dedicated to -- that's completely willing to use underhanded tactics to take you down, it makes it very complicated. at the same time, i think that given their stated ideals, you know, given their stated values, keeping al franken as these accusations dripped and dripped and dripped had become politically untenable. >> you know, when you talk about where the republicans are on this, the new news that we've got now is an african-american gentlemen asked him when he thought -- when moore last thought america was great. moore acknowledged the racial divisions but said i think it was great at a time when families were united. everyone though we had slavery, they cared for one another. our country had a direction. generally speaking, that should be disqualifying. so the fact is if they're still having discussions about slavery, we're not at a place we're having discussions about