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Ethics investigation, could roy moore be expelled? this is a very big deal that senate republicans are girding for less than 24 hours from where he sit right now. >> senator, i mean, imagine if you were on capitol hill, right, youve been in a different set of shoes, not with this case necessarily, but take us behind the scenes. i mean, what are their options? what will this meeting look like? >> every republican senator is in a panic if roy moore wins this race because of the impact on the 2018 ...

When you watched him make this announcement, what was going tl your mind? >> i was extremely unhappy how this played out. he was there for me through a personal tragedy. i trust him with my life. he is a remarkable human being and im very uneasy how this all played out. im with "the washington post" and slate and national monthly and many others who said we have lost our capacity to have any calibration here. zero tolerance a peace in the national monthly said when we tried it in schools a girl ...

Territory as the president is going all in for roy moore. thats a movement and a shift. >> the ethics process is not only establishment swampish, what happens if you succeed in that, you are back to the prospect of maybe we lose a seat. >> i dont know that they have the cuts to expel him to be honest. would they have if you have mcconnell talk about its up to the voters. he wanted him to step aside and will they have the guts to expel him from the senate should he win? im not betting on it. they...

Done with al franken, without making him go through the ethics process is just kind of amp up the disillusionment that people on both sides of the political he spectrum feel about washington in general, that basically theyre all corrupt. >> can you handicap the government shutdown? >> republicans have aid nair whoa window to get their tax bill cut passed. basically a week from now, a little more than a week. and then three or four days to get a government funding bill done. i think the odds are ...

Do this for the political reasons that you laid out. they didnt need to do the same thing with senator menendez, actually kind of amazing that we have had a senator under indictment and under trial and paid so little athe engs to it. but as you say, we are in the middle of this revolution and were sort of writing the rules for how to conduct the revolution as its occurring. we need to figure out a -- dahlia and i are both process people. you probably are, too. we need to figure out a way that do...

Ethics process. he remains a sitting senator in the state of new jersey. al franken, on the other hand, heads back to his home state without that process having taken place. the bottom line is a lot of this has to do with not the democrats themselves but a man who works at 2016 pennsylvania avenue, and there is discussion about why president trump was not having to face a higher bar. >> menendez was awarded yesterday, awarded, with a seat on the conference on the tax bill, which is not his speci...

Whats your reaction to al franken calling out president trump and roy moore for their alleged indiscretions? >> clearly he feels like he is punished beyond what other people have been. i agree with him about roy moore. i think roy moore should have stepped aside. i think the republican party should have disowned him. they havent done that. and i think when roy moore if he gets to washington which is not a foregone conclusion-s going to face a senate ethics inquiry just like al franken was. the d...

Because the public mood does not -- you know, we are in the age of the iphone and instant access to everything and instant gratification. we need to figure out an ethics process that doesnt take three years but that also doesnt -- never even occurs within three weeks where you have unnamed accusers who are believed maybe they should be believed but we dont know because we dont know who they are, you have allegations that involve conduct that occurred before allegedly occurred before senator fran...

For senator franken. he said hes confident if the ethics process went through, that he would be cleared. and i wonder about his colleagues can. they say theyre confident that he would have been found guilty or liable or responsible if the ethics process finished up? it should make everybody a little uncomfortable. >> senator menendez is still being evaluated before the ethics committee. ive heard some democrats say, whoa! so senator franken didnt get a chance and senator menendez continues to ge...

Prologue, this is not the end of it, peter. they have no guarantee they can hold onto that seat in 2018. it now will be in play. and they dont know who else is going to be outed in all of this and whether another major player in the senate is going to face this kind of problem, and now theyve got the standard. in this case it was a little easier for them politically because mark dayton in minnesota is a democratic governor replacing al franken. that may not be the case the next time this comes u...