is. this is "nightline." >> tonight, charlie rose fired. at least eight women now accusing the veteran journalist of sexual harassment. his cbs this morning cohost expressing outrage. >> i am not okay. women cannot achieve equality in the workplace or in society until there is a reckoning. >> and president trump breaking his silence about accused predator alabama senate candidate roy moore. >> what do you say to women? >> roy moore denies it, that's all i can say, he denies it. the left to bear arms? meet members of the liberal gun club. hillary and bernie voters packing heat. and while across the aisle their ultra-conservative brother in arms. >> my name is mel bernstein and they call me the most armed man

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good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight more women stepping forward with sordid allegations against charlie rose, the legendary broadcaster and news anchor fired, hit with an avalanche of sexual misconduct accusations. we're hearing from his now-former colleagues and even an executive who says she should have intervened. here's abc's linsey davis. >> there is no excuse for this alleged behavior. it is systematic and pervasive. >> reporter: long-time newsman charlie rose is now becoming the newsmaker. >> i can't stop thinking about the anguish of these women. what happened to their dignity, what happened to their bodies, what happened maybe to even their careers. >> reporter: his "cbs this morning" coanchors did not mince words. >> charlie does not get a pass here, he doesn't get a pass from anyone in this room, we are all deeply affected, we are all

rocked by this. >> reporter: the veteran journalist fired from cbs news and pbs terminating their relationship with him amidst an avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations. the latest media giant to be disgraced in the era of #metoo. tonight three women who work with rose at cbs news now coming forward with more allegations. >> a third woman alleges rose whispered a sexual innuendo while touching her inappropriately at a work-related event. >> reporter: all of this on the heels of the bombshell allegations yesterday. eight women who worked or aspired to work for the pbs show bearing his name told "the washington post" rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, several allege he groped them, one of his former employees tells the paper he was a sexual predator and i was his victim. >> frequently his interactions would begin with a touch on the leg, then escalated to either noou nudity or groping in the back seats of cars. one woman who worked as an intern in the 1990s recalled him

coming out of the shower naked. she confided in one person, the next day a male producer came up to her laughing and said, i heard you got the shower trick. >> reporter: rose, seen here last night, after the news broke. >> do you want to say anything to those accusers? >> it's not wrongdoings. >> reporter: earlier rose responded on twitter writing, i deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. i am greatly embarrassed. i have behaved incensetively at times, and i accept responsibility for that. but then he also believe that all of these allegations are accurate. i always felt that i was pursuing shared feelings, even though i now realize i was mistaken. >> what struck me about his apology is he thought it was consensual. >> reporter: former fox news anchor gretchen carlson sued her former boss, roger ailes, for sexual harassment in july 2016. >> i often get asked, why do people do this? sexual harassment is about power. it can be about he could but

it -- about sex but it's often about making a person feel less powerful. >> most of these women were working for him at a very early stage in their careers. for them i think there would be a tremendous risk to speaking out against his behavior. >> reporter: pyle godfrey ryan, one of rose's assistants, told "the washington post" about at least a dozen instances where rose walked nude in front of her while she worked in one of his new york city homes. she says he would repeatedly call her late at night to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked. she says she told rose's long-time pbs executive producer yvette vega, who alleged her told her, "that's charlie being charlie." rose's executive producer told "the washington post," i should have stood up for them, i failed, it is crushing, i deeply regret not helping them. >> we have to get past that in our society. >> "that's just locker room talk," right? we have to say, thank you so much for your courage in telling me that. we are going to take care of this right now. it's not only the women or the men who are victims finding the

courage to come forward, it's the enablers and the bystanders also finding that same courage to say, i'm not going to let this happen. >> reporter: all of the women who told their stories to "the washington post" either worked for or wanted to work for "the charlie rose show" which reportedly does not have a human resources department. >> if you're getting sexually harassed by charlie rose on "the charlie rose show," there is no one else that you can complain to because everybody, so to speak, reports to charlie rose. >> reporter: that signature show propelled his rise to icon. >> mr. president. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> reporter: interviewing everyone from president to celebrities to scientists. >> that's a great question -- >> reporter: he was a long-time contributory cbs' "60 minutes," "cbs this morning" in 2012. the #metoo movement -- >> here you have the media exposing these stories, at the

same time very much part of the storyline. >> there's almost no one in any profession that can point that finger and not be looking at their own field. >> reporter: another media giant to fall. joining is ranks of fox news ceo roger ailes, commentator and former fox host bill o'reilly, msnbc contributor mark halperin, formerly the political director here at abc. >> these guys have tremendous influence on how we see the story of america. >> reporter: rose even once weighing in on fellow news man bill o'reilly, a moment laden with irony. >> all of the cases in the sexual harassment, a terrible thing, has probably not been exposed enough -- >> reporter: it was gretchen carlson whose allegations first rocked fox news last year, and led to ailes' ouster, a $20 million settlement. legally she's unable to discuss the details about her allegations but says the public

view of women like her is changing. >> the shame is finally being transferred. not only to the harassers, and to the enablers, but to companies who have also turned a blind eye about this issue. >> reporter: one of the founders of disney's pixar, john lasseter, announcing he's now taking a leave of absence. in an internal e-mail to staff he wrote of recent difficult conversations while acknowledging past missteps, apologizing for any unwanted hug or any other gesture they felt crossed the line. disney is the parent company of abc news. and in politics, at least eight women have accused alabama gop senate candidate roy moore of sexual misconduct, many of them were teenagers at the time, the youngest 14 years old. moore was in his 30s. moore has fiercely denied all allegations. >> i never dated underage women. >> reporter: now the president is finally reacting to the controversy. >> talking about sexual misconduct, you had your own allegations against you -- >> he -- let me just tell you,

roy moore denies it. that's all i can say. >> reporter: president trump is defending roy moore. >> mr. president, is an accused child molester better than a democrat? >> he denies it. look, he denies it. >> reporter: democratic senator al franken is apologizing after one woman accused him of forcibly kissing her, another alleging he grabbed her rear-end. franken responding saying he didn't remember taking the pick doctor but felt badly. many however are seeing the influx of allegations as a turning point. >> this is indeed a sea change of how we here in the united states view sexual harassment. >> reporter: in new york city, attorneys marjorie messadoer and sylvia stanshoe litigate sexual harassment cases. they say since the harvey weinstein scandal their phones are ringing off the hook with new potential cases every day. >> our clients typically come in through the door and tell us their story and tell us that they want the harasser to be

behind bars. we wish that we could put everyone that's done something wrong somehow behind bars. what we can do is try to get some kind of financial damages for our clients. >> reporter: it is a problem so rampant it requires change on many fronts. but for carlson, coming forward was perhaps one of the first steps in a long journey toward reckoning. >> it was an excruciating choice for me to be that singular person 16 months ago. toughest decision of my life. but i did it for other women and men, and i did it for my children and for your children and anyone else's children who's watching. because do we want our children to face the same indignities that so many women and men have faced? the answer is no. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm linsey davis in new york. up next, they're locked and loaded. no matter how they voted. meet some members of the liberal gun club.

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tonight we're going to take you to a california shooting range where dyed in the wool liberals are firing semiautomatic weapons. they're members of the liberal gun club, a group on a mission to give a national voice to gun owners who don't necessarily fit the political stereotype. here's abc's nick watt. >> reporter: here in politically deep blue northern california, a pale blue assault rifle. >> it looks like tiffany blue. >> it is tiffany blue, this is an ar-15. >> reporter: the liberal gun club. you heard me right, liberal gun club. >> i'm lara, i'm a liberal, i

voted for hillary clinton. but i'm a strong second amendment supporter. >> reporter: lara smith, a lawyer, is president of the california chapter. she was antigun, started shooting only four years ago after giving ate try, after researching the issue. after too many arguments with her gun-loving former marine husband, ed. she's a convert. >> i am a huge supporter of gun rights and i also was a supporter of bernie sanders as well. >> reporter: she's a veterinarian nurse, and new member. lara smith is her instructor. >> we're all truly dyed in the wool liberals. we believe in universal health care. >> do you see your views as xatible? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> i see everybody else's views as inconsistent. i mean, to me, abortion and gun rights are the flip side of the same issue. >> reporter: they're rubbing

shoulders on the range with a generally conservative crowd. >> some places the reaction is, the liberal gun club, what's that? that's great. other places, are you one of those libtards? >> the gun store right here, this is dragon arms. >> reporter: other end of the spectrum -- >> machine suns, submachine guns, suppressers, silencers, grenade launchers -- >> reporter: my colleague mike koenig visits this man in the wake of the las vegas shooting. a less liberal second amendment advocate and gun owner. >> we've sold more guns in the last eight weeks than in the last eight months. >> smith and wesson .22, semiautomatic. >> reporter: flame throwers, assault rifles. >> this is the same type of gun that was used in vegas. we're driving up my property now. and there's all kinds of warning signs as you can see. if anybody comes on your property and threatens you with

bodily harm, it's legal to shoot them. colorado law. they should have that nationwide. >> reporter: dragon man gives a taste what was the liberal gun club faces from fellow thuts yamss. >> this is one of the first signs they see. >> reporter: the liberal gun club founded in 2008. >> we put a different face on this. and that's where this club's value is. >> reporter: they held conventions, advised politicians, staged so-called meet in the middle events. educate and trade. the liberal gun club says it has 7,500 members nationwide. they agree with their more right-wing brothers and sisters in arms on some points. >> the government says, we're going to change this, so everybody has to give up their guns. what's is going to be next? >> reporter: there are twists. >> especially under this administration, i don't want to give up any of my constitutional rights. >> i have an issue in -- trust issues in general with law enforcement. now you're telling me that what little slim chance of protection i have is now gone, and it's

given to people that i don't trust at all, how is that fair? >> reporter: they claim membership is up 70% since president trump was elected. so 7,500 members, the nra has a reported 5 million. but according to liberal gun club, the nra does not speak for all. only a reported 19% of gun owners in america are actually nra members. and there's this. according to pew, of republicans and right-leaning independents, 44% own guns. among democrats or left-leaning independents, it's just 20%. but it's not zero. >> i think a lot more people have guns that are liberal here than we know about. >> reporter: face-to-face and online, after every mass shooting, vegas, sutherland springs, there seems to be no real reasoned gun debate, just deepening division. okay, how would these gun-toting lefties counter mass shootings? >> the only suggestions we're getting are, out of my cold dead

hands, we're doing nothing! or, ban this kind of gun! those aren't solutions. >> reporter: and the mass shooters? >> i'd love to see us not putting their faces and names all over the news. >> me too. >> how about n n n n n n background checks? >> totally good with the background checks. >> reporter: a key area where they differ from the nra and dragon man, that self-proclaimed most armed man in america. >> you could be good, good, good, then all of a sudden you get a brain tumor, they're not going to find that out right away. >> outlawing any semiautomatic weapon? >>er in going to happen, good luck. >> reporter: baps have worked elsewhere. semiautomatic weapons banned in australia after a mass shooting. there haven't been any since. >> we heard gunshots in the gym. >> reporter: after a school shooting in scotland in 1996, britain banned most handguns. since then, no mass shootings. >> scotland isn't the u.s. scotland didn't start -- it doesn't have that internal admitos of the cult and the

winchester and the wild west, guns are ingrained -- >> guns are ingraped in the scottish psyche, i grew up with seven guns in the house, i owned my first gun when i was 7. i hear what you're saying but it's not unique to this country. >> it's not but it is different here in a lot of ways. >> reporter: 555 people have died in mass shootings in america so far this year, according to mass shooting tracker. >> everybody wants this to stop. everybody we just disagree on how to do it. >> i'm nick watt for "nightline" in the bay area, northern california. >> for much more you can logon to abcnews.com. up next -- ♪ i think i love you >> he became a teen idol with "partridge family" favorites like "i think i love you." remembering david cassidy.

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finally tonight, the passing of one of the original teen idols. ♪ i think i love you so one of us ♪ >> reporter: the definitive teen idol of his era, david cassidy smiled and sang his way into the hearts and minds and diaries of millions of young women. in magazines like "16." on the abc sitcom "the partridge family." performing such songs as 80 think i love you" and "come on get happy." featured on the show from 1970 to 1974 as keith partridge. david cassidy was dreamy, talented, and approachable, and super crush-worthy as the screams confirmed. from the mid '70s cassidy found success acting on stage and on tv. he looked back in 2004. >> i just know that i'm a happy guy. that i love what i do. i didn't become some sad, tragic story.

as so many do. >> reporter: personal challenges lay ahead, though. early in 2017, he would announce that he suffered from dementia. yet when he died in ft. lauderdale, at the age of 67, those who recalled the pinnacle of his success knew david cassidy was a teen idol for all-time. for "nightline," i'm chris connelly in los angeles. >> rest in peace, david cassidy. thanks for watching abc news. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and our "nightline" facebook page. good night, america. really? really? really? really? really? really? see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit, zero first month's payment, and zero due at signing on

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