon with a sitting president accused by more than a dozen women of outright misconduct . In short, after another week of stories of powerful men taking advantage of women, its clear were and experiencing a shift in how we view Sexual Harassment and sexual assault. Whats less clear is where we draw the line and what we do about it. The growing controversy the Harvey Weinstein scandal has emboldened victims to come forward nationwide. The revolt against Sexual Harassment and assault may in part be a backlash after Donald Trumps 2016 victory when millions of voters overlooked more than a dozen allegations of Sexual Misconduct. When youre a star. They let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. And put mr. Trump in the white house. A result that triggered thousands of women nationwide to begin an antitrump movement that has flexed its muscles since the inauguration. This moment also serves as a reckoning of sorts for the democrats. After nearly three decades where Party Members largely overlooked Sexual Misconduct allegations against their biggest star, bill clinton. Now each party is facing a test, for Republican Voters in alabama, Senate Candidate roy moore is accused of Sexual Misconduct by nine women, including leigh corfman, who says he molested her when she was just 14. The white house has shifted from distancing itself from moore there is no issue more important than the issue of child pedophilia. To seemingly embracing him. Mr. President , is an accused child molester better than a democrat . Well, he denies it. Look, he deny it is. Reporter democrats are facing their own test. Senator al franken has been accused of forcibly kissing radio host leeian tweeden on a uso tour in 2006. He stuck his tuck tongue in my mouth so quick. He has since released a new statement on thursday after three new allegations of unwanted touching. Im a warm person. I hug people. Ive learned from recent stories in some of those encounters, i crossed a line for some women. No democratic senator so far has called on franken to resign. Then congressman john conyers, accused of paying off a former employee who says she was fired because she refused to provide sexual favors. New york congresswoman Kathleen Rice became the first and only congressional democrat to call on conyers to resign. Saying were going to have these allegations against politicians go before an Ethics Committee that can sometimes take a couple of years. No offense to my colleagues on the committee, but thats not real. Thats not real and thats not accountability. Democrats are still hesitant to criticize bill clinton. Only willing to say that by todays standards they might be calling for his ouster. My point is that the tolerance that we had 25 years ago, what was allowed 25 years ago will not be tolerated today. I dont think you can rework history. I think if it happened today, if any president did that today, they would have to resign. Joining me now is House Democratic leader nancy pelosi of california. Leader pelosi, welcome back to meet the press. Happy thanksgiving weekend. Thank you. Happy thanksgiving to you and congratulations on 70 years. Thank you. Thank you for that. Were now at 71. Im going to go back into our way back machine here. Heres you an meet the press, asked specifically about allegations against president clinton. Here is what you said back in 1998. Why the silence . When there have been these allegations, serious ones about president clinton. Well, id like to say that i think that the women of america are speaking out about what they think about this whole situation. And the women of america are just like other americans, in that they value fairness, they value privacy and do not want to see a person with uncontrolled power, uncontrolled time, uncontrolled Unlimited Money investigating the president of the United States. Back then, and, look both senator gillibrand and mayor de blasio were making the argument that our culture has changed. And today the same allegations probably would have led democrats, perhaps like yourself, to call for his resignation. You can have a debate whether it was an impeachable offense. Do you agree this is a generational change were experiencing . Obviously it is a generational change, but let me just say the concern that we had then was that they were impeaching the president of the United States. For something that had nothing to do with the performance of his duties and trying to take him out for that reason. But lets go forward. Lets go forward. I think that something incredible has happened world is happening now. Very incredible. Its almost 100 years since women got the right to vote. Here we are almost 100 years later and something very transformative is happening, that is women are saying zero tolerance. No more. And were going to speak out on it. And this is so wholesome, so refreshing, so different. But why do you think the reaction was different by women on bill clinton . And i say that because it does seem as if, frankly, when you watch some of the reactions by the president in defending roy moore, or at least overlooking the allegations against roy moore, were you putting politics ahead of your personal disgust . No, but were talking a child molester. Were talking about a child molester. President clinton was accused of being a sexual predator and even rape at one point by one accuser. Why dont we talk about instead how we go forward . Nobodys proud of president clintons behavior at the time. He was being impeached. I think the concern is that we allowed the erosion. The reason that were at this moment and the reason it got worse over the last 20 years is because of the way we handled it collectively then. Do you buy that . No, i buy the election of President Trump really, as your presenter said earlier just evoked a response. So many women, and this is really important i think to note because ive had heard from so many women in the last few months. Anita hill and so many women who have had a bad experience. And now a person possibliy engaged in that activity is the president of the United States. And now im speaking out. Think as your presenter said earlier. It was me, actually. Is that your voice . Thats my voice. Then you had it write when you said that harvey didnt evoke this, the election of President Trump evoked the and everybody has served notice. Lets go forward. Okay, lets learn from past decisions and go forward. So design zero tolerance. You said there is a zero tolerance. What does that mean for john conyers, in or out . We are strengthened by due process. Just because someone is accused, was it one accusation, was it two . John conyers is an icon in our country. Hes done a great deal to protect women in the violence against women act, which the rightwing is now quoting me as praising him for his work on that. He did great work on that. But the fact is as genjohn revi his kay how is it that you dont . He will do the right thing. The right thing, resign . He will do the right thing in terms of what he knows about his situation. He is entitled to due process, but women are entitled to due process as well. He took advantage of a situation where he had the rules of congress and i know you guys want to change these rules, but he got to hide his settlement. His accusers had to go through all sorts of craziness so why is he entitled to new due process in this case . We are talking about what we have heard. Ive asked the Ethics Committee to review that. He has said he will be open he will cooperate with any review. Do you believe john conyers accusers. I dont know who they are. They have not really come forward. So you dont know if you believe the accusations . Thats for the Ethics Committee to review, but i believe he understands what is at stake here and he will do the right thing. But all of these nondisclosure agreements have to go. By the way, some of them are there to protect the victim because they didnt want some of it to be public. But thats over. In other words, if the victim wants to be private, she can be. Yeah. He or she can be. I guess it goes back to, what is this line, right . What is a fireable offense . You say its zero tolerance, but what does that mean if youre saying john conyers, who already had due process, gets to stay right now . Well, as i said, weve asked for the Ethics Committee to review that. And i believe it will do the right thing. Where are you on senator franken . I dont think you can equate senator franken with roy moore. Those are two different things. So, you know, lets be lets have some you would accept an apology right now from al frank if there are no other accusers or all we know is what we know . Right. Also, his accusers have to accept an apology. The victims have some say in all of this as well. And that has happened in the past. People have accepted an apology as its coming forth now that i see in the press. But we didnt know because there was a nondisclosure agreement to protect the victims. Sometimes they didnt want to be public. Sometimes they did. Now they will have their choice. This is about going forward. And when we go forward, we will address all of that, but we also have to address it for every workplace in the country. Not just in the congress of the United States. And thats very important. And that a good deal of that would be done by the judiciary committee. Okay. And i know that john would take that into consideration. Shouldnt he you have one member Gregory Meeks called for him to be withdrawn as Ranking Member. Isnt that something in your power . Cant you decide he should be suspended as Ranking Member on judiciary . This will happen when we come together the beginning of this week, i think john will do the right thing. Youre not going to unilaterally make that decision . Im not sharing that with you right now. But what i am saying is this is a big distraction and its very, very important. Do you know that the beginning of the womens movement, Elizabeth Katie stant, she would hear examples of family domestic violence. That was one of the motivators for her to advance the cause of women. So this is as old as well, its old as civilization probably, but in terms of our history and the womens movement, one of the motivators. Now 100 years after her fight for the right for women to vote, we will have well clear the deck on this. But i am here to talk about something also transformative in our society, and that is this tax bill that the republicans have put forth. I want to get into this, but there seems to be a bit of a political plarll sis in prying figure this out. We will pass legislation this week for antidistinction and harassment behavior. We have to take a measure that has to pass both houses of congress for ending nondisclosure, who pays, all of the concerns that we have about this. I dont think that it should we want to give people hope. This is going to be addressed. Women have spoken out. Their concerns will be addressed in a way that i think will give comfort as well as end this behavior. Because, you know what, its disgusting, its repulsive and it has to be zero tolerance. Will congress will you support congress retroactively making public all of these private settlements that taxpayer dollars have been used . Not necessarily. Sometimes the victim doesnt want that. If the victim wants it public, will you side with the victim . Yes. 100 . Here is the thing, its really important. There is a question as to whether the Ethics Committee can get testimony if youve signed a nondisclosure agreement. Were saying we think the Ethics Committee can, but if you dont agree, well pass a law that says the Ethics Committee can. All right. A resolution in congress that the Ethics Committee can. But there is no i dont want anybody thinking there is any challenge here to our changing the law and see how people when we know more about the individual cases. But you know what our biggest strength is . Due process. That protects the rights of the victim so that whatever the outcome is, Everybody Knows that there was due process. Leader pelosi, unfortunately for time, ive got to end it there. Appreciate you coming on. You mean were not going to talk about taxes . You have fallen into the place they are doing something that is going to increase the debt enormously. Ive been covering it a lot. Its going to be a job killer and its going to raise taxes on the middle class. And that is has a big impact on the individual lives of all americans. And really we should be spending more time on that. Do you think this other issue isnt as serious as taxes . I think its look, as a woman, mother of four daughters, i think its enormously important. But i think that we have to have a balance in how we go forward because trust me, i struggle with this every day. This is giving them cover. There are so many reasons that we should be concerned about the republican majority in congress. I am going to be asking a republican across the aisle some of these questions in a few minutes. Anyway, leader pelosi, i have to leave the there. I appreciate it. Thats disappointing. Let me say one more thing. I want to thank the firefighters and our First Responders in california for what they did in the fires. Our thanksgiving is we prayed for them as a blessing to us. Wishing their families the best. A worthy last word. Thank you very much. Joining me now from the other side of the aisle, republican senator rob portman of ohio. Senator portman, welcome back to the show, sir. Hi, chuck. Thanks for having me back. I want to start with roy moore. I know you have said you do not believe he should be a candidate. You have called for him to step aside. You said you believe the accusers. The president of the United States says in fact in a new tweet says the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate and a Schumer Pelosi puppet weak on crime, weak on the border. Bad for our military and our great vets. Wants to raise the taxes to the sky. Those are his words in the tweet there. Jones would be a disaster. Do you agree with the president that it is better if alabamans elect somebody who has been accused of being a child molester of a democrat simply due to ideology . Well, i stand with what i said earlier, think it would be best if he stepped aside. By the way, i think the president said that initially. I think that would be better for the country and the elections in a few weeks here, a couple of weeks maybe, and, you know, there is a possibility for folks to do writein candidates. So well see. No, think it would be best if he stepped aside. If you were a voter in alabama, what would you do . Jeff flake said he would vote democrat in roy moore were the only other option. Well, id probably vote for a republican, but it wouldnt be roy moore. You would cast that vote knowing it probably throws the election, you know, the more republicans split their vote youre okay if a democrat gets elected there as long as its not roy moore . Yeah, look, chuck, as you know, i endorsed the other guy, luther strange. I thought he would have been a terrific senator. Hes my colleague now. I never endorsed the roy moore. When these allegations came out, i did say as more came out and the women went on the record, i thought there was a lot of credible in what they were saying and i didnt find the response very credible. Scott jennings, a republican strategist who i think lives on the border of ohio and kentucky so you may know him very well. Said this in the New York Times this weekend about this situation. Either were saddled with a democrat in a seat that ought to be republican or a brand anvil that is going to drag down the president , the senate, drag down the party and plunge the senate into immediate turmoil when he gets there. Is it worse for the Republican Party, senator portman, if roy moore wins or loses . I dont know. Look, the talking heads like scott talks about that. What i do think is that, you know, it would be best if he were to step aside. And, look, we have an opportunity as nancy pelosi just said to pass tax reform. I think she is misrepresented everything in that tax reform proposal as an example, but weve got some great opportunities here and well move forward with these regardless of what happens, but i do think it would be best if he stepped aside. The Senate Senator franken, one of your colleagues, obviously on the other side of the aisle. He called for a Senate Ethics investigation into himself. I think you concurred with that. What do you believe should be the threshold of whether he should still serve or not . Well, the ethics investigate ought to go forward and we ought to, you know, get to all the facts, just as in the case of john conyers. This was talked about earlier. I hope we see action on that even this week. Well see what the facts are. I dont know all the facts. I dont think all of those are public yet. I do think all of this, as difficult as it is in some respects for our society, it really important because i think it will end up changing peoples attitudes and changing our culture. So i im glad its being discussed. I think it should be more transparent. I certainly think that if you accept taxpayer funds for a settlement, that should be transparent. Would you support retroactively would you support retroactively making all of these settlements public when you guys address this situation in congress . Yes. Yes, i would. Okay. I would. Look, i think its outrageous the taxpayers are asked to pay these settlements in the first place and we should make transparent what happened. Do you believe the accusers of donald trump . Well, as you know, as the end of the election when the tape came out that you played earlier, i chose to support a different candidate than donald trump because of that. So, you know, youve got to have a process. I agree due process is important. But we also have to be sure that victims have the right to be able to come forward. That there is transparency here with regard to the situation in the house and senate. Outrageous to me that over the years there has been taxpayer funding used for settlements without any notification or transparency. And also i think its wrong the way victims are treated because they have to go through a laborious process. Some victims want to keep it private. Thats fine. They should have a right to do that, but an expedited process to bring their complaints. Between the access Hollywood Tape of donald trump and roy moore in alabama. If voters send roy moore to the senate and i know you want a Senate Ethics investigation if he gets sent to the senate, but what are voters saying about our moral lines . Well, i think its a fair question. Voters care a lot about policy issues. The president talked about that in the tweet you mentioned. It includes tax reform, how you deal with the debt and deficit, it includes issues that are really important to people on on the social side. Issues like abortion and gun control. So voters are going to make those decisions based on a lot of different factors but one certainly is character, and i think the American People deserve to have the highest standards of ethical conduct by their elected officials. Period. Okay. But if the voters send back people that you believe ethically or morally are unsuited for the senate, do you believe the senate should expel those folks or do you think the voters, hey, you have to respect the right of the voters on that one . Well, its an important question, but thats why you have an Ethics Committee. I served on the Ethics Committee when i was in the house. Went through that same process. The person that is the subject of that Ethics Committee process, by the way, was defeated in his reelection because of the information that we were able to provide to the voters of that district. So i think there is a way for this ethics process to work. It needs to be expedited, as i said. We need to get moving on it quickly. Provide due process and the transparency to that voters know what the situation is. Ive got to ask you about an issue that impacts the state of ohio. The Consumer Finance protection board, the chair has since resigned. Hes going to run for your home state of ohio as a democrat. He designated a Deputy Director and the president has designated now i guess an acting director. Who in your opinion is in charge of the Consumer Financial protection board come monday morning . The Current Deputy as the acting director or do you believe President Trumps decision to put Mick Mulvaney there is legal . Well, first of all, my understanding is that richard resigned a week earlier than he was planning to in order to put his deputy in charge, trying to circumvent the process that the president would have the ability to point somebody on an interim basis until Congress Confirms a new director. My hope is we wont play those games. Have an interim process and it will be Mick Mulvaney or someone else, the president chooses and congress will get busy in choosing a new director. Mick mulvaney has mocked the Consumer Financial protection board. Is he the right person to put in charge . Youv youve been budget director. Can you do both jobs . Its unrealistic, right . Im sure there will be somebody working the operations day to day, but you know its come under a lot of pressure because of the way it was established. It has no accountability. In other words, unlike other boards and oversight organizations, there is no appropriation so there is no way for congress or the voters, you know, through their members of congress to affect the decisions. Its very unusual. They get their funds directly from the federal reserve. Second, there is no board or commission. There is nothing bipartisan about it. Third, there is an issue about the director and whether the president has the ability without cause to be able to replace that director. All of those are issues. Ive introduced legislation actually to provide an Inspector General. They have no Inspector General as an example. Its an unusual organization. And i think it is inconsistent with the accountability in the federal government otherwise and i think thats a big problem. But i do think there needs to be a new director confirmed and we should do that quickly. All right. Im going to leave it there. Senator portman, republican from ohio. A lot we tried to get to today. I appreciate you coming on. Chuck, since nancy pelosi talked about the tax bill can i talk about the middle class tax cuts are in there, the Economic Growth is in there. Do you acknowledge its an opportunity for us to fix the broken tax code. Do you acknowledge that not everybodys taxes are going down . Some in the middle to upper middle class will see their total tax bill go up when you account for state and local as well . It doubles the standard deduction up to 24 grand for a family. It doubles the child tax credit. It actually it lowers the rates to point that in ohio the average is 2,375 for the Median Income family. Everybody in every group, chuck, and every bracket, that group as a whole will see tax cuts. So, you know, its just been misrepresented. I hope people will go online and look for themselves. All right. Go on to the joint committee on taxation. Jct. Gov. Thats the one that is official. Youll see it has substantial middle class tax cuts for a family of two making 50 grand a year. Okay. I let both you and leader pelosi go probably far too long than my executive producer wanted. Senator portman, thank you very much. Thanks, chuck. When we come back, im going to talk to anita hill, whose accusations of Sexual Harassment against Clarence Thomas were their experience is coveted. Their leadership is instinctive. Theyre experts in things you havent heard of researchers of technologies that one day, you will. Some call them the best of the best. Some call them veterans. We call them our team. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. 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Comcast business outmaneuver. Well, those were some interesting interviews. Hugh hewitt, katy tur and Washington Post columnist michael gerson. I will throw in one note from rich lowery. Any revolution has its pit falls. In all likelihood there will be overcorrection that will create its own wrongs. Heather mcgee. Absolutely. This is one place where i really agree with rich lowry because fundamentally these issues are a question of power. When we think about what we need to get at this to really protect women and people in the work place, to really change this dynamic its the fact that men are still the majority of people who own the wealth, economic power, political power. Gate keepers for careers and whole industries. You really cant prey on someone unless you have that degree of power. As we are thinking about this issue we are thinking about things that some people dont think of. Its not just about Sexual Harassment training. It is about more women in leadership. It is about more diversity at all levels of power. You are getting to the question we are trying to wonder. When do we know we are past this moment meaning we have taken another step . You look at the clinton example and you had people saying at the time it is just sex. And people dont say that anymore. This is coercion. Its exploitation, dehumanization is what we are talking about, abuse of power. That i think is the line that we have crossed is that this is not a private matter. This is, in fact, a public matter that requires both a moral and legal redress. Hugh, you probably you publically showed your angst about donald trump more than anybody. You sa i want to put up a Gloria Steinem quote, something to me that sounded similar. If all the sexual allegations now swirling around the white house turn out to be true if you change the words feminists to conservatives and right wing to left wing it sounds like rationalization we are seeing today in roy moore. They deal with these allegations especially in alabama which is current, i have to watch the nancy pelosi interview again slowly. I agree with a couple of points. Other points were incoherent. In the audience a huge number of people have been assaulted and discriminate skpd subject of false allegations. Ca it is the fear of the latter cannot overwhelm our action on the former but due process mediates that. When we come to due process for the president ial claims i was never persuaded of the burden of proof in these cases by any of the 14. That is what i found so interesting about your conversation on friday. One of the points you made is that there werent corroborating evidence. There is year book of the one girl accusing roy moore but a number of people backed up the accusers stories. In Donald Trumps case where women told their boyfriends at the time and that is where i dont really understand the im going to believe roy moores accusers whole heartedly and not believe Donald Trumps accusers. There is a disconnect. I dont want to bore the world with this. In roy moore the mom is at a courthouse. There is a physical document and no denying that that happened that she met him out there. Donald trump was on the plane. There is evidence that donald trump was in trump tower when one woman said she kissed him. There is evidence of donald trump being in these places. One thing i have been struck by in this whole conversation is that we have a different set of standards clearly for everybody else and for politicians. For men in the media, for men in hollywood, they are gone. It is over. The accusers are believed. For men in politics there is which side of the aisle is this . I like al franken or john conyers or roy moore because they are representing whatever i want them to do in washington so i will be more skeptical about who is accusing them. Its not just tribal politics but tribal morality. Democrats saying he is pro choice. That is moral at its worst. You have the governor of alabama making the case. I believe the women. Im voting republican. That i think is the real problem, this motivating reasoning. That is what makes it i feel like we, the political world looks so much more out of touch than the rest of the world. I think this is a question where we have the Republican Party with the serious morality problem right now. I want to name it. We have a party saying neil gorsuch is one thing. I testified against his nomination if that is what was able to be compelling to let trumps indiscretions and abuse of power go, fine. We are talking about roy moore as a pretty much everyone acknowledges that there is credible evidence that he was a child molester. The reason why members of the republican infrastructure are saying we have to let this man walk into the senate is so we can cut taxes on the rich. That is deeply imoral. Where is the floor if it is not child molester . I think that is what we are trying to figure out. When we come back we will talk to a woman who knows as much as anyone on what it is i have a long way back to win back the trust of the people of minnesota. Al franken back to washington after being out of sight for ten days as four women have come forward with accusations against the senator. Highly respected congressman john conyers steps down from a powerful leadership position id his own harassment accusations. After days of black friday deals, get ready for even more deep discounts on this cyber monday. 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