Bernie Sanders meets with 2016 campaign staffers who raised sexual harassment allegations

By Gregory Krieg and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 4:45 PM ET, Wed January 16, 2019

Excerpt:

Sen. Bernie Sanders and senior aides met on Wednesday with a group of women and men who requested a face-to-face discussion about what they described as "the issue of sexual violence and harassment" on the Vermont independent's 2016 presidential primary campaign.

They had also demanded the parties come together to form a more robust plan of action ahead of a potential second run by Sanders in 2020.

The meetings, which stretched for almost a full day, began near Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening and picked up after the full group convened for breakfast on Wednesday morning. Former campaign manager Jeff Weaver, who will not return to the role if Sanders runs again in 2020, and the high-level aides asked for in the letter, including Ari Rabin-Havt, Caryn Compton, Arianna Jones and Shannon Jackson, were in attendance, according to a source present, along with dozens of former campaign staffers.

Sanders, who was present for a midday session of the meeting, told CNN the discussions were "private" when asked about the meeting afterward on Capitol Hill. Sanders wife, Jane, was also present at the meeting.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/bernie-sanders-sexual-harassment-campaign-meeting-2020/index.html