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picture. thanks so much. outfront now, republican congresswoman, mia love. thank you for coming in. thank you. thank you for having me. what is your reaction to this news about congressman franks? it s disheartening. as we hear about the situations, every single one is different. i hope people are gimpb the ability to have due process. there s a culture that has to change, not just in washington, but everywhere. we can talk about the different situations. we have to start getting comfortable having uncomfortable conversations in the workplace. what is appropriate and inappropriate and stop the behavior from happening. there is way too much and it s a culture that s been going on too long. do you think he made the right choice? i think anyone who feels like they have done something wrong should voluntarily resign. i really do. i think that members of congress should hold themselves to a higher standard. you know, it s one thing, we are
is it weird? yes, i think it s weird. might it make some money somebody uncomfortable? sure. should she have left? sure, i hope she did. are those grounds for accusing him of something so severe especially in this whirlwind of legitimate sexual abuse, it s lumping him with congressman conyers with as a whole slew of women, it s very troubling as someone who continues to work with the congressman. tucker: thank you, we appreciate it. congressman john conyers is not the only casualty of the recent stream of sexual harassment allegations. in an awesomely washingtonian resignation, al franken called h himself a champion of women and did not apologize once to anyone who accusedn him. b is the outrage based on a
looking at how this is all shaking out and saying that there is a sort of partisan divide and that s been complicated by trent frank s announce the he s resigning. but what do you think the people that you work with for grass roots of the democratic party, where are they on what is happening in this moment in terms of political reverberations? women have a voice in this moment. we saw it starting both women s march until today. before this, women could speak out or wouldn t speak out because there was no retribution for men who did these things, powerful men in particular. there has been a movement that has continued to what we re seeing in the last couple weeks. look, you know, as we saw with franken today, he did the right thing. it was clearly difficult for him to do that but you can t deny the stark difference between democrats and republicans. trying they threw their own under the bus and did something wrong and democrats and we can t
growing. franks talked about female staffers being surrogate mothers for his children. i deep he regret this conversation in the process in the workplace caused distress. joining me from capitol hill, more on that. garrett what do we know? reporter: congressman franks laid out most of what we knew in his statement last night announcing he would resign end of january because of this. the statement is lengthy and in it he describes his family s battle with infertility, the struggle he and his wife had had to have children and indeed these conversations with women about potentially becoming surrogates. the minimum, incredibly awkward office conversation, one he found to be inappropriate, one that the speaker found to be inappropriate and told him as much. speaker ryie inan saying he tol franks to resign and the ethics committee wouldigating this, saying opening this investigation. the harassment element and talk about retaliation. that s the part we don t know.