the process begins by an agreed having the charge of the eeoc.mediation is not required for either party. mediation is not requested or is unsuccessful, the eeoc has an investigatory power, including subpoena power. investigation is complete, the eeoc has the right to be a case on the individual's behalf or to issue them a right to sue letter, allowing them to bring litigation. they do not have investigative authority. the caa requires mandatory counsel. we should work to bring the oc process and authority in line with that of the equal employment opportunity commission. other revisions would include subjecting our unpaid workforce such as interns, pages, and fellows to the acts of the insight to scrum nation provisions. given the constitutional nature --our offices, it is my opinion we must exercise our constitutional duty to discipline our own membership. we should develop a policy in our code of official conduct. it would send a signal that member on member sexual-harassment would not be and the members of this body would support harassment be

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maybe we should expand the eeoc to cover also crimes of congressmen.t might be a great plan because they are well equipped clearly to do this on a regular basis and now we are seeing so many of these. >> it's like hollywood, washington, the amazing part donald trump comes into the white house, everyone is marching him accusing of x, y, and z, when you point the finger at someone, how many fingers are pointing at you, isn't the irony amazing. >> we have to look at this as a huge issue that is facing women and great opportunity to move forward. >> i think we ought to get rid of all of them, sexual harassment, that's it, you're out. thank you so much for being with us. horseback riding at southern border still ahead. up next political panel, don't go this is what it's all about, jamie -- helping small businesses. damage your vehicle? we got you covered. [ glass shatters ] property damage? that's what general liability's for. what?! -injured employee? -ow. workers' comp helps you pay for a replacement. what's happening? this is carla. how's it going? and i

investigates and the process is by that charge the eeoc has the option to request but it was not requiredfor either party. but after the investigatory process but then allowing them to do that budding contrast the office of compliance has no authority in cannot prosecute harassment claims. so requiring mandatory council we should look to bring the process and authority in line with the equal the employment opportunity commission. that would to the interns in pages and fellows to the acts of anti-discrimination provision. and then to increase the workload need to be prepared. and increase number accountability. given the constitutional nature of our offices it is not something where that can easily be applied. it is my opinion we must exercise our constitutional duty so we should adopt a specific policies to this type of behavior or the ones that we presently have to send a signal that it will not be tolerated as to report the answers -- incidence to the ethics committee. well able to maintain monetary relief, personally i find it unacceptable as if a member of congress was found liable th

to give that office the same investigatory -- big words here -- and prosecutorial powers that the eeoc currently has because right now, the office of compliance doesn't have that. you open an investigation, you can't subpoena, you can't investigate that normally you would under the eeoc. number four, he said the thing that really bothers him is the fact that members are having relationships with people they directly supervise. >> wow. >> he says, look, what we say in the private sector is, if you're a supervisor and you want to get fired, that's when you go out and have a relationship with somebody you're supervising. he's like, that's the quickest way to get fired. sexual relationships should not have a place in the workplace. >> i think it's taking something that's happening in the public sphere for these changes to happen. and why it needs to get to this point. why wasn't this dealt with before. i think that's really the major question going forward and the bigger part of the conversation here. >>> president trump and russian president putin had a more than one-hour long phone call

eeoc has a lot of those guidelines that provide fairness on both sides. but also make sure that there's zero tolerance. >> dana: all right, congress woman barbara comstock, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> dana: u.s. announcing new sanctions to further isolate north korea and disrupt funding for the rogue regime's nuclear weapons program. kevin cork is live at the white house, treasury department announcing this just moments ago, kevin? >> reporter: you're right on the money there, dana. one individual, 13 entities and 20 vessels. i think that's important. as the u.s. continues to attempt to disrupt north korea's illicit funding of its nuclear and ballistic missile program. treasury announcing these sanctions today. they say they target third country persons with longstanding commercial ties to the north as well as transportation network that help the north korean facility revenue generation and operations. it includes three chinese entities which are said to have exported about $650 million in goods to the north. we'll keep an eye on this story as i

it begins with the charge and the eeoc has the option to request the engage in mediation. however it's not required. if it's not requested or unsuccessful have investigatory power. after that is complete have a right to bring a case upon an aggrieved individual's behalf issue a right to sue letter. in contrast, the office of compliance has no investigatory authority. the caa requires mandatory counseling for those making claims. we should work to bring the oc process and authority in line with that with equal opportunity employment commission. should subjects are unpaid workforce to the accent a discrimination provision. these will increase the workload of oc that we need to be prepared to provide them the appropriations. the need to increase member accountability. member member sexual harassment is not something that can easily be applied. that's my opinion we must exercise our constitutional duty to discipline our own membership. we should adopt a policy for this behavior in our code of conduct or one that we have that would send a signal that member a member sexual hara

if mediation is not requested or unsuccessful the eoc has inve - the eeoc has a right to bring a case or a right to sue letter allowing the party to bring litigation. in contrast the office of compliance has no authority and cannot prosecute harassment claims. the caa requires mandatory counseling. we should work to bring the ooc process and authority in line with that of equal employment opportunity. others would suggest to the acts anti discrimination provisions. we need to be prepared to provide them necessary appropriatio appropriations. fourth we need to increase member accountability. given the constitutional nature of our offices member on member sexual harassment is not something the employment truckture can easily be applied. we must exercise our constitutional duty and adopt a specific kind of policy in our code of official conduct that would send a signal that sexual harassment will not be tolerated and members of this body support those being harassed and reporting to the ethics committee. while they might maintain monetary relief. a i personally find this unacceptable. if

the eeoc estimates, and i think that this is a high number.ne in four women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. regardless of what the number is, it's horrific and we have to be serious about it and we have to step forward and meet this head on and deal with it because it's a hard issue. i do have to say that i wonder 20 years ago if patty murray and dianne feinstein and susan collins had stepped forward and challenged bill clinton if we would be further down the road. because i think the process will work its way out. at the end of this, we will be better. >> mark: to go back to what you were just saying there, in the '90s, we were explicitly told that character doesn't matter.er who says that this guys is a pig? it is just about sex. what's changed? >> there is a reckoning because we have ignored this and because we have ignored the decay, it's been allowed to flourish. it's a serious issue as the mother of a 20-year-old, i think all of us recognize want better for our children. we thought that days of this were over. some o

for the eeoc sued a church item naturing a minister that the church's view had violated a faith of their the supreme court unanimously disagreed. these are only a few examples but they demonstrate how severe how the courtsnd are an essential check on the expansion of administrative power. none of these is news to people the is room except maybe media. hello. from its inception there is a reason why president trump -- asked me to be his lawyer. from its inception, federalist emphasized the importance of separation of powers, of individual liberty, and that the role of the courts say what the law is, not what the law should be. span a society members wide spectrum of political philosophies and policy preferences. e share a commitment to the rule of law. to the same enduring truths that infused the brilliant designer founding charter that due process matters, that the structure of our government wordss and the meaning of means something. and that an erosion of those principles is a direct threat to individual liberty. that's why regulatory reform and judicial selection are so deeply connect

it was on the table versus eeoc. the supreme court unanimously disagreed. they demonstrate how severe the threat is and the courts on essential check on them in a straight of power. none of this is news to people in this room except maybe the media. there is a reason why president trump [inaudible] society hasst emphasized the importance of separation of powers, of individual liberty, and that the role of the courts is to say what the law is, not what the law should be. federal society members span a wide spectrum of political philosophies and policy preferences. we share a commitment to the rule of law. to the same enduring truths that infused the brilliant designer of our founding charter that due process matters, that the structure of our government matters and the meaningof words means something. and that an erosion of those principles is a direct threat to individual liberty. that's why regulatory reform and judicial selection are so deeply connected. in my view they are the two legal issues that this administration will address. the president is makin

ruined after they made a complaint, so what we did is establish the office of the compliance like the eeocrce the law. i would expect by now the office, every quarter would have issued reports, and there was no restriction they wouldn't do that and i would have thought the office of compliance would have made noise continually that it needed to be changed. >> do you have regret on how it was set up? >> no. if we didn't set it up this way they would not have had any rights whatsoever, and i hope that's clear. >> it is. you are right. do you have now regret at how it has been used? >> i have no regrets about establishing a law. we put them under 12 laws that congress had not been under, all of them, under democratic rule. >> you made a good case of why it was necessary and now 20 years later when you see how it has been used with the secret payments and women being silenced, do you think -- >> i think it's outrageous. i have not been there for ten years, and i would hope by then i would have been notified by the office of compliance how things were working. why did they stop issuing reports

. >> the series of sexual harassment complaints at the eeoc trending down parts over the past ten yearstrend back up with the harvey weinstein in the news. we have been seeing more and more traffic on their website for people who may be filing complaints in the near future. >> thank you so much, sabrina siddiqui, jonathan capehart and paul singer. when we return from california, the dangerous last campaign waged here in 1968. you're watching "hardball." another day of work. why do you do it? it's not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. ♪ ♪ you're developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sensors. so get back to it. and do the best work of your life. ♪ ♪ ltry align probiotic.n your digestive system? and do the best work of your life. for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. also in kids chewables. do you want the

you have to go to the eeoc sometime.and the percentage of women -- mostly women who have claims hare heard and jude kated finally in a court, about 5%. compare that to the extraordinary scenes we are seeing now where men are admitting behavior and suffering consequences and ask yourself do we have systemic problems in congress, in the court system that are barring women from coming forward faster when there are claims. a lot of these women's are decades away from the jobs that made them miserable. >> that's part of it. a woman i was speaking to this morning said your courses of action, possible outcomes if you have been a victim of harassment are all bad. either you are not believed. or you are believed and you are still associated with it. or you do nothing and you live with either the anguish or the guilt or the responsibility of not having taken down somebody who then may have done it to someone else. there's no -- there's no great outcome if you are a woman who has been harassed. >> you know what is weird? there is a

you can go to eeoc or the office for civil rights and file a harassment case, and you can contact the prosecutor and insist that criminal charges be filed, and this can all happen at the same time. you're not required to choose. >> one of the things that we've heard from some folks as well, these happened a long time ago, why are they just coming forward now, danny? i think one of the things that's consistent in the things that have been widely reported by major news organizations is that there is contemporaneous corroboration, right? these women told their husbands, their boyfriends, their best friends. in some cases even their bosses about it at the time. and often told multiple people, and the stories about any given accused harasser. they've been remarkably consistent. their mos have been remarkedly consistent. is that enough for a prosecutor to say even though this is five or ten or 20 years old, this is something i can bring to court? >> first, the key is what you just said at the end there. the statute of limitations is always going to be a challenge for a prosecutor. now, it's

and rino resources was sued by the eeoc for creating an unlawful, hostile work environment by allowing an employee to be targeted based on his national origin. the eeoc says zatezalo's company allowed discrimination to, quote, continue unchecked in the workplace, and cited rino for retaliating against the employee instead of reprimanding those who were doing the harassing. mr. president, it's clear to me that mr. zatezalo is wholly unqualified to serve at the mine safety and health administration, and i believe if he's confirmed he will put thousands of miners' life and safety at risk. i'm really disappointed that president trump and congressional republicans are once again breaking promises to workers, and i urge my colleagues to join me in standing up for our miners across the country and vote against mr. zatezalo's nomination. once again the contrast of democrats' vision couldn't be starker. under the leadership of senator casey, democrats are advocating for stronger enforcement abilities for msha so we can hold operates who show a repeated disregard for miners' safety accountable.

title 7 says, you must complain to the eeoc within 180 days of the discriminatory incident. well, lilly, you were discriminated against for a dozen or more years. you're way out of time. i tried to explain in the dissent something that every working woman knows. that if you were the first woman in a job that is dominantly held by men, you don't want to be perceived as a complainer. and you don't want to rock the boat. so you go alone. besides, if you did sue early on, you could be sure what the defense will be. the defense would be, there's nothing to do with her being a woman. she just doesn't do the job as well. but then her employer, year after year, is giving her good employment ratings. so they no longer have the defense that she doesn't do the job as well. so she has a winnable case. but my colleagues said she sued too late. my simple theory, and it -- is that every time she receives a paycheck, the discrimination is renewed. starts again. so she can sue within 180 days of her paycheck. and the tag line of my dissenting opinion was, the ball is now in congress' court t

the university has launched an independent investigation since the eeoc complaint. jericka duncan, new york. >>> there was violence outside a shopping mall in houston on black friday. one person was stabbed and another was shot when a fight broke out in a parking lot between two men. both are recovering in the hospital. it's not clear what set off the confrontati confrontation. >>> and seven people were arrested during a black friday demonstration at a shopping mall in st. louis. about 100 people rallied against police treatment of african-americans. the mall was closed for about an hour until police were able to clear the crowd. >> this is my great fear here. >>> a great white shark attacked a man near pebble beach, california. the man was spearfishing when the shark bit off a leg. an off-duty sheriff's deputy was in the water at the time. >> and then all of a sudden, the safety people came out on a jet ski and said, you guys have got to get out of the water. there's a great white. it was pretty crazy. you didn't want to mess with that. the wet suit was pretty shre

the eeoc received over 12,000 complaints of sexual harassment last year alone.olitical blogger john arabosis who bravely spoke about his experience on capitol hill in the 1990s. he said the female colleague may come off to him by phone. >> i was frozen before i could finally just get the energy to like whisper to her stop it. i wasn't worried for my personal safety. i did worry how i was going to do my job from there on out. as a guy you sit there and think, okay, first of all, people are going to think i'm crazy or something that i didn't like this. >> reporter: according to husband and wif phil and eric ra brosier women tend to think it's their own fault. >> they're often immediately questioned about what their role was in provoking it which is ridiculous. >> reporter: while men often question their own masculinity. >> viewed by society as, you know, women coming on to you is not a bad thing. >> in deciding to speak out men butt up against in this social strip they're not supposed toask for help. >> in talking to terry it was traumatic. he put it in the backgr

at some point, upping, it is time to speak to an attorney or perhaps eeoc. >> corporate culture and lookbig business. we might see that. when it comes to policies in the workplace obviously some violations are violations of law. but when it comes to violations of the corporate work structure, typically those rules are set by the ceo's at the people at the top or hr standards? who makes those decisions corporate wide? >> well, you've got the hr department in conjunction with management or typically the company's lawyers that make those policies. i much the policies. the policies are pretty good in saying sexual harassment won't be tolerated. but you have a lot of quote unquote zero tolerance policies. when push comes to should have, companies show there's some tolerance policies. right? companies have to get serious about zero tolerance means zero tolerance. and that we find out that this is happening and as you said, when we find reports this is coming out we don't wait 20 years in the caves matt lauer to get serious about it. we nip it in the butt. that's the problem. these policies are

know, because of all of this maybe there is increased tension but, you know, the truth is that the eeocus, this is a high number, they say one in four women in america experience sexual harassment in the workplace, i have experienced it years ago in early 20's and it's unconscionable. it's always been there and now uncovering it and the end of the process we are going to be better. in the meantime it is painful and, you know, congress doesn't show no favor by not living on the same rules that everybody uls should live by. stuart: penny, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. stuart: we appreciate you being here, thank you very much, indeed. liz: chief of staff for john conyers saying nancy pelosi did nothing to deal with sexual harassment allegations. conyers has wrap on the knuckles, that's according to 2011 e-mail from conyers' steve -- chief of staff. stuart: you raise a good question, i do not have an answer for you. thank you. lock at this, the ceo of colombia sportswear it's considering closing down offices in portland, oregon, why? some employees fear for their lives,

settlements happen in eeoc cases , discrimination cases on a regular basis, and under the has come ofhese the institution does pay to resolve these matters through settlements. that wenot something have really shined a light on, and i think that is going to we will have a lot of discussions about that now that this is becoming a bigger problem. i also want to remind people that this is not always just involving members. this can also involve staff on staff situations. that is where training is so critically important. jobo a better training. we have a lot of young staff who may be, this might be their first professional position. it is important that i think we do a far better job in training, and that is why mandating training is critically important. we need to prevent more of this from happening. host: chestertown, maryland, republican line. caller: can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: i am shocked that the representative there is almost spinning this. first of all, $15 million from yesterday is outrageous. then she says we ought to have a discussion about it. i have been retired