with no antibiotics, ever. everything for thanksgiving. that's my giant. >> i never did what she said i did. roy moore doubling down the at bam a senate candidate maintain he's innocent even as more accusers come forward. now he's losing major support from his own party. as you can see from the run down on the side of your screen, this is still one of the hottest stories at 6:30. tonight more pressure on the gop senate alabama following allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenager 40 years ago. they're trying to get the controversial candidate to dropout ahead of next month's special election but moore isn't budging. at a hearing on sexual harassment on capital hill,

conscious woman testified that some congress members have spoad themselves to staffers, even assaulting members on the house floor. ronica cleary tonight with more on this. >>reporter: if you work on the hill and you believe that you've been harassed, the process of getting what you feel is due, getting justice, if you will, it's totally different than in the private sector. it's more drawn out. it's more complicated the and the lawmaker basically has their privacy protected forever. you've got to file a complaint within 180 days of the incident. you need on go through 30 days of counseling, about a month of mediation with the person. you have to sign a never ending non- disclosure agreement and get this, even if the lawmaker is found guilty, their identity will be protected forever. now let's say you come to a settlement with this person, the lawmaker, we've learned, doesn't have to pay any of the

settlement is paid out of a taxpayer funded account held at the us treasury. now, the washington post reporterred that over a certain period of time from 1997 to 2014 this fund paid out over $15 million to 235 people. this came as a shock to us. we wanted to see if it came as a shock to you. what do we do at five at 66. thirty we bring you the pulse of the people. that's outrageous. what's your comment in. >> i agree it's outrageous. i did not know that. i think that's totally unacceptable. the people should take responsibility for their actions and if there is a settlement they should pay for it. it's certainly not a protection the average person gets. i think if it's in the course of their duties as a congress person, it is a shame the taxpayers would have to pay that.

assume the claims would go through some sort of process to validate the claim and the person is innocent until proven guilty. i guess i would be interested in doing some more research to find out why it's set up that way. more information to be sought. i feel like the person should be responsible and it shouldn't be on the taxpayers. speaker ryan came out with a statement saying that going forward members of the house and their staffers will all be required to go through anti-harassment and anti discrimination training. i got to be honest, jim and shawn it made me the ask the question why in 2017 are they just now coming to this conclusion? i guess you thattive to say better late than never. back to you. >> better late than never, but this is absolutely i think shame ful. shameful that taxpayers are footing the bill for this. shameful that they need to keep their secrets from the public. it's absoluteliry

. on this story actioner lot of talk about this. as we talked about roy moore, the rnc cutting off its agreement with the roy moore campaign. what does that mean? these are resip qualify agreements that govern fundraising support. essentially the rnc is cutting ties with the roy moore senate campaign in alabama. in the meantime a the lot of lawmakers have been voc l al in this case, but some may run the risk of losing support. dr. ross i onioning us. it would seem that politicians would take a stand for what they morally believe in , but more often than not they take a stand for what is politically safe for them. clearly there is a risk if they go against what they think their constituents might go for. what is the problem with these

that supporters of someone like roy moore have a belief system and this belief system is very similar to what he projects, what he pushes in public is what they like. for example, he's pretty much anti gay. he's very harsh on immigrants. he's rather negative when it comes to minorities. he's preaching the biefnlt he's very religious. if folks really have those same values and that's their personal makeup. that's their personality makeup they don't really want to believe that this guy did these terrible things years ago. they want on go down the road and say that, well, it's probably not true. it's old and it never really happened because that will support their particular point of view. and that's the same for politicians, too. when you mentioned the idea that he appeals to christian conservatives, a the lot of people they believe in the power. he

believe in the power of forgive ness. there have been a the there of lawmakers, mark sanford who is the gonchor every north carolina, went hiking on on the appalachian trail, he admitted on his wife. a lot of lawmakers, they dig deep down in favorite and they support him. i think with roy moore it's a little bit different. nobody is different. we haven't found one yet. when it comes to roy moore , he is so extreme in many respects that he's even far to the right for many republicans. so when you have an extremist and you have somebody who has these types of problems now it's getting to the point where it's over the edge and i think that's what you're something with roy moore. there's too many issues that are to the extreme with him . so what would be the fall out for those politicians who are standing behind him because we know

are? well, the fall out is going to be that there are probability a lot of people out there, a lot of voters in alabama or nationwide who are going to be very suspect of the politician who tans behind roy moore right now you can see that there are a lot of republicans trying to distance themselves from him. so for a lot of these folks, these politicians they're really got in the box. if they support him of course they run the risk of really looking very poorly. however, on the other hand a lot of these politicians have a similar belief system and they are very conservative themselves so they really don't weren't to go against somebody like moore. this is a real conflict. psychologists talk about personality conflictses all the time. now you're seeing it in terms of psychology of conflict with these politicians and i think it's going to be up to the voters to decide which way are they going to go and who are ty

this case? there's still sometime before that december 12 election. dr. bart ross i thanks for joining us. >> nice to be with you. the third time is the charm. could it be for attorney general jeff sessions, he was back on the hot seat facing tough questions. they asked him what he knew between any collusion between the president and the russia 2016 campaign. he knew of at least two aides meeting with russian officials. last month sessions said he didn't know of any such meetings. fox5's tom fitzgerald here tonight. break it down. >>reporter: this is the first opportunity that we've heard from jeff sessions since the revelation that george pap done lose, a former campaign advisor to the trump campaign accepted a guilty plea as part of robert mueller's russia investigation. now there is a photograph that has since come out of pap done lose during the campaign and n a

meeting with both then alabama senator jeff sessions and candidate donald trump. now, the white house had tried to portray pop done lose as a low- level volunteer. that photograph speaks in contrast to that. some house members wanted to know whether or not jeff sessions has been completely on nest his testimony about this and whether or not he has been lying. sessions took issue with that, very strongly denied that he has ever lied to congress in any of his testimony and took umbridge with anybody who would suggest it. in all of my testimony i can only do my best to answer your questions as i understand them and to the best of my memory. but i will not accept and reject accusations that i have you ever lied. that is a lie. i have not been improperly influenced and would not be improperly

the president speaks his mind. yes, sir. he's a bold and direct about what he says, people elected him, but we do our duty every day based on the law and facts. of course the concern here, though, from the white house's standpoint is that every time yef sessions does quom up here to the hill to testify, the news events that follow it lead to more questions the next time yef sessions has on come up here and testify about something else. this was supposed to be an oversight hearing about how the justice department is being run, jim and shawn. clearly as you heard there a lot of this testimony today was not about the operations of the just advertise department, but in fact how this attorney general has been embroiled in this russian investigation. they asked him all kinds of questions. i'll tell you what, i would not have wanted to be jeff sessions today . there's all this talk, i think mitchell mcconnell floated the idea. he's saying i think jeff sessions would be a great write in for the senate. d

sessions he would think let's go back to my old life. >> absolutely. it's one of the worst kept secrets up here. leuter strange has been mentioned who is the person who is right now the senator from sessions, but jeff sessions lov ed these a united states senator. he went into this job with the idea that he was going to be able to remake the just advertise department in his own image and bring a lieutenant of things that he wanted to push when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee. clear clearly as we have seen the last year spell out things have not gone the way jeff sessions had wanted it to go. nobody could have predicted what has been going on with roy moore right now. so if there is an opportunity for possibly jeff sessions to return here to the national i would not totally dismiss that at this point. >> really in. >> clearly we've had -- well, would you be surprised by that?

does he want to be the nor or be the attorney general? i think he wants out of this entire mess . thank you rch. shawn, we've had a situation where the president of united states has openly discussed firing him. so if you could exact yourself from that situation maybe that's if you're yef sessions you'll take seriously. ultimately. thanks always good to talk to you. >> new tonight, senate republicans are changing their tax bill to contain a mandate of the affordable care act. it creates penalties for americans who do not have health insurance . repealing the individual mandate will allow them to cut taxes for the middle class. the congressional budget office estimated that repealing that requirement would mean 4 million additional uninsured people by 2019. that fight is going to continue. the house version doesn't contain that. >> no. we'll see he what ends up in the bill that the president is going to sign, if he's going to sign one. he wants it finished by the end of the year. a

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take me out to the ball game. d.c. congressman woman eleanor holmes norton sent a letter ask ing the agency to reconsider a proposal from preventing those from playing games on the grounds of the national monument . after it restores the turf next year it wants to ban teams from the grounds to keep them in good condition. it's going to be kind of weird not seeing people out there doing things. >> we'll see what happens, though, moving forward. virginia governor terry mcauliffe today named 2017 public official of the year among american governors. did you know that there was a magane

have 50 governors. >> how about that. the decision was based upon mcauliffe's success creating new jobs and preveering. which turned owt to be a pretty good issue. in a statement mack couplive said i am deeply this hard work has done to building a new virginia economy that works better for all virginia families. the community has rallied around a virginia bicyclist after salut ing the president's motorcade with the bird. a go fund me page has raised more than 70,000. she works for a government contractor they fired her for posting lewd content which was actually this picture of her flipping the bird. she recently received an unlikely job offer from a porn company. i don't think she took it. de spite being fired, brick man insists she has no regrets. is thisew

think some people look the it that way. some people say she was celebrating her first amendment right. in court cases the middle finger has been protected as protected speech. >> and other people say she was disrespecting the office of of the president of the united states. every time we've shown that video i'm really concerned that she was able to get that close to the motorcade. >> that is the thing that sticks out to me. that's part of the story we haven't talked much about that. let's talk about something else that's near and dear to our hearts. he's talk ing about cocktails. history and cocktails at the same time. i wonder what is going on in there. stick around , 5@6:30 will be right back.

♪ ♪ ♪ it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome back. we're talking about the nation's hbcus, a 25 year old federal program that helps finance construction projectses for historically black colleges

administrations could be. on the us, dr. brian bridges, vice-president of research and member engagement at the united anything grow college feund is here to tell us what the study has found. what is the impact of hbcus on america, the economy , our state of the world here in. >> well, the impact is substantial and i have the report right here that i'll show off a little bit. hbcs make america strong is the title of the report. the impact is 14-point -8d in total economic impact over 140,000 jobs each year and over 130 billion-dollar in lifetime earnings for the graduates from the class of 2015 . as we look at what the effect of this, we mentioned there's a program and the federal government would help bank role construction prompts, other imp

at risk and i'm curious what the overall impact would be. we know that currently the budget that is being moved through the congress is being negotiated in both the house and senate and they are making some markups to what was proposed by the white house and in that were several programs that were important hbc us including what we call the hbcu capital finance program, other programs like pel grants. all of those are important hb bc s. we're working to make sure that the programs are cut because we believe that the congress doesn't have titlement to cut those programs. how do h bcus stack up against other universities and colleges that are

doesn't pit hb bcus against non hbcus. institutions that are similarly situated waited with similar enrollments and expenditures would have the same kind of economic impact as well i read an article that was said this study doesn't go far enough . it doesn't there at everything and it can go a little bit deeper. it doesn't look at things like the benefits of home coming and social engagement and things like that why not bring thats as part of the impact in we believe that this report is starting a national conversation around the importance of hbcus and their contributions and while we did not include some of those variables like spending by alums , spending by visitors and the like, one we helicopter because those are more local numbers. >> gotcha. there's no national database that tracks spending by visitors. and so we use national a data that gave us this bench line, this bench benchmark that serves as a good starting point for talking about the economic impact of

what's the goal from here in what do you hope to begin or get from this report? we're hoping that this report really stimulate a deeper conversation about the conversation of hcus and helps to change the narrative about hbcus are often grounded in this devastate it as to why we still need them in this society. this is an important 234 helping people understand the many diverse and contributions of hbcus. thank you fong coming in tonight. we're back after this. is.

quell come back. it is back by popular demand, history happy hour returns to the willard inter continental. it is held on the third thursday of every month. you can learn american history by cocktails and o

too. gym, the american bar. jim and garret, jim hughes, both here on 5@6:30. i just met you guys a few seconds ago. i'm sorry i forget. let's talk a little bit about this. tell us about the history. it's something that we do at the hotel the third thursday of every month. we're doing it in two days, actually. 6:00 and 55-dollars per person. you get four quok tails, some food from our kitchen, a lot of history about the cocktails and a lot of fun. something a little different. we make the cocktails while getting some history. >> you do. absolutely. take us through it. pretend we just walked in. we are going to do the scof luf cocktail. you've got a little bit of right whiz ticketed event in the car after you can take the jigger, fill it up all the way. pour it in this glass. you've got some lemon juice here as well. how much is that. >> hang on that j

>> all the way fuel. >> jim, you're not jealous. >> no, by all means. what are some of the history lessons h we pick up from this. >> this is the centennial of d.c. going dry. the thing that we're doing the day after tomorrow is called scof loves of washington. the word scof flow was actually invented during prohibition. theres was a national competition to come up with a word. so many years later here we have it. shawn is making some progress on this, too. how long have you been do ing this for? >> me in how long have you been doing this for happy hour? >> time for me to shake now? i get to shake it. >> run for cover. she's dangerous. you got 20 seconds, shawn. okay. now i'm guessing i have to -- put it right on top . which glass

>> history happy hour at the willard inter continent l al. thursday night, 6:00. cheesier, shawn. cheesier, jim cheers, jim.

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