any slightest bit of sexual harassment or intimidation. he has treated every single member that i ve seen of his staff with dignity and respect. this is incredibly startling to me and frankly, i find it a tragedy. i find it a tragedy that he feels like he needs to resign over what we know about the allegations. tucker: he s being pushed to resign by paul ryan. have you spoken to him? i have not. tucker: assuming, this is all there is to know, but this is what we do know, on the basis of this, do you think these are appropriate grounds for resignation? absolutely not. when you re a member of congress, you ll be working with staff on very difficult issues of policy. congressman frank s, he s one of the most well-known pro-life members, so he cares about the dignity of life. he was going through something incredibly hard. he was trying to go about it in a way of honoring the life of
advisor. from what you know, what exactly are the charges, what are the allegations causing him to resign? the allegations are that congressman frank s approach to staffers individually about the subject of surrogacy in his office. he talked about surrogacy, his wife and he have fertility problems. he had an uncountable conversation. according to him, he asked if they would ever consider being a surrogate. according to him, he never put it to them that they would be surrogates for him. an awkward conversation, it could make someone feel uncomfortable, but to me, that doesn t rise to the level of sexual harassment or abuse. that s what the claim is and that s what he says. i worked for the congressman, i remained and touched with him. i have never been made to feel uncomfortable day with the congressman, i have never seen
quote, i m ready to get out of here, but did anyone expect barney frank to go quietly? now after less than a day without his house seat, the former congressman wants out of retirement. frank telling msnbc s morning joe yesterday, he wants duval patrick to appoint him that will be vacate if and when john kerry becomes secretary of state. if i in fact, i m not going to be i ve told the governor that i would like frank to do that because i would like to be a part of that. i want to bring in the boston globe statehouse bureau chief frank phillips and you re sitting there in congressman frank s home district right now. is anybody there surprised at all? i think we are a little surprised. he has been talking about it for several years, i ve had private conversations with him over the last few years.
that s what everybody else does. barney frank, though, wild card, which is why everybody loves him. here is how massachusetts governor deval patrick reacted to that rather surprising development just a couple of hours later. would you have preferred that he not go public? well, would i have preferred. does it matter in the case of congressman frank what i would have preferred. i have treated those conversations as confidential. and i think in every other case the person has treated them as confidential. and in congressman frank s case, he has chosen not to on his end. i m going to keep my end. it is probably true that deval patrick has had the conversation about the senate seat with a bunch of people. but barney frank is just going on tv and talking about it and saying that he wants the job. really, nobody does it that way. the serving massachusetts senator john kerry of course has been nominated to replace hillary clinton at state.
businessman beilat hoping to unseat the 29 year veteran of congress. mr. beilat joins us today. we ve reached out to congressman frank s campaign but they not spoken. mr. beilat you have given congressman frank the toughest race for reelection than he s had a inn a long time. still leading by 12 points. how are you going to make that up in the final week? first we think that s misleading there s a large enthusiasm gap. based on what we know we believe that the gap is much closer. the other thing we have is momentum his numbers are sinking while ours are rising. wee feel good. there s a lot of issues people care about primarily economic people say barney frank on the wrong side of those issues. chris: as a committee chairman that was involved in