乔·拜登的批评者指责美国有线电视新闻网未能揭露档案片段，他们说这些片段将有助于证实塔拉·里德关于前副总统在1993年对她进行性侵犯的指控。
视频于1993年8月11日在本周重新出现拉里·金现场直播在这段视频中，一位不知名的女性，据称是里德的母亲，从加州圣路易斯奥比斯波打电话过来，与讨论华盛顿政治和媒体的危险世界的小组成员交谈。最近发现的美国有线电视新闻网的视频显示，里德的母亲告诉主持人拉里·金和他的小组成员:“我在想，除了去华盛顿的新闻发布会，一名工作人员还会做些什么呢？我的女儿在为一名著名参议员工作后刚刚离开那里，根本无法解决她的问题，她唯一能做的就是去新闻发布会，出于对他的尊重，她选择不去。”
“换句话说，她有一个故事要讲，但出于对她所服务的人的尊重，她没有讲出来？”金问道，促使这位身份不明的妇女确认她的话。
被遗忘已久的美国有线电视新闻网剪辑被截击星期五这促使拜登的批评者——尤其是民主党的进步派——加倍指责所谓的主流媒体掩盖里德的指控，以保护这位民主党总统候选人。拜登和他的竞选团队断然否认里德说，这些指控发生在1993年，当时他是拜登的参议院工作人员。
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周五，伯尼·桑德斯总统竞选的前高级顾问温妮·王(Winnie Wong)在推特上写道:“塔拉·里德的已故母亲打电话给拉里·金(Larry King)举报塔拉遭受性侵犯的视频，现在遭到了一群进步人士的相对沉默，我希望你们都知道，我看到了你们。我们都有。”
桑德斯竞选活动的热心支持者肖恩·金周五在推特上发布了这段视频:“这很明显。1993年，塔拉里德的母亲被女儿告诉她的乔·拜登对她的所作所为所困扰，她说自己从他的员工那里得不到帮助，所以她打电话给拉里·金，在塔拉停止为他工作的那周谈论这件事，”他周五晚上在推特上写道。
纽约民主党众议员亚历山大·奥西奥·科尔特斯是对拜登最直言不讳的进步批评者之一。拜登是民主党的一个分支，在2016年主要反对希拉里·克林顿的候选人资格。奥西奥-科尔特斯最近指责该党未能接受里德的指控。“如果我们再一次想要正直，你不能说，你知道，都相信女人，支持这一切，直到它给你带来不便，”她当时说。
里德的指控已经成为民主党进步人士的焦点，他们指责拜登和其他当权派人物在桑德斯和希拉里之间的2016年总统初选中忽视了他们的想法和要求。许多桑德斯的支持者指责民主党全国委员会、克林顿和主流媒体密谋推翻他的候选资格。
桑德斯支持拜登在4月13日的一次旨在团结该党反对特朗普的行动中受到了热烈的赞扬。桑德斯称特朗普是美国历史上“最危险的总统”，并敦促他的支持者和他一起支持拜登的候选人资格。前总统巴拉克·奥巴马和马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦也对拜登的提名表示支持。
与此同时，右翼新闻媒体也加入了进步民主党的阵营，批评美国有线电视新闻网没有对里德进行公平报道，这与最高法院大法官布雷特·卡瓦诺在确认过程中遭到性侵犯的指控相比。4月17日，美国有线电视新闻网发布了关于里德指控的第一篇报道几周后他们第一次被发现。
保守的《新闻周刊》总编辑柯蒂斯·豪克在周六对福克斯新闻的一份声明中说:“这段视频的存在确实很卑鄙，但美国有线电视新闻网却未能在自己的档案中尽职尽责。”。
里德提起刑事诉讼华盛顿市警察局反对拜登。她指控他把她推到墙上，用手指刺穿她的生殖器新闻周刊之前报道过。里德还说，拜登会把手放在她的肩膀上，或者用手指沿着她的脖子线移动。
凯特·贝丁菲尔德，拜登竞选团队的副竞选经理和沟通主管，上个月发表声明谴责里德的指控是完全错误的。
贝丁菲尔德在声明中写道:“副总统拜登致力于改变针对女性暴力的文化和法律。”。“他为里程碑式的《暴力侵害妇女法》的通过和重新授权而写作和奋斗。他坚信女性有权被倾听——并被尊重。这种说法也应该由独立的媒体认真审查。这一说法的明确之处在于:它是不真实的。这绝对没有发生。”
里德指控的批评者怀疑她的故事她将自己与俄罗斯的宣传文章和一篇媒体文章联系在一起，在这篇文章中，她描述了自己对弗拉基米尔·普京的支持，尽管她是一个“自由主义者”
据美国有线电视新闻网1993年的一段视频显示，塔拉·里德的母亲打电话来询问她的女儿应该如何举报对乔·拜登的性侵犯指控——对此他坚决否认。
东部时间下午6:17更新，包括新闻周刊联系到美国有线电视新闻网征求意见。
NEW BIDEN ACCUSER TAPE, CNN SILENCE STIR DISCORD AMONG SANDERS DEMOCRATS
Joe Biden's critics are blasting CNN for failing to uncover archival footage that they say would help corroborate Tara Reade's allegations that the former vice president sexually assaulted her in 1993.
Video resurfaced this week from an August 11, 1993 Larry King Live segment in which an unnamed woman, purportedly Reade's mother, called in from San Luis Obispo, California to speak with panelists who were discussing the treacherous world of Washington politics and media. The recently uncovered CNN video shows Reade's mother telling host Larry King and his panelists: "I'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington, my daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all and the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to out of respect for him."
"So in other words, she had a story to tell, but out of respect for the person she worked for she didn't tell it?" King asked, prompting the unidentified woman to affirm her remark.
The long-forgotten CNN clip was uncovered by The Intercept Friday, prompting Biden's critics -- particularly those in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party--to double down on their accusations that so-called mainstream media outlets are burying Reade's allegations to protect the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Biden and his campaign have categorically denied those accusations of the alleged incident, which Reade said occurred while working as a Senate staffer for Biden in 1993.
Newsweek reached out to CNN's media relations department for a comment Saturday.
On Friday, Winnie Wong, former senior advisor to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, tweeted: "The video of Tara Reade's late mother calling into Larry King to blow the whistle about about Tara's sexual assault is being met with relative silence from a cadre of progressives right now and I want you all to know that I see you. We all do."
Shaun King, an ardent Sanders campaign supporter, tweeted on Friday about the clip: "This much is clear. In 1993 the mother of Tara Reade was so disturbed by what her daughter told her Joe Biden did to her, & the lack of help she said she got from his staff, that she called Larry King to talk about it the week Tara stopped working for him," he tweeted Friday evening.
New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been one of the most vocal progressive critics of Biden -- a wing of the Democratic Party that largely opposed Hillary Clinton's candidacy in 2016. Ocasio-Cortez has recently accused the party of failing to treat Reade's accusations. "If we again want to have integrity, you can't say, you know, both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you," she said at the time.
Reade's allegations have become a focal point among progressive members of the Democratic Party who have accused Biden and other establishment figures of ignoring their ideas and demands in claims that date back to the 2016 presidential primary between Sanders and Hillary. Many Sanders supporters have accused the Democratic National Committee, Clinton and the mainstream media of conspiring to bring down his candidacy.
Sanders endorsed Biden with glowing praise on April 13 in a move aimed at unifying the party against Trump. Sanders described Trump as "the most dangerous president" in U.S. history and urged his supporters to join him in backing Biden's candidacy. Former President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren have also given Biden's nomination their blessing.
Meanwhile, right-wing news outlets have also joined progressive Democratic factions in criticizing CNN for not giving fair coverage to Reade in comparison to sexual assault allegations brought against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process. CNN published their first story about Reade's allegations on April 17 -- weeks after they first came to light.
"It's truly despicable that this footage existed and yet CNN failed to do its own due diligence within its own archives," conservative NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck said in a statement to Fox News Saturday.
Reade filed a criminal complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department against Biden. She accused him of pushing her against a wall and penetrating her genitals with his fingers, as Newsweek has previously reported. Reade has also said Biden would place his hands on her shoulders or run his fingers along her neck line.
Kate Bedingfield, Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Director for Biden's campaign, released a statement last month decrying Reade's accusation as completely false.
"Vice President Biden has dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women," Bedingfield's statement read. "He authored and fought for the passage and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard—and heard respectfully. Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press. What is clear about this claim: It is untrue. This absolutely did not happen."
Critics of Reade's allegations have cast doubt on her story, tying her to Russian propaganda pieces and a Medium post in which she described her support for Vladimir Putin despite being a "liberal."
A CNN video clip from 1993 purports to show Tara Reade's mother calling in to ask how her daughter should report an allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden - something he has adamantly denied.
Updated 6:17 PM ET to include that Newsweek reached out to CNN for a comment.
