some ways it makes it harder. it doesn t get easier, but we are thankful for every opportunity we have. i know that it makes the time that you are at home with your loved ones certainly that much sweeter when you are with them. what have you been able to do for christmas with the other men and women who are there with you in kuwait? well, we had an office decorating contest and i sent pictures of that. we have it, yep. a little bit while we were preparing for the holidays. they lay out great meals and the morale director threw a concert for us here today and our troops in iraq, two locations had the uso tour come through and there are movies and things. we are our own family away from home. we do our best to celebrate the holidays. how do your sons and your
destroy a human being s life, his family and everything that they stand for without giving him a chance. that was democratic senator joe manchin, saying senator al franken should not resign, at least not before an ethics committee investigation. joining me now, retired supreme court state justice who also believes that the senator should be given a fair hearing before resignation. thank you for being here. thank you. why do you think al franken, for the moment, should stay in the senate and not resign? i think we should hear what happened, who is involved, what the issues are and, as a judge, i know that speedy justice can often mean justice denied. but haven t we heard the circumstances? haven t we heard from these six women? haven t we seen a picture of the woman on the uso tour? don t we have the evidence that
misconduct allegations. franken made the announcement yesterday using his time on the senate floor to also take some pointed shots at president trump. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt has more. reporter: former snl star al franken announcing he ll soon be a former senator. in the coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. reporter: flank enhad been fighting to keep his job after seven women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. too many for 15 women senators who demanded he step down. enough is enough. reporter: flank eninsifrting he did nothing wrong. some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others i remember very differently. reporter: but this photo of franken on a uso tour in 2006 with a sleeping leeann tweeden, for which he apologized, unleashed a half dozen more accusations. he had put his arm around me and he ended up groping my right
for more, i m joined by our guest who is the founder of the me too movement. burke was featured as one of the silence breakers in time magazine s person of the year. stephanie kemplin was the fifth woman to accuse senator al franken of sexual misconduct. you accuse al franken of cupping your breast during a photo op while you were deployed in kuwait and franken was on a uso tour. as you watch what happened today, is this justice? no, i think, you know, what is justice in this situation. it s just sad overall. his resignation is just one of the consequences for what he s put us through. and so is there anything that for you would be justice? i have to say that i m so sad
not the case. that is a horrible trick that was played there because it really makes it challenging and makes it prevent may prevent women from coming forward and worrying about being questioned. the vast, vast majority of women and sexual abuse survivors are not coming forward with false stories, they re coming forward with true stories. mj, as someone who breaks some of these stories, you broke the story about the other woman on the uso tour that franken alleged allegedly groped. also another women at the minnesota state fair. there is a lot of vetting that goes into this. you don t just take somebody s word for it. right. i think i want to be emphatic about that. i don t just get a call from a woman who says, hey, senator franken did x to me and then i write that up and go on the air. we vet these people very, very seriously. we try to talk to people who may have been there at the time, people around them who the person might have told about at the time. there have been photog