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When you have pretty much the entire party turn against you, i think its hard to fight against that. look, i think what happened, based on conversations that ive had with people who sort of know the story of how this came to be, was a lot of the women senators had been very upset about this, the women democratic senators, and were kind of giving him the space to work through this. then when we had the sixth accuser come out, it kind of got to this place of, okay, weve given you time to kind of d...

Colleagues commented on this, on the front end to offer the story is very different than what we have been seeing and speaks to the monumental shift you are seeing on capitol hill and the way both parties are beginning to address these allegations. at the beginning, we are seeing people dragging their feet and colleagues piling on and telling them to resign. now, you are seeing a situation and we dont know what conversations were happening behind the scenes leading up to trent franks leading him...

Ago, a kiss that she was able to avoid. democrats are no longer in the business of minimizing such accusations or criticizing the accusers as many democrats did in the 1990s for bill clinton. during bill clintons first presidential campaign, one woman staff member famously in charge of handling what the clinton campaign proudly called bimbo eruptions by which they mean the kind of accusations now leveled against al franken and much worse okay saigs than that that were leveled against bill clinto...

Drens of the evidence, there are allegations today, other places, nbc has not confirmed it, that former congressman ford is now out at an investment bank because of allegations of improper conduct. were going to have to deal case by case with every single allegation. what stunneded me about al franken today, no remorse. it has been three weeks since leeann tweeden put up the tweet. and the picture and the allegation of a course of conduct of abuse that extended over two weeks. and not even an ap...

Want to do. >> is this not the year of the ultimate age of hypocrisy? lisa murkowski, a republican, to come out and call for al franken to resign, does lisa murkowski not remember that her, our president of the united states, donald trump, who she stands behind, has more accusers than al franken and have accused him of worse. how does lisa murkowski stand up and say i think al franken need to step down and stand silent when it comes to our president, our republican president? >> not just her but...

I think they thought he could weather that. i felt if more accusers came out it would be an impossibility for them politically. you have had several women come out and he has not apologized for the other accusers. it was really only the first one, the photograph. >> lee anne tweed. >> he didnt admit any wrongdoing with the other ones. he said hes sorry if he offended anyone. right now hes persona nongrata. >> do you think hell step down? >> chuck schumer, everyone. >> everyone is calling for him...

Furious that conyers was pushed out while white lawmakers in both parties are facing various allegations, democrats like franken, republicans like roy moore. nancy pelosi exacerbated the racial tensions in the democratic party by initially backing conyers and even questioning the validity of some of his female accusers. after pressure from others on the left, pelosi angered the black caucus by flip-flopping on conyers. watch. >> one accusation, two? john conyers is an icon in our country. congre...

Senator al franken facing new and growing calls to resign amid sexual misconduct accusations, just hours from now, the democrat is holding a news conference about his future as today, more than 30 fellow democratic senator ts, including chuck schumer, came out calling for frankening to resign. there had been a giant wall of silence, then today -- unlike the other accusers. kristen gillibrand says that is enough. >> there were in allegations today and enough is enough. we need to draw a line in t...

People we all know and worked alongside of in other networks. and the "new york times," the expose of harvey weinsteins incredible behavior, the way that he went after his accusers for decades as outlined in yesterdays "new york times" story, which was page after page of citation from some of these victims, is just beyond belief. things that i never knew were going on. >> andrea, the cases that you cited, those were indisputable violations and they went on for a period of time. they shocked so m...

Furious that conyers was pushed out while white lawmakers in both parties are facing various allegations, democrats like franken, republicans like roy moore. nancy pelosi exacerbated the racial tensions in the democratic party by initially backing conyers and even questioning the validity of some of his female accusers. after pressure from others on the left, pelosi angered the black caucus by flip-flopping on conyers. watch. >> one accusation, two? john conyers is an icon in our country. congre...