to, therefore, naturally be call into question. okay. i want to read you something from the washington post. this is written by one of your colleagues. moore is far from the republicans biggest worry. the elephant in the room is the president whose alleged actions were more numerous than moore s. the long list of donald trump accusers detailed accounts of groping and unconsented kissing. trump denied all allegations and yet republicans backed him in 2016 and stand by him to this day. not to put too fine a point on it but if franken and moore aren t fit for the senate. i wonder if the me, too, moment might catch this white house off guard. have they not adequately adjusted any of their statements about these 13 women who have accused the president to sort of exist and sustain them through the me, too, moment that s sweeping this country and every industry? that s a great question. certainly we didn t hear it today in the sarah huckabee
alternate united statverse, dem the white house, what would republicans be saying? all the jerseys would be reversed and they would be saying exactly what the critics of the president are saying now. i pay close attention to sarah huckabee sanders briefing and i heard her say that essentially trying to distinguish between papadopoulos doing the wrong thing and the campaign doing the right thing. and she spoke of emails having been presented to the special counsel. and as i was watching that on cnn ks i was thinking, okay, when they were presented. and same question we asked about don junior whether we learned about the june of 2016 meeting at trump tower. why didn t they blow the whistle then? you know, this is not the typical gathering of information about an opponent which goes on in all campaigns. when you are talking about a foreign actor wanting to play a role in an american campaign, that s where you stop and you
so you have that. the second thing is there is no real bond in the sense that if this was a ted cruz or marco rubio that had won, there would be the real strong bond of republicanism, this idea that there was shared values. donald trump is still not viewed by a lot of republicans certainly here in washington as being a true conservative, and they can t necessarily trust him. and that s what you re seeing. quite frankly, erin, it is unfair for the likes of reince priebus and those folks to be getting thrown under the bus all the time when the blame lays directly with the president himself. well, that s who sets the tone in any organization. michael, you were in the room today for sarah huckabee sanders briefing. she was asked on this issue about why people who are close to the president, whatever, whatever words you want to use, have amnesia, lie, whatever it may be when it comes to russia, i want to play part of her answer because it is pretty telling.
long ago, parenthesis, and would do anything for them, is now in the ring fighting against trump. adding she s been disloyal to bill and crooked. i want to focus on that parenthetical there, and would do anything for them. that raised a lot of eyebrows. the president seeming to suggest something sexually suggestive. we don t know because the president did not respond in that pool spray we re showing video of now. about ten seconds before your show, i got off the phone with a white house official. there s going to be something. there will be an answer to this question. can t tell you what the answer is yet. nor what form that will come. likely at sarah huckabee sanders briefing that is set to start in about an hour. it is possible there may be some kind of statement prior to that. but the white house is going to have to answer to what exactly the president was talking about here because it has created now a situation where senator gillibrand who, on capitol hill, talking with garrett ha
journalists because this story has overwhelmed everything on my radio show. i would like to ask each of you. how are you reacting? do you think the franken story goes anywhere, or does he stay in the senate and they find a way to not open the door to old allegations? i think it s unclear the path forward. i think it can depends if more women come forward with this. the senate ethics committee has not confirmed they are investigating. again, there are concerns about investigating conduct that happened before you were a senator. if there are more stories, more shoes that drop, the pressure from not just republicans but democrats will certainly grow. and i think we just saw the snowballing of the sexual is harassment stories this week from the house hearing where we heard these powerful stories from female lawmakers. this story is not going away. francesca, i was watching the sarah huckabee sanders briefing