him. >> this country is divided by fear. >> can retailers end 2017 on awe high note? >> black friday is certainly not dead. sit definitely changing. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning and happy thanksgiving. welcome to a special holiday edition of "new day". alisyn is off. erica hill joining me. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> thankful for you. >> thankful for you, chris cuomo. >> apologizing after an explicit photo circulated on social media. this is different than others you have heard. there is an unnamed woman involved. we think the "washington post" would know her name, but she's reporting this. the congressman joe barton threatened to go to capitol police if she exposed lewd

images that he sent her during their relationship. congress is raising the question that, yes, he did go to capitol police because he believes he is the victim of revenge porn. on a very different side of this spectrum we have the story of a former staffer for democratic congressman john conyers. they tell cnn he harassed and verbally you abused her. he adamantly denies the allegati allegation. >> they investigate is a settlement made in 2015 with another former staffer accusing i'm of sexual harassment. lawmakers wrestling with how to handle these controversy. and pressure is mounting on congress to unmask harassers on capitol hill and disclose details on those secret settlements we're learning more about. the one thing of course we know they came at the expense of your tax payer dollars.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. a lot of questions about this after a sexually explicit photo of joe barton surfaced on an anonymous twitter account. barton has apologized for the lewd photo but also raised the possibility that he's the victim of revenge boporn. barton sent a woman lewd photos and images over the course of five years during their relationship. she last was with him in 2014. she said i was nutt fin it for politics connection. according to "the post," barton warned against using explicit images he had sent her in a way that would negatively affect his career, vowing he would go to

capitol hill police over her threats. she took the phone call as a threat. congressman barton says it was to stop her from publicly releasing images as revenge porn which texas outlawed in 2015. barton said the dallas morning identified a potential crime against me and the transcript in the "washington post" may be evidence. this woman admitted we had a consensual relationship. when i ended it, she threatened to publicly share my private photographs and upbt intimate corresponden correspondence. today capitol police reached out and offered to launch an investigation and i have accepted. because of the pending investigation, we will have no further comment. and also this morning, democratic congressman john conyers of michigan is facing new harassment allegations.

melanie sloane said she was verbally abused and harassed by congressman conyers. she claims his behavior was inappropriate. one instance he called her into his office when he was in his underwear. the house ethics committee a settlement with a former employee in 2015. >> sunlen, appreciate it. happy thanksgiving to you. let's discuss with david drucker and real clear politics, a.b. stod ard. a few days ago i said not all accusations are equal. this latest turn in this story is evidence of that. barton does not belong in the same sentence with conyers. i'm not saying what's true and what isn't. but conyers with a settlement of

harassment. and an ethics investigation. barton, unnamed single source from the "washington post", respected outlet. but both stories i guess matter because we are dealing with public officials. but they are not the same kind of story. >> no, they're not. in the court of political opinion, they can be discussed together because of the judgment they make. there's simply no difference between the two. one a relationship gone bad. consensual. the other unwanted advances in the workplace. and i think the barton story, not the saul thing as women being assaulted, being being

harassed. and i think it's important for the stories we have been covering about harassment and assault that we not confuse the two when we're discussing them because it muddies the water and everything becomes -- not that it should be but the danger long term is everything becomes a he said, she said. those are the kind of things that john conyers, who keeps denying allegations and saying i'm not going to resign, and the same thing of roy moore, republican from alabama, denies all allegations. i'm not going to got out of the race. that's what can help them survive these things, even if they shouldn't. >> point of not just the denials but the way the accusers are being looked at. the women who have come forward who are bringing forth these allegations and how they are being received, a.b., in very different ways. >> i would argue depending on political party of the person who is involved. when does that change?

that is an important distinction as well. >> conservatives are excited that jump on the allegations made against senator al franken, a democrat. and they will be interested of course in the conyers story as well because he's a democrat. but because both president trump and roy moore have denied the allegations that women have made against them, they don't seem interested in talking about that. it has to do with the perspective of your political party. and that is obviously unfortunate. we are looking at two stories here on the democratic side which are sum. the conyers and the franken story. they want him on out of the job because he's 88 years old. he has a long history of

inappropriate behavior with his staff. they're awfully silent at the same time about senator al franken. >> be straight with me. i just feel like we have an opportunity here. women are coming forward. we know why they don't come forward. not because they're waiting for the right time. like they are trying to play to advantage. they're afraid. not all accusations are equal. it can be a painful process but necessary. every moment we talk about barton and the salacious aspect of that story. we're not talking about settle

isments that erica hill and i are paying for. >> we're not. you know what else we don't talk about, russell simmons. check out his twitter feed. we'll say it. he comes out and pens this denial where he supports me too. he supports these women. we don't cover that the same way. that's my concern of mission creek. a serial cheater. then what is it? someone who is living a lifestyle they don't want to tell us about. we're saying they deserve attention. there are two conflicting accounts. yes, they both say it was consensual. consent a whole separate thing that we will hear more and more

about. there is the question of was this an attempt at revenge poor or a lawmaker attempting to silence awe woman. that is an important question we have to talk about. as we move forward, if something like that happened that's an important point. >> when anything happens in the news, whether it's salacious stories like this or anything, the nature of being in the media, you try to go forward and try to bring as much information to light as possible. the hardest thing to do as a journalist is to say, no, i'm not going to report on that. i'm not going to cover that. given the context of this particular store, it doesn't deserve the same scrutiny and coverage as these other real

problems. and you're also correct in saying there is danger of losing sight of what one of the real problems is which is how they can handle all the sexual harassment allegations. i think one of the reasons this has been happening. if you're not in washington, it is impossible to understand in. it is is not a normal workplace. it is like a family business where loyalty is paramount and people get away with the kind of behavior that is not necessarily fireable. >> their loyalty is supposed to be to us, not to each other. i have to tell you, a.b., i lean on you all the time for what this means. i can't find a lawmaker to say, oh, yeah, these settlements, we have heard about them over the years. they all say i don't know. all they do is gossip about each other. but they have never heard about these settlements we're all paying for with what's happening down there. it is so silly they have to account for private versus public expenditure of dollars

except when it comes to these lawsuits that we never hear anything about. the loyalty is to us, a.b. that needs to change. >> i agree. i really hope from all of this, and the barton story is completely separate from john conyers settling accounts privately, making sltsmentes out of his budget account. leadership didn't even know about it. there is office of compliance. we have to look at sexual assault, sexual harassment and get to the bottom of that. reforms need to be made about what you can do as well. if you're trying to silence women with tax payer dollars, that is a huge concern that needs to be remedied. >> and one we cannot lose sight of. a.b., david, thank you both.

>> thank you. security is tight, to put it mildly, here in new york ahead of the 91st macy's thanksgiving diaw parade which kicks off in a couple of hours here. you see some there or ready to go. good morning to you, erica. 200,000 people expected to line the parade route. they are starting to line up here at the parade route. since 4:30, 5:00 this morning. we are seeing enhanced police presence. police at every single light we have seen. counterterrorism as well. concrete barriers at every intersection along the parade route. checking some of the bags of people that were here already in the bleachers. what we are also seeing are smiles, smiles from folks from

pennsylvania. and minnesota, i did not forget. they have the hats. you have been lined up since when this morning? >> probably ten to 6:00. >> the weather cooperating. down here in pennsylvania they love the hats. what do you call these? >> headbands. >> you have been here since 4:30. what are you coming to see? olaf is popular. >> pikachu. that's old school. >> totally. we're excited about the drum cadences. >> that's nice. not just about phraopbs. it is about real people. we are thankful to have you out here. thank you, pennsylvania. thank you minnesota. i'm old school. there will be 17 out here. i like old school charlie brown. >> favorite balloon.

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we can't help but point out roy moore. he was very clear yesterday or two days ago before leaving for mar-a-lago. he denies it. he denies it. it is different with al franken. also different with conyers. how do we weigh those? >> look, i think the president and some of the president and moore's defenders are stuck on that. if you say you didn't do it, you didn't do it, which is bizarre logic if you think about it. because any miss deed committed by anyone ever if they say i didn't do it, it goes away. that's simply not how right and wrong works and we all know that. we knew he was going to just try to distract us. that he was in some way going to defend roy moore because he believes he will support his

dangerous agenda. every day you turn on the tv, on twitter and there is another person being accused of serious sexual violence or misconduct in this country. and that is the issue. whether it's sports, republicans, democrats, the president, media. he is spending a message as he did in the campaign and in his own behavior that sexual assault and sexual harassment doesn't exist and shouldn't be cracked down upon. and this really is the shame of our nation. the president is kind of leading that shame on parade. >> how does that change then, ed? we have two very different narratives in this country. we have what christine is setting up what she sees. the president quick to weigh in on al franken. we have the need to address

these allegations of harassment and to listen to accusers. i would argue it is important for the president to speak out on this but to have a clear message. can we get that? >> first of all, happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> such an important issue. i was listening to the show is a few minutes ago. i think chris was bringing up the comment that each on case is different. that is one of the things we have learned in the process that each of the victims deserve both honor and respect. i think that's what we're saying. i want to join that chorus. in the case of another thing chris said, every instance is different in the accusers and the comments. what the president said on rye moore is he denied it. all the ones we have talked about either admitted something or apologized for conduct.

he said 40 years ago allegation he said didn't happen. i have said over and over, we should be very respectful. i'm not saying women are not telling the truth. i'm saying i don't have a reason to doubt them or know their truth. but what we know in politics, and christine knows this, things down the stretch of a campaign get tossed up. and the president is saying on that one, focus alabamans on your choice. and they said of someone wins or loses the election doctor the or wins the election, they will take up the ethics committee investigation. we need to have more airing of grievances. but we have to be respectful that not every accusation is true in the way it is being presented. and people have a right to deny it if they didn't do it and face the were consequences of the come. i think that's what we are seeing some of. i think it's actually good. >> i think you are confusing some of what i said. what's happening here, as you pointed out is, one, the

president's hypocrisy. two, because someone denies it, because mr. moore denies it doesn't mean it's not true. not at all. and i think we're seeing particularly when you have people and women after women after women coming forward with nothing to gain, right? we have heard story after story of the women and the families of the women coming forward are attacked, threatened literally. there is nothing to gain. nothing at all. and i think what we need to be careful, and i would urge people in alabama to think about is do you want someone who is both a sexual predator and a liar representing you in alabama? and there is no evidence -- >> that's just not fair. >> there is no evidence to indicate that roy moore is not telling the truth. we have women, people associated with the mall, we have other members of law enforcement and law enforcement affiliated entities saying they knew of this. they saw him in the mall after he was supposed to have been

bann banned. the fact that we are having a conversation about a united states senator being banned from malls who was stalking young girls and calling them out of school, this is a level of specificity that is very hard to dismiss. the president is making it about politics speaks to the hypocrisy and his own sexually harassment and violent behavior. >> christine is in the tradition of the salem witch trials and the crews bell in new york city. very famous for people to get so wound up in what they want to see to describe what's not happening. with 40 days left in an election, 35 now, we have two candidates who are running. alabama voters are being bombarded with accusations.

if the standard is anyone who says with sincerity what happened to them, then it's true. then every single candidate running for office from now until the end of time will be disqualified because there will be people who accuse them. all i'm saying is this. the president has reframed the debate and said if someone denies it, you have to at least respect that. you may disagree but i think a lot of the country says, hey, we do have a system that balances that. then the president turned the argument towards there is policy judgments that will take place. they are going to vote for wall funding on crime and other things. and alabama ans will decide. the senate says they will investigate. the last two senators thrown out was in 1862, missouri senators, for joining the confederacy. >> we will have to do more on history next time. >> thanks very much.

>> you just made it very clear about aisles, politics and bills and not about protecting people who have been victims of sexual assault. he made it very clear about politics. >> i can tell you what it is definitely about. there are a lot of conflicting opinions and we're getting different messages. we will continue to dive into those. >> it shouldn't be about politics. >> it should be about the truth. >> happy thanksgiving to both of you. >> thank you. and your family. >> it is is of course thanksgiving diaw, mr. cuomo. that was a great conversation. thanksgiving is right. holiday shopping a big part of the season. we all know about black friday. who is open today on thanksgiving? where can you get the best deals? krus teen romance tells you. my credit card is already getting warm. christine romance tells you. my credit card is already getting warm.

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this the last few weeks, president trump has sparred with, among others, protesting players, widow of american soldier, congresswoman who was

helping the grieving woman. the common thread, they are all african-american. why is president trump feuding with black america? and another question, is that what he's doing. thaep thanksgiving on this special day. it doesn't need to be said. we will argue but with decency. we have the case for and against. symone sanders, why do you think that there is a noncoincidental connection to the president picking targets and those targets being african-american? >> because i think at the root of it, donald trump believes all of these individuals should be grateful he has done x, y, z. because the people of color, particularly these black people, whether ucla players or nfl players who should just be grateful to be on the field and

play football, because they have chosen to speak out and be outspoken, i think on some level donald trump thinks it is inappropriate. that is problematic. >> i don't think the president is picking fights with anybody. i think he is responding in kind. i disagree with the premise that this somehow has any type of racial overtures. look, at the end of the day we know this president is an equal opportunity tweeter. he will tweet at a person if he happens to be black if he has something to say or hispanic, republican, democrat. he will tweet and respond if somebody says something about him or to him that he disagrees with to set the record straight. to imply this is a racial thing or to imply that he only picks fights or tweets to african americans is just untrue. >> similar money, he is an equal opportunity offender.

>> the president definitely has a problem anymore. it is not normal for the president of the united states to pick fights with folks over twitter let alone pick fights with people, period. if donald trump wants to be president of the united states, he needs to get a thicker skin. lavar ball speaking out, nfl players taking a knee bothers him. what about fredricka says bothers him. he attacked lavar ball saying he was a poor man's version of don king. that is absolutely a dog whistle. what about these particular folks, particularly in the ucla players's case makes him think they are grateful for them. >> because they are not in a chinese jail. it's very simple, simone. they should be grateful for the president intervening because today they are with their families for thanksgiving. they could have been sit

anything jail for 15 some odd years. >> i'm not in the habit of giving people cookies, candy and pats on the back for things they should be doing. donald trump and the state department did what they should do, often what the state department does in many cases across the world when americans get in trouble. they often do so without tweets from the president and folks saying you have to tell me thank you. so i think the problem here is donald trump has presumably done a lot of things since he's been in office. for all we know, he has gotten other people out of pickles in international situations. but why are these black players being singled out? i don't think we can ignore that. the president clearly has racial problems and racial issues. >> the egyptian american who got herself in a pickle, as you call it, when she got out. otto warmbier who got himself in a pickle as you want to call it, the president intervened and got him out. these are not just pickles.

they are serious things happening overseas to our citizens. the president is intervening. and everybody who is rescued, saved, they should be grateful and thankful. >> but should he say, paris, be grateful to me and if i don't hear it and it's not to my satisfaction, i will criticize you. >> that's not what happened here. it was the father who went out and cheapened and tried to insinuate it wasn't the president. the son said thank you. >> yes, he did. all the players did. >> all the players did. and the president actually intervened on their behalf, these three african americans, since this man is so racist. >> i'm not defending lavar ball. i got a whole new nickname because of him. i'm not here to do that. should the president be in the business for saying, law, thank

me for what i did, or is he doing his duty? is he showing stewardship of the people he is to represent. >> there are so many other things donald trump should be worried about. there are a litany of national security issues that the united states of america is facing. for the life of me, i don't understand why the president of the united states allows lavar ball, nfl players and whoever else, to get under his skin. so we have to evaluate why, why is this bothering the president so much. and the only thing i can fathom is because the president does not believe that lavar ball, that he had the audacity to speak out, to not be grateful. that is dog whistle language. >> no. just the fact that someone should be fathomed by the fact, i just intervened to help your child not sit in a chinese jail

for a crime he should not have done and he's not grateful. simone, if that happened to you, it would be grateful. if it was a democrat, republican, communist or soldier that goal got him out, just say thank you. and the president can tkwaoet and deal with domestic affairs, like tax cuts for middleclass americans and small is businesses at the same time. he's fully capable of doing that. he can multitask. >> i would like to say -- >> he denounced them multiple times many years. we know that. that's a silly dog whistle and you know that. it's unfair and untrue. the president is strong in denouncing kkk white supremacists and the like. but at the same time those -- that father and anybody else who does not show appreciation for what he did is wrong.

ungrateful and a foolish thing to do. i hope, simone, you >> absolutely. >> we all can agree on that. happy thanksgiving to you both. we are thankful for the difference in perspective that you bring to the show. >> happy thanksgiving, y'all. >> absolutely. erica. the search is expanding for three missing navy sailors after a plane crash off the coast of japan. it has been a deadly year for the u.s. seventh fleet. we'll discuss, next. remember how the economic crash

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cole. happy thanksgiving, thank you for joining us, sir. >> happy thanksgiving to you and erica as well, chris. >> thank you. >> so this story, put it into context for us. what do you see in this string of events that we've been monitoring with the u.s. navy. >> first and foremost, our prayers go out to the families so hopefully these people can be found and recovered safely. i think what you're seeing is a larger systemic issue where once again the navy is at the tip of the spear. this is the most active theater they operate in. clearly the temple of operations of having a price. they spent years living under sequestration and now you have a department of defense that does not have a budget thanks to congress not doing their job and you have a navy that's undermanned, and underequipped and we may be seeing just the tip of a spear at a hollow force that in fact is having more of these problems and it's being measured in sailors' lives. >> that is a terrible

measurement that no one wants to see. when you lay it out there, undermanned, underfunded, the big question is how does that change based on everything you said because there are families watching saying my child, my loved one is there with the seventh fleet or could be. how do you answer to them? >> these young men and women, they choose to serve. their families give them to the navy with the responsibility that they'll put them in harm's way but they'll do it in a manner where they can be protected, be safe and come home. right now what we're seeing is that we have a larger problem in the navy and in all the services as a matter of fact, where we're beginning to see a series of incidents. when you look at the training that clearly came out and was in a shortfall with the collisions on john s. mccain and the uss fitzgerald, 17 sailors died because the navy had not invested in training for literally years. and now with these aircraft, it's a twin engine turbo prop. this kind of aircraft should

have had -- if there was an engine failure, the other engine should have been able to operate to get to the carrier to land safely. the fact that both engines quit could be indicative that there was a larger problem. i hope they can find the aircraft recovered so we can get to the root cause of why this airplane went down and the eight survivors are going to be critical in their interviews as the investigation moves forward. >> kirk, one of the reasons i was so anxious to get you on this morning is to deal with the pushback. the pushback is we are making a lot of the exception, not the rule. that eveni though this past yea has been an atypically accident-riddled year, overall flights like this one are routine and they go 90% of the time without any incident. the navy's record is stellar and we are harping on the negative instead of the overall reality. your take? >> i think in some ways you're absolutely right, chris. look, these aircraft are incredibly reliable.

they're called c.o.d.s, carrier onboard delivery, but let's not forget the last of these aircraft came off the line in 1990, so they're 27 years old. while the navy is investing probably $20 million to do structural upgrades and enhancements on avionicsavionic need to look when are the replacements coming and are these aircraft being maintained in a manner, are the crews being trained in a methodology that allows them to continue to operate safely. just because you had a good track record last year, great. that was last year. what's the track record today? because that's the metric. what are we looking at today to make sure these young men and women are safe when they use these aircraft or sail these ships out in especially the pacific fleet, our most active area of operations. >> so it's not just about statistics, it's systemic. that's the take from kirk

lippold, and you would know. thank you, sir. happy thanksgiving to you and your family. >> thank you, chris. you and erica as well. >> thank you. the news did not take the day off on this thanksgiving. there is some important headlines. what do you say, let's get after it. a senior republican lawmaker is apologizing after an explicit photo of him circulated on social media. now a woman says joe bardon would report her to capitol police. >> he says he's the victim of revenge porn. >> we're starting the conversation, sexual assault, violence, i think we're awakening people's consciousness. >> donald trump airing his grievances in a series of tweets. >> he's waging these controversial divisive cultural wars that he feels he can win. >> mr. president, you're the commander in chief. stop this absolute foolishness. the balloons being inflated ready for macy's thanksgiving day parade. >> this is a magical atmosphere. >> this is "new day" with chris

cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, welcome to your new day, a special holiday edition of "new day." happy thanksgiving. >> and to you. >> erica hill here, alisyn camerota off. what a beautiful day for a parade. we're showing you live pictures obviously. this is a big deal. that is central park west. they're getting ready for the balloons. there's some new ones this year, we'll take you through that, but we have big headlines as well. a senior republican lawmaker is apologizing after an explicit photo of him was put on social media. an unnamed woman tells "the washington post" that congressman joe bardon threaten to go to the capitol police if she exposed lewd images that he sent to her during a relationship. the congressman said, yes, he did go to the capitol police because he believes he is th