Al Doing His News Today

And he just kept persisting. >> reporter: she says franken came at her. >> he just mashed his lips against my face and he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. and all i can remember is that his lips were really wet, and it was slimy. and i remember, i pushed him off with my hands and i just remember, i almost punched him. >> reporter: but minutes later, they were in front of the troops performing the sketch they would do many times. when the trip was over, exhausted, tweeden fell asleep on the ...

I just dont want this -- to me, its more about -- you know, this is happening in hollywood. i think we live in a bubble. i live in a bubble. ive worked in the entertainment business, sports, radio, television, commercials, movies, for over 20 years. and i think because all of this is happening here. i mean, this -- with al now in the senate, so this is kind of hollywood and kind of politics but its sort of the same sort of stage. you know, its just sort of parallel. this is happening in middle a...

And said hello and i was like, hi, al. and i turned around and walked away from him. my husband even said to me last night, as i recall, leann, you left me standing there with al because you said hello and turned your back on him and walked away. i said, yeah, because i wasnt going to talk to him. so my husband said hello, al. no, he had a chance to apologize to me then. because he knew -- he knew exactly what he did to me then and that picture was out there. so he had a chance to apologize to m...

Came out in the last, like, two weeks, when i was deciding, is this the time i tell my story, and i was just looking online and trying to find videos and, you know, recalling everything that happened in my mind from this time ten years ago, 11 years ago, and i found a blog of a soldier who was at one of our shows in afghanistan or iraq, and he just talks about his experience at the show. just says a guy in the audience. and he says al franken and lyon tweeden were great co-emcees and al goes in ...

Altitude where youre out of that reach and then you can take it off. so im wearing it. i fall asleep because i can fall asleep usually before the plane even takes off. so im sleeping up against the side of the plane. and in the photo, if you see the photo, beside me is mark wills, a country singer, hes also asleep. so im sleeping. which anybody that knows me, i sleep anywhere, any time, so im asleep. and there were photographs on the trip. im pretty sure it was the photographer of the tour that ...

You know. they give you cds as you leave that has behind the scenes photos of you on the tour they give you when you leave. and i get this and open it up when i get home. i probably opened it the next day. and it was a photo of al doing his, you know, this on my breast. like looking at the camera, just kind of smirking and smiling, like, hey, look at me many and i took that as the, you know, the final like ha-ha, like i got the last laugh, you know. i mean, he knew i wouldnt see it until i got h...

For a kiss and i would have turned my face or put my hand on his mouth and that would have been the funny part, right, that would have been like this old guy coming in for the kiss from the hot girl or whatever the skit would have been to these young troops and it would have been funny because it was comedy, right. obviously turned out completely different. so i had to act my way through rest of the shows for the next two week, ten days, two weeks. and i just made sure i was never a lone with hi...

It, you know, you kind of get close and he put his hand on the back of my head and he mashed his face against -- i mean, it happened so fast and he just mashed his lips against my face and he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. >> that was at a press conference today. tweeden also wrote about this in a new piece. she said that franken basically had this skit for this show and it was a funny part for her, which she did agree to play along, and then she also posted this photo, which you can see ...

Just mashed his lips against my face and stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. >> automatically attracted to -- i just start kissing them. its like a magnet. >> al doing his, you know -- this on my breast like looking at the camera smirking and smiling like, hey, look at me. >> when you are a star, they let you do it. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> you can do anything. >> and here we are. happy friday. joining me to break it all down, some of our favorite friends and reporters. an msnbc analy...

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