sexual misconduct allegations he is facing. here s what he said on cnn this morning. listen to this? the political rankering here is unbelievable how you can destroy a human being s life and his family and everything that they stand for, without giving him a chance. i definitely think he should not resign. i ve seen a person that his own caucus has turned on and it made me sick. his own caucus has turned on. what do you make of this? is do you think there s a possibility that franken doesn t resign after saying he would? well, i don t know if al franken will resign or not. i would just say to you, you i saw representatives conyers and franks resign and that was ape yac ate under those circumstances. i think he should have been afforded more due process than he was. having said that, with these cases and in his case, when i first heard the initial allegation, i said that was before he was a member of the
meeting, it well could be, kate, he s saying look, i m going to get ready soon to interview your client under oath so let s start talking about dates. if really? dowd asked for the meeting it might be hopeful wishful thinking that mueller will say dowd, tell your client he has nothing to worry about it. i think that s in the nature of wishing but doesn t make it so thinking. i don t think there s going to be a likely outcome that s going to satisfy the president in light of what he s been saying in the press in the last two days about this will wrap up and get this christmas present of being cleared. right. and also gets exactly to this, michael moore, the timeline. you ve got some of trump s team who has all along been kind of moving the goal post on when they think this is going to wrap up. ty cobb said they were going to always going to be over by thanksgiving and then wrap up by the end of the year and now
a line in the sand when it comes from the president to roy moore to conyers and franken and, you know, weinstein and spacey and you name it. we have to have a real line in the sand that says to victims we re going to have a process by which they can come forward and feel safer and get resolution that doesn t take a long time. conyers denies it. franken doesn t. i m confused what an ethics investigation would turn out beyond what he s already admitted to? i don t know. there was a second allegation against al franken and the fact is no one calls for an ethics committee investigation. the ethics committee can appropriate and act on its own base and things out in ether. i encourage that to happen and really do believe that it has to be a process that s not going to stretch over a period of time. not fair to the victims. not fair to citizens and taxpayers and not fair to the members.
tweeden. al, it s creepy. and it s not science fiction. then he went on to say that franken doesn t deserve to lumped in with roy moore, harvey weinstein and president donald trump. well, we could spend all afternoon going case to case to case. but for today, i can say, i m a democrat i believe in nonpartisanship. we have a congresswoman transendent as a republican but bipartisan. i hope we can agree what al franken did, what he acknowle e acknowledg acknowledged, he should leave, resign. i find it outrageous that anyone would defend him.
letter to a senator. the senate can t police itself. congress needs to get off its high horse because congress, like the rest of the institutions in this country, has a problem with sexual harassment. they settled i believe 260 cases since the late 90s of sexual harassment and discrimination to the tune of $15 million. that s over ten settlements per year. we don t know who settled these cases. we have a right to know since we are paying for it. i would like to see what those results are. kimberly: okay, juan. what do you think of the allegations today, what happened, and also just get your thoughts on how senator franken reacted. juan: i think he reacted pretty well, especially when he apologized. i think that was appropriate. the thing about it is, this was on some uso tour. i m not sure what s going on between entertainers and the like, but what was clear and i think this is picking up on what greg said, she felt somehow he