Hey there.

While Friday's show was for kids, today's show is not.

We're going to be talking about allegations of sexual misconduct and we will begin after

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It can be easy to forget, but there's still a presidential race happening somewhere

in the background of this coronavirus crisis.

But for the past few weeks, it's been a little more prominent than it has been in recent

memory because of new allegations of sexual misconduct against former vice president Joe

Biden.

And they come from a former Senate aide of his named Tara Reed, not the actress.

Laura McGann has been following the story for Vox for a while now.

The story of Tara Reed took off in the last six weeks, but it really started a year

ago in April 2019.

Reed came forward then to quite a number of reporters, including me here at Vox, to tell a story

about being sort of made uncomfortable in Joe Biden's office in the 90s when she was

a Senate aide then.

And the story she told at the time was Joe Biden would put his hands on her shoulders,

touch her hair, touch her neck in meetings, and it made her feel uncomfortable.

And she complained about being asked by the staff to serve cocktails at a fundraiser for

Biden.

Someone in the office told her Biden said he liked her legs.

She said that when she complained, she was sort of blamed and told, don't drag her

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