use it as a tool for politics. and once it came to one side or to the other, you would see the same people start pushing away from it and saying stuff like, let s talk about the real issues. this is a real issue. tucker: andrew parker, do you think the democratic organization in minnesota investigated this in a legitimate way? these claims? no, it wasn t legitimate at all. any objective review of it would reach the same conclusion. the democratic national committee kicked it to the dfl party in the state of minnesota, who hired their lawyer to investigate their candidate for attorney general. not just their candidate, tucker, for attorney general, but across the left, for the democratic party, a leader of the progressive movement, not just in minnesota, but nationally. the vice chair of the democratic national committee is who they
allegations let alone if they believe them. tom folly former candidate of attorney general. he joins us now. tom, what s the delay here. i don t understand it they are certainly serious allegations of domestic abuse and physical violence against keith ellison. and, yet, the dfl party in minnesota which is the democratic party and the dnc say they are reviewing it but to date we haven t seen any action. brian: he was accused by a liberal sierra club activist karen monahan of abuse not originally. originally came from her son and her son claims that there is video of this. well, what happened was it broke two days before the primary election. the victim s son broke it on social media. and then it was corroborated by the victim the next day indicating years of domestic abuse and at least one case of physical violence. and that there could be a video of this.
brian: is that enough for you? no. they say it s under review. the dfl party said it was under review. two days later the party central committee endorsed keith ellison for attorney general. so, we don t know was there a review, if there s there was a review, what was the standard? i think the dnc should do the same thing. they should have him step down pending completion of this review or completion of this investigation. and it warrants a criminal investigation and i don t know why anything hasn t been done. brian: and you are a democrat? i am a democrat. brian: there we go it seems like a double standard here. tom perez refuses to say whether he believes the accuser. maybe there is video. is he running for top cop of minnesota. top legal officer of the state of minnesota. brian: thanks so much, tom, we will see where this goes. we reached out to keith ellison. we have not heard back. meanwhile. we have been telling you about conservatives being
time to dissect this information and for voters to be able to digest it and figure it out. so personally, i could make the call, that s what i would want the alabama governor to do. marie: i think this is a tough one because the white house and it seems like they changed a little bit. they first said if it s true, he should step out of the race. they re not saying that anymore. they re now saying let the voters decide. they have switched their position a little bit. you re right that i don t think politically it works for state for national parties to come in and pose their will on the states. but if the republican party in the state and are not doing this, but let s say they said we don t want him to be our nominee on the ballot, would you feel differently about that? pete: i would like in minnesota some of the dfl party said we don t want al franken anymore, that s different than the democratic national committee saying it. just think local is more. space if this is a question of
charter school in nashville and met a young woman there. she got a full scholarship to boston college. i ll never forget, here we are, we like to talk to the media. the media didn t want to talk to us at all. they wanted to talk to this young lady, an amazing success story. i wish yoi you tu the best of l. thank you. thank you, senator. thank you, senator paul. senator franken. i m a member of the minnesota dfl party, the party that the chairman invoked at the beginning of this hearing. charter schools are not the issue here. minnesota is thoroughly in the mainstream. there are 37 states in this country that constitutionally prohibit the use of public school money for religious schools. so it is a dfl party in minnesota, thank you very much, that is in the mainstream. and not our witness or the chairman.