first want to demand franken resignation. the dam seemed to break within moments. more than 37 it democrats ended up joining gillibrand. doug jones tried to tie roy moore today to al franken. watch. i applaud the women who have come forward against roy moore and i think it s time that those women be believed, just like the women that are coming out against senator franken. some republicans pushed back on the connection, noting franken has admitted to some of the groping while moore has denied all of the allegations against him. tomorrow franken will have an event revealing whether or not he is resigning. shannon: in the meantime, pressure on franken comes at a time when there are racial tensions bubbling inside the democratic party. what is that about? this is one day after john conyers resigned under pressure. politico reporting the congressional black caucus is
conyers was endorsed by his dad but the congressman s great-nephew is also running. shannon: tuner around the christmas table could get interesting. ed henry, thank you. in a unanimous vote, the house passed legislation cosponsored by congressman barbara comstock that will require congress and staffers to do sexual harassment training. you have a hearing tomorrow and you said you don t know what you don t know about this problem. we are going to have witnesses in the equal employment opportunity commission in our office of compliance, the office that would review these cases, we are going to hear from them on best practices. they did a study last year where they looked at the whole problem
action quickly and understand congress, like everybody else, has to live by the rules. what we are seeing in the workplace for years, one of my colleagues who worked on labor law says we would go into the board of directors and say we ve investigated this. this ceo has to go. or whoever else. we need to do the same thing in congress. now if they want to drag it out and do an ethics investigation like with congressman franken, i mean senator franken, i called for him to resign weeks ago when it first came out. because i don t think we should waste the taxpayers resources on these investigations either, particularly when you have serial abuse, whether it s congressman conyers or franken or any of the other people. i have been consistent on all of these. i have said when you have serial abuse and you see a time after time, patterns of behavior. predators behave in a similar pattern, like you heard with charlie rose. you are seeing people who didn t
first want to demand franken resignation. the dam seemed to break within moments. more than 37 it democrats ended up joining gillibrand. doug jones tried to tie roy moore today to al franken. watch. i applaud the women who have come forward against roy moore and i think it s time that those women be believed, just like the women that are coming out against senator franken. some republicans pushed back on the connection, noting franken has admitted to some of the groping while moore has denied all of the allegations against him. tomorrow franken will have an event revealing whether or not he is resigning. shannon: in the meantime, pressure on franken comes at a time when there are racial tensions bubbling inside the democratic party. what is that about? this is one day after john conyers resigned under pressure. politico reporting the congressional black caucus is
conyers was endorsed by his dad but the congressman s great-nephew is also running. shannon: tuner around the christmas table could get interesting. ed henry, thank you. in a unanimous vote, the house passed legislation cosponsored by congressman barbara comstock that will require congress and staffers to do sexual harassment training. you have a hearing tomorrow and you said you don t know what you don t know about this problem. we are going to have witnesses in the equal employment opportunity commission in our office of compliance, the office that would review these cases, we are going to hear from them on best practices. they did a study last year where they looked at the whole problem