Just a heads up that some listeners may find the content in this episode about sexual harassment, assault, and misconduct

Disturbing

There are these basic principles from our due process law that can tell us what are the tenants of fairness and that's

Everyone should have the right to tell their side of the story

The person who's accused should know exactly what they're being accused of everyone should have the chance to present

Evidence including witnesses the decision-makers should be impartial and then the question is you know

What's the context whether potential stakes what resources are available and we can build up from that basics bare bones

Procedure to fill in the fill in the gaps give it me

Hello, welcome to wise is happening with me your host Chris Hayes

Have you ever heard someone say what about due process?

You have almost certainly heard someone say about a due process

Sometimes this is raised in really like ridiculous and trolley ways like Donald Trump used to say it all the time

Which would crack me up because there's no one less process wanted to the Donald Trump

In in the entire universe in the history of humans on the planet no one has had less interest in process than Donald Trump

And there's a lot of times in which you know

What about due process which get raised I think often in the context of public accusations of misconduct particularly sexual misconduct sexual assault sexual harassment particularly against men

People say what about due process and it's hard because there's a lot of that that feels like kind of bad faith

Defensiveness but then beneath the bad faith defensiveness. There's actually a real question and it's a question

I think increasingly we have all come to confront in the sort of post me to era broadly, but also I just think

Generally at this moment that for a lot of reasons a lot of a lot of institutions are

Struggling with how to put together correct processes to essentially adjudicate wrongdoing

Now some wrongdoing

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