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this resolution. obviously the republicans are kind of feeding the story, trying to give the story legs a little bit. but what is the news nugget that they re hanging this on that they put this resolution on today? well, they, thought, democrats did, that eric massa s resignation would be enough. it wasn t, because there was some confusion when the democratic officials knew of some kind of problem happening in the office of the former new york congressman. so how does the story go? well, there have been questions about what did the speaker know? now, senior aides to the speaker say that their office was given some information back in october. but not rising to the level of these sexual harassment allegations. it was really of a different tone. they said they were warned by one of massa s staffers at the time that the congressman had too many staffers, had been living with some of his staffers, and there were concerns about foul language. so today the speaker said that she did not kno
the peace, and they just virtually slap him. this story has played out so many times before. there are secretaries of state that go back to jim baker s time who would land, and israelis would announce settlements that would get in the way, so this movie has run before, and it sort of makes you wonder why it was they weren t better prepared for this. now, the state department will tell you, the white house will tell you that they believe prime minister net anyahu didn t know vice president biden was there. so they would have felt a whole lot better if biden had left town first, okay? the fact of the matter is the obama administration last year declared that the settlements had to freeze as a way of getting the talks started. then they began gradually to back away from that last
that eric massa s resignation would be enough. it wasn t because there was some confusion about when did democratic officials know of some kind of problem happening in the office of the former new york congressman? so how does the story go? well, there have been questions about what did the speaker know? now, senior aides to the speaker say their office was given some information back in october, but not rising to the level of these sexual harassment allegations, it was really of a different tone. they said they were warned by one of massa s staffers at the time that the congressman had too many staffers, had been living with some of his staffers, and there were concerns about foul language. so today the speaker said that she did not know about the sexual harassment allegations until very late in the game. and so she is contending that she and her office were not aware for months. republicans raised that question. of course, the obvious implication is that they might have been hiding i
i think so. a i got a tip about a former campaign manager back in 2006, where there was that s an election he lost. when he first ran for congress. but weird lawsuit where he made allegations against a campaign manager that he later retracted about making a pass at his son. all sorts of weird things. when the story cropped up again last week and i got back in touch with some of these people that led to his navy colleagues. now we see the whole line of people who have been groped, or had strange encounters with massa. you got a lot of these maybe colleagues to go on the record with you about his behavior. i guess my question is, what explanation do they give to you, why didn t they go to their to eric massa s senior officer and say, hey, he s doing this? why not report it at the time? i think the main thing was