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lying to the fbi, stemming from roberto mueller's russia probe. >> this is what we're talking about, it's 6:30 and let's get to it. a bombshell plea deal in the federal russia probe, michael flynn putting guilty to making false statements to the fbi. prosecutors say he lied about his conversations with russia's ambassador during the transition period before the inauguration. flynn, said a very senior member of the president's transition team told him to contact russian officials. according to ap officials, jared kushner, he's the fourth person charged and the second who pleaded guilty >> let's bring in steph kite and former federal prosecutor, seth waxman, thanks for joining us. >> let's talk about the indictment. it doesn't prove collusion with russia, just talking about lying to the fbi but is the system accomplicety of the indictment, does that single the

something bigger >> i think that's right. i think when a plea like this goes down, the prosecutors put the bare minimum. i think the information that michael flynn shared is probably much wider and probably goes to the core of what the investigation is truly about. collusion and conspiracy to influence the election. >> since we're at this point now obviously a couple hours into it. what would have you heard in the immediate aftermath of the announcement? seems a lot of people were caught off guard by this coming today. >> i think even the white house was caught off guard and they kind of ignored it, kept pushing on with tax reform. this came as a shock to a lot of people. i think people were probably expecting that flynn would ultimately be indicted or plead guilty as we saw today, but i think overall, the white house especially was caught off guard. >> back to the indictment. in the statement that was released, michael flynn said he would be working with or talking with

do you think at the white house right now, you know, what's going on? are people scrambling? worried? because this seems to be so far the person who has been the closest to the president and then we heard this word come out that the jared kushner was allegedly the very senior official that instructed him to reach out to the russians. >> i think they should be nervous. we're starting to run out of people between the people who have plead guilty and donald trump himself. now we're seeing jared kushner being alleged to have made direct contact through michael flynn to the russians and when you talk about his son-in-law, you can pick out two or three other people, maybe, you know, donald trump junior and handful of other, if that, that are left between him and the president. >> when you look at the last guilty plea, the first was george pop dop and he was dismissed as a glorified coffee

gofer. he was the national security advisor of the united states >> this is not someone they can just talk off. the white house will have to come up with a serious defense for this. we've seen over months that people surrounding trump have gathered more lawyers around them, so i think we've been kind of suspicious that something big like this was going to happen, the fact that it is jared kushner, not only is he close to the president as an vendors but also the son-in-law of the president, and so it's hard -- the hard to believe that he wouldn't have mentioned something. >> i'll tell you what, this week the number of tweets on the number of topics we got and there were a lot of people, a lot of sources who said, there's something coming. but it doesn't seem like they had the insight. it's unchartered waters. >> i think we don't know how this will end up. these are just little clues, pieces of the puzzle and whether this ends with collusion, and the president himself being involved, we still don't know that. so we still have to wait and see how everything plays out but the mueller

>> seth is a former federal prosecutor as you're watching this case being laid out. we know it started with pop dopulous we then saw paul manafort and now we're here to michael flynn. how is this set up? what's the strategy >> in a conspiracy like this, much like the gambino crime family in the 70's and 80's, they start low, try to move up and or women, and ultimately to the target, we see the fbi charts on tv where you have the big man or woman at the top and you can see that forming just like that in that kind of pyramid shape. it's fitting in just like a federal prosecution with typically arise >> i think if we could talk about this for a long time, but our producer gave us the raps. >> thank you both for joining us. >> happy friday to you. >> thank

president trump meanwhile may be inching to his first legislative victory, mitch mcconnell said he has the votes necessary to pass the massage envy tax overhaul. jeff flakes said he'll support the bill. another republican susan collins of maine said she will support it now that leaders have agreed to restore some sort of deduction for local property taxes setting it at about $10,000 taken out of the various bills. >> we will keep an eye on that for you too. in a push to end secrecy surrounding sexual harassment on capitol hill. a ground breaking bill secret settlements paid out with taxpayer dollars, some are questioning that >> the question is how does congress and other workplaces move forward, angela rose, the founder of the nonprofit group pave which stands for promoting awareness and victim empowerment joins us. how do we end this culture that allows sexual misconducto

incredible is social change is happening right now. and i've dedicated the last 20 years of my life to this movement and waited for this water shed moment for so long, and what really inspires me is that the so he see tall norms are changing. we owe it to the brave men and women who have spoken up >> you mentioned men along with women and i think that's one component that is easily ignored because the last time we had a national conversation on sexual harassment, we go back to the 90's when you talked about clarence thomas and anita hill and bill clinton and monica lou within ski, but now there are men saying hey, me too. >> i think it's so important for us to include both you know men and women in this dialogue, and also the trans community. this impacts every single person. we see that you know, there's so much shame that's associated with sexual assault and sexual harassment, that i really hope that this to dialogue is

people not just in hollywood but from white collar workers to blue collar workers, remove that shame, there's no shame in being a survivor, and every person deserves a safe work environment. >> you're right. angela when we talk about the me too, we know that that movement sort of spread, we started with harvey weinstein. we went to capitol hill. we've seen lawmakers, we're seeing hollywood and most recently, we just got the information about today show hottest matt lauer were you surprised all of a sudden seems like so many people are empowered to come forward and say me too >> it is surprising, not so much i've been doing this work so long that we know that every person watching every viewer out there personally knows somebody who's been impacted by sexual assault in their own life. according to the cdc, one in four girls and one in six boys will experience some type of sexual assault in their lifetime. so all of us know somebody. and it's just so important for us to create communities where we talk about consent. that's o

about, is teaching young men and women, what constitutes consent. at verbal freely given enthusiastic yes, not the absence of a no. >> absolutely. let me ask you. there are a lot of women, men watching despite the me too movement, despite all these people coming forward, there's still people who are not comfortable, scared, victims, what do you say to them, how do you teach them that you know, they need to go ahead and come forward? >> well, everybody had their own journey. everybody's healing process is different. but i do really encourage anybody who's watching who still suffering in silence, there are so many free resources out there, our website is one but there's so many community resources free for you to get that help that you need, and not carry that silence. and that's the most important thing >> we have the website on the screen right now, shattering the silence.org thank you for joining us, a topic that we have to continue having this conversation, and we're glad you're here to help us with that >> let's take it outside a

wea weather. >> nice day for a drive. gwen, i think the question is, as we go into the weekend, what will we see? i like the inquisitive look. i think we got the weekend coming up. there's a lot of people coming to town to check out the christmas tree, all the other trees >> i think there's high school football playoff >> a big one right now >> i think there's a lot of folks that will be out and about tonight and this weekend, gwen what can they expect >> you know what? we're going to have pretty nice conditions, it's going to be chilly night especially but daytime highs will be seasonal. take a look we'll have a few clouds rolling in, partly cloudy skies for tonight and some will be lingering tomorrow, right now, temperatures into the 40's and the 50's, but overnight lows will dip into the 30's especially to the north and northwest, where we'll see low temperatures into

and the upper 20's. but overall for the weekend, here's what we're talking about, some clouds on your saturday at 53. but a lot more sunshine on sunday an little milder at 55 degrees. so we're pretty close to the seasonal average of where we should be temperature-wise. overnight tonight, we're talking 38 in the city, 39 at annapolis, we've got temperatures as i said into the upper 20's and low 30's to the north and to the northwest. there it's going to be a lot colder, radiational cooling will be kicking in. wind light moving in from the north, ridge of high pressure moves out. we'll see a bit of a warmup once we get into tuesday. 63 and then we'll start to cool back down again, because we've got a frontal system moving through. that frontal system will brings us as chance of showers, we'll see some of the rain on tuesday as well as on hump day by wednesday. on the back side of that, all that colder air really settles in, look at this. daytime highs, only in the 40's, overnight lows into the low 30's.

sunshine will still be in full force. not a bad weekend. just make sure you dress warm especially if you're going out and tomorrow we have light winds, we're not talking a day where it's gusty or anything of that sort. just enjoy the sunshine and the seasonal temperatures, back to you. claims of sexual harassment are everywhere. this time the veterans affairs medical center we have a fox 5 exclusive when 5@630 comes right back. right

. assessment retaliation at dc's va medical center, a female supervisor reported her boss last year but investigators thought her claim is unsubstantiated. it wasn't until fox 5 reached out that the department decided to reopen the investigation. fox 5 tisha lewis reports. >> we were in a meeting and he was standing up and i told him come

down, because he was standing up. and he placed his hand on my thigh. and i asked him, i said, can you move your hand off my thigh? i said what are you doing? why did you do that? he said why not? so we left the meeting. i filed a complaint >> antoinette gibson taylor said it happened in october, 2016 >> i was unable to let it go. hurt, upset and i could not continue >> at the time she was a supervisor in the business office at the districts's veteran affairs medical center, in this fact-finding analysis, gibson taylor's boss reportedly admits he touched her knee when he stood up. report also indicates three other employees complained about gibson taylor's boss making lewd comments. even so he, ultimately the va determined her sexual harassment allegation is unsubstantiated. >> it's very hurtful. it's painful to see that there are, you know, training

with my father being a veteran >> in response, department of veteran affairs press secretary said we take these allegations seriously, and once learning of them, we initiated an immediate investigation. while this investigation continues, the two employees are no longer working in the same area and employee under investigation has been directed to have no interaction with the other employee. >> i felt the need to speak up because nothing was being done. i feel as if others at the va are being sexually harassed. >> press secretary's latest response in its fact-finding investigation, the va admits her complaints were not handled expeditiously, and better communication may have prevented her from filing additional complaints. also, the va admits there are concerns with their initial fact-finding effort. which is why t

the investigation. tisha lewis fox 5 local news. have you seen this one? this was a t-shirt wal-mart was selling on their website. the shirt says rope tree journalist some assembly required. the back featured a reference to hanging journalists, it was removed after they sent a letter to the company. wal-mart claims the shirt was being sold by a third party vendor clearly violated. here's the thing, wal-mart sold other items. this is not the first offensive item. >> you would think that you know what's going on on your website >> you would think so too, unfortunately that is not the case. that shirt has been removed as well as it should have been. lynching is not a joking matter in any way, shape or form. and you know, it hits close to home when you advocating violence against people trying to do their job, that's what happens. it's a sad state of

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. guy lambert, news director of wpc joins us, let's talk with the beef between jimmy kimmel and roy moore >> let's get ready to flow down, as you stated, jimmy kimmel and roy moore stems from a colleague of jimmy kimmel's attending a rally held at a church where am i was speaking. that ended up getting tossed out of the rally. moore took issue with jimmy kimmel. >> why >> because he's affiliated with him, the two had an all-out twitter battle but here's the deal.

stage. come time for his show last night, well, he started his monday log and let's just say he got the last laugh because in the end, it appear that is he's going to be to alabama, roy moore challenged him to come on down, jimmy kimmel said you know what? how about we meet at the mall i'll bring a couple of cheerleaders wisdom martin? low below, of course, moore has been banned from the mall before. he then said he'd like to take it to the ring and the two can go toe to toe. what's interesting he said all of the money raised would go towards the women that have accused roy moore of assaulting them. roy moore has yet to respond. we'll see >> insofar as the fact they sent a guy pretending to be a roy moore fan into the church being disrespectful, a little loud, there you have it >> boisterous >> the kennedy center honor set to take place sunday but the event is surrounded with controversy. >> let's start with the good st

kennedy center in let's say the next five, ten minutes, you'll enjoy it because it's lit up in rainbow colors. signifying the actually color of the ribbons that actually hold the medalian. doesn't that look beautiful? now let's talk about the controversy. of course, every year, prior to the actual honors well, the white house hold as reception, this year, gloria he is at a fen, lionel richie, i saw him >> he's fantastic, that's a story for another day >> two other folks will be attending, and what happened is back in august, they said you know what? i think we're going to go ahead and skip the white house reception to which president trump responded by saying, guess what, guys, i'm not going to have a reception for you anyway. but there's more. the president then said, i, myself am not planning on attending or the first lady, this marks the first time in decades that the president will not be there sunday night.

that politics, well, apparently that's in the been the case before. president clinton gave an award to clinton easton before, and as we all know, clinton easton is a big republican. let's talk about the white house christmas party. some people opted out and others didn't get invited >> everybody wants to go to the white house christmas party, this is the party to go to. apparently, as we learned earlier, cnn opted out saying you know what? we have a beef with president trump we decided not to go. what's interesting is that the white house then sent an r e-mails to some of the camera guys, to some of the photographers that work for cnn and said you know what? you're still invited. guess who they did not send an invitation to? april ryan, she works for the urban radio networks also a correspondent for cnn, she said you know what? who cares i wasn't planning on going, i think this stems from the ongoing beef she has with sarah sanders. high gat

thanksgiving, sarah sanders, tweeted a picture of a chocolate pecan my. we don't believe you actually baked it. needless to say, she wasn't invited. i just checked her twitter. april ryan, she's flying somewhere in the u.s. and what was really interesting, sitting coach, somebody from the first class came back and said you know what? we're having a party up front, you're welcome to join us. >> go figure of >> that's pretty cool. she's probably having much more fun party anyway. it's always interesting to hear politics and >> pie and everything else colliding >> i didn't get an invitation either. did you guys? >> no. >> thank you very much >> almost a pleasure. >> happy friday, we'll be right back, everybody. japan japan

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