evidence was obviously very difficult for franken to deal with. since then you ve had a few other women who say they took photographed with him and he touched them inappropriately during the pictures. i think there s a sense they re not sure that anything beyond that is going to come into the public view. perhaps the ethics investigation will show that differently, and so it s pretty clear to me based on the interviews the strategy here is to try to apology and to try to rehabilitate his image. it s a difficult thing for franken, because he s had many women work for him who has been champions for him behind the scenes. he s not a natural politician. he s a comedian first. he had to stop being funny to get elected. he had to deal with a few things in his career that were a problem that he had to address. and in the progressive movement, there s a deep feeling of betrayal. and that was really where he was getting a lot of his political support. he is going to have to, i think, do this co