From your times. I Michael bore Abarbanel this yesterday Teddy Centre. Our Frank reluctantly steps down what it tells that his own party made him do it's Friday December S, presence Four Minnesota Agnes pressure, the day was one of the most dramatic days in Washington. In a long time, it felt like teams commies testimony. Everyone knew that something big what's gonna happen. Unique else hinder, has been reporting on sexual harassment in Congress, yet know what I was gonna happen, but you knew that centre out again, who had been facing weeks of pressure to resign, was gonna, be made

this announcement and he gets to this and it floor in everyone's kind of hushed and trying to figure out what he's gonna setting a couple months ago, I felt that we had entered important moment in the history of this country and he starts, talking as if he is giving a regular one minute for speech, we were finally beginning to listen to women about the ways in which many actions affect them. The moment was lost overdue. He's talking about the moment in the fact that women have been

taking out in the nations been talking about sexual harassment. I was excited for that conversation and hopeful that it would result in real change, made life better for women all across the country and in every part of our society. Then the conversation turned to me. Over the last few weeks, a number of women have come forward to talk about how they felt my actions at affected them. I was I was shocked

I was upset, but in responding to their claims. I also wanted to be respectful of that broader conversation, because all women deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously. I think that was the right thing to do so think it gave some people the false impression that I was admitting, to doing things that in fact I haven't done, this doesn't sound like all lawmaker who believes that he should be resigning. There's no quest in the African didn't think that he should resign. Some of the allegations against may are simply not true others. I remember very differently throughout the entire speech was saying that he was not guilty of the things that people thought of him.

I've been a champion for women. I know, there's been a very different picture of me painted over the last few weeks, but I know who I really am then finally get around a thing: revenue today. I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as member of the United States Senate and that was the moment that everyone was waiting for serving in the United States Senate have been the great honour of my wife, my heart, that nothing I've as a senator, nothing. Has brought this honour on this institution, and I am confident that the ethics Committee work and I thought that was really a big moment, because you think if I was given a chance to have due process, the ethics Committee would have cleared me so

Please thing I'm being pushed out by my own party, so I think you are in some ways really matter Democratic Party in that came through pretty strongly. I fed at the outset that the Ethics Committee was right. Venue for these allegations to be heard. A gated and evaluated on their merits, so given everything you ve just said, Why is frank in resigning? How did we get here? in MID November, a radio hosts came out and essentially said that our Frank in had forcibly groped her. And so fascinated mashes his lips against my face, and he said his tongue in my mouth so fast. A new woman is coming forward this morning to say that seminar, our frank and growth for years ago. That's no water! something like six women, accusing

frank enough, groping them while he was taking pictures with them during a photo up. She said when he put his arm around me. He groped my right breast. He kept his hand. All the way over all my breasts- and I remember thinking is he going to move his hand, was it an accident. Was he going to move his hand? and as the pressure mounted, we saw John Conyers, the longest serving House Democrat resigned after, weeks of pressure of flood of sexual rasping accusations and escalating calls from top Democrats to resign his seat Congress, John Conyers, had nowhere left to go retiring today and as a result, before turning to outbreak in saying will when is he gonna? Go political was first report; a seventh woman has come forward, accusing Frank and of sexual must conduct a former democratic aid, telling politico Frank and try to forcibly kiss her saying it was his quote. Right as an entertainer and when, came to a head when a woman

came out and said he forcibly tried to kiss me when I was packing up to leave during his radio show, and now an eighth woman tells the Atlantic Frank and groped her too, and as a result, that kind of I really, I think, was the tipping point for a lot of democratic women. Enough is enough. I mean this the conversation we ve been having for a very long time. The conversation that this country needs to have smokers in Durban? and several other centres, while Harris Kind of its secession came out in unison that he needs to go. And I think when we start having to talk about the differences between sexual assault and sexual harassment and unwanted groping, you are having the wrong conversation. We need to draw a line in the sand and ass. They none of it, is ok, none of it is acceptable and we, as elected leader, should actually be held to a higher standard, not a lowest, entered and we should fundamentally devaluing women, and that is where this debate has to go. I was there and it felt like this moment where the Senate was

really changing and where women were kind of blocking the democratic leadership and saying we're not taking us that if we're a sexual harassed or go away. We don't you. We don't want you, as our colleague and would followed, was like thirty. Eight Democrats number a huge number of them. This is pretty remarkable that in just a span of maybe thirty minutes or so the number of senators and have all come out at the same time, I think that these women coming Publicly, in unison fell as if it was a moment that the Democratic Party could not ignore, There are new calls tonight from fellow Democrats asking Minnesota Democratic, Sounder AL frightened to resign and as few minutes ago, that list now includes the top Democratic, the Senate, sender, Chuck Schuman. So by the middle of this week there is a unified call among Democrats in the Senate. That Frank and should

step aside immediately, what does that tell you? You meet a bow. Where the Democrats are and what their strategy is for dealing with this kind of issue there, cats have essentially so that they're gonna be the purest party. They're gonna, be the party that if you are accused of sexual occasions and they seem to be pretty credible and I would say even if you do- completely deny them and say that you didn't do this. If, especially, if the women in the party think that you just need to go I think you're gonna have to go. What is the political theory among the Democrats about why, It's a wise strategy to be the party of purists who have no patience and no tolerance for someone who is accused of sexual spent there do things going on wine Democrats see themselves as champion for women in equal rights and justice. That's what all of their

candidates run on its what the Democratic Party brand is supposed to be. So I think that these, themselves is wanting to be on higher ground than Republicans. I think the second thing is that Democrats are making this calculation that in two thousand even when they have to deal with a Roy, more or other candidates on the republic inside that deal with this that they can say, we ve clean shop, and that someone like way more, isn't welcome here. Well, oh good people Alabama, gunners out away from Tuesday who they want to send to the Senate. Its up to them has been a pretty robust campaign with a lot of people waiting in the present. I of course support somebody indifferent earlier in the process, but that, in the end, leaders of Alabama make their joy soon. This Democrat strategy seems as your indicating to be in direct contrast to the strategy that Republicans are relying on

in dealing with allegations against Senate candidate Roy more in Alabama yeah? Think Republicans have made the calculation that, because possibly the president was able to get elected with his own allegations hanging over him that their voters might be more willing to put people on office that having allegations because we Roy more comes to the Senate and someone tries to expel him. It's gonna feel undemocratic. Is the Alabama voters had weeks and weeks and weeks to decide whether or not this is who they wanted to send to the USA, and if they elect him, it's gonna sound like How dare Mitch Mcconnell overruled the people. The whole state president drop is not taking a stand. The Alabama Senate such waiting is full endorsement for the controversial republican candidate more saying quote: Democrats refusal to give even one vote for mass intact. That is why we need Republican Roy more to win an alibi His vote on stop

crime, illegal immigration border while military pro like me, a judge's second amid and more suits and the Republican He is saying this is about the issues. This is about what comes before Congress and president. Try explicitly said a voice more. I'm supporting him because where he stands on this law, long list of conservative issues that he cares about the Republicans rage is twofold wine, the voters, your actual constituents back you that we're gonna back you, unlike democratic, say, even if the people, The soda are not calling for you to resign working to. Let you go. The other three She is that, if you are good for the party- and we can talk conservative values that we can say that overruled whatever moral, using my has and Jones in Alabama folks, don't be fooled. He'll, be a vote against tax cuts, he's weak on crime weak on board

leaders he strong on raising your taxes, he's terrible for property owners, showman zone young, doctrinaire level, which is why he's not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. So Roy more I'm telling you that we want the votes in in there in the Senate to get this tax. This tax bill, what did Frank and have to say about this moment on the other side of the iron, with the Republicans, what he said was I of all people. Aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving, while a man who is bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault, sits in the oval office and a man who is repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate, Will the weather for support of his party? He saying I don't deserve this. I should essentially

main in the Senate, and we should be really focused on the fact that President Trump has been accused of- inappropriate and we should really be focused on making sure Roy more doesn't come to the Senate and we as Democrats be asking ourselves. Why are we asking they being purists and wire republic in allowing the people in party to go on the way they are so image it. Do you think that this Alabama special action on Tuesday, which were all watching so closely. We'll signal anything about which side is right here, the Democrats or Republicans about what the public cares most about. Moral high ground or about core issues before Congress and the candidates who stay and for those issues. If Roy more was running in Florida, I would say that this is gonna, be a complete signal to what to do in eighteen is gonna be like, but he's running in Alabama, which means that there are people who really see the Democratic Party as being not Christianity.

Have the values that allow the republican voters there really care about. I think Bromar coming to the Senate. It signals republican voters can in some ways weather where than we thought they could weather. But I think Donald Trump selection, kind of was that I don't think it's gonna signal the Democrats are have it right or the Republicans have it right, because twenty eighteen, me it's gonna, be where this all more that's gonna be. Who can the argument going forward that you should do this in swing, states, one He bore China, one back from voters, so it may that voters are as divided as the party he's and how they respond to this issue too, and so it might be that democratic voters would have wanted their politicians to Fourth Frank and out of office, whereas republican voters would not have wanted there petitions to force Roy more out of this race. I think so, but I think there is also this feeling among Minnesota voters from people that I've talked to. You would also people that I've seen tweet

roaming gotten emails from there are some Minnesota voters who feel that African should not. And forced to resign. I think if we put our Frank it in a race with a republic and these allegations are hanging over him. The idea that this war have somehow tank his campaign. I am not sure that so, if, if voters might prefer the republican strategy which has led the voters, decide this, not the leaders of a party Is this seemingly a risky strategy on the part of the Democrats to make this decision centrally from Washington? It's a risk for Democrats because they could be seen as the third persecuting people too quickly. There also a party of due process near Party of justice, your party that says that you shall have your day in court and essentially junk and here's an outbreak. It did not get their day in court, which is of course before the ethics

me neither one of them were able to actually do that and Democrats, as I just said now, we're done with you, you miss. Thank you. Thank you on Thursday night republican representative trend francs of Arizona one of Congress. Most ardent social conservatives, maybe unexpected announcement that he would resign after that, whose ethics Committee began investigation into complaints that he had asked to female staff members to be a surrogate to bear his child in payment. Frank said the discussion came up because he and his wife, who have struggled with fertility to have a child, do my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy. He said I clearly became insensitive

as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect. Others francs said he would step aside, at the end of January, rather than wait for the outcome of the ethics investigation? End quote a sensation wise trial by media. He becomes the third lawmaker and the first Republican to step down. This week over accusations related to sexual harassment, we'll be right back.

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