at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate. the former staffer said the congressman at least four times asked if she would be willing to act as a surrogate in exchange for money. the former aide said the conversations took place in private, sometimes in the congressman s car, and that she repeatedly told him she was not interested. quoting the staffer, during my time there i was asked a few times to look over a contract to carry his child and if i would conceive his child i would be given $5 million. that was from the a.p. then according to the new york times women staffers said they believed the congressman didn t just mean surrogacy the way you might be thinking of involving a doctor s office. women staffers say they think he meant to impregnate them in the old-fashioned way. and then back to the a.p., the aide cited the surrogacy requests as a main reason for leaving franks s office, adding she felt retaliated against after turning down the congressman, ignored
willing to act as a surrogate in exchange for money. he said the conversations took place in private, sometimes in his car and she repeatedly told him she was not interested. during my time there was i asked a few times to look over a contract to carry his child and if i would conceive his child, i would be given $5 million. that was from the a.p. then according to the new york times , women staffer said they believed the congressman didn t just mean surrogate the way you think of involving a doctors office. they think he meant to i m pregnapre inpregnant them in the old fashioned way. she told the congressman ignored by franks and no longer given many assignments. as that news was appearing, trent franks went from resigning, oh, sometime next
allegations of misconduct, including sexual misconduct. he has denied the allegations. conyers also said this morning that he is endorsing his son john conyers iii to replace him. new york times national political correspondent, also an msnbc contributor. and charles stober, new york times domestic affairs correspondent, joins me as well. the congressman, again, retiring here, not resigning. he did not cite the recent allegations as a reason. he endorses his son to succeed him. is this going to be enough to satisfy his critics? i think it s enough to satisfy his critics in that he is stepping down and will no longer be serving in the house. as your viewers might remember, both nancy pelosi and speaker paul ryan asks for him to resign. i got the call from his great nephew ian conyers at about 12:30 telling me he was going to step down. even though the congressman didn t cite those allegations in his retirement speech when he
like, much less whether it would say anything, never mind the fact that most wedding cakes don t say anything. when was the last time you saw a wedding cake that said something? one of the things the court is struggling with is the cake a form of expression. if so, where do you draw the line? what about the wedding invitations, the menu, what about the florist, what about the hair dresser, what about the makeup artist. so that s one of the problems for the court here, to say if they agree with jack phillips, how much further does that line go. some more conservative justices thought that colorado didn t give enough respect to jack phillips for his religious views and if the court goes the other way and rules for the couple, then is there no room for this kind of religious dissent. so it s a tough one. but deciding vote is probably justice anthony ken da who has not only written all the court s gay rights cases but is an ardent supporter of free speech rights. he says could every bakery
or dismissals. those who are speaking about it are dismissing it this morning. all right. thank you. so this morning there are new sexual harassment allegations, this time against nevada s democratic congress mank. according to buzzfeed, a woman who worked as his finance director claims he made frequent advances, that he propositioned her and he claims he touched her thigh without consent on two separate occasions during his 2016 congressional campaign. nancy pelosi among other leading democrats are calling for him to step down. congressman didn t deny the woman s allegations and put out this statement. here s what he said. i sincerely apologize for anything that made her feel incomfortab incomfortable. now, he was first elected to