they will fix this at some point, i m sure, but tonight anybody looking for the office of arizona congressman trent franks, anybody looking for the arizona office number or anything at all from congressman franks, gets sent instead to the u.s. house of representatives list of current vacancies. the name trent franks is supposed to be right here with the names of the previous two congressman driven from office by some form of skanld laancand behavior. they aren t listing franks as gone but he s gone. they are add the name trent franks to this list of vacancies. it was a very sad departure. when we left the story last week, congressman franks
because 1970 wallace was running in the democratic primary for governor against the incumbent albert brewer. nixon wanted to wipe out wallace in this gubernatorial primary because he was worried that wallace would run third party in 1972 again and rob him of the presidency as he had nearly done in 1968. so nixon poured all sorts of secret money into brewer s campaign, gave brewer all sorts of secret help, which wallace knew and the result was that in the end wallace narrowly won the primary for governor, became governor again, and wallace remained furious at nixon so that, you know, nixon as you said when he calls wallace up in 74 and says please, help me stop impeachment wallace says forget it. do you think that wallace i mean, just for historical purposes do you think wallace could have swayed democrats if he wanted to on that committee? i think he certainly could. the key one was a congressman named walter flowers who was an
staff knew this was going on and didn t know how where to go. there is systemic issues and problems and failures on capitol hill here how to deal with the issues. those need be addressed and addressed quickly. the big question now is the way it happened with congressman franks the way it s going to be for everyone else in the feature. thanks. up next positive job numbers out today but some economists warn it could be up for a hit under the gop tax plan. cannot live without it.
kind of absurd to think that on wednesday he s going to say you know what, i ve thought about it this roy moore one and now i m not going to do it. dy not say that. i did not say that. that s not what you re saying. i couldn t be more crystal clear. what is your theory? let me ask you i don t think so. i m confused about your theory. my question is, this is a guy who wants to keep his job. so let me ask you, the very first question i asked, which is this why did he say i ll leave in a couple of weeks if it s not his angle to leave his foot in the door? why a couple of weeks ? you are correct that congressman franks resigned and left. i think senator franken is going to wrap up his business in washington by the end of the year. and i think that that s the timeline that he s given governor mark dayton to name somebody and have that person get prepared to step in. that s what i don t think
made clear he should resign. and repeated that point of view multiple times over the course of several days. what i m told is that under scores the severity of this issue, how it was perceived by the speaker and reality it was probably time for congressman franks, at least in the perspective of the speaker to leave now, not january 31st. still a lot of questions about that now. speaker ryan all but demanded that he step down when he learned about this. is this a signal do you think of how republican leaders plan to handle other allegations against other members of congress going forward? reporter: look, it s a great question. all you have to do is look across the republican congress and see if that s the place. paid $85,000 to pay separate claim. as of now he s still a member of congress and disputing what s going on. i think, kate, what all this under scores last three weeks which has been jarring on capitol hill for a the lo of members, female members and