disgusted with myself. it isn t funny. it s completely inappropriate. franken says he s asking for an ethics investigation, and he will gladly cooperate. back now with our panel and joining the conversation by carry sellers. gloria, did al franken do enough? well, i think his he s going to go before the ethics committee and it remains to be seen. you know, he issued april first statement, which was really per funk to her, i have to say. it was sort of like i don t remember the rehearsal and i shont have taken the picture and i shouldn t have done it and it wasn t funny. and that was just nothing. and then clearly somebody got to him or he talked to his staff or other senators who were clearly starting to say how outraged they were by it and then he wrote the second statement, which he read from. and she was gracious enough today to say she wasn t asking for him to leave the senate. she accepted his apology, and
i pushed him off with my hands, and i almost punched him. every time i see him now my hands clench into fists, and i m sure that s probably why. and i said, if you ever do that to me again, i m not going to be so nice about it the second time, and i just walked out away from him and i just topwanted t find a bathroom and rinse my mouth out. tweeden released this photograph yesterday showing franken grabbing her chest while she slept on that tour. frank ren released a short statement saying, i remember it differently. i send my sincerest apologies to leeann. as to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn t. i shouldn t have done it. he later said, i don t know what was in my head when i took that fi picture, and it doesn t matter. there s no excuse. i look at it now and i feel disgusted with myself. it isn t funny.
frank en forcibly kissed her rehearsing a skit during a 2006 uso tour. he just mashes his mouth to my lips and it was like wet and he puts his tongue in my mouth. i was so angry. reporter: after returning home, tweeden said she came across the photo of him groping her on a cd given to her by the tour photographer. it is belittling, humiliating. is that funny? is that ever funny? reporter: tweeden choking up while explaining why she s coming forward after 11 years. you know, you always i don t want to be a cliche but, you know, you talk about trying to leave the world a better place for your kids, you know? reporter: he said the picture was intended to be funny but wasn t before issuing a second statement apologizing. there s no excuse. i look at it now and i feel disgusted with myself. it isn t funny. it s completely inappropriate. that one did seem heartfelt and i gladly accept it. i believe it. and thank you.
she spoke out on morning television today. i think we have some of her interview. i m not calling for him to step down. that was never my intention. for people to know i just wanted him to understand what he did was wrong in how he treated me, in how abusers who, i think, do that under the guys that it was funny, or i can get away with it because it was funny. that s never funny. reporter: nobody is laughing now at the photo that al franken was involved in. he played this off as a joke but addressed it more completely in a longer second statement he put out yesterday saying, quote, i don t know what was in my head when i took that picture, and it doesn t matter. there s no excuse. i look at it now and i feel disgusted with myself. it isn t funny. it s completely inappropriate.
and he just kept persisting. reporter: she says franken came at her. he just mashed his lips against my face and he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. and all i can remember is that his lips were really wet, and it was slimy. and i remember, i pushed him off with my hands and i just remember, i almost punched him. reporter: but minutes later, they were in front of the troops performing the sketch they would do many times. when the trip was over, exhausted, tweeden fell asleep on the plane. and that s when the photo was taken. it was a photo of al doing his, you know, this on my breast, like, looking at the camera, just kind of smirking and smiling, like, hey, look at me. i mean, nothing like that is ever funny, i mean, is it funny if he does that to your sister or your daughter or your wife? reporter: today, he apologized. writing, the first and most important thing is, i m sorry. of that picture, the senator says, there s no excuse. i look at it now and i feel disguste