Official. These allegations pertain to democratic senator al franken of minnesota. They come from a woman who performed on a uso tour with franken for u. S. Service members overseas. Leeann tweeden says while they were rehearsing a sketch, that the former sketch comic turned senator wrote that featured a kiss, franken forcibly kissed her. He put his hand on my head and came in and it was so fast and aggressive that obviously i wasnt going to have time to react at all. And he came in and he just sort of mashed because it was, you know, it wasnt finessed at all. He mashed his mouth against mine and stuck his tongue in my mouth. It happened so fast and was so just i was so unaware it was going to happen, and i just remember i mean, in my mind, i was so shocked that it happened, right, when youre not expecting something, right . Youre shocked. I remember pushing him off me. And i clenched my hand into a fist, and i remember thinking, if you ever do that to me again, and i was just going to
Well, President Trumps attorney said sunday that despite multiple denials during the campaign, his client, President Trump, continued conversations about building a tower in moscow until november 2016. Nobody missed that one for sure. Now giuliani is trying to walk back those statements saying, quote, my recent statements about potential trump moscow project were hypothetical and not based on conversations i had with the president. My comments did not represent the actual timing of any such discussions. The point is the proposal was in the earliest stage and did not advance between a nonbinding letter of intent. However, speaking to the New York Times on sunday, giuliani quoted what trump said to him, that the discussions were, quote, going on from the day i announced to the day i won. In light of his statement, the new yorker magazine asked giuliani. He replied i did not say that. I dont know if they made it up. What i was talking about was if he had those conversations they would not
Correspondent in tel aviv. That is it for me. Thank you for watching velshi and ruhle. Ill see you back here at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Now surprise, surprise, katie tur, still with us. Still with you. I love it. Do you . Yeah, i do. I do. Its fun. I love it too. All right. Enjoy your next hour and see you. See you in an hour. It is 11 00 a. M. Out west, 2 00 p. M. In washington, faced with a surge in immigrants attemptings to cross the southern border and a protracted border over his border wall, President Trump decided according to new reporting from nbc news, that the best way to stem the crisis is to reinstate a policy of separating migrant families. The very same policy that the Trump Administration last year denied even existed, the same policy that resulted in the separation of some 2800 families, the same policy that the president himself ended with an executive order back in june. Two sources tell nbc news that it was Kirstjen Nielsens refusal to make that reversal that set her at
I join you in our congratulations to the whole family. Were covering a lot of developing stories. What some are calling the bernie effect. Senator sanders crushing the numbers and taking it directly to fox news as democrats are exploring many options for 2020. I have that for you later tonight. And brand new action in the roger stone case. And we get to speak to this person you see on your screen. The swamp creature who trolled. Well get to into the fun of and it why it matters. If you know anything about the beat, you know i am excited with a swamp creature interview later in the hour. I begin with big news. The trump doj has unaccording even more intrigue with its somewhat unusual announcement of a day. Thursday. That the report will come out. In two days. And trump staffers are now reportedly increasingly on wedge the time line set by their own Justice Department. Especially because if there are not massive redactions, the report will expose them as the source of damaging informatio
Cabinet, hes the labor secretary alex ocosta and former president bill clinton and President Trump whose palm beach mansion maralago is down the road from epsteins. The man with homes around the world and his private island is in a federal lockup. Were joined from outside federal court in lower manhattan. If true, these charges are beyond disturbing. What are prosecutors saying they found so far . Reporter yeah, they have found a lot, anderson. We learned today that this just makes everything much worse as despicable as a lot of this is, we learned today that prosecutors, investigators when they entered epsteins home on his Upper East Side mansion, they found a vast trove of lewd photos. Thousands of nude photos depicting underaged girls they believe. They also found a safe and inside that safe what they say is that they found a cdrom and on them different labels, one of them saying young name and name. There was another one that said miscellaneous news and there was a third c. D. Whic