Today i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Let me be clear. I may be resigning my seat but i am not giving up my voice. I will continue t to stand up for the things that i believe in as a citizen and as an activist. It looks like in this situation here when you have that ground swell of people on your side saying time to get out, you really cant be an effective leader regardless but he did take that opportunity to fire some salvos from the floor. Yeah, he absolutely did. Lets take a listen actually well get to Tom Fitzgerald right now. Fitz obviously a lot of talk about this one today. Reporter well, we can talk about those salvos, jim, because it really did open a lot of eyes. What he said when he was on the floor of the u. S. Senate today was standing there unaware of the fact that he was leaving the United States senate when the president of the United States and the Republican Senate candidate for the seat in alabama
In d. C. Well have the latest in a live report. And later, the end of an e era. The Washington Post declaring the power suit a thing of the past. We want to know what you think coming up. Good day at 9a starts now. Oh, boy, straighten your ties. Make them a little tighter. Get going. Pull up your suit coat. Thats right. Good day d. C. Its 9 00 sorry one on this thursday december 7th. So you guys said it. You dont think the power suit will ever go away. No. I think i read the article. Well talk more about it later. I dont think its so much as the power suit going away as maybe what the suit indicates is changing a little bit. Now people are maybe using their suit to show a little more style. Does that make sense . I dont think so. I think washington will be the last to adopt that maybe desmoines i watch well talk more about it later. Listen on the fashion note also ahead this morning, the future of fashion pam tone is out with the official color of 2018 and it is white. Well have to sta
December 22nd but these lawmakers need to stop kicking the can down the road. They need to get to work. They need to stop playing partisan politics. And they need to do what is best for all of us, the american people. In a moment well go to blake burman at the white house. He was listening to Sarah Huckabee sanders and the press conference where a lot of things came up including al franken. We have lanhee chen and former Deputy Assistant to president george w. Bush, brad blakeman. Good to see you twice. You know, we, i want to start on al franken, right . Because it looks like al franken, he is now out. The democrats pushed him out, brad blakeman. And they pushed him out, im wondering if because it was politically exfedayeen for them . In other words, i hate to be a cynic on this stuff. They had plenty of opportunities in the past to call out men that have done inappropriate things. Bill clinton of course comes to mind but they never took that opportunity. Now they had al franken, that
Government showdown, shutdown, excuse me this weekend. This is all happening this hour. Were following it for you live. Meanwhile crews are facing an uphill battle as they fight to contain three major wildfires burning in southern california. Officials say it could get worse before it gets better. We know how bad it has been. Nearly 200 homes and buildings have already been destroyed. Were on the ground in ventura county. Finally defiant al franken announcing resignation from the u. S. Senate after getting immense pressure from the fellow senators and taking jabs at president and roy moore on the way out. Karl rove on timing of frankens resignation. What happens now . Melissa Congress Moves forward on the budget. Nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Nicole we saw a spike in the dow after al franken announced he was going to resign. What about that . Indeed, thats right. It went to the highs of the day. Were up about 120 points at that time. Held on to good gains, up 7
We want to protect the identity of the victims. Reporter we also know that pastor thomas did have tied that traveled the nation. His neighbors say he was married but tended to keep to himself. Just within the last couple minutes, we did learn that the congregation does plan to speak to us and release a statement about yesterdays arrest involving the pastor here. They are going to do that in about a half hour from now at the police mu nnicipal building. Well bring you the latest information as soon as we learn it. Well see you next hour. Al franken is announcing he will resign from congress in the coming weeks following a wave of Sexual Misconduct allegations. Today im announcing in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Frankens decision follows a new allegation against him that brings the total number of accusers to come forward to eight. They have demanded he resign. During the speech, franken took some parting shots at President Trump and repub