charges against mark halperin.or sex and there was unwanted groping. and he kept pushing them to sit on his lap. >> our hearts break for mark and his family because he is our friend. but we fully support nbc's decision here. we want to know more about these stories and we need to know what happened. we are not going to avoid the story just because he is our friend. howie: the story on bill o'reilly has also drawn widespread attention. more than 50 women have accused harvey weinstein of sexual assault and another actress saying he raped her. >> i was sitting on a bed talking to harvey when he pushed me back and assaulted me. howie: joining us is lynn sherr. she was the first sexual harassment ombudsman person. howie: msnbc suspended him. does all this show how much the culture is changing? lynn: sexual harassment as a criminal thing has only been around for 40 years. i think mark halperin may have been in high school at the time. we have known about this for a long time. but the point is that it changed in some ways

there are reports five women have accused political analyst mark halperin of sexual harassment when heas the political director here at abc, more than ten years ago. the women telling their stories about the incidents to cnn, from meetings in his office to the campaign trail and to hotel rooms. mark halperin has denied inappropriate touching, but he apologized in a statement, saying, during this period, i did pursue relationships with women that i worked with, including some junior to me. i now understand from these accounts my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that, i am deeply sorry and i apologize. abc news responding in a statement, mark left abc news over a decade ago and no complaints were filed during his tenure. and most recently, halperin has been an analyst for msnbc. nbc news saying that halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until questions around his past conduct are fully understood. and tonight, hbo has now dropped plans for a mini series based on a book being written by mark halperin and john heilman on the 2016 election. >>> there is still m

because you look at someone like mark halperin and harvey weinstein, these are men who are at the top of their industries. and who are in control of the stories that we tell and the narratives that we choose to talk about. and i seeing this news remembered the first "new york times" expose that came out about donald trump harassment claims and groping teams, he on live television said there was nothing illegal in that article which isn't true. and he said to me this is not politically correct, but his interpretation really of that account was that sexual harassment was okay. and that's really really dangerous. >> on mark halperin talking about him, talking about harvey weinstein, let me move on to another story, separate story, but former president here, new accusations against president heather lynn saying former george bush touched her inappropriately while sitting in a wheelchair. at age 93 president bush has been confined to wheelchair for five years so arm falls on the lower waist of pictures. to put them at ease tells the same joke and on occasion he has patted women's rears in

facing accusations of sexual harassment, political journalist mark halperin. back with me now jeffrey toobin and keirsten powers. so last night cnn shared the stories of five women who accused journalist mark halperin of sexual harassment while he was political director at abc news. today he is out at least temporarily at nbc and also animist nbc he lost a book deal on the 2016 election. lost hbo deal for a movie or a mini series on the book and show hp time is, coat, reevaluating its relationship with halperin who has co-hosted the series "the circus." mark and some of his colleagues have appeared on this show to talk about that show. are the accused finally feeling their swift consequences? what's going on here, tara? >> i think that in these cases -- now, this is legit. some of the accusations against mark halperin are pretty salacious and, you know, putting your erect genitals on a woman's shoulder when you're in an office with her and she's your subordinate, i'd say that that's not okay. and jeffrey said that that's sexual assault. i agree. you know, the

." >>> and mark halperin, a senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc is acknowledging that he engaged in inappropriate behavior around women he worked with while he was with abc news over a decade ago. it comes after five women told cnn that halperin sexually harassed them during his time as a senior political journalist at abc. in a statement, he apologized for his behavior. msnbc has issued the following statement, "we find the story and the allegations very troubling. mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood." >>> president trump has signed a $36 million emergency aid bill which includes relief money for puerto rico. among democrats, growing calls for an investigation into how a small company landed the largest government contract to restore the island's power. now that company is apologizing for feuding with an official who questioned the deal. nbc's gabe gutierrez is in san juan with more. >> reporter: it's now been more than five weeks since maria slammed into puerto rico, and wilda milendez is st

i actually looked it up and i think that mark halperin have been in high school at the time.we've known about this for a long time. but the point is that has changed in some ways but the truth is, we are talking in many of these cases about a range that goes from sexual abuse and sexual violence and assault all the way down to things that only men wearing dirty raincoats were doing. one of my colleagues at abc had a great line. he said, sexual harassment is just a dignified term for disgusting behavior. >> that is an important distinction that you make. now we go back to halperin. he says he found profound guilt and aggressive crude, selfish and wrong. he says he relates to a problem that after leaving abc human to counseling, he has not repeated the misconduct. but other journalists say that his conduct was an open secret abc. he worked there, was that true? >> i was not there at the. these allegations are, around that time. do not forget, i was in a different situation. i was older than mark. probably more famous than he was at the time. and sexual harassment is always an o

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i actually looked it up and i think that mark halperin have been in high school at the time. for a long time. but the point is that has changed in some ways but the truth is, we are talking in many of these cases about a range that goes from sexual abuse and sexual violence and assault all the way down to things that only men wearing dirty raincoats were doing. one of my colleagues at abc had a great line. he said, sexual harassment is just a dignified term for disgusting behavior. >> that is an important distinction that you make. now we go back to halperin. he says he found profound guilt and aggressive crude, selfish and wrong. he says he relates to a problem that after leaving abc human to counseling, he has not repeated the misconduct. but other journalists say that his conduct was an open secret abc. he worked there, was that true? >> i was not there at the. these allegations are, around that time. do not forget, i was in a different situation. i was older than mark. probably more famous than he was at the time. and sexual harassment is always an older person usually a

so that story is a big deal because i do think it's not just mark halperin we're going to see a numberother figures in the media and otherwise have more and more women come out against them. >> jesse: you're probably right about that. he released a statement and copped to a lot of misbehavior and rudeness and inappropriateness. so i mean if those allegations are true, i just feel terrible for those women that were suffering that kind of abuse of power. philip, anything else big this week? >> well i think it's really easy to focus on a lot of fights in congress. we saw a positive story coming out of the white house when president trump was getting serious about the opioid epidemic and he got serious in a great way. he of the didn't say do xy and z and we're going to beat this thing. he went with an all of the above approach. in the most powerful moment he talked about his own brother who he lost to alcoholism. this is so the important. if you are that person in the midwest. if you are someone who is addicted, the president is talking about his own brother's struggle. shame is no longer

"during this period i did pursue relationships" this is mark halperin.ring this period i did pursue relationships with women i worked with including some junior to me. i now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances, i am going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while i properly deal with this situation." as i read, you know, as i read the question to tara here, he's losing a lot of things here. hbo show, a book deal and on and on and on. now he understands? >> he doesn't understand because what he said was he was pursuing relationships. by no measure is how any man pursues a relationship. these were "a," co-workers, most of them subordinates and he was pressing his genitals up against them. that is not pursuing a relationship. he is molesting people or assaulting them. i don't know what the actual legal term would be in this case, but, so it shows he has quite a ways to go to understand what he was doing, exactly how wrong what he

what was your job and what was your working relationship with mark halperin?ne year into my job at abc news as an off-air reporter, entry-level, get-started position. we were assigned toy/6 cover the midterm elections based in new york and mark was overseeing that election, sort of a boss for a season of election coverage. >> woodruff: and what happenedt< e were working very hard on that mid-term election and i started getting e-mails from mark complimenting that work which meant a lot to me. i was really earnest and cared  lot about journalism. he suggested coming up to his office to talk politics over a diet coke and, while i was there, he sortaá$ of lunged at , kissed me, touched me inappropriately, still very uncomfortable to describe,éf< sort of felt his body on me, and it was very uncomfortable, to say the least. i sort of froze, left, went and told a few colleagues that i trusted and tried to put it out of my mind for the next eleven years. >> woodruff: you were in your early 20s. >> i was 24. >> woodruff: and you find out then whether this was happeni

>>> meanwhile, mark halperin has been fired. the complaints stem from halperin's time at abc news more than a decade ago. he has apologized in a statement on twitter. >>> well, saudi arabia's making one more step towards the 20th century, yes, 20th century. women, starting next year, will be allowed into sports stadiums. however, they will have to sit in a special family section for women on their own or who are accompanied by a male relative. women have already been given the right to drive, although that doesn't start until next year as well. >>> michael jackson's mother is stepping down from some of her responsibilities to the family. the 87ier o-year-old is resigni guardian for blanket, prince michael ii is now 15 years old and cousin t.j. jackson will be his sole guardian until he is older than 18. >>> turning to headlines with a new detection. researchers in japan say new artificial intelligence used during a colonoscopy can diagnose bowel cancer in less than a second with an 86% accuracy rate. the technology could tell a

mark halperin, as you see the back and forth. i suspect this is exactly what you were worried about yesterday morning, that this sort of back and forth is unbecoming. nobody wins. it just gets uglier. you had sarah huckaby sanders once again throwing john kelly under the bus saying he was there. now he's i suspect they want him to come out and denigrate the memory of this young man and his wife and everybody else. it's a no-win situation. you see claire mccaskill and other people there trying to get some policy done. this seems like this is a distraction that, obviously, yes, an offensive thing. so i think it's safe to presume donald trump is going to say offensive things. at this point, though, i think everybody in the media should tie a bow on this and move on to nuclear korea insuring health care for one-sixth of the economy. >> i agree with that. >> fixing health care. >> the media is filled today with stories of going back and interviewing families from the past who have gotten calls from presidents after they lost a loved o

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mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions about his past conduct are fully understood. halperin gave an apology, and he says his behavior was inappropriate. this conversation continues. every day there's some sort of revelation and people having to respond to it. >> not all allegations are equal, though. >> true. >> and then warning african-american travelers to exercise caution when flying with american airlines. four examples are black passengers who say they were forced to give up their seats or removed from flights. the ceo of american airlines says he's disappointed about the naacp warning and reached out to set up a meeting. >> we are learning more about what happened in the hours leading up to the deadly ambush in niger that left four soldiers dead. why did some parts of their mission change? we have a live report for you from niger, next. well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. look how much coffee's in here? fresh coffee. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the c

the latest target is msnbc political analyst and "game change" author, mark halperin.t least seven accusations have been made, but only two have gone public. hbo has canceled plans to adapt his latest book on the 2016 election into a miniseries. what to make of all of this? we have tammy bruce, radio host, with us tonight. i know mark halperin. we are not friends, he appears to have admitted some of this obliquely. i am hesitant to weigh in,ei except one part of it sticks out in this case, and as in a lot of others, a lot of the accusations are coming anonymously. it doesn't mean they're not true, but one of the keys to american justice, i think, has always been, you get to face your accuser. you get to know who what you're being accused of and who is charging it.as that seems to not be enforced anymore. >> i think mr. halperin does know who is making thed accusations. the issue is not that we deserve to know. >> tucker: that's a good point. >> i agree it is concerning when you've got accusations made that affect someone's future, and wee have dealt with this on campus

mark halperin is leaving his role as contributor until his role is fully understood. a statement tonight he says the world is new publicly acknowledging what so many women have long known, men harm women, i have been part of the problem. when we come back down doubles down on this statement. that's next. by listening to an thiaudiobook on audible.ame and this guy is just trying to get through the day. keeping it together. losing it. upgrade your commute. ride with audible. >>> obviously sexual har rasment has been in the news, at least 16 women accused the president of sexually harassing them during the campaign. last week the president called these allegations fake news. is it the white house's position all these women are lying? >> we've denied it since the beginning. >> that's been the head spinning week. the president calling sexual allegation accusers liars. starting katherine, with that and what we've seen this week in terms of across every single industry, in a staggering way from hollywood to media to our own company here at msnbc and nbc. >> to the white hous

. >>> also allegations against mark halperin. a spokesman released a statement that said we find the story and allegations troubling. mark halperin is leaving until questions around his past conduct are fully understood. cnn reported five anonymous women accused him of sexually harassing them when he worked at abc news. four of them are former abc news employees who worked with halperin. he left abc in 2007. halperin released the following statement. during this period, i did pursue relationships with women that i worked with, including some junior to me. i now understand that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that i'm deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances, i'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while i properly deal with this situation. nbc news has not verified any of the women's accounts. none of the women say they notified management at abc at the time. one woman did say she told a mentor. abc news told cnn no complaints were filed during halperin's tenure. >>> i'm going

mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fullyells us no complaints were filed during halperin's hire. >>> a few of them from our colleagues at cnbc american airlines. their profits narrowly topped expectations after the storms. we beat wall street is cost reductions and twitter. this is a name you have to pay attention to because this is a company that has been beat up by wall street analysts for years. just this morning i heard jim cramer say, wow, are they turning the corner? their stock jumped as much as 12%. they're nearing their first profitable quarter. they increased 4 million users in the last quarter. i asked the question, how many of those users are bots? we don't know, but twitter taking a turn. before we go, this is my favorite part of the show. in light of the ongoing fight against confederate monuments in this country, we introduce you to monumental americans, people who may be deserving of a statue. >> he's the reason we no longer have to worry about polio or measles or many other diseases in our day-to-day lives.

we have mike barnacle, senior political analyst for msnbc news mark halperin. washington anchor for world news america, catty kay. good to have you all on board, i got back late very night from baup. we were at the institute of politic itself, we had a great town hall event there with the institute of politics, it was really incredible to hear from the students. >> it really was incredible. we got great input from them. great insight. they're obviously very concerned. still very -- >> a lot of anxiety in the room. >> also very hopeful and optimistic. they want to get involved and they want to get involved in a significant way and that's just great and very, very open minded about the very things that are plaguing washington, d.c. right now. some of the things you hear plaguing college campuses, you certainly didn't feel it was there, they were very open minded. >> yeah flu is know, it was so impressive, willie, you know what i told them they were, hold down, i am proud. i took special pride in that. because i've always considered harvard the university of alaba

mark halperin of nbc, who is on leave right now, denying some of the allegations. we're seeing apologies as well. first, i want you to weigh in on do you buy the apology? do you think they actually mean it, or are they only saying it because they're supposed to? and, b, why is there always a caveat attached? why not i'm sorry, it's wrong, period, end of sentence, moving on? >> well, i think you've hit the nail on the head, and the problem is, it's a culture issue, right? it's attitudes and behavior that are going to take a long time to change and fix. nothing is going to change until people stop thinking about this or these revelations as a pr problem or a crisis management situation. so that's why, you know, i hope that their apologies are sincere, but it's hard to tell how much of it is sincerity and how much of it is crisis management. in order for real change to take place, we're going to have to take -- it's long term. it's going to take time and it's going to take money and it's going to take real leadership from the top levels of these corporations and workp

cnn reporting five women have anonymously come forward to accuse journalist and author mark halperinult. the women say it happened more than a decade ago during halper halperin's time at abc news. four of the women are former abc employees. none say they alerted management at the time. but one woman says she told a mentor. it is not known if that person took the complain further. abc news tells cnn no complaints were filed during halperin's time at the network. halperin, who is a senior political analyst at msnbc said in a statement last night, i did pursue relationships with women that i worked with, including some junior to me. i now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that, i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances, i'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while i properly deal with this situation. nbc news has not independently verified the accusations. msnbc has issued the following statement. quote, we find the story and the allegations very troubling. mark halperin is leaving his role as a

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mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct is fully understood." >>> president trump has signed a $36 million emergency aid bill which includes relief money for puerto rico. among democrats, growing calls for an investigation into how a small company landed the largest government contract to restore the island's power. now that company is apologizing for feuding with an official who questioned the deal. nbc's gabe gutierrez is in san juan with more. >> reporter: it's now been more than five weeks since maria slammed into puerto rico, and wilda mill en mille mille millendez is still without power. >> i don't wish this on my worst enemy. so many people died. >> reporter: tonight, whitefish energy, the tonigh -- the tiny montana company awarded the contract is under fire. san juan's mayor questioning the transparency around the $300 million deal. the company initially asking do you want us to send our workers back or keep working? and later apologized and reaffirmed its commitment to puerto rico. whitefish insists its ability to mobilize

ambassador, mark halperin here.r optimistic scenario if president trump continues to per sue t pursue the policy you want him to. >> iran is not going to agree to anything. they were given the deal of the century. it's a deal that enables them to have nuclear weapons. this deal puts them on cruise control twooward num laclear we. people are not focussed about the cliff. we are facing a situation within several years all the restrictions will be removed and iran will not have to sneak in or break into the nuclear club. they will be able to walk into the nuclear club. so the scenario that i see is one where the president, first, took the first step by decertifying the deal or not certifying it. and then he enumerated problems. one was the sunset clause. need to fix those. the second was the ballistic missile program of iran that is only used to develop nuclear weapons, and the third is to actually have an inspection regime where you look at every site in iran. not just where the keys are under the light of the lamp po

yesterday was mark halperin. and james toe vac.o were silent a year ago or just two months ago are now speaking out privately. >> it is is a refreshing moment, cathartic for many and a welcomed, frankly surprising series of events that i think will only guess to a place where there is a more universal acceptance of what good behavior for men is. on behalf of men and women, as well as sort of an instructive framework. >> this is a teachable moment. call it watershed. it feels different than it would have two years ago. >> i can't help but hat tip gretchen carlson. david can take on goliath and this can happen. really the actions of one very courageous woman. >> you hear open secrets. people will say, you know, everyone knew this was going on. does this mean these open secrets, there will be no more open secrets. they will be secret no longer? >> well, i think that's a good question, john. the real issue is where do we go from here? this all started, if we think about it, with gretchen carlson. we can go to anita hill and the hearing

political analyst mark halperin off the air accused of lewd conduct while at abc news. wib steen's accusers top 65 and more than 300 women accuse james toback of harassment, which he denies. tonight more questions about the public behavior of former president george h.w. bush. a fourth woman says he grabbed her behind during a 2006 photo shoot. as more women tell their stories, advocates in detroit hope for real change. >> i'm thinking that finally that women will not be afraid to let someone know what's happening to them. >> you know, lester, tonight women are finding strength and power in the number of people coming forward with their stories. and they want men to finally take this issue seriously as well and remember that the targets could be their mothers, their sisters, or their daughters. >> all right, anne thompson, thank you. >>> tonight the man who would be at the center of any american military confrontation with north korea is as close as you can get. james mattis on the dmz between north and south getting a look at the other side and sending a strong message

. >> reporter: just today, veteran political journalist mark halperin was suspended as a contributoro msnbc after being accused of sexually harassing five women he used to work with at abc news. >> we see that there have been a number of high-profile cases, including as recently as the last 24 hours, in which men have had to leave their jobs because of these allegations. so part of this shift that we're seeing now is that this can be a career ender. >> reporter: hundreds of women in politics in california signed a petition saying they had witnessed or experienced dehumanizing behavior by men. next month, lawmakers plan to hold public hearings on sexual harassment. anthony. >> mason: jericka, thanks. and we'll be right back. and exercise, once-daily toujeo® may help you control your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight. ♪ share the spice of life. ♪ baby, slice it right. from the makers of lantus®, ♪ we're gonna groove tonight. toujeo® provides blood sugar-lowering activity for 24 hours and beyond, proven blood sugar control all day and all night, and significan

mark halperin off the air accused of lude conduct when he worked for abc news.g more questions about the public behavior of former president george h.w. bush. a fourth woman says he groped her during a 2006 photo shoot. embarrassment and worse as more and more women speak up to demand change. >> you attack her. you attack all of us. >> reporter: for today ann thompson, nbc news, new york. >> time for another check of the weather from dylan. >>> and we are looking at a pretty chilly morning for a lot of areas back through the midwest. we have freeze warnings for 56 million people. that is mainly affecting the plants out there, but still, it is very chilly. we haven't seen a lot of cold air yet this season. back behind this cold front the one that is going to help produce a lot of rain through the interior northeast today. mild ahead of it and chilly behind it. temperatures in st. louis, a high of 41. 61 in new orleans. on the eastern side of this boston should get up to about 65. the front will continue to move eastward. atlanta a high of only 52 tomorrow. 46 deg

. >>> other news, five women have come forward to accuse journalist and author mark halperin of sexual harassment. he is a senior political analyst for nbc news and acknowledged last night that he had engaged in, quote, inappropriate behavior around women he worked with at abc news over a decade ago. in a statement to cnn, he said, i now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that, i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances, i'm going to take a step back from my day to day work while i properly deal with this situation. according to cnn, none of the women reportedly alleged incidents to abc news management. nbc news has not independently verified the accusations. msnbc issued the following statement. we find this story and the allegations very troubling. mark halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood. >>> let us take a turn. today's much-anticipated release of classified government files about the assassination of president john f. kennedy is in th

a number of women having queued political reporter mark halperin a sexual harassment. they talked to cnn about the alleged behavior to co-author the book came change also starred in the hit show series circuit. he pursued relationships with younger women don't apologize for any inappropriate behavior. more than 3000 top-secret files reported to the jfk assassinations will be released today. the national archive plans to release them. the documents previously withheld with a law passed in 1880 in 1882 ordered them declassified for this year, 2017. not expected to answer the major question of whether anyone other than lee harvey oswald was involved in the assassination. that is what's happening now. lauren: fascinating show. if it went for president trump to store text or form. the house to vote today on the senate budget resolution. telling lou dobbs he is confident the house will pass the budget as is. >> i think the senators will come together. i think the house is looking really good. they are passing this bill along rapidly. in fact it will happen hopefully today i

. >>> nbc 10 news and msnbc has cut ties with mark halperin.ccording to the women he propositioned them, groped them and tried to force himself on them. most recently he was an analyst for nbc 10 news and msnbc. msnbc says it finds the allegations very troubling and he is leaving his role as a contributor until his allegations are fully understood. halperin is apologizing for what he called inappropriate behavior and taking a step back to deal with the situation. they share the same parent company as word wornbc 10. a camera captured the entire incident. take a look. a driver jumps out of a van. he takes off running. police say he broke into a man's home and attacked him with a hammer. the man chased him and crashed into him. they found the man brawling in the street. police are hoping it will lead them to the third man who jumped out of his car and kicked at least one of the men on the ground and sped off. investigators have not said what triggered the initial attack. >>> let's head now to north jersey where a woman in her 90s is recovering af

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veteran journalist, we all know him for his journalism, for the books he has written and et cetera, mark halperin taking a leave of absence from nbc because of the allegations from five separate women over years while he was at abc news, and this is all because of your investigation. what did you find? >> he's taking a step back, he said to me last night. our investigation found that five separate women came forward and accused him of sexual harassment. the allegations range in nature from him propositioning employees for sex on the campaign trail or while he was a powerful position to groping and forcefully kissing, and i should say mark does deny the most serious allegations of forcibly kissing and grope women's bests and things that i cannot say on tv, and you can read the allegations at cnn.com. he did apologize for some of the other behaviors and said that he understands now it has caused people great pain, and he's going to be taking a step back. i should also say that msnbc, where he serves as a contributor and analyst, nbc news said right now he is going to be leaving his roles there unti

. >>> and author mark halperin has been accused of inappropriate behavior. in a statement to cnn, halperin said "i now understand that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain, for that i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances i'm going to take a step back from my day to day work while i properly deal with this situation." according to cnn, none of the women reported the alleged incidents to abc news management. nbc news has not independently very phiing the accusations. we find the stor -- question fie story and allegations troubling, mark halperin is leaving until his conduct is fully understood." >>> let us take a turn and today's much anticipated release of classified government files about the assassination of president john f. kennedy is in the news. what are we going to learn and will they satisfy the conspiracy theorists. peter alexander is at the national archives with more. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the anticipation certainly building. will this be the final chapter of one of the most defining moments in ameri

mark halperin, hear you have george w. bush booed, republican president. it's fascinating.these same -- whatever you want to call them -- jackals in the crowd that were boo'ing george w. bush were attacking people like me back when george bush was president of the united states and had power for saying that he had a wilsonian policy, that he was spinning us into debt. they just basically worship power they don't stand for anything. those people boo'ing don't believe in anything. they attacked anybody who attacked george w. bush when he was president. now they're boo'ing him and john mccain -- i have to go a step further. a disturbing detail from this californian republican party convention. l.a. times report ed, seema meha reported the crowd booed george w. bush and john mccain. one man yelled about mccain "hang him." >> is this where we really want to be, america? >> no, it's not. this is the death cry of the republican party. a party that shouts "hang him" for john mccain, a war hero, and boos past presidents, past presidents that i didn't really care for their policies m

during this period i did pursue relationships -- this is mark halperin -- i did pursue relationships with women that i worked with. for that i am deeply sorry and i apologize. under the circumstances i am going to take a step back from my day to day work as i deal with the situation. now he understands? >> but he doesn't understand. what he said is he was pursuing a relationship. this by no measure is how any man pursues a relationship. these were coworkers, most of them subordinates and he was pressing his genitals up against them. i don't know what the actual term would be in this case, but it shows he has quite a ways to understand exactly how wrong what he was doing was. and in terms of like are people getting their, you know, justice through all of this, look, i mean sort of. but most of these women with the time -- i mean all of them didn't feel like they could complain and were having to live with this mumihumiliation and s, and i it's very humiliating and affects you psychologically. and so he did a lot of damage to these women. and so i think we're seeing the tip of the iceb

this morning, political analyst mark halperin is apologizing after allegations of sexual harassment whenwas political director here at abc news. in a lengthy statement, halperin apologized to the women he mistreated, admitting his behavior caused fear and anxiety for women who were only seeking to do their jobs. david wright, abc news, washington. >>> today's the day to check your medicine cabinets for old prescription drugs and make sure they don't end up in the wrong hands. it's national prescription drug takeback day. many bay area law enforcement and fire agencies are taking part from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. president trump has declared opioid use a public health emergency. >>> officials at oakland tech have been reprimanded for allowing one of its famed alumni to practice with the school's football team. the raiders' marshawn lynch posted this video on instagram wednesday, showing him practicing with the varsity squad. while the kids and lynch enjoyed themselves, state rules actually prohibit anyone other than students from practicing with football teams. >> i don't think he mean

he's now apologized and mark halperin is facing new public accusers and fallout. abc's linsey davis is here with the latest. >> reporter: a one-two punch for halperin. the book he was working on about the 2016 election, canceled. and not only the book publisher but hbo is pulling the plug on a project they were planning with him. msnbc is announcing mark halperin will no longer be appearing on the network after at least five women have come forward alleging sexual harassment when the "game change" author was political director at abc news in the late '90s, the women all in their 20s shared stories of halperin propositioning them for sex, making unwanted sexual demands and pressing himself against them. more are coming forward saying they knew about it or experienced it about it themselves. diana goldberg told "the washington post" she reached out to halperin for help with a story but says he would only help her if she sat on his lap. abc news says mark left abc news over a decade ago and no complaints were filed during his tenure. but the women say his high positi

. >> the latest target of sexual harassment allegations is game change coauthor mark halperin who wasnded today by msnbc over accusations the network called troubling. five unnamed women told cnn that would help worked for abc a decade ago, he propositioned them for sex. he said "i now understand that my behavior was inappropriate and cause others pain. for that i am deeply sorry and i apologize." fox news has grappled with several high-profile cases. "the new york times" reported bill o'reilly is personally paying for a $32 million settlement of allegations by former fox analyst lis wiehl. o'reilly called the story a smear. there's been heightened scrutiny of such cases. more than 50 women accusing harvey weinstein of sexual assault or harassment. women are speaking out, including alyssa milano who urged women to tell their stories under the hashtag #meto. >> we're going to be vocal until this tops. >> women everywhere are used to being dismissed, ignored, attacked when raising complaints about men in authority positions. they stay silent so often out of fear. >> another actress yest

. >> and at least five say msnbc contributor mark halperin pressed him against them while he worked at abc news. he has denied inappropriate physical contact but writes in a statement, i now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. for that i am deeply sorry and i apologize. >> and there were no complaints against him while he was at the network and msnbc says he will no longer work there as a contributor. marcy gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. >> apple's most expensive smartphone ever sold out in a matter of minutes. the apple 10 were gone in ten minutes. had apple is calling it revolutionary because of its facial recognition technology some of the online buyers will get their phones next week. most will have to wait until december. people are lining up in person starting next friday. the iphone 10 shortages are expected allier long because some of the components are so complicated to manufacture. >>> somebody is about to pay a whole lot of money for a sports car once owned by steve jobs. the convertible could sell for more than $300,00

we have mike barnacle, senior political analyst for msnbc news mark halperin.tty kay. good to have you all on board, i got back late very night from baup. we were at the institute of politic itself, we had a great town hall event there with the institute of politics, it was really incredible to hear from the students. >> it really was incredible. we got great