Vice president s former spokesman. Hello and welcome to fox news night. I am Shannon Bream in washington. From al franken to turn franks come allegations are turning into resignations. We have brandnew developments. Senator franken, democrat, says he is resigning soon, raising questions about why the delay and who will fill the critical Minnesota Senate seat. Commerce min franks, a republican, has just resigned among us scathing goodbye from paul ryan. Ed, lets start with the developments on trent franks. He was one of the First Tea Party members in the house of representatives. He is somebody whos coming out tonight saying he and his wife had problems with fertility. They wanted to have a child command is basically acknowledging that may be a couple of his female Staff Members were asked to be a surrogate mom. Thats backfiring on him tonight. Putting out in his statement, due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, i clearly became insensitive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others. I recently learned that the Ethics Committee is reviewing inquiry regarding my discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates, making each feel uncomfortable. I deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress. The other interesting angle is that Speaker Paul Ryan is being very aggressive tonight and suggesting that he force this resignation and that a few days ago this was practiced with brought his attention he acted quickly. Last wednesday that speaker was brief and credible claims of misconduct by representative trent franks. He found the allegations to be serious and requiring action, the speaker. What is significant is youve seen a sharp contrast to how nancy pelosi initially handled the john conyers situation. She was on nbcs meet the press calling conyers an icon, doubting the accounts of some of the women who would come forward against conyers. Now in contrast, speaker ryan deciding to move swiftly and basing to help force the rags the of trent franks. Shannon different resignation, we knew or believed this was coming today with senator franken. With more than 30 democrats calling for his resignation, the surprises came when franken delivered a speech that started out with grace and ability but he infuriated some of the left by failing to apologize to any of the women involved. On the right, there was a collective eye roll, maybe more anger over frankens suggesting he was willing to take his medicine but then trying to deflect attention and responsibility from himself with some parting and perhaps cheap shot aimed at both President Trump and Republican Senate candidate roy moore. There is some irony in the fact that im leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office and a man who has repeatedly prayed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. Franken did not really leave today, merely saying he will resign in the coming weeks. The democratic governor, when franken goes him is likely to appoint the female Lieutenant Governor to the seat as a placeholder while others run for the seat at the end of 2018. Shannon all right, for the special election, a lot of names being thrown out there. Franken barely won his seat in the first place, extremely close race. Norm coleman is getting a lot of buzz asked whether he might get in. Tim paul anti, onetime president ial candidate, former governor of minnesota, on the democratic side, one bigname is congressman keith ellison. He was blocked from becoming dnc chair in part because of writings in his past that seem to praise louis farrakhan, the antisemitic head of the nation of islam. Ellison said i commend the brave women who have come forward to share their experience of Sexual Harassment and assault. Their courage is immense and has sparked a longoverdue national reckoning, he says. A wild card could be former fox anchor Gretchen Carlson who hails from minnesota and helped kick off the national connotation on Sexual Harassment. She told cnn today who knows when it comes to whether she major politics. She has already been rumored to be a candidate for a senate seat in new england. Carlson tweeted she is not running for senate from connecticut. Not saying she will rule out politics in general. Shannon this could get interesting. Ed henry, thank you. Fox News Politics editor Chris Stirewalt joins us. Im going nancy drew on the senator franken thing. When he said he was going to resign in the next few weeks, i was like, what . I think hes waiting to see them roy moore gets elected, and if he does and they dont quickly move to get rid of him, hes going to be able to stand there and say why should i leave . All things are possible. Its written that all things are possible. However, i would say in the case of al franken, his perfectly awful speech today will do nothing to encourage his fellow democrats to give him a second look if he decides to try to stick around. Democrats obviously wont be upset about the fact that frankens room raising the accusations against President Trump or roy moore. Al franken was about to say ii dont deserve this. You are doing this to me and he was basically saying im the martyr here and this is unfair and how dare you do this to me. Thats not really taking it for the team. Just send a letter. Thats all you have to do. Send a letter. I hereby resign. And its done. Instead, he had to keep it going. I wrote if he was still working for lorne michaels, they wouldve cut this get shorter. Shannon he was talking today, not admitting to things. This has been hard time for me. Seemed a little bit off. Republican or democrat, everything theyve gone through, you think you would save these women were offended. Im stepping away. You want the platform, you want to go down there and speak. Talk about the republicans, jeff flake gave it a shot when he announced his retirement. You want to swing for the fences. You dont get up there and play small ball like franken did. Shannon high number of celebrities and people on the left were very upset about this. That midler tweeted the democrats are always ready to dump one of their own. I can remember many cases where democrats did not force one of their own out. The speaker got tough with trent franks and said goodbye. We have all learned lessons from the 1990s, just not hairstyles. The lessons democrats learned from bill clinton and defending him was that they ruin their credibility a lot of things. You know who deserves a lot of credit today is the house speaker. Even before nancy pelosi was moving against the creep caucus on the democratic side, we now know that in fact ryan was moving against franks. He still has the Blake Farenthold problem and its going to continue to be a problem until Blake Farenthold leaves under his own steam. Im sure thats what ryan wants. Ryan demonstrated im in the game too. See you democrats have a congressman. He says she knew about his allegations. He raised money and backed my reelection. It is my fault you are still here so i get to stay. Shannon creep caucus, do they have an official twitter account . Shannon we will get tshirts made. Shannon i want to know who is in it. Minnesota governor mark dayton says he will make an announcement about frank interest placement within a few days. What if he doesnt resign . This persons name is going to be out there. Who is in the running, more on that in a few minutes. The divide in washington, not the one we witness every day, new developments tonight concerning allegations of antitrump influence inside the fbi and the Justice Department. James rosen drives us tonight with an exclusive investigation. Good evening. Until wednesday morning when fox news started making inquiries about him, bruce ohr held two jobs at the Justice Department. He was and remain structure of the organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task force. Stripped of his title of senior deputy. Ousted from the office because according to senior officials, ohr withheld his previously undisclosed meetings with two shadowy figures. The committee has uncovered that ohr met with Christopher Steele, the former british spy who authored the antitrump dossier. And that ohr met with glenn simpson, founder of gps, Opposition Research from the paid mr. Steele with funding from the Hillary Clinton campaign in the Democratic National many. The dossier was given the fbi in july of 2016 around the same time donald trump excepted the g. O. P. Nomination. Former fbi director james comey has described the dossier as a collection of salacious and unverified material about mr. Trump and his associates. Republican lawmakers want to know whether the democratic funded dossier was used to obtain a warrant for fisa surveillance on carter page. During a hearing this morning, republican jim jordan of ohio but the question bluntly to the new fbi director, christopher wray. The Democrat National committee and the Clinton Campaign which we now know where one of the same, paid the law firm who paid fusion ups who paid Christopher Steele who then paid russians. To put together a report we call a dossier full of all kinds of fake news, National Inquirer garbage. Its been reported that this dossier was all dressed up by the fbi, taken to the fisa court and presented as a legitimate intelligence document, it became the basis of granting a warrant to spy on americans. Im wondering. Im wondering if that took place. Our staffs have been having extensive interaction with both intelligence committees on our interaction with the fisa court. Its an appropriate setting for those questions. They do motion of bruce ohr follows similar revelations this week about peter strzok, the fbi official removed from the staff of special Counsel Robert Mueller in july following discovery of antitrump text messages. Strzok has played critical roles in three cases. The clinton email interrogation, the dossier, and the russia probe. Shannon we are joined by jim jordan. You had a busy day today. Do you think you will get the answer from the fbi about whether the dirty dossier was used as a means to get a warrant to track the trump administration. Im convinced it was used. They can prove me wrong and present the application. Nothing preventing them from doing so. We have jurisdiction over the Justice Department. Show us what you took, not what the court has, what you took. Became the basis for securing warrants. Show us the documents. See when you have numerous requests for all kinds of answers. The speaker and devin nunes and the intel committee, they are all pushing but we need the information because each day we heard about mr. Ohr, we know about peter strzok. Each and every day, something new comes out which reinforces this belief that you have the fbi working with the Clinton Campaign to go after the other partys nominee. That is not supposed to happen in this great country. Its not supposed to work that way. You had this dossier which was Clinton Campaign paying fusion gps paying Christopher Steele paying russians for a bunch of baloney they turn into an intelligence document. They get a warrant to spy on americans. Really . Potentially Christopher Steele was also, its been reported, paid by the fbi. All this goes on and peter strzok is dismissed from the mueller team. He ran the investigation. It starts to point to this idea that the government was working with one Major Political party to go after the other partys nominee and thats not fair to mr. Trump, President Trump. Thats not fair to, its not how its supposed to work. Shannon do you think you will get an opportunity to question mr. Strzok . I hope so. My guess is his fingerprints are all over this application. He was the deputy head of counterintelligence at the fbi. Hes probably one of the key guys and all the applications they go to the fisa court. I want to question him. We have mr. Rosenstein next wee week. There are lots of questions. Give us the documents. Prove us wrong. Shannon one of your colleagues across the aisle said these attacks and accusations about the fbi are politically motivated. I predicted these attacks on the fbi will grow louder and more brazen as the special counsel does his work in the walls closing around the president with evidence of his help section and other misdeeds. Shannon is that with the tough questions are about . Theyre going to grow louder because. Think of peter strzok, head of counterintelligence at the fbi, ran the clinton investigation. He is the guy who changed the exoneration letter from director comey from gross negligence which is a crime to extreme carelessness. He interviewed mike flynn. He gets picked by bob mueller and then gets kicked off for text messages. Come on. There has to be more. If you kicked everyone off who is antitrump, there wouldnt be anyone left on the mueller team. Shannon do you think its fair . I want to put up a poll from cbs asking people whether they think its a justified investigation. Theres a higher number of people who think its politically motivated. 48 say they think thats actually what this Russian Investigation is about. Doesnt surprise me. People with common sense can look at this, all we learned with mr. Ohr, mr. Strzok, the dossier and the Clinton Campaign. All weve learned. I found we were supposed to be investigating possible coordination between the Trump Campaign and russians to influence the election. Shannon have you seen any . No. We know the Clinton Campaign paid russians to do what . Influence the election. Americans are sharp people, common sense. This doesnt add up. Each and every day we get more information which confirms somethings wrong here. Something smells bad here. Lets get the answers. The best way to get the answers is for the fbi to give us the application. Shannon we were expecting the resignation of senator franken today. Were you surprised by the resignation of your colleague, congressman franks . We were. Trent is a good man. Did not know about this. I havent seen his statement. He told us on the house floor tonight that there would be a statement. I will take a look at his statement and talk more with him next week. Shannon a lot of concern with multiple cases out there. Thank you for making time for us. Good to see you. Come back anytime. A Government Shutdown averted for now. The house and Senate Passed a temporary spending bill that means the government will be funded through december 22. If the president signs the measure as expected. Tops and russian leaders went to the white house this afternoon. He emphasized bipartisanship. Will keep you updated. A longterm solution. New tonight, Justice Department announcing its launched a federal investigation into planned parenthood. The doj will look into the organizations practices regarding fetal tissue and whether planned parenthood profited from selling it. The dod is seeking unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary probe in 2016. The investigation was launched after undercover footage from a Prolife Group the center of her medical progress went public. That group says the video shows planned parenthood officials negotiating over the sale of fetal parts. The Census Bureau has its list of the most wealthy counties in the nation. Top five richest outside the nations capital. Northern virginia, maryland, arlington county. We are going to tell you where this special Christmas Tree is. How its a miracle it survived to become a holiday spectacle. Antisemitism breaks out after President Trumps middle east announcement. We will go live to jerusalem for the latest. Thousands of acres of Southern California are still burning tonight. Adam housley joins us live. Adam. Fires continue to burn. This is the thomas fire, largest fire in california. It has chewed up more than 130,000 acres. We will have the latest details coming up. In the middle of the night, so he got home safe. 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