Groping allegation against democratic senator al franken while refusing to speak out about the multiple sexual abuse allegations against gop Senate Candidate roy moore. Mr. Trump slamming senator franken in a tweet and mocking the photo released by the senators accuser. Tonight the press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders rejecting any comparison between the allegations against franken and accusations made against President Trump by multiple women. She says franken has admitted to wrongdoing, but the president has not. Also tonight, the Moore Campaign tells cnn its fundraising has gone through the roof since the sexual abuse allegations became public. But new polling shows moore now is trailing his democratic opponent by 8 points with the special election in alabama less than a month away. Also breaking, cnn has learned that special Counsel Robert Mueller is trying to interview the british publicly cyst who set up that 2016 meeting at trump tower involving a russia lawyer and donald trum
A whole new standard for judging those accused of Sexual Assault or harassment. Press secretary Sarah Sanders making the argument that those who admit to wrongdoing are guilty, but those who simply deny the allegations and say their accusers are the liars are innocent. Listen to this exchange at todays press briefing. If its fair to investigate al franken, and the allegation made by his accuser, is it also fair to investigate this president and the allegations of Sexual Misconduct made against him by more than a dozen women . Look, i think that this was covered pretty extensively during the campaign. We addressed that then. The American People, i think, spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president. But how is it different . I think in one case, specifically, senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasnt. I think thats a very clear distinction. Its a clear distinction. To put it another way, sanders is saying, take the president at his word. Which is prob