Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News 20171117 01:30:00

it dates back more than a decade to when franken was a comedian, and there is photographic evidence. here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: this photograph was taken at the end of a two-week u.s.o. tour to visit troops in 2006. radio host leann tweeden says it hows al franken groping her while she was sleeping. >> i guess i always wondered if i had any talent. >> oh, you've got talent. >> reporter: it was before franken was a senator. tweeden says during the trip franken insisted rehearsing a skit he wrote that included a kiss. >> he grabs the back of my head and just sort of comes in and puts his lips right on mine and sticks his tongue in my mouth. >> reporter: in an initial statement, franken said, "i certainly don't remember the alhearsal for the skit in the same way, but i send my sincerest apologies." he added "the photo was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't." later he issued a longer statement saying, "i'm sorry, and i've told and written a lot of jokes that i once thought

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