: me too allegations have resulted in firing resignation and apologies, but constituent senator jeff klein denies sexual assault allegations that are placed before him by a former staf sta. allegedly took place in 2015, a woman, erika, claims that klein forcibly kissed her, quote is, shoved his tongue down her throat. and she pushed him off, and told her friends about it, she resigned, and did not file a claim at the time. because she said she fell ashamed. what is going to happen next? klein said during a conference call with reporters, he is not going to resign. and some are calling for an ethics investigation, governor cuomo said he supports that. bill: his girlfriend, was senator diane who was there at the time? >> she said she supports him on a conference call yesterday, she said she was there and saw no wrong doing, and would have put an end to it, if she did. we'll see where this ethics investigation goes. bill: john thank you, appreciate it. all right bringing in our panel to break it down. start with you. this seems to be makings of potentially a political set up. been two years,

klein. >> i'm bill smith. >> can you talk louder, please? >> philip lapel, m.i.t. >> vijay krishna with the american standard university. >> ryan craig with university ventures. >> jerry davis, college of the ozarks. >> jeff calder from kosara. >> kathleen plensy, val lencia college. >> i'm mike zella from the jack welsh management institute. >> matt nelson from minerva. >> jeff slingo, arizona state university. >> julie young, arizona state university. >> justin borad . >> j.b. millican, the chancellor of the city university of new york. >> i'm matt segalman from vernon technologies. >> rick o'donnell from skills fund. >> diane dobacer from the kansas department of commerce. >> thank you. well, i would like to thank our first group of presenters, jeff, anat and ben for giving us a lot to think about and certainly your presentations have generated a lot of questions amongst this group and probably beyond. i would like to just start our discussion with a question and then invite any of the rest of our participants to join in and pose questions. let's just have a free-flowing discussion about what we have heard in this first section. i would like to begin by asking each of you to comment briefly when you we