Chuck Todd to Klobuchar on Moore: Are Dems Responsible for the Culture of Victim Shaming?

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CHUCK TODD: You know, Roy Moore’s been attacking his accusers and the media for reporting this story. It sounds a lot like what happened in the ‘90s with Bill Clinton and his accusers. So let me ask you this, considering the political moment we’re in, what responsibility do Democrats have in this culture of victim shaming that became pretty prevalent in the ‘90s and, frankly, now all the way to today?

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): I think we have a major responsibility. We’ve seen that this happens on both sides when you look at these reports across the country of people who are in power. So we have a responsibility to make sure there’s a process in place in workplaces where people can come forward, where fairness rules, and where you don’t have people that are making decisions about if people are promoted not based on merit but whether they put out or not. I mean basically, that’s what’s happened to some women in our society.

CHUCK TODD: Yeah.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): And it’s time to talk about it and stop blaming them and start looking at who’s doing this.

CHUCK TODD: What do you say to voters who say, “Boy, all these people that were upset about Donald Trump, they weren’t upset about Bill Clinton?” Do you think that one of the reasons why Donald Trump got a pass from voters is because of what happened in the ‘90s to Bill Clinton?

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): You know, I think there were a lot of things that went into that election. But what’s most important to me right now, Donald Trump is our president. And what’s important to me is that we change policies that are in place that help the people of this country, everything from this tax reform bill that has serious problems for the middle class, that we change the way the rhetoric is going in our country so that we treat each other more civilly and we handle things in a more professional manner, and that we also do things for people. And what worries me about what’s going on right now, we can go back and talk about the election all we want, but it’s the policies that are being proposed right now. And the people of Virginia, on Monday, as you’ve pointed out earlier in this show, they said, “No, we don’t want this rhetoric. We want to have health care for the people of our state.”

CHUCK TODD: Right.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): And we want to elect people that have a positive message moving forward.