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Assaulted. he says the joke was never intended to air on television. what are you hearing on the hill? >> this is a situation where you showed some democrats on camera talking about this for the most part. i would say there were a lot of people that were running away from the cameras, democrats who dont want to talk about this. but i do think that there is a sense that, you know, this is not -- there is a certain level of your honor surprise i think that the overall sexual harassment story reach...

Officer and a gentleman. >> reporter: the women defending moore today also tried to highlight what they see as an unfair double standard, that al franken isnt being asked to re-sign, even though he admits he was sexually inappropriate with an accuser, but roy moore is be asked to step aside, even though he denies all wrongdoing. thats as others say, they think its suspicious these stories came out now. >> ive never heard a whisper or a rumor about judge moore and these kinds of sexual activities...

Senator al franken is the latest public figure to be accused of sexual misconduct, and his accuser spoke to our jake tapper about what needs to change. >> i think thats where change is going to be driven from, not from the victims coming out and talking about it, i think its going to come from the people who maybe do the abusing that dont even realize they are doing the abusing because its so part of the culture and when you can do this and look at a camera and laugh and think thats okay and you...

What happened with the appaolog leeann tweeden wrote? >> reporter: bottom line, leeann tweeden reads a letter watched and hosted by women in that demographic area and when shes done reading the apology one of the hosts says, pretty good. the crowd applauds it. so there seems to be a movement here towards allowing this to kind of work its course. with al franken weve not seen or heard from him from the moment it broke. he was rushed out of a hearing he was in yesterday morning and i is a snaect w...

Whats important the impact it had on you and you felt violated by my actions, for that i apologize. i have tremendous respect for your work with the uso and ashamed my actions ruined that experience for you. i am so sorry. sincerely, al franken. >> what was the reaction to that, garrett? >> reporter: yeah. again, one of the hosts said, pretty good apology and the crowd applauded. its just such a vistrikingly different tact to be completely cynical about it, lean in as an apology versus the roy m...

Franken who has apologizing, seven years ago on the senate floor, he spoke about that very uso tour that we were just talking about and made note of the beauty of the woman who is now his accuser. >> we did a four hour show because we found out that the troops love the show. because it was a little bit of home. during the show i was a cohost with a beautiful woman named leanne tweed and and we would do comedy routines. >> democratic leaders admittedly called freight ethics probe, sexual harassme...

Process. thats very different than what we see on the other side. >> david, do the democrats have the moral high ground? >> im going to dispute that. im not going to compare what al franken is accused of to what roy moore is accuseds of. keep something in mind here. the democrats could replace al franken with another democrat easily. theres no net loss to the party, to the causes. i mean, were talking about here, whos going to go first on showing real principle other than sort of putting out, ha...

Tests and rape kits, what other evidence would you require? >> what were going to do is leave it here guys. thank you for the conversation. would like to continue it and i think we will over the coming days and weeks. its important and not going away. top of the hour, senator frankens accuser joins jake tapper. more breaking news. jared kushner under fresh scrutiny in the russia investigation over something he did not do, see why when we come back. ♪ give ancestrydna, the only dna test tha...

>> im not aware of any anticipated conversations. something i have to check on. i dont have any further comment beyond that at this point. id refer you to the state department. >> the allegation made by frankens accuser. is it also fair to investigate this president and the allegations of sexual misconduct made by more than a dozen women? >> this was covered extensively during the campaign. we addressed it then. the american people spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president. >> h...

If her life and the lives of everybody shes none in the last 40 years. she said no matter what her husband has been accused of, she doesnt believe it and hes not getting out of the race. >> let me set the record straight. even after all the attacks against me, my family, against the foundation and now against my husband, he will not step down. >> we have not late eyes on judge moore. but hes tweeted trying to discredit the accuser. they want the year book to be seen by a third party forensic exp...