here? i respect maya love for coming out and saying that this is not fiscal conservative for u.s. taxpayers to be paying settlements for blake farranthold and that he should voluntarily resign. all right, jason, we know that trent franks said in a statement that he was resigning in part because of, quote, in the midst of this current cultural and media climate, i m deeply convinced i will be unable to complete a fair house ethics investigation. now, does he have a point here? al franken said lets have an ethics investigation. that didn t happen. public pressure is so big. look at joe barton for example. joe barton, whether it was revenge porn or not, joe barton had naughty nudie pictures of himself spread throughout the internet and said i m not going to run again. right. can these guys, or women in some cases, are they getting a fair shake? because there s two ways to judge this. i think this is important. there s the voters holding you
jurisdiction over him and tharenhold may reconsider. trent franks said he s never physically intimidated, coerced or attempted to have any sexual contact with any member of his congressional staff but then went into a long story about his remarks may have been misinterpreted and i think that clearly there were some complaints and he said in the cultural and media climate, i m convinced that he would be unable to complete a fair house ethics investigation before distorted and sensationalized versions of this story were to come to light. so rather than do that, he left. he said it would put me, my family, my colleagues through public srk well, it s remarkable statement. to come out before there was a news story reported or before leadership comments or
evidence to support that position. yet this has been a conspiracy like the common ping-pong conspiracy that keeps circulating. and fox pushed that idea. jen, you re familiar with this young man and the work that he did at the dnc. just talk about this story and the media climate in which we re all processing this lawsuit. yeah. it is it s really, i mean, it s literally sickening because this poor family has been very public about the fact that they want these conspiracy theories to stop. and they do real damage. i mean, you saw what happened with comment ping-pong, a very misguided soul walked into that place with an assault weapon. but is it fantastic to think that the president was involved in at making to the report on that? we know it s not. we know that there is a history of him retweeting great reporting from fox news that s
for the most part for that restitution. that is still happening when she out. the pension he earned in the nfl and s.a.g., that money goes to him and it has been stacking. he will have a sizable amount of money that can t be touched, but if he gets a book or tv deal, touring, the money he will be generating and earning for himself will in large part have to go to that settlement because it is never going away and the gro browns and the gold mans will never let that settlement stand on the sidelines. absolutely not, they waiting to see if he gets any contract remember, he did the book, and they got all of the rights to that book to get the money. my feeling is that $33 million in this media climate is
strength that she displayed in this period of time is mind boggling. people think of jackie kennedy, as you said in the beginning, this extraordinarily beautiful woman, incredibly stylish, glamorous, but the sort of steel beneath the surface that she possessed in order to navigate that week and months afterwards, it kind of blows the mind when you think about all the things she was juggling and how just out of how unthinkable this event was, and she was in the middle of it. i love the part where she is smoking and the reporter is talking to her. she said i don t smoke. yeah, well, she did smoke throughout their time in the white house, and it was never photographed, never written about. obviously, it was a different era, a different media climate, but she was someone who really intuitively understood the power of imagery and the role of television and photography and the role that it could play in shaping people s impressions of her husband and of her, and she