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on mainstream media explode into a frenzy of the russians accused of carrying out some they have agents talk in the u.k. come forward and speak. in chief denying any involvement in the case. concerns of raised over the potential presence of french troops in syria. by the us army. a french military vehicle in the background. you can read all about their stories safe on our website i'll be back again with the headlines in about an hour's time in the meantime though it's the big picture. this week show candidate trump promised a slash government regulations and president sure is keeping that promise but doing so making the air we breathe. but first more sexual harassment bombshells rocked. the media world and as a new school year begins

a new policy about sexual assault on campus i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. america. as the media world reels from the ouster of c.b.s. chairman and c.e.o. leslie moonves over allegations of sexual assault and harassment sixty minutes executive producer jeff fager was fired this week after thirty six years at c.b.s. news already done eyeing similar complaints figure was shown the door for sending a text message to correspondent joe rica duncan who was reporting on the company's troubled culture sunday evening i reached out to favre for comment on the articles alleging he groped or touched c.b.s. employees at company parties in addition to denying these charges figure an attack

said to me quote if you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up you will be held responsible for harming me he went on to say be careful there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem we will spare you the disturbing details cited in ronan farrow is reporting for a new yorker c.b.s. also fired charlie rose after similar accusations published in the washington post and in just the past year bill o'reilly and roger ailes exit at fox news and n.b.c.'s matt lauer was fired after similar charges this isn't just a media industry issue mc donalds workers have voted to stage a one day strike beginning at lunchtime on september eighteenth and ten cities.

having elevated the issue of workplace harassment in every industry the c.b.s. and fox news and n.b.c. cases and bill cosby and harvey weinstein precipitated the meat to movement is meat to working or isn't it let's ask david lewis founder and c.e.o. of human resources consulting firm operations and david welcome back. and are you just this week as one nine hundred ninety s. saturday night live star norm macdonald is promoting his new netflix series n.b.c. quickly canceled this tonight show appearance after he told a hollywood reporter i'm happy the me too movement has slowed down a little bit and he defended entertainers lately in disrepute including louis c.k. comments he has since walked back david based on your work since you and i talked about this a year ago is the problem getting fixed or is inappropriate workplace conduct surviving the me too movement. i think the term fix is probably too strong

a term i think awareness has absolutely been significantly increased and what you've seen now since last summer when the weinstein's story broke is you have some significant states including most recently new york that have passed laws that are now forcing companies to go ahead and take this issue more seriously through different methods including requiring all of their employees to be trained delaware just passed a similar law fourteen other states are going to consider similar types of action come in january and so this is by no means over i don't necessarily think it's slowed down either and each time one of these stories hits the news cycle the complaints increase the investigations increase the awareness increases and companies are adjusting culture as a result is a bigger part of your practice than it was a year ago. well at this point last year we had one individual dedicated to

training and development as it relates to workplace harassment we now have seven wow. because these stories hit a nerve for viewers who may be having trouble at work a give us harassment one o one talk about crossing the line and retaliation etc. so the biggest mistake most employers make and individuals within the workplace make is that they put too much emphasis on what the intent of certain actions were versus the perception of the individual on the receiving end of those actions so you put your arm on somebody's shoulder and you say that's a friendly gesture and not intended to mean anything more than just you being positive with them if they view that as offensive if they view that as something that's considered harassing to them then it's harassment and the way the law very clearly states everything perception is far more important than intent so you have

to use that as your backdrop and with that said you know the obvious stuff out the window you shouldn't be coming in contact physically with your employees unless it's part of your job you shouldn't be making any type of inappropriate comments to employees especially anything of a sexual or harassing nature you should look at your company's policy and become familiar with what the law actually says and old otherwise you should be respectful of the people with whom you work even if the accused is cleared is that person forever tainted. there's absolutely zero blackballing that occurs with anybody who is accused of harassment. in most instances i mean certainly there are shares of a situations where the act is in a sense the individual who is responsible for the act is a crazy extremely apologetic and regretful for having the things be interpreted the way they do and life goes on for everybody involved in those situations it's when you get into a pervasive type of behavior a consistent type of behavior and

a reputation understandably builds paired with organizations like the ones you just mentioned who don't seem to understand how to address these issues when they come up and yes eventually those individuals are exited or are tainted and good luck finding another job in your industry and in some cases good luck finding another job period where you mention policy a second ago two part question how do prudent employers among your clientele set the ground rules before there's a complaint and what's the best way to handle an accusation. so two things one is policies are drawn directly from the law from title seven of the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty four as amended the policies are all pretty much the same you can go ahead and find that on the internet through your local department of labor and remember your policies are driven now in many cases by state law so make sure that they line up there the second is communication and training make sure that your employees and all of the people in management are

aware of what the law says and of what that looks like and how you're supposed to handle situations when they come to your attention and then as it relates to investigations key thing is to take every complaint seriously make sure you're consistent in what you do as far as investigations and don't fall into the trap of dealing differently with the person who's at the lowest level of your company versus the person who is at the highest you're seeing that playing out in the major media right now the more importantly individual the more tolerant the company is of their bad behavior that is the worst message to send and the worst trap for an organization to fall into thank you david lewis founder and c.e.o. of human resources consulting firm operations and. sexual harassment and assault is not just a workplace issue as a new school year begins the trump administration wants to change policy regarding on campus misconduct why from what to what let's bring in deborah

vegans senior vice president of public policy and research for the american association of university women welcome thank you so much it's a pleasure to be here new controversy surrounding ms de vos what a concept explain what's going on yes unfortunately the. department of education has rescinded obama era guidance that provided really important protections for students who have been subjected to sexual harassment or violence on campus replaced it with some interim guidance that really removed critical protections for these students and we understand that the administration is now going through the rule making process and there have been some documents that have been leaked we can certainly vouch for their authenticity but they only if true they confirm the direction that the administration has already been going well

let's hear what direction what's going to be the difference between the obama era dear colleague guidelines that were issued and what seems to be emerging now in the trump era well last year the. department of education put out interim guidance that replace the rescinded obama era guidance and those had a series of problematic new provisions which have essentially just mirror what we understand is going on during the rule making process so we certainly hope and i will talk about some of those provisions but we certainly hope that this is not the direction that the administration is going there are still time for them to reconsider whatever they're doing and rulemaking and if they don't they will see. certainly hear from. our members and our coalition partners around the country some of the problematic provisions include that they are making an extremely narrow definition of what comprises sexual harassment which makes it harder to bring

forward cases they are making it more difficult to talk to a trusted advisor or professor they're saying that investigations will only go forward if you have if you talk to someone who has the authority to implement corrective action so what that means is if you're a victim of sexual assault and you go to someone trusted they may not be viewed in the eyes of the government as the right person to talk to you might have to go to the president of the university to help you that's another one of the problems they're also making the standard that would be used in an investigation higher than what was recommended under the obama administration and they're also allowing a different procedure all things that make it tougher on someone who's there survivor so they would allow someone who has sexually assaulted you to cross-examine you in a in an investigation and in

a hearing and they would also. make it so that appeals might only be allowed by the perpetrator joy understand that what they're proposing will be less standard than what it's replacing different rules and different colleges different states. i have not yet seen that obviously that would be problematic but i think what you could generalize about at this point is that there would be more discretion right that are given to the schools on how to do it less security for the person who has been subjected to sexual assaults i think what's important to remember is we're talking about a civil rights law here and we're talking about title nine which protects people from discrimination based on sex and. education so the idea is that if you've been sexually assaulted or harassed you still need equal opportunity to attend your classes to get an education to have educational opportunities and not constantly be

demised by having to bump into your cues or to you the person who assaulted you you're right and so the it appears that looking at all of the information about what's going on at the department of education on balance they're tipping the scales more towards the perpetrators than the survivors over a vacancy american association of university women thank you for your context and perspective on this developing story thank you so much coming up four in ten americans are at risk for premature deaths and lung cancer among other problems just by reading isn't air pollution past the point of no return this is the big picture on our t. america. still dollars dollar bills ten dollar bill. bill thirty seven billion of those are

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in cities around the world air pollution is reaching crisis levels breathing in new delhi now carries the same health risk as smoking forty four cigarettes in china dangerously high pollution forced to twenty eight industrialized cities to cut steel production and half globally air pollution is responsible for one in nine deaths each year here in the usa although our air is healthier than it used to be in the eighty's and ninety's air quality in the u.s. is not progressing as quickly as we thought the gains are starting to slow down.

eight of the u.s. is ten most polluted cities are in california the other two are new york city and phoenix and that's according to the american lung association which estimates that four in ten americans are at risk for premature death and lung cancer asthma attacks cardiovascular damage developmental and reproductive harm among other problems are we past the point of no return let's ask jessica's segment from the world resources institute where her focus is helping cities become resource efficient at. livable welcome thank you thank you when i say air pollution many of our viewers might think car exhaust which sure is an issue but what else every day pollutants might people not realize they're breathing well i think that there pollutants that in the headlines are there particularly matter which comes from car exhaust it also comes from wildfires it comes from your fireplaces other things ozone comes from

a mix of different sources including car emissions but also to some extent from agriculture and from trees the criteria pollutants the ones that are regulated are six. knox so nitrogen oxide sulfur dioxide ozone particulate matter and carbon monoxide and each of those has its own separate and i think what we're finding even worse than we thought before impact on health on crops and on our environment use california wildfires had to contribute is that stuff drift as far east as here well some of it does i mean with two million acres on fire across the west you're bound to have some smoke most of it however does remain fairly localized the bigger question though is how long it remains in the upper atmosphere continuing to contribute to warming and to further pollution. over the county as well so you have the ground level spreading and then you have some that makes it into the upper atmosphere and can travel as far east as well. we are

back to the particulate matter you mentioned with all this stuff in the air i mean sound scary should we be walking around with those face masks some people wearing on the plane. that's the question i mean i think probably not just yet. but yes absolutely not just yet here now if you look at conditions in china and parts of india the answer is probably yes especially for children and older people in the u.s. we're not there yet but our air quality is declining and if you're in one of these fire affected areas absolutely you should be wearing a mask or else having filters especially in schools and buildings where you have children exposed to particulate matter and other pollution now about those other places you mentioned even if we get it right here at home we're sharing this planet with the places that don't do as good a job they're building coal plants like crazy in china does that fall out to us here in the usa well actually you know i think that's

a common misperception that chinese people so chinese the short answer is yes chinese pollution does fall out to the usa but the cycle of pollution european pollution also falls out to north africa northern european flu pollution also falls out to china what i think most people don't realize is that pollution does circulate globally in very seasonally and effectively we all pollute each other also some of what we consume here in the u.s. is what's driving the production of pollution elsewhere so over half of china's pollution is caused by production of goods that are consumed outside of china so in some ways we're all responsible and it is just one atmosphere goods such as what oh just who knows where this was produced. you know fiber plasterboard in our houses everything that we're importing candidate trump promised to slash regulations and president trump sure is keeping the promise he pulled us out of the paris accord how will all of this contribute to the problem. well i think on two levels so just

the domestic regulations and loosening of restrictions on pollution. pollution control and some of the older power plants is estimated to lead to something like this these are government estimates the e.p.a. estimates something like fourteen hundred extra deaths a year by two thousand and thirty plus fifteen thousand cases a year bronchitis and tens of thousands of school days lost that's from our own loosening of restrictions similarly with automobile emissions there are estimates coming out that we are steadily making our air worse the international implications i think many other countries are actually acting faster than we are to clean up there simply because of the weight of evidence coming out about how bad air pollution is we know that all politics is local as is our air what can we as voters as citizens to demand cleaner air i think the key word you said is voters and citizens and i think when we look at what you can do to clean up the air there's not much at least in the us that you can do personally through your

behavior we already have pretty clean vehicles we have pretty clean frayed we have pretty clean and industry however what we can do is make sure that some of the regulatory changes that are opposing well demonstrated health impacts on children and the elderly in particular that we oppose them that we don't support people who vote for them that we write to our senators and our congress people and that we're actively demand that the kinds of advances that have happened over the past couple of decades do not get rolled back vote green you know it's not even vote green it's vote healthy it's vote sensibly vote not poison yourself through things that are economically not advantageous and healthwise really. lessening our quality of life just because certainly from the world resources institute thank you for stepping into the israel show. that is the big picture

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the swamp is truly drained here because it seems everybody else that's left town for fear of hurricane florence it is also the ten year anniversary of the great financial crisis in the collapse of lehman brothers which many in the mainstream media say that set it all off but really it all started before the financial crisis i want to look at op ed that the new york times published on behalf of ben bernanke hank paulson and timothy geithner remember when lehman brothers collapsed timothy geithner was the head of the new york fed which is really the federal reserve bank of america ben bernanke he was the head of the federal reserve bank and hank paulson was the treasury secretary and they let lehman collapse and then came to the rescue of all their friends well they wrote an op ed about basically concern trolling that there could be another financial crisis and first pointing out how much they as you know federal reserve.