he served for only 18 months, and then congressman tom lantos was elected.rian: but you talk in there about a chief of staff who sexually assaulted you. was it the same guy? rep. speier: same guy. brian: the guy that beat you. what did he do and when? rep. speier: so it was when i was on the staff of congressman ryan, and he was the chief of staff, and we had been working late one night. he just came up to me and put me against the wall and kissed me and stuck his tongue down my throat. i just kind of recoiled from it, and just made sure i never was in the room again alone with him. and went on with my life, so to speak. except when the #metoo movement came to be, and i thought, you know, this happens to so many women. it happens to so many women in congress. we have got to take advantage of this moment and make sure it does not happen anymore. brian: where is he today? rep. speier: he has passed away. brian: did you ever speak publicly about it when he was alive? rep. speier: no, i did not. brian: did you ever confront him when he was alive? rep. speier: no

and congressman tom lantos, the only holocaust denier to serve in the house of representatives and chairs the foreign affairs committee, the research and archives which is the largest in the world. he brought forward the anti-semitism act of 2004 which created a position of special envoy to combat anti-semitism. after his passing the archives were renamed in memory of him. in recent years we began a project to translate extremist sermons from american mosques a tiny sampling of which you saw in the video. in april of this year following attacks at synagogues by white supremacists we begin monitoring anti-semitic incitement from that fear as well. mapping out organization connections and relations, providing actionable information that can it has led to fording attacks. memory has been identify and exposing anti-semitism for two decades, the arab and muslim world and the west and the us as well. it is painful for all staffers involved in these efforts, the shocking content we come across every day. some of us myself included, children or grandchildren, holocaust survivors, whose families w