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ondoleezza Rice on #MeToo: 'Let's not turn women into snowflakes'

Rice said she didn't want "to get to a place that men start to think, 'Well, maybe it's just better not to have women around.' I've heard a little bit of that. And it, it worries me," she told Axelrod. Following last year's downfall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein after sexual harassment and assault allegations, people have begun sharing their stories of sexual harassment and abuse, using the hashtag #MeToo. Rice, the first African-American woman to become secretary of state, was careful to emphasize that she didn't want to "belittle" women who have shared their stories of sexual harassment "because we're all different." Asked by Axelrod if she had ever been a victim of harassment, Rice said she'd "certainly had people say inappropriate things." "I've certainly had people suggest that maybe we should just go out -- and you know -- and situations in which it was somebody more senior than I...
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Jeff Flake rips Trump: A president 'who cannot take criticism ... is charting a very dangerous path'

"No longer can we compound attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence. No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these assaults on our institutions," Flake said in his speech. "An American president who cannot take criticism -- who must constantly deflect and distort and distract -- who must find someone else to blame -- is charting a very dangerous path. And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the President adds to the danger." Flake also compared Trump's attacks on the news media to the rhetoric of late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. He criticized the President for calling the news media the "enemy of the people," calling it "an assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted." "It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own President uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said. "It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy...
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