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Oh, glad the kids are going back to school today. They were starting to get on each other's

nerves. I was explaining to them yesterday how about people, mommy and daddy, even friends.

If you spend a lot of time together, like you have it for the last week, you can start

to bother each other. It's just the way it is. It's natural. That's right. So Nancy Pelosi

was on meat to press yesterday and she kept making the argument as as Chuck Todd was pressing

her on when are we going to, you know, see the list of all the settlements for various

suits over the last however many years that have been kept quiet and the harassers and

all that sort of stuff that topic. And Nancy Pelosi kept making the argument. Well, a lot

of these victims or the accusers, they don't want their names out there. So we have to

and she kept making that argument over and over. And that's not what we're looking for

in the public. I don't ever need to see the names of the accusers. Nobody's asking for

that. But that was her dodge for it all the time or that's the traditional language there,

Jack Dodge. What we want is the name of the people in office that settled suits. We never

need to know who the accusers were. We're joined now by Cheryl Stolberg of the New York Times.

They're Washington correspondent. Cheryl, welcome. How are you? I'm fine. Thanks for having

me. Excellent. First and observation. Perhaps you'd like to react to it. I have encountered

no one, whether in the media or real life, who says, oh, yeah, I knew this about Congress

that the allegations are kept secret and that the taxpayers paid the settlements. Everybody

know, was that the best kept secret in Washington? It might have been. I personally actually knew

it, but that was only because I had done a story about this topic last year when President

Trump was then candidate Trump was running for office. And I discovered that there was

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