She has always been conflicted about this question because she certainly doesn't want to be responsible for collecting Donald Trump,

but at the same time she doesn't want to stay silent.

Welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Mehdi Hassan coming to you from my home in the DC Metro area on today's show.

The MeToo movement is still evolving a way to think about adjudicating and fighting justice in situations like this.

That's my guest, my intercept colleague Ryan Grimm, who's been one of the reporters at the forefront of the Tara Reed story.

She's the former Joe Biden staffer who says the former vice president sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway in the early 1990s.

So, is it true and how long is Biden going to be able to ignore this explosive accusation or do Democrats need to find a new presidential candidate?

Over the past weekend, CNN finally, finally aired a segment on the accusations against former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by a former staffer, Tara Reed.

Here's how CNN reported MJ Lee described the allegation.

A woman named Tara Reed, she was an aide for then Senator Joe Biden in the early 1990s.

She recently alleged that Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her many years ago.

Tara Reed previously, last year, publicly said that Biden had touched her in ways that had made her feel uncomfortable, touching her neck, touching her hair.

So, this new allegation of sexual assault is obviously new and so much more serious than what she had said last year.

The thing is though, Reed's allegations of sexual assault are not new.

Yes, she first reached out to reporters with her own allegations of inappropriate physical contact by Biden in April of 2019.

And yes, amongst a barrage of stories about the former vice president's unwelcome hair touching, head kissing and shoulder grabbing,

her own story didn't stand out. But it's been more than a month since Reed made her much more explosive, shocking, disturbing allegation of sexual assault against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

During an interview with podcaster Katie Halper on March 25th, Reed went into graphic detail of what she said Biden did to her in a Senate hallway when she worked for him back in 1993.

And just a warning, this next clip is a pretty graphic description of alleged sexual assault.

It happened all at once. His hands were on me and underneath my clothes. And yeah, and then he went, he went down my skirt but then up inside it and he

penetrated me with his fingers. And when I pulled away, he got finished doing what he was doing and I was pulled back and he said,

he said, come on, man, I heard you liked me.

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